Rocked in cradles guarded by nature’s great mountain sentinels; developed in the atmosphere of freedom that breathes from every hillside and valley in these highlands; brought to man and womanhood under the magic touch of nature in its grandest forms, the offspring of Wyoming will be as proud, brave and patriotic a race as ever sprung from the descendants of Eden’s illustrious pair. To a people thus fortunately situated the future is assured, and we invite the brave and the good of all lands to come and abide with us, in the full belief that the domination of the old cattle-growers’ ring is ended, and that from this hour the people will rule. CONCLUSION With all of these natural resources and this exceptional political situation, the state is being held back in its development. Corporation rule dominated so long, and then the disgrace of the state’s invasion came as a climax. Some of the invaders still hold up their heads and try to pose as men, but the dry rot has taken hold of many of them, and it is only a question of a short time until the last one will have quietly folded his tent and departed to a more congenial clime. To be pointed at with the finger of scorn by every passer-by becomes wearisome, and the weariness grows oppressive. Defeat brings disgust, and as the old ring has suffered this at every turn, the practical idea of a change of pasture is already having the desired effect. From now on there will be a new Wyoming, purified by the people’s rule, and made the home of a happy and prosperous population, engaged in opening up and humanizing the mountain, valley and plain. GEORGE W. BAXTER, Ex-Governor Recruiting Officer of the Invasion APPENDIX The following confession of George Dunning, one of the hired men of the invasion, was written by him while in the Johnson County jail, at Buffalo, duly sworn to and published in the Northwestern Live Stock Journal in October, 1892. As the result of that publication the editor of the journal was arrested for criminal libel while in the city of Chicago, and his printing office seized. The postmaster at Cheyenne held all the copies of the paper containing the confession as “obscene” literature, referring the matter to the Postmaster General and getting instructions (after the election) to let the paper go through the mails. Fortunately, a part of the mail left the Cheyenne office before the postmaster found out the contents of the paper, and a goodly number of copies went out by express, so that the public got the information before it quite generally.