Quotes from John W. Davis

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

deep-seated hatred between the cattlemen and the settler."40 This should come as no shock; the only surprise is that the big cattlemen would sometimes deny their attitude toward settlers. A settler who exercised his perfect right to 160 acres along a stream could significantly impair a big cowman's range; if several did so, the range would be lost altogether, as happened, for example, along Shell Creek in the Big Horn Basin.

the Johnson County commissioners, who "talked very feelingly," he said. "They resent the many slurs cast upon their county by the cattle barons who are trying to drive the smaller stockmen off the range."10

Governor Barber, who may have understood these things also, undermined Angus's plan. Because of the actions of the governor of Wyoming, it would be more than two months before Sheriff Angus was allowed to interview his first suspect.