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NOME, ALASKA, MAY 7, 1917.
RABID PARTISANSHIP.
Wickersham newspapers throug
out the territory have universal
ly lauded Governor Strong and Sur
i yoi General Davidson for the "moral
courage" in setting aside partison
leanings.and voting to give a certifi
cate of election to James Wickersham
tor delegate to congress. Coming
from Wickersham papers this sounds
very fine and would appear to indi
cate that Strong and Davidson were
democrats who had placed a strong
sense of duty and fair play above
party. Nothing however is above
from the facts in the case. These
men are not and never have been
democrats in the true sense of the
word. In his newspaper days Mr.
Strong roundly roasted Delegate
Wickersham, but that proves no more
than in the case of Charles Herron,
who as republican committeeman
was bitterly opposed to Wick, but as
editor of the Anchorage Times was
his strongest supporter. Whatever
party affiliations Governor Strong
may have had when lie was in the
newspapers business, he has not been
a democrat since appointed gover
nor. Every important office w'lthin
his gift has been given to republicans,
and liis action as a member of the
territorial canvassing board indicate
that he Is a Wickersham republlcn.
No explanation he or Davidson can
make of their action can set aside
the belief in the mind of any unpre
judiced observer that not duty, not
fair play, but a strong partisanship
for Wickersham actuated them In
casting their votes for Wickersham
for delegate.
The statement made by Strong and
Davidson that mere technicalities
should not he sufficient cause for
throwing out the vote in certain pre
cincts sounds well but the sentiment
is of too recent birth to carry much
weight. These same technicalities
were sufficient to cause the board to
throw out numerous votes two years
ago, but they were not Wickersham
votes then. Strong and Davdson
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! claim the board lias no judicial pow
| crs. Admitting this, It is still true
j that there are two laws governing the
i election ol' a delegate in Alaska, one
of which must prevail. Violation of
these laws must be taken cognizance
of by the board and ilegal votes cast
out. This is the solo reason or a
canvassing board, else the clerks of
the courts, to whom duplicate returns
are sent, could as well tabulate and
announ, c the totals.
Taking cither of these election laws
as a basis for fixing the legal.ty of
the votes cast, Sulzer had a plural
ity of the legal vote. The insistence
of Strong and Davidson that the Bris
tol bay precincts be counted despite
the manifest illegality of tire vote
there, and the sob stuff about depriv
ing the citizens of these precincts of
the franchise is pure bunk. Although
there have been six delegate elections
held in the territory the vote from
Bristol bay has never before been
counted. This, in itself, is no argu
ment why they should not be legal,
but the inhabitants of that district
appear to have suffered no specail in
convenience in the past because of
this, and the throwing out of the ille
gal votes this time would not work
any particular hardship upon them,
and might have the salutary effect of
causing them to pay more attention
to election laws in the future.
Votes that were illegal two years
ago, for the same reason are illegal
now. The authority exercised by this
canvassing board in throwing out
votes two years ago is still vested in
the board. The (only difference is
that two years ago Wickersham had
an overw helming plurality, and the I
hundreds of votes that were thrown
out made no difference on the out
come; and at this election he is de
feated if the legal vote only is count
ed.
What reason then except rank par
tianship prevents Strang and David
son from exercising the powers they
assumed two years ago? There is
none. What except partisanship
caused them to disregard the opinion
of the attorney general after they
' had requested it? To credit Strong
j and Davidson with a high sense of
, duty and fair play after rejecting the
| opinion of the attorney general is to
charge that gentleman with permit
ting his judicial action to be influenc
ed by partisanship, an accusation
which will be resented by the large
majority of Alaskans who elected him
to tile portion be holds, and who have
i implicit confidence in the man.-—Vnl
j dez Miner.
THE CASE AGAINST GERARD
Having established the case against
Bernstorff, and received his confes
sion that he not only aided the war j
r—™
plot but considered it justified, it is
good sportsmanship to now consid
er the case of Germany against Ger
ard.
In the last issue of Yierecck's week
ly, formerly the American Weekly,
and before that the Fatherland, the
most pro-German paper in America,
this case is set forth in most pro
nounced terms, to-wit:
Count Keventlow lays the betrayal
of. Sir Roger Casement and the over
throw of tlie Irish revolt at the door
of the American embassy at Berlin,
declaring the uncontrolled letter and
cable service of the embassy to Wash
ington, also being an uncontrolled
method of communication to France
and England; in other words he
charges the American embassador
• with being a spy for England. To
clinch the charge he says; '
‘‘American Ambassador Gerard and
his personnel delivered the honorable
Irishman to the hangsman."
It is charged by Colonel Emerson,
American war correspondent that:
First—Certain blank passports dis
appeared from the American em
bassy in Berlin, early in the war atid
reappeared later in the hands of
English spies. Second—That the
American ambassador tried to per
suade Emerson to send secret infor.
mation to the embassy from the front
ii a |.rearranged code. Third—That
when lie. Emerson, refused, Gerard
tried to deprive him of his pass
port by trickery, and finally accused
Emerson, a veteran of the Spanish -
American war, with not being an
American citizen.
It is also charged that Gerard de
liberately turned ever to the French,
one Oscar 1 Rug, an American of Ger
man parentage, who was attached to
the American c.i.i.nssy in Berlin, in
i minor capacity for engaging in con
versation with the German officer in
charge of the ami assadorlal .trilc,
thereby putting 1‘Rug in danger of
tenth of a slight indiscretion.
it is furfv.ir (1 erred that early in
the war Gerard wrote a private letter
to New York, grossly' insulting the
German government, which the reci
pients showed and used to strengthed
the anti-German feeling in metropol
itan circles.
This apparently completes the case.
So far as known the ambassador,
formerly a New York city politician,
til . i ii.ainted w'lth Tammany hall
and 'its environs, he stood pat and
vouchsafefd no reply.
Should all these charges be true
■ lie imperial. German government
overlooked a card, when it did not
hand Mr. Gerard his passports some
time back. It will be remembered
I hat the United States did not hesi
tate to han*l passports to Captain
Boy-Ed and Captain von Fapen, for
encouraging bomb conspiracies, and
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financing Mexican revolts, nor did It
hesitate to bid farewell to the Aus
trian ambassador for Interfering
with American business by instigat
ing strikes, nnd even put Consul Gen
eral Bopp and associates In jail for
scheming to incite whole murder and
arosn.—Ex.
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