THE IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Evory Saturday Mornlno at Iditarod, Alaska
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HUGHES’ ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
On July 31 Charles K. Hughes, Republican candidate for
I ‘resident, delivered his speech of acceptance,, and, as the news
dispatches put it. "outlined the issues upon which he will conduct
his campaign.” After maintaining silence so long, it was ex
pected that these issues would be set forth in a straightforward,
elear-eut manner. But a careful reading of the text fails to im
press one with any other idea than that these "issues” consist
wholly of opposition to the Democratic administration and its con
duet of the nation's affairs. He points out what he is pleased to
term the deficiencies of President. Wilson, but gives no inkling as
to what course he himself would have pursued under similar cir
cunistances. To those who had been awaiting this speech for en
lightenment as to the candidate s views it cannot but be an in
tense disappointment, and only blind partisanship can commend
such utterances, either from supposed patriotic standards or from
the standpoint of logic. A noteworthy letter has been sent to
Candidate Hughes as a result of his public utterances, signed by
thirty-seven well-known editors and writers for American maga
zines and newspapers. It was given out by George Creel, and is
as follows:
To the Hon. Charles E. Hughes: The professional writers
who sign this letter have small interest in parties, bin a very
deep interest in democracy. It is our hope, through this vol
untary association, to assist in the promotion of honest, edu
cational discussion, in order that fundamental issues may not
be decided in prejudice and ignorance.
Mr. Wilson's beliefs have been expressed in law and in
declared policies. He has made an open record by which he
may : e judged. Wise choice is not possible unless you yourself
make equally specific statement of purposes and convictions.
Without intent to offend, we fee! justified in charging
that ill no single public utterance have you filed a bona fide
bill of particulars, nor have you offered a single constructive
suggestion.
Generalities are without value. Blanket criticism is
worthless. What we desire to know, what it is fair that
the electorate should know, are the exact details of your dis
agreement with President Wilson. What has he done that
yon would not have done, and what has he failed to do that
you would have, done or will do? Honesty and patriotism
demand that you put yourself upon record in such manner as
to permit people to judge you as they are now able to judge
President Wilson. For example:
Would you have filed instant protest against the invasion
of Belgium and backed up that protest with the Ended
States navy?
It is arrant nonsense to talk about action that would ha\e
prevented the Lusitania tragedy. The vague advertisement
did not appear until shortly before the hour of sailing. The
occurrence was one of those things that civilization has made
the world regard as incredible. The only honest question is
thi- : Would you have made the disaster the subject of diplo
matic negotiations or would you have broken relations with
Germany at once?
Would yi i have urged upon congress an embargo upon
the shipment of munitions to the allies?
Would you urge universal compulsory military service?
You are' frank in stating that Huerta’s morals were of no
concern to America. Does this mean that you would have
recognized Huerta?
As matters stand today, would you be in favor of inter
vening in Mexico?
Does your attack upon the Wilson shipping blil mean that
you are in favor of ship subsidies?
You speak enthusiastically of the lights of the worker.
Does this imply that you indorse the Clayton anti-trust law
and the seamen’s bill? Or will you urge their repeal?
What are your specific complaints against the federal re
serve law?
As governor of New York you opposed the income tax
amendment. Does this antagonism persist? Do you or do
you not believe in paying for preparedness out of a tax on
incomes, inheritances and munitions?
We agree with you that it is a “critical period," by far too
critical, indeed, for candidates to talk in terms of office
seeking rather than in the simple, earnest language of definite
Americanism.
The letter is signed by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ray Stannard
Baker. Ellis Parker Butler, L. Ames Brown, Dante Barton, Irvm
S. c ill), Wadsworth Camp. J. O’Hara Cosgrove. Stoughton Cooley,
William L. Chenery, George Creel, James Forbes, Frederick 0.
Howe, Gilson Gardner, Frederick Stuart Greene, Oliver Herford,
Professor Lewis Johnson, Richard Lloyd Jones. Peter B. Kyne,
Percy Mackaye. A. J. McKelway. Basil Manley, Meredith Nichol
son. 'Albert Jay Nock. Harvey J. O’Higgins, Charles Johnson Poe.
Eugene Manlove Rhodes, William McLeod Raine, Boardman Rob
inson. John Reed. Opie Read, Edgar Selwyn, William Leavitt
Stoddard, Lincoln Steffins, Augustus Thomas, Frank \ rooman
and George West. _^
WICKERSHAM BREAKS WITH SUPPORTERS
In a telegram to Ed C. Russell of Juneau, Jrmcs Wickersham,
delegate in congress from Alaska, said, among other things. I
shall support Hughes and Fairbanks and their national platform,
and be a candidate for delegate to congress from Alaska on the
]K tit ion of her citizens, * * * and 1 shall be glad to have the
indorsement of the Juneau (Republican! convention on that
basis.” In other words, while unable to arrive at an understand
ing with the Republican territorial machine as to the division of
spoils in case of his own and Hughes’ election, Mr, Wickersham
intends to be the Republican candidate and to organize his own
machine.
In taking this position Mr. Wickersham places his own inter
ests above those of the people of the territory. There is not now,
nor ever has been, a single excuse for partisanship in the election
of a congressional delegate from this territory. In fact, reasons
were many why the man selected to represent Alaska should be
absolutely unhampered by party ties. There are no partisan ques
tions to be solved so far as this territory itself is concerned. The
delegate having no vote, he can but express the wishes of Alas
kans on matters of local concern. And those expressions will have
more weight when their delivery is made through non-partisan
channels. While a delegate in political accord with the adminis
tration may have a better chance to gain the ear of congress and
government officials, the voice of a territorial delegate arrayed
with the opposition is bound to be less effective. Judge Wicker
sham stands as the avowed Republican candidate for delegate,
whereas heretofore he has been known as a non-partisan.
Two years ago, when Judge Bunnell made the race against
Wickersham, the Democrats endeavored to emphasize the state
ment that “a vote for Bunnell was a vote for Wilson.” At that
time the voters of Alaska refused to accept such a campaign slo
gan, for the reason that Wickersham had declared himself to be
thoroughly in accord with President Wilson. He had accepted, a
nomination tendered by persons calling themselves “Progressive
Democrats,” and had designated himself as a “Wilson Progres
sive.” This year the Democratic slogan may very well be, “A
vote for Sulzer is a vote for Wilson,” because a vote for W'icker
sham is a vote for a man who has arrayed himself with the oppo
sition to President Wilson, and who stands upon a platform which
denounces the administration of President Wilson.
The voters of Alaska should hesitate before placing themselves
in the position of opposition to President Wilson and his adminis
tration. For the first time in the history' of the territory Alaska
has received consideration at the hands of the federal government.
Gigantic plans for its development in the interest of the people
instead of in the interest of corporations have been inaugurated,
and are being carried forward to successful completion. The re
sources of the territory, which had been set aside by a Republican
administration without adequate provision for their future use
by the people, are being made available under intelligent laws,
and a new era is dawning for Alaska which will make it the field
cf opportunity for present and future generations. It is incon
ceivable that those having the interests of the territory and its
people at heart should deliver a rebuke to the administration
which made this possible by electing a man professedly hostile
to it.
James Wickersham has chosen his path. He need show no
surprise if the ninny adherents of President Wilson who formerly
followed the delegate's political fortunes refuse to further accept
his leadership. He has chosen to make of this a partisan cam
paign. The voters naturally will show their partisanship for Wil
son at the ballot box. To do otherwise would be to deliver a blow
at the only national administration which has ever shown an in
telligent interest in the welfare of the territory and its people.
THE POOR COPPER MINER
A Seattle dispatch says with reference to the revenue bill now
pending before congress'.
It is the general opinion here that the passage of the gen
eral revenue bill will work a hardship on Alaska mining men.
The measure provides for a tax of from 1 to 3 per cent on
refined copper, and in the opinion of mining and transporta
tion men this added handicap to Alaska mines will cause the
closing down of a number of low grade mines in the territory,
and will drive out of business about thirty steamships now
engaged in the carrying of ore. The commercial organiza
tions and manufacturers’ association have forwarded to mem
bers of congress a protest against including Alaska copper
shipments in the proposed tax.
Somehow it is difficult to feel an inordinate amount of sym
pathy for the poor, downtrodden copper-mining companies of
Alaska, which have made fabulous fortunes during the past few
years from the marveous mineral deposits of Southeastern Alaska.
The output of copper now outranks that of gold in this territory,
and it is too much of h strain on our credulity to believe that a
tax of from 1 to 3 per cent on refined copper will have the effects
predicted. We also refuse to believe that the “thirty steamships
now engaged in carrying ore” will be driven out of business.
BALLAINE TO THE RESCUE
Under the heading, “Truthful Advertising,” the Seattle Post
Intelligencer of August 2 says editorially:
A candidate who imagines he is running against Guggen
heim for congress, and th;t the gobblins’U get Alaska if we
don’t watch out, complains that the Post Intelligencer ignores
him and has even refused to publish articles over his own
signature, marked “paid advertising,” and to be paid for in
cash, giving details of an alleged attempt to assassinate the
Alaska railroad.
To this extent he presents a true bill. The Post-Intelli
gencer advertising columns are open only to truthful adver
tising. Its policy is inviolable.
Fakers are uniformly barred.
The article evidently refers to John E. Bellaine. one of the
self-appointed saviors of Alaska, and not to James W iekersham,
as is erroneously intimated in some Alaska newspapers. There
is one thing commendable about Ballaine, however. He does not
run for office in Alaska as part of his scheme of salvation, nor, ap
parently, endeavor to dictate to Alaska voters, as do some of hb
felljw-townsmen who have connected themselves with the Repub
lican party of Alaska.
Colonel Richardson says it is the policy of the road commis
sion to “concentrate work on certain projects and finish them, in
stead of having the road funds dissipated in small allotments.
Iditarod is one of the districts in which these funds have been
“dissipated” in small a'lotments. It is up to the people of this
community to concentrate their efforts to secure the interest of
the commission in the building of a real road system here. There
i> no reason why the Iditarod-Hat road should not be finished by
| the commission; and it would be were sufficient interest taken to
urge the matter in the same manner as other communities urge
their needs. Colonel Richardson intimated in speeches at Ruby
recently that it was the intention to build a trunk highway from
the Yukon to Seward, on the same lines as the government road
from Fairbanks to Valdez, upon which so much government
money has been expended. The people of Iditarod should take up
the matter of building a branch road to connect with this project
from Iditarod. It is a commendable enterprise, and would give
the government officials an opportunity to show an interest in r.
section of Alaska which does not appear to have been on their map
heretofore.
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With reference to the startling daily bulletins of German vic
tories being sent out by the German-American press, which are
being reproduced by a Fairbanks newspaper, attention is called
to a statement wired to the Boston Globe by Karl \ on M iegand.
the noted German correspondent, whose articles, pronouncedly
pro-German, probably have contained more of authentic news
than those of any ether writer with the German army. He
says that all American correspondents assigned by papers to the
central powers have sent a joint statement to the Associated Press
calling attention to the impossibility of giving the American public
fair statements of news events from the German side. The claim
is made that little of the dispatches from the German side of the
battle fronts is now getting through, while London. Paris. Rome
and Petrograd correspondents are permitted to .-end freely col
umns of matter about the allies daily.
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G. K. Chesterton, the noted English writer, is credited with
the following: “I never claim for my opinions the vice of im
partiality.” To designate impartiality as a vice will seem rather
cynical; yet there is little doubt that the man imbued with en
thusiasm born of the conviction that he is right is apt to be par
tial. The impartial arguments of the man who shows no enthusi
asm in his subject are rather unconvincing. Few men are im
partial in argument, although they may strive to be so.
Child labor is a miserable business, says the Chicago Herald.
The stigma of its retention in the United States should not be al
lowed to rest upon the action of a few manufacturers and poli
ticians from states which still cherish a proper pride in their heri
tage of chivalry.
Probably it would be unfair to Mr. Hughes to base an opinion
of his Lexington utterances on the brief dispatch published today;
but let us hope that he has not been tempted into the Rooseveltian
habit of “going off half-cocked.”
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By his repudiation of President Wilson and the progressive
j record of the Democratic party of the nation Delegate Wicker
! sham at least can lay no claim to Democratic votes in Alaska,
aptly remarks the Juneau Empire.
Newspapers in Alaska sometimes make amusing “breaks” in
their endeavors to make the most of meager news dispatches.
Occasionally these show the folly of trusting to memory, as in
the following Seattle dispatch in an Interior paper: “James E.
Galbraith, head of the firm which produces a popular brand of
bacon, is at the point of death at his home in this city.” Now it
happens that Mr. Galbraith, far from being the producer of an
edible which is much esteemed in Alaska, is the head of the firm
of Galbraith Bacon & Co., dealers in such prosaic merchandise as
building material and horse feed.
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THE PITY OF IT
(Louisville Courier-Journal)
Mr. Hughes has spoken. He has spoken at length. But those
who hope to see him President will find little comfort in what
he chose to say.
Charles E. Hughes was strongest as an aspirant for the presi
dency immediately after his nomination. He was weaker yester
day morning than he was on the day he was nominated. He is
weaker this morning than he was yesterday morning.
His long-heralded keynote speech sounded no keynote. It rang
with no bold call of the country to rally to a definite policy of
vital statesmanship. It is simply a peevish, petty indictment of
the administration which he would supplant, with every count
of which the partisan opposition press has spoiled its temper for
weeks in its efforts to find an issue on which to seek a restoration
of power for the Republican party.
Mr. Hughes, in his speech of acceptance, has done his best anl
his worst to find an issue to justify his candidacy, and the result
has been anything but to increase the respect in which his ability
snd character have been popularly held. Certainly Charles E.
Hughes as the public regarded him as a justice of our highest
court and Charles E. Hughes as the public sees him as the parti
san, quibbling, piddling attorney, laboring not to make a state
ment of the case for himself, but a lawyer’s case against his op
ponent, are two very different persons. Mr. Hughes has broken
his silence, and the main thing he has accomplished thereby is to
reveal to the country that the man whom the Republican party
offers for the presidency is not the man whom the country had
conceived him to be and whom it delighted to honor in that con
ception.
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THIS APPLIES TO A CLOSE NEIGHBOR OF OURS
(Boston Transcript)
It is claimed in criticism of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that
people can’t sing it. But when did a little thing like that ever
silence a vocalist ?
REPUDIATES ORGANIZATION
BUT STANDS BY HUGHES
AND RUNS AS REPUBLICAN
The following is a copy of a telegram
sent by Delegate Wickersham to the Re
publican politicians of the First division.
In it he makes it clear that he will run as
a Republican candidate for delegate in con
gress, standing upon the Republican plat
form, but refusing to recognize the party
machine. Its main interest to Alaskans lies
in the fact that Mr. Wickersham comes out
in open opposition to President Wilson and
the Democratic administration, which here
tofore he has stated that he supported:
“Washington, D. C., Aug. 2, 1010.
“Ed C. Russell, Juneau, Alaska:
“Telegram received from you and Messrs.
Thane and Coppernoll, advising me to sub
mit to the demands of the Shackleford or
ganization and surrender the power and
rights of the people of Alaska in relation
to the appointments to Alaskan offices in
case Governor Hughes is elected President,
in consideration that Mr. Shackleford allow
his committee of four from the Seward con
vention and his followers in the Republican
divisional convention at Juneau to indorse
me for delegate. My letter of March 20,
addressed to the delegates at the Republican
territorial convention at Seward, is my
final word on that sublet. I will not bar
ter away the smallest right or power of the
people of Alaska, or my own right and duty
as their representative, to Murane, George
Irving or Shackleford for their indorsement
or support, or that of their blind followers,
I decline to accept any nomination from
Shackleford’s unauthorized committee !
four from the Seward convention, or to an
prove that plank in its platform establish
ing boss rule in Alaska. That plunk will
be repudiated by the Republican national
administration and the senate will refuse
to confirm anyone appointed to Alaska of
fice who approves it. I shall support Hughes
and Fairbanks and their national platform,
and be a candidate for delegate to con
gress from Alaska on the petition of her
citizens, free from corrupt boss rule, and 1
shall be glad to have the indorsement of
the Juneau convention on that basis, if 1
am defeated on this platform I shall at
least have preserved mv own self respect.
“JAMES WICKERSHAM.”
Wilson Has the Lead
W. W. Jermaine, Washington correspon
dent of the Seattle Time-, Minneapolis Jour
Iial and other Republican newspapers, and
himself a supporter of Charles E. Hughes,
wired to the Seattle Times on August 8 that
“the drift of public sentiment is strongly
toward Wilson." lie says the drift has
been toward Wilson ever since the na
tional conventions, and that it has now
■rained such headway that it is unmistak
able. He adds: “Much water will pass
under the bridge between now and Novem
ber, and the cross currents will veer this
,vav and that, but that Wilson now has
the lead seems quite certain.”
Second Division Republicans
The following ticket has been placed in
nomination by the Republicans of the Sec
ond division, in convention at Nome:
For Senator—John Sundback.
For Representatives Andy Anderson,
Nate Coombs, Leo Kent and T. M. Reed.
For Road Commissioner W. J. Row'e.
A motion was made to indorse James
Wickersham for delegate to congress, but
it was ruled out of order by the chair. An
appeal was taken to the convention and the
decision of the chair was sustained, with
only four dissenting votes out of the 70
delegates.
The time for filing nominations for legis
lative and other territorial offices expired
on August 23. On August 21 the names of
the following candidates for office had been
tiled with the clerk of the court at Fair
banks. It will be noticed that the name
of W. A. Vinal of Ophir does not appear in
the list, although it had been stated that
his petition had been filed, with the neces
sary number of names attached:
Charles A, Suker (Dem.), James Wick
ersham (Ind.), Lena Morrow Lewis (Soc.i.
For Attorney General—George Grigsby
(Dem.), George Schofield (Rep. ), J. H.
Cobb (Ind.).
For Senator—Thomas A. McGowan
(Dem.), Dan Sutherland (Ind.', Dan Mc
Cabe (Soe. i.
For Representatives—A. M. Kilgore
(Dem.), W. T. Burns (Dem.), Luther C.
Hess (Dem.), John W. Dunn (Dem.), E. B.
Collins (Inch Wick'. Andrew Nerland (Ind.
Wick.), Sylvester Howell (Ind. Wick), E.
B. Collins (Ind. Wick.), Andrew Nerland
(Ind. I, C. K. Snow (Ind.', George W.
Ledger (Ind.), Z. C. Bean (Soc.i, George
W. Huev (Soc.i. C. M. Monahan (Soc.),
Lars Westenvik (Soc.i.
A.
DEVOTiCN OF OLD SERVANT
OPENED DOOR TO WEALTH
James Hobart Moore, millionaire promoter
and manufacturer, was laid to rest recently
in Oak Hill cemetery at Lake Geneva. He
sleeps by the side of his only son, in the
family mausoleum, says the Chicago Herald.
Hundreds of his friends were present in the
graveyard, and business and social friends
who had come on the special train from
Chicago, the entire “millionaire colony" of
Lake Geneva, the men and women who
had reason to remember him for his kind
nesses. They were sincere in their grief,
but he who seemed to be the chief mourner,
because of the overwhelming grief that could
be read upon his face, had been the head
coachman of the Moore household for more
than twenty years.
He stood apart from the throng, an old
man, grizzled and bent, and he kept his
eyes upon the casket until the crypt re
ceived it. He had no eyes for any of the
mourners. His cheeks were wet with tears,
his lips moved constantly, but gave no
sound.
He is William Beatty, and the dead man
had been his best friend. His relations with
his employer present a parallel to the story
of the lion and the mouse.
Beatty had worked for Mr. Moore for
some years when one day the vast posses
sions of the employer were taken from him
by a turn of the market’s wheel of fortune.
The multimillionaire, as the result of
his Diamond Match operations, had become
a pauper over night. There were debts and
liabilities that he could not pay. It was
difficult to secure loans with which to start
life anew.
“I was in an aw-ful fix,” Mr. Moore used
to say in telling the story. “I was worth
less than nothing, and I was wondering
what I could do, what I would have to do,
to get back on my feet, when Beatty came |
rapping on the door.
“He had been to the bank and taken j
out every dollar he had saved. His pockets !
bulged with the money—$2,000. He was
nervous and a bit sby, and for a few mo
ments I didn’t know what he was trying
to say.
“Then that old trump held out the money
to me.
“ ‘Take it,’ he said. ‘I got it from you,
and you’re welcome to keep it as long as
you want to. I know it’s only a drop in
the bucket to you, sir, but maybe it will
be the means of making another fortune for
you.’ ”
The loan was accepted, no security offered
or asked for; no promises sought or made,
but out of the coachman’s mustard seed
there grew an enormous plant. When Mr.
Moore died he left his widow an estate
valued at $50,000,000.
Mr. Moore used the sum to tide him over
some minor transactions, which paid him
great profits and re-established his credit.
Then came the organization of the Ameri
can Tin Plate Company, in which Mr. Moore
was the prime mover; the National Steel,
the American Steel Hoop and other steel
company concerns, with a combined cap
italization of $187,000,000, which were ab
sorbed by the United States Steel Corpora
tion.
The lion never forgot the service of the
mouse. He paid back the $2,000 many times
over, and placed the mouse in the way of
making investments that netted him over
$100,000. Today Beatty is said to be the
richest coachman in the world.
lie put part of his money in a plantation
n Tennessee, but his affection and loyalty
were so deep that he continued to work for
his friend.
CARRIED OUT
The managing editor wheeled his chair
around end pushed a button in the wall.
The person wanted entered.
‘'Here." said the editor, “are a number
of directions from outsiders as to the best
way to run a newspaper. See that they are
"11 carried out.”
And the office boy, gathering them all into
" large w:i-te basket, did so. 'Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
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Among the Alaska passengers leaving Se
attle on the steamship Humboldt, on August
4, was Miss Grace Marlcy. bound for Idit
.rod.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
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