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FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
(including alaska)
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Thomas K. Marshall, of Indiana
FOR DELEGATE FROM ALASKA
James Wickeusham
FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
J. F. A. Strong
ELECTIONS
Alaska territorial election for Delegate, Aug. 13, 1912.
National Presidential election. Nov. 5, 1912.
A DEMOCRAT'S TRIBUTE
(Congressional Record, April 24, 1912 )
Air. Flood of Virginia ( Democrat., Chairman of
the Committee on Territories): And I want to say here
that Alaska has been very fortunate in the last two
Congresses in having a representative of such high
character and splendid abilities as Judge Wickersham.
(Applause.)
WK'KEIJSIIAM
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Since 1900 we have had a delegate election every two years.
At the first election Tom Cale and Frank Was key we e elected, and
since their terms expired .Tames Wickersham has represented the
people of Alaska at the national capital. For the third time Judge
Wickersham comes before the voters of Alaska and asks them to
supportjhim for delegate. At his first election he was accused of
being the representative of corporate interests, and the famous
’‘Where is Bircht” telegram was sprung on the people, for the
purpose, no doubt, of proving that the Guggenheims were behind
him, and that he was anxious for their support. He was elected
and made good. At his second election photographic copies of this
telegram to the director of the big corporation were produced and
distributed broadcast over the territory, again to hinder Wicker
sham, and to put him in disrepute with the voters. He was again
elected with a much larger majority than before. As a matter of
fact at his second election he received more votes than all the other
candidates combined. He has again made good, and we are now
waiting for the same telegram to be sprung again. It will be done
— that goes without saying, and Wick will also be re elected with a
larger majority than he has ever had, for lie has again made good.
x peupie ui .nuusKa kiiovv now mat lie is nonest aoove all tilings, '
and they also know that he is able. He has received the compli
ments of many well-known men, and everybody in Alaska admits
that he is the best man to send back to Washington. When a man
has run twice and has been elected every time he runs, and then
again comes before the people in the way V> ickersham is doing, the
voters know why they are going to vote for him. Everybody in
this portion of the territory of Alaska will support him at the com
ing election—the same as they did before—and for the same reason
that this paper is again supporting him- The owner of the Pioneer
has never received a dollar of Wickersham money, except for the
printing of his ballots, and does not expect to receive anything
from him this time, and he may even send his printed ballots from
Fairbanks.
For some time we were told that Wickersham could get noth j
ing because he was not "‘in sympathy” with the administration, j
Results have proven that this contention cannot he maintained.
Some short time ago the House unanimously passed his home-rule
bill, and but recently we were informed that the bill passed the
Senate. It will then be up to the President to sign the bill and
make it a law, or veto it- Mr. Taft might like to do the latter, but
in view of the approaching Presidential election be will not do so.
Now the present House is Democratic and the Senate is Repub
lican. and Wickersham seems to have been able to do business with
both branches of Congress His enemies are maligning him at
home while he is busily engaged in furthering the objects of Alaska
at the national capital, and he is not going to leave his post of
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duty to build up political fences at homo. He knows that the plain,
ordinary, every-day people are doing that for him. He needs no
boosters, and he needs no money to be re-elected. There never
has been any Wickersham money around, and that is more than
can be said about almost any other candidate.
The situation is plain. The people have tried their man, and
they have not found him wanting. It is a bad piece of business to
swap horses in the middle of the stream, is the saying of wise old
Lincoln, and it would be bad business to change managers at the
front when once we have a capable man. No business house
changes its head man if he is the man for the place, and that Judge
Wickersham is the man for Congress is established by the fact
that wherever one may go, the p >op!e talk about his re election.
His name is heard everywhere. He is the people’s candidate, and,
after all, it is the every day class of citizens whose votes count at
the election.
We have nothing to say against any other candidate. They
are practically strangers to us. We do not like the company in
which Mr. Gilmore is traveling, and when he declined to enter a
debate with Dan Sutherland, with whom he has been acquainted
for a long time, it is high lime to find the reason why. Mr. Gil
more is evidently afraid to meet anybody before a public audience,
and there must be a reason for it. He stands upon the stand-pat
Republican platform the first plank of which calls for the unquali
fied endorsement of the Taft administration. The platform adorned
by Mr. Gilmore’s picture, which has been nailed up around the
country, omits this endorsement of the Taft administration, and if
Mr. Gilmore will explain that omission to the satisfaction of any
ordinary roughneck in this district, we will quit supporting Wick
ershain, and we shall thenceforth loudly call for his election. But
he will not do it, and he will not do it because he knows he cannot
do it, and he and his cohorts are trying to befuddle public opinion.
Mr. Gilmore knows that the same convention that nominated him
endorsed Taft, and sen-t its representatives, Shackleford and Her
ron, to the Republican national convention and they voted for the
nomination of Taft. Mr- Gilmore further knows that no man in
Alaska, standing for the Taft administration can be elected dog
catcher, and for that reason and no other has he left off his plat
form the first part thereof as it was adopted at Cordova when he
was nominated. No, no, Mr. Gilmore. At one time you were all
right outwardly. But you have changed your inside out, and now
the people understand what your little game has been. You stand
exposed and you do not dare to meet Dan Sutherland on the public
platform and explain your position. That looks very bad, Mr. Gil
more, but not worse than you really are, You gambled a little
around Nome, but you are not a true sport. You are playing with
false cards, and you can’t win; you don’t have to frog.
Mrs. Arthur Field had to be taken to
the emergency hospital at Flat City
last week, suffering from a nervous
breakdown. She is improving.
Jack Shropshire is going to the
Koyukuk. He left Iditarod last Satur
day on the Nancy Bell.
The Pioneer for Job Printing,
j TOLD IN THEJ5AIL_
Teddy (theday before theconvention):
We protest against a crime which re
presents treason. If the convention
proves false to the people it will wreck
the Republican party. There can be
no compromise.
The Milwaukee Physicians' associa
tion will prepare a bill for the next
legislature intended to stop the practice
of kissing and stamping the habit as a
blot on civilization and a menace to
health and decency.
A cloudburst and flood which swept
Denver resulted in two persons being
killed and a property loss of $1,000,000.
The Call building in San Francisco
will not be entitled to that name two
years hence. A quarrel has broken
out in the Spreckles family, and C. A.
Spreckles, representing the Spreckles
estates, lias notified John D. Spreckles,
of the San Francisco Call, that he must
vacate the building at the end of two
years, when the lease expires.
The "get the money boys” of Seattle
have just held another potlatch.
The number of people killed last
Fourth of July is stated to bs "only”
20, and the seriously injured “only” 600.
In addition, the loss by fire totaled
half a million dollars.
Seattle is boasting that it has the
lowest death rate of any city in the
United States. It is said there are
pleasanter places to die in.
A million dollar action has been
started against ex-banker C. W. Morse,
who is charged with selling the stocks
and assets of a realization com pan \ |
contrary to agreement.
The report of Charles Neill, the
labor commissioner appointed by the |
government to investigate the strike at j
Lawrence. Mass., has just been pub- |
ILhed. It is a scathing indictment of |
the terrible conditions which prevailed j
at Lawrence before the strike. Neill
concludes that it was something more j
than a strike, it was a social revolu-1
tion "brought about by intolerable!
conditions of abject poverty.”
Ex-Mayor Seidel, of Milwaukee, says
that Theodore Roosevelt is "just a j
natural born fakir of the worst kind. I
and he cannot help it.”
Jack Johnson's new cafe in Chicago i
will be called "The Champion.”
ADVERTISED LETTERS
The following list of letters remain
uncalled for at the Iditarod (Alaska) 1
post office on August 1, 1912. Parties'
calling for same will please call fur
‘'advertised'1 letters.
Alexander, £ h
Adrian, here >vii
heam 2
Anderson, al
Bryns, h
Barbash. in a
Baloiv, dariko
Be remen, henry
> 'ampbell, a in
Cummings, p E
Everett, \v j 2
Erickson, usd
Gillies, john a 2
Gorman, m s
Goflagen, a
Hansen, h o 2
Heacuck, e j
Heaeock, ted 2
Hubert & Bruche
Isaacson, isaae
.Terkich, sum
Johnson, c w
Juratovioh, jaspai
Kehln, d h
Kennedy, m s
Kennedy, j b 4
Kelly, martin
Keiloy, jas t
Lachance, donat 2
i jf i«'h, huyh a
Lowrie. v e
Maerroan, joe
Mancagop, k
Alihanovich, tim
Tv old, c w
Nilson, Ole
McDonald, jno s
MacDonald, john a
McLeod, jas d
Ouen, geo
Parae, g
Peterson, i a
Peterson, j w
Peterson, v e h
I’oulson, paul ehr
QnaranolT
Roedl, feed
Saas Tamoinen,abel j
Siuidstrum, edivard
Smith, peter 2
Snow, peter
Sorenson, lizzie
Squires, pearl
Stevens.roy
Storey, w h 2
Slaliiner, jno
St Clair, gaston
Steary, john
Stanford, chas h
Tansoaalv, k
Taylor, may
Thompson, gus 4 1
Thompson, lafe
Ties'.rain, h s
Yig, louis t 2
Wilson, thus
Wolf, ed
.Tugoraieff, tn
T. L. THURSTON, Postmaster.
WM. WAECHTER REMOVES
STOCK FROM KODIAK ISLAND
(Rkagwav Alaskan, July 9.)
The gas boat Chlopeck No. 3, Capt.
Jack Campbell, master, arrived in this
port this morning from Raspberry
Island with two milch cows and 50 head
of hogs, and several coops of chickens
belonging to William Waechter.
Raspberry Island is one of the small
islands’lying north of Kodiak Island, and
owing to the great amount of ash which
covers t lie entire district, Mr.
Waechter. who has a ranch on the
former,found that it would be impossible
to raise food for his stock, and he has
brought them here for the purpose of
heiding them in the upper Skagway
valley until fall, at which time he will
take them into the interior over the
White Pass.
Gold dust melted into bricks of any
size. W. Taylor, Flat City.
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! An Alaskan "Delegate”
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And here we have Ex-Governor
Wilford Li. Hoggatt sitting in the Chi
cago convention as a “delegate” from'
Alaska, tie bored in as a proxy for
.lafet Lindeberg, and aids and abets'
Louie Shackleford in “representing”
Alaska republicans, although neither
of them could be elected to represent
any precinct in the territory on a
legitimate vote. Hoggatt no longer
even claims to live in Alaska
The burlesque is too weird ton arouse
anger on the part of any person with a
grain of humor in his corn posit ion. It
is like a vaudeville speciality where
1 He ingenuity of stage make-up is over
taxed to exaggerate a farce. As well
enter a pair of si wash ladies in a Caucas
ian beauty contest, a pair of bouse
Hankies in a rock drilling contest or a
pair of burros in a horse show.
Hogalt and Shackleford “Repre
senting” Alaska look like a couple of
Lilliputians on exhibition as types of
the untethered giants of Brobdingnag.
They represent or credentials written
by themselves, without 'lie knowledge
or consent of about Do per cent, of the
people of Alaska. They represent like
a shyster lawyer whuentets his appear
ance as attorney for absent defendants.
Some day a president may get into
the White iIouse who will not recognize
corporate lobbyists as the people of
Alaska. Somebody whose name is
neither Taft nor Roosevelt.—Valdez
Miner.
THE RE3TLS3G MAN
I'm truly sorry for the gent who,
when the toilsome day i~ spent, won't
by his fireside linger: who can't ser
enely sit and read ‘‘Rebellion,''
“Money Moon” or ‘‘Queed.” or
t'othermost humdinger. The fire
side pleasures he will dodge: he saws:
“I have to go to lodge as outside
guard, dear Rallie: tomorrow night
I have to act as usher at a show,
next night I 'tend a rally.” His
patient wife just heaves a sigh and
wipes the briny from her eye, and
sad and discontented, she murmurs
now ami then: “I wish that hus
bands and that kind of fish had never
been invented! I used to let ray
fancies roam, and pictured such a
happy home, with evenings long and
cheery: alas! my husband’s brains
turn sour if be must s'av here half
an hour—it surely makes me weary!”
For pleasant evenings by your side
perhaps the girl you made your bride
is yearning, too, and panting? Dis
gusted with her Moated Grange it
will not seem so passing strange if
she goes gallivanting. Methinks
that- many of the dames who pby
the frantic suffrage games are there
by husbands driven, who, when tl ey
toddle home at all. go ranch like
Dobbin to his stall, to eat the grub
that’s given.—Walt Mason.
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STAMP MILL WRECKED AT
BONANZA MINE, KENNECOTT
Erected at. a great expense, arid
designed to handle large quantities of
high-grade copper ore, the new con
centrating mill at the Bonanza mine,
Kennecott, collapsed before a single ton
of rock could be treated.
Upon its completion last month, the
mill was started for a t rial run. Instead
of the smooth running which was
expected, the first stamp dropped with
a tremendouscrash, throwing the heavy
concrete foundation two inches out of
the center. Seeing something was
wrong, the engineer stopped the
machinery before another stamp could
be dropped, and it is thought that only
by Ids prompt action was the building'
saved from wreck and the people in
side enabled to escape unhurt.
it is tietieveii that the mill ce is
located on a glacier and that when the
blow descended, it caused the ice to slide
down the hill, carrying along with it the
concrete foundation. Whatever the
cause, it is certain tlie mill can never
be operated in its present location, but.
what stej>s will be taken to put it on a
mote stable foundation is not known at
present. The cost of moving the mill
will be very great.
Modern Methods is tlie name of a
Socialist paper which is appearing
weekly at Ketchikan. Modern Methods
is tire first Socialist organ to be
published in Ahtska.
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