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AN UNPOPULAR MAN
Tile proposition of C ol o n e 1 Richard
son, the chairman of the Alaska Road
Commission, that he would make an
allowance of so many thousand dollars
to build a road to Tolovana, providing a
certain amount was subscribed by the
people of Fairbanks, is not meeting
with the success that a movement of
this kind should. Several men who are
in favor ot progressive movements such
as roadbuilding have been heard to ex
claim that they would donate money to
help the thing along but they object
to Colonel Richardson’s connection with
the matter. The money would be spent
under the direction of the Colonel and
they have little faith in the Colonel,
their lack of faith growing out of their
observations of, and familiarity with,
the Colonel’s ways and means of road
building in the past. It is a bad thing
for the country that a man who is as un
popular as Mr. Richardson appears to be
should be allowed to stand in the w a y
of popular movements. It would be a
good tiling for the future of Alaska if
lie could be retired.
THINGS CHANGE
Aldrich is dead. Payne is dead. Guild
of Massachusetts is dead. Poindexter,
the single Progressive in the Senate,
has returned to Republicanism. Rosevelt
is returning. Root is a candidate for the
nomination. Some smile on Taft, Wil
son will run again, with the support of
Bryan and Clark. National preparedness
is to be an issue. So is prohibition. So
is woman suffrage. So are several other
things.
From these casual political items the
thoughtful may breed a few thinks. The
world moves slowly. But it moves. The
old order changeth, giving way to the
new. The big men and women are those
who see the way that progress progresses
and who throw their strength in with
that direction. In such individuals
change is beautiful, not wracking. — Kx.
IDENTIFIED
A clergyman in a town of Ohio en
tered the office of the editor of a local
paper. “I am,” said he, “soliciting aid
tor a gentleman of refinement and in
telligence who is in dire need of a little
ready money, but who is far too proud
to make his sufferings known.”
“What is the man’s namei”’
”1 regret that I am not at liberty to
disclose it. ”
“It must be I,” said the editor. ‘‘It
is I surely! Heaven prosper you, parson
in your good work!”
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POLITICAL RETRIBUTION
Dear Kditliur:
liov ve/ bin observtn
th' p litical horizon an barometer these
(lays? Troth an accorilin t' the G. O. P.
almanak an Uncle Joe Cannon’s hor
oscope an all th other omens an signs iv
the zodiac, lvervtliing pints t’ a grand
upheavel in November, A. D. 1916! IP
me soul, these do b’ trvin toimes fer
dimmycrat office bowlders in Santy
Domingo, Alasky and tother dipindincies
wid the peerless Nebraskan desertin th’
lacksonians an Jeffersouians an joompin
from the llalteemore platform t’ th
Cliaw-talkqua an other honorayriums,
lavin th p’liticle gulliteen suspinded,
loike Damocles swoord, over th thried
an tnrue heads. Wurra! Wurra! Shurean
’tis bin a long, long toime betwixt
dimmycratic Prisidents, barrin of coorse
lien Harrison’s four years risidcnee at
the White House, bechune Grover
Clevelands panicky terms, but b’lievins
til’ past 'll not be a marker fer the toime
after Wilson steps out in March 1916,
til the dimtnycrats git their feet undther
th’ counther agin.
Sliure back in 191.1, aftlier Terrible
Teddv broke liis big stick makin smitli
reens iv his frind Taft’s slitame roller at
Chicago, oi sez t’ mesell, sez oi, Paddy
me blioy, sez oi, divil another G. O. P.
couvinshun will vez iver see agm, not in
yer loife, sez oi. Hut b’ cripes, Hoist
Pinrose an Jili Root iv th owld gard art
now j’yously framin up fer th nixt,
as per skejule, bildiu a bran new ray
pooblicau macheen tliot ’ll be as far a
head iv th pow’rful clumsy Taft jugger
naut as th’ Zepplm is iv til’ Civil War
captive b'looil!
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And d ye/. mould how Alaskv ravpoo- 1
blicans are sittin up, takin notice afther
th’ big G. O. P. landslides Outside last
fall, Whitman bate Tammany’s in on
Glvnn ? An’ b’ jabers, as goes th’ Um
pire state so goes the nation! Faith an
jour local G. O. P.s are losin no toime
these days, (seein tliot Alaskv’s legis
j lathure ’ll not be afthur givin us a prim
ary illiction law, be in too busy cr-reatin
offices), they’re figginn out dillvgates
wurkin on the owld Shackleford- Hog- j
j gat machayne. But, liowld ver whist til
th’ local G. O. P.s come in t’ their own !
•
jagm, wow! wow! Wid th’ cries iv our
dimmycrats still nngin in their ears, th’ ;
raytaliashun an raprisals an sick loikc ;
, ravciprocity ’ll be somethin awful. IP
gurry, th’ retliribution ’ll be tumble.
Slntre th' loikes was niver seen since
Dick Croker returned from Ivurope in
-93. An b* th powers, wus it fer all this
tliot Alaskv democracy labored so hard?
choppin right and left, lettinth’ rascal’s
heads dlirop where they may, t’ make
j jaw'bs fer the thried an thrue? Faith an
i bad cess t’ these p litical bosses, se/. oi,
divil take tlmn an their mac hay nes.
Blessed b’ th foortli iv March, 1917. B’ 1
jabers it seems a long, long way to go, !
whin yer he.^rt 's roight there. Troth an !
it ’ll be too soon fer the Dimmyeratic
1 Club. An a looekv day ’twill be fer us
all, if th’ most iv th federal appintments J
iy th foortli judisliul dvishun be any
criterien. Hooray, sez oi, fer the first
Tchoosday afther th first Monday in j
November, 1916.
I subscribe myself,
PADDY O’lIOOIylGAN
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Effective April 19, 1915.
Subject to change without notice.
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