WICKEi
SCARED
Campaign Falling Flat! Gets Angry At The Boys And
Scolds Them.
Valdez, Oct 13, 1914.
“ Wicker sl\am insults Alas:
ka Socialists by ignorant and
deliberate misrepresentation.
Bids for Valdez votes and
says Socialists are behind the
times. Claims that demands
of Socialist platform already
accomplished butfails'to spe
cify, Appeals to Socialists to
be Americans first and names
Roosevelt as the leading So
cialist. Bottom dropping out
of his campaign.7
The above is a dispatch re-!
ceived from Valdez 'and the!
utterances therein are quite;
characteristic of Wicheisham
and together with other in-1
formation that we have from
the Coast, indicates, notwithi
standing the glowing reports |
report’s of Wickersham meet-1
mgs sent ont by Wickersham
shouters, that the delegate is
scared and realizes that in
his contest with J. M. Brooks,
his Socialist opponent, he
has the hardest fight of his
lifo on his hands.
When the so-called rough
necks over there, who are be
ginning fo know Jim for
what he is, corner him with
questions as to what he has
done for them, and for Alas
ka in genoral, he gets mad
and roundly berates and abu
ses them, making all sorts ol
wild statements and asser
tions. That is Wickersham
all right. It is simply a return
to the old tactics that he pur
sued at Washington for four
years in abusing every man
from Taft down who would
not agree with him,' and
which made of him a laugh
ing stock forall Washington,
not to say an object of con
tempt, and also made of him
an absolutely useless piece of
furniture in the halls of Con
gress.
As to his assertion that
the demands of'the Socialist
platform have already been
put into effect, The Socialist
Press would like to know
where a single one is in effect.
He may point to his famous
lien law.’ but everybody
’knows that it* is no better
than the one we had before,)
and is as notorious a piece of
fakery as was ever put over.
We may get a government
owned railroad, but it is not a
certainty by any means that
it will be government opera
| ted, since his law provides
for leasing)it.
Virtually, there is little sha
dew of truth in such refer
ence to any demands of the
Socialist platform, but Jim is
jiabie to say anything when
he gets up against it.
His assertion that Roose
velt is the leading Socialist is
laughable, and only shows
that Jim is as densely ignor
ant of what Socialism really
is as Teddy himself. But
maybe Jim thinks that be
cause Teddy stole all the
planks in the Socialist plat
form two years ago, except
ing the THE SOCIALIST
plank, it is enough to consti
tute the Bull Mocss chief a
Socialist.
Jf Mr. Wickersham makes
similar breaks when he gets
over here,we may expect to
have some fun with him as
the boys on the Coast seem
to be having.
W ith Wickersham in charge at
\\ ashingtdn.' working in cahoot.3
with his partners, McGhwan,
(Tiffin and Company, at Juneau,
Alaskans will have a sorry time'.
Voters! Men and Women it is
in your power to prevent such a
disaster as this combination. Be
[°n the safe side. Vote the whole
SOCIALISM' TICKET.
The New D
o
By Dan McCabe.
mocracy.
f-t would be very interesting
to many of the voters of the'
Fourth Divisinn to know
just what kind of a democra !
cy manipulated the last Dem j
ocratic convention held ii
Fairbanks for the purpose of
nominating a legislative tic ;
ket, whether they laid claim
to being “progressive” retro
gressive, or just plain bunco
Democrats. However it looks'
very much as though what
ever they may have called!
themselves, they’ 'have out
fammanycd old Tammany
itself. ’
The great sachems decreed
sometime before the Demo
cratic primaries were held,
that in order to preserve the:
purity of the party, that none
but the “tried and true”
would be allowed to partici
pate in the affairs of the par
ty. And in order to segre
gate the goats from the,
sheep, they exacted a pledge,
from each member to stand
1 by the nominees of the con
vention, and we are told
through the columns of the
party organ that none other
were allowed to take part.
We must therefore assume
that the convention was a
| representative body of the
| “tried and true.” But later
: developmenes prove that De
| nu-ratic pledges are not to
je relied upon.
The old Delaware Chief
vould turn over in his grave
vith disgust, should he ever
earn of the treason of Chief
-Vi skin hie Cailahan, who,
iriorto tile convening of that
convention, had announced
iimself a candidate for Sen*
itorfrom the Fourth Divi
don as anindependent. He
.vas not seeking the Demo
■ratic nomination, but at that
tonvention we find him a full
ledged ‘’tried and true,’’and
voting.a proxy .for his pre
tended opponent, Tom Me
Gowan. So much did that
convention appreciate the
service he had rendered that
they appointed him one of
(he divisional committeemen
to work for and secure his
own defeat. During my 38
years in the U. S. Ihave wit
nessed many political incom
sistencies but this one caps
the climax. Now, how can
Dan Callahan consistently
run ior the Senatorship as an
independent candidate,while
holding the position of divis
ional committeeman in the
Democratic party and pledg
ed to support the nominee of
that party? Jt is certainly a
conundrum. Dan is giving
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Wen
ffm. Randolph Hearafs Chicago paper, the Evarainer through it, publisher, A. M. La .ranee sent a letter to the N Y r,r r * ’ '"*
hid i tor of the Call, replied to the Hearst letter. Here are the tiro letters ' ' " M" " nglU' ““hasing
Chicago, Aug. 13. 1914.
Editor of The Call, New York, hi Y.
Dear Sir-As publisher of the Chica
go Examiner, I am presenting to you a
matter of the highest importance,
i believe that peace in Europe will be
restored only after the strongest and
most persistent pressure is brought to
l bear by the civilized nations of the
world.and that tha earlier these efforts
are made the quicker will results follow,
fc. The Chicago Examiner has invited
the rulers of non-combatant foreign
powers and leaders of thought through
out the United States to join in a great
International Peace Movement.
The replies already received have
been numerous hnd sympathetic. 'They
come from heads of foreign powers, Am
bassudors, United States Senators.Gov
> rnors of States, men prominent in fin
ance and in commercial life generally.
Your paper is invite 1 to join in this
great movement for peace. 1 am not
requesting any mention of the fact that
this movement is inaugurated by the
Chicago Examiner, but that you, through
your influential oaper pitch in and help.
You will find on the press sheet en
closed herewith copies of the replies !
which the Chicago Examiner has al
ready received and which were publish-'
ed in our issues of August 7. S' and 9. |
You a e at perfect liberty to make such
use of these' as you may desire and in
any way that niay best suit your' pur-!
pose, 1 ■ , .
If the press of the United States will
lend its wonderful influence to bring a
bout peace in the world, it will be re
ward enough.
1 should be pleased to hear from you 1
personally regarding your ideas of this
peace movement and also to receive any
issues of your pa per in which you may
make mention of it either editorially or
as news matter.
it is our purpose to publish a sympo
sium of the views' of the leading new s
papers of the eountry. ‘ l t ■' i '' '
Respectfully.
A. M. Lawrence.
New York August 17
A. M. Lawrence, Publisher, the Chi
cago Examiner, Chicago. IP.
Dear Sir—Your invitation to The
New York Call to join with the Qhica
go Examiner in what you term ‘ a great
L ■ i. j. I . ' « . sTWV
international peace movement’ is high
ly interesting'. ‘ ’ ' ■ 1
It is not long since the Heayst news
papers were lashfnrf thhmselvcs into a
frenzy cf ••patriotism;'’ 'in an effort to
embroil the United 'Stales and Mexico
in war. 1 1 ■
Every person who follows newspn
pers hlosely remembers the pro w r at
titude of the Hearst newspapers in con
nec tion with'the California Anti Alien
Land Law. '
The Ilearst newspapers have left ro
line of type unset that might drive th°
United States into war with Mexico
and Japan. And every person or power
that stood for peace in these cases was
roundly berated as n coward or knave
by the Hearst newspapers.
And now you ask the New York Call
to assist you in leading the Kings
abroad and the representatives of Big
Business at home in an international
peace movement.
Permit me to suggest that you show
ed far more acumen in the case of the
well remembered Chicago .Newspaj er
[strike than you are showing now.
In that great strike you stood out as
■4 0 1 *■' l. t . <i. Ol/ •' w
one of the most intense antagonists of j
the working people. As publisher of'
the Chicago Examiner you did your,
share in breaking up homes and tilling !
the hospitals—you and your colleagues i
on the Chicago American and on the al i
lied Big Business newspapers of Chicago '
Jt cannot he that you have so soon }
forgotten the'work of Ed Bnrrett and ;
i his crewi It cannot tie that you have
I forgotten the assaults and the murders
I ot those eventful months. .There was a
' war in winch you stood for war.
And now you talk of peace. Mr. Law
rence, vonr plea for peace is too redicu
lous Jt.is too obviously what is known
as a "Henrst play’' for circulation. It
is one of those situations in which you
! cap pr Ule to your heart’s content to
the working class, knowing while you
do it that you run r\r> risk of injuring
any of those interests that Hearst news
papers never injure.
! You will have to omit the New York
Call from the list of papers you are trv
ing to enlist jn this cause. The New
York Call and the great Socialist move
| nient for which it stands have fought
too lpng for peace not to be able to cor.
t.nuo tne fight without th > aid
of those who como with unclean hand
Uhe“ the wareI began to roll
ov,r Europe there were in all that
groa.t contlncnt ndneto make felt theii
opposition as did the Socialists. Their
stand for peace was genuine. Thai;
earnestness and sincerity *s the
urstand most powerful fdrce for peace
^athru tedbyan-evenhy you/own
cnam of newspapers as pointed out tv
tbep, edit rially at the begmnih - of
the conflict. '.‘-fc-nnmg ot
We stand with the working class
Ym, areirrevocably with capital and
‘j! cnP'ta|istclass. When the capitalist
class wants war you must want wn
And the New York Call stands with
or recognizing no war as just exce “
the war on tl e capitalist system So
long as we are able we shall fight for
°ur object on that field with the w
pons of peace. But if it should be th
the powers with which you ire align i
should force that conflict into one t
arms, then shall we stand for whatever
measures the hour may demand.
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