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THE NOME TRI-WEEKLY NUGGET. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4ih. 1919
THE MACHINE EXPOSED
Like the famous chinaman of Bret Ha rtf’s poetic tale, "for ways that
are dark and tricks that arc vain", the Democratic machine is decidely ••pecul
iar"; as was well illustrated in the deceiving statement published in the In
dustrial Worker by the ring politicians that Grigsby compelled the Alaska
fisheries to pay $400,000 hack taxes. As a sample of the methods of the
gang the statement is one that should be given full consideration by the public
if they desire to avoid gang exploitation of the territory and the infliction of
a broader and more dominative form of machine rule than exists at present.
As shown on our last issue, the court decisions which resulted in the
payment of the $400,000 hack taxes by the Fisheries were without exception
returned before Grigsby took office. The cases were started by Territorial
Attorney General John H. Cobb in the District Court at Juneau in 1915 and
resulted in decisions favorable to the territory.
The cases were then carried to the Appealate Court of the Ninth Dis
trict at San Francisco and were heard and the judgements of the Inwci court
affirmed n September 5. 191«.
Examination of the records rilso discloses that .Mr. Cobl* was the only
counsel for the territory at the Juneau hearings and in the Circuit Court of
Appeals at San Francisco.
Despite the claims of the machine ring. Mr. Grigsby had absolutely
nothing to do with the eases in any shape or form while they were reaching
final resolution in the courts.
Further proof that the statement that .Mr. Grigsby is responsible for
the Fisheries being compelled to pay the $400,000 back taxes is inaccurate Is
provided by the fact that Air. Grigsby was not elected to the office of Ter
ritorial Attorney General until November 191fi—two months after the Circuit
Court of Appeals had rendered the decisions which left the Fisheries no al
ternative hut to pay the back taxes claimed by the territory.
The machine statement that Mr. Grigsby is responsible for the payment
of the taxes is. therefore, wholly untrue and its utterance cannot lie looked
upon as other than a deliberately concocted lie intended to deceive the people
in the delegate election or as a display of pure ignorance concerning both
the fisheries cases and Mr. Grigsby’s record. The cases were over and done
with before Mr. Grigsby was even elected to the office of Attorney General.
v.uiirmunuk max me macnine loaners in this section are mostly men
of legal training, it Is hard to understand that they should not he cognizant
of the fact that Mr. Grigsby deserves no laurels for the addition of tha*
$400,000 to the territorial bank roll. With one or two exceptions they woi
all hero at the time the cases were passed upon by the courts and should,
therefore, he fully aware of where the credit should rest.
Being what they are. it appears very much that the statement cann.tl
he attributed to ignorance of the facts. And if they were ignorant regarding
the truth or falsity of their statement they had no business making it. Am
if they were cognizant of the truth, the declaration is one than cannot
looked upon ns anything less than a deliberate and willful! Hr.
Regardless of these possibilities, the statement must bo accepted as
an indication of the unreliability of machine statements which should not hi
overlooked by the public around election time.
NOME FOR POLITICAL DECENCY
For the second time within a year the voters cf Nome have demonstrated
their repugnance toward the vile political methods of the Democratic machine
ring by repudiating one of its favorite sons at the polls.
The decisive defeat of the shifty machine candidate. Mr. Grigsby, proves
beyond the peradventure of a doubt that the good people of this community
possess a clear appreciation of the aims and purposes of that unscrupulous
coterie of political shysters who falsely parade themselves as the unwashed
Democracy of Alaska and will not consent to debase their manhood and wom
anhood by permitting the machine element to use them in the furtherance of
its own nefarious schemes to graft upon the territory through controlling the
territorial political offices.
Regardless of what may be the attitude of the remainder of the ter
ritory toward the machine clique, Nome has clearly demonstrated that her
citizens are not of the stripe that will consent to wear the chains of party
servitude so that an unscrupulous aggregation of political pirates may plunder
the territory under cloak of party control of politics.
The defeat of Grigsby is also made doubly effective by the fact that
if was administerd by the citizens of Mr. Grigsby's home town—the town
where he resided for years and where ho was known to practically every man.
woman and child. In their efforts to land Mr. Grigsby in the office of dele
gate, the machine politicians pinned a large portion of their hope of success
on the fact that Nome is Grigsby’s home town and the place from whence he
launched the political flight which has brought him such unenviable fame be
cause of the unsavory acts and associations with which he so unfortunately
permitted himself to become attached. They figured with good reason that It
must be a mighty poor candidate who could not carry his own town. The re
sult of the election is. therefore, a double blow to the machine ring in that
• it has demonstrated that the taint of gang affiliation has so discredited their
candidate in the eyes of his own townspeople that they would rather vote for
an entire stranger, who, like Jones, comes before them with no political record
and few recommendations. Tho gang has learned that they cannot violate
everv rule of political decency nor rule rough shod over the rights of citizen
ship in tin i. shameless scramble for scats at the public pic counter without
bringing upon themselves and their candidates a well deserved opprobrium.
The fact that the citizens of (higsby s home town were willing to
accept almost anyone but (Jrigsby should prove to the ring that the machine
recommendation is looked upon by decent people as the hall mark of political
malpractice and dishonesty and will damn tin- chances of the candidate who
bears it.
THE STOLJEH TELECRIM
In the subsidized edition of the Worker, the gang’s chief spieler sounds
the depths of ihctorical invective in tapping the Nugget’s moral fount aril
declares in a long tirade of abuse against this paper that the Nugget, to quote
the exact words, ''displays its own guilt as a thief by publishing a copy of :.
stolen telegram on its front page."
This is obviously an attempt on the part of the machine writer to make
it appear that the Nugget stole iho aforesaid telegram, in the hope that we
may be discredited thereby in the eyes of the public.
The statement Is. however, only another sample of the unde-handed
methods of the gang. Possibly they are so benighted as to believe that we
stole the telegram from the Signal Corps after it was tiled by the gang reporter i
who sent it to the Juneau Kmplro so that the gangites In that section would
be prepared for a storm when the legislature met, but it would appear rather
that they knew that such was not the case but decided to utter what they knew
"as a deliberate lie in an effort to discredit the Nugget because of Its indict
ment of the ring.
The facts of the case are that the telegram was sent to Nome from
1 uneaii for the purpose of showing up the methods of the gang and also the
connection of certain local federal officials therewith.
As fai as we are aware the message was not stolen from anyone. If it was the
Nugget was obviously not a party to the theft, as the message is dated as hav
ing been received at Juneau. No one is so foolish as to suppose that the
Nugget's arm reaches that far.
i n«* party who received tin- o»py from which we reprinted the mes
tuffe Is a person of the highest integrity and the party by whom it was trans
propen'ti'" .. .whom no one In Nome will even suspect of thieving
(( T!l' ®;|ng probablyknows all this fully as well as ourselves anil the
af the gang predilection for lying misrepresentation. "
“Say Doctor This Prescription
Works Like Magie’-Physician
Explains Why Nuxated Iron
QUICKLY PUTS ASTONISHING YOUTHFUL POWER INTO THE VEINS
OF MEN AND BRINGS ROSES TO THE CHEEKS OF
NERVOUS, RUNOAWN WOMEN
Ask the first hun
drod strong healthy
looking people you
moot to what they v*e
thalr strength and on
orgy and see how
mwy reply "Nuxated
Dr. J tunes Francis
Sullivan, formerly
Physician of Bellevue
Hospital (Out-doors
Dept.) of New York
end the Westchester
bounty Hospital says:
‘•Thousands of ner
vous run-down, anae
Over Three
Million People
Annually
Are Taking
Naan tad Iran
but do not know what to take. There
is nothing like organic Iron—Nuxated
iron to quickly enrich the blood, put
roses m the cheeks of women and give
men that youthful "punch,** .vitality
and staying’ power. A patient of
mine aald to me after a short course
of Nuxated Iron: "Say. Doctor, this
prescription works like magic.’*
Unlike the older forms of iron, Nux
ated Iron does not injure the teeth nor!
upset the stomach, but is readily as-1
slmilated and you can quickly recog
nise Its action by a renewed feeling of
snap, vigor and increased staying
power.
No mutter what other iron reme
dies you have used without success if
you are not strong or well you owe
it to yourself to make the following
tsat:
See how long you can work or how
Car you can walk without becoming
tired; next take two flYe-graln tab
lets of Nuxated Iron three times per
day after meals for two weeks. Then
test your strength again and see hew
much you have gained. Nutated Iron
increases the strength, power and en
durance of delicate, nervous, run
down people 100 per cent In ten day’s*
time In many instances.
NOTE—Nuxated Iron recommended
above by Dr. Sullivan can be obtained
from any good druggist, with or with
out a physician’s prescription, on an
absoulte guarantee of success or mon
ey refunded. It is dispensed In this
city by Docnen Bros. (Shieosesors to
Butler Mauro Co.) and Hill’s Phar
macy and all good druggists.
NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
Bread 15c loaf, twa loaves for 25c
CHAS. CAVEY. Prep./
ARCTIC BAKERY
AND CANDY STORE
The heme ef sweets and j
a good place to eat
GOOD BREAD
Pies, Cakes, Pastry
Fresh Ice Cream Daily.
CARL PORATH, PROP
ALASKA NOTES
fUKON WILL INVITE
VISIT OF GOVERNORS
Associated Press Service.
JUNEAU, Alaska, (By Mnil)—He.
ports received here say that Dawson
and Yukon territorial officials will ex
tend a hearty invitation to the gov
ernors of the United States to visit
Yukon Territory in the event of their
holding a 1919 conference in Alaska.
NEW DEVICE PHOTOGRAPHS
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Associated Press Service.
TUCSON. Ariz. (By Mail) An in
strument for determining climatic var
iations by photographs Is in use at the
University of Arizona at Tuscon. It
is railed the optical poriodograph and
Is the invention of Dr. A. E. Douglass,
director of the Steward observatory
of the university
One of the purposes of the instru
ment Is to improve existing methods
of forecasting weather by testing for
the presence of periodic variations or
cycles in rainfall and temperatures.
KETCHIKAN WOMAN ACHIEVES)
KNITTING RECORD
\ssocfated Press Service.
JUNEAU, Alaska. (By Mail.—Ant
ing the best knitting records in the
country, it is belie%'ed that of Mrs
John l..hot£ of Ketchikan, will stand
high. Mrs Photo has turned in her
65th. sweater knitted within one year
for the Red Cross.
1918 FUR EXPORTS TWO
AND QUARTER MILLION
_
Associated Press Service.
JUNEAU, Alaska (By Mail)—Fur
exports from Alaska during tho fiscal
year ending 1918 were valued at $2.
281,782, according to the annual report
of the Territorial Customs Collector,
A large part of this increase over the
1917 total, which was $379,500, is due
to tho fact that in 1918 there were no
reports received on tho value of the
skins of fur seals killed by the govern
ment 6n the Pribiloff Islands.
ALASKA TOWN8 SEEKING
WAR TROPHIES
Associated Press Service.
JUNEAU. Alaska, (By Mall)—Tho
general erase for war trophies has
spread to Alaska, Dawson, and White -
hrse n**e among the first towns to takei
steps to secure souvenirs of the war j
such as cannon, machine guns, etc.,
which they desire for use In parks or
puTtllc buildings.
TEDUCATE PUBLIC TO USE
MORE LAMB FOR F,OOD
Associated Press Service.
SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 6. (By
Mail)—A nation wide campaign to
promote the consumption of lamb in
augurated by the National Woolgrow
ers’ association, is under way, accord
ing to S. W. McClure, secretary of the
association, which has offices in this
city. A former government food ex- i
pert has been employed to lecture and
demonstrate the dressing and cooking|
of lamb. |
The future of the wool and eheep In
dustry depends in great part on the in-1
creased consumption of lamb. Mr. Me- j
Clure gays. Sixty per cent of the
sheepmen’s profits come from the salej
of lambs. The otiWfrr.4® P*r cent ,s
derived from the
“Since Septombfr 15» tho Pub”
lie has at no tiro* consumed the num
ber of lambs, *«rt has been placed on
the market- There is no export of
lamb from this country. In England
26 pounds per capita per year. Lamb
is lower in price than any other meat
and has a food value greater than any
other. Few people know that its food
value is much greater than beef.”
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Property owners and tsnants ara
notified that tomorrow, Juno 3rd, is
tho last day granted by the city coun
cil for removal of garbegs from their
promises. Those failing to property
remove unsanitary dirt ond garbage
will face tho alternative of having tho
work done by tho city tb® eeeto
thereof charged to the owner of tho
premises.
8igned: DANIEL 8. NEUMAN,
Health Officer.
NEWE8T NOTES 9? •C,ENCE
Chile has national forsat* that cov
er about 7.000,000 acre* «t ^*hd.
-+
An English Inventaf *»■ mounted a
tiny electric lamp la tbs handle of a
safety razor. j
The temperature at aj**'K electric
flat iron can be regglafpl f°ur dif
ferent degrees. " f ^
Fred Harrison
ATTORNEY at law.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Ph»«* Main 113.
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