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THURSDAY, JUNK 27, 1012.
ROOSEVELT-BRYAN.
II is difficult 1 <» understand by
what line of reasoning' tin* Na
tional Progressive parly leaders
ho.pe to entire either Bryan or
J.a Folletl.' over to their organ-]
i/.alion, while, upon the otherI
Jiand. there are many substantial
argiimeiils why I hey should not'
nlViliale with the nondescripts.
The National Progressive parly I
has 11 < * I been formed as the re
fill I nf a widespread demand for
a new political deal. Those lead
ing in I he new organi/al ion. up I«»
williin a week wviv salisli«*d ami
«-(• 111 • • 111 lo remain williin llie1
ranks <>I I he Hrpuldiean organ
i/al ion provided llfy w«mv given :
I In- oll'iees.
(I was mil ;i prole>l against 111«•
«l« > 111 j 11; 11 i < > 11 •■)' the |ai\-e moneyed
interests, Ill-cans.' IIihi~i*\ell"s j
4*;i1111»<iiiiii was limineed by |\\u of'
lln' largest trusts in Hit* •*« >11111 ry.1
II was iinl a demand for purer
11•»IiI ii* . because Mohm'M'II's ,
iiii'IIumIs in politics an* not pure
and lit* lias never laid a claim I«»,
purily <ave for home eonsump-1
I imt.
Hoosi'vell's progressivcness is l
of I lie kiin 1 llial only progresses
when lie sees somelliin*r in it for
his own political advantage. lie
is an opportunist with a strong
leaning towards I In* demagogue,
ami is possessed (.if an insatiable
desire for power.
As president of I he United
State for seven years he set him
self up as dictator on all ques
tions from nature faking lo hahy
farming and consigned those who
differed from him to the Ananias
club, while he artfully dodged the
tariff, the money and the Alaskan
issues. ;
lie fought the trusts, but was
always careful lo do them no ser
ious injury: he fattened the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron Company, yet
dealt, in glittering generalities
against the steel trust. At all j
times; he took their money to
further nilri'iich himself in pow
er. lie used holh honor.*Dlcj
and dishonorable m.>1 hods lo se-|
cure the nomination of Tafl.audj
yet quarreled with Ills successor j
when not permitted lo control his1
act ions.
These are a few hi I lie reasons
why Bryan and I.a t'ollelte could I
not politically associal* with the|
e.x-presiilenl, even had they in
mind quitting their old parly af
filiations.
Another potcnl factor in keep
ing I hem apart, and il may be!
the strongest reason, after all is j
said, is that inch of these thi'vej
men are leaders in their own)
right and one would ne;er sub
ordinate himself lo I lie other. The
three men could not come in iu-j
Iimalc contact fur thirty days
without I tiling mortal ene
mies.
Hryan could pain nolliin^ by
following ll«misovi'Tf. Ill* is mil
\viIli<»t11 !i<»ii<>r in his «i\vn parly.
His counsels aw heeded; his in-'
111H • IK ••• is pi i\Vel' Till. Wore ho lo
desert Mm* liemoeraey. after hav
ing heen three linn's ils standard
hearer. ami al\va>s aclinp in har
mony willi his |»«>lilif*«iI views. il
would hi' said of him Iliiil In* was
tin iimrale ami a foul.
Senator I,a Kollello had I In*
same political affiliation* as llol.
HoosevelI. hul belonged lo <mit••
a different school of politicians.
The Wisconsin senator stcadfast
ly follows an accepted sel of
principles; Roosevelt has none.
I,a Knlletle is honest; Roosevelt,
is not. The one is a man of (lie
people, I he other is wholly for
self, encompassitiK nit in the per
sonal pronoun "T."
There is no more likelihood of
Hryan and I,a Pol loll e RoinK over
lo Honsevell's parly than there is
for Tafl to Join I he Democracy.
Roosevelt will have lo content
himself with men of iho character
of .lames Wickersham, who, like
I he leader, will go wherever there
is "something in il" for self. The
ureal hody of respeelahle voters
will remain willi Iheir parlv af
lllialions, doing Iheir hesl lo
Kiiide Iheir orffani/.alions on the
road to real and permanent ad
\ iincemenl.
Governor Johnson will return
• |o his home with no more parly
than a jack rahhil.
WICKER8HAM AND HIS CLAIM8.
Much has been claimed hy the
friends of Judge Wickersham for
their lead r's great interest in the
passage of (lie home rule bill.
As a mailer of fact, Judge Wick
ersham has ha<l but little to do
with whatever success or failure
I he bill has heretofore met.
Originally the home rule bill
was introduced by Representative
('ale and was bitterly opposed by
James Wiekershain. The latter,
when elected to Congress, had
fallen out with his old-time po
litical lilikums, who, with him
self, had opposed home rule, and
later on, in revenge, be introduc
ed in Congress a bill providing
for self-government in Alaska,
greatly restricting the powers of
I lie local legislature and provid
ing further that no act passed by
I lie local law-making body should
become e(Teelive uulil approved by
Congress. This measure then
made ol" I lie Alaska legislature a
body without power save lo rec
ommend. In fact. j| w;is 11oI a law
making body at jill. but i| was
rallier an advisory body on Alas
kan alVuirs to Congress.
II is easy in conceive Ilia! with
Slieli Jt I • • ti" i -1;»I j\e body and Hie
well known slowne>s of Congress
iu dealing w illi our local alTairs of
whal little beiielil Wieki-rsbam's
home rule bill Would have been.
Kven III is measure Mr. Wicker
s 11 a 11K never succeeded iu gelling
he\oinl tin' house caleinler. II was
not until the people gave us a
I leiiioeraI ic House of Ilepresenla
lives and its coniniiltee on ter
ritories formulated the "Flood
Hill," llial any atlempl was made
to gi\e us even a modicum of self
rule; it was no| until I lie Flood
bill, a modification and an am
plification of fbe Sul/.er measure,
was reported to Hie House, that it
was even contemplated that Alas
ka should have any fair degree of
home rule, and certainly prior to
that time it had neither chance
or hope of any measure of any
kind hearing upon self govern
ment, passing either the House or
Senate or receiving the approval
of the President of the United
States, who, time after time, had
expressed himself as strongly op
posed to giving us any form of
government other than a com
mission.
All this talk then about whal
Delegate Wickersham has done
for home rule in Alaska is the
veriest lommyrot and is well in
keeping Willi the many other
tilings lie lias nol done for this
northern country. The many
quarrels and bickerings of Judge
Wickersham with men prominent
in affairs at Washington, has
made i I i in possible for li i in to
pass any law upon any subject,
be it ever so meritorious. Others
may take up needed measures and
cause them to be enacted into law
but I he bill will no| bear the im
print of James Wickersham.
To return him to Congress is to
defy those in authority and lo
slap I hose who are in a position
lo aid us. In business life none
ol the Wickersham followers
would delegate an important and
vital Irausacfioii to Hie hands of
one whom lie knew |o be persona
nongrala to the parly with whom
the frausaclion was to he made.
How much more strongly I hen
does il behoove us to send a rep
resentative in harmony with both
the administration and Congress,
when il is considered (hat we can
not do belter than beg for what
we gel and miisl so largely de
pend upon the good nature of Hie
general g<»veruiiient.
II niny In- f'tm to ln*tii* nf Alas
ka's delegate ipiarreliug with
Tom. I)irk or Harry: il may please
some to know I hat our delegate is
doing Ills best |m kill I In* road ap
proprialion, or it may meet with
I Ik* approval of others I«» linvc*
our delegate l«*n«l in the approval
of Hoosevelt and Pinchot in their
conservation theories, Iml, just
I hi1 same, il doesn't pay, neither
does it advance the business in
terests of Alaska.
After all is said and done, pol
ities is largely a business ipics
lion, and it isn't good business In
longer retain Wiekershain as our
representalive in Washington.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Alaska Iwine rule bill has
given precedence |o politics.
democrat ie linrmony Ibis year
is not of | he kind suited to I lie
liking of the g. o. p.
I
We are patiently awaiting Hie
order from Washington to have
the national progressive sign
painted over Hie Wickersham
headduai'lers.
Unless Congress ads in the
meantime, I here will be no money
Willi which to pay the troops af
ter Monday.
To what political party do the
followers of Martin llarrais now
belong since they failed t»f recog
nition by the Democrats?
Lincoln Heaehy's wife is suing
the well known aviator for tlyinK
too high. That's another one of
the penalties fop being a birdy.
Reports from Washington
state that the Alaska situation
does not wear so rosy a hue to the
delegate as il did in limes past.
Altogether loo many of his old
time supporters have placed
themselves in other ramps to suit
tile taste of the Roosevelt dele
gate.
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