Valdez Daily Prospector
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One Dollar per Month: Twelve Dollars per Year
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1012.
THE DODO EGG.
The Wiekersham party have
met, resolved and adjourned The
Valdez delegation, with live oth
ers and about one hundred and
thirty-five proxies sent by tele
graph, in most instances with
out primaries having been held,
met in this city, br,,ing through
the form of holding a convention
under the name of the Republi
can party, a name to which they
are no more entitled than would
be the Democrats, and as the sum
total of their labors nominated
James Wickershani for congress
and endorsed Theodore Roosevel
for the presidency.
Iii this particular instance the
"Id saying that no one ran serve
two masters becomes an inflexible
rule. To serve lloo-evelt is to
be llie implacable enemy of Alas
ka; it means the throttling' of her
industi ies: the locking u|> of her
latent resources; it means an in
ilelinite eon I immure of the bane
ful influences under which we j
have suffered ever since Theodore
lioosevdl conceived tile idea of
itnl I lin- up our resources for the
use of future generations; it
luciins more ('.hugaeh forestry re
serves, covering millions of acres
of mineral lands where a tree
never ^rew ; for years to come the
snow will be conserved; power
siIes will be reserved and devel
opment. handicapped. More strin
gent game laws will be passed in
order that the bear may increase
and afford better spoil, to the na
bobs, who occasionally visit us.
We will continue to pay cxlior
bilant prices for lumber in or
der that a bureaucracy to govern
us may be maintained in Wash
ington, if you please, at our ex
pense, lor the general govern
ment colleds toll from every man j
who uses Alaska lumber or burns j
Alaska wood.
These are the things that'
Roosevelt stands for. not taking j
into consideration that he has;
suspended an act of congress in;
order to lake from us the'right to'
locate a given number of acres j
of coal land. 11c goes further;
and tolls us that we will be pros-'
ecutcd if wo use tho coal lying\
at our very doors for home con-;
sumption, and compels us to go!
!. foreiVI - bore- for our fuel. j
l! i.•• b it lilt !.• <|ilV"rence !
'»o\\ pu'ar Wielits'shani ha?- j
' i i'ii u» !ln pa~ t: how ;:oo»l a vol e j
.« ,!«•!• lie is ihi-; ila>. lie never
was and never will he si mum
I'lioovb !o i';iii> the load lie lias;
••'rs.ddbd o\e.* hi- -builders ill!
. i.«i«• i *i! !loose\e|l. in order toj
-»• j*\ •• a pel I \ ambition. tie has!
ii> proNeu what those who j
•\iii<w Iiiin besi ha\e always said I
of him: die i- iinuraleful ami will i
sacrifice bis most loyal follow-j
ei s in order to graiify a person-I
al ambition.
.Alaska lia* hri-n \\ loki'rsliain's |
frioml. •! m * I >«•!. ii^ wo havo sahl.j
to v !•« I i r> ;i personal amhil ion. lie!
has c;iiix <I a 11111111m'r (if his 111 ii)«I
1o||oW»'|s III rnoompass I ll«* <*VI —
ilorsomonl I.r I In* Oyslrr May
s\va«il» hnoklor. nolwil h •lamliiifr
dial in lloo-i'vH's fi'vi'ii vears of
• ilficr In- ip'Vi i' porformoil a sin
uli> art I»»r I In' hoiiolil of Alaska,
whilst. upon I In" ofhor hand. In*
is wholly n'^ponsihlo for all (Im* i
ill«s from whi«'h \v«« have .«u{
• I irinjx Iln» pasl dorado.
In endorsing Moo«<ovo|| f li «* I
Wiokoi xlmm parly litiv*< |rnl> laidj
a iloilo I'fjcfx. which, fori unaloly. t
I hoy forfxol lo feciiiuli fv.
UNCOMPROMISING PARTY
WARFARE.
A dispatch from Washington
hrariim Ih<» nnmn of n rorron
poiuh'iil known lo hi» in I ho oon
fhlonoo of I In* I>i\on-Pinrho|
Kroiip of prdilioians says. if r.ol.
Hoosovoll roroivos a Ihird-lorm
nomination, ho w ill iio| ask or ac
ropl Ih*» snpporl of President
Tafl: nn»l, innroovrr, if Tnfl
shornl Iflio nominop. Hoosovoll
will nol <nf»prir| him. hill imnio
difiloly lakn Ilio slump in oppo
sition lo him.
Tlioro nolhinp Iho lonsl sur
prising 1.1 this sl.'ilomoul. Iml if
sums up (110 moiitiro. of Iho siln
aliou now ronfronlinw Iho Ho.
pnhlioan pnrly.
If Hoosovoll ii* lo ho holiovcd.
Tnfl hn* hoon ropronnl to his
trust.
If Taft is to be beieved, Rooso-r
vrlt is willfully distortinp facta
to p'liii autocratic power and be
come an American Diaz.
The issue is sharply drawn.
Could a Republican who be
lieves Roosevelt vole for Taft? Or
could a Republican who beieves
Taft vole for Roosevlet?
If impossible, how then is the
party to choose between these
two great men, irreconcilably
hostile and bent upon destroying
each other, without inviting party
destruction in Novoinbcr?
The national convention is but
three weeks off. Prospects dark
en as the fateful day approaches.
Possiby in the abnormal state
of the political mind the party
may repudiate the administra
tion and thus repudiate ami stul
tify itself, and still survive, but
no such feat has over been ac
complished in the political his
tory of the country.—Post-In
telligencer.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
K. K. Ritchie has not yo| en
dorsed Roosevelt—and there are
others.
Having boon kicked around so
much, no won dor Champ Clark's
dog can run sonic.
(>. consistency, thou art a .jew
cl, ltul nut. a member s:f the Wick
et-sham parly.
. .None of those grabbing into the
pork har'l mistook a harrow
tiMith for coin of the realm.
Kvidcnlly close relations were
established between the Harvest
er trust and the Alaska patriots.
When the Perkins pork har'l is
opened up spare parts of harvest
ing machinery are occasionally
found.
The future cartoonist will pic
ture Wirkersham as 11 rcules
trying to carry Roosevelt through
Alaska.
Valdez is hig, hroad and cos
mopolitan enough to represent
the entire territory when occa
sion requires.
\Vhon Ritchie laid the Wicker
sham: egg he hardly thought il
would hatch out a conservation
endorse nient.
If Taft is as had as Roosevelt
sa>s il would no| he safe to trust
llie Colonel to pick out any more
otVicials for us.
The Chicago Tribune wants to
know if III" famous judicial tem
perament was blown up from |he
ins il e of the outside.
"Uoosevcll is being supported
by l In' corporations and the rab
ble.'1—Ceo. Haldwin. chairman of
I lie Wickershairi convention.
The Prospector cannot believe
the \olers of Alaska will support
Roosevelt, even if lie does travel
in Wickcrsham's pantaloons.
.lames Wickershain will lind
that mushing over the Alaska
tundra with a Roo.sc\elt emlorsc
uieni in his pack, is no fool task.
Wlial a liovvl llioro would have
boon had either of Ilw el.I parly
cons fill ions steam rollored I li«*
pi'Mprani IhroiiKli as I ho projrros
sivos iliil.
As I lie days pass it hoeonios
more and more ovidonl thai
Hoosfvoll will not allond I ho
TaT! rnnoljon In ho hold in Hip
Chicago ooImssoiiiii.
When I ho proper kind of pros
sure is bronchi to hoar on a llo
pnldioan ho falls inlo a roooplivo
mood ami lols llio ollior follow do
Iho Ihinkink for him.
Aorordinpr lo Iho now Wash
inglon loxioon "T. H." doesn'1
sland for Iho Oyster Hay sTalo*
maii, hnl is simply an ahrovia
I ion of True llopuhliean.
Are Alaskans In Hlullify llwin
soIvoh and undo nil I hoy have
he n working f«»r in order lo «ivo
Wlekershain a hoosl?* Wlileli. af
ter all, is Iho mosl nnporlanl,
Alaska or Wiekershnm,
AfIf*r man has heon liorn of
woman, hrouvhl up hv hor, mar
riod hy hor ;• m<I pilolod lo sue.
r»'.sx |iv hor. In* eonlly turns round
and inforni Imt llial she ha-vit'l
inli ilf^i'iioo ciionuh lo \»de.
\ eouplo or I'orkiu* pork har'ls
was o\ idonl ly si mosl welennie
nddiliou lo tin oil>\s rosonires
du.ing the past few days. Like
Mineral creek, Roosevelt stock
began to climb on the mere rumor
of rich pay.
1 ? •;
Down Katalla way, where
lloosevelt is the darling of I he
gods, there.will he great enthu
siasm over the Wickershain plat
form, which endorses Col. Roose
velt, the father of the conserva
tion movement.
The primary voting lists of the
Democratic and Republican par
lies contains not a few names who
were proxies in the Wickershain
convention. Such men will nev
er roach a very high pinacle in
this sphere's affairs.
A vote for Wickershain is a
vole for Roosevelt; a vote for
Roosevelt is a vote for the return
of Pinchot to the forestry bu
reau and a continuance of the
policy of Pinchotism. Can Alas
ka stand for it?
H. J. Rutherford and C. Ram
say, the locators of the Ruther
ford-Ramsay properly, are on
their way in.
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