Valdez Daily Prospector
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MONDAY, JULY 1, 1912.
JUDGE CU8HMAN.
With the passing of the day
Hon. E. E. Cushman, judge of the
Third Judicial Division of Alas
ka, will have passed from our
midst, but not from our memory
or kindly feelings.
In the usual acceptance of the
term, Judge Cushman came to
his official position as a carpet
bagger. After having presided
upon the hunch for three years,
he has, by all of those attributes
which make an honorable, learn
ed and fearless judge, won the
hearts and coniidence of our peo
ple, and has taken from the term
"carpet bagg'r" much of iis
sling. The Third division would
-much prefer to have retained
Judge Cushman, and deeply re
gret his departure, while at the
same lime rejoicing in his pro
motion, wishing him (!od«?peed
and thai the same degree of suc
cess on I lie United Slates bench |
for the Southwestern district in'
Washington whieh 11.* so ably and
deservedly earned in Alaska. We
ran assure Judge Cusliiiian Unit,
the lalchsl ring In Valdez will :il-|
ways hang outwardly t<> him.
IN THE REPUBLICAN STATES, j
i
California gave a Repuhliean
majority «»f 80,900 in 1908. Cal
ifornia's vole in the readiopary
convention al Chicago was 2(5
against Taft and 2 (slolen) for
him.
Idaho gave a Republican ma
jority of 1G.250 in 1908. Idaho
voted against Taft in Hie reac
tionary convention at Chicago.
Illinois gave a Republican ma
jority of 189,999 in 1908. Illinois
pave Taft hut I wo of her 58 voles
in Ilic reactionary eonvention at
Chicago.
Indiana gave a Republican.ma
jority of 10,731 in 1908. Indiana
gave Taft 20 voles and 10 against
him at the reactionary conven
tion a I Chieago.
Iowa gave a Republican major-j
ity of 7i,i39 in 1908. Iowa gave!
Taft 10 <>f her 2(5 voles al the!
caelionar.v convention.
Kansas gave a Republican ma
jority of 30,007 in 1908. Kansas j
gave Tafl bill 2 of her 20 voles
at I lie reactionary conwnl ion.
Maryland was a Hose slate in
1908, I he Republicans carrying j
it by 005. Maryland gave Taft
hut I of her 10 votes at the re
ad ionary convent ion.
Massachusetts gave a Repuldi-j
can majority of I10.i23 in 1908.
Taft got 20 of Massachusetts' 30
voIps at the read ionary conven
tion. although Colonel Roosevelt
carried the primaries.
Michigan gave a Republican
majority of 159.809 in 1908. Taft
got 20 of Michigan's 30 voles in
the reactionary convention.
Minnesota gave a Republican
majority of 80,i42 in 1908. Taft
pro| no voles from Minnesota in
flip reactionary convention.
Missouri gave a narrow Re
publican majority of 020 in 1908.
Missouri gave Taft but 10 of her
30 votes in the reactionary con
vention.
Now .Jersey gave a Republican
majority r»f 82,750 in 1008. Now
Jersey pave Taft no votes in the
reactionary convention.
North Dakota gave a Republi
can majority of 24,750 in 10ft8.
Taft got no North Dakota votes
in the reactionary convention.
Ohio, Mr. Taft's home state,
gave a Republican majority of
00,501 in 1008. Ohio Rave her
favorite son but 14 of her 48
votes in the reactionary conven
tion.
Oregon gave a Republican ma
jority of 24,481 in 1008. Oregon
gave Taft nothing in the reac
tionary convention.
Pennsylvania gave a Republican
majority of 207,001 in 1008. Taft
got 0 of Pennsylvania's 70 voles
in the reactionary convention at
Chicago.
South Dakota gave a Republi
can majority of 27,270. Taft got
no voles from South Dakota in
the reactionary convention.
Washington plate gave a Re
publican majority of 47,317 in
1008. Washington's 14 votes at
the reactionary convention were
cast for Taft, as a result of a
plain Iheft perpetrated by the re.
actionary Republican national
committee.
West Virginia gave a Republi
can majority of 20,451 in 1908.
Taft got no votes from West Vir
ginia in the reactionary conven
tion at Chicago.
Mr. Taft was renominated at
the reactionary convention at
Chicago by the states whose elec
toral votes are almost invariably
cajt for a Democrat. The states
upon which the Republicans must
rely for success at the polls in
November were against his nomi
nation.
EDITORIAL NOTE8.
It's a long convention which
has no turn.
It's a long way to Baltimore,
but walking homo is still longer.
A scientist claims that man is
75 per cenl water. Not an Alas
kan !
II appears from this dislanee
lhal Bryan's stock of stamped
ing material is summed up in a
baker's dozen.
Another scientist announces,
sclf-imporlanlly, that drinking is
a habit. Oh, you dry Martini!
We though! you were a natural
insl inct.
The people of Yaldi'/. who have
had I he pleasure of meeting the
oll'icers and men of |he Thirtieth
feel lhal a warm relationship will
exisl between Ihe town and posl.
Tin* Senate has «1«'<• i« 1 • I to \«»l<»
< Ml I lie l.orimep case nil .1IIIV (».
The senators probably do not
want In violate the safe and sane I
Fourth laws by tiring l.orimer on
I hat ilay. i
' it is announced thai the Mex
ican rebels are willing In quit.
Possibly I hey are ashamed of
their showing after having read
I he slory of 1 he insurrection at
Chicago.
According lo the physicians
one of I he mosl dangerous of the
new diseases is Tuntf paralysis.
Congressmen and political spell
binders should govern themselves
accordingly.
The Madero government has
suppressed a comic paper in the
("lily of Mexico as dangerous lo
Ihe "peace, dignity, elc." Oro/co,
however, continues to issue his
prouunei.Mnenlos.
The race between the Gilrnore
;ind Wickersham men in sending
[>ut political uiisinformalion is a
pretty close one, with the advan
tage on Ihe Wickersham side of
*aviii*r telegraph lolls.
Senator Jones, of Washington,
says he has never heard of a
public man selling his vole or in
fluence. Senator Jones should
lose no lime in consulting a spe
cialist in diseases of the ear.
General Orozco of Mexico hai!
challenged General Booze to a
duel. General Orozco should
know that General Booze luvs a
record of having whipped every
man who has gone lo a finish
light with him.
The Nome Nugget is diseminat
ing a pile of political misinfor
mation, probably on the hypothe
sis that a poorly lold lie is about
(is good as the truth. In its ad
vocacy of Gilmore, no doubt, it
will serve the end better.
The editor of the Prospector
can stand being charged with
loyalty to a friend, and especially
to one who was in deep trouble
nnd was subsequently fully ex
onerated. We are sorry we can
not return the compliment to the
editor of the Cordova Alaskan.
Those thirty names of Nome
iles sending out their proxies to
the Valdez NVickersham conven
tion have us all going, we havo
yet to meet any one person who
know8 one-third of them, and one
man who has ever heard the
names of half of them, and all
prominent business men of Nome
at that. What next?--Nugget..
Some of the papers think be
cause the Stnool homo rule Sen
ate measure is nndorsed by the
administration if, will pass. There
is where I he rub comes In. The
endorsement of the administra
tion will kill the measure, as it
will cause the Democrats to
search for the "nigger In the wood
pile." That railroad commission
straddle in the enabling act
smells very much as of a job.
Subscribe for the Prospeolor.
Tho appearance of William
Jennings Bryan as a newspaper
reporter at Chicago, interviewing
T. R. and Taft leaders, is one of
those things that could not hap
pen in ai)Other country without
probably causing a political cris
is. Here there is no suspicion
lhat Bryan's visit to the Chica
go convention has any motive
other than the one which ap
pears on the surface. If such a
thing had happened in the av
erage European country, it would
have been taken as direct evi
dence of collusion of some sort,
a sinister plot would have been
suspected, and Bryan, T. R. and
the Taft leaders by this time
would have been "beating" it for
the frontier. But in this coun
try as long as everything is done
in I he open, we arc not haunt
ed by morbid fears. After all
America may not have pone so
irretrievably to the denlnition
how-wows as some of our long
haired publicists believe.
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