Valdez Daily Prospector
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8f 1912.
Democratic Ticket
For President—
WOODROW WIL80N.
Tor Vice-President—
THOS. R. MARSHALL.
For Delegate to Congress—
ROBERT W. JENNINGS.
AN EXPEN8IVE PEACE TO US.
Webster gives as a definition
for the won! partnership an as
sociation of two or more persons
in business for material profit.
Mr. Wickvrsham and Mr. llodcn
have been law partners for many
months past. We have a right to
presume that Mr. Wickersham
reaps his share or tlie profits of
his firm, to which he is certainly
entitled. it is also a principle of
law that one partner is bound by
the acts of the other, and, gen
erally speaking, one partner will
not art in important matters
without consulting the other.
<>1' course Mi*. Ilodon is familiar
willi the public, life and policies'
<»f .Mi*. Wiokershani ami was woII
aware «»1' I lit* lichgate's protended
antagonism In llic (iuggonhoims
ami must have realized lliat in
becoming llicir agent fur the i 11 -
Icrim* of Alaska, lie was placing
the linn in a very ridicule position
if Mr. Wickorsliuin's opposition
to his present clients was real.
Upon the other hand it is hut fair
lo assume thai, the officers of the
Yukon (Sold company are not fools
and would not entrust their busi
ness lo the hands of I heir ene
mies.
Taking: it into consideration
I hat last summer, while on the
coast, Delegate Wickersham, at
Chitina, Cordova ami in Valdez,
in his public addresses, said that
I he time had arrived for peace
and thai lie was willing for peace
and would work for constructive
legislation. His utterances were
of such a pacific nature as lo call
fop comment from the Cordova
Alaskan. We are now beginning
lo learn at our own cost that a!
treaty of peace bail been enter-1
eri info with I lie (iuggonhoims j
without Yalriez being a parly loj
llic contract or oven being con
sidered in |lie matter.
One of I lie lernis of ibis re
markable contract was I lint, our
delegate shoulri work for the
passage of a bill appropriating
Sinn.nun fi»§- a public building in
Cordova. Mr. Wickersham, who
had served as judge in this riis
Iriol, knew I hat all the business
of Ibis division was easily, com
fortably and expeditiously carried
on in our present federal build
ing, which cost the government I
only 'one-leiilh of the amount!
which lie seeks to have appropri
aled fur I lie "local" building in j
our sis I op town. Ho musl also be
aware thai I In* department ofi
Justice, in making loutalive plans:
for the structure upon which to
base the amount of the appropria
tion needed, figured upon placing
all Ihu government officers sla
lioii<-ri in Ibis division in Ibis new
structure. Then, the lernis of
peace made by Mr. Wickersham.
jncludori the abaniloumeul of Yal
riez, by I he federal government,
through the connivance of our
delegate, who, true to the nature
for which he is so well known,
was ready lo sacrifice the com
munity which has in the past
stood so loyally by him, to make
peace and incidentally to gain the
friendship of a rival town and an
element which has always fought
him ami his aspirations to the
last ditch.
vaMloz is now confronted with
I he proposition of re-electing
Judge WickorHhain and aiding
liirn in (ho up-building of Cor
dova, n| our expanse, or of casting
its vole for some candidate who
will give thin coiniuunily a fair
cliaiico in a fair field.
This olcclion is not n parfi/.au
one, but, upon tho contrary, for
I In? citizens of Vnldo/, tho only is
sue is whether we are K«»ing to
kill tlHy town by tho aid of our
own vol oh or whether wo aro go
ing to tho polls determined to
vote for our own best interests,
Tho»e if- where the bread and
buffer fnd the home element
comes In on the vote we cast.
ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION.
In voting for the nomination of
Col. Kooscvelt, after his ultra rad
ical conservation speech in which
the irrational statesman of Oyster
Bay told Alaskans that they had
no more rights in Alaska worthy
of consideration than any citizen
in the states, Mr. Wickersham has
alligned himself with the ultra
conservationists. He has given
his tacit assent to the theory that
Alaskans should be governed and
limited in their rights by (he peo
ple of the states because the ter
ritory was purchased from Rus
sia out of moneys taken from the
national treasury.
Applying the rule advanced by
Mr. Roosevelt and acquiesced in
by Delegate Wickersham, Texas
was the only acquisition made by
the United States which did not
cost its people either money or
blood, or both, and hence the peo
ple of all the territories should
have been subservient to all the
people of the United Stales, even
to their local alFairs.
We are not of those who be
lieve that Judge Wickersham is
rightfully representing the views
of the people of Alaska*, or else
the home rule sentiment is a
snare and a delusion. For four
years Mr. Wickersham lias been
apparently advocating home rule,
and yet he takes part in a con
vention in which its candidate
enunciates doctrines utterly at
variance and incompatible with
the spirit of home rule. He be
comes a part of a political organ
ization which lias for one of its
principal tenets the taking away
from the pioneers of the country
all rights l<» its natural resources;
a doerine diametrically oppo-ed
In that which has built up the
great union of stales and has
within Hie past seventy-live years
transformed the "great American
desert" into a galaxy of twenty
states.
The pioneers of this vast terri
tory had no Roosevelt, or Wicker
sham telling tlioin that this or
that was conserved and that they
should not have it. The land they
were attempting to jipen up to
civilization was not blanketed with
reservations for every known pur
pose imaginable; bear were not
protected for the pleasure of
Eastern hunters; the people wer.?
not denied their fuel, neither were
they taxed by the federal govern
ment for the privilege of earn
ing an honest living.
And yet, these are llie things
Mr. Wiekershain is standing for.
It. needs now but to re-elect him
del.'gate to congress to place our
stamp of approval upon his acts.
There will be 110 one to blame but
ourselves if the general govern
ment conserves everything in
Alaska, but our morals.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The colored delegates objected
to being locked out in the dark.
Roosevelt kicked out the nig
gers and did about the same thing
with Alaska.
Roosevelt's speech on conser
vation must have taken I In- kinks
on I of Judge Hubbard's hair.
l-'airhanks voters are also hit
when their resources are to be
conserved by Teddy and his Alas
ka man Friday.
The ant iipiarian who found a
ham one hundred years old wont
have to leave Yaldez to (1ml the
eggs lo match it.
Aii honest grand jury will find
no difficulty in singling onl tlio
"higher lips" who waxed fat on
llu* cupidity of .Judge llanford.
Friends of various candidates
need look out for eleventh hour
boomerangs from irresponsible
sheets published on the eve of
election.
Judas betrayed his Savior for
thirty pieces of Hilver. Our dele
gate is betraying his friends by
giving the enemy one hundred
thousand dollars.
And now Frederick K. Fuller ih
charged wjth being on both side*
of one case. Probably emulat
ing the master tactics of one
James Wickersham.
Is the ex-secretary of the in
terior, llichard Achilles Uallingcr,
again to figure prominently in the
investigation of the "higher ups"
who were the cause of the feder
al court scandal.
All the Wickoys, like Belshaz
zar, are beginning to discern the
handwriting on the wall. "MeQe,
Imene, tekel upharison." Who will
!kindly enact the role of Daniel for
j the poor fellows?
Wickersham lias so successful
ly misrepresented us in Wash
ington that he saw the futility of
attempting to re-elect himself, so
has joined the conservationists in
the Chicago moose pasture.
Upon the principle that one's
left hand should not know what
his right is doing, probably Wick
ersham's friends will excuse the
delegate for turning over the Gug
genheim business to his business
associate.
If the voters of Valdez were to
exercise the ordinary precautions
for their welfare made use of by
the average business man, Wick
ershain would not receive a vote
in either "Valdez or tile Reserva
tion precinct.
The cut ire responsibility of the
endorsement of lloosevelt by the
Valdez progressive convention is
owed to Delegate Wiekershain. He
is still endorsing the Hull Moosa
and his amended conservation
theories. Shall we endorse Wick
ersham, and through him Roose
velt?
Topeka, Aug. H.-I.ale returns
from over the stale shows the
contest between (Sovcriior Slubbs
and Senator Curtis lo be closer
than al first thought. The Pro
gressives, however, seem o have
the best of it.
Valdez Real Estate.
If jou ha\e a house t«> rent,
list it will. Valdez Real I-Is,
I tale Agency, Wall street.
Launches and Lighters
For Sale, Rent or Charter
Weekly service to \EIIamar
Landlock and Fidalgo
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SHAMPOOING and MANICURING
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Private bath room for ladies.
Corns Removed, Without Pain, $1.00
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