Valdez Daily Prospector
I'lTIILlSHKO By THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
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One Dollar imt Month: Twelve Dollars ucr Year
MONDAY, JUNK 10, 1«JI2.
THE REPUBLICAN HANDICAP.
Political statisticians who are
presenting llgures showing fhe
probable strength of the Repub
lican parly in the various slates
apparently lose sight i»f the fact
that tin* results of the national
campaign in I'.Mis do not furnish
a workable basis for comparison
for this year's estimates. The
Republican party is faced with a
\ery different Democracy from
that defeated only four years ago.
Even under the modern pri
mary laws, the state political or
ganizations have a very consid
erable influence in national cam
paign*. The Democratie wave of
HUH swi'pt several Demoeralic
governors into office or swept
away the Hepuhliean bulwarks
whieh had hemmed in the power
<«f I >eniocral ic executives. Indi
ana and Ohio. at. the same lime
that I hey gave their electoral
votes lit President Tall, chose
Democratic goxernors. Two years
later (Ulio re-elected its Dcllio
••ratir governor. llarinmi. by a
pluralilN of more than a hundred
:hi>usaud. New York and New
Jersey, which had Hepuhliean
-tale, administrations in I'.mis.
have ntiw. and have had for Hie
last two years. Democratic gov
ernors. Maine also joined the
Democratic procession two year^
iii!o litis Sentemlier.
Th« Democratic triumph uf
1010 in the slate elections rnn
loriued to a certain alignment
which the old-time party lead
.•rs thought was essential to
Ilemocralir sucocss on national
■ssiii's. They long worked to
bring New York. Ohio, Indiana
111< 1 New Jersey into association
Mlh lh< * solid South. That as
sociation. so far as party con
• rol of the state niacliincry is
concerned, has heen effected. with
Maine thrown in. It will he sjm
l»Iy political hninan nature for the
Democrats to do their utmost to
retain what they have. As in the
Republican parly. Ihe Democrats
are divided before the convention
very decidedly in their preference
between candidates, hnt oiice Ihe
standard-hearer is chosen their
ohj-time snscept ihility to the
eliarm of regularity may he
eoiinted on to set them all at work
for the success of their national
ticket.
The liemocrals, of course, will
liKht for retention of the north
ern states which they now con
trol and these, with I tie votes of
Ihe solid South, would give Ihein
Ihe election. The only hope of
Ihe llepuhlicans is no nominalc
at Chicago a candidate who can
wrest these normally Republican
states from Democratic control.
.Neither progressive or reaction
ary contends thai Roosevelt or
Tafl can do thai. Then, who is
to lead tlieni out of the wilder
ness of impending defeat?
PINCHOT HIS CHOICE.
A number of prominent politi
cal adherents of Theodore lloose
vell have denied the oft-repeated
assertion that if elected Presi
dent. Roosevelt would appoint
(•ifVord Pinrhot ns his Secretary
of ttie Interior. They do not
claim, however, any authority for
their denials from any statement
made by the Colonel. The rela
tions existing between Ihe two is
too well known to demand com
ment .
Attention is called to the fact,
however, that in his speech at
SI. Paul, Colonel Roosevelt came
out strongly in behalf of the Pin
cliot style of conservation, con
demning the Tafl administration
lor its stand on that subject, and
declaring Hint the. Pinrhot policy
bad been "completely reversed by
the dismissal of OifTord Pinrhot."
This declaration from Colonel
Mi.oscvclt is significant. It means,
if it means anything, thai he is
still wedded to Ihe Pinrhot type
of conservation, and being a be
liever in that policy, it is only
natural to infer that lie would
call into his cabinet Mr, Pinrhot
himself hi order lo return |o the
enforcement of tho«e conserva
tion principles which made the
Moose* ell administration so bur
densome i<t Alaska. There js no
other man to whom Roosevelt
would look locarr\ out conserva
tion along these lines.
Those who believe in Ihe pol
icy of conservation, as practiced
by Roosevelt, should upon prin
ciple vote for James Wickersliain,
who was the direct cause of his
party endorsing the Roosevelt
candidacy. In all fairness to
James Wickersliain, we must
credit him with a sincere desire
to s»»«» the Roosevelt policies car
ricd out rather than a sordid de
isire for personal advanceineut,
I hence a vole for Wickersliain is
a message sent to the elates tell
ing the people there that Alaska
approves of the lying up of our
coal areas, of our forests a? well
as the indiscriminate taking of
our Ugh without a just compen
sation from the canners, to main
tain a perpetuation <>f the indus
try. It endorses as well Ipmse
vell's well known policy of ap
pointing carpet hagger< In office
in the territory, and his executive
orders suspending ads of con
gress passed for the benefit of
Alaska.
ABOVE THE COMMON LAW.
The workmen's coiupensat ion
su'l of tin* stale «»f Washington
has been rather strikingly imior
sed hv the Supreme (iourl of I ho
I'nited Slates, in its decision up—
holding a somewhat similar law
in Nebraska in which the power
of ih«' ulaN' lo abolish certain
eonimon law doctrines which
heretofore have been liebl lo lie
inviolable were made the subjects
• if tests. Aniline these doctrines
were the principle <»f eoiilribiitory
negligence and negligence of a
fellow employe, coinnionly known
to lawyers as the fellow servant
rule. In mosl of (lie stales where
eoinpensafion laws were enacl
ed. I lie statutes did not contem
plati* any collision with the com
mon law rights, lint oiTered lo
both employer and employe an
elective privilege. Kither might
reject the waiving of common law
rights, bul such rejection depriv
ed Ihom of any benefit conferred
by I be new statute.
Nebraska, however, insisted
that it had the constitutional
power lo abolish these doctrines
and I he federal appellate court
sustains it. The Nebraska stat
ute was limited to railway cor
porations, but the decision in af
firmation clearly sweeps away all
limitations and gives to employes
of every description llie same
riglil to compensation for injur
ies indicted through the negli
gence of fellow employes. On Hie
subject of contributory negligence
I lie statute provides that it shall
not be a bar lo the recovery of
compensalion, but that damages
shall be diminished in proportion
lo the amount of negligence at
tributable to (ho injured employe;
which seems but just and equit
able.
OF COUR8E!
In tin' conference between the
House ami Senate on the army
appropriation bill, the provision
reducing (lie cable lolls to Alaska
by aboul 50 p«*r cent was strick
en out in I lie interests of har
mony.
Alaska lias no vote in the elec
toral college, and therefore Ihe
i*ifrliI-t ami needs of Alaskan cit
izens have scant consideration by
Ihe 1'niled Stales Conpress, with
a national election cominp on in
a few months.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
In a recent speech President
Taft charped llolonel Hooscvcll
villi liavinp millitled acts of con
gress lo carry onl his policy of
conservation in Alaska. "He
charpes me," said Ihe President,
"with not haviup carried out his
policies, when, as a matter of
fact, I had conpress pass laws
makinp it lepal for me lo do what
Hooscvcll did illepally." It will
be noticed that both of these can
didates wer«' discnssinp what
each had accomplished in the way
of tyinp up Alaska's resources.
Neither of them have ever claim
ed lo have piven Alaska- that
which she was entitled In.
The testimony beinp adduced
in Ihe Harrow case indicates that
there is also need of a law prn
vidinp for Ihe recall <»f lawyers
| at times.
At the opcninp of Ihe campnipn
j llooscvcll declared: "I will ac
i cepj Ihe nomination if tendered
| me." Since then lie has not for
pollen lo help thai lender mi its
way.
II would lu< fpiile inlereslinp lo
have I lie Wiekcrshamilcs explain
upon what hypothesis they expect,
; seal llieir delepales In the na
tional convention if it be m>| by
' fraud and misrepresentation.
i
Old Kulmui lias played hob with
Hit' Rooscveltian policy uf con
serving the Kodiak bear for llio
sport Qf coming genera lions.
William A. Gil more, was <m
I hi' Don* when Kuliuai broke
l<>os<», thought for a time lie was
attending a joint debate between
Tafl and Roosevelt.
Norman .Merchant thinks*lie is
i now well iptalilied to preach 011
hell fire and damnation, since go
ing through his experience in the
vicinity of Mount Katinai.
William II. Hearst has been in
timating the Democratic party
should nominate a great, editor
foj- pi'.vsident. Mr. Hearst should
he more specilic and slate wheth
er he favors Colonel Wattersnn
or Colonel Harvey.
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