Valdez Daily Prospector
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1912.
ROOSEVELT'S DECLARATION.
"On the fourth of March next,
I shall have served three and one
half years, and this three and
ons-half years constitute my first
term. The wise custom which
limits the presidents to two terms
regard the substanoe and not the
form, and under no olroumstanoes
will I be a candidate or acoept an
other nomination for president."
Three years later, on December
11, 1907, he reiterated his dec
laration in these words:
"I have not changed and shall
not change the decision thus an
nounced." '
THE THIRD PARTY.
There can lie no ditulil liul dial
Theodore Roosevelt and his fol
lowers are organizing a third
parly ami propose lo place a
ticket in ihc Held during llieeom
nu election. Of course I In- t i«*k —
el will ha\ e int hearing nn I he
final result further lhan lo make
more certain and more pronoun
ced I In- defeat id' President Tall.
Already repudiated hy a consid
erable (dement of his parly, who
refuse In exile themselves from!
tin4 regular organization. the'
Roosevelt propaganda will crys
lali/e an orpanization in opposi
lion to the regular nominee,
striking the hardest, hlows where
the President is I he weakest.
In the end, as we have here
tofore said, it will make the de
feat of the Republican nominee
more pronounced; hut what of the
man who loves to repeal that he
is more of a warrior lhan a
prophet. To the disinterested
citizen it. appears that it will take
hut little of a prophet to discern
the end of the Rough Rider, in
sofar as polities are concerned.!
In four years from now he will
have so thoroughly discredited
himself as lo have eliminated his
personalis from I In* - political]
arena, hut lie will have left he- j
hind him a seed which will growj
with acceleration hy reason of j
his active campaign against those'
things which Tafl has represent-j
ed. Me is responsible for the first,
great break from the ranks of tho■
Republican parly; lie has cleaved|
a deep abyss between the rear-1
titularies and the progressive
wings of his parly. In one fell!
swmip he has lo|tpb'd over a num
ber *if diMihlfnl states inlo the*
1 • 111<.rr:iI ie eolumn, provided al-j
ways, lb'* Democracy makes no;
iui-l»k«'-i. The old paying recurs!
Ih;it f.'ititil cullies even out of,
Na/ari'lh. but wlial will become j
of 1111« < -<\ idl ami his polilieal fak— '
in- 1
NOME OFFICEHOLDERS.
If <«ii\frn<tr r.lark has his ways
in iiiini iif.* Ihe successor lo Judge i
(lU^hmau, lie will have establish-i
ed a new polilieal record for]
Nmiie, W illi Ihe appointiiienl of
1m!;:e l-'ulb-r lo the bench the]
Seward peninsula met ropoli-. will'
have In be credited with three
judges, three United Stales mar-1
shals ami tin district, attor
neys. A pre 11,\ fair record for an
i-.n|iiI.-tl commiinily shut oil* from J
Ihe world eiglil months in Ihe!
year, but then Nome knows how
In pla> politics and knows liowi
In slick by jl* own people.
The Nome appointmcnl* are!
.Indies Murane. Overfleld an.li
Fuller; Marshals Sullivan, Sullu
erland and Richards; Dislrict At
torneys Ruslgard, Murane and
(Irigsby. Hcsbles these major
appointmenl.H there are more
Nome men holding down official
positions in Alaska than from any
other entire division.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Kviflcnlly Chnnnccy Dcpcw
knows drfenl when ho sees II.
Tlicy nre hound In have pence
in Hullinmro if ii hikes killing In
KM II.
Kven Hrynn wns compelled lo
hoed I lie* hnrmony argument ad
vanced by I ho delegates.
There will ho quilo n hit of riv
nlry amonff I ho undertakers for
Iho honor of interring (ho Re
publican pnrly next November.
The Chicago convention con
vinces us that we have a lot ol
invincible hammer throwers qual
ified lo enter the Olympic games
It is now up to Taft to recall
Judue Wright's decision on Sam.
uvl Gompers if he expect* to mak^
any votes among organized la
bor.
Direct presidential primaries
was defeated in the Chicago con.
vention by a slender majority.
Treason even in the reactionary
camp 1
• ———
What will Teddy do now with
his stock of "overwhelming sen
timent" which'was to have land
ed him in the White House for a
third term.
Dissatisfied with Hie hell of
Republicanism Teddy and his fol
lowers have taken a can of sul
phur and*a box of matches to
start a hell of their own.
Iloosevelt's cry for sympathy
for having been crushed by the
maeliine of bis own perfection
would bring a smile mi the faee
of a 3.nnn.yeui'-ol<l mummy.
The announcement is made
thai the Italians have boycotted
Turkish towels, Imt whether be
cause t hey were Tlirki.-h «>!• he
cause I hey were towels i> u<>l ex
plained.
Tho>c Republicans \\li<> liavr
received lilt' appointinents from
IIm' hands of President Tall may
funIhemsclves fort una I c l'or
I lie opportunity will not cmiii'
again in a I iff lime.
.lames Wickersiiaiu should
haw I h«* editor of I lie Congrcs
sioiial Hecord discharged for
suppressing I lie very active pari
laken hy lhal gentleman in im
portant legislative matei-s.
II was real kiml of ()'<'.oniior to
enlighten the convent ioiu, a- to
w ho I he real Alaska delegates
were. Of course ever> body
knows Falcon Joslin to he a real
Washington-Alaskan and <i'('.on
nor to live under his hat.
The Cuban revolt is said to he
about over, the Mexican revolt
is being1 suppressed and about
the only revolt I hat has not been
pill fully under control is lhal in
Chicago, against the domination
of the machine bosses.
Khacklcford's national commit
teeship will be an empty honor
during I he coming four years,
much lo (lie gratification of a
large element of his own parly
in Alaska, saying nothing of the
balance of the people.
The women of Skagway are to
give helegale Wickcrshaui a din
ner when lie passe* through lhal
town, owing to his having placed
woman's ^utVra^e in I lie enab
ling aid! This is ihe tirsl inti
mation we had Ilial our delegate
dug Ihe Yukon and made .Mount
McKinley.
The seventy or eighty people
of the Slale creek section are still
willmul a mail service, costing
Ihe government $inn per year,
because, as Ihe second a«--islanl
postmaster general says, "il
doesn'l pay." • If all the mail
routes in Alaska which "didn't
pa>" Were cut old. there wouldn't
he a poslolVice in Ihe territory
and hut precious few in Ihe Unit
ed Slates. If our delegate to
Congress, who i* under some ob
ligations jo Ihe voters of Slate
creek, had been half as attentive
to Ihcir wants as I hey have been
lo his Ihe mail would have been
going into I hot isolated section
as it did before Alaska was rep
resented in Congress.
II is lo be hoped IMt'Kali' Hub
hard will ho ahlo lo have passod
Iho hill pormillinp Vnhl v. In ox
lond ils oorpornlo liinils. Tho
Prosporlor has wrillon our now
dolngalo on l.ho sub.joet ami hopo*
soon fo ho ablo lo inform our
roadors on I ho Mnhift of I ho hill
al I ho prosonl limo. Wo aro ralh
or anxious lo loarn wholhor Iho
omharpro Hint Iho hill ho not por
millod lo pnss has boon placed
on liiin hv Iho lowor MoKinloy
nlrool poliHoian*. From infor
mal ion ohlainahlo wo aro Kivon lo
unclorsland fhal Ibore is loo much
al slnko lo pormil Iho inlor
moddlinff of Iho wosl ond volors
in affair* whioh ran ho of profil
lo Ihoso only who aro in Iho
tfnnio.
The Hard Times Danoe.
In Iho days whon I was hard up
for Iho wanl of food and flro,
' I used to tic my old shoe up
With a little bailing wire.
When hungry, cold-oast on a
rock,
How oft I beat the devil down
For Icmplin' me to steal.
In the days when 1 was hard up,
I'll ne'er forget those days.
The days when I was better off—
And 1 may be well off yet.
All persons wishing to see Mus
selshell Frank at the Hard Times
dance, please come up with the
price. MUSSELSHELL FRANK.
CZAROVICH AFFLICTED
WITH TUBEROULOSIt
Vienna, June 25—The Czaro
vich Alex, nine years of age, will
'the court physicians, who say he
is suffering from tuberculosis of
.the knee.
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