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Union Man Tells What He Thinks
of his Dirty Work.
Candidate W. T. Burns’ switching
from the victorious popular non-part
isan ticket, which, if anything, is pro
gressive, to the reactionary regular
Murphy Democratic ticket, with its
Tammany methods, seems like an an
anomaly! It’s one of those events pec
uliar to politics that cannot be explain
ed. Though at that it’s not inconsistant
with Candidate Burns. Billy’s record
on public matters, since as a roughneck
and president of the local W. F. of M.
shows that he is some switcher. As
leader of the miners, in the Tanana lab
or struggles, Burns was a valiant knight
of labor, and right manfully did he
fight for and plead the cause of labor.
Billy was one of the lucky ones, he land
ed on the paystreak. Followed prosper
ity andlhe grand switch. Was it for a
Democratic riband in his coat lapel that
he left us ? that our former guide flopp
ed from a radical to an ultra-conservat
ive ? And, as a big landlord and holder
of a vast area of low-grade mining
ground and prospective employer of la
bor, make common cause with T. Mc
Gowan, attorney for Alaska’s largest
corporations, E. W. Griffin, personific
ation of Big Interests, and other react
ionary lawyers and elements? Was it on
account of Bunnell’s promise of a cent
ral “power plant’’ and other cheap con
ditions for working the mines that Can
didate Burns changed his principles and
philosophy? Oh William! On November
3, retribution will come!
A UNION MINER.
An Organization to
Fight Corruption
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J. T. Solward, of San Antonio, Texas, J
is head o f a n organization which will
refuse to vote for any more lawyers for
office. Solward believes most of the cor
ruption and weakness in government is
because of too tnauy lawyers holding
office.—-Ex.
Solward is right. There is no one
thing causing as much corruption in
governmental affairs as the permitting
of lawyers to control politics. They as
sume that everyone else is a client of
theirs and shall keep still while they
sell out to the other fellow’s lawyer. A
lawyer, as a rule, is a legal harlot, al
ways chasing the man with the most
money.—Ex.
Solward should come to the Tanana
and organize his anti-lawver society.
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VOTE IT STRAIGHT
For Delegate from Alaska
JANES TOMAN
For Members of Territorial Legislature,
Fourth Division
FOR SENATOR .
O. P. GAUSTAD
FOR REPRESENTATIVES
E. B. COLLINS
DAN DRISCOLL
A. E. MALTBY
C. ft. SNOW
GREAT SKAGWAY
CONVENTION
In reading an account of the Skagway
convention one cannot h e 1 p observing
that it was a body of lawyers and feder
al officials. Davidson was there to call
the convention to order, and Bunnell,
the “leading attorney of the Third div
ision,’’ was there to serve as secretary.
Cobb, the Juneau lawyer, and Chenv,
formerly of Douglas, were both there;
Troy, a tenas lawyer formerly of Clall
um county, Washington, was also there
Mr. Noll, a Ketchikan lawyer was there
and Roth, of Fairbanks, was there. A
number other would-be lawyers were
there, all working for their “clients.”
That is what they call tbe man or cor
poration w ho has handed them a retain
er these days. If one of them were to
receive $5,000 for doiug some dirty work
for the N. C. Co. or the Guggenheims,
he would then call those corporations
his “clients,” and the graft would be
entered ip his books as a “retainer” as
“counsel.”
Their candidate is the local attorney
fora steamship corporation, and most
every attorney in Alaska will vote for
hint. Every agent of every steamship
corporation and cannery compnny will
vote for him and call it a matter of bus
iness,”
Then, why can’t the producers and
all the common people who earn their
bread by toil, vote for Judge Wicker
sham, for in the convention which nom
inated uim not a lawyer tvas seen or
heard. Their “powerful speeches’’weTe
not wafted over the audience to arouse
them to “tremendous enthusiasm.’’
Now, these same lawyers and corpor
ation agents who met at Skagwav will
soon be pulling off a “non-partisan con
vention to nominate their henchman to
go down to Juneau and pass some min
ing laws,’’ and Dan Sutherland can
plead with them until his hair turns
gray to enact laws to control the caner*
ies and other corporations, but he might
just as well be singing psalms to a dead
mule and expect said mule to rise up
and bray in behalf of the people. Don’t
be a Henry Dubp. Keep your eyes open.
Read the voter's psalm found else
where in this paper.--Valdez Commoner.
BE SIND TO THEM
Contributed
Treat him with kindness,
Don’t cause him pain,
Don’t let passion master you.
Be lenient with the cane.
For children will be children,
And remember though they’re wild,
That you can’t put a Man’s head
l On the shoulders of Bunnell.