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THE LAWYERS
This is a difficult subject for one who
is not of the profession to properly dis
cuss. Undoubtedly the lawyers of Fair
banks are capable. They are aggressive
and determined, and frsm their stand
point professional. Eut is their stand
point correct and are they professional?
They apparently regard the profession
of law as a business in which they are
engaged for the purpose of making
money only. Examination of the subject
of the duties of a lawyer to his clients
and his profession we encountered in
the work at our command the word
ETHICS aud after having read the sev
eral pages under that heading we gath
ered that a strict observance of the eth
ics of the profession requires a lawyer to
be faithful to the court, faithful to
clients, faithful to truth and honor, and
faithful to his oath of office. How many
lawyers in Fairbanks observe these re
quirements ? Ask the people who are
compelled to go into court. Enquire of
the miner who works for wages. They
will tell you their experience with law
yers in Alaska. Of the sacrifice of their
rights because of the influence of those
of whom they seek recovery. They will
give you their ideas of the formidable
obstacles which they cannot overcome
when they encounter the Northern Com
mercial Company and others when re
presented by Tom McGowan. Some
subtle influence works against them.
This then is where the lawyers, as a
class are deficient. They do not observe
the ethics of their profession. They are
defiicient in fidelity to their clients and
they violate their oaths. This is the pre
vailing opinion among the laymen.
From the fact that Fairbanks is prac
tically isolated from the world' this
frailty of the profession niav be to some
extent a natural drift from the usual
standards.
The lawyers have many things in
common and 'would gravitate naturally
together socially, then perhaps for pro
tection and eventually for aggression.
They have done so. Tor several years
they and the larger interests have been
chiefly responsible for casting a corrupt
■v.
ing influence obout the courts and the
federal officials. It requires a strong
nature to witnstand this influence and
few have been able to do so. When a
man comes here who is strong and in
dependent they fear him, then they' op
pose him. Mr. Crosslev is the last ex
ample. For years the lawyers or many
of them have attempted to gain a loot
hold for their schemes in the U. S. Dis
trict Attorney’s office but without suc
cess. They have petitioned for his re-*
moval and have joined every attempt
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n—n—i dn i .n ■
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fee Cream Parlors In Connection
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Second Avenue Next Orpheum Theater Phone 186
made to secure his removal. For the
reasoii he has been clean they have
failed until the Wilson administration
with its pretended lofty ideals of polit
ical purity complied with the demands
of the bar of Fairbanks behind which
are the McGowans, Erwins and others.
Mr. Crosslev has stood between the peo
ple and the criminal element, and his
removal at this time is a reflection upon
the bar and upon the administration.
THE ADMINISTRATION
A great many progressive republicans
and' independents and a great many
socialists, not members of tlieir organ
ization, voted for Woodrow Wilson at
the last presidential election. They be
lieved in Mr. Wilson and in Mr. Bryan
and in what they stood for. The success
of Mr. Wilson at the polls was largely
due to these outside votes.
When Mr. Wilson in his inaugural
address called upon all of the good cit
izens of the country to .give him support
aiid “God helping me, I will not fail
them” these outside voters still believ
ed in him.
When Mr. Wilson departed from the
Capitol building to tlie White House
where he stated he would turn over the
appointments to the department heads
and their-chiefs from which no appeal
would be had or listened to. By that
word he opened the door of the govern
ment to the spoilsman, grafters and
vultures that follow and infest all part
ies. They are they are the Murphys and
Crokers, the Considines and Clancys in
the states and the McGowans anti Er
wins here. The idealized Wilson admin
istration has become the ordinary crook
ed Democratic administration to which
hereafter the independent socialist and
the progressive workingman will look
in vain for relief.
An administration that entertains E.
W. Grifiin, Jack Baird former keeper of
a “joint” on. the “Row,” John Sidney
Webb and other equally notorious char
acters is not an administration for the
people t-o support.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
In the South where it has been in un
disputed power the Democratic party
has stood for peonage, child slavery and
all that that implies. In the North it
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has been the party of the public service
corporations. It has maintained itself in
power in cities like Chicago, New York,
! St. Louis, and other large centers of
(population, by an open alliance with
the red light district and the slum.
The names of Roger Sullivan, who
j holds the Damocratic party of Illinois
| in the hollow of his hand, Tom Taggert
j who controls the Democracy of Indiana,
( and Charles Murphy, who performs the
| same function in New York, have be
come bywords for all that is crooked
‘ and corrupt in American politics.
Locally, the Democratic party is the
party of the Northern Commercial Co.
Its officer are the employees and tools
of the company. It tries to add numer
ical strength to itself by recruiting the
floatsam and jetsam by promises of sin
ecures when it has attained power.
It is in business manifestly to advance
the interests of the corporation, and ac
cording to its official organ, The Alaska
Citizen, Spoliation.
WICKERSHAM
The only opposing iorce that the N.
C.-Guggenheim influences have had to
.contend with is James Wickershani.
j When he' incurred the displeasure of
i the beast it started in to ruin him. It
: took Henrv Roden, whom the Judge
j had, lor the purpose of teaching him
i law, taken into his offiee, and gave him
a few crumbs, flattered him and made
him believe that tnev could not get a
! long without him, then when they fin
j islied with him dung him aside. They
. succeeded, however in breaking up the
! law firm ol which Wickershani was a
member. Terrible is the power of the
j beast." It takes a strong man to with
' stand it. Wickershani is a strong man.
I -;
tm him
Delegate Wicker sham held his first
i meeting at Fox last Tuesday- evening.
! That afternoon it was rumored that T.
J McGowan and a few of liis friends would j
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I When the telegram came last Satur- ;
; day that announced the confirmation of j
| R. F. Roth to succeed J. J. Crcssley as}
| U. S. Attorney- it became the occasion j
j of the wildest rejoicing among the vie- i
ious element. Every gangster, grafter, ]
gambler, pimp, and other undesirables'
and their supporters and supported un
der the leadership of Tom McGowan
. visited the various drinking places. Me.
| Gowan paid for nearly everything. At
! one place he event behind the bar er.d j
| passed the drinks over. These are the j
people yvho do rot yvant the laws en- J
forced and are-—DEMOCRATS ' *
Everybody Buys
at THE NEW STORE
High Grade lien’s Suits and
Furnishing Goods
At less than half price
Everything will be sold in a short time.—
Get in Line For the Bargains.
The New York Store
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First Ave. opposite The Fair View Hotel.
be present to make an attempt to inter
rupt Wickersham and- break up the
meeting. Knowing of McGowans prev
ous attempts in that line a number of
husky supporters of the Delegate went
out with him to prevent anything of the
kind. The meeting was not disturbed.
McGowan however was there an(Inex
perienced the mortification of heading
himself referred to in a way he will
long remember.
After Judge Wickersham had given a
history of bis work in Congress and had
stated the nature of the sinister influ
ences be was called upon to combat in
tlie White Pass and Northern Commer
cial companies, their merger, their ex
cessive rates, their representatives in
Alaska, he called attention to the fact
that at present these interests controlled
three of the Territorial Senators and re
quired but one more to block any reme
dial legislation.
‘They now have taken possession of I
the local Democratic organization,”
said the Judge, “and have placed on
the Democratic ticket for Territorialsen
ator their own crooked legged lawyer
and E. W. Griffin, a corporation em
ployee for member of the legislature.”
The Judge also asked his audience how
they could expect him to continue his
good work in Congress if the}- elected
this “crooked legged lawyer” and Griff
in to the local legislature to undo his
tfork. “They won’t work for you but
for those who employ them,” said
Wickersham.
This is not the first time Tom McGow
an has attempted to break up meetings
When the women depositors of the W
A. Bank held a meeting at the Auditor
ium m this city, McGowan went to the
ticket office in the auditorium and
placed his ugly mug in the ticket win
dow which faces the entrance and at
tempted to stare the ladies out of count
enance as they came into the building.
He had his plug-uglies wit if him there
and it is a fact that they did deter a
number of timid ladies from entering 1
the building. Many of the ladies and
tlieir husbands were under obligation
to the N. C. Co. and McGowan’s threat
ening stare was too much for them.
The time for retribution has con e.
McGowan is a candidate ior Tcrritoriol
senator, and the women vote fot the ^
first time. When it is considered what
McGowan is, what he represents, and
what he always has and now stands ior
no self respecting woman will give him
her vote. Retire him ladies to that at
mosphere where hie revolves about the
gambling den in which he has alwavs
wished to associate and from which he
never has shown the slightest inclin
ation to emerge. Ketire him foreever,
this hirer of plug-uglies, disturber of
ladies’ meetings, fixer of juries, corpor
ation tool, associate of the denizens of
the “bad lands,” a disgrace to bis pro
fession and to the manhood and woman
hood of the district. Retire him, and
when the government boats bring the
supplies for the railroad construction in
the spring, the Northern Commercial
Company, which has maintained this
legal and political degenerate to over
awe the people of the interior, will also
follow him into retirement as they did
at Nome when competition became free.
Retire him!
The Alaska Socialist,
Fairbanks, Alaska,
Tom Me Cowan says through the pub
lic press that he has been here for se\ -
enteen years and everybody knows his
record. Quite right Tom and some of
them know your record in San Fran
cisco before you came. Why don’t kne w
Tom what you did in California? Tell
them what connection you had, if any,
with the men who were engaged in the
business of furnishing shipping papers "
to men (who were shanghaied out of
San Francisco harbor on to vessels that
sailed the seven seas. Tell them about
the embezzlement by the city treasurer
of San Francisco of the city funds. Tell
them whether the city treasurer was
your partner in the race track business
whether he went to the penitentiary at
San Quentin when you came to Daw son
in a hurry. Tell them what work you
did, if any, in the ranks for the blind
boss Buckley of San Francisco. Tell
them Tom!
A. CALIFORNIAN
At the ladies bazaar held at the Aud
itorium Thursday evening, R. F. Roth
was introduced to the audience by Me
Gowau. Roth should be flattered,
hould Smile!
We don’t worry because we know you
will come quick and buy without a
‘‘kick” one of our Ulsters or a regular
Overcoat, at the following prices:
443 OVERCOATS $30.00
$40 “ $26.75
$35 “ $23.50
$30 “ $20.00
$25 “ $17.0
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