T! ALASKA SOCIALIST
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PUBLISHEP in THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCA TING POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
THE PARTY BOSS
The people of Alaska generally, and
of the Tanana in particular, have done
well. On the 3rd of November they laid
the party bosses on their backs. They
are again active, and are said to be neg
otiating to put over one of the crooked
est of the many crooked deals that they
ever put over in the Tanana.
The party boss never lies down. If
you put him out of business to day you
will find him on the job to morrow. If
he is annihilated in oue place to-mcrrow
he is sure to be found working in a dif
ferent place the following day. His is a
risky business sometimes. When his op
erations become too apparent then does
he lay low. He always tries to work in
the dark As "agent” or "attorney”
working for his "principal" or "cljent"
he reaches for the filthy lucre wherever
he fiuds it and only when his personal
safety is endangered does he desist. All
is grist that comes to his mill. Watch
the party bosses.
Sometime ago several of the local at
torneys were heard complaining of the
dull times and a lack of business. Since
the resignation of Judge h’uller, liow
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ever, it is said, nearly all of them have
been busy, working for their "clients"
in the matter of selecting the "right"
man for judge.
TIMES’ OPPOSITION
It is significant that the Fairbanks
Times which .boosted McGowan fox Ter
ritorial senator is opposed to District
Attorney Spense of Valdez who is a can
didate for the Judgeship of the Fourth
Division. We do not know Spence but
the fact that the Times is opposed to
him would indicate that he has some
merit.
PURE JOURNALISM
Silas Madder trieb to bribe vour ver
simiHtndinous correspondent to get his
name in print. He offered all sorts of
inducement, including a basted dollar
watch which an automobeelist threw at
his dog and missed, but we stood firm
for the fust pnncibbles of journalism,
which is that a reporter ain’t to be
bought, not with no busted tin watch,
so we won’t mention his name. We
can’t think of nothing as would make
Silas madder.
Sidelights On The Late Election
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A Politician's Dream
John M. Brooks, the candidate for
delegate to Congress on the Socialist
ticket, recently toured the creeks in the
Circle district and reports the Forty
Mile, Eagle and Circle districts almost
solid for the Socialist ticket.
In a letter from Mr. Brooks to the
Juneau Socialist Local, written from
Fairbanks, he saj’s, that many of the
Wickersham supporters are deserting
him in the Tannna district; and the
people know what the Democrats have
done in the past for.the common people
Somebody seentsto have started a
rumor in the interior that Brooks has
sold out to Bunnell. To this story; Mr.
Brooks gives his most emphatic denial
and savs “pay no attention to anything
the old parties may spring on your can
didate and you will find that I am still
on the job alter tJte smoke has cleared
away.”
He takes issue with Mr. Wickersham
when he claims that he lost some sup
porters in the Interior because he did
not secure a Federal building for Fair
banks. Mr. Wickersham is losing vptes
in the Tanana Valley because every law
and decision he has had anything- to do
with hbs enadied the Corporations and
Banks to robe and plunder the people.
He did not tell the people of Juneau
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that there is over a million dollars of
unpaid labor in the Fairbanks district.
The workers are getting their eyes open,
and are deserting the supporters and de
fenders of the parasitic cluss.
Everything look6 good for a big in
crease in the Socialist vote in the inter
ior and Mr. Brooks challenges the vot
ers on the coast to roll cp as good a vofe
for the Socialist ticket a* they will cast
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-ALASKA SUNDAY MORNING POST
Oct. 25th, 1914. Lena Morrow Lewis
Editor.
It was a sad affair. The maehJoe bad
exerted its utmost power, but all to no
purpose, its defeat was complete.. Ev
ery unit bad been accounted for. Every
old, worn-out trick, known so well to
Tammany, was called into play by the
local bosses, vet without avail. Tom Me
Gowau, who knows the political game
from A to Z and: then some, was there
directing things in perscD. With bis
fierce military mustache, be might eas
ily have been mistaken fora Prnss an
colonel of cavalry directing his forces
i against the attacking Russians, all that
i was necessary was a suitable background
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THE WHOLE DAN FAMILY
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’ The two Protestants, Dan Sutherland
I and Dan Driscoll, will probably feel
j lonely without the two Irish Dans who
ran for election -Callahan and McCabe
to keep them company. Next time the
people should elect the whole Dan fam
ily.
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| An old Scotchman who -was in the
! habit of calling each evening at the
village inn lor a *‘drap o the beet,”
found the landlord one night putting a
shine on the taps. After a tew remarks
j about the weather, he received his
j nightly dram. When he had gone the
! landlord discovered, to his horror, that
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] he had supplied Donald with a half gill
| out of the bottle of sulphuric acid which
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| he had been using for cleaning the taps.
| Every moment he expected to hear of
I Donald’s .death, and hi* relief was great
j when the old worthy arrived next even
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Dirty Work
in Juneau
'* Valdez may think that she was intim
idated by federal officials on electios
day but her citizens got off well in cam*
parison with the voters in the First Div
ision. There the candidates on the pro
gressive Democratic ticket were coaxed
and coerced off the ticket two and three
times and then after it was finally filled
and the ballots printed, the distributer
of the same was .met on the dock and
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the ballots taken; away from him and
thrown in the bay. What a good thing
it would have been tf the distributer of
the Progressive Democratic ballot* bad
been armed with a good Colts revolver
and sl ot about sixteen ounces oI lead
into the highwaymen. That gang at
Jnnean is getting desperate as they ap
broach their latter end.
YAI,Q£Z COMMONS®.
Election Reforms
The first bill that should be introduc
ed into the Legislature should be one
putting into effect the Australian ballot
system in Alaska.—Ketchikan Mail.
Sure. And right along with it shooid
go bills providing lot the registration
of electors, regulation of earope-ign con
tributions and their expenditure, anti
providing for sworn publicity tcnccrn
ing both.—Strong’s JBmpire.
The Australian' bhllot and all the ap
purtenances thereunto .belonging it a
roaring farce without the nomination of
candidates by a primary-’election;- yet
yon never hear these ‘'refoimers" sav
ing-anything about t h at reform. ^X'bat
difference does, if make to the corpor
ation who is. elected If a few. machine
men can get together and put Vhrir tool*
on ALL ballots and.tben have it so you
can get cut no otberjUK . -
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Many were called but few were choeen
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Candidate Burns was unable to drag
the rest of the ticket with him.
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One of the ex-Soapy Smith xnen is
eaid to have expressed his regrets that
the Tammany ticket was defeated.
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One of the Democrat politicians, who
is represented as having promised one
of his recruits a political Job in concid
for his support, on being requested, aft
er electron, to \'come through, "and be
ing unable to deliver the goods bought
the sadder but wiser Democrat an axe
so that he could go in the wood business
lor himself.
Moral.---Trust not ye a Democrat pol
itician, for his tongue Is a loose thing
and runneth wild at eleetion time when
he seeketh- votes.
Mrs. A. Lincoln
All kinds of repair work done oo
Ladies and Gents suits, Under
wear and so forth Ladie4* fur
coats for sole.
Next to Peoples’ Store
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’‘Donald, what did ye tbiak o’ the
whiskey ye got last night?”
”tf was a fine dram, a good warshlng
dram, but it had one fault—every time
I coughed it set fire to ma whiskers.”
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