The emancipation of the working
class must bethe class- conscious work
of the working class.--KARL MARX.
THE ALASKA
_ FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, JUNE 30,1914, _ _
McCABE IS NOMINATED FOR DELEGATE
The Lewis-Brooks Political Machine Puts Over
The Rawest Deal Yet
THE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED
On Wednesday evening, June 17, at
10.30 P. M., three persons met at the
cabin of Lena MoJrow Lewis in Fair
banks, Alaska. The three persons were
Emil Pozza, Frank Buteau and Lena
Morrow Lewis. The time set for count
ing the ballots to determine who was to
be the nominee of the Socialist party for
Delegate to Congress from Alaska, had
arrived. Emi Pozza had been sent from
his local—local OIness, and Frank But
eau from his local—local Fairbanks, to
help count the ballots. The ballots were
counted and the report gives 97 for Mc
Cabe and 95 for Brooks. Lena Morrow
Lewis then declared Brooks to be nom
inated and is now campaigning in his
behalf.
MRS. LEWIS' PURPOSE IN ALASKA
It was contended months ago that
Lena Morrow Lewis was political man
ager for Brooks and that she was in Al
aska for no other purpose than to build
up a political machine so that she could
control the Socialist party and deliver
the nomination to Brooks.
Her first trip into Alaska was announc
ed through letters from the National off
ice of the Socialist party to the various
locals throughout the territory. When
she came here late in the summer of 19
13 she sneaked into Fairbanks unan
nounced, apparently on a private trip of
her own, yet posing as a National or
ganizer, probably thinking that that
would carry some weight with it. Many
conjectures and surmises were indulged
in regarding the purpose of her visit.
Her purpose has at last been disclosed,
and is the same as that of any other car
petbag politician-—to establish a resid
ence so that she could qualify and run
for office and failing that to deliver the
goods to Brooks.
LENA MORROW LEWIS STARTS CAMPAIGNING TOR A
CARPETBAGGER OE SEATTLE. M’GABE GETS MOST
VOTES BUT HE IS COUNTED OUT.
HER LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
March 17, 1914, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed find ballots for
the election of nominee for Delegate to
Congress also ballots for Territorial Sec
The locals in the Tanana Valley will
hold a conference the last Sunday in
March for the purpose of discussing the
platform and several amendments to the
Territorial constitution which will be
sent out in due time.
The election for Delegate takes place
in November, the same time as the leg
islative election. Until a territorial sec
retary' is elected and the National Exec
utiv Committee issues a charter we do
not opetate under the new territorial con
stitution as adopted a few months ago.
However in so far as it is possible to do
so we shall conform to the spirit and in
tent of the constitution.
The ballot for the election of the nom
inee for Delegate will close June 17-14.
Please note carefully and follow these
instructions:
Mark a cross opposite the name of the
candidate you prefer.
Every member must write his or her
name on her or his ballot.
The secretary will accompany with the
ballots a cerified statement of how many
members are in good standing and en
titled to vote on the referendum.
Place jour ballots and the statement
from the local secretary in the envelope
to be addressed to the Territorial sec
retary and mark on this envelope, RKF
ERFNDUM. Don’t fail to write this on
the outside of the envelope so that the
ballots will not be opened till the
proper time to count them. Place no
other matter in the envelope.
If your local has any planks to offer
for this platform send them in at once
A platform and also some amendments
to the constitution as adopted some
months ago will be Sent out from here
in a couple of weeks.
Owing to the difficulty in getting mail
from one point of the country to an
other and the long time required to get
the territory properly organized, we
shall have to do the best we can under
the circumstances and I trust that the
comrades will cooperate with the Territ
orial office now temporarily located at
Fairbanks, to secure the best results in
building up the party organization and
in getting the campaign properly started
Again let me remind you of the in
struction to place the word referendum
on the outside of the envelpe containing
the ballots and put no other matter in
side except the secretary’s report and
the ballots,
Youis Fraternally,
Lena Morrow Lewis.
The above letter was received by
local Olness en March 27th, 10 days af
ter they had been sent out to the other
parts of Alaska. Why did Mrs. Lewis
keep back the ballots from the Socialists
in the Fairbanks district after sending
them out to other places. Was there
something on those ballots that Mrs.
Lewis did not want any one in this vi
cinity to see until a certain time had
had elapsed ? When the ballots were at
last received by local Olness the suspic
ion that had arisen in the minds of the
members proved to be well-founded.
The ballots stated that Fairbanks, Jun
eau and Valdez locals bad nominated
Brooks, and that Olness local had nom
inated McCabe. A committee was
elected to wait on Mrs Lewis to ascer
tain if she had the documents to show
that these locals had nominated Brooks
and when asked to produce the proofs
she failed to do so. This, then, was her
reason for holding back the ballots. An
other committee waited on Mrs. Lewis
but without any better results. She ev
idently expected to influence and per
suade the Socialists of Alaska that
Brooks was in great demand because he
was supposed to be nominated by three
locals. Such action on the part of Mrs.
Lewis caused the Olness Local to ask
the National Office of the Socialist Party
for her removal as temporary secretary
because as they stated: "We cannot get
a square deal at her hands.”
The following is a list of the number
of ballots counted on the evening of
Wednesday, June 17th, and shows that
McCabe got two more votes than Brooks
McCABE BROOKS
Fairbanks 7 20
Juneau 0 15
Nolan 4 4
Valdez 0 17
Olness 48 2
Deadwood 11 1
Cordova 3 13
Petersburg 0 9
Cleary 13 0
Jack Wade 0 14
Haines 9 0
Total 9? 95
Majority 2
How, then, do you ask, did Mrs Lewis
arrive at the conclusion that Brooks was
nominated ? When a politician, be it
man or woman, Socialist Republican or
Democrat, decides to deliver the nom
ination to a certain person the methods
they use is of secondary consideration.
All this talk by the Socialist politicians
of referendum and rule by the majority
is all nonsense. Socialist politicians are
much the same as any other brand of
politicians, albeit we must roast the Re
publicans and Democrats. To resume
our story, when Lena Morrow Lewis
saw that her scheme was losiug out she
fished out a letter which she had prev
iously opened, not containing any bal
lots, but just a communication to herself
frony4n alleged organizer of a Finnish,
local ill Juneau, aud although they had
met to count ballots, she counted this
letter as 18 votes for Brooks.
Unfortunately for Lena Morrow Lew
is, Brooks, and a few others, there is an
election coming up in November--an
election that neither Lena Morrow
LewisnorBrook s will Le able to control.
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WHAT PADDY O’HOOL
IGAN SAYS ABOUT IT.
Misther Editor:
Be jabers th cat is out
nv th local dimmycr-ratic bag! Big Biz
ness Gr-riffin an Frind-O-Labor, Billy
Burns! That’s fine dillygate timber fer
ye! Our dimmycratic mogul an inter
pr-roisin U. S. Marshal Erwin takes
holt an declares thot th young home
r-rule statesman an big low-grade ground
landlord uv Tittle Eldorado crick is th
lad to lay Wick on th polytical shilf—an
be me sowl, Jawn Moe tuk ail “Over
holt” an says thot th “High-life” aisy
boss fr-m Fishcamp^esn turn the tr-rick!
Oi thot all wus karm’ny at Harm’ny
Hall ? Wurra! Wnrra! ’Tis a shame
how the crafty bosses sind our ambishus
new-rich Alaskans t’ their polytical
Waterloo be handin th’ unsofistecated
ones th dimmycratic nomynashun fer
Cengr-ressi Faith an a pliool an his
, i
money’s soon parted. An divvil a wan
uv thim evir-r “come back” fr-m Iilba
be gory! Sarves thim right, says oi, let
thim stand fer-ninst lcike foightin Jim,
stead O’ depindin on the machine bosses
an fallin fer th blarney an flatt’y uv pie
hungry sycofants! But, be th liowly,
there’s one bucko thot “came back’’
fr-m Salt river. Shure yez can’t keep a
good mon down! Oim referin rayspect
f’lv to our ix Fairbanksan an labor can
dydate fer delegate, Bill O Connor-he’s
now th’ onerable Jedge Willium O Con
nor uv Chitina, Alaskv. if yez plase! Th
onerable jedge was patr-ron saint uv
labor, shur Bill came north t’_ imancj’
pate th’ Alaskv wurkin mon, but th
stoopid Kiniry Doob wud’nt list’n to
their savior—faith an divvil a vote did
th’ big union at Douglass give th labor
martyr, sorry th vote at all, at all! Oh.,
vis! th jedge knows th ingratitood uv
or-rganized labor! An yez might think
Bill’ 11 fell grategul now wid his feet in
th dimmycratic trough, an be contint t’
sit an grace th’ binch wid becoomin dig
neety an watch t’others “play th’game?
Thin yez don’t Bill!
Yez might as well ixpict a pangingi
player t’ watch his beloved game start
widout “sittin m!” Wid another two
dimmycratic conventions fermnst him
yez might wunder which way the jedge
’ll jump? R-rest aisy, me boy! th’ more
convinshuns fer Bill the merrier. Yez’ll
gee th’ duly accredited ‘regular Murphy
rathole delegate fr-m Chitma land i n
Soapy Smith’s ould stampin grounds wid
the foinest collectshun uv proxies uv any
rat-hcle dillvgate prisint. Faith an jedge
O Connor’ll have proxies fer all his
frinds an thin some. Ar-rah, but Bill
knows th’ game! Yez’ll see jedge O
Connor jump up an take the flure uv
th' convinshun an stomp an roar! An
yea’ll hear him shout: “Are ye wid us
or agin us?’’ “Stand ferninst me, ye
“dirty dozen!!’’ Be th’ saints but Bill
wud be a hard proposishun fer even a
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Is History Going
to Repeat Itself?
George Ade, famous American hum
orist, says, that a hair lip is a misfor
tune, a club foot is a deformity but side
whiskers Is a man’s own fault!
Dan Callahan, aspirant for senatorial
honors, swears that he’ll outdo our en
terprising U. S. Marshal in the local
side-whisker Crop.
The patricians of old Rome, in a vain
attempt to avert the fall of the great
empire, cultivated those same side
whiskers that Marshal Erwin is cultiv
ating. Nearly all politicians have, of
necessity, read Roman history. Is his
tory going to repeat itself?
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