WICKER SHAM'S PLATFORMj
A Document Full of Meat.
He is for Progress and
Against Corporation
Control. Will Work for
a Government Aided |
Railroad and a Better
ment cf the Condition
of Labor.
Special Dispatch lo the Daily Alaskan
Fairbanks, July 20 ? Judge James Wickershain issued
today a formal announcement to the voters of the district
of Alaska. In this he says:
"At the request of my friends from all over Alaska I am
a candidate for delegate to congress. When my candidacy
was first announced my friends in Southeastern Alaska
begged me to stand aside us my candidacy would divide the
Cale vote and result in the defeat of both. As ail example
I received this from Valdez:
Valdez, June 2D, 1908.
Judge James Wickershain. Fairbanks,
Valdez people have formed a Cale club, and sent out
Cal? literature. Ninety per cent of the voters here are for
( ale. Most of them are your friends but they fear that if
they voted for you at this time they would simply aid Cor
son. If you and C'ale can arrange matters safely, or if
('?ale withdraws in your favor, we can give you a large vote
in this section- Please advise of you attitude toward Cale.
(Signed) F. M. Brown, C. (t. Pebney, Simeon
Poot, \V. S. Amy, Kdmund Smith. Committee.
Similar telegrams were received by me from other
places. Acting on the advice of friends, in fac* of these
premises, my candidacy rested awaiting developments Mr.
Cale has now withdrawn definitely and his friends every
where are urging my renewed activity in the field and give
me their strougest assurances of support. I have there
fore consented to run and hereby appeal to the voters of all
L A. HARRISON CO."
Mr. Crewes' Career
By Winston Churchill
The Traitor
By Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Old Wives ior New
By David Graham Phillips
Loves Logic
By Anthony Hope
The Barrier
By Rex Beach
The Yoke
By Hubert Wales
Tyranny of the Dark
By Hamlin Gailand
Stores Open Evenings
Phones 4 & 55
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Alaska for support. In doing so I feel it incumbent upon!
me to announce for what I stand in case I shall be elected.
This, therefore, is my platform:
FIRST ? Roosevelts's recommendation that some form
of local self government be provided for Alaska as simple
and inexpensive as possible.
SECOND? An elective territorial legislature with care
fully limited powers.
THIRD ? Opposition to the fraudulent and deceptive
demand for extension of the ordiance of 1787 to Alaska.
FOURTH ? Establishment of an eight hour day.
FIFTH ? Strick abolition of the glaring abuses of the
association mining claim
SIXTH ? Law limiting the Juse, and correcting the
abuse of the power of attorney for staking purposes.
SEVENTH ? Such change as may be proper to secure
enforcement of the law to prevent accumulations of mining
and other lands in the hands of speculators
EIGHTH ? A mining-regulation act to secure the ap
pointment of mining inspectors.
NINTH ? Revision and amendment of the Alaska code
to meet the rapidly growing needs of the territory.
TKNTH ? Enactment of laws that shall protect inland
as well as coast fisheries.
ELEV ENTH? Improvment of mail and telegraph ser
vice, wagon roads and transportation facilities to Fairbanks
and throughout the district and the betterment of educa
tional facilities outside incorporated towns.
TWELFTH ? A laborers' and mechanics' lei n law,
making wages a preferred claim and prior lien to all other
debts, especially upon dumps extracted from mining claims,
and other property produced by workingmen's labor.
THIRTEENTH ? Encouragement of all legitimate rail
road construction in Alaska and the building of a trunk
line from the coast to the interior und-r government super
vision, with strict government control of transportation
rates by railroad or boat--with fair but not excessive rates
for both freight and passenger traffic.
FOURTEENTH? Will oppose in every way possible
the control of the transportation and mining business within
Alaska by the Guggenheims and other dangerous combina
tions.
FIFTEENTH ? Immediate creation of a fourth judicial
distriat in Alaska by the erection of the southern or Valdez
district into a separate division.
ANEW PHONL BOOK
The new issue of the telephone book
is in the hands of the printer. The
book will contain no less than 25 new
names, most of them being placed in
remittances. It is an evidence that folks
are awakening to the vast convenience
that comes of having a phone hanging
on tho wall, by means of which tha
baker ?nd tho butcher and the doctor
are within call as well as all one's
(rionds and acquaintances. The phone
book grows with every issue.
The Pacific Coast Adveitising Men's
Association will meet at the Alaski ?
Yukon-Pacific exposition sometime tho
litter pa>*t of June, 1909.
Go to Tony Dotero and try a Bull Dog
cigar. lm
All the delicacies of the season at
the Pack Train restaurant.
Always Good
Our sale of Mills Hro's
"fverfresh"
Coffee has been astonishing. There is a reason.
SOLD IN 1-lb AND 2- lb TINS ONLY
QANTY & FRANDSON
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EH II Mil
(Special to The Daily Alaskan)
Fairbanks, July 20? John Ronan
?Jemocratic candidate for delegate 10
?oogress, In an interview published in
the Fairbanks Times, which paper is
owed by him, repudiates the eight hour
plank in the democratic platform. He
declares ttatly, that If h? goes to con
gress ho will not favor the enactment
of an eight hour law. He declares
such would be class legislation.
BETTING HNnt EVEN MONET
"Somewhere the Sun Is Shining."
(Special to the Daily Alaskan)
Juneau, July 20? Juneau won against
the Arctic Brotherhood team in the
ball game yesterday by a score of 3 to
2. The Juneau team wns made up of
Juneau and Douglas players. Henning
out-pitched Belford in keeping his hits
scattered. Hi* support on a wet Held
wa* good. The teams play again today.
Juneau, July 20, 2 p. m.? The sun
Is shining and the grounds are in good
condition. Bo h teams are in fine spir
its and are coufident. The betting is
heavy ?t even money.
BRYAN PLEASED
WITH TAFT
(By Unltod Prea?.)
Lincoln, Neb., July 20.? Mr. Bryan
is reported as being pleased at bearing
th? declaration that Mr. Taft will not
accept money frrm corporations for use
in his catiipHlgn.
JACTIES HAVING
A FINE Till
(By United Preit.)
Honolulu, July 20? The officers and
sailor* of the Atlantic fleet are being
eniertaiued in royal fashion, the people
of the islands arc Riving themselves
over to the work and pleasure of it
without allowing nnything else to inter
fere. Today every sailor was present
ed presented with a basket of fruit.
(By United Press.)
Quebec, July 20? Thousands of vis
itors are hore to take part in and wit
ness the celebration of the three hun
dreth anniversary of the founding of
the city. American nntl 1-ret.ch fleets
will nrrive tomorrow, and the Prince
of Wales is due Wedne>day.
GOfERS GOMES
BACK AI HEARST
(By United Press.)
Erie, Pa., July 20? President Gom
pcrs, of the American Federation of
Lsbor, has nominated Wm. R. Hearst
for membership in the Ananias club.
He says the statement that he asked
Hearst to support Bryan is false? that
he never made any such request of
Hearst.
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