THE GLEAM
A 1)r<H*11lire ot Fact
. 5iL‘.isliC';i hi tin interests of tin- Citizenry
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In introducing this small publication
to the voters of 1.1 it* 1st Division the
publisher ii;;s no apology to make and
no h it to doff to any class or -et of poli
ticians interested in either jobs or graft.
That the press of Juneau is at a low
ebb no one may gainsay, with a paper
on one hand wasting its life blood
harping on t!u» mouldered strings of
full Troytoria! (Jovern men t, and the
<>ther sheet indifferentl v, illiterately and
spasmodically trying to ‘get somewhere',
it behooves someone to set a few facts
based upon Truth before the voters in
an intelligent and understandable man
ner.
The political proposition before us is
this: A candidate, claiming to repre
sent the Democracy of Maska, has been
groomed, hoof-soaked, harnessed, and
SlUUii ini'
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mcnH'inaiiN , siuuii mr tne stable
eliary.es, 1 »y a set of political pirates as
suming the role of Alaska’s Democracy,
is in the race shouting “Alaska for
Alaskans. Me is Hat-footed, bald
headed and lop-eared—the only delicate
and dainty thing about him being his
brains; but withal, possesses much
facility for Him Ham. For instance,
when talking to the ladies who are for
the DliVS, he looks sanctimonious and
is apt to refer to the fact that his brother
was a candidate for the nomination of
President in the Prohibition Convention
last summer. Then bv way of being
wet, lie lays off his sanctimonious ex
pression and is apt. with one of his pi
ratical managers, to go into a saloon
and on the theory that actions speak
louder than words, regale his
office-seeking stomach with a drink, and
then the saloon man might be im
pressed that because he took a drink of
whisky he would be accounted with
the wets on election day. Ladies of the
Temperance Lnion, do not let that fool
you, and Mr. Saloon Man, you ought to
}h‘ smart enough to recognize a double
cioss w lien van see it.
Air. Sulzer is really not so n n progres
sive, he toM ns last, spring, that is tin*
sparsely eattrred iiowil who ga11 iere< 1
to heai him the evening he addressed us
alter his nomination, that la* was going
to i*.nt oh a piece ot Marylaml or some
thing ami we* never quite understood all
he said I hut its safe to sa\ that if he gets
in ('ongress he will i m media tel v annex
the I'hmtern Shore oi Maryland with all
her oysters and oi ehards to t he A leut ian
Islands, as we remember it, i _ \\a- a
beaut i hilly outlined scheme, and while
not seeming practical Ihomo Sulzer may
he able to put it over and if he can it
might be w :se to give him a ti*v. ()f
course Haiti more will mud a ]*owerful
lobby against him, hut what’s Haiti
more and the State of Maryland com
pared to such men as 1 Immas Hono
ghue and tlie Juneau pirates. Hidn’t
Hresident W ilson send a personal letter
to Don.oghne? Of course WiPon told
Mrs. Wilson n<»t to disturb him for an
hour or so as he was going to write to
Tims. Donoghue, of Valdez.
Proposition Two— The Socialists by
a referendum vote have nominated a
woman of high intillectual attainments
and of much political sagacitv, Lena
Morrow Lewis. Lena knows 'the need
of rhe workingmen of the world. She is
a profound student of economies and
h;is a large following among the (dub
women of Juneau of whom she is a pro
nounced leader. If you send Lena to
Congress she will be honest, upright
and true, but. not very busy, as the
average nation-saver in the Cloak-room
would rather spin election yarns than
study Dietzgen.
The last proposition is the tried and
tiue I >elegate Janies W ickershani w ho
for eight years has fought the light of
Alaska while Alaska has been in the
throes of its unliving.
Delegate \\ it kersham was well know n
to President Wilson before Piesident
Wilson lett Trenton and it h4s always
been understood by the Progressives in
Congress that Wickersham “stood
(dose.”
Delegate \\ ickershani spoke here to an
assembly of people that eclipsed any
thing in the way of a crowd ever seen in
Juneau. The beautiful new Coliseum
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