with its suit colors ami lights made a
f 11 i no setting to tin* {(leased and kindlv
mood of the large croud who sal en
tranced at times and entertained ail the
time by I>e!egute *Vickershamillumi
nating speech.
Mr. W iekersha m, himselt a lawver
and a judge of note is smeiy fitted to
make laws suited to the i'enitory which
has heal hi- home for two decade-.
Akld\ tn's husiiiess has been ha ioied ef
lieientlv by him and with great cart*.
A Washington correspondent told ehe
writer that the lobby for the fixed inter
ests called him the me b<ix watch dog.
Mr. Wickersham ha- had more mone\
against him and has had more vicious
enemies wearing gold and copper col
lars and more selfish opposition than
any man in political lift1 and still he
comes back, lie has no hiends nut the
people and 1 he people will remain
through this light steadfast and true.
One of the men to he voted for in the
legislative eon test is John (L (leid, a
pioneer and a lawyer, a real Alaska citi
zen, a man whose ability insures good
lawmaking and who lives in and loves
Alaska.
The people of Juneau should remember
on election day that it was I\ 0. McCor
mack, of Wrangell, who sent in the first
unsolicited check when Juneau had her
big lire some years ago.
The Socialist ticket has three goo 1
citizens out for office besides Mrs. Lewis.
There is no better citizen in this town
than Charles Ilelsing, a real estate
owner and a man of kindly inclinations
John Fahey, w hose heart is as big as
all out doors, and tin1 scholarly and
well informed F. IF Oreen. Co to it
friends, The Gleam knows you are hon
est, good and true and w hile The (ilearn
is not a socialist we admire honesty and
respectability.
Two fishermen were standing in front
of Berry’s Arts and Crafts shop after
the Democratic meeting Friday night
and one of them said, “flow did you
like the speech? ‘'Well,' said the one
addressed, *1 onlvcatne up town to find
out it they had anything NftW on Wick
ersham, hut tl e same old rot I've been
listening to for eight years, I should
think Steve ihreh would get tired hear
ing about, that. So loom Set* you on
election day. ‘Won bet, said the
oilier one, “I guess it’s Wickersham
again.”
On the corner of Case’s, at Front and
Main, two citizens who live on the hill,
paused for a word or two after the
Grigshy meeting, when one said, “Well,
i went to hear about the attorney gen
ei\d s ollice, hut I don’t want that fel
low passing any ot his opinions on the
hills that are introduced in the next
Legislature. Any man that would
spend two hours talking about another
man instead of discussing principle and
duty will not make my kind of an attor
ney general. “Nor mine either,’’ said
the other, “Good night.” “Good
night.”
Grigsby said, among other things, that
Wiekersham voted to eliminate the rail
road tax in the interest of the Guggen
heims, this is a flat falsehood. The
Democratic Congress was lobbied since
the insurgent days by the friends of
Falcon Josbn, whose business life was
v recked because of that absurd tax.
Falcon Joslin is a Democrat and while
amounted inimical to the pirates he
was in Sulzer’s receiving party at Fair
banks.
Joslin made the argument before the
Credentials Committee at the Baltimore
Convention in favor of the Democracy
of Alaska against the Tuneau pirates.
Come again my garrulous Grigsby.
You’re making votes.
Yesterday was a beautiful day and
on the streets everyone was impressed
with the numbers of beautiful young wo
men in Juneau It’s safe to say that
there are more pretty young women in
Juneau per capita than in any town on
the coast.