PUT UP YOUR FIGHT ON FACTS
Now what Democratic paper in Alaska ever published
th(“ iniquities of the Alexander Bill i There has been no
news about it save that wbieh has been gleaned from
Wickersham\s speeches.
If the Bmp ire spent one hundredth part of the time it
lias spent in personally villifving Wickersham, in telling
the people about the Alexander Bill, it would not be the
stench in the nostrils of the Juneau citizens that it is to
day.
The Empire cannot tell of any Alaskan but 'Wicker
sham who ever FOUGHT the Alexander Bill and if Sulzer
should be elected will he not prove as plastic in the hands
of the Pish Trust in Washington as he was in the Territor
ial Legislature?
lie is still holding office. The Gleam insists that his
duties begin, should he be elected, the fourth day of next
.March and he cannot under the Constitution serve in two
legislatures.
Don’t throw away your vote, citizens. Vote for the
man who has fought vour battles.
The silliest tommy rot of the campaign lias been the
talk about YViekersham’s speeches being in print but not
spoken, in the House of Representatives.
The writer remembers when such political giants as
< Lamp Clark of .Missouri, I )e Arinond of Missouri, and
Simpson and Ridgely of Kansas, and Kitehan of North
Carolina and John Lentz of Ohio and William Sulzer of
New York all would get a minute and a half to speak on
some measure and then would rise with great dignity and
ask for the privilege “to print.” In those days the Clarks
and the DeArmonds and the Lentz’s would shake their
heads and ominiously declare that soon tliev would be de
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nied the “privilege to print.” Stop that guff you Demo
crats. Your whole party has been making its speeches
that way since Cleveland’s time.
You pirates of Juneau are not the only people in
Juneau who have been to Washington.
We lived in Washington the greater part of eleven
years, went to school there and worked around the Capital
for years in our humble capacity but we never hunted a
< Government job. Most of the people of Juneau have been
somewhere else and your guff is most insulting. For in
stance, that guff about King getting a bill passed. Any
one who knows anything, knows that if he had an own bro
ther in the Senate that brother would necessarily have to
i e'er him to Wickersham, or to the Alaskan Delegate.