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VOL. 9.
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 10i0.
NO. 2001
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ELECTION SUMMARY IS
FAVORABLE WILSON
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Never be
fore in the history of the country
have people and politicians been so
completely at sea as to the coming
election. The press concedes that
the race is so uncertain that its re
sult cannot bo forecasted with any
thing but wild conjecture.
The both sides are winding up
red-hot campaigns and the excite
ment is immense.
Important Democratic Issue.
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The press concedes that the most
effective democratic issues have
been: That Wilson kept the country
out of war;
That the Adamson Bill maintained
industrial peace and that thus pros
perity was preserved to labor and
the farmers.
The democrats have successfully
worked up opposition to the republi
can’s ancient slogan about the full
dinner pail as an ugly boomerang.
They contend the dinner pails are
now fuller than ever.
The leading democrats further
assert that the Wilson victory is
certain. They claim that with the
farmers, labor and a majority of the
manufacturing interests with Wil
son the issue are safe.
Republican Drive Failed.
Competent observers say that a
united republicanism can defeat the
democracy of Wilson, but that the
Roosevelt-Taft coalition support
failed of productiveness and was
not warlike enough to suit the peo
ple in some places while Roosevel’s
bitter anti-German denunciations
antagonised thousand in the Middle
West. The leaders assert that the
assured Wilson victory is directly
traceable to labor’s approval of his
acts and to the country’s nquestion
able desire for peace, and judicially
minded republicans admit that the
Wilsonites played these trump cards
with great effect.
Herald's Straw Vote.
The New York Herald’s straw vote
of one quarter million gives Wilson
the lead and to carry Alabama.
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Dela
ware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wash
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Illinois, claimed to be the pivotal
state, will be decided by the women’s
and labor vote and the women will
in the end be the deciding demo
cratic factor. The Wilsonian, republi
can railroaders have been openly
championing Wilson.
lMg Wilson Majority Conceded
Chicago.
The republicans admit that Wil
■ son will carry Chicago by a big ma
jority and there is much doubt
that the Cook county vote will be
overcome in the state by Hughes fol
lowers. Wilson straws Indicate that
Wilson will get 307 and Hughes 224
electoral votes.
The run of the Herald poll indi
cated a gaining strength for Wi-1
son. For the first week Wilson
had forty-six and four tenths and the
final week showed Wilson 492,
Hughes final 486, although well in
the lead in the first week of the
poll. Late in September Hughes
held eighty per cent of the pro
gressives, Wilson seventeen, the
final shows Wilson with 25.1 and
Hughes with 7 3.6 of the Mooser
vote. Wilson will carry New York
by a substantial majority, Hughes
will cdrry the state by a slender ma
jority, says the Herald’s prophet.
Slender G. O. P. Hopes.
The republicans admit slender
hopes for Ohio where labor will de
liver the state to Wilson. The de
ciding states it is admitted are New
York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi
gan and Wisconsin. The republicans
are unreservedly claiming Michigan,
capturing the city of Detroit and Ge
orgia is also said to be theirs.
Ford’s support is counted in for
Wilson, say these republicans. L?
Follette, championing the Adamsor.
bill and Underwood laws in Wiscon
sin, quite ignoring Hughes, has
helped democracy in Wisconsin
where the German vote earlier in
the campaign was supposed to in
jure Wilson’s chances. Wilsonites
now claim this German stronghold
as theirs.
GREAT ALLIED RUSH
MARKS GREAT WAR
LONDON, Nov. 5.—The huge al
lied offensive is continued at all
points and the smashes varying in
strength and results. On the Somme
the arrival of German reinforce
M1NING DRAMA AT DREAM.
Tonight Mabel Taliaferro will star
in a 5 part mining drama, “The
Three of Us’. It is a stirring ro
mance of the gold regions, where
the stern law of every man for him
self, quicky separates the weak
from the strong. Ih this famous
play Miss Taliaferro does some diffi
cult riding, in a chase o^er the
mountains. A tremendous explosion
for the breaking of ground for a
smelter forms one of the thrills. It
is a Good Picture.
Republicans .should remember
that the number of Delegates to go
to the next Territorial Convention Is
based upon the vote cast for At
torney General.
Do you want Fifty or Ten?—Adv.
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Bank.
We do the best
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PRESSING
ALTERING ft
REPAIRING
Ladies and Gadtlemens Clothes.
ments from other points has In
creased the severity of the German
counters which repeatedly endeavor
ed to check the terrific rushes of the
French and British east of Combles
and to regain the trenches near
Suily where the entire German
forces gave way yesterday afternoon
after continuous hammering. It is
here where the Germans had con
centrated just before the French
made their' lightening drive upon
Douamont and Vaux in Verdun,
causing the forces to be redistri
buted. The fighting is terrific and
artillery rages day and night.
PARIS, Nov. 5.—The general on
slaught against the German lines
has practically resulted in the aban
donment of the Rumanian offensive
in the Dobrudscha region. General
Sarrail reports that Bulgar regi
ments have been dispatched south
ward to defend the Bulgar lines
against the British in the Struma
region where Kolishieve, Petrievc
and Marchrin have been taken by
the British in a sudden attack. The
south bank of the Struma is cleared
of the Bulgars and the fighting con
tinues of a desperate nature In this
section. The Bulgars are also try
ing to stop the Serbs from Cerna
with no result.
SCHEELITE GOES UP
ANTIMONY THE SAME
SEATTLE, Nov. 2.—Market quo
tations for scbeelite show another
incroase with a firm demand for all
offerings. Today scheelite is quoted
at twenty dollars a unit more.
Antimony is still the same price
as last week, but indications are
that this metal will remain at this
price, stationery for some time, ow
ing to very large blocks of unsold
stocks still on hand.
Metal buyers suggest that schee
lite will go away higher throughout
the winter, indications being tha
the supply will not equalize the de
mand now steadily maintained.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop Into the
MERCHANTS CAFE.
The Home of Good Eats.
Furniture repaired at Crooks
next City Hall.
ITALIANS CONTINUE TO
CARRY LINES AHEAD
ROME, Nov. 5.—With favorable
weather, the Italians resumed their
offensive advancing against the Aus
trian resistance one kilometer be
yond the Wippach river, northeast
of Trieste and making towards the
railroad connections near Planina.
The Austrian losses have been not
less than forty thousand within the
past days and today’s fighting was
just as vigorous as what has pre
ceded.
General Bordevitch who Wednes
day was forced to withdraw three
divisions has again appealed for re
inforcements, indicating the head
way which the Italians generals are
making.
LONDON, Nov. 5.—Vienna diS’
patches admit reverses in the Go
ritzia fighting.
BERLIN, Nov. 5.—The General
Staff says that it will be utterly im
possible for the Entente to maintain
the effort at the offensive on all
points they are now manifesting.
ROME, Nov. 5.—The city is today
en fete, greeting the arrival of ten
thousand Austrian prisoners who do
not seem distressed at being sent
into winter quarters in southern
Italy.
The prisoners appear to have been
through severe hardships.
Fighting is very severe in Go
ritzia.
. .Question. Why assist in carrying
out the plans of party bosses when
your better .judgement rebels? Wic'i
ersliani has no boss.—Adv.
RED FIRE AND THE
DUNTING FOR HUGHES
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NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—On Satur
day night the republicans answered
the giant Wilson demonstration the
preceding part of the week with a
great demonstration. With red fire1
bunting carried by marching thou
sands whom Hughes reviewed, the \
republican clubs, leagues and so
cieties were witnessed by fully one
Paid Advertisement.
For Alaska Newspapers Exclusively
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
Riggs Building, Seattle Wash.
For Immediately Release. Special 1
Correspondence.
Washington, D. C., October—In
a statement today by its Chairman,
Representative Frank P. Woods, if
Iowa, the National Republican Con
gressional Committee urged the re
election of Judge James Wicker
sham as a delegate-to-Congress from
Alaska.
“Alaskans could not select a bet
ter man to represent the territory
in Congress than Judge Wicker
sham”, said Chairman Woods.
“His long service in Congress of
more than seven years has equipped
him, from experience in Congres
sional affairs, to represent the peo
ple of Alaska in Washington better
than anyone else in the. territoi^.
Always vigilant for the interests# of
Alaska and the nation, Judge
Wickersham is one of the most
valuable public servants in Con
gress. .
‘A study of his work as a Member
of the Territories, Mines and Min
ing, Public Lands, Military Affairs,
and Indian Affairs Committees shows
that he has done more in Congress
for the development of Alaska than
any other Member.
‘The national Republican Con
gressional Committee believes that
the people of Alaska will recognize
the eminent services and high char
acter by Judge Wickersham by re
electing him as a delegate to Con
gress by a large majority.”
SONS OP THE NORTH SOCIAL.
FAREWELL DANCE.
There will be a Farewell Social
and Dance for departing members
at the Sons of the North Hall on
Monday night, Nov. fl. 1016 at 0 P.
M. All members and their friends
COMMITTEE.
, are Invited.
hundred thousand spectators. The
fifteen thousand paraders marched
to Madison Square Gardens and the
great crowd cheered Hughes for ex
actly forty minutes when he enter
ed. Mrs. Hughes, three daughters
and his son, stood beside Hughes on
the Platform where they bowed re
peatedly to the ovation. Whitman
and Calder preceded Hughes in the
talk, and when Hughes opened, the
demonstration was again renewed.
Hughes said that although his
voice was weak his heart was strong
and he had confidence that in cham
pioning complete Americanism he
would meet the demands of the Am
erican people. He then once again
lashed into a bitter denunciation of
Wilson and his administration. He
said that the administration was
proving its unfitness and in its effort
to buy, coerce or frighten labor into
its support he had shown that it was
no longer an American administra
tion. The gist of the speech was
denunciatory and lacked much
force.
MEETING NOTICE.
The Democratic Party will hold a
rally at Eagle Hall, Monday night at
8:30 o’clock. The Nome Brass Hand
will furnish the Music.
MADE GOOD TIME OUT
FAILED MAKE NO STOP
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—Victor Carl
strom’s much heralded effort to fly
to New York without stopping
proved a failure today although he
broke his own no-stop record flight.
Leaving Chicago at 6:9 A. M. to
day, he was forced to descend at
Erie, Pa, owing to a mechanical de
fect in his engine. He averaged one
hundred miles an hour for half his
journey and when he alighted at
Erie, he hail been in the air from
starting time above given to 11:40
a. m.
Carlstrom while disappointed that
he could not complete the trip with
out stopping says he knows now it
can be done easily.
Dog Race Booklet on sale at
Lumen's Rose's anil Hill’s Drug
Store.
BETTING IS GETTING
STRENUOUS IN WEST
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.—Two
hundred thousand even on the pre
sidency has been taken here. The
betting is ten to seven tlmt Hughes
will carry California. Two to one
that prohibition will be defeated is
also offered.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5.—Ten to
eight on Hughes is the odds here.
Before you oast; your ballot re
member that Wickersham is now
engaged in defending you in the
matter of reduction of freight rates.
Are you going to dismiss your at
torney in this important suit before
you have had the trial. Consider
what effect it will have on the Inter
state Commerce Commission if yon
should return your attorney with a
small endorsement in the way of
votes. —Adv.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5.—Betting is
light here. The odds are ten to
nine on Hughes.
DENVER, Nov. 5.—Two hundred
thousand was bet today at ten to
nine for Hughes to win. The re
publicans concede Colorado to Wil
son by ten thousand,
ST. PAUL, Nov. 5.—The republi
cans concede the Twin Cities to Wil
son. It is even money on Hughes
to carry the state, but offers are un
taken. Even bets on the general
results find plenty of takers.
“The have never put any ‘jobs*
over since I have been here, not one,
If they succeed* in this case it will be
the first one.”—James Wickersham
at hearing on Alexander bill.—Adv.
Let us estimate on youi Job Work
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