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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUN 'AT, OCTOBER 8
, 1816
In a luiiu’ (Itim n nut speech at the
('oliseum last Friday i iyht, the Demo
cratic < hi ndidate scored, u n w itt i nyly,
the met hnds of the Demon ac\ in our
own home town. During the speech
Mr (Marshy scored hs Republican op
ponent, Schofield, foi living in Seattle,
not knowing that that particular pel
icv received a favorable vote in a local
Democratic meeting hist spring. Mr.
(iriasby hit the local Democracy a halt
dozen times under the riS»s and Ids face
revealed perplexity at the lack of ap
plause, then the poor man floundered
around and beynn at another point.
The meeliny was a lift le late nuinyto
the biy concert, hut the early coni rs
were entertained by some of the yood
pictures sot out by Manayer (I mss ; then
about 9 (/clock a local 1 democrat, as
sisted by a house band, hung a flag at
half mast, and immediately a slow and
dignified procession headed by Governor
Strong came in Friend Casey,
Candidate (irigsl>y, Ilis Worship, Mayor
Stewart, Handsome Judge Winn and
Skagway Si completed a picture of pall
bearing solemnity, and it was sure some
funeral tor Grigshy bn ried die hopes a nd
ambitions of itromo Sulzer ’neath a
mass of rubbish and claptrap talk about
Wickersham, which madetlie audience
smile, but which made no appreciable
impression regarding votes.
It is surely strange that with all their
men in otlice and a beautiful ball to
hold the meeting, a pipe organ and a
brass band for inspiration and noise,
that the Democrats could not get a
house more than two-thirds’ full, while
Wickersham packed the same bouse
from “pit to dome.”
Mr. Griggsby started to take a fall out
of ,1. !!, Cobb, 'nut with Governor
Strong sitting close to him he closed
abruptly. To have attacked the intrepid.,
and thorough going, justice loving, tax
gathering Gobi), would have put Grigsby
in hot water at once, so he let down on
Gohh and his own candidacy, feebly ex
plained why he would not meet a woman
in j >int debate, then proceeded to bury
Sulzer by roasting Wickersham.
Grigsby was veiv entertaining, but be
did not tell ns how lie would collect a
million dollars from the big monopolies
over the half milli m collected by the
human legal dynamo Cobb, nor why in
any particular we should vote for him
instead of Cobb. Mr. Griggsby stated
that Cobb was turned down by the
Democratic convention, that, statement
is not true, as Mr. Cobb did not allow
bis name to come before the pirates at
all, prefeiringto take his chance with
the mijority of Democrats who stay at
home convention time, preferring to
preserve their integrity and respectabil
itv rather than to he “peeled’’ bv a
“gang'? th:it is notorious throughout the
Terri tor v.
We are hoping to hear Mr. Sulzer; he
had better come to Juneau and get the
impression Griggsby made out of the
way so that he can at least say he “also
ra n. ’ ’
John Reek is out of town, no one
knows where he is gone,.
T. J. Sharick has received a lot of
new goods; he intends calling his place
the Wedding Present Store.
The Seeley Drug Company gave
avray flowers yesterday and everyone
who received a smile from Seeley feels
like going back to the “Busy Corner.”
This town surely has been awrakened
up politically, what with Lena Morrow
Lewis and “Kitty” Sadler both going
an r poor Grigsby last night things
was warm in the old town.