JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1916
BRILLIANT AND
SCHOLARLY COBB
BEFORE GREAT
AUDIENCE HERE
Last Tuesday nisdit Alaska's chief
o
counsel, Hon. John H. Cobb, spoke
to a Coliseum full of people who
learned more about the real Alaska
situation than all the spell binders of
the season have ever hinted
In a low, but well-carrying jury
convincing voice John H. Cobb told
why he was running for attorney
general. At first the audience was
restless, but after the first sentence
all listened because there was some
thing to hear. Mr. Cobb somewhere
has acquired the school master way
of telling things to people that has
been the chief characteristic of Presi
dent Wilson's oratory.
Its the clear cut philosophy of Cobb’s
tax bill that shows who really wants
Alaska for Alaskans. Cobb is the
man who made it possible for a por
tion of our great wealth to stay here
and when he told his straight for
ward and simple story the packed
house reverberated with approval
and sealed the verdict in his favor
so far as Juneau is concerned.
Before the scholarly mind and
trained intellect of Cobb the lunk
head oratory of Mr. Grigsby was for
gotten and no man heard him but who
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SOURDOUGHS ON
CORNER HAND
LEMON TO DEM
OCRATIC SLOGAN
] t was a man with a purple face,
that hall mark of Chilcoot Pass, who
addressing a crowd of men at the
corner of Front and Seward streets
voiced his indignation when George
O c
Burford or that Brandenberg man
o
said, “Alaska for Alaskans. “Alaska
for h-—said the man. “1 have
been in the territory since '85. I was
in Juneau before anyone, but the elder
Goldstein and the Priors, and we were
shouting Alaska for Alaskans then
and after Emery Valentine got here
in ’86 we all chipped in and sent a
good Democrat to congress.
We old fellows were howling for
territorial government when this
whipper snapper from Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, was being wheeled in a
perambulator.
64We sent Ball, a Kentucky Demo
crat, WAiskey, a Democeat, and Tom
Gale, a Democart. I'm a Democrat,"
said the old-timer, “but I’m voting for
Jim Wickersham. They can howl as
they please but Jim delivered the
goods while the others never made a
showing.’’
“Emery Valentine then said: 4,We
also sent Hon. Thos. Nowell and John
Price, but no one ever succeeded in
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