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Entered as second-class matter March 1, 1911, at the poet office at
rtorae, • Aiaesa, under the Act of March S, 1879.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
anranam Lincoln
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THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. , f
Tlio presidential election this year t
may be regarded as a curiosity. It 1
is so extremely close that as this is a
written, it is impossible to say who I
will win. It would be hard to ima- r
gine anything more desirable from £
the point of view of the both parties s
in that it keeps all concerned enthu- f
siastic. one way or another, and i
gives a wholly fictitious idea con- I
cerning it all. t
The President is theoretically sup- i
posed to execute the laws. The j
great fight made for the office is po- t
sitive evidence that the White House t
is sought for other reasons. <
Congress is supposed to legislate, \
and those interests which are likely <
to tie affected by legislation almost ]
invariably are supposed to center |
their egorts and their energies upon i
the election of its members in their i
favors. 1
Consequently it is not untimely to ]
reflect that the President has other
and more imnortant functions to
perform than being that of the exe
cutive of the legislative or other
branch of government.
In point of . fact the Fresiden. of
the United States has been Vfes'ed
with so serious powers that his office
is much more important than that
of official chief executive. With the
increasing international importance |
of American trade and the Important'
relation thereto of national policies
and their effect upon the commerci
al and financial interests, it is true
that the President of the •JV.'iod ]
States in his ability to adopt r. po- |
licy of state favoring one nation, in- j
terest or another, also has bee ne
vested with an ever increasing in* i
portance in the matters of govern
ment.
it is not too much to say i-'uat
within the hands of Wilson, through j
his Secretary, of State, has been the,
power to maintain peace or war dur- j
ing his entire term of office. It is \
not too much to declare that such ,
a power is one that would have a j
tremendous effect upon the great in- t
dustrial, financial or commercial in
terests.
Another thing ir. this. The chief
est and most important and far- i
reaching power which a President
holds is his power to veto. That
gives him a degree of control over
. legislation that to that extent makes
liis office the moset important fea
ture of the ’government functions
« ti>l 1 tb in nwtnnf n f CA bo onnsne t h n
judicial and legislative functions.
With politics gradually and quite na
turally becoming more and more
closely connected with the social and
'industrial conditions which prevail,
the power to veto such laws is one
that is of inestimable value in the
hands of one so euphemistically cal
led friendly to the interests, and is
of tremendous danger to those in
terests when in the hands of one
who is not so amendable to industri
al or financial control.
Heuce it is there has ever been
a determined effort to secure a man
i#or the White House who would
make his interests and recognise his
interests as identical with those ot
the great financial, commercial or
.-industrial powers.
Possibly such a one was reached
in' the person of Taft, and in Taft’s
Foreign Policy and in Taft’s veto po
licy as with all other men who have
held possession of the office .of pre
sident, we will find the key to the
-manner in which his ideas favored
ot disfavored ^he powers which were
economically supreme.
It is easy therefore to under
stand the reason why* there is such
a very desperate effort to secure a
man who can be implicitly intrusted
with the office of President by the
interests. And it is also therefore
very easy to understand why it is
the machine politicians, the dele
gates not of the people but of the
interests which dominate a party, i
ine-toothcomb the country for a
man ideally suited, in their estfma
;ion, for the position. They came as
tear selecting such a one in Hughes
is it is possible for them to do.
Hughes is a man with quite a clean
•ecord for a former Governor of the
State of New York. That he had any
sympathy with labor or any new
'angled radicalism was quite imposs
ible. He was a very “superior” man.
His family connections were all they
rught to be. As a lawyer he had
not been either a shyster or a
pettifogger. He had a highly lucra
tive corporation practice. He was
the father confessor in a legal
of a number, of great men guilty ot
financial ways that were dark and
commercial tricks that were vain
He had established quite a rcouta
tion for probity and Integrity On
the bench he had handed down a
decision against labor in the Dan
bury Hatters case, but he very right
ly explained that on the bench he
had to interpret the laws and if the
lawn were so against labor that was
not his fault. He had opposed hia 1
brethren on the bench in favor of
the Kansas Anti-Coercion act and
his opinion is one that received la
bor approval
So taken on the whole he was
known to be safe and known to be
one who was least open to attack.
If Hughes should be successful. ]
and it is not impossible that he will ,
be. his Foreign Policy will be one
that will be full of danger to the
country until it is known at least j
.what it will be. The peculiar act- j
ions of the so-called hyphenates in
leaping to support Hughes to defeat
Wilson was no more peculiar thjn *
it was childish and silly. Wilson's -
gravest mistake was to give that de
fection any sort of dignified rocogni- S
tion even by an acid reply to the j
note of an Irish-Ameriean politician. |j
What Wilson was towards the Ger- jj
man policies which so frequently |
elicited notes, that Hughes will be 3
and more. The relation between 9
Morgan and Wilson were never ex- S
cessively cordial. The relations be- |
tween Hughes and Morgan have air |j
most approached the familiar jj
ground of master and valet. Where |
Hughes probed insurance, his probe a
only opened the way to the complete ]
control by the House of Morgan a jj
short time later was able according to jj
testimony before the Pujo Com- S
mittee to tell Rvan that he had bet- .
ter sell his control of the Equitabl) .
Funds for .fourteen million because |
Now the House of Morgan is the
representative of the Entente Pow
ers in a financial way in the United
States, and if we did not know that
many Jeremiah A. O’Learys were
nnjth more feigning than Fenian,
we might possible wonder at the un
equalled stupidity of turning from
Wilson to Hughes, It is so gro
tesque that it is amusing.
It is quite apparent that most of
the German-Americans realized that,
and did not suppA-t Hughes. They
applied the yard stick to him and
found he did not measure up to
their standard. Whether this is to
the credit of Hughes or not need
not be discussed. It all tends how
ever to show why it Is this election
was so close.
On almost every question involved
there was a manifest division except
on the labor vote. That was given
to Wilson %with such sincerity that
it well might have been worth a
better cause. That Gompers should
yet be able to flatter Jjimself that
he is a political Warwick makes his
control of the American Federation
of Labor even a more undesirable
thing from the standpoint of Labor
than ever.
That however he can do. He can
turn to Wilson and tell him,
whether the president is re-elected
or not, he delivered the votes and
made good. It speaks more for the
ability of Gompers than for the wit
of labor. Not that Hughes is better,
but that that vote should have been
given for either one or the other#
THE LOCAL ELECTIONS.
It is the very fine theory of repre
sentative government that the best
men ■will be chosen, competent to
perform certain functions -required
of them as representing those who
vote for them. They are supposed
to be chosen as delegates to speak
for those who so support them.
Between theory and practice in
this as in many more godly lines,
there is a wide line of cleavage and
never could this have been more re
markably demonstrated than in the
election just closed here.
It is not held that the successful
ones, all of them are unsuited and
untqual to thp task which theory
has allotted them. But it is held
that not for that reason were they
chosen.
In no election were the people so
kept in the dark as'to the intentions,
policies, aims or. purposes whjch the
candidates had in view. There was
no effort to discover the popular sen
timent and discover also 11 n anun
ed harmoniously with the candi
date’s individual views. The candi
dates stood before the public as men
emasculated of any such thing as
private or public individual views,
and sought votes not by reason ot
their sympathetic opinions but by
reason of their personal popularity,
pull, position or privately expressed
opinions.
It is not in evidence that any such
thing as special ability, special qua
lifications, special experience had l:i
any way rendered those who .sought
the suffrages, particularly, men who
should be sfent to Juneau. On the
contrary there was quite a notice
able effort made to avoid any un
due publicity or any too intense sub
mission to the limelight of public
criticism. Votes were canvassed with
systematic zeal not in the open,
but sub rosa. Not for any political
or economic qualification .but be
cause of personal, grounds.
Some of the votes cast betray a
degree of unthinking generosity tc
i some of the candidates that it
reaches the amazing. It has been
said that there is no accounting for
tastes. But in this election there
neither taste nor judgment nor com
mon sense evidenced in a good
many instances, and upon the part
of a good many. ,
This is said with the friendli-V
feeling and with an impartial can
dor wholly devoid of any bitter
ness. It is a humorous condition
that the only absolute certainty
about politics is that the fittest, sel
dom survive. That it may cause
some consolation to the defeated j
ones to salve their souls with this
degree of flattering unction may be
justification, for an expression or a
too candid an opiinon. As it is we
should worry. Men have condemned
Wickersham for not enlarging the '
scope of the territorial government
bill. Those who failed to receive
the endorsemen* of the 3 -cond Divi
sion electorate can console them- .
selves with the verv good reason
that it was because the Delegate j
had no very enlarged notion of the (
fitness of some possible choices to j
legislate on any subject from dog t I
pounds to fish traps.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop Into (be
MERCHANTS CAFE.
The Home of Good Eats.
FOR SALE.— Cheap.. Good black
dog.. 85 pounds weight. See
Ed Holt. __
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office Honrs: 2—5 and 7—8 p. ru.
Phone Main 7.
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| Do You Like Nice Fresh Eggs?
Then Use Hollyhurst. |
Remember we receive fr esli shipment of these eggs on each I
5 boat, thus insuring their freshness.
! D.E.CROWLEY
| THE ROSE CANDY STORE f
5 AND ITS NEW ADDITION
| ARCTIC BAKERY
i are prepared to serve their patrons with a line line of Breads,
up to date pastries and Lunches.
Our Ice cream, made froia^the Nome Dairy Cream speaks
for itself.. A fresh supply of Aufrusthie & Kyer Chocolates ar
rived on the Victoria.. Home-made Chocolates, Peanut Candles
and salted nuts specialty.
57 Varieties have arrived at
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET
PHONE, MAIN 86
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CRANES
Linen Lawn
THE CORRECT WRITING PAPER.
EXPRESSES YOUR OWN PERSONAL TASTE IN TERMS
OF THE BEST SOCIAL USAGE. WE HAVE THE LATEST
CREATIONS, THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF STATIONERY
EVER BROUGHT TO ALASKA.
SE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY.
HILLS PHARMACY
We Deliver The Geode.
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SAILS FROM NOME
ON LAST VOYAGE SEASON 1910. -*v'
SCHEDULES
F. a. O’CONNOR,
Commercial i
WBBBRBWaRjaBCiaai!
ALASKA STEAMSHIP GO.
LAST SAILING FROM NOME
FOR SEASON 1916
S. S. VICTORIA
NOV. 5 TH.
SUBJECT TO CANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
For Summit Leather
Vests Summit Mackinaw
0 \
Coats Standard Logger
Shirts At
Cheap John Store
TEL. MAIN 48.
ONE PRICE TO ALL
Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer & Freighting
Goal & Qi±
Phone Main 139.
TRY
PHIL MURPHY
I FOR LEATHER VESTS & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS, HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CA»S, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
PARKAS AND ROBES.
MURPHY HAS THE ROODS
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FIRST CLASS MEALS.
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FIRST CLASS STYLE.
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MEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Retail Dealer
to Beef, Pork, Mutton/ Veal,
Ram, Bacon Poultry and Fish
pape !u Beeson. All fresh
StOck. No old or danpK
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