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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1906.
TANANA MINERS’ ASSOCIATION
PUT UP MINER CANDIDATE
Thomas Cale has been unanimously
. chosen as the Tanana miners' candidate
. for congressional delegate by the con
vention of the Tanana Miners’ Associa
tion at Fairbanks.
W. F. McClure, secretary of the As
sociation has wired the Rampart Asso
ciation of the fact, and that this was
only done after it was shown that there
was not sufficient time for the calling
of the convention of the federated as
sociations as originally planned. The
secretary also stated that Nominee
Cale was endorsed by Douglas, Valdez,
Nome and the Republican committee.
The action to be taken in the matter
by the local association is not known,
but it is expected that the choice of
* the Tanana miners will be endorsed.
Mr. Cale, we are informed by a miner
who knows him, is a bona-fide working
miner, and a man of ability. The per
iod before the election—second Tuesday
in August—is indeed short; so is the
term of the delegate elected at that
time—expiring March 4, 1907. The
federated miners’ associations will thus
be able to secure a good representative
miners’ convention for the nomination
of a candidate for the long term, and
in the meantime, the vote polled by
Mr.; Cale, could be made a test of the
strength of the miners of Alaska. ' In
order that this be done all sectional and
factional differences must be cast aside
and the fact that Mr. Cale is a miner,
nominated by miners, and if successful,
must be elected by the votes of his fel
low miners, supersede everything. If
Alaska’s miners would assert themsel
ves the time is opportune. v
“RAMPART ON LITTLE MINOOK”
The clipping has at last materialized, •
and appeared in the last issue of the al
lied grafters’ organ. Among the var
ious statements made is one that Ram
part is “on Little Minook,’’ and that
“Mr. Monroe is rich in information.”
There is absolutely not a word of truth
in the article as it appeared in the al
lied grafters’ sheet—introduction in
cluded. We will venture the assertion
that A. H. Monroe never made such in
sane statements, and defy any federal
grafter to prove any charge of dishon
esty against him. Neither J. B. Win
gate nor C. H. Ehrhorn know of the
organization of any such company, stiil
less as to being directors. The article
is a pipe dream of some irresponsible
space writer whose veracity and meth*
od of furnishing “facts” to the patrons
of his paper are on a par with those so
plainly manifest in our malodorous con
temporary.
This clipping has been the pretext
for the wilful standering, villification
and gross libelling of Mr. A. H. Monroe
wh^, for some reason, at present un
known, has incurred the enmity of the
allied grafters. It was not necessary
to their purpose to learn whether Mr.
Monroe had made such statements:
whether such a company had been in
corporated and if so for what purpose,
but in their venom they allowed their
judgment to be swayed and it has put
them in a precarious position. The edi
tor of the Forum has seen no lying,
hand-painted prospectus’, containing
statements sworn to before Commis
sioner J. Lind ley Green, acting as no
tary public, booming any project of A.
H. Monroe’s.
Should Mr. Monroe, or any one else,
succeed at any time in bringing capital
into this camp for investment, we can
see nothing “criminal” in it—nothing
but bad judgment under present condi
tions. Should, however, he, or others,
do so, and fail to retain Commissioner
J. Lindley Green, that “natural born”
lawyer, as the concern’s “legal advi
ser,” then beware of knocks. In legal
matters, as in every other commodity,
one likes to secure value received, and
in case one felt he was securing a min
imum of .brains—would he then be as
sured of exemption front' slander and
villification by the organ of graft?—a
policy of rule or ruin?
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