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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1905.
WICKERSHAM’S ORGAN
INSULTS THE PEOPLE
“It may occur to some that too much
complaisance on the part of a judge is
not a desirable attribute; and if the
people of this district have permitted
themselves to b$ intimidated, they are
an unworthier lot than they are believ
ed to be.”
The. above quotation from an article
in the Wickersham organ, the ‘Yukon
Valley News, ’ shows the contempt that
the.'grand duke’ and his henchmen feel
for the law-abiding people of the dis
trict. Not content with harassing the
people, through misplaced official power,
these corrupt, grafting officials and
their allies would belittle those compul
sively and judiciously submissive to
their crooked manipulations.
The law-abiding people of the district
should not be classed as an unworthy
lot because they acquiesce to the cor
rupt and illegal schemes of Judge Wick
ersham and his accomplices. They re
alize that federal officials have power
to execute personal desires—whether
lawful or not—when the courts are a
party thereto. The Circuit court of
Appeals congratulated the people of
Nome for their forbearance and self
control in restraining from violence and
from taking the law into their own
hands during the corrupt reign of the
Noyes gang. The people of the Third
division are deserving of equal consid
eration for similar behavior during the
past three years of Wickersham's igno
minous dominance.
There is a complaisance which allows
private gain to sway a judicial decis
ion: that ‘complaisance’ which compla
S. cently permits hen chmen and tools to
L openly violate existing laws and which
♦ protects the violators.
“COMPLAISANCE” AS IT
EXISTS HERE TODAY
The complaisance on the part of
Judge Wickersham has been exclusive
ly bestowed upon his chosen henchmen.
He has stubbornly upheld and judicially
protected his appointee, J. Lindley
Green, in all his numerous corrupt and
illegal acts and manipulations. He has
judicially countenanced the illegal ex
ecutive acts of his protege, Deputy
marshal George Dreibelbis, and has as
sisted him in grafting from the gov
ernment treasury. He caused the U.
S. marshal to retain in official position
at Rampart, for two years, a protege
who continously violated the law by co
habiting unlawfully with a notorious
Indian prostitute. The marshal’s rea
son for retaining said protege was that
Judge Wickersham wanted him there!
The United States marshal is permit
ting a Wickersham henchman to con
duct, in Rampart precinct, a saloon in
a tent, retailing liquors therein. The
liquor license law provides: “That no
license shall be granted for the sale of
liquors, at either wholesale or retail, in
any other than a substantial building
which shall have cost for construction
not less than five hnndred dollars.” Is
not such action, on the part of that
henchm ?.n, selling liquor without a li
cense? A license, if issued, becomes
void if applied to active use in any oth
er than a substantial building! Such
people as these are not ‘buffaloed,’ be
cause they assist their chief in his cor
ruption, and are lopd in their praises of
Judge Wickersham; but they certainly
receive too much ‘complaisance’ from
the Judge.
Should such a thing be possible that
Wickersham retain possession of the
District judgeship beyond the holiday
recess of the coming session of con
gress, then surely has our government
become a monarchy, and the one-man
power prevails. The facts pertaining
to his corruption, which are submitted
to the senate, are of sufficient magni
tude to justify his impeachment. They
are all matters of record and are easily
proven. The henchmen, silent partners,
proteges and carpet-baggers, who are
journeying to Washington to lobby for
him will avail but little. Facts are
stubborn things to overcome when in
the hands of fair-minded men Wicker
sham’s treachery to those who had con
fidence in him was the beginning of his
downfall.
WHERE IGNORANCE IS GREEN
Now that our illiterary commissioner
has slobbered over the Signal corps
from General Greeley down, construct
ion will now proceed. When Greeley
ran up against the judicial butt of the
camp last summer he was disgusted.
If any apology was required for th
general, it has now come from the pro
per source, — J. Lindley Green.
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