ALASKA FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
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SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1906.
WASKEY AND CALE
Within three weeks the people of
Alaska will cast their first vote. This
election will give Alaska representation
in congress, but the delegate elected
will have no vote—he will be merely a
bureau of information for the Solons in
congress to draw upon. His personal
ity, however, will go a great way in
influencing favorable legislation for the
territory, provided the proper man is
sent there. He must be a man who
will represent Alaska in congress and
not Seattle.
Thomas Cale comes up to all require
ments. He is honest and capable, and
is a man of mature years and judge
ment. He is neither a lawyer nor a
politician, and the only thing his oppon
ents can urge against him is that he is
a man of the people and a miner. If
the miners of Alaska stand firmly to
gether Cale will be elected. At all
events he is certain of the Third divis
ion, and the split in the Republican
party in Nome, due to the rivalry be
tween Dick Ryan and C. D. Murane,
the republican nominee, will have a
tendency to weaken Murane in his own
district.
Frank H. Waskey, the Nome candi
date for the short term, and running
mate with Cale, is also a miner. He is
supported by the miners’ associations
and labor organizations of Nome and is
endorsed by the democrats. Cale and
Waskey will poll a heavy vote in that
section.
The people of Rampart are expect
ing results from the road commission.
The season is well advanced, and bare
ly two months of favorable weather re
main. This same condition prevails in
the Fairbanks country.
Open Letter To
J. Wesley Young
Dear Sir:—Press advices state that
you have been appointed “Republican
territorial committeeman at Rampart”
by the late Juneau convention. This
being the case, you now come before
the people of this precinct in a quasi
public position and your motives and
political methods subject to newspaper
comment—in other words, you are now
a ‘ ‘matter of news. ’ ’
You have been made one of a com
mittee appointed solely to advance the
candidacy of C. D. Murane for congres
sional delegate and to insure his elect
ion to the office if in your power to do
so.
. As you doubtless know, the Rampart
Miners’ Association has endorsed the
miners’ ticket—Waskey and Cale. The
membership of this association com
prises nearly every bona-fide miner in
the Rampart district. You are there
fore politically opposing what the mi
ners of the camp believe to be best for
the mining industry. You now occupy
an anomalous position—commercially
you are desirous of the friendship of
the miner; politically you are his an
tagonist! Is this your intention?
It is w-1 known that one cannot serve
both God and Mammon. You cannot
support Murane and also retain the con
fidence of the miners in your sympathy
with their cause. According to the law
governing the election of delegate your
own vote cannot do either candidate
any good as you have not resided in Al
aska “continously during the entire
year immediately preceeding the elec
tion.”
As you are aware, it was desired to
keep party politics out of this election;
that conditions demanded a candidate
who possesed qualifications other than
party affiliations, but you and the petty
federal ring in Rampart decided other
wise and Rampart enjoys the question
able distinction of holding a republican
meeting and not endorsing Cale—the
only camp in the interior that failed to
do so. Rampart was also the only in
terior camp to nominate delegates to
the Juneau convention.
C. D. Murane received the republi
can nomination at Juneau because, it is
alleged, he is the only man in the Nome
Miners’ Ticket!!!
THOMAS CALE
For Long Term
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FRANK WASKEY
For Short Term
Vote This Ticket
camp who can defeat the miners’ ticket
Waskey and Cale, in the second divis
ion. Whether you will increase your
political prestige by aiding, through
your position as Murane committeeman,
in the attempt to split the miners’i vote
and thus insure the defeat of Thomas
Cale is a question.
Alaska forum.
Republican Central Committee
The committee appointed at the late
Juneau convention, the Rampart mem
ber of which is J. W. Young, is solely
a campaign committee and consists of
thirteen members. The Republican
Territorial Central Committee consists
of nine members and the national com
mitteeman; at present John G. Heid.