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8ATURDAY, JULY 22. 1905
CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND
MINING STOCK JOBBER
The corrupt political parasites, who,
through tricky manipulations, -are hold-.
ing onto their federal positions in Alas
• lea, are doing more to retard and thwart
the advancement of the district than
most people seem to realize. When
ever self-aggrandizing monopolists ob
tain official power, the peoples’ inter
• ests are naught to them. Exalted fed-!
era! officials, drawing their mainten
ance from the government, should be
debarred, during their term .of office,
from personally engaging in commer
cial .enterprises involving right.;, the
controversy over which, the laws force
before them for adjudication. Nor
. should be permitted to remain in office
when it is demonstrated they are use
ing their official power and prestige to
further their private financial ventures
in the commercial arena.
This abase of official power, and the
.self-beneficial use made of the prestige
created therefrom, is most thoroughly
brought to light, by the pubiic exposure
of the corrupt administrative manipu
lations of Gov. Brady and Judge Wick
ersham. The action of Brady in pos
ing as a mining expert and organizing
a stock mining company might be con->
rasdered legitimate, but for him to use
bis official signature, in his company’s
prospectus, as a guarantee to the in
vesting public that the purchase of the;
stock is a safe and lucrative invest
ment, should be sufficient grounds for
his immediate removal from the exalt
ed position as chief executive of the
district.
The fact that he assured the govern
ment of his complete separation from
the Reynolds-Alaska Development Co.,
and on a subsequent date assured the
Reynolds concern in “correspondence”
of his “unwavering loyalty,” shows
him a treacherous and unprincipled in
dividual. It certainly looks as though
he is mow playing with the president
and Secretary Hitchcock to suit his
own pleasure. The present conditions
would have been avoided had Alaska’s
plea for justice been given the prefer
ence over “Investigator” Day. Had
the senate complied with Day’s request
—made through the president—and
confirmed Wickersham, the peoples’
pride and reverence for judicial dignity
belonging to the judiciary of the Third
division would receive, a greater shock
'from the corrupt acts of Wickersham
than that which is given by the dis
graceful conduct of Governor Brady.
DISTRICT JUDGE AND
REAL ESTA’TE BROKER
Nothing retards the development of
a new mining country so much as does
unnecessary and unscrupulously mani
pulated mining litigation—especially
when the courts are known to be cor
rupt. The present legal conditions as
to the validity of title to a majority of
mining locations in-this division would
not exist had not Judge Wickersham,
by personal participation therein, en
couraged the location of mining claims
without first making a discovery of
mineral on the ground. By so doing
he was either laying the foundation for
future immense mining litigation, or he*
was ignorant of the provisions of the
mining law, which he so readily inform
ed tiie Senate committee in 1903, that
he did not wished changed because—
“it is a well settled - code; everybody
knows what it is and what it means. ’ ’
It is a fact Wickersham has secured
property in his division of considerable
value which he would not have had the
opportunity to acquire had he not been
district judge of the division. It is a
matter of record that officials connect
ed' with< his administration have-receiv
ed his official- protection in their illegal
grafting from the government treasury.
It is a fact that he upholds and pro^
tecta his local representative. Commis
sioner J. Lindley Green, in the nefar
ious work of acting as private counsel
for litigants in matters being adjudi
cated in Commissioner Green’s court.
It is churned that Judge Wickersham
receives a greater income from proper
ty acquired through the prestige of his
federal position than his official salary
amounts to.
It is unjust for the national adminis
tration to permit a district judge to op
erate an official real estate brokerage
business, and grant our U. S. marshal
an exclusive food supply privilege, nor
is it just to allow the governor an of
ficial ' ‘bucket shop” for the manijmla
tion of his personal mining stocks.
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