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~ COKPMVA. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1916.
THE WAY IT LOOKS.
( )f course it is much too early to tell with any degree of
accuracy what the big Republican boss of .human meant bv
working so hard at the primary election to elect his own candi
dates for delegates to the Seward convention. From the meagre
report received it appears that Shackleford was using all the
automobiles in town to take voters to the polls and help him
elect his men. Meanwhile, he allowed the report to he freely
circulated' that lie would support W’ickersham for delegate to
Congress at the coming election. We wonder if lie really thinks
that he is deceiving anybody. It is hardly possible, because
that kind of work is too coarse to be pulled over the Alaska
voters. Be it as it may, about the voters in general, to 11s it is
a glaring sign that he intends to double-cross \\ ick. However,
that report that a compact has been made between these two
men is partly explained by Shack’s devotion to Wick at the
primary election. But none will believe that Shack will ever
be sincere where Wick is concerned. The breach between the
Two can never be mended. Hence our deduction that Shack
and his henchmen will attempt to double-cross W ick; all ot
which he deserves if the report of the compact is only partly
True. However, let ns wait and see further reports before wo
pass final judgment on what appears to be an extremely dirty
deal.
Now, granted that the compact reported is correct, (iranted
111 at Shack worked hard to elect his candidates to the Seward
convention to support him in securing the nomination ol W ick
as candidate for delegate to Congress on the Republican ticket.
(Jranted, all that, it would mean defeat for W ick—which is
what Shack wants for the simple reason that the voters will
not follow Shack, and anyone running independent of any
faction will be elected. After all, it also looks as though Shack
wanted to elect Rustgard, although he is working a round way
about Ketchikan Miner.
SO HELPLESS ARE WE.
Sonic of tlic dispatches from Washington are enough to
make the man of average common sense weary.
Tliev are filled with a distinct fear of what would happen
were a war to grow out <>t the Mexican border troubles.
The cry that we have neither the men nor the war material
to engage in such a war, and then the fearful danger of typhoid,
smallpox and fever, <> Lord!
We know that any army can he made practically immune
against smallpox in eight days. V e have read that a regiment
was vaccinated for typhoid at El I’aso two years ago, and there
had' not been a soldier sick of it since. With the least regard
paid to sanitation there would not be a case of yellow fever on
the tablelands of Mexico in a hundred years. A double, three
fold, four-fold rebellion has been raging in Mexico for four
rears, not three thousand men all told have been killed in hat
1 le in that country in all that time.
Said an old Indian fighter once: “If you ever get into an
Indian fight, keep this in mind. If you can stand up to it for
five minutes von Vo got ’em.” Men who do not know who their!
own fathers are are never good fighters, men who are natural
assassins are never good fighters.
With four thousand five hundred men, General Taylor
fought twenty-two thousand Mexicans at Buena Vista all day
and cleared the field of them, all save their dead. General
Scott, with a little army of less than twelve thousand men,
against a defensive army of twice his own in numbers, silenced
the fort at Vera (buz and took the city; stormed the pass Gerro
Gordo, fought Molen del Rey, (Vrehusco Contreas and finally
tools by assault the great citadel of (’hapultepee, and planted
his flag on the capital. Let the authorities sound the gong
for volunteers and see what the response would be. And what
has the war department been doing with this cloud in the sky
of the southwest for the past four years that there is not in store
plenty of modern guns and ammunition ? And what is needed
of (100,000 men? Mexico has not one-tenth that number of
trained soldiers. At all events, let us have no more squawks
from Washington to make old ladies sleep on uneasy pillows
lost Villa returns with four hundred men next time and takes
in the I'nited States!
If the I'nited States cannot with despatch avenge the
murder of some American mothers and their children by mon
grel greasers, let us throw up our hands and ask to have a re
ceiver appointed' to administer upon our country.
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Women are making a great suce(*ss of running the railroads j
of France. Natural enough,. Women always did like trains.
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Suicide of a clown who made millions laugli, calls to mind
the fact that the business of being funny is# one of the most
painful of vocations.
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A scientist has figured that the candle power of the moon
is 104 times 1,000,000,000,000. There certainly will be a boom
in the candle business if the moon ever goes out.
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Much interest centers in the Republican convention at
Seward on April 10, the outcome of which will determine a long
factional feud and the future control of the party.
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