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WICKERSHAM LOSING STRENGTH
WHEREVER HE MAKES ADDRESS
Garbled Account of Contested Election Case —
Some Instances of Wickersham
Election Methods
(By Charles A. Derryi
Sufficient lime has now elapsed
•dree Wicket sfutm delivered hi- speech
in Cordova for local citizens to digest
Ills remarks thoroughly and for the
sentiment of the community to <t>
tallize concerning them. The opiiion
is generally expressed, and by men
who are anything but partisan, that
it: effect was to harm the Wicker
sham candidacy. It is the same story
that has come from Nome, from the
Interior, and. in fact, from every
point wlirc he has delivered a public
addle-. W hen 1 u : s inhumed mine
time ago that wherever Wi kersham
hid poken lie had injured be
chances Of election | put it doWIl to
ll • • s » :i> «•: : he r< 1 tor, . 'i >s
V i;h "v.lather to the thought.'
I ut : .in . the ' • , }■»\ a ape h I cati
well heliev e T !* • T IK h ! the case.
When tin* ...eition was made that
Wicket-sivim had :n»t made a sh.iule
Statement in his entire speech that
va< wliollv true that expressed the
Munition exa tly. Wicker ham evi
dently relied on the belief that Alaska
c lizeus <li«l not keep closely in tom b
with puhM' affair . and would • >' 1 '1
st; tnncnt '!id that anyway. >b<- f wt
that he. Wickersham. had made mrh
s;;• tenienis would 1.11.« i»•:*: war
rant for the av«*ragi' Al skan t> be
lieve them Time v . wivi this may
have been true It is not so now
Alaska:)- like the general averay
of American « itb.*ns, a:id to an even
greater degree. will be found to he
fairly well informed as t » publie
events, and while <-ommuni< tion be
tween various part- of tin* territory
Is not so rapid as all would wish, yet
it is rapid enough so that politicians
can not "slip one over" on them very
readily.
• • •
Take the matter of the contest over
the delegateship election of two
yearn ago. As Wickersham related it.
it was quite at variance with the ac
tual truth, and so embellished as to
make of himself a veritable martyr.
Now Alaskans have been used to
thinking of Wickersham in times past
as "righting Jim." and he himself
lias rattier gloried In that appellation.
Anti the role of martyr neither be
comes him nor is well received by his
former supporters.
He said that lie was elected and
that he was "robbed” of the election
by Judge Jennings and the Demo
cratic ' ring." It Is not an eddying
spectacle for a lawyer, a former fed
eral judge and former delegate in
congress to attempt to bring the
courts into disrepute hv intimating
that they are corrupt If half the
tilings that were related of Wicker
sham when he was on the bench were
given publicity they would make his
indictment of Judge Jennings seem
rather tame. But the public long
since learned that a disappointed liti
gant is not a reliable eritle of the
occupant of the, bench And conse
quently newspaper men have been
discreet enough to let that subject
rest.
• • •
Wickersham stated that i;i the man
damus proceedings that were brought
colleagues on the canvassing hoard to
award the certificate of election to
Sulzer he was not represented liv
counsel in fact that he was not noti
fied of the action. Fancy .I 'tnes Wh-k
ershatn ' I'i' IFitiK Jim" not in tic
aware tint the naughty Democrats
had brought court proceedings hi
which be was an interested party!
Well, the fact is that he was repre
. al. ml th ■ t ot 'ha attorney
who took care ef la'ttcs Wick'*rsha” 's
interests in those proceedings was
John Kat ••■•aid. (V tb • ev!decc • and
the argument Judge Jennings decided
in favor of Sulzer The matter was
allowed to go to the house of repre
sentative; at Washington, and after
delays of a year and a half or so, of
which Wickersham complains bitterly,
the contest has not yet been deter
mined. in spite of the statements of
Wickersham to the contrary.
* * *
Hut Wickersham might have
avoided all this delay In a very sim
ple manlier by appealing from Judge
Jennings' decision directly to the cir
cuit court of appeals. Why did he
not do this? Simply because he is.
as he himself admits, n lawyer. And
ns a lawyer he knew that he had ab
solutely no case at law. If the case
hnd gone to appeal there iu little
doubt that it would have been deter
mined that the Alaska election law
* n:i. led for the safeguarding of the
allot, was valid, and this would have
awarded the election to Sulzer, as it
probably will he eventually, but with
.iiiici .-.sary delay. A decision of the
appellate court would undoubtedly
a.lso have determined that the hoys
in the uniform of I nch* Sam at Fort
Cibbon and Eagle, having sworn that
their residence was at those places,1
were bona fide residents there, and
entitled to vote as other citizens were.
• • •
Wickersham has had a good deal
to say about the Democratic “ring"
■ a responsible for * • much
■ iekedm ss This “ring ." however.
*u . !' atN iirded to “pull of!" any
thin!: unite :-n rough as the work by
.In ii Wiekersham ln»n« •:t* 1 in tbe
ofing at Afog:iak. c •* * None-.
F nalakleet. and St. Michael. At
' in-sr places ignorant INKi111 • - and
native* wen* schooled in the art of
voting b\ Wieker-bam henchmen.
\nd lure is some of the testimony
t-ke»i in tin* ele tion e >i*t« t hear
ings
Vo \ I. ( f \ ( it* i is kino ^
i ' m.i l» leef were n-ieiiefl i..
' - v< • inn • I * rl S " n
a \. h.•« maii win» ha • liv« ,1 in v; k >
a l. n.ilnT ni years, and who is 1. miii.i.
v. ah tin* habits and intelligence of
tin* l-Nkimn, stated that he did not
know of any Kskimo living at Cna
lakleet who possessed sufficient knowl
e d L‘ e to irn elliaellt ly exnrcise the a!
I frage.
I i' d .Martin, who knew all the !N
• kimos at 1'nalakleet and was known
| by all of them, said he did not know
a single full blooded native who was
civilized enough to vote intelligently.
! Similar testimony was given by
reputable citizens of Nome as to the
250 natives in and about Nome.
(liegori Yakanak, chief of the Aleu
tian tribe of Indian natives, testified
through an interpreter, and among
the questions and answers were the
following:
"Did you vote at the election held
at Afognak on the 7th day of Novem
ber. HUG. «at which there was a dele
gate to congress voted for?"
“A. Yes. sir.”
"Q. (’an you read or write fin*
I Knglish language?"
"A. No.”
"Q. Can you read or w rite the Rus
sian language?"
"A. No."
"Can you speak the Russian lan*
. guage?"
i "A. No."
"(’an you speak the Knglish lan*
I guage?"
; "A- No"
"Q \\ ho did you vote for at the
i election held on the 7th day of No
vember, lHlij, at which a delegate to
I congress was elected?"
"A I don't know; 1 have forge,
ten."
At Seldovia a number of native In
dians voted, and many of these were
so ignorant that they could neither
I read nor write.
M. .! Doyle, a white man acquainted
wi?h the people of that locality, testi
fied that Mike Dolehok. a native, was
employed by one "Shorty" Stoffer to
"round up the natives so that they
would vote on election day."
Anton Dob hok, a brother of Mike
Dolehok. a native, testified that he
vms at the November. 1D1 ♦*». election,
a; d voted, and in answer to other
questions stated that lie went i »
Shorty St offer's cabin before he voted;
that "the fellows" had told him to go
there and in* would be shown how to
i n Wiekersham; that he was so
shown, and that he was given coffee
: nd e 'ke. -ml ‘lint lie went bac k after
voting and was given more coffee and
>■; kc,
S ' • in .1 ••del »fi. (J r >.y Foxy.
S IP Mercuroff. .Fcd'o T-.* n-k. Civ
or: Kalungl and Nick Sakaloff te ti
tled to similar effect. All stated that
tlv y were shown how to mark A\ ir
b Hot.; so as to vote fer v ebo: .’-ham.
and that they so voted. None of
them could read or write.
• • •
Willi a sanctimonious air this man
Wiekersham tells of the alleged mis
things of his opponents. But surely
In all the annals of Alaska there Is
nothing quite so revolt..ig to the ei.i
/.cn Interested in good government
and the purity of elections (without
which latter Wiekersham himself ad
mits there would be anarchy) than
! these instances of the illegal voting
i of ignorant natives to perpetuate In
office a man who hud outlived his
usefulness to his constituents
Motorman’s Goldenrod Almost Caused Trouble
WASHINGTON*.— If |< rlclif early in t!»o season for goldenrod, hut there
are always pioneers, One blossom, anyhow, must Imve started in to
bloom ahead of «>fti«-i:>I tall weddings, for a motor-man had it stuck irr ids cap
as In* breezed ids ear toward tin capi
tol the other afternoon.
The yellow of It caught the inter
est of an oldish couple, wlm smiled at
each other, flu* way comrades do when
so in p trifle recalls associations that
Indong to both. Also, the sprig passed
its talk-value on to a couple of young
fellows, one of whom must have had
experiences to go hv:
“His girl gave him that.”
His companion, being a frith*
younger and therefore a whole lot
wiser, knew better. “Betrh* r In* stuck It there to make her believe his other
girl gave it to him lie knows lmw to make ’em Jealous, all right. Oh, say,
ole man. did I show jou the postcard Lll sent me from Oolonlal Beach? It’s
a dandy.”
The other responded with a suddenness which Implied his right to be
considered when I.il's favors were being passed around.
“Let’s look.’’
The younger fellow fun bled in his pockets and then remarked with mad*
boning nonchalance that lie must have left it In his other coat.
“Your other coat-—huh.”
That was . very word he uttered, hut—take It from dear Mcrcntlo—
enough Is always enough. There was no other coat.
The two foolish y< ungsters. Lord love them, grinned over the show clown,
and that was ail there w is to it. unless—-unless you have a memory of your
own for goldenrod all fringed around a col spring, with big trees overhead,
the old Ghe^upcnke swhhlng In end out across the beach — ami dear live*
things flashing In the air -and chi-ping h» the hushes—and crawling under
roots and—everything.
Japanese Diplomats
Are Sent to Siberie
TOKIO. Oct. 12. The Japanese gov
eminent has sent several foreign ol
tire secretaries to Siberia. It is tinder
stood that Cireat Britain and Franei
will also send diplomatic represents
t'v T’le object is to treat (piestioili
arising from the existence of severa
governments in Siberia and to try t<
bring about conciliation and, possibly
unity.
Statement of the Ownership, Manage
ment. Circulation. Etc., Required
by the Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912.
of
THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
published daily at Cordova, Alaska fo
October 1. 11»1S.
Territory of Alaska, ss.
Before me, a notary public in ant
for the Territory of Alaska, personall;
appeared 11 (!. Steel, who. having heel
duly sworn according to law. depose:
and says that he Is the proprietor o
the Cordova Daily Times and that th:
following is, to tht> best of his know
ledge and belief, a trip- statement o
the ownership, management, circuit)
tlon, etc., of the aforesaid puhllcatio]
for the date shown in the above ear
tion. required by the Act of Augus
24. 1912, embodied in section 442. Post
al Laws and Regulations, printed ot
the reverse side of this form, to wit
1. That the names and addresses o
the publisher, editor, managing editoi
and business managers are:
Publisher. 11. G Steel. Cordova
Alaska.
Editor. H G. Steel. Cordova. Alaska
Managing Editor. H. G. Steel, Coi
dova, Alaska.
Business Manager, H. G Steel, Cot
dova. Alaska.
2. That the owners are:
H. G. Steel, Cordova, Alaska.
2 That the known bondholder*
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent o
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities are:
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Ne>
York.
5. That the average number o
copies of each issue of this publica
tlon sold or distributed, through th
malls or otherwise, to paid subscriber
during the six months preceding th
date shown above is 1,025.
II G STEEL.
Sworn to and subscribed before nu
tliis 12th dav of October. 191S.
EDWARD K MEDLEY.
Notary public for Alaska
My commission expires Octobe
11th. 1927.
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Sec. 21, Election laiws. That in any precinct where the eleotion
has been legally called and no official ballots have been received the
I voters are permitted to write or print their ballots, but the judgeB of
election shall, in this event, certify to the facts which prevented til**
use of the official ballots, which certificate must accompany and In*
made a part of the election returns.
SAMPLE BALLOT
«
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION
MARK “X" IN THE SQUARE AT THE LEFT OF THE NAME
OF THE CANDIDATE FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE. IF
NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE
DO NOT APPEAR ON THE BAUDOT. INSERT WITH PENCIL IN
BLANK SPACES.
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I For Delegate to Congress (Vote for one.)
0 JAMES WICKERSHAM
For Territorial Senator (Vote for one.)
0 1 J. W. WARD
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For Territorial Representative (Vote for four.)
[x] HENRY SLATER
0 JOSEPH H. MURRAY
0 JOSEPH L. REED
0 J. LINDLEY GREEN
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For llouii Commissioner (Vote for one )
0 JAMES L. GALEN
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WHEN YOU VOTE FOR THE ABOVE CANDIDATES YOU
WILL BE VOTING FOR THE BEST INTERESTS
OF ALASKA
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5th, 1918
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