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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1919
WICKERSHAM-GRIGSBY CONTEST
George Grigsby, who by virtue of
carrying the credentials issued by
the territorial canvassing board as
the successful candidate at the spe
cial election held last June, is occu
pying the seat of delegate in congress
from Alaska, is supposed to be hur
rying as fast as steam and electricity
can carry him from the national cap
ital to Alaska, to take evidence in the
contested election case in which
James Wickersham is contestant. He
is allowed forty days from Septem
ber 6 in which to do this, Mr. Wick
ersham’s forty days having expired
on that date. Mr. Grigsby was hand
icapped somewhat in his start by the
fact that he wished to stay in Wash
i ington until the vote had been taken
on the pending railroad bill. With
the unanimou passage of that meas
ure he was free to leave.
The delegate will have to defend in
reality t\yo contests. One contests
the act of the canvassing board in
awarding the election of 1918 to the
late Charles A. Sulzer, and the sec
ond is against Grigsby as holder un
der the special election, Wickersham
claiming, of course, that as he was
elected in 1918, there was no vacancy
in 1919.
The contest proceedings are likely
to he most interesting. If the ter
ritory had been raked with a fine
tooth comb no more astute politicians
nor shrewder legal practitioners
could have been found. For once in
his career Mr. Wickersham seems to
have met his match, and he will be
compelled to exert himself to hold
the upper hand, either in debate or
in tactics. A fair idea may be
gained of the qualities of the two
men by a perusal of the proceedings
before the elections committee on
House Resolution No. 105, which laid
down the rules under whoch this par
ticular contest was to be conducted.
Mr. Grigsby was on the stand and
was making a statement to the com
mittee, in the course of which he
gave some Alaska political history.
He told how the Republican organiza
tion nominated John Corson for dele
gate in 190S, and Wickersham made
the race independently and was elect
ed; in 1910 the Republicans nominat
ed Alfred S. Orr and Wickersham ran
independently and beat him; in 1912
the Republicans nominated W. A. Gil
more and Wickersham, as an inde
pendent candidate, beat him and
Jurge Jennings, the Democratic can
didate; in 1914 the Democrats put up
Judge Bunnell and the Republicans
had no candiate, but “Wickersham
nominate himself and received the
nomination of a bolters’ Democratic
convention, or an independent Demo
cratic organization and ran indepen
dent, and was elected.” At one of
the congresses from 1912 to 1916,
Grigsby said, Wickersham was regis
• tered as a Democrat. The commit
tee proceedings show the following
colloquy:
“Mr. Hudspeth—Where did Mr.
"Wickersham register?
“Mr. Grigsby—In the house. If I
am wrong, it is because the World’s
Almanac made a mistake.
“Mr. Wickersham—The World’s
Almanac did make a mistake.
“Mr. Grigsby—I myself, however,
during that period of time have heard
Judge Wickersham proclaim on the
stump that he was a Woodrow Wilson
Democrat.
“Mr. Wickersham—You never did
hear that.
“Mr. Grigsby—Oh, yes, I did.
“Mr. Wickersham—No man can tell
the truth and say that.
“Mr. Grigsby—I heard it.
“Mr. Wickersham—You never did.”
Referring to Wickersham’s refer
ences to the Democratic “machine,”
Grigsby said:
“We have maintained an organiza
tion which our opponents are pleased
to call a ‘machine.’ Of course, we
have not been in office long and it
has not, in fact, attained the perfec
tion and dignity of a well-organized,
smooth-running machine yet; but we
are improving it all the time, and
we hope to acquire perfection before
long. The only thing that tends to
..clog the operations and running gear
of this machine is Mr. Wickersham.”
“Mr. Wickersham—Thank you.
“Mr. Grigsby—And, as he said yes
terday, every one of us hates him
like ‘p’isen’ politically.
“Mr. Wickersham—That is a fact
that I am proud of.
“Mr. Grigsby—And we are going to
eliminate him from Alaska politics if
we possibly can, and we will do
everythng legitimate to that end that
we can do.”
Wickersham had used the word
“carpetbagger” in his statement, and
Grigsby says:
“The word ‘carbetbagger’ was used
here yesterday. I want to tell you
something about that.Now,
in 1900, the judge himself packed up
his carpetbag, and with a federal com
mission in his pocket, went up to
Nome as a United States judge. He
was a carpetbagger.”
And Grigsby, with frankness which
is typical of him, admitted that he
himself went to Nome in 1902 with a
carpetbag and was sworn in as United
States district attorney.
Judging from the advance sheets
of this most interesting drama, there
is in store for Alaskans a treat in the
way of spicy reading that will tend
to enliven many an hour during the
coming long winter evenings.
NEVER AGAIN
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To understand the French demand
that any peace settlement must se
cure France against any future in
vasion by Germany, one must recog
nize certain historical facts, says an
exchange, and continues:
“One hundred years before Christ
300,000 Germans first invaded France.
At Aixen-Provence they were stopped
and defeated. They sued for peace
and swore they would never do it
again. Sixty years afterward 240,000
Germans invaded the Jura districts
of France. Six years later 400,000
Germans invaded the territory be
tween the Meuse and the Oise. They
were beaten. They swore they
would never do it again.
“Sixty years before Christ the Ger
mans invaded the left bank of the
Rhine. Two hundred and thirty
years after Christ the Germans in
vaded France. They were beaten.
They swore they would never do it
again. Twenty years later another
invasion, another defeat, another sol
emn pledge “never again.” In 274
A. D. the Rhine basin was invaded
by the Germans; in 275 Northeastern
France. In 301 Langres was pillaged.
The invaders were beaten and they
swore “never again.” In 351 they re
conquered the left bank of the Rhine.
In 354 they devasted Lyons, in 360
Besancon. In 364 they invaded and
plundered Belgium.
“Here is the chronology of the sub
sequent invasions: 372, 382, 400, 410,
413, 800, 858, 978, 1124, 1214, 1513,
1521, 1523, 1536, 1544, 1552, 1553, 1567,
1569, 1576, 1587, 1636, 1674, 1675, 1707,
1708, 1744, 1792, 1793, 1814, 1815, 1870,
1914. Thirty-three invasions in a
little over fifteen hundred years, an
average of one invasion every fifteen
years.
“Whenever they were sucessful,
the Germans celebrated with un
speakable atrocities. Whenever they
were beaten they swore they would
never do it again.
“Le Matin, which prints the above
statistics, recalls that three days be
fore the outbreak of the world war
Herr Haase, the German Socialist
leader, solemnly declared at Brussels
that the German proletariat would
oppose war to the utmost. Three
days later Herr Haase voted for the
war budget.
“Four and a half years ago the Ger
mans again invaded France. Again
they were beaten. And now they
swear they will never do it again.”
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