THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1920
A GLORIOUS VICTORY
In the election of our townsman.
George C. Hazelet, at the primaries
as a delegate to the Republican na
tional convention at Chicago, the
voters of Alaska not only honored one
of our pioneer and representative citi
zens, but at the same time placed its
stamp of disapproval on the mali
ciously false and scurrilous attacks
made upon the character of a man
of the highest integrity, who enjoys
the confidence and respect of all who
know him.
The magnificent vote that Mr. Haze
let received in his own home town
is unparalleled' in the history of any
campaign ever conducted in Alaska
or elsewhere, where similar tactics
were resorted to in order to detract
from a candidate’s popularity. Usu
ally there is some factional sentiment
that can be fanned into a flame by
the despicable tactics resorted to by
Charley Herron through the columns
of the papers he controls at Juneau
and Anchorage. But such was not
the case at the primary election, and
the magnificent vote given Mr. Haze
let by his friends and neighbors, where
he is known for his true worth, is a
testimonial any man might be justly
proud of, and for which he is truly
The generous support accorded Mr.
Hazelet was not confined to Cordova
and this section, but extended through
out the territory. Fairbanks and
Ketchikan are deserving of a place at
the head of the honor roll for the
splendid vote they gave our towns
man, notwithstanding the fact that he
was unable to visit those sections and
meet the voters personally. But his
campaign was in able hands, and re
sults followed which will forever
cement a political friendship between
Cordova, Ketchikan and Fairbanks.
The entire fire of the enemy was
directed against Mr. Hazelet’s candi
didaey. The Seattle bunch of former
Alaskans prepared a slate whereby
these grafters in fee simple hoped to
control the federal patronage of the
territory by electing Herron as na
tional committeeman and sending
Valentine to the Republican national
convention. Wickersham, who has
gubernatorial aspirations, telegraphed
from Washington his indorsement of
the play to the Alaska newspapers,
adding: “Beat Hazelet at all hazards.”
Herron’s papers took up the slogan
of the master mind, but overreached
themselves in their zeal to injure Mr.
Hazelet, by publishing maliciously
false and defamatory statements. As
a result Herron has been arrested and
must stand trial on the charges of
both civil and criminal libel.
The old Guggenheim bugaboo was
also injected into the fight; poor, de
luded Anchorageites swallowed hook,
bait and string in the yarns spun out
bv the Herron press that if Hazelet
was elected the Matanuska coal field
would be closed down and the Bering
river fields developed exclusively; An
chorage real estate would drop to
about three cents on the dollar, and
the town present the deserted appear
ance of Skagway. Even Valdez al
lowed itself to believe that all further
appropriations for the government
trail would be cut off so far as the
Glacier city was concerned. Juneau
was played against Cordova, with all
the strength the Wickersham-Valen
tine machine could command.
In the face of all of this opposition,
what a grand victory George C. Haze
let achieved by his triumph over all
of the obstacles thrown in his way to
be one of the delegates to the Repub
lican national convention, which will
nominate the next President of the
United States. We congratulate him
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upon his success, the Voters who stood
so loyally by him, ?.nd for the further
fact of having for,all time eliminated
from Alaska politics the Seattle
hangers-on, Wickersham, Herron, Val
entine and all of their ilk.
PERMIT ALASKA TO DEVELOP
The Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and Commer
cial Club respectfully memorializes
congress to provide for the rational
development of Alaska in the enact
ment of a strong constructive policy
that will encourage settlement, pro
mote the economic utilization of its
rich natural resources, in the estab
lishment of local industries, and as
sure the efficient administration of
such policy by the creation of a fed
eral board, resident in Alaska, as pro
vided in S. 4113 and H. R. 12870. And
in support of such request the bureau
points out:
That Alaska during the last decade
has actually lost in population, and
while the export of natural products
has steadily increased, now approxi
mating in value between $70,000,000
and $90,000,000 annually, such condi
tions are fundamentally and econom
ically wrong.
Should such a state of affairs con
tinue, it will result in a country de
populated, and in the loss of revenue
from its natural wealth which was
placed there for one purpose only—
the support of men and women to
whom Alaska shall be “home.”
' Countries lying in the same latitude,
with like physical and climatic con
ditions support nations of prosperous
and contented people numbered by
millions.
Physical and climatic conditions
give assurance of the people of Alaska
becoming a strong, hardy race, indom
itable in energy, will and determina
tion. Such a people must inevitably
make Alaska a source of inestimable
national strength. A continuation of
existing conditions must inevitably re
sult in Alaska becoming a national
weakness.
Natural wealth, seemingly inexhaust
ible, precludes the possibility of fail
ure under a constructive industrial and
colonization policy efficiently admin
istered. One of the world’s greatest
storehouses of natural wealth, situated
in a country designed to support a
large population of homeseekers,
awaits the consummation of such a
measure.
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