The Nome daily nugget., 1908-08-10
REASONS WAY.

THe campaign for tho election aI Aa=ka- delegate ts congress. eIa-.ua tonight has demonstrated ae.aud las doubt that the voters ar- uuufuou- in the dezIr. and determination a Urezt from a reluctant national i.e- tsI1furr tho ,HHEessfaH ut aHJl HaHr to q Jacale ereefed #st-H#Ha. and Joe cH administration ta ae-Haeafs faea= ly chosen or apHaiutad
 Every candidate ia the Grid adya- eataz and FfumI-as f6Is much Egm thr "Hderrude8t candidate whose record and affiliations zhuU him fa be utterly oat ef sympathy u4fH the home rule movement. aae Hrgn compelled te pretend ihat he nyar= Il. and f4g re- puhIieYr platform. aszatIea bg tH4t same gentleman as meaning sometH ing else. has been taiuHTSauue shown ta have meant locally eieSed legislative home rule with eyeHFaaN statehood and te have formulated this demand M q phrase copied verbatim from an ,ar- Her platform framed by that gentle mans own following
 la t#is situation the Nugget presents anew the reasons wHg the Ham5hrr of the republican party should h, chosen as the spokesman oi Alaska's demand for home rule: rca- sons which must appeal te every vo,el who desires home rule. whatever hu usual political affiliations. ar his siek upon other questions
 Fifst. John ". Cefzou i= the aeusl nee pf the party iutrsuched iu bow ,r the nominee chosen and certified bt that partys accredited couvcutfah. convention which has received he f. nal seal af regularity by the seating q its delegates in the national eonycH ton. These facts place Mr. Garson il fuH line and close touch wita fine re publican party organizatian.- which i to say. under the plain outlook for th. November election, withs the incomu. president and the SiNsy first congress
 Secondly, it is Lfot too much to assert that NIT. CaD.son. hitherto known to th, voter. eA Alaska only as am udigidua f.aid not as political orator. has Tee yealed in his campaign address mas tery of the great question so close tt our hearts. an earnestness impossibI. of counterfeit, political aeumen aut a clearness and force in debate whicf stamp him as in the highest degre, qualified and equipped to force home upon both indifference and hostility our commonweulths demand for au- t"neRy te convince hy logic and per suade by eloquehcc, and ta triumph he sheer force of combined personality and cause In this matter of capacits and equipment for the work Mir. Cor son stands easily first "and here is no second"
 Thirdly not only has the "mdepend eut. Mr. Wickersham been self-cou- yieted of iusinerrity, dupHcity. and in- herent hostility to grant of popular legislative power Go Alaska. not only has the able exposure of his judicial record by MT Roman shown him ta Lave already abused high station and therefore 10 be unworthy of trust in the place for which he offers himself but, further, il is known to ali that his faNf fv.rgatfs.ft- tat.a 7r..,..t upon him the implaeahle hostility of senators and others If great influence at Washington. and have withdrawn from his urpart, after careful inyeg- tigation of his record. some of the pub- lie men standing closest ta the present and the coming national administra- ton. and thus compelled his tarly res ignatlon as a judge In short he has become and will remain. eInphaticallg persona non grata ;o the federal ad- ministration To send Alr Wicker sham to congress would be to seal the fate of the home rule cause. not only during his term, hut afterwards until the bad taste in the mouth" had ex- haled
 Fourthly. while the special mine workers interest has presented in MT. ChIlberg a candidate of good personal record and decent capabilities. his sup porters are not short sighted. They see plainly that the reforms for which fbat- 14T.ar ara r.f..,r,,.. ,.,. s,-1 1,- -...-.l the scope of federal legislation. and wholly impossible to obtain by fed eral legislatioR: reforms to be effected only by local legislation. They see that only a home rule triumph could bring within their reach the triumph