The Ketchikan miner., 1908-08-01

GOiultNuN VIII uatC aNdiiabt0 a iOfStOh of the supply needed for this valuable article. The forestry department has just completed it's spring planting for this year. handling 65o, 900 trees. Since it undertook tree planting, the Pennsylvania railroad has set out ,, 425, 900 trees. The cheap labor and skillful forestry of Europe have mad economical the importation of 209.oe seedlings this year. These have been set out at Morrisville, Pennsylvania, in the new forest nursery established this year near Trenton, and will be later transplantedlto Ito their permanen, sites. Twenty-Five bushels ot acorns and nuts, 370 pounds of other hare wood seeds and 75 pounds of confer seeds have been sown this year by the company, and previously 30, 900 seedr lings were permanently planted.
 The complements of The Miner to the Skagway Alaskan, with the assur- ance that there is no confusion in the mind of The Miner editor other than such as may have been created by the tergiversations of the Alaskan itself in regard to the position it has assum- ed in connection with the delegate election. The Miner being non- partisan newspaper, suggestions in connection with the coming election from party standpoint may justly be considered more or less presump- tuous; but it may be permitted to say that it finds DO more difficulty in re- conciling the position assumed by the Juneau Record, to the eternal fitness of things, than it does that of the Alaskan, both, if we may believe their own professions, are party or
 gans of the republican faith, both oi whom took active part in directing. O.. in an effort to direct the policy of that party at it's recent several terri torial conventions. Now, we have one of those papers giving perfunctory support to the platform adopted by the
 convention of which it's own faction secured control, and the delegate
 nominated by it. both the platform
 and delegate being pledged to home rule, though made and nominated by the faction opposed thereto, while on the other hand the Alaskan, though
 in favor of territorial form of gov ernment, repudiates both platform and candidate on the sole plea Of
 hatred for the one to whom it ascribes the making of both the platform and the candidate. Looked at from pure ly partisan standpoint, the palm for
 party loyalty must necessarily be given to the Record. as against the Alaskan. To disinterested outsiders it will have the appearance of a will ingness on the part of the supporters of Mir. Corson to waive consideration
 of a question of grave importance to them for the sake of securing party harmony and success in the coming election on the other hand. the Alas kan, from the same point of view. is not left leg upon which to stand. The Alaskan is, and has long been re- 2 arded, as an earnest advocate of ter
 ritorial government for Alaska, and [ from that point of view is not nearly so much justified in repudiating a platform and candidate pledged to that proposed measure, simply because of the hatred of those who adopted the one and nominated the other, as l would be the Record if impelled to similar action, because neither the platform nor the candidate have been to his liking. The Alaskan ooes not stand alone in its distrust of the sin cerisy and honesty of candidate Cor son. nor yet of those who nominated him and placed him on the platform
 which be advocates before the people, nor yet in doubting the truth of it's assertion that either the candidate or his sponsors are intent of securing his election on false pretenses. Now,
 what The Miner cannot approve of in the Alaskan is the half way measure
 it seems to have resolved upon as means for remedying the wholly con- tradictory situation of which it so justly complains. Can it hope to effect that object by throwing it's aid apd- influence to candidate whose record on the question of territorial govern ment is just as open to suspicion, ii not more so, than the professions of the party candidate whom it repudi- ates because of his supporters? It be- hooyes the Alaskan to consider well the confusion Tn which it appears to
 have become engulfed. and reflect if there be not better and surer way of attaining the purpose for which it
 professes such an earnest desire?
 OPEN TO QUESTION.
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