The Chitina leader., 1912-03-30
Truth Comes Out at Last|

H 'ees acs gwen Ill our local news columns months ago. put that IL should have such wdespread circulation in the East not only surprising but very nasng that at last the fruits of abors are at hand the realizing that the Guggenem bugaboo has been played to the limit and must 90 into oblivion while Alaska IS developed and built up will put ouetus the writings es ana mouhngs of the Pnchot press bureau writers once ana oreVer ana no more can Latrp Pnchot get her stuff accepted by any honest journal Golfers Weekly has crawed into Its hole Hamptons suffering ssouton the Pacific Mony Is out of business Lese giving thousands of read CT the truth about Alaska and situation and the Outlook backing water right along and reversing itself at every turn Now the truth is out about the coators have reason to feel elated.
 The following from the Sioux City Journal of Jan 2s 9l2 but other clippings received show that has appeared in many of the prominent newspapers of the East:
 Seattle, Wash, Jan 27The Controller Bay conspiracy which charged that President Taft permitted the Guggenhems to grab valuable tide lands and terminal sites on Controller Bay in Alaska after having been influenced to do by his brother Charles P Taft wbo it alleged behind Dick Ryan, the promoter claimant exposed all its rottenness here today by Barney Goss former secretary delegate from Alaska James Wckersham, and the attempt to besmrch the President attributed directly Clifford Pnchot Jim Wicker sham and John E athrop mead of the nchot press bureau and the man who first published the now famous ck to Dick letter fake
 Goss has quit Wickersham's service returned the Pa cc coast and engaged again newspaper work lie not at all bitter against his former employer but owing to the fact that he made affidavit setting forth how the Controller Bay conspiracy plotted and perpeated upon the people of the United States which affidavit he declares Chairman Graham of the Controller Bay investigation committee has fit to suppress its entirety Goss thinks only just fair and that he should give out what he forth the affidavit that by him before he left Washington D. G. to return to Pacific coast.
 Ut report made by Jim Wickersham of a versaon had with Dick Ryan that served the nucleus of the Controller Bay plot declared Goss I have known Ryan the promoter for several years meeting him first in Alaska where put in several years and until some few months had to believe that he and Wckersham the # friendiest of terms.
 II was walking down Pennsylvania avenue in Washing .on some Bay began figure the first page headlines of newspapers throughout 'he country when Ryan walked up and slapped aml :ary he back inquired why my boss Jim Wickersham, fighting him his attempts to gain control of Controller Bay tide land and terminal sites Barney why your boss Jim Wckersham, fighting me about Controller Bay?' By ans first remark.
 ''I told Ryan did not know that Wickersham was fight ing him. he what his therefor and he next nqured Why don't Jim know have Charley Taft back of me in this matter?'
 Alaskan knew that these claims for the purposes lined by Ryan, practically useless probably used in stock jobbng deal far could learn, for never would any Alaskan credit Ryan with being accredited special other kind of agent for the Guggenheims any other interests his record in Alaska we'll known
 That was all that passed between us about Controller Bay and hurried chief Delegate Wckersham report to him what Ryan had said Mr. Wckersham immediately call ed Mr. Lathrop into conference and within few days the troer Bay grab by the Guggenhems, through alleged agent namely Dick Ryan, began be exploited great length in newspapers throughout the country President Taft ar his brother being aders and abeors in chief to the attempt to bottle what alleged be the best nral harbor in Alaska That the start of the Controller Bay conspiracy heard of or mentioned until ported Ryan's statements Mr. Wckersham The
 
 exploded through Secretary Fishers trip up Alaska when great storm its always placid waters that the entire party in grave danger of death
 ''I am convinced that Ryan only throwing a monu mental bluff in his remarks to because he first last and all times promoter who in his Alaskan transactions traded upon the guby of threefourths of the people who would believe his denial of nsnuation that Gugeen helm agent and because of this he would be able sell stock his scheme he able to obtain possession of lands sought
 The first dispatches about the plans of the special inter grab Controller Bay quickly followed by the pub caton of the fake Dick to Dick letter do not know who faked it, planned thought it out but do know that the letter the papabe kind of fake and the Graham vestgating committee evidently realized that because per sseny refused hear Ashmun Brown former secretary anger though he waited around in Washington patiently for weeks to be heard
 he scandal that developed subsequent my report Wckersham of what Ryan had told me the proportions for the conpraors sought by every to discred Attorney General Wickersam into the bargain not the slightest expectation that ever will be called back to Washington testify because my testimony would burst Controller Bay conspiracy bubble quickly than