Valdez daily prospector., 1912-08-08
AN EXPENSIVE PEACE TO US.

Webster gives as definition for the word partnership an as sociation of two or more persons in business for material profit. MT. Wickersham and Mr.. Rodcn have been law partners for many months past. We have a right to presume that MT. WickerSham rcaps his share or tho profits of his firm, to which he is certainly entitled. It is also principle of law that one partner is bound by the acts of the other, and, gen. orally speaking, one partner will not act in important matters without consulting the other.
 or course Mr. Rodcn is familiar with the public life and policias of Mr. Wirkcrsham and was well aware of the delegates prctcndcd anlaGoniSm iu the GuggrnhcimS . and must have realized that in becoming their agent for the in lrrinr of Alaska. he was placing the firm in a very delicate position if Mr. Wickrrsham's opposition to his present clients was real. Upon the other hand it is but fair to assume that the officers of the Yukon Gold company arc not fools and would not entrust their busi- ness to the hands of their enc mics.
 Taking it into consideration that last summer, while on the coast, Delegate Wickersham, at Chitina, COrdova and in Valdez, in his public addresses, said that the time had arrived for peace and that he was willing for peace and would work for constructive Legislation. His uttrrancrs were of such a pacific nature as to call for comment from the CnrdOva Alaskan. We are now beginning to learn at our own cost that a treaty of pcac" had been enter cd into With the GugGenhcims without Valdez being party 10 inc contract OF even being con Sjdrrrd in the matter.
 One of inc terms of this re- markablc contract was that our. delegate should work for the passage of q bill apprnpriating Sl00,000 for a public building in c"rd"va. Mr. Wickcrsham, who had served as judge in this dis iricl, knew that all the business or this division was easily, cOm- f"riably and cXpcdiiiOuSly carried on in our present federal build ing, which cost the government only Onr-irnih of the amount which he seeks iO have apprOpri- airh for the "IOca" building in our Si$l"r town. IIc must also be aware that tn" Department of Ju$tir", in making tentative plans for tn" structure upon which to- base the amount of Inc appropria- iinn needed, figured upon placing all inc government officers sia- lI"n"d in this division in this now structure. Then, the terms of peace made by Mr.. Wickrrsham. included the abandonment of Val dez, by the federal government, through the connivancc of our delegate, who, true to the nature for which he is SO well known, was ready tO sacrifice the com munity which has in the past stood SO Loyalty by him, to make peace and incidentally to gain the friendship of rival town and an element which has always fought him and his aspirations to the last ditch.
 Valdez is now confronted with the proposition of re-elcctine Judge Wickersham and aiding him in the up-building of Cor dova, at our expense, or of casting it's vote for some candidate who will give this community q fair chance in n fair field.
 This election is not a parfizan one, but, upon the contrary, for the citizens of Valdez the only is- sue Is whether we arc going Co Kill this town by the aid of our own votes or whether we are go- ing to the polls determined to vote Tor our own best interests. Thee iH where the bread and butter end the home element comes in on the vote we cast.