The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-24
Congress Adjourns Long Session At Last
: THE DISPATCH AND .
 . ITS CHARGES. [


 !. In the first place, none knows s better than those who make . the Dispatch know that The : s Empire is not an Organ" for s the Juneau Democratic Club ( !. or any other organization, com ( . bination, clique, persons or ; person. When the Dispatch . . this morning referred to the . . Empire as ring organ" and . . as the "organ of tho Juneau : . Democratic Club" those who . . make that paper know that . . they printed things that were : . not true. . The position of The Empire . on no question has been ln- . fluenced by cash or the hope . of cash or patronage or the . hope of patronage, and the : . Dispatch knows that, too. . And yet, further, the Juneau [ . Democratic Club had nothing [ . to do with the nomination of ! . the Democratic Legislative : . ticket beyond the selection of . . the Juneau delegates to tho : convention, and the Juneau [ delegation was about equally . . divided as to the advisability [ of placing a Legislative tick " . ct in the field at all. 2. R. " . Cheney, the Democratic Nation " . al committeeman. a leading . and influential citizen of Ju- : neau, and deservedly so, as I we'll as a prominent member of z the Juneau Democratic Club and head of the party organiza- I tion in Alaska, lead the opposi- . ton to the nomination of a I . ticket. The vote on the prop osition in the convention was ! . close. The Dispatch knows this. The Dispatch knows that the | Federal Officials ot-Alaska do { . not constitute political ! ring" and it knows that there !.
 was difference of opinion among .: them, as individuals, to the ! advisability of the nomination q of a party legislative ticket. z If it has the information that . ordinary newsgatherers should . have, it knows that they did not interfere in anyway with . the convention. The Dispatch knows, its statement to the contrary not . withstanding, that Senator Tan q ner, c. NJ. McGrath and D. ! Noll did not constitute half of the out of town delegates to . the Democratic Divisional con- vention who were here in per son. It knows that practically a full delegation from Douglas was here, that E. A. Acheson, . of Skagway, J. D. McGraw of . Sitka and others were pres . ent It knows that all but a . . few of the possible 50 votes . were present in person or by .. proxy, and that majority of . the proxies were cast against | . the action taken. , The Dispatch knows that . Charles A. Sulzer would have . been the nominee of the con . vention for Senator if his tele- . gram saying that he would ac- !. cept the nomination had been . received sooner, and that 1t . would not then have been nec- E essary to send Mir. Cheek to . Sulzer. !. The Dispatch knows and t the Non-Partisan Campaign . committee members know that F when they undertook to make :. a campaign on the basis of s keeping Alaska out of the :. hands of political bosses" and . when they pretend to represent . the collective might" of the . people in a fight against "boss 1, rule," the secret caucus" and !. "hand picked" delegates that !. they were dealing in fiction, <. They know that all this talk * about a "Tammany, corpora l. tion controlled" Democratic < party in Alaska is unadulatera- !. ted fabrication. They know j. that it was manufactured out < of whole cloth by Frame for < political purposes.
 |. They know that the Demo- :. cratic conventions at Skagway < and Juneau were deliberative |. assemblages of men acting [. in representative capacities;
 :. that each convention was in .. session several days, and that 1. each considered carefully and :. deliberately the matters that :. came before 1t.
 [. They know that the Wicker :: sham and Non-Partisan cam :. paign managers have dollars :. where the Democratic cam
 < paign committees have cents < for campaign purposes. They
 < know that there is not a single .. interest" in the Territory
 !. contributing one dollar toward
 {. Democratic success.