The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-11
WICK" FLOODS THE
 TERRITORY WlTH ills
 BIG SILENT "SPEECH''
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 reau. and because the Fisheries Bu. reau is ia favor of limiting the pow. CT to tax the fisheries to the Fed eral government, the Delegate as. serts that the opposition to the ere ation of a full Territorial form oi government comes from President Wilson and his administration"
 Written in Secret
 Remember this charge that the ad- minisradon opposes full Territorial form of government was not made on the floor of the House of Rep resentatiyes whose members could resent it or present the record of the Delegate from Alaska. in Congress and on the Alaska stump, to show whence the opposition. It was not said in the presence of a Represent tative in Congress so that the words cf the President and the Democratic National platform in favor of a full Territorial form Of government could be presented. It was not said in a manner that would permit anyone to refer to Wickersham's 7th of Ap- rail. 1915, speech. in which he took the ground that we already have a full Territorial form Of government. but if we had it the cost would be so great that it would ruin the Ter ritory. It was written secretly be- hind the doors Of his office, and smuggled into the Congressional Rec ord.
 Another point gained by the fail ure of the Delegate Co make his speech" where 1t would be heard by anyone was that 1t gave him a chance to attack the Beyeridse bill. and permitted no nearer to ask him to compare the Beverldge commis- sion bin with the Wickersham com mission bin that the present Dele gate had the former Delegate, Tom Gale, introduce in Congress.
 Another Reason for Wiekersham
 Silence
 Another good reason for the silence of Delegate Wickersham - another reason why his arguments in favor of seIf-government should remain ut tered in Washington and used solely for political purposes in Alaska - may have been the fact that IF HIS ARGUMENTS HAD BEEN HEARD IN WASHINGTON THEY MIGHT HAVE AIDED THE CAUSE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR AL ASKA. AND THAT IS JUST WHAT DELEGATE WICKERSHAM DID NOT WANT TO DO. He wanted a campaign document that could be used to hoodwink the voters of Al aska. but nothing that would contri- bute anything toward securing self government for Alaskans BECAUSE THE DELEGATE IS OPPOSED TO SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR ALAS KA.
 Record Against sef-eovernment
 That this was one of the princi- pal reasons in the mind of Delegate Wickeraham for maintaining silence at Washington and writing his Speech" in secret behind closed doors for circulation solely in Alas ka is borne out by the long Alaska and Washington record of the Dele gate in opposition to selrgovernment for Alaska. a record beginning when he was Judge. by sufferance of President Roosevelt. seeking corpor- alton aid to secure a confirmation of his appointment by the United States Senate. continuing through the years that followed. including the time when he wrote the Hoggatt letter and the Gale commission bill, including the time he wrote a Ter ritorial government bin which pro- vided that no act of the Territorial Legislature should be valid until it first had received the approval Of Congress. including the years that nearly every speech he made con-