The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-30
SlanderouS Reports and Subterranean TriCkeTy CharaCterizeS Anti
 SuIzer Campaign
CHARGES ARE REFUTED
'WiCk" Affidavit Now Con- tradicted by Those
 Who Know Facts.

A campaign of yiHfication against Senator Charles A. Sulzer through subterranean channels is being car ried on in the interests of the re- election of Delegate Wickersham. Sianderous affidavits are being sec retly circulated. and unsigned ltera- ture that would not be printed in the daily press or uttered from the stump.
 This campiagn has been started at the eleventh hour and in man ner that is designed to cover the tracks of those responsible for it and SO secretly that there will be no chance to get denials of the false charges and assertions before the voters before election.
 In spite of this eleventh hour pro- cedure. everything indicates that it was planned long ago, and that the beginning of the campaign was de- layed in the interest of deception.
 The charges that have been dis covered to date include the circu- lation Of a slanderous and libelous affidavit by a man named Carlson sometimes called Long shorty" iu- volying the operation of Senator Sul- gers mine at Sulzer. the circula- ton Of a yellow piece Of literature containing charges that Senator Sul- ger is a weakling, that he was eX- pelled from West Point and Annapol- is because of lack Of ability; that he is trying to secure two offices at one time: that he has never made good any place, and lot more of such trash.
 The Carlson Affidavit
 The Carlson or Long Shorty" af. ndiyit is reputed to say that Sul- gers camp is bum" that it is lousy" that the bunk house is mo good" that the food is not good, and a lot more such stuff.
 A telegram says that Carlson is now at Valdez circulating this affi- dayit. and making the charges there in contained to laboring people. 1t is said that Carlson's expenses are being paid by the Wickersham cam paign forces.
 Carlson Denied
 4 telegram from Valdez also says that the affidavit has been stamped as absolutely false in every detail by a telegram received by the Val dez Union of the Western Federation of Miners from the Secretary of the Sulzer local of the same organiza- ton.
 It is further denied by the follow ing affidavit:
 AFFIDAVIT OF F. L. AHLsTRoM
 F. L. Ahlstrom, being first duly sworn on cath, deposes and says: That he was the Secretary of the Douqlas Miners Union of the Vest ern Federation of Miners; | have been shown a telegram stating that an affidavit had been made by a man named Carlson, (or commonly known as Long Shorty reported to have been obtained by Emery Val entine, condemning the Sulzer camp, which said affidavit is being eircu- lated throughout Alaska; | have al- co read said affidavit, and in an swer would state that the same is in no particular true, but is a de- liberate and malicious falsehood; All the information received by me as ! Secretary of the Douglas Miners Union Of the Western Federation Of Miners. from miners who worked for Mr. sulzer, has been to the ef- feet that the sulzer camp Is and always has been the best regulated camp for miners in Alaska; Mir. Sul' ger has employed Union labor and worked his men for eight hours pc day, and he is not employing Jap anese labor. and this Is the general reputation of the sulzer camp among the miners. would further state that this man Carlson is a man that never works ary place any partieu lar length of time and has the repu tation Of being drinking man, anc evidently was not responsible wher he made such an affidavit, as the same is not true.
 F. L. AHLSTRoM.
 Subscribed and sworn to befor, me this 27th day Of October 1916
 w. A. HoLZH ELMER,
 Notary public in and for Alaska