The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-19
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 sanrdav night Delegate Wickersham addressed an audience of some two hundred people ten or fifteen of whom were awomen Just oy way os drawing his audiences attention to himself ne started-poltical syleto flatter our vanity oy s'af ing how much we had progressed-not "i'n HIS "e'p we are glad to say-0nd all that bull con. buI 1S a always has been with the Delegate he never goes De fore an audience unless t is to abuse some one' ana Saturday night no exception
 From his spread of bull con, he proceeded to glve an evan,ple of the great I AM," and reluctantly verv much so proceeded to explain why ne never helped us in saving the halibut traiuc TOT 'hs .o"s instead of letting it go to Prince Rupert He ueeaISu that he had been told that another man was 10 anug the bill for us. and ended his subject Oy & SS9s, DE WAS NOT OFFENDED, BECAUSE 9 DID & N0i ,II Gf1NG II 1 TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WIlh THE Dl1Li and be added "it was defeated" Just as much as to say. "I TOLD YOU SO' Perhaps by ths slate
 ent he had an idea that he would fool his audience and while he may have fooled some. he failed ms eraby 10 fool all in that he failed to mention the answer he gave our representative who was sent to Juneau during the last session or eae LJ,'VIo' % ni islature and for the very purpose or asNns tue " gates assistance in that natter None oI us snal ever forget the answer he gave MT strong. HIS alt swer was Not in forty years Will help you h 'lat natter Wick failed to mention the other slde or lle story But that's him every time He IS great TOT telling only one side of story
 From that he went with a made-forthe-occasion tone of vonce and said that he had discovered das- tardIy crime in that the people of Alaska were 10 pc exterminate1 by rayenous corporation go4Uers WIG had what Is known as the Alexander bli 'lreaTS fremed up that allowed to be enacted into law would ruin us completely More bull con followed such as how the dear people were being robbed by the toolS of internal corporations; and all that; and he added the bill was merely repetition Of former oilis when he had defeated only phrazed different and winded m by saving in ponderous manner "I FOUGHT SIMILAR BILLS FOR EIGHT YEARS AND DEFEAT ED THEM ALL: AND I'LL DEFEAT THIS ONE TOO" And mind you, he never mentioned that he had been paid nearly nftyeght thousand dollars dur ing those eight years for that very purpose Not oh- ly that, but he never mentioned either that aurns those eight years while the people were WorhinB lo pay him his salary he has never found time enough to frame up a bill that would cure the hell that he saw in the others He was too doggone busy looking after Jim. the great 'I AMI
 Leaving the infamous Alexander bill. he proceed ed to abuse Shackeford Irving, Faulkner Murane and others who he said wanted to do the bossing in Alaska. to which he is much opposed Tor the good reason that he wants to do t himself He has tried to boss for fifteen years. He naturally hates hKe sixty to quit. Moving along m his usual ura0e or abuses. he finally landed on the newspapers whlch he said had sold out for three hundred dollars And he repeated, For three hundred dollars; just man in the audience who had sold out in this cam paign That's Wickersham every time He always IS ready to accuse others. He is so damabe deceittul himself that is every ready to believe everybody else is if he had reference to the Progressive Miner. all say is that he is liar and as such is defamer Of character And we snail go IurtneI we have word of at least two newspaper publish CTS in Alaska to whom the Delegate paid them money four years for their support It IS proper TOT a newspaper to accept money from the Delegate, but is all wrong when it comes from the other fellow. This is typical of Wick.
 We have always tried to be fair with the Dele gate We have always given him credit when in )ur opinion we thought credit due him. but our op- position to his coming election dates back from the time he said Not in forty years will l help you in this natter If the Delegate thought that he could throw dirt and would stand that he might rub it i'm he was mistaken We could say a great deal about the Delegate that would not be to his credit either. However and so far as we are personally concerned feel that have answered his charge. if the charge was intended for In conclusion, 1t would probably be well for the Delegate to remember Lincon's old saying which applied here would read thus; The Delegate may have fooled all the Aaskans sometime; and he may be able to fool some all the time, but he cannot fool all, all the time