The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-29
wIcKERsHAM FICTION
lvnldez NIlnerl

.-,,s,,o 'SlTJ@ SorE of fiction which Delegate yvicLersham has issued as a campaBu .s4 ,bo attacks Col Richardson on tne ou The fas S4 S ,bis has been exposed often that hooou! believes it except the gudgeons who s"aSm a br,ef thing Wcersaam noS says n yesterdays S0s Prospecor
 The Delegate considers that the statute or ] nlllss .,. hoe rrn on the letter he wrote to Gov HOsgave in January. 1907 approying thg ne oOnnai report of December. 1906. Judge WickershamL, wa, tatod fin a iudge of the District Court or AlasNa- ,obt that letter his opinion that Gov Hoggat. "S @ LinI in saving that Alaska unprepared TOT any @ RIl.o os TsrTiorial government He and Hoggau were Ut t sioH5
 tue" fs months later Hoggatt started fight on victershau because the judge made declsion 9I Inneau which dspleased the Governors irlenu' Lou Shackleford Wckersham was finally i%olceu % Vus oS,, he udgship and in 1908 was elected DeieeeSe' M & because Hoggatt and Shackleford had opposeu @ nln'
 After Judge Wckersham was electeu ent SO UU,s' be he started a campaign for Territorial government, & @ ginninr with fight on the Beveridge comulsson bu Tn this fight he supported by nearE e'eaS & bodv except the Hoggatt squad and a lew Otner CUT
 Col Richardson had always favored rerrtotiaI 1.a5 government. When the Beyeridge oiI was p1yI pVytsr on the legislative horizon he told Delegate wicker sham that ought not to pass. He and the DeesS,e had for many years been warm trlenus. tne oIn ST. onel was, therefore greatly amazed wnen i.,d % ion5 gate in attacking the Commission olA emilteu ioue souawk against himself. charging that he was ISVor ing the bill He the Delegate few days iatep % and in a heated discussion told Wickershau llaI @ latter had knowingly made false charges agahst ulin and tried put him in false position AS sS SOSn oe be could get in communication with Alaska tren0s Col Richardson informed them of the facts statng his constant hostility to the Commission protect NU Richardson's word is good to all who know nm. ne ne has his faults. but he was never accuSeu O' ""' truthful of being liar - .,,
 I'm 1912 Delegate Wickersham filtered through Congress bill for Territorial asSemoy III in aIs" t by emascuating h of every legislative power antag- onized by corporate political influence m JuStice to him n must be conceded that no general Ierrtor' ial bill could have been enacted then or 5ince Ne.- he Delegate has continuously pdraQeu HIS stuffed doll in the public way a5 a thing or Oeduty'
 Mothers love is blind. It may be that Wicher, Hsr sham deceves himself into the belief that ms rag baby is a real live infant Nevertheless as iswyer of superior ability and atainments he certainly knows that it's swaddling garments have been hog-ued lt contains clause of 500 words limiting the Legislative powers of the Territorial assembly. -
 Yet the Delegate reiterates that Alaska IS gwen full Territorial government by this bill It IS scarce ly possible that Judge Wickersham does not know that the Revised Statutes the United States among provisions common to all TerritorleSreal AerrleOle9 contain the following:
 Sec 1851 The Legislative power of every
 Territory shall extend all rightful subjects or
 legislation not inconsistent with the Constitu-
 ton and laws of the United States. But no
 law shall be passed interfering with the prl-
 mary disposal of the soi no tax shall be im-
 posed upon the property or the uhLeu states
 shall the lands of other property or non
 residents be taxed higher than the lands or
 other property of residents.
 That's all Section of Wickershams Alaska bill starts with the identical words just quoted But it goes on with $50 words of additional prohibitions against legislative subjects.
 But why argue further The sections mentioned dispose of argument. Wckersham doatOrs who be- eve that all knowledge proceeds from the Delegate will continue to absorb every assertion he makes. Intelligent persons will continue to think for them selves
 But why should the Delegate devote so much of his time and acknowledged ability to malicious at tacks upon men whose public and private records display much less of selshness and selseekng than his own? Does he prefer the kind of votes that method of campaigning attaches to himself' Or does he simply think there of them
 Certain it is that the Delegates inexcusable per sona quarres and his political associations alienate with him on most subjects and who would like to work with him if they could do so without forfetng selfrespect
 Speaking at dinner tendered to him by the Progressives just three years ago Theodore Roosevelt said: "The men who believe will ever betray s5oo ef-f fo rvhfn vo hoyn