The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-07
Sham, IneffiCieCy, Decep- tion and 0ppOTtuniSm Scored by Nome
 Lawyer.
GOV. STRONG EULOGIzES
Executive PreSides Over Big Meeting and Urges Support for
 Grigsby.

Quickly exposing the political per fldy Of J. H. Cobb, exploding fully the charges against himself said to have been made by George D. Scho. field and demonstrating that Scho- field is resident of Seattle, George B. Grigsby last night launched into an expose Of Wickersham show and fiction, inefficiency and deception, selflshness and opportunism, such as probably never was delivered from a Juneau forum. The charges were. made in all instances proved by doc umentary evidence. q am trying al case," said the speaker, "and I be- lieve l have my man convicted"
 The lateness of the hour at which the meeting opened caused Mir. Grigj by to cut his speech, eliminatilgI oratorlcal flourish and confining him-I self to the presentation of his case and the introduction of documentary evidence. He said that there were three classes of Wickersham sup porters-hero worshipers who do aot care anything about the facts and would not listen to the evidence, those who think Wickersham is "a great fighter" and those who desire to get even with someone.
 The Coliseum was filled, and, not wlthstanding the lateness of the hour, nearly all of them remained until the close of the meeting, and were then 10th to leave the room.
 Gov. Strong Urges Support of
 erssby
 The meeting was called to order by Mayor B. D. Stewart, who in- troduced Gov. J. F. A. Strong as chairman of the meeting. Gov. Strong spoke for a few minutes, chiefly in eulogy of Mir Grigsby, urg ing the people to vote for him as patriotic pioneer of Alaska who had made good in the Territory as a lawyer, an official and a citizen.
 Mir. Grigsby discussed the action of MT. Cobb in submitting his can didacy for Attorney-General to the convention and then bolt ing the party and going over to It's relentless enemy when he failed to win the nomination. He called par ticular attention to the circumstance that he did this at a time when he was filling an office to which he was appointed as Democrat.
 ExpIodes sehofleld's Charges
 The speaker explained the charge made that he had prosecuted labor ing men in a strike at Nome byI saying that he was only one of the deputies in the office of the Dis trict Attorney, that he was not even the first deputy and that he was directed to conduct the trials by his superior officer He said that he had nothing to do with the re- fusal of the District Attorney to prosecute one Bell for perjury; that this District Attorney had been re- quested by Schofield to permit Bell to perge himself of false swearing by allowing him to go on the stand and tell the truth; that the perjury had nothing to do with the main part of the testimony any how Gle had denied that he had been convicted of felony when asked concerning it on cross-examination)
 sehofleld a Hyphenated Alaskan
 The speaker then charged that schofield had packed up his library and personal effects and closed his Nome office two years ago and moved to Seattle. He showed a pho tograph of Schofield's Seattle resi- dence where his family lives; showed a photograph of the directory of the L.. c. Smith Building where George D. Schofield's law office is designat- ed as being in room 14O1.
 Exposes .Wiekersham
 Taking up Wickersham's record, the speaker first devoted attention to the railroad bill, and to Wicker sham's contention at Seattle, where