The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-26
Wokers5arn Campaign
 Lies Are Nailed
AND THE TRUTH
 REGARDING CLAIMS

Here are the facts which nail the false claims. The answers are by numbers:
 No. 1 -- Hls territorial form of government blll 10 the Organic Act under which the Territory ia Operat- Ing. lts specific limitations deprive Che people of any semblanee of Home Rule. The people have no powers over the flsheries, the schools, many Of the matters Of taxation, the l- quor question and 60 many other thlnss that the demand for full Territorial form of government has been insletent, but resisted through the years by Delegate WIckerSham, who holds before our eyes tho lure of Statehood when every sensible man knows that Statehood ls a pos sibillty which can only be achieved by years of effort.
 No. 2-slmply not true.
 No. S.-The Miner's Lien Bill Ia characterized by miners In the pIae- CT districts as a law to limit the liability of mine owners. lt gIves a lien on the dump only and not on the claim. lf the dump is VaIueless the lien does not hold the claim.
 No. 4-Plain buncome. The capi- tai was permanently established at Juneau more than eight years before Wickersham was elected as a Dele. gate to Congress, and several months before he came to the Territory with a commission in hio carpet bag.
 No. 5.-Just a sample Wiekersham misrepresentation. A gross perver- sion Of the truth. No such bill has been passed.
 No. 6-The appropriation was made ait the request Of the Secretary of War, acting on the report of Col. Rlehardson.
 No. 7-stlll another gross perVer- olon of the truth. The Valdez dlke was secured by Col. Richardson. The people of Valdez have challenged Wiekersham to show by the record, correspondence of otherwise where he ever did a single thing for the measure. He has not accepted the challenge.
 No. s.-stlI another. No such measure has been passed.
 No. 9.-stlll another. Congress has authorized the erection of a building coastlng not to exceed sioo- GOO at cordova, but no appropriation has been made.
 No. 1o.-Thls was abolished by the Territorial Legislature.
 No. t1.-The War Department hae expended some money on the mouth of the Yukon river, but the place where 1t was expended, the so-ealled "st. Michael Canal" has never been used by the river cleaners.
 No. 12.-Hls fight for the common people, SO far as actual work at Washington or elsewhere To con cerned, is to do all within his power to prevent them from getting self- government a right that the Presi- dent says they should have. Hls fight consists of composing speeches in the solitude of his oft -reeitine them to hio office boy-settins leave to print in the Congressional record, introducing bills for effect and let- ting them lie unaeted upon and un- urged, abusing Colonel Richardson, denounclrg as a corporation hire ling every one who will not worship at his shrine and forever standins in the way of the welfare of Alaska.
 No. 13.-Just buncome. Senator Chamberlain says Wiekereham did not draft the bill lt originated In and was first passed by the Senate, where Wickersham has neither seat nor voice, and carried an approPria- tlon of S4o,oOo,oOO. In the House the bill was reduced to $35,ooo,ooo.
 No. t4.-Juet buneome. The first five named were never Delegates to Congress. John c. Price, as a pri- vate citizen, secured the Alaska codes and the municipal ineorPora- tlon act. The latter is practically the only really home rule legislation Alaoka has ever had from Washing ton. Why wasn't the other unof- flclal delegate mentioned2 J. H. King secured a school bonding bill for Juneau.
 No. IS. - There never was any cuch bill.
 No. t6.-The Reverldge Bill was defeated in the Senate through the influence of Senator eorah of Idaho, Senator Knute Nelson of Minne- sota and other Senators. Wicker sham is simply up to hlo old trieks. Why not ask Knute Nelson what he thinks of Wiekersham2
 No. f7.-This was Netherlands bill. Theoretically it is beneficiat but practically 1t is SO insignificant as scarcely to deserve notice be- cause few people in Alaska have ever located homesteads anywhere else. Perhaps lt benefits some par Ocular friend Of Wlekersham.
 No. 1s.-There has been no at tempt to open Dry Strait. A few thousand dollars were appropriated A a..-..... Che