The Nenana news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1916-1918, 1916-09-23
hthANA HAS A
D[MOCRAT|CCLUB
GOOD AND LOYAL CITIZENS OF
NENANA ORGANIZE A
CLUB.
TO WORK FOR CAUSE
They Propose to Show Their 10y
atty to President Wilson-Win
Work for the Election of
Chas. A. Sulzer.
TO WORK FOR CAUSE

and one of size.
The Wilson Administration having
zone so much for Nenana, the peo-
pie of Nenana have decided that
it is up to them to do what they
can to show their appreciation, and
some days since they formed a
Democratic club, to work In this
campaign. R. E. Burns addressed
the meeting as follows:
Gentlemen: We meet here to-
night for the purpose Of perfect
ing an organization whereby as a
body We can assist the cause OF
Woodrow Wilson and his admins
tration.
Here in Alaska, no matter how
well qualified a man or woman may
be to vote for president, owing to
our political status, we are barred
from exercising the right of SUI
frage in national affairs. Therefore,
the only method of expression the
people of Alaska have, in this re-
spect. of showing their approval or
disaproval of the acts of a presl-
dent, is by their vote for their
representative at Washington. Nat
urally, it follows the election of a
Ii Fo;~ la
that of the administration is an
expression of approval.
The man or woman who says they
are Supporters of Woodrow Wilson
and also James Wickersham, l be-
lieve, to say the least, are illogical.
1t is immaterial how vociferous Mr..
Wickersham or his admirers may be-
come n telling US that we owe the
railroad to him, we know that it was
an Administration measure, and
without the untiring efforts of Wood
row Wilson and that great and true
friend of Alaska, Mr.. Franklin K.
Lane, our railroad would still be
an "air castle" instead OF a reality
before our eyes. And l hold that
when Mr.. Wickersham, for what
he thought the best interests of his
political fortune, denounced the VIII
son administration which gave TO
him and his constituents a railroad,
he committed an act of ingratitude
that no true Alaskan can overlook.
And l also hold, that the people
of Alaska can, with equal consist
ency, send as their Delegate TO
Congress, an Egyptian mummy or
James Wickersham under a Wilson
administration. They will be equal
ly eloquent and powerless
And, gentlemen, we can logically
anticipate the reelection of Mr..
Wilson. The passage of the eight
hour law marks climax to long
list Of constructive, far-reaching leg
islation; it has so cemented the in
terests of the workingman to the
cause of Woodrow Wilson that We
cannot entertain the thought but
what these services will be appre-
ciated and rewarded at the polls.
He has placed himself on record,
a written record, the like of which
the workingmen of America have
vainly sought for in the past, as
their champion. The Republicans
may storm about, hurting waves of
criticism toward this law but it
rises, like a Gibraltar, out of a
sea of past promises to the work
ingmen, impregnable to attack. 1t
is written in indellible fashion in
the statutes of our country. With
this all-powerful assistance, the
workingman's vote, his reelection is
as sure as the rise of the morning
sun.
The passage of this bill has also
attracted to Wilson a vote of large
numbers; the Socialist To the Sc
cialist's ear there must come the
sound of cracking ice about the
shores of his ice-bound political land
and The reasonable Socialist real
zes O. the approach to those
Aores is slow and anyone or any
ing that makes that approach cas-
!, is worthy of his support.
hope, gentlemen, we can form
organization founded upon JUS
nd Righteousness, whereby we
* to the best of our ability
se election of a Democratic
whereby We can endeavor,
pie way, to repay 70 our
the debt we Alaskans