The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-10
FALSE REPORT SENT OUT FROM NIGEITES ABOUT
 FIRST DIVISION

fs1S < UIBl0lUlS i The following alleged telegram, which appeared in the Anchorage Times Of October 2, win amUse the average First Division resident:
 JUNEAU, Oct. 2.-Alarmed at the growing strength of Delegate Wick ersham in the First Division Of Alaska, Charles Sulzer, the Demo. cratic candidate for Delegate to Congress. returned last night from ! his interior campaign and immed- iately went into conference with the party leaders. The Democrats fear that the Republicans in all Of the Divisions of the Territory are swing ing into line for Delegate Wicker sham. The Republican legislative ticket in this Division, it is reported, will support the Delegate. It is ru- mored that the Valentine faction is supporting the Republican Legisla- tive ticket. The Juneau Empire, which is making a bitter personal fight against the Delegate. sent a message to Fairbanks quoting Wick ersham as saying that he had lost the First Division The Delegate made no such statement. It is con ceded that Netherlands majority in this Division win be between two and three hundred He will get 70 per cent. of the Gastineau Chan mel vote and the betting is two to one that he will carry the Division. The Democratic Club is issuing pam phlets for distribution throughout Southeastern Alaska which are re- plete with lies and misrepresento- tions about the Delegate. Emory Valentine. the Delegates manager in this Division says: "We haven't time to answer all the lies that are being published about the Delegate; the people know the Delegate and hence these lies and wiHul misrep- rescntauons are unheeded We are going to carry the First Division for the Delegate and 1t would not sur prise me if he carried the district by five hundred votes. Every day I am encouraged by the gaining strength of the Delegates candidacy"
 The Juneau Dispatch. the S&ag- way Alaskan, the Wrangell Senu- mel and the Petersburg Report are loyally supporting the Delegate, as well as the Republican Legislative ticket
 The Democratic Club largely com posed of Federal and State office holders and lawyers, and the Juneau Empire and KetchikaD Progressive Miner are supporting the candidacy of Sulzer"
 Senator Sulzer has had no fears at any time about the First Divis- ion; there has been no betting at two to one" that Wickersham will carry this Division; there has been no betting at any odds that he VIII carry it, the betting, Suci as theic is, is all on the size of Senator Sul- gers plurality; the Republicans of. the First Division do not regard Delegate Wickersham as a Repubh can. The Empires attacks on Wick ersham have been based on the record. and the record has been printed with the attacks the Dele gate was quoted while he was here by one of his staunchest support CTS as saying that eh did not eX- pect to carry either the First or Second Divisions; only one neWspa- per in Southeastern Alaska is mak- ing anything approaching a fight for Wickersham; three, The Empire, the Douglas Island News and the Ket- chikau Progressiye-Miner, are sup porting Senator Sulzer; the claim that Wickersham will get 70 per cent of the Gastineau Channel vote is fair illustration of the truth set forth in the foregoing telegram; therc is no one who thinks he will come within several hundred votes of Sulzer on Gastineau Channel