The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-02
SOMEHOW WEAK
CFairbanks News.Miner)


 Tba teIepram the Citizen published this morning quoting remarks made by Delegate WlcAel' , nS m his speech last night at Seward being that part o. his speech referring to Col Richardson releCls o credit uDon our Delegate a debater or an Alaskan It is simply cheap personal abuse ana Iur.neI resentation of Col Richardson and Ghould cost Ihe Delepate votes wherever Alaskans are ialrmlnoed
 Col Richardson issued pamphlet reluIlus ms utIS representations distributed by the Delegate nrousnUu1 Alaska The Colonel simply told the truth or tne tne matters which had been misrepresenteG ana .ou M iS in a gentemany manner, making no alusloh lO tle t Delegates personel habits or delnQuencies & e lending himself from unIalr allaVSs, anu .; o himself in a gentlemanly manner The peIesate re- ply in coarse allusions to the CooneIs personal nap it's is illogical nuendos and absolute mlsTep Sseu," lions His statement that the burned records in the Commissions office at Valdez will never disclose Wnay
 their contents were insinuates that the records were "docored" and that the town of NcldeZ was destroyed to wipe them out of existence, yet makes no spec' fife claim of anything being wrong with the records abe army officer who had nothing to do with the keeping of the records question His inuendos that funds is eonauy as misleading and excuseless.
 The N C. Company has for years cashed tune checks and orders of the workngmen or lue AlesH@ @ Road Commission as an accommodation TOT yue , .len and to expedite the work The company holds these orders and checks for months before 1t gets tne money them. an gets no interest on US money
 The money spent on roads and trails throughout Alaska. be u little or be it much, IS secured rom the National government through the influence and upon direct demand of the War Department coming through such source the amount is larger and more
 
 zation tried 10 get 1t from congress u IS IOIei5n @ capital" to Alaska, and such is "easy money Be the work done little or much, no Alaskan IS taxed Go provide the funds. lt is AasKas ohiy graD out Of the annual pork barrel" Because 1t does not come through the direct efforts of our Delegate he is trying knock" the appropriation and all con nected with it and to destroy the source and the revenue as well. He is not backed up in thls work by any Alaskans and but that he has a campaign on he would undoubtedly today be fighting at Wash ington to abolish the Alaska Road Commission al- though the Commercial Club of his home town and ff m eve of election to drop the destructive effort He tried in his first campaign. and while running TOT Congress, to become the paid agent for the Guggen helms; he fell down in the attempt and was DaWieo out and ever since he has sought to destroy every corporation and every agent of every corporation m existence offering nothing worth while to replace them with. He is still representing that he has gigantic bugabOO in the shape Of imaginary corpora tons to fight constantly to save" Alaska, and he IS abusing and misrepresentng everybody and everything worth while which has to do with the expenditure of money the execution Of public works in which he does not receive the credit It IS this ruling passion of the Delegates which today finds the un- thinking men of Alaska against him and leaves his support among those whose votes can be controlled by exciting their passions through msrepresentaton5 of others.
 To us when he is rantng and fighting wndmills and tearing down regulations by wholesale just as he always is when campaigning speaking to the public press. Delegate Wickersham evinces weak ness which shames the Alaskans he ought to repre- sent. He simply cannot forget himself, and puts his personal aggrandizement and personal likes and dis likes ahead of the needs best interests of Alaska lses his office to vent his personal spite upon men and companies and parties. Just for that Alaska is getting tired of Wickersham and his continuous vaude gille of personal troubles and has but begun 70 seek Go rid the Territory of his influence, that Alaska may go ahead. He has held development back O date. to keep Alaska under his personal control, put the time Is not far distant when he will be re- fred from further activities against the inter- ,sts of the Territory He may win this year and ( will surprise nobody # he does but if he wins wo years hence he will be going some" for Alaska s beginning to him he is, to appreciate him t his real value, and likes the spectacle less each ime 1t is evidenced. His way. Alaska cannot get anywhere worth while and Alaska MUST progress, in pite ol men and their personal spites