The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-02
THE DELEGATE ELECTION.

The situation with regard to the Alaska delegate election is one that has at least some compensations. It affords the legal lights of the terri tore some opportunity of expanding uuon technicalties and changing the actual count by separating the votes which are wheat and those which are to be regarded as chaff.
 Certainly some regard must be had for the feelings of those who on one side or another voted With Australian ballots and those who cast their votes upon commoner pa per and which had not official gap proval. It is impossible to sutfici- entlv discriminate between Tweed Iedum and Tweedledee and it might be expected that Che election board will probably differentiate so that the Territory may not suffer any un- seemly misrepresentation,
 Now comes the Juneau adFices that it is just this which the cleo tion board will not do, and they rise superior to any technicalties. spurn the advice of the territorial attorney general. with the natural lack of deference for new found honors. and attach the election to the Honorable James Wickersham,
 Whereat there will be rejoicings and also sorrowings. But the most embarrassing position of all will be that of those territorial papers which gave an unduly premature guffaw of triumph when the first returns came indicating that the el ction of Sulzer was assured. The curtain falls upon the keen para grauhers who gloated and rubbed 1t in. as they watched the hopes of the 1Nfckersnamites in the descendant.
 The uncertainty of politics never was more fully reyeaed than in this recent election when both Tweed 1edum and Tweedledee laid equal claims to victory, and the unterri- fed followers of one or the other nurtured hope within their bosom Today one side breathed triumph and tomorrow did their rivals. The distant precincts brought cheer to this one or that as the totals were counted The expert tabulators watched the neck and neck race with a variety of feelings as they beheld the fortunes of one or other advance to the head.
 Keen sympathy will be felt fol the bitterness of defeat which hay ing tasted the sweet of triumph SuIZer must now drain to the droGs And the willy Wickersham whose lucky star pulled victory from de, feat will rejoice in chastenet manner now that he almost felt the scourge of disappointment.
 That Alaskan elections are mere, ly personal matters is of course evidenced in all this. The materia difference between Wickersham and Sulzer is so slight that the man in the street can afford to watch defeat or victory for one or the other with supine indifference. They both stand for the same fundamental principle which in the main is tf get on the workers back and being ensconced there to remain in posi- ton. That one now and the other then administers words of comfor to the burden bearer need not mat ter much the honeyed words wll not tighten the load albeit they ma! well invigorate the spirit.
 Why the workers then should ge excited over the decision of th' Juneau Board is not particularly clear. We should warry about in ont way or the other. The days pay i' not likely to vary, and assuredl! will the days work be no lighter by reason of the fact that Judge Wickersham will have two more years to enlighten Congress througl an extension of remarks in tha mortuary chamber for oratorical ef forts: the Congressional Record.
 Yet it is to be confessed that on' regrets that a new man was no tried just for the change that would to some degree satisfy curiosity MT. Sulzer would have been mos entertaining and interesting in th' position of delegate, and as he pro