The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-17
ORATORS DISCUSS
 CAMPAIGN ISSUES
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celVed the people. lie saw the tele gram in the office of the Nome Nugget signed James Wickersham, stating that the committee on cleo tions by unanimous decision, had reported that Vic kersham had been duly elected delegate of Alaska. This statement was absolutely false. he said, as the committee on elec- tions had made no report and would make no report until after election. Reports had been received at Ju- neau from people going out by way of the Yukon river, that nearly all the settlements, wood and fish camps along the river had been bulletined with the information that Wicker sham would be reseated and that Sulzer had been busted. ] These people of the camps and settlements along the river, he said, could not be reached and made aware of the truth. Everybody likes a winner; likes to get on the band wagon; and the statement made public and which indicated | that Democratic committee had chosen Republican, if true, would i go long way in his favor, he thought. This and other false state ments, which he refuted by state
 ments contained in the Congressional Records, at the meeting at the Coliseum, he again refuted and in- vited anyone who wished to satisfy
 himself to see the records for him.
 self. Copies of the Congressional
 Records are now in the possession
 of Commissiner McDonald, who
 would gladly let anybody see them. : MT. Grigsby's remarks were con-
 else and to the point and carried
 conviction to his hearers.
 In concluding the refutation of
 the statements made by Wickersham he said he would leave it to the
 intelligent voters as to how much
 credence they can give and how
 much trust they can repose on a ] man who will deliberately make false statements to gain his own personal ends.
 He referred briefly to the state
 ments he made in his address at the
 Coliseum, went into some length
 into the eight-hour law and the gold
 bonus, promising his hearers that
 he would do all he can towards getting valid eight-hour law passed and supporting to the fullest extent
 the gold bonus proposition
 2 Wlckersham's complaints against . the Guggenheims, the Alaska Pack CTS Association and the transporta- ton companies, which appeared to
 be his campaign material, were gone into at great length and Mr. Grigsby very clearly pointed out that Wick ersham had introduced no legisla- tion of any kind to relieve the burd- ems he complained of.
 The title to the Copper mines owned by the Guggs were given them by Judge Wickersham when he was on the bench, and it was !well known that he sought employ ment as their attorney at s15,OOO a year, and that this offer to serve as such attorney was turned down, according to MT. Grigsby. He started his "howl" against trans portation rates in 1908 and they have steadily increased, but he had yet introduced no legislation to re- move the burdensome conditions he was forever complaining about. Re- garding the government railroad, which Wickersham claims was made possible in terms of bill he had introduced and secured the passage of, MT. Grigsby stated as a positive fact that Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, was the author of the bill and that Wickersham had requested the privilege of introducing it in the House at the same time that Senator Chamberlain introduced it in the Senate. This statement could