The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-15
BIG CROWD HEARS
 ADDRESS OF GRIGSBY

if Immediately after the picture
 show, at the Coliseum last night
 Honorable George Grigsby, attorn ey-
 general of Alaska, spoke to large
 gathering of Nenanaites in the in terests of Delegate Charles A. Sulzer,
 who is a candidate for reelection
 to the office on the Democratic
 ticket.
 The speaker was introduced to the audience by George w. Penning- ton, who in his opening remarks, referred to a statement made by Louis K. Pratt, who is running fo. territorial senator on the Republi- can ticket, regarding the advisability of the selection of lawyers ill the territorial legislature, with whom he ventured to disagree. MT. Penning- ton was of the opinion that few cool-headed businessmen, if possible, should be elected to keep an eye on the lawyers. He then formally presented MT. Grigsby, who, he said, would refute many misstate- ments of James Wickersham.
 , MT. Grigsby, who was well re- ceived, commenced by saying that he was an absolute stranger and was in Nenana for the first time, in fact, he was in the Fourth judicial division for the first time. On land- ing at Nenana, he said he was greeted by gentleman whom he had known twenty years ago and he said that his experiences at other towns in the Fourth division had been similar, so that he did not feel that he was an absolute stranger. He had lived in Alaska continuously for the past sixteen years he said, and had at various times visited al- most every part of the great terri tory, but had never been accorded the pleasure of being able to visit the Fourth division. He was elected attorney-general for the territory couple of years ago and by virtue of his office belonged to the so- called corrupt Democratic machine, which MT. Wickersham and several others were at great pains to attack, in and out of season, and by reason of the fact that he was territorial attorney-general and an integral part of the corrupt Democratic machine he felt he has sort of vested right to feel at home in the various parts of Alaska he had not visited hitherto.
 He spoke of his campaign when he ran for the office he holds at present and of the splendid support he had received from the people of the Fourth judicial division, at- tributing this to the fact that many Nomeites whom he had known, were among the people in the towns in the Fourth division, which had en- abled him to carry both Fairbanks and Nenana, as we'll as several other Fourth division towns. The reason for thus recommending himself would be apparent, he said, in the course of the remarks he intended to offer later on. ..*. ...-=.
 Coming to the main features of the purpose of his address to the people of Nenana, he dwelt first on the statement made by Wicker sham that the House Committee on Elections had, by unanimous vote, decided that the election contest for the delegateship had been won by Wickersham and that they had ac- cordingly given it to him. This statement, MT. Grigsby said, had been telegraphed by Wickersham to several of the more important towns where it had received more or less prominence in the press, notably the Nome Nugget, which was a Wick ersham paper, and which had made "a big feature of it and had the news on display prominently in the window of their office at Nome. 1, This paper, in commenting on the action of the House Committee on on Elections as tolarranhol 4o 4L.