The Nenana daily news., 1918-10-17

really do. He said he had been in the North for the past 23 years, and had raised his family in the North and expected to spend the rest of this days in the North.
 He was in the Fairbanks district ever since the place had a begin ming, and had always taken a keen interest in the civic welfare of the city. He was connected with the Fairbanks Commercial club since it's inception and was its president for six years of the seven years of it's existence.
 The main purpose of the Fair banks Commercial club, he said, was to get better roads and trails in the Fourth division, and consequently better mail service, and with this purpose in view the Commercial club had sought the cooperation of similar clubs in the territory and the heads of the various departments and bureaus in Washington, to whom circular letters, setting forth the needs of the division in detail, along these lines, were sent MT. Nordale told of how the Commercial club sought to interest Wickersham, who was at that time our delegate to Congress, and of having called on him at his office in Fairbanks and spoken to him on the subject and discussed it for hours, at the end of which time, he frankly said that he was no wiser than before. Wick ersham would not definitely specify whether or not he would support the scheme of the club at that time. When again approached, some time later, Wickersham, he said, promised to support them and stated that at the proper time he would introduce a bill in Congress for an appropria- tion for roads and trails. This was all the satisfaction they ever got from the ex-delegate.
 MT. Nordale then told in detail of the obstructive tactics adopted by Wickersham to prevent an appro- priation being passed by Congress for road work in Alaska on esti- mates furnished by Colonel Wilds r. Richardson (now brigadier-gen- eraD, just because he had had a personal difference with that gentle man. Wickersham, he said was small enough to retard the progress of the territory, the interests of which he was pledged to serve to the best of his ability, to vent his spite on q man he disliked on some imaginary personal grounds. Alas ka, he said, will enter upon a con- structive period after this war, and they needed a constructionist like Sulzer in Congress, who was whole hearted in his work and was not the sort of man to allow his per sonal feelings to dictate the course he should pursue in handling affairs of vital interest to the territory and its people. It would be a calamity he thought, to let an ohstructionis. like Wickersham was we'll krown to be, to have any say in the affairs of this territory. .: ::
 MT. Nordale then resumed his seat amid much applause.
 Commissioner Mcdonald next in- troduced the speaker of the evening, Hon. George Grigsby, attorney-gen- eral of Alaska, who, he said, he had known for the past 20 years, and with whom he served in the same cavalry regiment during the Spanish American war. MT. Grigsby's high character for integrity and upright ness in all his dealings was we'll known, he said, and the proof of the confidence that reposed in Mir. Grigsby lay in the fact that two years ago, when he was a candidate for the position he now has the honor to hold, he was elected by an overwhelming vote over his two opponents, who were also we'll known legal men.