The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-04
Why Didn't Wickersham Appeal
 From District Court?

ETOHi DiSh' 'St Oot's'
 James Wickersham is endeavoring to arouse the sympathy of the vot' CTS of Alaska in his favor upon the cry that he received the largest num- Der of votes atsthe last election but that Judge Jennings, through crooked decision, gave the certificate of election to Charles A. Sulzer.
 Charles A. Sulzer was elected Dele gate at the last election and the de- cision of Judge Jennings was not only sound as a proposition of law, but was just decision from the standpoint of justice and equity.
 James Wickersham is a lawyer, having served as District Judge in Alaska for eight years, and he well knew what the result would be, if he submitted the proposition of his election to a court of justice, and 1T he believed that he was elected ac- cording to law, it was in his hands to have it so determined if he had seen fit, but that he did not submit his case to the Court is proof be- yond the preadventure of a doubt that he knew that he would lose if he ever submitted the case to the courts.
 All that was necessary for him to do was to appear in Judge Jen- nings' Court, by counsel, and file complaint in intervention in the suit that was brought by Sulzer against the Canvassing Board and, when the decision was rendered by Judge Jen- nings in favor of Sulzer, by appealing the case immediately to the Circuit Court of Appeals the execution or the judgment of Judge Jennings would have been stayed until the case was determined by the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Sulzer would not have received the certificate un- til the case was finally determined in his favor by the Circuit Court oi Appeals. If Wickersham would still not have been satisfied by the de eision of the Circuit Court of Ap- peals and would have contended that the Circuit Court of Appeals had rendered a crooked decision, as ne claims that Judge Jennings did, he could have applied to the supreme Court of the United States for writ of certiorari, and, upon proper showing. if he were right in his contention, he could have gotten the matter before the Supreme Court or the United States, all this time keep ing the certificate of election away from Sulzer. But he didn't do any thing of the kind, and the contention that the decision by Judge Jennings was crooked simply resolves itself into islander of the worst form. Judge Wickersham well knows that he would not have been bound by the decision of Judge Jennings, AS he could have had g decision from the higher court. and his contention that he was robbed out of this cleo 1 tion is simply mud of the same class that he has been slinging against every one who is against him.
 The Bristol Boy Fraudulent Ballots
 James Wickersham contends that the unofficial ballots that were sent down from the four Bristol Bay pre- cincts should have been counted and by reason of the fact that Judge Jennings decided that they could not
 be counted. that he, Wickersham was robbed out of his election and that Sulzer holds the certificate oi election by virtue of the larceny o Judge Jennings
 The above contention will not stand the light of fair investigation ol
 the facts. The Clerk of the Distric
 Court of the Third Division sent tt
 those four precincts election supplies
 which included registration books, re
 turn and tally sheets. instructions
 etc. With these supplies so sent. th' Clerk states that he also included official hallOfs aS was hfs custOD