The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-12
ALLEGED To HAVE
PICKED MALONEY
AGAINST SULZER

which arrived here Sunday night, on
his way to his home at Valdez Just
before leaving Juneau Mr. Donohoe
was the victim of what appears to
have been a newspaper hoax, which
the Empire recounts as follows:
The joke is on the Dispatch and its
psuedo political writer. Today the
town held its sides with laughter, de-
spite the rear-end winter Taku which
played with the whiskers of residents
about town
Believing that Thos. J. Donohoe,
Democratic national committeeman,
had departed on the Evans, and would
be on the high seas where he could
not answer misstatements for several
days at least the Dispatch, self-styIed
Republican organ, in its eagerness to
boost the campaign of William Ma
loney, who is running against Sulzer
for delegate in combination with the
Wickersham forces, reported that Mr..
Donohoe had stated that Maloney
would be the king bee" in the "po-
litical puddle"
For instance, in its opening para
graph, the Dispatch said:
OF. J. Donohoe, Democratic national
committeeman for Alaska, calling on
William Maloney yesterday, prior to
departing for the westward, admitted
that the mining inspectors chances of
defeating Charles Sulzer in the pri-
mary race for the Democratic nomina-
ton for delegate are good. The object
of the call, according to Maloney, was
to persuade him to withdraw from the
race"
When interviewed this morning, Mr..
Donohoe said there were just two
statements in the article published in
/ the Dispatch that were correct or
! truthful. These were the statements
that he called upon Mr.. Maloney, and
! that he had endeayored to induce Mr..
Maloney to withdraw as candidate
for delegate in the Democratic pri-
maries. Mr.. DOnOhOe said his actions
in this matter were largely actuated
by his friendship for Mr. Maloney as
the latter hitherto had been a loyal
party man and had rendered excellent
service in the last delegate campaign
for Mr. Sulzer. Mr.. DonOhoe pointed
out to Mr. MalOney that he was being
used by the remnants of the Wicker
sham machine in an effort to defeat
Mr.. Sulzer, both in the primaries and
in the election. Mr.. DOnohOe also call.
ed the attention of Mr. Maloney to the
fact that he did not seem to be backed
! by any of the known Democrats; that
his present political manager, Frank
Aldrich, formerly Of Nome, and O. P
Hubbard, formerly of Valdez, could
hardly qualify as bona fide Democrats.
| When the attention of Mr.. DOnohoe
was called to the statement in the Dis
patch that 'DOnohoe comedies the de-
feat of Sulzer in the primaries likely"
ehe smiled over the absurdity of such
statement, absolutely denied it and on
the contrary said that he demonstrated
to Mr.. MalOney that the latter would
not get in the entire territory 200 DEM
ocratic votes at the primaries. Mr..
! haA
cede was that Mr.. Maloney would get
all of the votes of the Wickersham
machine in the primaries, that .. P.
Hubbard, John Frame, DR.. F. NJ. Boyle,
Frank Aldrich and James Wickersham
could induce to come into the Demo
cratic primaries and vote for Maloney,
as Wickersham has no contestant can
didate for the Republican nomination,
and therefore does not need the vote
| of the primaries.
Mr.. DonohOe said he further ex-
planned to Mr.. Maloney that it would
be treachery to the Democratic party
and policies of President Wilson and
the national administration for him to
seek the nomination as a candidate of
the Democratic party by the vote of
the Wickersham machine men; that it
would be a perversion of the primary
law to permit the Wickersham party
to cast their votes for Mr.. Maloney in
the Democratic primaries.
Mr. Maloney did not, said Mr.. Dono-
hoe, deny that he and his hackers
were pinning their entire hope for sue
ceeding at the primaries on the prop
osition of inducing Wickersham fol-
lowers to vote for Mr.. Maloney at the
Democratic primaries. Mr.. Donohoe
further said he stated to Maloney that
Sulzer would get more votes that Ma
loney and Wickersham combined.
In a further discussion of the DO.
litical situation the national commit
teeman said that it is clear that Mr.
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