The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-04-01
CAST|CAT|ON OF
 RING POLITICIAN
 BY VIM. MAL0NEy

piCoonhI tlutuS arg UellS IOiu. blll the candidate for a place on the Democratic ticket for dele gate to congress in place of Charles Sulzer. has opened his batteries and has fired broadside into the Ring .'anks, and promises that he has started drive which the gang" cannot recover from. The following was published in the Juneau Dis. patch on the 9th of March:
 Apropos the laugh which ran around town yesterday. had 1t ever occurred to you that there Is one kind of human laugh which so nearly resembles the savage snarl of the hyena that 1t is impossible to distinguish them apart? There are many types of the genus homo who indulge in such laughter. The murderous hend who stands above the quivering form and chuckles at the last expiring gasp of his inno- cent victim sometimes gives vent to it; the highwayman who finds him. self in the firm grasp of justice fire. quently shrugs his shoulders and signifies his resignation in this way; and the crooked. scheming politi. clan. caught red-handed in the at. tempt to rob the people of their rights. Is apt to give such an exhi- bition when he feels the averaging grip of his deluded followers tight ening about his goozle-they all be- long to this class. and that funny gentleman from Valdez. Thomas J. Donohoe. Aands high in the ranks of the latter subdivision of 1t.
 Does any man or woman in Alaska who knows both Tom Donohoe and me believe that lied when 1 said to Dispatch reporter that he ad- mitted in my office that he believed would defeat Sulzer in the pri- mary. and threatened to put up an independent candidate against noe If I should do so? We'll. hardly. It Is too much in keeping with his meth ods, and with the methods Of his political associates--rule or ruin Is his slogan. and it Is the watchword of the little coterie of self.styled party leaders with whom he herds; and the people of the Territory know it.
 And so he thinks I made the state. ment because thought he was leav- ing. town? Not on your sweet life. In fact. I am glad he was here to read it. There could not 3have. been more fortunate occurrence. as he and his henchmen had been telling about town all day Wednesday that I would withdraw. feeling secure in his ability to buy me with a prom ise. I do not belong to that class of politicians: do not sell so easi- ly: neither do betray my friends. I am in this race to stay until have seen an avalanche of ballots cover the political corpse of MT. Sulzer and his creeping. crawling little ring of vermin.
 So the brilliant editor of the Elm pire thinks am a boob. eh? Yes. indeed, I am such a boob that I SUD- ported MT. Sulzer in the last cam. paign. am just the same kind of boob that any honest man is to a pickpocket. am that kind of a boob who always has the courage
 physical and moral-to rise up out of the ranks of the common people and challenge the dishonest politi- cal methods of such men as MT. Donohoe. came from the ranks of the workers: indeed, am still one of them. and I am proud of it. have always worked for their inter- ests and I always shall.
 When Mir. Donohoe sneers at me ioi OCAA6 O PA"aup SOshAhOu ~ASA@cAA he sneers at every workingman in Alaska. for that Is the spirit which prompts the sheer. We are fine bunch of fellows as long as we can be used to further the nefarious ends of such men as these funny gentlemen; but we are boobs the moment we dare assert our rights, or the rights of our fellow men. I am glad I am such a boob. But I have never been 50 crooked as to be driven out of a political convention: nor such a boob as to go whining back and lick the boot that kicked me out This is what happened to MT. Donohoe. His standing in the community In which he lived was so poor that he could not be elected delegate to the Democratic conven- tion at Valdez in 1912: but he wheed. led some poor boob like me into eiving him a proxy. Then the po- litical czar of Southeastern Alaska. Robert w. Jennings. kicked him out of the convention. Jennings was nominated for delegate at that con vention. and he ran so we'll that even Kazis Krauczunis defeated him. After all this. Donohoe crawled back