The Alaska daily empire., 1918-04-25
WOMAN VOTER
 SEES GOOD RECORD
 OF DELEGATE SULZER

been reading the political news in
 the Juneau papers with a great deal of interest. To some of us it
 appears as though the leaders of
 each political party were trying to befuddle our minds by a camou- flage of accusations which are neith- CT proved nor disproved to our en- | tire satisfaction. We have always
 been told that politics were dirty" and that they must eventually be
 cleansed by the purifying presence
 of good women.
 To our unsophisticated sense the dirt" in the present campaign ap pears to be a greed for power, pres tige and perquisites, and as re-
 suit we see honor, integrity and the
 badge of our white ribbon army" trailed in the mud.
 Is it true, MT. Editor, that James Wickersham, our former delegate to Washington, received sixty thou
 sand dollars as wages, plus sixteen thousand dollars for clerk hire and twelve thousand for travelling ex- penses, total of cight ty-eight thousand dollars, with the addi
 tion of office rent allowance for stationery, etc, as compensation for the few laws he succeeded in se
 curing for us and the few he sue ceeded in defeating? We women
 who have given our lives to Alas ka, sent our sons to the war and our daughters to take the place of
 men called to the colors, have re-
 ceived no such compensation in
 money and pleasant change of resi-
 dence. MT. Wickersham has had our support in the past, and no
 loubt he has ably represented us among other able representatives
 of the United States, but that is no sufficient reason to us that he
 'houd be given a monopoly of the lelegatcShip.
 Fair-minded women, MT. Editor n comparing the work of MT. Wick
 2rsham and MT. Sulzer as delegates, will look only at the results ob- aimed by Mr. Wickersham during
 he FIRST YEAR of his service at
 Washington. Some of us remem- | Der that during that first year ho
 was instrumental in helping defeat he so-callcd Beverage bill for 9 Commission form of government in l Alaska. Inasmuch as the proposed commissioners were to be appoint | d by the President of the United 1 States instead of being elected by | he people of the Territory, Demo crats were in hearty accord with the | efforts of Mr Wickersham.
 Has MT. Sulzer done LESS that he should be pronounced unfit? The United States was not plunged in | war when MT. Wickersham was try | ing to defeat the Beverage bill, and there was no would-be- delegate It hand to embarrass him and at tempt to frustratc his plans and dis credit him in the eyes of his col | leagues. Oh, no! Mr. Wickersham if we remember rightly, had plain sailing and good weather. He had considerable legal training and
 some bench experience and had not come from a long residence in a
 small mining camp. By the time Mr. Sulzer has had MT. Wicker sham's experience at the National capital it is quite probable that he will more than measure up to that
 gentleman's standard in the quail
 ties which make for the welfare or | ourselves and our children.
 Until the time is ripe for advent of woman delegate, woman pos 3essing some of the rare qualities of Miss Jeanette Rankin, we stay at-home women of Alaska, remem- bering the high ideals of citizen ship we have been instilling into the minds of our children, must re-
 frain from countenancing would be monopolists, fraudulent office
 holders whose wilful silence at a critical moment is an insult to our
 Territory, and other aspirants for our political favor whose printed
 utterances would shame our school
 children.
 If we women are to purify poli- tics, we must remember that the
 children of today will be the poli- ticians of tomorrow Alaska will be
 just what our children make it. Will they thank us to stay at home