The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-13

SO. If he wins, he says: Il told you
So" If he loses he shrugs his should
ers and forgets it. Who shall say
this is not the better plan in politics?
Since Alaska was given the right
to tinker with lawmaking, pass phoney
S-hour laws and send a dummy con-
gresham to Washington, party-poli-
tics have been in the throes of birth
every two years Those who take them
seriously are those who hold office or
/ Wilson was elected first, the Demo-
cratic party in Alaska was a guess
and most Alaska newspapers were
Democratic for protection against the
Republicans who had a way of making
the newspapers believe they had some.
! thing coming to them after the success
of election and after election proving
| to the newspapers that it was a mis-
take. J. F. A. Strong was one of
/ those newspaper protectiOnists, and
after the Wilson election he was given
the governorship because nobody else
wanted it, He had been in the North
so many years that he had no more
politics than has an Alaskan jackrab-
bit, so he kept Governor Clark's Re-
publican private secretary as the eX-
perienced authority behind the throne
and has kept him ever since. Strong
was a Wickersham man at heart in
those days, just as were the major
ity of Alaskans, and he has never
changed secretaries or forgotten his
Wickersham proclivities, and when :
Democrat followed Democrat in office
in Alaska until Democratic officehold-
ers were as thick as hairs on dog,
with Wickersham-Democ office
holders second in numbers only, the |
Democratic party was born and Strong
has always been a thorn in it's side and |
considered an object of suspicion.
Many things have developed in the
past to make this belief a certainty
in the minds of the regular Demo-
Gratis, and today, with Strong backing
Maloney to disrupt the Democratic
vote and elect. Wick, the Democrats
are absolutely sure of StrOngs poll
teal depravity and the fight to remove
Strong is today stronger than the fight
to elect Maloney can ever be. In the
meantime bodybuilding is hindered
by Strikes" and lockouts" and
~. w VS." in politics, and nobody
knows what the result may be-apd,
some people don't care.
We note that our townsman, Judge
Wickersham, is on the ticket as Re
publican. Four years ago he was a
"Wilson Democrat" Two years ago
he was Republican until the Republi-
can platform was written, after which
he refused to ascribe to the platform
or play with the Alaska Republicans
Therefore, or for some other reason,
he lost, and was retired to private
life for two years. This year he is
out again as a Republican Private
life may cause him to swallow the Re
publican platform as prescribed, al
though he may exercise an influence
in the preparation of the prescription,
but whatever cause or principle" he
may stick to or turn to in this cam
paign he will have to be reckoned with
on election day. After a man has been
defeated once, his progress is less easy
than before-still, you always have to
reckon with the people of Alaska, and
who shall tell what they may decide
to be the right course at any particular
campaign
Whatever the result of this cam
paign it is safe to say that next win
ter when the campaign is ended it will
! be neither abnormally warmer or cold
err than in the usual run of winters in
the North, and that the following sum-
mer will show no marvellous climatic
changes which can be directly trace
able to the previous years politics.
We take it as granted that money will
.e no easier" here after election than
it was before, if so easy, and we do
not look for political results this year
to disprove the statement that virtue
is it's own reward or to reduce the
wages of sin. Assuring the general
: public that we will not run for office
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