The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-03

In article which appeared in the Dispatch of the morning January certain leading and infuen- tal citizens of Alaska, including Delegate to Con gress, Hon. Chas A. Sulzer, practically charged with heinous and indctable offense of embezzle- ment-taking funds supplied by the California Liquor Dealers Association for the of opposing Pro- hibition in Alaska and dverting the to their personal and to further their political am bitions, The following is the Dispatch screed
 "The actual fact of the passage of the Alas
 ka prohibition law may prove of interest at
 this time During the spring of 1917 MT. Thos.
 McGowan attorney for the Northern Commer-
 cial Company of Fairbanks, raised at San Fran
 the of $20,OOO to fight prohibition in
 Alaska. Returning to Fairbanks he became candidate for Senator against Dan Sutherland. This linked his campaign with Mr. Sulzer, and it was charged that major portion of the money donated by the California liquor inter- ests was spent in their campaign A portion of the money traced to the First Division, where Wm. Holzhemer, secretary of the Ju- neau Liquor Association, spent the money for the Sulzer campaign, Hozheimer having gered considerable money on the election of Suzer As result James Wckersham who had suffered politically a result of this expenditure of money had passed by Congress the present prohibition law.
 "It is probable if the liquor interests of the Territory had not placed their funds in the hands of the Democratic lawyers and poli- ticans of the Territory the question of prohi- bition would have been referred by Congress to the next session of the Legislature which convenes in Juneau in 1919."
 Never statement further from the truth and
 
 in Alaska knows it. Wickersham the favorite candidate of the saloon interests in 1916 the same as he had been in previous campaigns for the good and sufficient that he was friendly to those interests-that much of his campaigning done in saloons and that his saunches supporters ly to the liquor interests. Had those engaged CT branches of business throughout Alaska been as loyal to the defeated Wickersham wetre the auor men, he would have been returned Washington by an overwhelming majority. And the Dispatch knows this, too
 But where the Dispatch drags it's sleeve in the beans is in the foowing
 "As result James Wickersham who had surfered politically as result of this expend- ture or money had passed by Congress the persent prohbitive law"
 Just like Wick" exactly He suffered politically" to the extent that he defeated at the polls and by the vote of the people and he was sore-and wick is the boy who can get Then is when he turned on his former friends and supporters He saw that public sentiment in Alaska had decreed for Prohibition and he said Me the bandwagon" The result was the "the present prohibitive law"
 We to infer from that Dispatch that, having suffered politically" Wickersham essayed to play by having passed "the present prohibitye law which would have been left to the Territorial legislature of 1919 had the result of the election been different and he had been returned. According to the Dis patch the "the present prohibitive law purely piece of spite work on the part of "Wick"-a most ungrateful charge to bring against him that he is down and out. Really, if the former Delegate has any friends the Territory. they should the Dispatch which willthough unwtngly- the truth at intervals.
 Incidentally if money contributed by the Califor. mia Liquor Dealers Association used for the cleo tion of Delegate Sulzer why it that every Re- publican paper in the Territory. with the possible exception of one accepted slice of that contribu- ton for opposing Prohibition?
 But what's the use! The people know the Dis patch and the people know Wickersham-know him 70 well that they joined with freedom and shreked when he fell from the pedestal to which he had been