The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-28
BIASED NEWSPAPER REPORTS
 RESENTED BY ANCHORAGE MAN
Says that Sulzer Will Carry Railroad Towns by Good Majorities - Republican Howls
 Against Presidents Request
(By Charles A. Derry)

The partlSanShlp WnlCn proHpts newspaper to garble Q political speech merely because it is delivered by a candidate of the opopsitc party is indefensible from every standpoint. If there be any excuse for printing report Of q speech it should at least be accurate or an attempt at accu- racy should be apparent. The Wick ersham papers in this campaign have made no attempt at fairness in this respect. The Juneau Dispatch. re- porting what ii was pleased to term the speech of Delegate SulZer some weeks ago, filled two columns or more not with q report of the Ian guage used by the delegate. but with alleged arguments attempting to re- flute statements made or alleged toI have been made. No attempt at fair ness in speaking of the campaign is expected in the editorial columns of the Wickersham papers; but the pub lie has a right to expect that matter printed as news should be of that nature and not biased opinons of a prejudced writer.
 Ben Levine a business man of An chorage. who was in Cordova Satur- day on his way Outside, bitterly as sails the Anchorage Times because of similar tactics to those used by the Dispatch. A stenographic report ;,, age was printed in the Times of that city But when Sulzcr spoke an al legged report of the speech written hy Teddy Bedell was fosted upon the public as the remarks of the dele gate. Now Teddy is "a most amusin' GUS and his flippant remarks upon local happenings often serve to re lieve a tedious ten minutes. But to expect him to give q reliable report of a Democratic candidate speech would in itself be amusing.
 It was said, among other things, that the audience was a slim one, and that many of those present grew fidgety and left the hall before Mir. Sulzer finished; that there was noI enthusiasm. and that the delegates re. marks were received in silence. All of which MT. Levine emphatiCally de nies. On the contrary. he says. MT, Sulzer had a larger audience than greeted Mir. Wickersham; that there was great enthusiasm for the Demo cratic candidate, who made many votes as result of the meeting, and that the audience, with the exception of a few ladies who were accompanied by restless children, stayed until the end, and heartily cheered the dele gate.
 Mir Levine says that the reports sent out by the Wickershamites to the effect that MT. Wickersham will receive a majority of votes in An chorage and at the railroad towns in that vicinity is entirely misleading. He states that he has been around the district considerably, and he is convinced that Delegate Sulzer will receive substantial majoritie8 in An chorage and adjacent communities
 The fact of the matter is" said Mir. Levine. that Wickersham lost numbers of votes by his unwarranted attacks on Delegate Sulzer because of his German ancestry and his charges of pro-Germanism. There are many loyal Republicans who will not vote for Wickersham, also, be cause they do not consider him Re publican, and they are resentful of his rule or ruin attitude toward the Republican party of Alaska You can quote me as authority for saying that Anchorage and the whole Anchorage district is strongly for Delegate Sul.l ger, and l. as resident of Anchor. | age, would consider the election ot Wickersham calamity to the terri tory and 10 that section in particu lar"
 Th" unfair methods of the AnchCr- age Times in it's references to Dele. | gate Sulzer and it's untruthful reports | were resented by Mir Levine. and he | was indignant in recounting instances of this unfairess
 As was to have beee expected. the | Republican politicians and newspapers profess to have received with aston ishment and alarm the Presidents 8 | suggestion that n Democratic con. gress be returned in the forthcoming | elections. No doubt President Will son himself discounted the opposi. tion of these extreme partisans when he issued his suggestion. It was not addressed to the partisan politicians, but to the patriotic people of the coun.