The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
The Pendulum Swings Back.
OKetchikan Chronicle ]


 All reports from the States, the trend of com ment in the daily press and the weekly and monthly periodicals lead the belief that the day of SO called "progressveness," politically speaking, has returning. Men who few years ago admitted or who sometimes did openly admit it. now be- ginning to brag that they standpatters and proud Of it. The Progressves are more 'or less in the dls card listened with patience but not needed.
 Anent this state of affairs comes the statement of L. T. Erwin United States Marshal of the Fourth Judicial Division given in interview which appeared in the Chronicle recently. Judge Erwin is of the oldest and keenest politicians in Alaska He has played the game for years from Cartersville Georgia to well north of the Arctic circle, and his predictions have seldom proved erroneous.
 Although a Democrat of lifelong standing, his statements may not be deemed have been for the purpose of casting reflection upon the incoming ad- ninistraton. They intended, for Marshal Erwn's day a politician, office-holder office seeker will end when the administration ends He is past sixty years of and will retire after having held four presidential commissions, two from Cleveland and from Wilson.
 He says that the incoming administration will be the greatest organization machine administration since Mckinley, with Mark Hanna in the background And the Republican organization today is sodly troled by the standpatters
 As a who has secured for himself four presi- dental appointments, and therefore may be deemed capable of knowing something of the manner of pro ecedure, he advises all those who hope office get into the band wagon, or become a spoke in the wheel of that vehicle, for he thinks President Hard ing is going to nominate for office only those men who have the endorsement of the organization.
 That he may be correct is best evinced by the tact that the President-Elect, from his early in the Ohio Legislature has been organization His history related in the Worlds Work prior to election, by Samuel G. Crowther which may be assumed to have been published with the approval ot Senator Harding shows that he never varied once In the 1912 Republican hasco, he remained loyal to Iatt throughout the campaign, not swaying with the popular trend to Roosevelt and the Bull Moose From youth he has preached party politics. always party and in his campaign for President he announced that his administration would be of party and not of ind, iduals.
 Party" means organization Organization means the Republican National Committed The Republican National Committee means the congregation of Com miteemen. All of which means it will be neces success to gain favor in the eyes of their National Committeeman.
 Despite the rumors and stories brought North rom Seattle and elsewhere that President Harding going to send lot of carpetbaggers Alaska it is ho hkey for the organization is represented in the Territory, and the National Committeeman is going To be bigger factor in Washington than many resi- dents of the North realize are willing to admit The other National Committeeman, when they meet m Washington, are going pay attention to every member, which means that MT. Mcbride is going to holders
 And whoever thinks differently is going to learn something, or we miss our guess