The Nome nugget., 1922-11-18

| ing them the truth.
 Some day, if you'll see that
 don't lose my job. I'll put you wise | to the real dope" that's often put over by editors in "opolOgetical gags disguised as "generalfza
 tions" that will make you sit up
 and get suspicious every time you
 hear or see that word.
 Now I'm going to tell you what know about Politics and Politic- ians; although. some of you know lot more that's true-you would- Tt tell me. When people say. that money talks for Politicians" they don't mean that politicians are deaf and dumb. not by any means. nor are they referring to cash register con-
 versations. they are referring to dough" not the sourdough that can cuss, nor the kind that sours | and you make pancakes out of. they mean political leaven, real dough"
 the kind you buy pancakes with, and that the political vote brokers got the corner on votes, or else cor nered the voters and put some of
 this political leaven" in to the
 .political dope" which got the dough" to working and you know
 what "leavened dough" can do, don't you? We'll. any how some times they let enough of it run over 1 to a few of the fellows. who, for a while, can afford to change their diet from pancakes to beefsteaks. Some politicians. that is. honest politicians" remind me of Alaskan i prospectors.-'honest politicians" according to my opinion, (they are i all honest according to their own)
 are either honest-to-God-"sta ers," or jumpers" they're seldom
 if ever d-goose-hunters.'' for they're to shrewd to take chances;
 so they generally make pretty sure
 of their little plank" before they
 patent their pet slogans" that
 "stakes" the little "berg" they call
 their platform"
 The color of a man (if it's in
 him) will show up by politics, just
 like "color" in prospecting dirt" by washing, politics" like wash irg" will do it every time; and the "man" like the "pan.' will either show "pay" or prove skunk" Now unless man is pretty sure he can stand the washing" will prove pay" to pay a grub stake" he had better keep out of politics, and I I've noticed, that unless it's pretty sure to be a real "pay streak" the
 ''wise ones" do.
 For politics is not proof Of
 what a man is. politics is proof of
 what a man ought not to be, but
 sometimes, in spite of it. he comes
 out alright. For it's not politics,
 but what politics does to the man
 that proves him.
 | It didn't take them so long here I to decide the winning candidates.
 az some people seemed to think
 it would; but may be some body got "wise" and hurried them along
 before they got mixed as to who
 they really were. Now that the
 winning candidates are know every
 body is happy. even the ones that
 boosted against them.
 If congratulations are still in order, let us extend ours to the de-
 feated candidates. Think what an | advantage they have over the fel- l lows that won; for now it can't be proved just where they would have
 fallen down on the job. while they may live to see the fellows who
 '.beat them to it'-shown up. And now I sincerely hope. that tliey prove that old saying true "The best man wins," If not, hope they prove 1t any how. just to make some of you fellows feel like skunk-pan for hoping they would n't. z We'll, any way. I'm glad some ckeechako beat a sourdough to a -frazzle, even if he was only a Chee- chako in politics. never would have believed 1t possible. for he did it like veteran. but he told me so himself. <hd there's seldom an