The Alaska Daily Empire

NOME TO HAVE A GOOD YEAR SAYS GRIGSBY

Rainy Season Promotes Prosperity in the Seward Peninsula Country

There will be a good gold output and plenty of prosperity at Nome this year on account of the rainy season they have had, according to Attorney-General George B. Grigsby, who returned today from a business trip to his old home.

Mr. Grigsby was a returning passenger on the Victoria and transferred to the Northwestern. He had spent several weeks at Nome, where he went on one of the first sailings from Seattle.

Political Meeting Exaggerated.

"The meeting of the Nome Democratic Club in which the resolutions approving the administration of Gov. J. F. A. Strong were discussed and passed was very much misrepresented in the dispatches from Nome," said Mr. Grigsby. "In the first place it was not called to discuss the Governorship matter at all, and there had been no attempt to get all the Democrats out except by those who favored the appointment of the Governor. I had made no attempt to work up a meeting, or to nurse public sentiment on the question at all.

"Wickershamites and some of the strong adherents of Gov. Strong had by plain fabrications and repeated assertions convinced some of the Democrats at Nome that the Democratic organization was in close league with the Shackleford Republicans. Others admit that they are not in touch with governmental conditions away from their home, and they feel that they should stand by a public official who was a resident of their town for so many years.

When the first vote was presented therefore, it showed 27 for Gov. Strong and 22 against him. Later in the evening when the Strong men admitted 12 new members the vote stood 39 for Strong and 22 against him. In Nome the action of the Club was not regarded as seriously as it was represented to some of the people outside of that section.

For Sulzer Also.

"Do not think that the action of the Democratic Club in this matter indicates opposition to Delegate Sulzer. The people of Nome as those in other sections of Alaska think Sulzer is making a rattling good Delegate."

Mr. Grigsby said that he found public sentiment at Seward, Valdez, Cordova and elsewhere in the Third Division very strongly in favor of the attitude of Delegate Sulzer. National Committeeman Donohoe and the Democratic organization.