Alaska Elects Bull Moose.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 15, 1912:
Wickersham Congratulated by Dixon as First Progressive Congressman.
    FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 14.— Complete returns of yesterday's election from Fairbanks and neighboring mining camps, the most populous section of Alaska, gave James Wickersnam, Progressive, for delegate to Congress, 789, Kazis Krauczunas, Socialist, 752; William A. Gilmore, Republican, 156; Robert W. Jennings, Democrat, 151.
    Bull Moosers, State and National, were filled with delight yesterday over the first victory of their party in a statewide election. To be sure, it was in a Territory, not in a State, that the election was held, but to all intents and purposes it meant the same. It was the re-election of ex-Judge James Wickersham as Territorial Delegate to Congress from Alaska on the Roosevelt ticket that caused the joy.
    "I hear that the Socialists ran second and the Republicans third," said Senator Joseph M. Dixon at the Bull Moose headquarters in the Hotel Manhattan. "This shows what way the wind is blowing. Why, the whole thing is amazing. I sometimes am afraid of believing that the reports that come to me from our workers and the things I hear from the man in the street are true. They seem too good."
    Then before entering an automobile with George W. Perkins for a trip to Sagamore Hill, where the council fire was again kindled last night, Senator Dixon sat down and penned this message to ex-Judge Wickersham:
    Congratulations on being the first Progressive Congressman elected in the first State-wide election held since the organization of the National Progressive Party.
    The Democrats did not nominate a candidate for delegate to the House in Alaska.
    It was learned yesterday that in the coming campaign Gov. Hiram W. Johnson of California, nominee for Vice President on the Bull Moose ticket, would do most of the big speech making in the East. Col. Roosevelt will be sent on the Western circuit, where he is expected to make a bigger hit with the audiences than he would nearer home. Gov. Johnson is a forceful, magnetic speaker. He will make his Eastern debut at the Bull Moose State Convention in Syracuse on Sept. 5.