HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday
ing Co., Hyder, Alaska. -
b.v^the Hyder Miner Publish
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at
Hyder, Alaska, November 4,1919, under the Act of March
3, 1879.
CHAS. F. SANDFORD. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW
MADE FOR POLITICIANS
If Congress had intended that
the Governor of the Territory
should be a Territorial officer
it would have provided for his
his election by the people of j
the Territory and not his ap
pointment by the President. I
The Alaska Legislature in pass
ing the law which ostensibly
gives Alaska voters an oppor-1
tunity to express their choice
for Governor is designed to
thwart the purpose of Congress
as expressed in the Organic
Act.
However, it is only in theory |
that the Alaska election law
givi'8 the people an opportun- i
ity to express their choice for
Governor. It gives them a
ch.ance to choose between
those, if there are more than
one, who will nominate them
selves for Governor a yeaf-cr
a*yhar-and-a-half before a vac
ancy in the office occurs. It
does-not give them the oppo:
runity to draft the services of
the man whom they think best
fitted for the position. That :s
one of the objections to the
Alaska election law. Under it
a mrtn nominates himself for an
offi-e. and the people are given
a chance to choose from among
thoe who have nominated
themselves.
Jt would improve the situation
if.toe had, as they have in some
- .of u the States, conventions
where the candidates who re
ceive the highest number or
votes and those who receive the j
next highest are placed on the
•> party primary ballot and
;where independent candidates
may be nominated by petition
of those who favor the party
platform but not the conven
- tion’s choice^ of majority ana
minority candidates. It would
help the situation if the pri
mary election laW* required
that to get one’s name on the
party primary ballot it would
be necessary to file a petition
in which the petitioners would
signify their purpose to vote
for the man named in the pe
tition. Under either of these
circumstances the man voted
for would represent something
more than a self-selection.
Under the law as it now is it
John Doe is the only man who
wants a particular republican
nomination for an office he be
comes the candidate of that
party rgardless of his fitness
for the position or of the peo
ples choice for it. Richard Roe
may become the Democratic
nominee under similar condit
ions. The people are then
given an opportunity to choo; e
between these two office seek
ers rather than to vote for
their actual choice for the of
fice. They are not given the op
portunity to draft the services
of whomever they may thinK
to be the man best suited for
the position.
The primary election law as
it is in Alaska is a delusion and
a snare for the same reason
that many States are amend
ing their laws so that others
than office seekers may be se- '
lected by the voters for public
position. Our law turns the
whole thing over to politicians j
and those who want offices.
That is particularly true be
cause it requires that the choice
be made so long before the vac
ancies occur that the average
citizen has not begun to think
seriously on the subject. The
politicians and office-seekers i
are a ways thinking about such
matters. Therefore they have
every opportunity to take snap
judgement on the people. To
attempt to ascertain the choice
of the people now, under this
misfit legislation, for the Gov- I
ernorship a year and a half
from n<yyv is simply absurd.—
Juneau fempire.
Alaska coal Is selling in Jun- !
eau at $13.00 per ton.
Forty residents of Wrangell j
have subscribed $30,000 for
the erection of a cold storage
plant at that place.
I
ALASKAN MINE
PRESIDENT UNDER ~
ARREST AS FUGITIVE
Sidney Drake, president oi
the Kasaan Gold Company, the
properties of which are on
Prince of Wales Island, was re
cently arrested in Seattle at the
request of «he St. Paul, Minn,
authorities on a sharge of be- j
' njf a fugiij /;? from justice
: Dispatches state that Drake !
Iwas accused in St | Paul of sel-!
ling securities vithout i\ lic
ense.
Drake was later released on
$200 bail pending the arrival
of extradition papers Drake is
a former Deputy United States
Marshal 4nd widely known in
the Territory..
TOO COLD
John McFarlane announces
that no more water deliveries
will be made until the temper
ature is again above 50.
Freighting and wood hauling
also have been suspended on
account of the extreme cold.—
Dawson News, January 25.
The total value of the seal
skins obtained from the Priblof
Islands in the 134 years since
their discovery, may be safely
estimated at $500,000,000.
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