i VOTE FOR ;
Edward A. Rasmu&son
For Republican National Committeeman
In The April Primaries
His Election Will Insure Better Development and
Party Organization For Alaska.
ANTHONY E. KARNES
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
COMMISSIONER of EDUCATION
SUBJECT TO TERRITORIAL PRIMARIES IN APRIL
YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED
j VOTE FOR
FRANK H. FOSTER
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ALASKA
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JAMES WICKERSHAM
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Republican Candidate for re-election as
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Frank J. I’eratrovich
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REPRESENTATIVE ERGM THE FIRST DIVISION
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Richard E, liardcastle
FOR
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Thereby protesting the domination of our fisheries by
O'Malley. And help to return Alaska to Alaskans
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Norman R. Walker
For Democratic Senator in the Territorial Legislature.
At all times and under all conditions a
Liberal with the best interests of the
Territory always at heart.
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-VOTE FOI
Adolpho H. Ziegler
Democratic Candidate
For
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
I appeal to all Liberal Alaskans to support
my candidacy as a direct expression of opposition
to the continued mis - ruling of Alaska through a
combination ot politicians and FEDERAL BUREAUS
My record at the Legislature is my recommendation
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We Oppose Domination by the Lice of Egypt
Former United States Senator James E. Reed
>: of Missouri must have had in mind the numerous
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> bureaus, government boards, etc., that set up and
‘ enforce the laws of Alaska and who have come to
J believe that it is nigh criminal to criticise them.
> He spoke in part as follows:
“Superimposed upon this mass of laws, ap
J pointive officers, boards, commissions, and bu
J reaus, are authorized to make rules the violation
S of which are visited by heavy penalties and hence
^ have the effect of statutes. To enforce these in
numerable | laws, regulations and rules, a horde of
t<tiicials, tax-gatherers, snoopers and spies swarm
over the land like the lice of Egypt devouring the
substance of the people, prying into their private
affairs, regulating their trade and business.
“What wonder that the average man has
come to regardithe law as a sword of oppression
rather than a shield of protection.”
What protection has Alaska citizenry ,in the
fisheries where they are blackmailed by the ap
pointees of O’Malley? What protection have the
loggers and lumber mills in the attempted sale of
Alaska’s forests to the pulp interests without
protection to the people of the Territory? What
protection have the citizens when this gang of
political racketeers remove the primary election
laws and place them in the tender care of the
conscienceless prostitutors of Alaska and her
resources?
These are questions and facts that Mr. and
Mrs. Citizen must face in the coming primary
election—there is no dodging—the answer will
elect or defeat several candidates. 1
We Still Swear ki, By and With Republicans
In the past twelve years we have worked for,
, supported and elected candidates on the Republi
! can ticket. We have never crossed our ballots to
■ elect a Democrat. We have opposed the domina
' ‘.ion of our fisheries and forests by bureaucratic,
! autocratic zealots who, drunk with their brief
authority, have insulted the intelligence of Alas
ka’s citizens, robbed them of their just due and
taken unto themselves autonomy that rightly
belongs to the citizens of Alaska. We opposed the
election of Herbert Hoover and elected delegates
o the last Republican National Convention as
Curtis-for-President delegates. We have been
hastised for so doing in the past and have never
een forgiven. We have pointed out the injustices
)f Henry O’Malley in his administration and have
been further chastised for daring to look at cock
robin because he was a Hoover appointee.
We are less inclined to continue receiving the
venom and animosity of Republican federal em
ployees in Alaska who come to Alaska as political
debts and then turn about and vote for Demo
cratic candidates, furnish financial aid to them
I in gratitude for their appointments. We are not
•cne bit less opposed to the discriminatory injus
tices practiced upon Alaska and its residents by
the Commissioner of Fisheries and v/e will not
compromise one iota with him for political favor
or for the remission of our sins due to opposition
to injustices of the blackmailing system which
has grown up under his control of our fisheries.
The candidates we support we do of our own
free will. They owe us nothing. We have no politi
cal strings tied to them to hinder them in the
performance of their several duties. They are
free agents elected to work for the good interest
’ of the Territory and for no other purpose. If they
: can do so without fighting the administration or
by showing logically to the administration the
correctness of our claims, well and good. If they
cannot convince them with honest facts, then we
expect them to crack the whip or use a club—any
thing to show that after all Alaskans are freeborn
citizens and that they are tired of the misrule by
egotistical, political nincompoops who come to
Alaska as paid-up political debts and then who
immediately begin to prostitute their authority.
If this is anti-administration, it is because of the
wrongs that have been perpetrated upon the
territory.
If the national administration does not see
fit to make changes whereby the Territory may
be allowed to develop without the hampering re
strictions of the 57 varieties of bureaus with their
prohibitions and inhibitions; if the territorial
politicians continue to rob widows and children
of their rightful protection from the territory
raid other wrongs without alleviation—we cannot
promise that ever again will there be a dominant
political party in Alaska. The Indian voters are
d'sgusted with the treatment that has been ac
corded them by those they have helped to elect
to office. They are disgusted with the disgustingly
un-American tactics of the political rackeeters ot
Juneau who operate under the guise of the Demo
cratic Party. There will be a“Boston teaparty” in
Alaska when the electorate will enter the elec
tions and throw overboard all the rot and whatnot
that clutters up the pure air of the Territory.
This is not a threat—it is a solemn promise.
Evidence of which is in our refusal to support
Senator Dimond in any way, or any of the Con
nors-Troy ticket. We refuse to oppose the Ziegler
Walker-Hardcastle combination because of their
records and because of the calibre of their opposi
tion. Our friends who have stepped out of the
Republican primaries will support liberals—for
liberals do not become immediately reactionary.
In the future we will abide by our own conscience
and perhaps lack conscience when we remember
the conscienceless acts of past campaigns.
Primary Law
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Recently Tony Dimond extolled the merits cf t
the convention system and condemned as worth
less, useless and unworkable the primary election
system, at Cordova. He debated the subject with I
Judge Hill at Cordova. It was declared that Judge |
Hill met with very kindly reception for his pre-j
sentation and Senator Dimond lost favor even j
with his own Democratic constituents. His ac-1
ceptance of the endorsement of the Territorial
Democratic Convention also pointed to his desire
for political favor despite the prohibitions of the
('primary law. Too long have Alaskans fought for
, j the freedom of political action to look lightly
11 upon any effort to deprive them of their elective
► privileges. And the women are up in arms and in
j: no uncertain terms will show this candidate that
► before his own personal ambitions, before his own
party demand for continuance in power, comes
the rights of all citizens of Alaska and the good
interests of the Territory.
We remember his effort at codification of the
school laws which sought to give the Governor
the right to appoint six members of the Terri
torial Board of Education, with power to discharge
the Commissioner of Education at will. We re
member that Editor Pegues characterized this as
a “non-political, non-partisan” gesture. The
Board of Governor and four senators suddenly
became partisan when it refused to continue in
office a commissioner who was notoriously poli
tical in his efforts. So Tony with the Editor con
ceived of the plan to restore the shorn power of
the defunct Commissioner.
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For the Benefit of the Blackmailed
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For many years we have charged through our
\ I columns of the autocratic abuses and misrule by
* i the bureau of fisheries. Its officials have black
| {mailed law abiding citizens into pleading “guilty”
| to violations of laws and regulations of which
they were not guilty. But, in order that they
3 might retain use of their fish boats and gear,
v in the hope that they might strike a run of fish
\ and thereby keep clear of the toils of the law
| they would plead “guilty.”
I I The history of the Clyde Sheldon case is on?
in point. In October 1929 Sheldon fished in a
‘ closed area,” was arrested and fined. Too late it
was discovered that the area was not a fish stream
nor in the closed area and consequently the facts
charged in the information did not constitute
a crime.
The Committee on Claims in Congress said:
“From these facts it appears that the claimant
Clyde Sheldon was not violating a Federal Statue
when he was arrested and that therefore, his
prosecution and the subsequent fine, remission of
which he is seeking, was illegal.”
A letter from the Attorney General of the
United States relating to this case is published on
another column. We point out that the makers
purporting to close the area in which Sheldon
was fishing at the time of his arrest, “were placed
by mistake by some person or persons unknown
to me and that no record exists showing when or
by whom they were placed,” according to the
Secretary of Commerce. We point out that no
markers are placed in any of the waters of Alas
ka except by employees of the Bureau of Fisheries
under direction of Capt. O’Connors, Warden Den
nis Winn or Commissioner of Fisheries O’Malley
cr subject to their orders. There was no mistake
about the markers being up—the mistake was in
the zealousness of the bureau of fisheries in its
efforts to make a record of convictions to show
the department that the fishermen of Alaska hold
the rules and regulations in contempt.
If the Committee on Claims examined all the
cases in Alaska wherein fishermen have plead
guilty to violating the laws, they will remit man.v
fines. Yet there are men in Alaska who condemn
us for holding in contempt any man or group oi
men who hold no respect for the rights of citizen
ship in Alaska and who hold themselves to be bui
a little lower than the angels.
DRIFTWOOD ,
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Inquires have been received
concerning the following persons
supposed to be in Alaska:
PAULUS PIETER VREESWUK- -
❖ Bom in Hie Hague, Holland,
February 11, 1880; left St. Paul,
Minnesota seven years ago on
his way to Alaska.
ALFRED A. HOYT—An Ameri
can, age fifty-four years, and his
wife Ruth, age thirty years, a
iong with their three children,
a girl, Mary Virginia, age eigal
years, and twins, a boy, Johi
Alfred, and a girl, Thomie Lee
both age six, left the City o.
Glendale, California for, (as pe.
the inference of Hoyt) Russia
but recent developments strong
ly indicate possible foul play,
while on the other hand we have
been informed that Hoyt was
seen in Juneau. The family has
not been heard from in a year.
Any one having information
about the above persons, please
communicate with the Govern
or’s Office, Juneau, Alaska.
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N. Y. Delegates
Not Instructed
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The biggest block of votes in
the Democratic national con
vention, New York State’s nine
ty-four, is not going to be tied
up to any candidate until the
very last moment before the
party assembly opens in Chicago
This is the news thrown into
the conglomeration of political
facts and guesses by John F.
Curry, boss of Tammany Hall,
who spoke with assurance given
by expected control of the dele
gation and the manner of its
instruction.
Until then, he made it plain,
the ninety-four cannot be added
to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 123,
nor to the Alfred E. Smith zero
score which may soon boast ?,
solid figure, nor to any other
candidate. Curry added the
cryptic statement:
“New York had the Demorcat
ic convention in 1924. It had a
candidate in 1928, New York
doesn’t want to hog everything.”
Newspaper men invited to
Curry’s unusual press confer
ence bubbled with questions.
Did this mean New York would
vote for another than Roosevelt
or Smith? No, said Mr. Curry,
it did not.
Roosevelt’s score took a mod
est step pward, and an unex
pected one. Despite predictions
that Maine’s delegation of
twelve would be uninstructed,
the leaders changed their minds
and the state convention voted
286 to 245 to instruct for the
New York governor.
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Dance at Sales’ Inn. Good
music. Lots of Pep! Sat. April 9.
| LAWS TO PERMIT
TIMBER COMBINES
URGER BY WILBUR
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Legislation to permit agree
ments between producers in the
oil, gas and timber industries
with a view to controlling pro
duction and avoiding waste was
urged before a Senate committee
by Secretary Wilbur.
Insofar as “natural resource'’
industries are concerned, he
favored the Nye bill to enable
the Federal Trade Commission
to approve agreements adopted
by an industry and give them
> legally binding effect.
' The secretary of the interior
added some provision should be
included requiring the agree
ment to become inoperative if it
produces coercion on a member
of the industry or results in ex
orbitant prices.
President Hoover in his an
jnual message recommended
Congress consider changing th3
I antitrust laws along this line.
Conscious of Waste
Mr. Wilbur said he is con
scious of the fact that the meth
ods by which the government is
now seeking to control natural
resource production “are not
only inadequate but wasteful.”
“They are not bringing the re
turns they should,” he said.
| Under the bill the commission
would be the government agency
passing on trade agreements'
drawn up by an industry.
Mr. Wilbur suggested it might
be well if a measure dealing on
ly with natural resources were
enacted to cover what he de
scribed as an “emergency peri
! od.” He expressed the view that
such a bill would have a better
chance of speedy enactment.
In answer to a question from
Senator Steiwer, Republican,
Oregon, who also is keenly in
terested in such legislation, M’\
Wilbur said the government has
a direct interest in controlling
production as an owner of enor
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mous quantities of natural re
sources.
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Don’t forget the Dance at
Sales’ Inn, Saturday, April 9.
VOTE FOR
F. J. Baranovich
Democratic Candidate for
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE
Before the April Primaries, 1932
A Resident with the interests of Residents
at heart. Your vote Will be appreciated.
He’s Not
BUYING
this near
jgUT he never did buy! He’s un-American be
cause he contributes nothing to American
commerce and industry. America is a working
nation and a buying nation, boasting the highest
standard of living in the world. Americans must
maintain this standard. We will not have—and
will not deserve—prosperity, if we continue lo
pare our needs down to the level of the worthless
citizen above.
lour neighbors still wear clothes, shoes and hats;
the Butcher and Grocer still receive shipments of
merchandise and their trucks are delivering it
somewhere. Must be a leak in the depression
somewhere. Visit our advertisers and see if we
are not right.