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WHO TO VOTE FOR
On November 2nd, 1926 Vote for
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES. For
Relegate to Congress, DAN A.
SUTHERLAND, of Juneau.
For SENATOR, WILL A. STEEL,
of Juneau.
For REPRESENTATIVES:
CHASj. A. BENJAMIN, of Wrangell
C11AS. B. FERGUSON, of Craig
WILLIAM L. PAUL, of Ketchikan
WILLIAM A. WORTH, Petersburg
Do not vote for representatives cf
the BANKS, to-wit: First National
Bank of Juneau; Bank of Peters
burg, and agent for the PETERS
BURG PACKING COMPANY of Pe
tersburg; BANK OF ALASKA, of
Wrangell. ALLIED INSURANCE, of
Juneau.
Representatives of banks do not
give much consideration to the
needs and wishes of the people. The
first consideration they bow to is the
power of money.
The efforts of Delegate Suther
land needs no comment from us to
the labor constituency. His effort
has incurred the enmity of the fi
nancial interests. Judging a man by
the enemies he has lined up against
him shows in what line he is work
ing. Did Sutherland ignore the de
sire of the mass of the people of the
territory, did he oppose the wish for
a better control of the fisheries, the
rank and file would desert him in
starter. Did he favor the “reserva
tion” system of parcelling out our
fisheries to the favored few, as Sec.
Hoover attempted to do a couple of
years ago, the fishermen and the la
boring men would not go across the
street to vot for him. What is
true of the general run of electors
in the Territory is true of the so
called “mass voting” of the Indians.
The record Dan Sutherland has
made in his term in Congress is the
record his friends and true Alas
are proud of. He has fought a good
fight, he has kept the faith, he has
represented the smaller man and the
bigger man fairly. Were heless fair
in his work and effort to truly re
present the Territory, he would not
have incurred the enmity of the fi
nancial interests of Seattle, San
Francisco and Chicago.
The legislative ticket are men
tried and true. Everyone has labor
in the Territory and each cne is ac
quainted with the problems which
cause depletion of fish and popula
tion. They are fair minded men.
They are capable men. They are men
who have minds of their own and
they owe no allegiance to any bank
or corporate interest. They will go
to the legislature with thought of
the best interest of the Territory at
iarge and their efforts will be bent
that way. For any man to say that
Charley Benjamin will knuckle down
to dictation from any man is to de
clare him a veritabel cheechakoo.
Who says that William Worth
will come and go at the beck and
call of a dictator does not know
Worth. So on with the rest of the
Republican ticket. They are men
with thought of the best interest of
the Territory first, last and always.
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THE BANKERS EICKET
The Independent ticket is well
named. It is independent financial
ly. It is a banking institution. It
can have its Cashiers, assistant
cashiers, presidents and vice presi
dents and board of directors and not
have to go outside of its ticket so to
do. And for good measure it can
put on cannery agents at that.
Tony Dimond, attorney for the
Alaska Packers Association and for
Booth Fisheries fought for their in
terests and had no regard for the
constituency he was supposed to re
present. If elected he will do the
same thing again. It.is natural to
believe that a man representing a
cannery will give their wishes pre
ference over the will of the people
who put him in offlice. Ed Locken
is the Petersburg representative of
tne Petersburg Packing Company.
Is it logical to suppose that an agent
of a cannery will propose or support
legislation inimica to the interests
of the company he represents? A
vote for Mr. Locken is to support
the will of the canneries. If the will
of the canneries is the wish of the
people then a vote for him is well
spent—otherwise, why vote against
youi interests? The entire ticket of
Cashiers and assistants is one that
is opposed to the general run of ci
tizens. Why vote for them?
. WHAT SUTHERLAND HAS
DONE FOR PETERSBURG
While a few of ou^ local politi
cians are opposing Dan Sutherland’s
election it might be well for them
to consider just what he has done
for this town during the three
terms he has served in Congress.
Two of his public act should be
enough to give him the solid vote
of this town.
First. He prevented the closing
of the Prince Rupert Market to Am
erican fishermen. He defeated the
biT for closing Prince Rupert alone
and unaided. He had all the pow
or of the Chambers of Commerce
and the transportation companies
to contend with but he succeeded in
defeating their aims and saved the
market to Petersburg halibut fisher
men.
Second. He obtained the appro
priation for deepening Wrangell
Nai rows. This was secured by his
own personal eflorts. It means
much to Petersburg. We call upon
the oppositian politicians to dispute
the statements contained herein.
When men set out to belittle Mr.
Sutherland and his work in Congress
they are likely to overlook the pub
lic benefits that he has brought to
them. But in politics men forget
| fa,mess and think only of injuring
| the candidate to whom they are op
11 used.
UNDER NO OBLIGATIONS.
It is being stated that the Repub
lican nominees for the Territorial
Legislature and Delegate Dan Su
therland are under the domination
of William L. Paul. Deliberate lies
nu an nothing to the bankers and
cashiers and their following. The
Indian vote is going to Delegate Su
therland and to the Republican nom
inees because the Indians believe in
the sincerity of the purpose of these
men. Were these men to align
themselves with the cannery and
banking element, the Indian would
look for other candidates to repre
sent them. Shortly after the past
convention of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood at Hydaburg, the Em
pire along with other papers, chortl
ed over the defeat of the “Paul
candidates” inferring that Paul had
.ost influence with the Indians. To
the logical thought, this defeat is
an expression of the mind of theln
rtian. Inspite of all the effort and
influuence of Paul his candidate did
not win the election. In othei
words the Indian does his own think
ing.
As between Sutherland and his
opponent, the Indians know both
n>en. Probably the Indians knew
]\|arquam around Skagway and
Plaines far better than the literati
of the subsidized press will admit.
Tt the Indian mind one cannot com
pile gold with diamond in quaity
a^id size. Take a triangle in a
Republican primary running Rust
gard, Wickersham and Sutherland,
and it would be hard to predict the
turn of the vote. As to control of
the “illiterate” vote under such an
election, we leave that for the lit
orati to cogitate over.
The only obligations under which
the Republican nominees are under
if elected is to vote upon measures
upon the principle of right and
J wrong and what is best for the
I Territory . In other words so long as
they work from the principle of
light (and not from the right prin
cipal) the electors, Indian or white
will have no quarrel with them.
(Continued from page one)
DAN SUTHERLAND
past term of Congress he had secur
ed the passage of fourteen laws of
which he himself was the author of
nine. He made no mention at this
time to the general appropriation
measures.
He called attention to the rec
tangular system of homesteading
v;h:cli has now been remedied by
law. The Postal Service law which
permits postmasters to pay contract
ors. Of the law which now per
il-.its the exportation of timber
Uniform registration of mail mat
ter up to $1,000 which will be of
benefit to miners especially in their
shipment of gold. The law had to
• be made genaral to apply to the en
; tire country .This law will be passed
by the next Congress.
Speaking of the Roads appropri
ations he showed conclusively by
document that his work before Con
gress has been maliciously misrep
resented. That through his efforts
the cut proposed by Col. Greely was
one that would have given the Ter
ritory but $200,000 a year.. That
he did not claim all the credit for
the securing of these appropriations
as others worked also while he as
representative to Congress had some
influence in these matters.
He declared that it was not his
len'ef that the consolidation of the
various bureaus would be success
ful as the system had been given a
trial under Sec. Fall and was forth
with abandoned. However he would
not oppose the proposition if it was
to be tried.
ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
The present campaign is the
train child of the Alaska Fish Trust
through their henchmen Donohue
and Dimond, attorneys for the Alas
ka Packers’ Association and the
Booth Fisheries. That they engin
eered the deal whereby Frank Boyle
democratic at the primaries entered
only to defeat Adams of Nome and
then to withrdraw in favor of the
“indeoendent” candidate.
That a slush fund of $6,200 had
been obtained in Seattle from the
“interests” with the promise of more
in event the red salmon pack were
successful this summer . He ridi
culed the idea of selling the princi
ples of the party of great Demo
unt ic leaders contingent on the run
of red salmon in Alaska.
Speaking of the open competitive
market he stated that through his
efforts alone was the closing of the
Prince Rupert market prevented:
’!'hat the influence of the Chambers
of Commerce was aligned with the
forces demanding the closing of the
port of Rupert. His efforts were di
rected toward the masses that would
be effected by such legislation.
Referring to the Hearst press
wtiich carried the article alleged by
the press of Alaska to have defamed
the Territory he declared that it was
prepared by an able reporter of the
Hearst forces and that he (Suther
land) had made but two miner
changes, and that said article was
based on Grand Jury reports, re
ports of civic bodies, etc. That ev
ery word is of official record. He
quoted the petitions of the .White
and Indian mothers of Ketchikan,
and further quoted Mayor Torry
whose answer to the mothers was
that he couldn’t tell the difference
between decent and sporting women
as they all dressed alike and painted
alike. The Bristol Bay moral con
ditions as reported by a grand jury
composed of eleven men and eleven
women was not fit to be quoted be
fore and audience. The legislative
resolutions, and the grand jury
reports were supplemented by per
sonal letters depicting oenditions
that were intolerable. That the only
way to eradicate such evils was to
turn the light of pitiless publicity
upon those conditions . In this case
in the Bristol Bay section the ad
vertising given that country reacted
for the betterment of that section
according to the Coppernol report.
! That where thirty drug addicts and
| other criminals weer taken out pre
I viously, this year there were none.
The packers were more careful of
health conditions of the men they
sent to the Territory.
“The unjust attacks on the Alas-'
ak judiciary.” These officials were
tifed before the fairest tribunal in
the United States by such men as
Senators Cummins, Overman and
Means. Men who by their leal train
ing and ability were able to sit on
the bench of the Supreme court,
hhat in the defrauding of John
Frame of his election they took the
view of the principle involved and
would not tolerate such a steal.
Literacy Test. The Indians do
not control elections as the vote
of the Indians was on a ratio of 1
to 9. The White Literacy Bill for
voters was the child of Senator Di
mond find was for the express pur
pose of disenfranchising the Indians
and through the system of placing
disqualifying power in the hands of
partizan judges many other citizens
would be affected by the enactment
of that or such a law. The enact
ment of a literacy law is alright if
fairly applied. He explained the
New York law which is the newest
and most drastic law enacted, but
which protected the right of electors
as well. He further showed that
no state other than Southern have
any such legislation as proposed. A
challenge was issued to the opposi
tion ticket to explain what they
mean by a “fair test.”
Explaining what he believed to
De the trouble with Alaska he used
,lie story of General Smedley Butler
ind his fight to enforce the laws of
Philadelphia. The analagy was very
forceful and not to be refuted. The
fight made by Butler being one
in which attempt was made to ap
ply enforcement of the laws of the
land to rich as well as poor. But
thai, seemingly the higher financial i
luting a man had the greater was
the possibility that he would be
C'Uiside the enforcement. The same
being true in Alaska—size of gill
uets, seines and extra seines but no
limitations on traps as far as size,
length, Jiggers, etc., was concern- (
ed. The special interests in Alaska
as well as in Philadelphia being of
the special favor recipients.
That so long as he was permitted
to represent the Territory in Con- |
gresa he would fight for the prin- 1
ciples of right for the masses he re
presented.
Beach Combings
By AHN-KUTTY
“Let your conscience be your
guide” is good medicine, but it is of
ten jostled to the back ground by
its inward competitor, Big Business.
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November 2 is close at hand and
November 2 is election day. Busi
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working people who value their own
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