ALASKA FORUM
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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1906.
“REPUBLICANS” IN SELECT
MEETING SECURE SELECT
INELIGIBLE REPRESENTATIVES
The delegates chosen at the alleged
Republican meeting held at A. B. Hall
. last Monday cannot be seated at the
Republican Territorial Convention that
will be held at Juneau, July 14 to nom
inate a Republican candidate for con
gressional delegate. Under the law,
every man selected at this meeting is
ineligible to participate in that con
vention, owing to the fact that two of
them cannot vote at the election, and
the other is not a qualified elector at
the time set for the convention.
Section 3, of the “Act providing for
the election of a Delegate to the House
of Representatives from the Territory
of Alaska,” reads as follows:
“Sec. 3. That all male citizens of
the United States, twenty-one years of
age and over, who are actual and bona
fide residents of Alaska, and who have
been such residents CONTINOUSLY
DURING THE ENTIRE YEAR IM
MEDIATELY PRECEEDING THE
ELECTION, and who have been such
residents continously for thirty days
next preceeding the election in the pre
cinct in which they vote, shall be qua
lified to vote for the election of a Dele
gate from Alaska.”
The “delegates” selected have resid
ed CONTINOUSLY and IMMEDI
ATELY PRECEEDING the election
as follows:
M. E. 'Kookce: Left Rampart last
fall and spent the winter at his home
at Sharon, Penn. Mr. Koonce return
ed over the ice via Valdez this spring,
arriving here April 3, 1906. He will be
barely five months in the territory at
the time set for the election and there
fore not qualified to vote under the law.
H. F. Thumm: Left Rampart last
summer and spent last fall, winter and
spring in Seattle and Pittsburgh. Mr.
Thumm arrived here a few weeks ago
—Juue 18, and had not got acclimated
when thrust into local politics. He will
not be a resident under the Act by
some ten months and cannot cast a vote.
John Stanley: Left Rampart for
Seattle about May 20, 1905; spent two
months there and returned here about
August 1, 1905. While Mr. Stanley
will be able to cast his vote at the elec
tion, still he is not a qualified elector
on the date of the convention—July 14.
These -“delegates” chosen at this
select gathering are therefore not qua
lified electors under the law and cannot
be seated in the convention. They are
merely cheechakoes under this Act, and
the vast amount of scheming, wire-pul
ling and “framing up” secretly going
on the past two weeks all for nought.
The only qualification of a delegate at
this meeting, preeminent over all, was
that those slated mu.*t be “good Wick
ersham men,” and with the latter the
delegates chosen at this select gather
ing will be entitled to a seat only in the
gallery reserved for the 4 ‘rubber-necks.”
FOURTH RECESS APPOINTMENT
Should the news prove authentic re
garding the determination of President
Roosevelt to give Judge Wickersham
another recess appointment, making
the fourth given that official, it will
cause no surprise to those who have
kipt close watch on developments dur
ing the Wickersham controversy.
It has been authoritively stated that
the president had promised that if the
senate failed to confirm the judge this
session, he would not give him another
recess appoinement, but would name a
new man. This, taken with the state
ment made by the judge when called to
to Washington—that he would not re
turn until he left the capilal with his
confirmation in his pocket—gave this
assurance of the president weight.
It would appear, however, that the
president has again taken the bit, and
is not only over-riding the senate but is
bent on ignoring the wishes of the peo
ple of the Third division, as he likewise
forced Gov. Brady on the whole of Al
aska, and then in a few months was
compelled to request the resignation of
his appointee.
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