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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920
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TERRITORIAL CONSTABULARY
Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of
Alaska, is a strong advocate of the
establishment of a territorial consta
bulary, based somewhat on the plan
of the Mounted Police system of
Canada. There is much to be said
in favor of this idea. Just because
our neighbor—Canada—has adopted
the Mounted Police System, is no ad
equate reason why Alaska should not
also employ it. And yet we have
heard this argument used against its
adoption—a very narrow view to take,
we should say.
Every old time Klondiker knows
about the Mounted Police of the
Northwest territory. They compos
ed a picked body of men. They were
fine specimens of physical manhood,
strong, self-reliant and brave. They
performed more than ordinary police
duties. They covered territory, in
the performance of their duties. They
kept law and order; they performed
deeds of mercy; they made the coun
try comparitively safe for a musher
to pass through.
On the other side of the line—in
Alaska—the,situation is entirely dif
ferent. To our knowledge there have
been a. half dozen foul murders com
mitted along the Fairbanks trail, and
im not a single instance has the guilty
party been brought to justice. In the
Cook Inlet country and ILiamna re
gions, there have been another half
dozen murders committed and the
guilty, if alive, are still at large, free
to roam the wide world at will.
In Alaska, outside of incorporated
towns, the people rely for protection
apon the United States Marshals and
their deputies. Now, as everybody
knows, a deputy marshal is not a pol
ice man, and disdains to do police
duty. A deputy marshal will serve
papers and warrants of arrest, and the
like. In other words, after a crime
is committed, he will seek, armed with
a warrant of arrest, to capture the
offender, but the search is superfi
cial and limited, because of a lack o
funds.
And after the suspect leaves, the
specific region where the deputy
marshal operates, the pursuit is eith
er ended, or turned over to another
deputy in another district, and so on.
This is not to imply that the deputy
^marshals are incompetent or fail to
i perform their duties. Not at all. It
; is the fault of the system, not of the
©ficers.
Then, again, the marshals and de
puties hold their ofices during the
tenure of a political administration.
Hence, when an administration chang
es, the marshals and deputies likewise
change. And the new marshals and
deputies have no wash to complete
work willed to them by their predeces
ers. Hence, many criminal matters
are peremptorily dropped, when a pol
itical change is made.
A territorial constabulary, to be
effective, should be a non-political
system Tenure of office should be
based upon perormance of duty, rath
er than upon a republican or demo
cratic success at the polls.
BACKSLIDING POLITICS
In these days of reds and radicals
®f varying degrees and of suspicions
•f disloyalty to the beautiful princi
ples upon which the greatest nation
cn earth has been founded, it is the
duty of politicians and of all citizens,
in fact, to place the politics of the
country on a higher basis. There
are in the United States two greal
parties today. There may be others
later, but now there are only twc
potential contenders for control ol
administration. Leaders of those part
ies, in order to hold the confidence ol
the people, should conduct them anc
the affairs of the organization in e
manner that would be an example ol
loyalty, personal disinterestedness anc
high mindedness.
As upholders of the law, they shoulc
leave no doubt that they are. It is
the ever pi’esent charge of the Reds
that the laws are made to be violat
ed at will by the chosen few and to
the detriment of the masses. Wheth
er true or false it should certainly be
the aim of every great party to live
up strictly to every law and it is not
right to so show it up and then have
it changed.
At the last session of the territor
ial legislature a -primary ylaw was
passed for Alaska. It may be criti
cized justly and may be a very faulty
enactment. Possibly it should be re
pealed and replaced by another, if
Alaska wants a primary law at all.
But the fact remains it is the law to
day. The intent of the law was
founded on sound reasoning, whether
%
or not it has been worked out proper
ly. The idea was to get away from
gang politics, or the suspicion of gang
politics; to eliminate the bosses, if
there are any.
It therefore behooves all political
parties to observe that law to the let
ter, to aid in bringing about the in
tent—the elimination of dictation.
And such being the case it comes
somewhat as a shock to learn that the
Democrats of the First Division,
through the powers that be at Juneau
from whence all blessings flow, have
issued a call for a “Caucus Conven
tion” to be held there February 16
at which time an “agreement” will
be reached as to the candidates foi
the territorial legislature and othei
offices in the North.
Jo,
It matters not whether the conven
tion system is the better or not. I
matters not whether the Alaska prim
ary law is a fact or a fizzle. It is the
law and as such should be upheld tc
the letter by the two great parties
And the holding of any “caucus” con
vention savors much of the same ole
method of the backroom selection o
candidates. For success to be at
tained at the next election other meth
ods must be pursued by either of the
greater parties.—Ketchikan Chronical
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Down at Nenana, headed bV the
Nenana preacher, Rev. Diven, thej
are working tooth and nail to get the
Government to change the mail route
and send Fairbanks mail via Broad
Pass and Nenana to here, which would
take at least twice the twice the time
it does now when we get it frorr
Chitina. The only argument thej
have that sometime probably in i
year or two, the railroad will be run
ning to Nenana and mail will come
quicker that way then. They don’
seem to remember that when the rail
road is completed, all mail will thei
be routed that way, automatically
Until the road is complete the^*e isn’
a reasonable argument for sending
any mail over the Broad Pass trail
—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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