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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920
AUTONOMY
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By rights today we should be run
ning a two-column article written by
Thomas B. Drayton, of Seward, Alas
ka, giving fifty-seven reasons why
Alaska should be free from the des
potic rule of the United States. Mr.
Drayton says that the one solution of
the trials and tribulations of the Ter
ritory is “autonomy.” When we first
looked at the word we thought he
meant autopsy. We knew that Alaska
was dead, but knowing full well what
has killed it, we could not see the
reason for an autopsy. We looked
again and discovered this other word
“autonomy.”
We took old man Webster on our
knee and run down this word and
found that it was really in the dic
tionary and that it meant self-govern
ment. It would seem that the author
of the learned article submitted to us
is in favor of cutting loose from old
Uncle Sam entirely and let us paddle
our own canoe. He says that Alaska
has been looted by the United States,
and despairing of statehood says let’s
be the free and independent republic
of Alaska, by-gosh.
Sounds nice, brother; but you for
get one thing: Alaskans are first of
All Americans, and although they real
ize that they have been misused by
their old Uncle, with all his faults
they love him still.
Guess we will worry along for
awhile yet under the folds of the old
Stars and Stripes; do lots of kicking
end maybe get better conditions, and
may not, but still manage to exist and
be just as happy as the rest of the
world.—Douglas News.
THE PREFERENTIAL PRIMARY
Two experiences, 1918 and 1920, of
the preferential primary elections in
Alaska ha ye proven that the law as it
now stands, so far as this Territory is
concerned, is impracticable, unfair and
little or no better than the old con
vention system. It is even contended
by some that it is not as good.
In 1918, during the Sulzer-Maloney
campaign for the Democratic nomina
tion for delegate to congress, there
were very many Republicans who
wTent into the polls. They had no
right, in justice, even if they did have
according to law, to cast a ballot there
for either candidate, for they were not
Democrats and they knew it, and they
had no intention of supporting at the
election the candidate who might get
the Democratic nomination.
Again in 1920, a similar experience
is had, but this time on the other side.
It was the Democrats who went into
the Republican primary, and in great
numbers. And they had no intention
of abiding by the results or supporting
the candidates vyho might be nomin
ated.
Other men remained away from the
polls, considering it their privilege
to vote for either side and not be pub
licly affiliated with either party. And
these voters were part of the big in
dependent vote which usually swing
elections.
And now, after all the ballots of the
recent primary election are counted,
it is found that two candidates, Heath
and Sowerby, have an equal number
of votes, and no one knows who is
nominated.
It will be a work for the next legis
lature to undertake, to attempt to give
the Territory a more satisfactory pri
mary law.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
Some of these days we will get out
of the era of big talk and into the
habit of doing the little things that in
the aggregate go to make up the sum
of individual, national and world well
being. But, for the present, the phrase
makers continue to hold the floor.
The man on horseback is so much in
Mexico that a stable government
seems^ to be out of the question.
What has become of the old-fashion
ed Democrat who used to blame the
high cost of sugar, beans and boots
on “the robber tariff?” _
The Sultan threatens to resign in
protest against the terms of the peace
treaty. When the Sulan has resigned
everbody else will be.
Maybe if it didn’t take twice as long
to move a freight car a mile as it did
before the railways were McAdooed
the car shortage wouldn’t seem so
acute
“Daniels blames Roosevelt and Taft
for lack of prepardness in 1917,” says
the newspaper headlines. What was
the use of preparedness in 1917 when
he kept us out of war in 1916?
Very likely the Democratic stand
ard bearer will not say this year that
a Democratic platform is not just
sugar to catch flies, because he will
not even dare mention sugar.
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If the postoffice department has
i anything to do with getting the wire
j less messages through from Mars,
| bow long do you suppose it is going
to take to get the dispatches deliv
ered?
One department of the government
at Washington has isued a statement
to the effect that a family can barely
exist on $2,176 a year, while the post
office department continues to pay
postal clerks $1,200 a year.
Senator Reed says President Wil
son had written the Democratic
party’s epitaph. In view of the last
two Democratic national platforms
the epitaph should read: “Here lies
the Democratic party,—as usual.”
The suggestion now made that
Germany shall pay her indemnity in
bends, and the United States shall
underwrite them, goes to prove that
the heart of the world isn’t in half
as much danger of being broken as
the Treasury of the United States.
You may have noticed that the
Democratic leaders still have enough
appreciation of the situation to be in
session on the anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence rather
than on that of the adoption of the
league of nations covenant at Paris.
Preliminary announcements indi
cate that the national conventions are
going to be covered by a picturesque
array of novelists, sob sisters, sport
ing writers, humorists and other lit
erati. The newspaper readers of the
country would probably appreciate
the assignment of a few actual report
ers to the job.
William Jennings Bryan says of
Governor Cox, of Ohio, in his “Com
moner”: “After disgracing his state
he aspires to a position in which he
could disgrace nomination.” And the
Colonel might have added, if Cox is
nominated Bryan will help him to get
the chance to disgrace the country,
just as he supported Judge Parker in
1904 after characterizing him for
months as “a tool of Wall street.”
It is rumored that Bainbridge Col
by is President Wilson’s candidate for
President. Mr. Wilson has never had
but one candidate for President. His
fealty to that candidate has never
faltred and never will. Mr. Wilson is
the original Wilson man and he will
be the last one, for there is one indi
vidual for whom his loyalty will never
waver, no matter what happened to
McCombs, Harvey, Watterson, House
and most of the rest of the friends
| who saw him first.
Whether to nominate Wilson, who
kept us out of war, or McAdoo, who
perfected the railway service, or Ed
wards, who made New Jersey wet, or
j Palmer, who reduced the high cost of
living, or Bryan, who gave us peace
through unpreparedness, or A1 Smith,
who reduced taxes in New York State,
or Albert S. Burleson, who introduced
efficiency into our postal system, or
Tom Marshall, who restored the gov
i ernment to the standards of Jeffer
j sonian simplicity, is all that is wor
j rying the Democratic party at present.
MANY GOLD STARS
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
PULLMAN, Wash., Pune 3 (by As
sociated Press).—The service record
of Washington State college, just pub
lished, shows 1185 names of alumni,
former students and faculty members
who were with the military service of
the allied countries during the war
with the central powers.
Of the 1185 names recorded, 123
are shown whose homes are given as
Spokane. Under the gold star list
there are 43 names of state college
men who gave their lives in the serv
ice of the nation.
INTEREST CENTERS
IN TENNIS TOURNEY
AT LOS ANGELES
SAN FRANCISCO, Jtme 3 (by As
sociated Press).—Roland Roberts,
Willis Davis, Haword Kinsey and
Peck Griffin are to enter the section
al tennis doubles championships of
the Pacific Coast to be held in Los
Angeles July 1, it has been announc
ed here. The winners at Los Angeles
will be sent to compete for the nation
al title.
Some of San Francisco’s best play
ers are to be seen in action in the
Central California championships in
Sacramento, among them being Rob
erts, Robert and Howard Kinsey, Ray
Johnson, Bill Bettens. Herbert Suhr,
Bowie Detrick, Wilton Smith, Norman
De Back, Ray Greenberg, John Stra
chan and Mel Rosenberg.
WESTERN SWIMMERS |
TO COMPETE IN JULY
AT NEPTUNE BEACH
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (by As
sociated Press).—Numerous entries
are expected in the Far Western
swimming championship to be held at
Neptune Beach, Alameda county, on
July 3. 4 and 5.
Ten Hawaiian swimmers will par
ticipate in the meet, it has been an
nounced. They will he headed by
Duke Kahanamoku. Swimmers from
Salt Lake City, Portland, Stockton.
Sacramento and other Pacific Coast
cities will also compete in the meet.
The meet is unique in aquatic com
petition as indiduals will not repre
sent their clubs but the district as
sociations of the Amateur Athletic
Union from which they come. For
instance, swimmers from Los Angeles,
compete for southern California Asso
ciations of the A. A. U., while sAvim
mers from Portland would compete
for the Pacific NorthAvest Association.
The list of e\rents, it is understood,
will include 50, 100, 220 yards free
style, 150 yards backstroke for men
and 50, 100 free style, 100 yards
breast stroke and fancy dmng for
women.
ASSESSED VALUES
SHOW INCREASE
MANILA, June 4 (by Associated
j Press).—The assessed value of all real
estate in the city of Manila is $118,
000,000, the city assessor having com
piled his revaluation for the year 1920.
This is an increase of 34 per cent
over the assessed valuation for the
preceding year.
METRIC "SYSTEM
IS SUGGESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 (by As
sociated Press). — Legislation which
would gradually place the United
States "bn the metric system of weights
and measures was urged in resolu
tions adopted here by the World
Metric Standardization Conference.
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