(Continued from FaRO Onei
Harding landslide. This meant
a new deal and a new Alaska
governor. Riggs was at outs with
the delegate, then newly elected,
and John Rustgard, Attorney
General elect of Alaska. Smith,
with his weather eye out for
the future and in the full
knowledge of the fact that un
less he was in the good graces
of the new dominant party in
power, his own tenure of office
was shortly to come to an end,
joined forces with Riggs’ ene
mies and turned on him with as
much enthusiasm as he had a
few months before been dis
playing his friendship.
His conversion from Democra
cy to Republicanism was com
plete, apparently, and since that
time he has grown in the stal
wart grace of the later brand
of politics. He was rewarded by
the new Governor, Scott C.
Bone, by a reappointment and
since then has .succeeded him
self twice, the last time from
the hands of the present Re
publican executive. George A.
Parks.
This is not his only record.
He entered the primary lists
last spring on a ticket headed
by Attorney Rustgard and was
ostensibly opposed to Judge
Wickersham, heading the anti
administration ticket. Smith
was the only successful candi
date on th^ Administration
slate.
Possibly this was because his
own opponent, Frank L. Knight
of Anchorage, didn’t get just
the sort of support from his col
leagues, that he was himself
giving them. Outside of the
railroad belt, where he and
Wickersham campaigned togeth
er, audiences at the latter’s
meetings might have got the
impression that either Smith
was the only candidate for the
Treasurer’s office or that he
was the Wickersham candidate.
True, Knight got the Southeast j
Alaska Indian vote, or most of !
it, and carried the rail belt, but;
Smith romped home under the •
wire the easiest winner in the
race.
And this was remarkable in
view of all the circumstances.
Smith had been in office almost
two decades ,but his personal
contacts during that period
have been confined largely to
meeting visitors coming to Ju
neau or those Alaskans he may
have met in his peregrinations
to the States.
He has drawn down in sala
ries and fat allowances in that
time between $80,000 and $100,
000, all out of Alaska’s treas
ury, money paid in by property
owners and payers of taxes. If
he has a dollar invested in
Alaskan businesses or property
it is so well concealed that none
know of it. It is generally re
marked by even persons friend
ly to him that if he were de
feated in the election on No
vember 4, next, and a boat were
sailing for Seattle the next
morning, he could pack his be
longings in his traveling bags
and leave for California and
alleged warmer climes without
leaving a single interest behind
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