People Urged To Support Eisenhower
By Voting For Local Republicans
In olden times the councils of war and daring exploits of valor and hero
ism on the battlefield prompted the foremost of the warriors to assert them
selves as the leaders of their people. Their leadership was determined by
bodily strength employed in the tactics of killing and destruction and was
seldom accompanied by a balance of intelligence, wisdom and a sense of good
judgment.
Today's requirements for leadership, as represented by the members of
our legislature, has completely changed. Our level of civilization is now on a
plane never before approached. The complex problems required to regulate
an orderly operation of such a civilization, through legislature, demands of
its legislators representing the people, great knowledge and understanding
of the conditions and requirements of the country he is representing. He must
be prepared, academically, to present to the legislature those requirements in
a manner that emphasizes and impresses to the fullest the urgency of the
people’s needs. To accomplish this he must carry the respect and dignity of
not only the people is he representing, but the entire body of the legislature
W. W. “Chief” Laws Chas. D. Jones
FOR SENATOR FOR SENATOR
WE PLEDGE OURSELVES AS FOLLOWS :
1— To repeal the Property Tax.
2— —For a more equitable distribution of road funds.
3— To maintain our schools at the highest possible standard
consistent with our tax program.
4— A continued program of construction of landing fields
throughout the Division.
5— To encourage in every way possible the mining develop
ment and industry and a completely equipped Assay Office.
G—To keep taxes to the lowest possible figure to efficiently
handle the affairs of the Territory.
As Gold Mining is of the utmost importance in our Division
we pledge ourselves to do all in our power to have gold freed
from the crippling regulations imposed upon it.
K
Sammy Mogg Edith Bullock
FOR REPRESENTATIVE FOR REPRESENTATIVE
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as well. His mind must be free of bias and prejudices
but must be determined of accomplishing the most
good for the greatest number of his people.
Your vote has brought me through the primaries last spring
for which I am deeply grateful. In a short while you again will be
concerned as to which of the several candidates for representative
you will consider qualified to warrant your support at the polls
on October 14th.
First, I want to impress on you the real need for a change of
party representation. The Democratic Party has been in office too
long. It has become stagnant. Its office holders and electives have
lost sight of the needs of the people and of the urgent development
requirements of our country. Their prime concern is for a perpet
uation of control by the Democratic Party to maintain their own
highly paid offices; all at the expense of the American taxpayer.
They are most definitely socializing many groups at American citi
zens and setting up bureaus within out governmental departments
directed toward socializing the American people. They are disre
garding many provisions of our great Constitution and forcing
restrictions and edicts on us that we neither want nor benefit from.
They are undermining the very foundation of our country in an
effort to maintain, for their own perpetuation in office, an “atmo
sphere of prosperity.” In so atterripting, they are bringing the
country to the brink of bankruptcy, through their enormous and
fantastic spending spree. You, incidentally, and your children and
my children and all of us will some day, be compelled to repay it.
We are very definitely feeling the effects of it now by the out
rageous taxes being imposed upon us. In the meantime the coun
try’s resources are being used up, squandered with little or no
constructive development resulting from it. The Democratic
organization is on a merry-go-round, a fantastic orgy of spending
your money; and taxing you more money so that they can keep
on spending to maintain their so-called “prosperity.” How long
are you going to let this go on? I urge you to remember this when
you go to the polls on October 14th to vote.
For years I have advocated and impressed on our legislators
the dire need for roads particularly here in the Second Division,
where our road system is virtually non-existant. I have written
lengthy articles, printed in this newspaper, which you very pos
sibly may have read, outlining the enormous industrial potential
of our natural resources, emphasizing the real and serious need
for a substantial net-work of roads to make those resources '
accessible. Not only is an internal system of roads in the Second
Division necessary and desirable but connecting arteries, extend
ing from the farthermost points of the Territory, should be proj
ected for construction. These should then connect by a main high
way into Fairbanks or Anchorage. It is inevitable that such
developments will materialize. The greatest obstacle to actual
materialization has been lack of conviction and understanding, and
particularly a lack of determination of purpose and the ability
to apply it. With your support in electing me as representative for
the next session of the legislature in Juneau I promise you these
projects will be introduced and pushed to the greatest extent
possible toward actual construction.
Another important requirement associated with transporta
tion and facilities is the construction of air fields. While we are
now, for the first time, receiving a meager allocation of funds for
airfield construction, the amount so allocated is entirely dispropor
tionate and inequitable. It is my intention, if elected, to see to it
that we, here in the Second Division, are favored as fairly in the
distribution of those funds as any of the other divisions of the
Territory. I also intend to make it impossible to divert any portion
of such funds to any other division, under any condition.
I am opposed, most emphatically, to the present Territorial
Property Tax. In the first instance I believe it is unconstitutional.
Secondly, I am convinced the tax is inequitable, in that it does
not impose the same basis of taxation on all. Thirdly, I believe the
tax inflicts an unjust and heavy burden on the people at a time
when our local industries, particularly mining, cannot bear to
support it. I propose that the tax law as it stand be repealed.
I believe our educational facilities should be expanded; that
more vocational selectives should be offered, particularly to the
Eskimo population.
I believe experience has proven that the hospital and medical
facilities and staff are inadequate to insure proper medical atten
tion to the population of the Second Division.
To sum up in the broadest sense I want you, the voter, the
citizen, to know and be confident that all measures that are pro
gressive, all legislation that will, directly or indirectly, benefit the
people of the Second Division and help to further the development
of its industries and resources, is my solemn pledge and purpose
to encourage and support.
The American people and the Republican Party have the
exceptionally good fortune of having as their forthcoming Presi
dent of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man beloved
and respected by all Americans, a man who has earned the ad
miration and respect of the entire free world. It is through him
and his forthcoming administration that the country’s people can
look forward with renewed hope to a nation working together,
industry and labor, toward a common goal, prosperity and security.
If you want a change, a change from mockery and corruption
to clean, solid government, then I say “For your own good and
for the good of America and the American people, vote the Repub
lican ticket, and permit YOUR representatives to work for YOU.”
I sincerely thank you. t
RICHARD E. LEE