THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Petersburg.
Alaska, by A. N. B. Publishing Co.
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Louis F. Paul - Editor and Manager
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office
at Petersburg, Alaska.
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OUR PLATFORM
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ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
WE ARE STILL REPUBLICAN
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In the past twelve years we have worked for,
supported and elected candidates on the Republi
can ticket. We have never crossed our ballots to
elect a Democrat. We have opposed the domina
tion of our fisheries and forests by bureaucratic,
autocratic zealots who, drunk with their brief
authority, have insulted the intelligence of Alas
ka’s citizens, robbed them of their just due and
taken unto themselves autonomy that rightly
belongs to the citizens of Alaska. We opposed the
election of Herbert Hoover and elected delegates
to the last Republican National Convention as
Curtis-for-President delegates. We have been
chastised for so doing in the past and have never
been forgiven. We have pointed out the injustices
of Henry O’Malley in his administration and have
been further chastised for daring to look at cock
robin because he was a Hoover appointee.
We are less inclined to continue receiving the
venom and animosity of Republican federal em
ployees in Alaska who come to Alaska as political
debts and then turn about and vote for Demo
cratic candidates, furnish financial aid to them
in gratitude for their appointments. We are not
■cne bit less opposed to the discriminatory injus
tices practiced upon Alaska and its residents by
the Commissioner of Fisheries and v/e will not
compromise one iota with him for political favor
of for the remission of our sins due to opposition
to injustices of the blackmailing system which
has grown up under his control of our fisheries.
The candidates we support we do of our own
free will. They owe us nothing. We have no politi
cal strings tied to them to hinder them in the
performance of their several duties. They are
free agents elected to work for the good interest
of the Territory and for no other purpose. If they
can do so without fighting the administration or
by showing logically to the administration the
correctness of our claims, well and good. If they
cannot convince them with honest facts, then we
expect them to crack the whip or use a club—any
thing to show that after all Alaskans are freeborn
cicizens and that they are tired of the misrule by
egotistical, political nincompoops who come to
Alaska as paid-up political debts and then who
immediately begin to prostitute their authority.
If this is anti-administration, it is because of the
wrongs that have been perpetrated upon the
territory.
If the national administration does not see
fit to make changes whereby the Territory may
be allowed to develop without the hampering re
strictions of the 57 varieties of bureaus with their
prohibitions and inhibitions; if the territorial
politicians continue to rob widows and children
of their rightful protection from the territory
and other wrongs without alleviation—we cannot
promise that ever again will there be a dominant
political party in Alaska. The Indian voters are
d'sgusted with the treatment that has been ac
corded them by those they have helped to elect
+o office. They are disgusted with the disgustingly
tm-American tactics of the political rackeeters o£
Juneau who operate under the guise of the Demo
cratic Party. There will be a“Boston teaparty” in
Alaska when the electorate will enter the elec
tions and throw overboard all the rot and whatnot
that clutters up the pure air of the Territory.
This is not a threat—it is a solemn promise.
Evidence of which is in our refusal to support
Senator Dimond in any way, or any of the Con
nors-Troy ticket. We refuse to oppose the Ziegler
Walker-Hardcastle combination because of their
records and because of the calibre of their opposi
tion. Our friends who have stepped out of the
Republican primaries will support liberals—for
liberals do not become immediately reactionary.
In the future we will abide by our own conscience
and perhaps lack conscience when we remember
the conscienceless acts of past campaigns.
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PRIMARY LAW
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Recently Tony Dimond extolled the merits cf
the convention system and condemned as worth
less, useless and unworkable the primary election
system, at Cordova. He debated the subject with
Judge Hill at Cordova. It was declared that Judge
Hill met with very kindly reception for his pre
sentation and Senator Dimond lost favor even
with his own Democratic constitutents. His ac
ceptance of the endorsement of the Territorial