the voters are thoroughly conversant of that fact.
Senator Bartley Howard has two sessions of Legisla
tive experience and action to disqualify him from fur
ther recognition upon the part of the voters of Alaska.
True, he has earned the unqualified support of Tony
Dimond, Tom Donohoe, Jawn W. Troy, Eddie Mor
rissey, A. H. Ziegler, and a few other stalwart Demo
crats. But they don’t select the Republican candidates
at the primary.
A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
There are a good many Republican candidates run
ning for office but they cannot all be selected. The
Piogressive element seeks to select the stalwart and
steadfast kind as the strongest to make the run against
the Democratic handpicked Legislative candidates in
the November election. It is aimed to elect this year
good Republicans in every Division of the Territory.
BUILDS A MAN WITH MERE WORDS
Will Irwin, the interesting writer who has been em
ployed to tell the world what a wonderful man Is this
Herbert Hoover, has been filling the daily newspapers
with the presumed EXTRAORDINARY ACCOMPLISH
MENTS of the man vho has been builded, thru persei
vering and persistent propoganda, into one of the
world's wonder men. To the people of Alaska, who
know how his arrogant and untrained mind has nearly
destroyed the fisheries of this great north, the Hoov
erized words of encomium on the fisheries bring forth
many 3miles of derision. But Will Irwin, regardless of
those in Alaska who are vitally interested in this sub
ject, merrily prattles on in the following words:
“The Bureau of Fisheries, at the inception of Hoov
er’s term, confined itself to a purely scientific 3tudy of
aquatic life. Hoover transformed it into a live, prac
tical organization to safeguard marine fishing and pro
mote game fishing. Warned thru this bureau of the
danger to our Alaskan salmon industry, he steered
thru Congress legislation which prevented its destruc
tion; put it on the road to recovery.
“Hoover is himself an enthusiastic angler. His wise
and witty speech on this topic before the Izaak Walton
League is a fisherman’s classic. And under his direc
tion this bureau, cooperating with hundreds of fishing
clubs, has attacked the problem of preserving our
game fish. Assisted by acts of Congress, it has put
this work on a wide and systematic basis. The Alaskan
job has assured us a permanent supply of salmon; the
work for our amateurs will give recreation to ten P"’’
lion people/'
SHALL. WE HAVE A LOMENIZED ALASKA
Up in the Second Division the Lomen interests con
trol pretty much everything there is to control. They
have the courts, the business largely, and the control
the individual actions of most of the populace. And
particularly is this true when it comes to politics. Thej
seek to control the Republican and Democratic nomv
nations and occasionally put an Independent into the
field for legislative honors. And about half the time
they win out. They represent themselves as favoring
the Sutherland politics—but that is only to get into
office. Afterwards they follow the actions of a Ralph
Lomen, a Tom Gaffney, and a Tom Jenson, which is to
look out strictly for the Lomen Interests, which includes
subsidies and special favors for the combine that al
most has a strangle hold on the majority of the peo
ple who still like to call the Second Division home.
And now it looks as tho the Lomen’s intend to branch
out in their activities, until they actually cover the en
tire Territory. On their “Lomen Brand Reindeer”
tags they now use the words “LOMENIZED ALASKA,”
indicating that they were becoming ambitious to place
their mark on all Alaska. We are wondering wheth
er the other three Divisions of the Territory are anx
ious to become “Lomenized,” with all that word means.
EASTERN DEMOCRATS SAY ‘LESS INTERFERENCE’
At their annual Jackson Day dinner in New York
the Democrats heard that “there must be less federal
interference with local habits and concerns.” The
members of the House heard the same thing in Wash
ington on March 5, when the bill to curtail the rights
of the people of Alaska received but 12 votes. Gov
ernor Parks sought to put thru this bill. Wonder
whether he will read a lesson in the action taken by
the House. His predecessor, Governor Scott C. Bone,
failed to read the writing as it appeared on the wall,
and as a consequence was fired several months before
his term expired.
KETCHIKAN FOUNDRY
H. P. HANSEN, Prop.
Manufacturer of
STAR TROLLING GURDIES
Phone Black 121 Box 843
SITKA CAMP
ALASKA NATIVE
BROTHERHOOD
Meets 8 P. M. Mondays
President: Secretary:
Mark Jacobs A. Hope
DR. L. P. DAWES
Physician and Surgeon
First National Bank
Building
Phone 2602 Juneau
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