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One of the most contemptible
! lies of the opposition, argued by
speakers and hired workers,
and the Subsidized Press, dur
ing the last days of the cam
paign, when the Republican
Advocate had gone to press
and there was no opportunity
to deny and defy the prevari
cators, was the charge that the
Republican candidate for Sen
ator had no home or business
in Alaska. When a man has
been engaged continuously for
more than 26 years past in
printing, publishing, editing,
mining and other enterprises,
and only a few weeks ago sold
a piece of personal property
; worth $1,000 that was bought
, by the Empire for little more
than half that amount because
of certain action of corpora
tion lawyers, and who has
, thousands of dollars invested
in two mining operations that
are now being carried on, it
would seem that the one charge
must fall flat. Having lived in
Nome, Cordova and Juneau for
most of the time since 1900,
and having personal possessions
in Juneau since he located
there in 1921, and having vot
ed in Juneau at every munic
ipal, primary and general elec
tion from the Spring of 1922
until the present November,
and having registered or voted
nowhere else during that period,
it would seem as tho he was
. a legal resident of Juneau,
where he spends about nine
months of each year, with the
, exception of 1924 when he
spent six months in newspaper
work in another part of Al
aska. It is his habit to take
a trip nearly every year, either
to California or to his former
home in Pennsylvania. And
the Senator-elect makes the
confident claim that he has
brought more of his own money
into Alaska for development
and investment—and possibly
taken less out—than any of
the candidates on the “Inde
pendent” ticket, whom the
Organ characterizes “represent
ative citizens.” And he will
match his independence, in
tegrity, honesty, law obser
vance and good citizenship
with the best of them.
Oh, yes. The voters of Jun
eau were admonished to vote
the Independent ticket “to pro
tect the schools and the health
of the school children.” And
quite a few of the gullible in
nocents on Chicken Ridge be
lieved this silly tale. A lot
of those voters should take a
lesson from the children of the
public schools, who took a poll
on the Delegate issue and cast
a majority vote for Dan Su
therland.
FAIRBANKS HAS HIGH
IDEALS
The good people of Fair
banks early in the campaign
determined that the notorious
character of Tom Marquam
should be made the leading is
sue. They declared that the
word should not go forth c .
Nov. 2 that Marquamism was
their standard of righteous
ness and civic pride. So they
organized the Fourth Division
Republican Club, and in addi
tion to Robert Lavery, chair
man of the Republican Com
mittee, entered into a battle
royal with the wielders of the
slush fund and Subsidized
Press, to proclaim to the Ter
ritory that they stood for all
the higher things in life in
opposition to those that Mar
quam—and apparently Juneau
—stand for. The result of
their splendid fight is known
and appreciated. Credit for
this effort and the expenditure
of their own money to bring
about this result is due to
President Geo. W. Albrecht,
Secretary Forbes L. Baker,
Vice President Robert Lavery,
Executive Committeemen J. F.
Vernon, Andrew Nerland, H.
H. Ross, as well as a large
membership of the Club.
ALL-CANADIAN RUN
DEVELOPED?
Sudden increase in the sock
eye salmon catch of the Fraser
River system this season while
American fishermen were se
curing scarcely any fish is re
garded by experts of the pro
vincial fisheries department as
indicating that Canada is suc
ceeding in building up an all
Canadian salmon run. The
existence of this movement has
been known in a general way
for many years but the latest
returns from the fishing grounds
indicate that it has grown to
large proportions.
The Record
It is the most significant and
important development in the
whole Fraser river salmon prob
lem in the opinion of experts
who have surveyed the figures
of this season’s operations in
the Fraser River canneries.
These indicate that the pack
for the Fraser for this season
would reach 86,000 cases—the
largest since 1917. During the
first few weeks of October
fishing was heavy in the Can
adian waters while in Amer
ican waters to the south prac
tically no fish were caught.
Last season the Fraser sock
eye pack was 30,000 saces, an
average one for recent years.