matter, it becomes the duty of
the congress to assume this re
sponsibility without delay.
But, as the Hearst papers have
already pointed ont, it is not
necessary to abandon American
sovereignty over the Phillippiue
Islands in order to keep a few
thousand Filipino laborers from
using an admission card to
Hawaii to land on the Pacific
Coast.
The remedy for this situation
is to be found in an amendment
to the Phillippine organic act,
and congress should so amend
that act at the present session
and put a stop once and for all
to the dumping of Filipino la
borers on the Pacific Coast.
Factional Fights In Party Primaries
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E. S. Hungerford, more gen
erally known in these parts as
‘ Ted” made his filing for dele
gate to the next Republican
Convention in Chicago in June.
He_ will run in the April pri
maries wth Jack Davies of Ket
chikan and Karl Thiele of Ju
neau on an opposing ticket.
Albert White of Juneau, filed as
an alternate.
George B. Grigsby, Anthony
Dimond and A. H. Ziegler are
going to follow their derbies in
the campaign for delegate to
congress. T. A. Wakefield, M. M.
Heath, John W. Frame and
John B. Rice all want to be de
legates to the democratic con
tention and national commit
teemen respectively.
So far Delegate Wickersham
is alone as candidate for dele
gate to Congress. Rumors that
Judge Clegg of Fairbanks would
be a candidate was a dud.. Mr
Lucas of Juneau has the support
of the federal machine against
, Cash Cole for Territorial Audi
tor. Charles of Ketchikan, makes
the third entry.
* *
Party lines are pretty much
split—beyond redemption. The
divisions in the Democratic
j.anks are more severe than in
the Republican ranks for which
the Republicans seem mighty
^ lad but the internal strife and
political knifing going on with
in the Republican party dees not
vouch for eontro1 of the next
election by defeat of the Demo
crats. The “X” in the political
problem of the territory is the
Alaska Native Brotherhood- -
wiL they vote Democrat—split
their ticket on the republican
candidates—remain out of the
primaries or vote solidly Repub
lican as they have in the past.
Nobody knows and he isn’t tell
ing. In the meantime, the poll
ticians and voters are going tc
have a lot of fun the next three
months.
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RASMUSSON FILES "•
I OR TERRITORIAL
COMMITTEEMAN
-x
E. A. Rasmusson, president of
file Banks or Alaska, with insti
tutions in Skagway, Wrangell..
Cordova, and Anchorage filed
his candidacy with Territorial
Auditor Cash Cole for Republi
can Territorial Committeeman,
subject to the will of the Repub
lican voters in the primary
election in April.
* *
I RANK H. FOSTER FILES FOR
OFFICE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Frank H. Foster, prominent
Juneau attorney and member oi
the 1931 Alaska Legislature filed
recently for the office of Attor
ney General, subject to the will
of the voters on the Republican
Primary.
Attorney General John Rust
gard filed for renomination. Mr.
Truitt, Democrat of Fairbanks,
is the Democratic set-up in this
run.
DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY
MADE BY WM. A. HESSE
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W .A. Hesse, Territorial High
way Engineer, recently filed his
declaration for nomination on
Hie Democratic ticket for re
election to that office.
Eugene Wacker, who was also
formerly affiliated with the Re
publican party and a sometime
candidate on its tickets, M. M.
Heath, T. A. Wakefield, and
John B. Rice, all of Ketchikan,
filed as candidates for delegate
to t h e Democratic National
Convention next June.
J. H. Davies, Ketchikan busi
nessman, member of the firm of
Johnson & Davies, filed for dele
gate to the Republican national
convention. His partner, J. £.
Johnson, was a member of the
1931 Territorial Legislature.
W. K. KELLER WILL FILE FOR
’ OFFICE HE NOW HOLDS
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W. K. Keller, Commissioner of
Education, announced his in
tention recently to run for re
election at the coming elections.
No other candidate has appear
ed for the office.
He holds the A. B. and A. M.
degrees in Educational Admin
istration, and has completed ad
vanced work for the Ph.D. de
gree in Education at Calumbia
University, New York City.
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Some wives are like a car with
bum brakes: It’s hard to get ’em
to stop.