delivered them into the hands of
ihe cannery and trap interests.
You will see this near bankrupt
will have a new lease of life.
SENATOR JOHN DUNN
Dunn’s flop was one of the out
standing incidents of the 1927 sea
son. Even the Empire said this
flop was the surprise of the day
when the Controller Bill was under
discussion, and the Empire gave out
the news just as if they did not
know in advance that the flop was
to be staged during this debate.
In 1923 Dunn strained at gnats
and swallowed camels. His gastro
nomic nerformance was the most
wonderful one seen in all sessions
of the legislature.
When Dunn flopped he did it as
all weak men are prone to do—by
simulating unusual courage. He
shouted to the galleries that he had
been threatened but who threatened
him he did not say. He shouted
that he had been led Up in to the
high mountaintop and shown great
treasures as a bribe to vote for the
Controller Bill. Perish the thought
that the Marquam bunch offered
him any inducements to join against
t! Those who heard Dunn’s rant
ings in the Senate inferred that his
old friend Sutherland had threaten
ed him and offered him inducements
to vote for home rule. It seemed
strange that this progressive should
have to be threatened or bribed to
support a measure based entirely
on American ideals of self-govern
ment.
The truth is that Dunn fell hard
for the Troy-Marquam crowd and
feared the criticism of the Empire
and other subsidized organs and for
these reasons he threw down the
people who elected him to office.
Dunn was surely elected to office
on his pretense of being a pro
gressive and many members of the
legislature are elected by running
that kind of a bluff on the people
in order that they may get down
to Juneau to serve the lobyists.
When these pseudo progressives
reach Juneau the lobyists see them
coming and start to work on them
with the assistance of the press.
Dunn was easy picking for them. If
Dunn had not made such progress
ive noise to be elected his flop
would not have jarred his friends
so much as it did. The efforts spent
by Fairbanks progressives to defeat
George Moody was wasted as George
could not have followed the Troy
Marquam program any closer than
Dunn did. His explanation will be
that he was threatened and a bribe
offered him and therefore he went
against his principles that he ex
pounded during , the campaign.
Dunn is evidently one of those
statesmen who can rise above prir
ciple when occasion calls for it. We
can only hope that he remans true
to his new political alignment and
does not attempt to flop back to hi-*
former friends.
His guilty conscience cries out.
Is not the meaning of his statement
“I cannot go to see the Governor
now since I voted against the Con
troller Bill?” Would a clear con
science care or would it prevent a
conscientious Senator from consult
ing his governor on matters of
State?
SENATOR HARRY PRATT
. .Nothing was expected of Senator
Pratt and therefore no one was dis
appointed with his reactionary al
titude through the session. Pratt’s
ideals of statesmanship, citizenship
culture and morality are exempli
tied in Tom Marquam at whoso
shrine he worships day and night,
but mostly at night. We would
like to see Pratt try to return to the
Senate as a test of the sentiment
for or against free Amrican govern
ment that prevails in the Fourth Di
vision. If a man who fought every
progressive measure that came be
fore the Senate can be returned
from Interior Alaska, we will be
gin to doubt whether there is any
chance for the advancement of Am
erican ideals In Alaska. We believe
the independent prospector class
of citizens that live in the Fourth
Division might send a reactionary
like Pratt to the Senate in order to
give him a trial but we cannot con
ceive it possible that after these ci
tizens have read his record in this
session they will be inclined to re
turn him. If Pratt could have his
way, Alaskan labor would be in a
state of peonage. No doubt he will
return to Fairbanks to greet those
laborers who supported him to of
fice with his bland condescending
smile. His record will be sent to
his Division as soon as the Senate
Journal is published.
THE LAST OF THE TRAINED
SEALS
Bobby was a somewhat subdued
seal at this session. His master wa3
absent and although he had shipped
Bobby through C. O. D. to Joe Mur
ray whose orders he implicitly obey
ed, Bobby seemed to lack the en
tertaining qualities he possessed at
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