the Eighteenth Amendment and in favor of really
trying out the “great experiment.”
Howard says that Mr. Hoover was not really a dry
but that if you would read the acceptance speech
carefully, you would see that Mr. Hoover will listen
to reason.
Thus Roy Howard and Senator Robinson agree for
the Senator says that Hoover is not for prohibition
rny more than is Smith.
It is a curious argument.
Perhaps there is some truth in it.
GRIGSBY ANCHORAGE SPEECH
Report from Anchorage says that “Mr. Grigsby de
voted considerable attention to the Controller Bill,
branding it as a FALSE ISSUE.
He denounced the last Controller bill because writ
ten by Wickersham and introduced by Paul and pro
vided for only three officers to be elected at large.
He wanted a Controller bill with a member from
each division thereof.
The FISHERMAN will not quarrel with the details
and while we believe three officers are sufficient and
more economical, we would accept a board with FOUR
if the People of Alaska wished it so. In case the
people wished one member from each division, we
would say that there is danger of deadlock and
would suggest FIVE, one member to be elected at
large.
But Grigsby charges that the First Division would
hog it because of its greater voting power. This ar
gument is not American and suggests a return to
the “rotten borough” system of England abolished
in 1832. Also it has not been true in practice. The
First Division has never yet elected a man from
the First to any important office—
The first Delegate to Congress, Wasky, was from
Nome;
The second Delegate, Cale, was from the Fourth;
Theh third Delegate, Wickersham, was from the
* Fourth;
The fourth Delegate, Sutherland, was from the
Fourth;
Grigsby and Rustgard, Attorney Generals, were
elected in reality from Nome.
And if Grigsby’s argument about a political ma
chine trying to foist the First Division on the Terri
tory, he being a resident of the First Division should
be defeated.
GEORGE GRIGSBY was Delegate in Congress
when the Jones’ Marine Act was passed by which
Alaska is made the goat. That law permits the use
of Canadian tines and boats from Chicago to Van
couver SOUTH to Seattle, but PROHIBITS the same
good in the same ship NORTH to Alaska.
George says he was in California.
In every battle between the special interests that
have milked Alaska and real Alaskans, George Grigs
by w;ll be in California. It may be an alibi, but it
is no excuse.
GEORGE GRIGSBY criticizes Sutherland for ad
vocating the CONTROLLER BILL. He wants Dan
to “stick to National issues.” George has been yel
ling loudly for the Controller Bill among the United
Sons of Alaska, but now he wants to sidetrack.
George hasn’t changed.
EJECTION JUDGES, KETCHIKAN
RECORDING PRECINCT
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Judge J. W. Kehoe Issues His Or
ders for Judges for No
vember 6
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Judge J. W. Kehoe today issued
orders appointing judges of elec
tion for the general election to be
held on November 6th as follows:
Charcoal Point—W. C. Mitchell,
Claude Yeisley, Mrs. Clark Black.
Revilla, including Pennock Is
land—Claude Aikens, E. Went
worth, Mrs. D. N. Campbell.
Metlakatla—Rev. Edward Mars
den, James Evans, George Scott.
Kasaan—Magnus Holtness, Sam
Davis, Reuben McCoombs.
Myers Chuck—John Kayser, L.
Stockley, Clyde Weidle.
Hydaburg—C. R. Smith, George
Haldane, John Brown.
Klawack—George Demert, Fred
Williams and E. R. Stone.
T^keen—T. H. Burns, Harry
Ham, F. G. Roberts.
Shakan—Harvey Sellers, John P.
Lindsey, John McCallum.
Craig—H. S. Bagley, John Sew
ell. John Spaeth.
Wacker—Eugene Wacker, Walter
Bussey, V. P. Reimer.
Loring—J. R. Wise, Victor Shaw.
Richard Stack.
IS THIS TRUE TODAY?
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If so, Bootlegging, Fish-traps,
and other evils can be solved
at least in Alaska, by the com
bined effort of all the people.
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary
of War in Lincoln’s cabinet, said
to General Halleck in 1864, when
Bishop Whipple of Minnesota
was in Washington on behalf
of the Sioux Indians:
“What does Bishop Whipple
want? If he has come here to
tell us of the corruption of our
Indian system, and the dishon
esty of Indian agents, tell him
that we know it. But the Gov
ernment never reforms an evil
until the people demand it.
Tell him that when he reaches
the heart of the American peo
ple, the Indians will be saved.”
(Rt. Rev. Henry B. Whipple,
“Lights and Shadows of a Long
Episcopate” [1900] p. 144.)