THE PRIMARY LAW A
BIG ISSUE
By Will A. Steel
The orders have gone out
from the Big Interests that
the present Primary Laws of
Alaska must be repealed. If
that . Gould be accomplished
then the old proxy convention
system would again be in vogue.
And while they cannot now re
gulate the election of members
of the Legislature the Big In
terests, thru their attorneys
and newspapers, feel certain
that they, could control both
the Republican and Democratic
Committeemen, Attorney Gen
eral and possibly Delegate to
Congress.
Jones says that the real big
fight at the November election
will be to elect members of the
Legislature, both Senate and
House, who can be controlled.
It was intended to keep their
purpose quiet, but Stroller
White gave the plot away re
cently, when, in his Weakly
he stated:
“If Alaska succeeds in elect
ing a representative legislature
this fall, the primary to be
held next Tuesday will be The
Last, as the law providing for
such travesties WILL BE RE
PEALED”
In the First division it is
stated that all the Republican
nomiees for the Legislature
will emphatically declare for
even a stronger Primary Law,
and will make that one of their
big issues. They want the
PEOPLE, and not a few self
selected BOSSES to run the
Territory. They endorse the
recent words of W. S. U’Ren,
father of 'the direct primary
law in Oregon, who says:
shall ..Oregon ..retain ..the
direct primary under which
the people themselves direct
and control their government,
or shall it once more surrender
to the machine, the boss and
the dictator?'*
Substitute the word “Alaska”
for “Oregon” and you have the
plain issue before you. Do
the voters here want to go
back to the old and vicious
system when proxies were
forged and a few men with cor
poration money controlled the
nominating conventions? Could
Alaska progress under such
methods? Are not conditions
bad enough now without fur
ther surrender to a handful of
selfish-interest men who treat
the rest of the electorate as
“Boobs.,,
Supt. Gordon C. Mitchell has
been notified by the contest
committee of the American
Chemical Society that the es
say submitted by William L.
Paul, jr. of Ketchikan High
School has been awarded second
place in the Bxtra-Territorial
group. This consists of Al
aska, the Philippines, Hawaii
and the Panama Canal Zone.
The first prize in each group
is $20 and the second place
receives a certificate of Hon
orable mention and a book in
two volumes called Chemistry
in Industry. This contest is
conducted every year by the
American Chemical Society
and has for its purpose the
stimulation of interest in
Chemistry among students in
High Schools and Colleges.
The subject of young Paul’s
essay was “Chemistry and its
Relation to Health and Dis
ease.”
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Wrangell, Alaska
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Wrangell Steam
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M. O. JOHNSON, Prop.
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