Sutherland. Grigsby
Angoon.69 3
Hydaburg . 119 0
Kake . . • •. 93 0
Klawock • •.• •. .. 153 4
Yakutat . 51 4
The voting method is simple. The Indian i.
supplied with a card with cutouts on the places
where he is to mark a cross; He lays this over the
ballot and marks in wherever the stencil permits.
An effort was made in the Alaska Legislature
three years ago to end this reprehensible practice
but it failed due to the stencil-voted legislators
having control of your free territory.
Stencil voting is a product of what we have
been pleased to term the Unholy Alliance of the
First Division.
There are other equally disgraceful practices
in that alliance. Think of what was in James
Wickersham’s mind when he started with Paul io
make the Indians think he would make them ricn
by suing the United States Government on their
behalf.
Of course Wickersham knew that he could
never succeed because he could not even start suit
without a special act of congress, which never
would be forthcoming.
We state it very bluntly. If you want the tin -
educated Indians of Alaska to rule Alaska vote
with them tomorrow.
If you cast your ballot against this corrupt
political machine you will vote for John Rustgard.
But if you cannot vote for either man and
still preserve your self respect, then you are a
better citizen if you leave the ballot alone.
MR RU3TGARD DOES NOT WANT A VOTE
that comes from a political machine.
KE WANTS THE VOTES OF FEARLESS, HONEST
CITIZENS.”
EDITORIAL NOTE:—Mr. Rustgard recently ap
proached a prominent Native leader and asked:
“What do your people think of me? Will they
support me in this election?” The reply was with
out any quibbling: “No! They don’t like your re
cord of 12 years of service. Just what have you
done to merit the support of these people you
have damned when you did not need them?”
Rustgard had no reply—not any more than he can
justify the above which was his advertisement iri
The Cordova Times and reprinted verbatum.
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DANGEROUS ENCROACHMENTS
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The entire scheme of the United States gov
ernment pre-supposes a situation where a man’s
guilt or innocence shall be determined by a jury
of his alleged peers, or where a jury is not sought,
adjudication by properly constituted representa
tives of the law-administration department.
Evidently tlQs is contrary to the belief of the
Bureau of Fisheries. It has notified Kent Robinson,
U. S. Commissioner at Cordova, that starting next
year the Bureau will not permit its cases to go
into the Commissioner’s court as misdemeanors,
but would seize boats and gear and hold all vio
lators for the district court.
Thus the ordinary citizen, judged, arrested
and branded as guilty by any representative of a
federal bureau, may be denied the right to a pre
liminary hearing which may decide the question
v hellier or not he should be put to the expense of
a trial m a district court. In other words, the Bu
reau of Fisheries brushes aside this court of dis
covery and seeks to impose the hearing of eases
what would be an appellate court. It would be
as logical to skip over the district court, United
States Court of Appeals, and go direct to the Unit
ed States Supreme Court.
But one asks: “Where do these agencies, sub
stituted for constitutional government, get their
power?’’
Well, when the President of the United States
cm call cut troops to eject war veterans from
l nred States property, where they are conduct
ing themselves in an orderly manner and living
’’he rabbits in a warren ;n an effort fo exist, any
thing can happen, in fmt it is no secret that Alas
ka is governed by tlvh super-bureaucratic power
and things eqiiahv obnoxious are being done every
cl''y by satrapy which have awakened rebellion ir
any country.
The action of the Bureau of Fisheries plainly
interpreted means an impeachment, of every Unit
ed States Commissioner in Alaska with the veiled
innuendo that they are biased in favor of the peo
ple. Unless we have scrapped the word “Demo
cracy” (the people) this alleged h merely an
expression of public desire, and harmonizes with
what was intended by the structure of the Ameri
can government.
But this bureaucratic encroachment has read
into' the constitution many things not dreamed of
bv its framers. We are up against centralized des
potism which is rapidly sweeping away the last
vestige of American independence. Mr. Henry
O’Malley’s department only adds to the antipathy
grown up about it by this last bold stroke of rule
or ruin.—Seward Gateway.