THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Petersburg.
Alaska, by A. N. B. Publishing Co.
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Louis F. Paul - Editor
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FILLING POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS
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Capt. Lathrop, Republican National Commit
teeman, and Delegate James Wickersham are said
to be working together towards securing appoint
ments for the favored ones. What effect some cf
the recommendations will have is causing no end
of worry in some quarters.
Attorney General John Rustgard, it has been
definitely stated, is named and slated for the
federal judgeship in the Fourth Division. If he had
any political aspirations and hope of defeating
Delegate Wickersham in the next Republican
primaries, the Attorney General is willing to forgo
that hope for the appointive reward which is at
least more certain. Commissioner Arnold of Ket
chikan and District Attorney Howard D. Stabler,
of Juneau, it is being whispered are probable
nominees for the district attorney and federal
judgeship in the First Division.
The voters have not forgotten Rustgard’s pri
mary phillipics against Delegate Wickersham and
it is being reported around that he, with Walstein
G. Smth, Territorial Treasurer, are aligned againsc
Cash Cole, Territorial Auditor. Which does not
tend to rest dissatisfaction in the minds of many
of the rank and file at a time when all internal
differences in the Republican party should be
eliminated. And unless this is done, will make
certain victory of the Democrats at the next
election.
Mr. Rasmussen, president of the Banks of
Alaska, who announced his candidacy or willing
ness to receive nomination from the Republican
voters for National Committeeman, made a de
claration last summer that it was his sincere belief
that the Indian electorate should receive better
treatment at the hands of the politicians and
major parties. And that on the principle of “To
the victors belong the spoils” he declared that as
a reward for their efforts, they should be given
vaiious positions in appointive office according to
their fitness. And he further declared many of
them fit for such rewards. For this expression he
was heartily condemned by the federal bureau
crats in Juneau and to appease that faction, he
was induced to make an open declaration that it
was his belief that U. S. Commissioner Henry
O’Malley was most efficiently conserving the
salmon of Alaska and that his efforts were sincere
and above question. This sort of threw the monkey
wrench into the workings of a large faction of the
Republicans who have been hurt by the fule of the
Czar of Alaska’s fisheries. And to the students of
polit ics in the Territory was a most unwise move
and would tend to eliminate him if any strong
candidate presented himself for that office.
To eliminate Cole from the office of Auditor,
Lucas of Juneau is being groomed and to make
certain Cole’s defeat, Bragaw of Anchorage is be
ing urged to run for that office. Back of the sev
eral moves there seems to be the same iron fist
which has dominated hyphenate politics for the
past decade.
fco lar none has made declaration of filing m
the Republican primaries in opposition to Dele -
gate Wickersham. With the open defection of
many so-called Republicans, with the dissatisfac
tion in the ranks of the real Republicans, it would
appear at this time that the famous wheelhorse
of Republican politics in Alaska was facing the
greatest fight of his career and with the cards
stacked against him. If he gets the warring fac
tions of Republicanism together, it is not impro
bable that he will be returned to Congress after a
most bitter fight in the November elections.
In the meanwhile, partizan voters are criss
crossing back and forth in party lines at this time
but with the mass, which in the end counts, sit
ting back watching every move with considerable
interest and yet not ready to make their declara
tion as to what they will do in the elections.
FOR WHOM ARE SCHOOLS RUN ?
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An excerpt from the report of the Hoover
committee on schools:
“ The first public schools emphasized the
immediate need to give solidarity to a new gov
ernment • . . Public schools . . . have been
set up and extended for the purpose of inculcating
the ideals, values, attitudes, reverences , ,