-VOTE THE TICKET STRAIGHT
DAN A. SUTHERLAND
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
It seems almost like "carrying coals
Newcastle" to try to tell the people
of tho Scc*ond Division about our
Candidate for Delegate to Congress,
for he is personally known to a great
many of us ami has been so known
since Nome's earliest days, but for
the purpose of impressing upon the
public generally the worth of the man.
we will give a brief resume of his
Dan's childhood was passed in
Gloucester, Massachusetts where he
grew to sturly manhood, secur
ing his education at Essex, a suburb
of Gloucester. He was engaged in
the fishery business during his youth
and early manhood and until 1S9S when
the "lure of the goldfields of the
North" started him with so many
thousands of others for the North.
The winter of 9S-99 he spent in the
Koyukuk and at Kampurt, engaged in
mining and came to Nome in the
spring of 1S99, where, with John J.
Sesnon, ho started the lighterage
business which has since become
kn ,wn as the John J. Sesnon Com
pany. In 1902 and 1903, Senator
Sutherland made a comfortable for
tune hydraulic mining in the Council
district. In 1903 he operated for C.
D. T*nne the first hydraulic plant
on Ophir Creek, and in 1904 he repre
sented the Alaska mining properties
of the Tviehes family of San Francisco.
In 1905 he went to Fairbanks where
he operated a la}.' on Cleary Creek,
and in the following year did consid
erable prospecting in the Alaska range
nf mountains, after which he returr -
ed to Nome and, in the summer of 190S
he canted on prospecting and mining
operations on the Third Beach Lfn<>,
and while there was appointed by
President Taft I’nited States Marshal
for the First Division of Alaska. lie
held that office till May, 1910, after
which he joined the Iditarod stam
pede and mined in that district and at
in 11*12 Senator Sutherland been mo
a candidate for Senator in the first
Alaska Legislature, and received the
largest vote of any candidate in the
Fourth Division, and after the close
of his term he was reelected in lftlft
over one of the most popular men in
the Fourth Division. Tom McGowan.
Senator Sutherland was born a Re
publican and has never been anything
else, having been Chairman of the Re
publican Central Committee, at Salem,
Massachusetts, before he came to Al
in bis public career in Alaska lie
lias always fought the attempts of
“Rig Business" to influence legislation,
and has eon silently stood for the
rights of the weaker and less fortun
ate members of society. He has
fathered many and championed all
Territorial laws for the improvement
of the educational, sociological and
physical condition of the Territory and
its residents. His record shows him
as upholding the rights of the indi
vidual fisherman of Alaska against the
encroachment of the Capitalist and
Monopolist, and he lias always dem
onstrated that liis complete knowledge
and able handling of the subject made
it impossible for the trap * men to
"slip anything over” on him.
In the first session of the Alaska
Legislature he stands out alone as the
one Senator who refused to sign the
clandestine telegram to the Secretary
of the Interior denouncing the Alaska
Railway project as an unnecessary, ex
travagant expenditure of public funds.
In the Compensation Act which was
passed at that first session we
signs of Sutherland's championship of
the rights of the worker. The bill
was considerably improved by his ef
forts. not the least of which was the
increase of the compensation by
twenty per cent over the original pro
posal. which was the result of Dan’s
tight to have it increased fifty per
.Vt the next session of the Legisla
ture, after two years experience with
the Compensation Act, it became np
parent that it could ho improved in
many ways, and thru the efforts of
Senator Sutherland several amend
ments for the benefit of the worker
were made, and several amendments
disadvantageous to the worker were
defeated by the same efforts.
It was Senator Sutherland's fight
against machine politics and dirty
political trickery that suggested and
caused the passage of the primary
election laws and also of the laws
making the office of national Commit -
teman and delegates to National Con
ventions elective.
It would take too much space to
enumerate all the work of our Senator
during his eight years in the office of
Territorial Senator, but we have
enumerated enough to show that he is
always to be found on the side of the
weak, on the side of honest, clean
politics and of administration of pub
lic is the possessor of a fund of
knowledge of every phase of the re
sources. development and life of Alas*
part of Alaska, and he has acquired
his knowledge in the hard and hitter
school of experience. For more than
two decades he has traversed this
great frontier from Ketchikan to Coun
cil. from the Kuskokwini to the Koy
nkuk; he has partaken of its feasfs
he has fasted during its famines. He
has mined the streams, mountain
ranges and tundras, has fished its
waters and navigated its rivers in
rafts and iff steam bloats, he has sailed
its treacherous coasts, snowshoed and
mushed dogs over its endless plains,
and with pack on his back has crossed
its "divides” to other "diggings,” and
he has done it all well with the quint
determination typical of the frontiers
Division know Dan from personal
acquaintance of years past, and many
met and heard him speak when he
visited Nome in 1916. and all know
him by his public acts.
He is the one ideal man for Dele
irate to Congress for Alaska, and you
know it. (let out and vote for him
and send him back to Washington
with a majority so nearly unanimous
as will hake the powers at Washing
ton sit up and take notice.
JOHN RUSTRARB
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
Mr. Ruatgard is well known to all
Alaskans, as one of the bent Attorneys
in the Territory. He has been prom
inently coneoted with much of the im
portant litigation of the past twenty
years, a considerable amount of which
originated in the Second Division, and
he will bring to the office of the at
torney General an abundance of ex
perience. He lived and practiced his
profession at Nome in the early days
of the camp, leaving Nome in 1909,
and has since resided at Juneau. He
was Mayor of Nome in 1901, and dur
ing his entire residence here took a
prominent part in civic affairs. He
held the office of United States At
torney of the First Division for over
/our years, during which time he was
always found on the side of law and
order, and performed his duties with
out regard to where the chips might
fall, prosecuting high and low alike
with the same vigor and honesty of
mirpose. It became his duty to pi os.
ecute the Transposition Companies
for violation of the Sherman Act. and
tho he was beaten in the District
Court he never faltered hut carried
the case to the Appellate Court w’here
after a strenuous battle he won out.
with the result that fines to the amount
of $28,000 were imposed upon the of
fenders .
He deserves and will undoubtedly
receive the united support of not only
ltepublicans, but all who believe in
good government.
JOHN SUNDBACK
REPUBLICAN- CANDIDATE
FOR SENATOR
Mr. Sundback was born in Sweden,
and came to the United States in
while he was still a youth. He lived |
in Iowa and Dakota, where he attend
ed school, until he reached manhood’s
''.state. In 1886 he was elected Sheriff
of Minnehaha County, Dakota, and
was re-elected to the same office in the
two subsequent elections, serving three
terniH of two years each in that office.
Mr. Sundback was one of the rush
to Dawson in 1899, and staid there
about two months and then continued
down the river landing at Nome in
the summer of 1899, and he has resid
ed in this Division ever since.
In 1910 he was appointed Clerk of
the District Court which office he oc
cupied until the summer of 1914, with
great credit to himself.
In 1916 he was elected Senator from
this Division to the Territorial Legis
lature, and his work In the Legislature
during the 1917 and 1919 terms is a
matter of record and a record^of which
he may well he proud.
Mr. Sundback is a Republican and
always has been, and he stands flat
footed on thep latform of the Nome
Republican Club which appears here
ED. W. BURIOUIHS
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Bom at Chagrih Falls, Ohio, Oct.
Uth, 1849, raised in Cleveland, Ohio.
Moved to Mprwiette. Mich, in 1869,
was with the ^chl|an Iron Co until
1878 as purchasing Agent, was with
the MarqUltte and' Ontonogan R. R.
as- Agent until 1878, came west to
Omaha, Nebraska, was with the Union
Pacific R. ft. until 1898 as agent at
Omaha Freight Station. Came to
Alaska in 1898 on the good Schooner
fl. W. Watson arriving at Kotsebue
July &th:—prospected on Ambler and
Sbungnak that lummer wintering on
the Kobuk at Riley camp.
Came to Nome in July 1899 and
mined on the bench in 1900 and 1901
mined on Mystery Creek in Solomon
district—in ltOI mined on Ruby Creek
in Cash De Faga district—in 1903
prospected on American Creek. 1904
prospected and mined on Second Beach
since which time I have been Agent
Superintendent, and Manager of the
Seward Pen. R. R. —Clerk in the
Miners and Merchants Bank. Afslstont
Postmaster, and Bookkeeper for the
Alaska Lighterage and Commercial
Co but I have always kept men out
prospecting each and every year.
Indorses tbs Platform published
TO THE VOTERS
THE REPUBLICAN CLUB OF NOME recognizing: (he gravity of (he
iseues noW*before the people In the National campaign, and believing that it
is conducive to the proxperlty and well-being of our people, and in fact neces
sary to the salvation of our beloved Nation, that the entire affairs of the coun
try. National, State and Territorial, should be placed under the administration
cf the Republican party, under the administration of which party in the past
our (lovernment and our people have enjoyed the greatest prosperity and well
being, and thefpeopl« have reached the highest point of human happiness ever
attained in this world, IX J HEREBY DECLARE;
That we endorse the principles adopted at Chicago and set forth in the
.platform of the Republican party, as a clear and" convincing exposition of
national policies, which, when carried out under the wise and enlightened
.leadership of our standard bearers, will-tend to dispel the chaotic conditions
and the discontent now existing thruout the nation, and will bring order,
peace, contentment and prosperity to our people.
That we endorse the position taken that our Nation CANNOT and
MUST NOT surrender its National sovereignty and independence of action,
and that, while we favor pence and good will between the nations of the earth,
that peace must be based upon a foundation of right and justice, and that this
end may best be reached thru unselfish cooperation and arbitration thru an
unbiased International Court for the settlement of controversies menacing
That we condemn the existing National Administration for its failure
to propose and carry into effect means of relieving the people from the burden
of the high cost of living; for its obvious intention to overthrow our Consti
tutional form of government, and engraft upon usnn autocratic one man control
of National affairs; for its purpose to impose upon the Nation an International
Council with power superior to our Constitutional authority, and with power to
Involve our Nation in wars wherein our national interests are in no way in
volved; for Its wild extravagance and inexcusable squandering of public money
during the late war. and for The CONTINUANCE OF THE SAME APPALL
ING EXTRAVAGANCE IN TIMES OP PEACE: for Us Incompetent,admin
istration of offal™ resulting in tho present ehnnUe conditions; nml for the Ken
eral Ineompetenoy of Its appointees to public office, us is well Illustrated by
the conduct of the affairs of tho Territory by the present Governor of Alaska.
That we commend to the people the presidential nominee Warren G.
Harding as a sterling American, of great experience and recognized ability,
whose righteous manhood and character so eminently qualify him for the tre
mendous responsibilities he is so soon to assume, and his running mate Gov
ernor Galvin Goolidge, nominee for Vice President. another sterling American,
and one in whom the entire nation has the utmost confidence based upon his
consistent and statesmanlike coarse as Executive of the Great State of Mass
achusetts.
Thnt wo commend to. and urge the support of, the voters of the Terri
tory of Alaska, the entire Kopubncan ticket with the hope that they will all be
elected to oltloo with such tremendous majorities us will clearly show' to the
world our endorsement of Harding, Goolidge, and a progressive, sane adminis
tration of tho affairs of the irfttifin under our Constitution.
That we commend our enndidate fm- Delegate to Congress, the Honor
able Dan A„ Sutherland, and we pledge that he will ever be faithful to the
trust about to ho confided to him. He is a sourdough miner and one of the
people .tried and true: ho has been and always will be for the best interests
of the people; he has been lor years a resident of the Territory and served
two teitins as Senator from tin Fourth Division in the Territorial Legislatures,
extending from 3013 to foi0, where his record as a. ntfin of'character and in
tegrity and as a legislator is without blur or blemish.
That we commend our candidate for Attorney General of the Terri
tory, John llustgnrd; he is wothpknown in this (the Second) Division, where
he formerly resided, and practiced his profession; he has ever since lived in
tio Territory; he is known as an able and ohnsCientious lawyer, a man of
integrity, and we pledge thnt l^will perform the. duties of his office, without
fear or favor, for the best interests of the Territory. '
Thnt we commend our candidates for the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the Alaska Legislatures they are all successful business men of
considerable ability and of irreproachable character, long residents of the
Second Division, all of whom tire .vitally interested in the community, and all
of whom will advocate measures for the host interest of the whole Territory,
end particularly the Second Division.
TUT WE HEREBY PLEDGE OUR CAROIDATES
TO THE FOLLOWMS PLATFORM :
w« pledge thorn for the enactment of an eight hour law which shall provide
' ' that eight hours constitute a legal day’# lo)»or. with proper provi
% idons for the payment of everting. v
We pledge them to take such action as may lie in their i>owei* for the better
ment of the transportation facilities Into, out of, and within, the Terri
tory, with the end in view of cheapening: transportation charges;
We pledge them to do their utmost to dispense with unnecessary Bureaus,
Boards and Commissions in the administration of Territorial affairs,
and for the curtailment of the expenditures of Territorial funds by
Federal appointee*;
We pledge them for more liberal appropriations, both Territorial and Federal,
for the building: of wagon roads and railroads to bring about the de
velopment of our industries, the expenditures of which funds shall
be under Territorial Instead of Federal supervision;
We pledge them for the repeal of the obnoxious Road law' passed by the last
, Legislature, which contemplates the expenditure by.the Federal Road
Commission of nil Territorial road funds, and for the enactment of a
iRoad law providing for the election of a Territorial■ Rood Commis
sioner in each Division of the Te/ritory:
We pledge them for the• repeal of the present Old Age Pension law, and for
the enactment of a more liberal one;
We pledge them for an amendment of the present Primary Election, law so as
to permit the appointment of new party candidates after the Primary
and before the election, by the Divisional Committee without calling a
Divisional convention of the party, which* in this Division, has been
proven Impracticable, and changing the date of the Primary Elections
from a day in April to a day later In the year In older to shorteit the
period of the campaign:
We pledge them for the enactment of an Initiative. Referendum and Recall
<Act which will be applicable to all Territorial queetlons and to all
Wo pledge them for the enactment of a hnv making the office of Territorial
Mining: Inspector, and Territorial Superintendent of Education elec
tive instead of appointive; V
of a Government Assay Office; the estaldi.shment thru out the Terri
tory of additional salmon hatcheries, and especially one at Salmon
Lake; the' establishment of wireless stations under Government con
trol at the more imqiortant points outside of Nome in the Second. Divi
sion, such as Dime Creik, Teller and Point Barrow; '‘the providing of
lights and other gulden to navigation along the coast of the-Second
Division; for the instalBtiOn of a railway system to be opdtafed with
* gasoline engines to^helcdih districts of tha Second Division at-Cape
Lirfbourne and other c« fields, or for the purchase and extension of
any railway system no* in existence‘cove ring that territory; '
We pledge them to use their But*efforts to Induce the Federal Government
to provide a speedy, seeking power vessel, to be under the charge of
We pledge them to use their 'best efforts to cause the establishment at Nome
sled and Ignored by the Attorney General
Hedge our candidates to use every effort In
that law.
flared in the Second Division; for tin en>
service thruout tho Territory.
sring law passed h\ the Republican Con
i' the high cost of living, the enforcement
an Improved mail service between the
and especially for the Improvement of
in their power the McRtdden BlU
the hotter protection of life and
bonus of ten dollars per ounce
EDGAR L. HOLT
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Mr. Ilolt is one of Nome's host
known and highly respected citizens;
ho. Is one of its leading, business men.
and was Chief Magistrate of the City
during the last term. His conduct of
civic affairs was beyond reproach.
He was born in Maine in 1870, came
west in 1888, worked for a time as a
miner and prospector in Montana,
Idaho, Washington and British Colum
bia, and later engaged in the hotel
and gmcor.v business. He came to
Nome in 1901, and has resided here
continuously since He worked -.t
longshoring and teaming until 1901,
when he opened a hotel, constructing
and operating the well known Miner’s
Hotel. He later engaged in mining
and followed that occupation without
any material success until 1910. He
was prominent in labor circles and
was the first President of the Nome
Mine Workers Union, being elected to
that office in 1905. In 19’0 he entered
the mercantile business and has con
tinued in that occupation up to the
present time.
Beginnig in a very small way he h:n
built up one of the largest and most
successful business establishments in
Nome by hard work, attention to bus
iness and fair dealing, and he is today*
one of the largest individual tax pay
ers in the city.
He was elected Mayor of the city
in 1919 and administered the duties
of that office in a capable and highly
successful manner.
Mr Holt is a married man and a
sterling citizen who is in every way
<iualifled to successfully represent this
Division in the Legislature.
He approves and stands on the plat
form published above.
A. J. MUELLER
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Mr. Mueller was born nt Newark.
N. J. in 1861, and while a child his
parents moved to Providence, R. I.,
where he received a public school ed
ucation. and afterwards learned the
jewelry trade. In 1888 he ot>ened a
manufacturing: jewelry plant at Cleve
land, Ohio, and which business ho
conducted successfully until 1902, when
he removed to Nome, and has been a
resident of Nome, engaging in the
jewelry business, ever since.
He has been a Republican nil his
life and a one hundred per cent Amer
He has been interested in many min
ing ventures since he has resided in
Alaska, and owns extensive interests
in mining property now as well as real
estate in the city of Nome.
After eighteen years continuous
justness In Nome, Mr. Mueller feels
that he is entitled to a vacation, and
expects to leave for a visit with his
Itakntly this fall, with the expectations
of opening up the old stand next ■
spring. Taking this trip offers the
Opportunity to hove him represent us
In the next Legislature.
, He approves and stands on the Re
publican platform published herewith,
and pledges himself to carry out the
principles therein set forth, and to,
nee his beet efforts for the advance
ment of Hie Interests of the Second
Division, yithoot fear or favor.
ANDY ANDERSON
CANDIDATE
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Due to the resignation of Dick
Morris after the primaries there is a
vacancy on the Republican ticket for
the offico of Representative to the
Alaska Legislature. As the only way
this vacancy could ho filled under the
Primary Law is by calling of a Di
visional Convention, which is utterly
impracticable in this Division within
the time at our dsposal, the Nome Re
publican Club have endorsed the can
didacy of Andy Anderson for that of
fice. ' Altho Mr. Anderson is an Inde
pendent candidate and therefore might
he considered as in opposition to the
Regular Republican ticket, yet the • It .
cumstancos governing ills indep-udent
candidacy are somewhat different from
that of all the other independent can
didates. Mr. Anderson desited *; he
a candidate at the Primary election,
and wired to Nome from the Outside
to have his application filed, but he
was ignorant of the provision compell
ing flic filing* of such application 00
days before the .primaries, and his tele
gram was received here too late to
comply with his wishes, llis friends,
without consulting with, or receiving
instruction from him, eicmlated a pe
tition for his independent candidacy,
and he found, on his arrival here on
the first boat, that lie was an
pendant candidate, a candidacy which
I t 1
I _ ,
' A great mnhy residents of the Territory consider that it is of little im
portance what may be the political principles of the candidates for the various
Territorial offices, but this is.wrong and is a very dangerous condition. The
platform printed, above furnishes plenty of reason for all voters who believe
.n law, order and good government, voting for the Republican ticket not only
in Alaska, but thruout the I'nited States.
In addition we would call attention to a few facts:
The organic Act making Alaska a Terrtrtory and giving us a Home
Rule Government was passed by a Republican Congress in 1912, as was also
the law setting a^ide lands in the public domain for the schools of the Terri
tory and the establishment of the school system in the Territory.
The Republican members of the Territorial Legislature are to bo cred
ited with speh laws as the extension of the elective franchise to women, the
establishment of the Pioneers’ Home anj! the pensioning of pioneers, the uni
form school act, the primary election of National Committeeman and Delegates
to the National Conventions, the Australian Ballot law, a good, workable road
law (the law' of 1917) which was killed by the Democratic Legislature of 1919,
which same Legislature also botched up the Pioneers' Pension Act and the
Pioneers’ Home law.
Tho journals of the* House and the Senate for the four sessions of the
Legislature commencing with 1913 will show that the Republicans have always
stood for good laws and have been the progressive element in the Legislature.
There is no doubt in the minds of the best posted men and women of
today that the nexjt election will return a Republican administration to
Washington, and this should encourage the Republicans to elect their party
represenatives to the federal and Territorial offices so that we may present a
strong solid front to the authorities at Washington when we make our claims
for recognition. With a Republican Delegate to Congress, a Republican
legislature, and a Republican Governor all working in harmony for the ad
vancement of Alaska we should be able to get somewhere.
The Pembcrats have lamentably failed in their administration of af
fairs for the Nation and for Alaska, so let’s return to a Republican adminis
tration which in the past never failed.
SAMPLE BALLOT
GENERAL ELECTION
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
SECOND JUDICIAL DIVISION
MARK “X” in the SQUARE at *h<- LEFT of the NAME
of the Candidates for whom you desire to vole. If names
of candidates for whom you desire to vote do not appear oil
the ballot, insert with pencil in blank spaces.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
( VOTE FOR ONE )
GRIGSBY, GEORGE
SUTHERLAND. DAN
Designation of party
by which nominated.
B. Democrat
l_ |
A Republican ,
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
( VOTE FOR ONE )
MURPHY, J. C.
RUSTGARD. JOHN
Republican
FOR TERRITORIAL SENATOR
( VOTE FOR ONE )
FOR TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVES
( VOTE FOR FOUR )
FOR ROAD COMMISSIONERS
FOR ROAD DISTRICT, NO. TWO.
( VOTE FOR TWO )