Troy, were directing the machine,
you constantly induced certain Na
tives to vote for Sulzer, and that
was all right.
But since I came back from school
and business in the States, and since
I have had the nerve to expose your
hypocrisy, your duplicity, you now
tell the world that the “paramount
issue today is the illiterate Indian
vote.” Is it ?
I hold today that the paramount
issue is whether or not hypocrits
like you, Stroller, and you, Troy, will
continue to bask in the favor of
high public officials and with your
Democratic papers, continue to poi
son the minds of citizens.
A real pioneer from Juneau wants
to know if old Shep. knows of any
Indian that “could make a bigger
mistake than he did in the Pioneers
old age bill. He got in on the vote
and then turned them down.”
* * * *
I see that Shep. and Jake Will
iams are going about like two pals.
The kind of illiterate that Shep ap
proves of is the kind that follows
him. “Ain’t that the truth?”
* * * *
Of all the wars fought by Indians
against the invaders of their homes
and country, there was always to be
found renegate Indians who played
the part of the betrayer.
* * * *
One thing about the Stroller and
that is he never misses Communion
Sunday. Isn’t it a shame that his
church uses those small individual
cups ?
* * * *
Citizens should always remember
when reading the Juneau Empire and
Stroller’s Weekly that it is perfectly
natural for these Democratic papers
to attack any real Republican who
might be elected to public office—
with the exception of certain bi
partisan Republicans. These bi-par
tisan Republicans are well known., but
simply to illustrate, I will name R.
E. Robertson, H. L. Faulkner, Jack
McBride, H. T. Tripp, Charlie Gold
stein, Izzie Goldstein, all of Juneau,
and Howard Ashlev of Skagway.
These men are the type of Republic
ans (?) who enjoy the strongest
kind of support from John W. Troy,
the mouthpiece of the Demo-Republi
can machine.
* * * *
I was rather amused on reading
of the Empire’s comment concerning
the withdrawal of Judge Holzheimer
as a senatorial candidate of the Dem
ocratic party, amused because there
is a lot more in the paragraph than
people think. “In order to prevent
a factional contest in the Democratic
primaries and to give the Republicans
AN OPEN FIELD for a FAIR
FIGHT, Judge Holzheimer has with
drawn from the race.”
Those of you who know John W.
Troy can guess at once just exactly
how this arch Democrat enjoys giv
ing the Republicans a chance to
have a FAIR FIGHT.
It beats everything how some peo
ple can carry water on both should
ers. If it were not for the federal
machine, headed by the so-called Re
publican Governor, men like Troy
would not stay in this Territory long.
* * * *
Out of the more than 40,000,000
eligible voters in the United States.
610,558 voted on the Bok peace plan
for which Mr. Livermore was paid
$50,000.
HOWARDJSHLEY
Howard Ashley of Skjigwey is an
illiterate.
If he would arrange a time, I
would be pleased to debate with him
at Skagway on the issues which he
himself says are paramount. These
issues would fall of their own weight
because they are false. His real
plank is his absolute subserviency
to the interests of the White Pass
Railroad.
Let the Skagway people do a lit
tle thinking of their own and they
will see that Howard Ashley, illit
erate candidate of the big interests,
is not a friend of Skagway.
This candidate is in favor of build
ing a road with federal funds to the
Denver Glacier “for the purpose of
tapping the wood supply and for a
tourist drawing card.”
This road to Denver Glacier leads
no where and there is no wood sup
ply to talk about there; nor is there
anything there for a tourist to rave
about.
The truth is that if a road is
built to the Denver Glacier, the peo
ple of Skagway won’t get their road
to the summit, and so the White
Pass will continue to charge $120 or
more per ton for a forty mile haul.
The people of Alaska should be in
terested in the road to the Summit
where it would join a British road.
Such a road would be the greatest
drawing card for tourists ever pro
posed because with this road built,
tourists would bring their cars by
the thousands, disembark at Skag
way, stop there two or three days,
then travel by automobile to White
Horse, and on down to Dawson, down
the Yukon to Fairbanks, back over
the Richardson highway and then
back to Seattle. Can you beat this
trip with your little road to Denver
Glacier for wood six inches or so
in diameter?
This illiterate candidate favors
building a Juneau-Skagway road,
which he says is a practical, feas
ible proposition to link up two Al
askan cities and is strongly sup
ported in Juneau. The strong pull
for this road is in the last “strong
ly supported in Juneau,” and would
permit the sheep-minds of Juneau to
get their contraband by auto. How
much would this road cost, Ashley ?
And why not a road to the Summit
that would permit cheaper freight
for the interior? That would open
up the rich Atlin district. That would
make the Mayo district accessible.
And open up numerous properties in
the interior, all of which would make
business for Skagway.
Do not forget it, Mr. Skagway
Voter, your future lies in getting
an automobile road to the Summit.
Men like Perry M. Hern deserve your
support. The Declaration of Inde
pendence was directed against the
bosses of Ashley. Are you going to
help the British owners of Howard
Ashley break Perry Hern’s back
merely because he wants to make
a real city of Skagway instead of
a city of dead men’s bones?
We need more of Paul Revere’s
stuff in Skagway and less of Bene
dict Arnold.
MARCELA HOTEL
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