ARTHUR FRAME ACCUSES
MARSHAL’S OFFICE
Claims Marshal's Office Refuses
To Act Altho Having Know
ledge of Unlawful Voting
The above headings are certainly
scare-lines. But a careful reading
of the interview which Arthur Frame
gave out in Anchorage will show you
that either the marshal’s office at
Juneau is guilty of permitting crime
or else Arthur Frame is “spoofing”
the public.
Arthur Frame is supposed to be
a lawyer. As a candidate for public
office, so important in his own esti
mation that he went to great expense
to get it, this patriot says that he
will do nothing in the face of perjury
and fraud practiced by voters. Not
only that he says that Marshal Geo.
Beaumont’s office knows that Cana
dian Indians voted at Skagway and
Wrangell.
There has been no contest of the
Indian vote. But there has been a
“protest” in the form of a letter
signed by Arthur Frame, R. E. Rob
ertson and others, a proceeding
wholly outside of law. The clerk
of the district court told these law
yers plainly that if they wished to
go into the merits of the case they
would have to get an injunction from
the District Court.
The best argument against Arthur
Frame is his own interview, and so
I reprint it. Not a word therein
comes from his own knowledge of
the facts. In that interview he
charges several things, first, that the
Indians were thoroughly organized
by “William L. Paul, a half-breed.”
I understand fully that the term
here used is for purpose of insult,
but I am not the one to shrink or
quarrel with facts. My grandmothers
were Indians. I don’t like the term
“half-breed,” but after all I cannot
see why that should be any worse
than “wholebreed.” It is not what
our grandfathers did, but what we
are, that counts.
Regarding the candidates in other
divisions, Arthur Frame knows more
about them than anybody else. We
are least informed as to their
position on literacy tests.
THE INDIAN IN POLITICS
In regard to the native vote in
the first, which controls the division,
Mr. Frame said:
“The Indians were thoroughly or
ganized by William L. ?aul, a half
breed who was a candidate for the
legis’ature on the Republican ticket.
Paul was also assisted by certain
white politicians who were anxious
to secure the Indian vote. The great
majority of the Indians are unable
tc read or write, or speak the Eng
lish language, and schools were held
by Paul and others under his di
rection, in which they were taught
to mark their ballots and the names
of the candidates for whom they
should vote. The Indians also car
ried marked sample ballots into the
booths from which they marked the
official ballot. The marshal's office
in the first division was informed
that Canadian Indians were voting
at Skagway and Wrangell. It is
estimated that at least six hundred
illegal votes were cast in the First
Division. The expense of contesting
the primary would be several thous
and dollars and because of the time
and expense involved it was not
deemed advisable to start contest in
the court.
The instruction given to the sav
ages was thorough and in the Indian
towns the vote went solid for their
candidates. At the fall election it is
thought that several hundred more
votes of this kind will be cast, as
the squaws will be broken in by that
time. The Indian vote in the First
Division holds the balance of power
in the Territory and the politicians
of the First, who are using it, are
extending their influence to the other
divisions in an effort to secure a
sufficient number of members of the
legislature to prevent a literacy test
for voters. They claim two candi
dates on the Republican ticket in the
Third Division who are favorable to
this policy. The entire Paul ticket,
or Indian ticket as it is called ,was
nominated in the First Division,”
—Anchorage Times.
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