GEORGE SEXTON WILL
FIGHT JOHN FRAME
Does Not Recognize Vote of
People as Binding
George Sexton, our elected dele
gate to the Republican National Con
vention, has already announced that
he would not support John Frame,
our elected National Committeeman,
for Ihe appointment to the job which
we elected him.
It would have made a great dif
ference in the vote for George Sex
ton if lie had informed the citizens
before election that he was against
the People’s choice for National
Committeeman unless the People fol
lowed his advice.
How are we going to make men
like George Sexton, and there are
a lot of them in Alaska, realize that
governments like ours are found
ed upon the will of the people?
Is it not a form of dishonesty for
a man to keep his mouth shut be
fore election and allow the citizens
to believe that he would respect their
wishes ?
The duty of Mr. Sexton is very
simple and the logic supporting this
duty is very strong. It is simply
th's. The Republicans through their
primary appointed Mr. Sexton to go
to the National Convention and help
m initiate a Republican candidate for
President. Mr. Sexton has accepted
this commission from the Republi
cans. Practically the same Republi
cans elected John Frame to be their
National Committeeman. The tab
ulation of votes on May 5th shows
Mr. Sexton received in the entire
Territory 1,1)30 votes while John
Frame received 1,007. Under out
laws, the duty of Mr. Sexton is
simply to record with the National
Committee the wishes of the Repub
licans of Alaska and to name John
Frame as the next National Com
mitteeman for Alaska.
To do anything else is to destroy
the faith of the common people in
our form of government.
People are saying constantly that
candidates for office are one thing
before election, and another thing
after election. That is because can
didates have not kept faith with the
people. How can Mr. Sexton justify
himself? How can he say to the
People “The commission which you
have given me in the Republican
primaries is a good commission and
1 accept the duty imposed on me,
but when you Republicans elected
John Frame to be National Commit
teeman you don’t know what you
are doing and T will not recognize
your orders on this point as binding
upon me?”
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OFFICIAL COUNT
Returns of Republican Primaries
By Clerk of Court
The official count in the first
Division was made by John H. Dunn,
clerk of the court, on May 23rd and
shows no substantial change in the
returns previously announced.
The much talked of contest of In
dian voters on the ground that they
were not citizens, and other irreg
ularities published by the yellow
journal of Juneau in flaming head
lines proved to be all talk.
The lawyers for the cannery can
didates sat through the entire count
and made a lot of notes but noth
ing has developed. The only pre
cinct in which there was even the
slightest chance of a contest was
Sitka. In that precinct the judges,
Rev. Howard, Mr. Merrill and Mr.
Schrey, failed to sign the registra
tion hook and perhaps omitted some
other duty; but since no charge of
fiaud could be sustained, the vote
had to be counted.
The omission of certain duties by
the Sitka election board must have
been due entirely to carelessness for
at least two of them, Rev. Howard
and Mr. Merrill, are strong for lit-,
eracy tests and it has never been?
even whispered that they could not]
sign their names, for they have ta-1
ken the position that the trouble with!
Alaska is that too many of the!
other citizens of Sitka could not dol
so. B
The official count shows:
For Governor—one to be nominat-g
—
cmI. Cole, 1410; Schofield, 100; Val
entine 1,014.
Delegate to Congress—Sutherland,
2,‘309. No opposition.
Attorney General—one to be nom
inated: Coppernoll, 691; Rustgard,
2,070.
National Committeeman—One to
be nominated: Arthur Frame, 920;
John W. Frame, 1,524.
Delegates to National Convention
—two to be nominated: Dawes, 2,
057; Robertson, 1,100; Sexton, 1,201;
Steel, 715.
Senator—Davies, 1079; Hunt, 1,
627; Hunt nominated.
Representatives — Grant, 1,679;
Paul, 1,524; Ferguson, 1,242; Hern,
1,159; Shepard, 1,097; Gurr, 1,046;
Ashley, 986; Davis, 504; Noland, 459;
Skuse, 447; Paine, .‘363; Simpson 192;
Sprague, 157. (Grant, Paul, Fergu
son, Hern nominated.)
R. E. Robertson is for Coolidge
first, last and all the time. But
wasn’t that before he learned that
Coolidge’s grandmother was an In
dian? One trouble with Robertson
is that he cannot forget the days
when the first name was Gunnison
& Robertson; when Gunnison was
food administrator and set the price
at which the fisherman had to sell
his fish; while Gunnison and Rob
ertson were also attorneys for prac
tically all the canneries in Alaska;
and when the canneries through
their friends also fixed the price at
which the government purchased the
same salmon. The fisherman and
the government held the sack.
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