come over $500,000. and yet he vot
ed against doing so when Murray at
tacked that item.
We believe this man will improve
with experience and that at heart
he is a true progressive.
JOSEPH MURRAY
of Cordova
No longer does Joe hail from Mc
Carthy. He now hails from Cordova
—no need however to change his
politics.
Joe is a born leader of men; force
ful, vigorous, relentless. Even
Ralph Lomen, the jumping jack of
the last legislature feared Joe for
when Joe cracked his whip, it cut
the string of the jumper.
However attractive Murray might
be as a human being, he is a reac
tionary of the worst type. He op
enly fought for Big Interests and de
serves the praise of Johnny Walker
Troy. Together with Ben Grier,
he opposed raising the tax on the
Kennecott Mine from 1 and %%
to 2%. They argued that it was
all wrong to tax that mine more
than $68,000. on its net income of
over $4,500,000 for 1926. They
both fought and defeated the pro
posal to tax the non-resident even
so low as $25. each. They fought
against increasing the tax on traps
so as to equalize the cost and thus
give our residents a chance to feed
their families in Alaska.
Joe Murray was chairman of the
Judiciary Committee and held back
many of the bills entrusted to hi®
committee so that, altho most ol
them finally passed, they could not
be signed by the Governor unti
AFTER the legislature had adjourn
ed. This many good lawyers say In
validates the law. Of course, Joe
would have saved this embarrass
ment If our eminent Governor hac
not become so interested in a care
game (was it poker) that he couU
not attend to his duties as govern
or by attending the closing hours o
the legislature as other governori
had done before him.
We suppose ^however, that th
send him (Joe) back to the nex
people of the Third Division will
legislature. It will always be thus
bo long as the average man says
that his one vote doesn’t count. Be
assured that the copper and cannery
people get their friends to the polls.
RALPH LOMEN
of Nome.
This fellow gave the worst exhi
bition of superiority complex yet
seen in the legislative halls. Su
periority in Mr. Lomen’s case means
swelled head. His every action in
dicated that lie must have been rais
ed pet for he would not tolerate a
suggestion from any member that he
might be mistaken in his views of
legislative subjects. In asserting
his superiority he was intolerant,
insulting and ill-mannered. His
gratutious insults to Mr. Paul were
evidently promoted by race hatred
which leads us to wonder where the
Eskimo people will find themselves
if they are ever subject to the tend
°r mercies of Lomen. His attempt
to browbeat Speaker Smith and to
bulldoze his colleague Sundquist
were, the actions of a bully. His ef
forts to embarrass Charlie Johnson,
a fisherman testifying before his
committee were resented by Scott of
Cordova who is himself almost as
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reactionary as Lomen. His threats
on several occasions to “put skids
under Sundquist” and to see to i;
that Dick never returned to the le
gislature would be considered brut
ally bad taste by a Tammany ward.
When compelled by the House to
apologize to members of the Fish
eries committee, he thought that the
apology should not be published in
the journal of the House and that
he—the petted child of the rein
deer monopoly—should be immune
from the usual rules of parliament
THE DRIFT INN
L. A. OLSEN, Proprietor
Pool HSall—Cigars and Tobaccos
Furnished Rooms
Wrangell, — Alaska
KETCHIKAN FOUNDRY
H. P. HANSEN, Prop.
Manufacturer of
STAR TROLLING GURDIES
Phone Black 121 Box 843
Electric Laundry
Phone 156
GENERAL LAUNDRY
WORK
All Work Guaranteed
F. H. Bold, Prop.
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