Delegates to the National
R epu blican Con veil tion
There are four men before the
people of Alaska and from these
four, Republicans must choose two:
R. E. Robertson, of Juneau.
Harry G. Steel, of Cordova.
George Sexton, of Seward.
Dr. L. P. Dawes, of Juneau.
The first question every voter will
ask of these men is, “Who are they?”
R. E. Robertson is an attorney of
Juneau, formerly the law partner of
Judge Gunnison, of Food Adminis
tration Fame, who fixed the price
at which the fishermen had to sell
to the canneries, and also fixed the
price at which the cannerymen sold
to the United States. The price of
sockeyes and other salmon was fixed
rather low because Judge Gunnison
felt that $1,000. was too much for
a working man to make in a single
season.
Robertson is the attorney for many
corporations among which are the
following:
A. & P. Products Corporation—
cannery; Astoria & Puget Sound
Canning Co.; Barton & Co. of Spo
kane, Washington; Cahoon Creek
Placer Co. of Minnesota; Canyon
Creek Development Co., of Delaware;
Coast Trading Co. of Tacoma; Col
umbia River Packers’ Association;
Columbia Salmon Co.; Cudahy Pack
ing Co., Deep Sea Salmon Co., Ev
erett Packing Co., Forty Mile Pow
er Co., of New York; Goodrich Rub
ber Co., Goodyear Rubber Co., Gui
terman Bros., of Minn.; Heinz Co.,
International Packing Co., of Wash.;
John A. Roebling’s Sons., Libby,
McNeill & Libby, Marshall Wei's Co.,
Mason, Ehrman & Co., Merell Soule
Sales Corporation, Moore & Co., of
Calif.; Mount Andrew Mining Co..
Mutual Creamery Co., of Utah.; New
York Alaska Gold Digging Co., Pa
cific Building & Loan Ass’n.; Patter
son Dental Supply Co., Phoenix
Packing Co., Red Salmon Canning
Co., Remington Typewriter Co.,
Schilling & Co., Smith & Bros. Type
writer Co., Stewart & Holmes Drug
Co., of Washington; Swift, Arthur,
Crosby Co.—canners, Todd Packing
Co., of Washington; United States
Rubber Co., Walton N. Moore Dry
Goods Co., Whiton Hardware Co., of
Wash.; Yakutat & Southern Railway,
Alaska Trust & Investment Co., of
Ketchikan.
Robertson’s record is well known
He has always stood against the
people. If you want him to hold t^e
position of influence where he will
have a lot to say about whom our
next set of public officials shall be.
then vote for Robertson.
Harry G. Steel is the successful
publisher of a daily newsoaoer in
the Guggenheim citv of Cordova.
He stands in with the eanp-. He
favors fish reserves for Alaska and
is a strong supporter of all carpet
baggers. He and Robertson will
make a fine team. Indeed, certain
interests would like to see these two
men elected. Both men would cer
tainly work against Delegate Dan
Sutherland on everything.
George Sexton is the owner of a
hotel in Seward. He has always
been an upright citizen working for
the common people. His independ
ence is well known. He is a strong
Sutherland man.
Dr. L. P. Dawes is well known in
our parts. Always the Robertson
gang and the Bert Faulkner gang
and the carpet-bagging gang have
tried to down him; put him out of
business; discredit him; but always
his talents as a fine surgeon and
physician, his kind treatment of th«
common man has helped him to beat
the gang. It is very fortunate for
real Alaskans that a busy man like
the doctor would file for this import
ant office. He is a strong Suther
land man. Sexton and Dawes are
everything to Alaskans that Rob
ertson and Steel are not. Sexton
and Dawes have but people of Al
aska as clients to serve.
THE TRAGEDY OF IT
The principal value of the daily
press to its patrons is in keeping
the people from finding out the
truth. Public ignorance is a pow
erful ally to some.
Newspapers, as a rule, earn more
by what they do not print than by
what they do print.
A person recently from the Third
Division reported that the people in
that part of the country were in ab
solute ignorance about the behaviour
of their delegation to the last legis
lature. The local papers had de
scribed them as sober and faithful
champions of the public weal. As a
result they were on their return
fiom Juneau, received as heroes and
public benefactors.
That they had protected the fish
reserves is not known to the con
stituents. That they opposed a fair
tax upon the net profits of mines in
excess of One Million Dollars is
equally unknown except to the mag
nates. That they helped to defeat
the home-rule bill and obstructed all
other efforts at progressive legisla
tion; that they formed a solid bloc
against every move in direction of
relieving the territory from present
exorbitant freight rates; that they
took advantage of their immunity
from arrest by turning night into
day and making the Volstead Ac;
look like a wet rag, is all hidden un
der the smoke and screech of the pv
rotechnics thrown around them by
the subsidized press.
The voters of the Third are nei^er
better nor worse than people in other
divisions. Their trouble is that they
have no leaders to arouse them from
their torpor.
The system of the Nabobs is be
ginning to show results. In all
one-man communities the main ef
fort of the rulers is to eliminate
every person suspected of possessing
some individuality. One thinker with
an independent turn of mind is
feared more than an army of reds.
It is the fawning sycophant of the
Tory temperament who is most val
uable for private purposes—men
whose chief ambition in life is to be
able to finger their noses at the rest
of the world from behind the coat
tail of some influential financier.
But this is not the class of men
out of which nations are made.
If Alaska Is to be the foster-mo
ther of a race of spineless sycophants
instead of men, the territory is not
worth developing.
Meanwhile, let us pray for some
strong, clean man to arise in the
Third Division. All of Alaska is in
terested.
Have you caught on to R. L. Eis
ner yet? or to Joe Murray? or
Frank Foster ?
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