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Alaska Invisible Government,
sponsored and financed by the Big
Cannery and S. S. Interests, coun
selled and advised by T. J. Dono
hue of Cordova, the political “Ross"
< f Alaska, aided and abetted by the
it deral appointees, particularly U.
S. Marshal Sullivan and his depu
ties in the various towns, scored an
important victory in the Third Di
ce',ion recently in the election of
live ifi) “R actionaries" to the Ter
ritorial Legislature—Dimond for
Senator, Murray, Foster, Tarwaaer
and McCutcheon for Representa
tives. If I am not mistaken you
will find all of them opposed to the
Controller Bill.
The A. I. G. machine was very
v eil oiled and greased at Anchor
age. For some time previous to
I no election Dimond, Murray and
Foster made a complete and tho
rough canvass of the Westward and
Cook Inlet points, including Anchor
age in their itinerary, and while
here made the deputy marshal’s of
fice tlier hang out. Grigsby was al
so quite a visitor there dur
ing his stay in Anchorage. The re
sultant vote at Anchorage speaks
for itself .viz: In Precinct No. 1.
comprising the Territory east of F
Street and which included most of
the cigar stores and card rooms,
taxi cab office s, etc., etc., Grigsby
received lit I votes to Sutherland’s
184; Dimond 2 2 5. Borgen 143;
Tarwater 250, Murray 169, Mc
Crtcheon 260, McCain 12S, Foster
122. Precinct No. 2 all west of F
siieet, Grigsby 125, Sutherland 203;
Pinion 15 4, Borgen 171; Tarwater
251, McCutcheon 22G, Murray 149,
McCain 163. Foster 124.
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As everybody knows Anchorage
is normally Republican 21/& to 1,
but good team work on the part of
the machine boosters put Dimond
over here with a majority of G5.
Some of the Republican Dimond
Boosters were Ray C. Larson, R. E.
McDonald, proprietor of the Aurora
Card Rooms, Fred Harris, propr.
Arcade Card Room, W. J. Boudreau,
Ike Bayles, C. F. Peterson, propr.
Peterson Hotel and Taxi Service.
The Machine kept taxi owners busy
ell day rounding up legal and il
pgal voters. No watchers at the
noils. Nuf sed! In addition to
the above there were many other
Anchorage R< publicans who boosted
and work d for the machine ticket,
including some of the members of
Hie executive committee of the An
chorage Republican Club. You can
also rest assured that the members
el the Anchorage Marshal’s force
'• ork-ul < nergeticully for the success
of the so-called machine ticket.
Ill tlie Malaiu;r.k;i Valley, which
is also normally R publican 2 to 1,
Dimond slaughtered Bergen, as per
vho followany: Mat: nuska. Borgen
12, Dimord 29; Kska, Borgen, 5,
Dimond 20; Jonesville, B irgen 8.
Pinion;], 1(1; Talke: ir.a. Borg, n 8,
Dimond 1<>.
Deputy Marshal Iloffman at Mat
anuska is given full i redit f• r this
\ictory. Well this man must do
something to earn his salt. He has
la en stationed, or you might say
pensioned, at Matunuska for the
past ten years, and has never been
railed on to make an actual arrest
at that point to my knowledge.
It is also reported that he is a De
mocrat and is holding his job there
through the Donohoe influence. Hn
donbtedlv there must he Something
to that as the result of the election
in the valley shows. The Govern
ment would save money by having
him sent to Sitka.
The result of this election in the
Third shows conclusively that Mar
shal Sullivan is building up quite
e political machine. His deputies
in the various towns wield quite a
big influence and each and every one
of them are taking advantage of it.
A check-up of some of the towns
where deputy marshals are station
ed will bear cut this statement.
In the final count Dimonri defeat
ed Borgen hy over 500 votes. This
ii-: the second victory for the so-call
ed Reactionaries in 192S as. they
were instrumental in putting over
I-athrop for Republican National
Committeeman in the spring primar
ies, defeating Albrecht the regular
Republican candidate. This bunch
must be given due consideration in
all future elections.
The fact that in the final count
Bimond ben Sutherland’s score by
practically 200 votes or more in the
rlhii’d Div. and the killing off of
Paul in the First Division, puts Di
!:iond in line as a candidate for De
! ante in 1920 bv the Reactionaries,
and see if T miss my guess in this
respect.
Primary nd general elections, as
at present eon ducted in Alaska, are
far from satisfactory. To illustrate:
In 1112 4 primary when Conroy and
Council ran for Senator on the De
mocratic ticket the Donohoe outfit
polled 12S votes for Council at Eyak
precinct, every sane man knows that
this was a down right steal. The
matter was reported to the U. S. Dis
trict Attorney hut no action was
aken. In 1928 at the primaries in
Anchorage some drummers from
Seattle and S. E. Alaska voted at
Anchorage, and one particularly
hagrant case was reported to the
l\ S. Attorney's office, hut no action
taken. I have no hesitation in stat
ing that I firmly believe that there
were from 100 to laO illegal votes
cast at Anchorage in this last elec
l ion.
Something should he done at as
early a date as possible to remedy
this state of affairs.
“That last note was D flat.”
“That’s what I thought, but I did
n't like to ‘say anything.”
GETTING ON
Mother: “Hurry up, Tommy! We’re
late already Have you got your
shoes on?”
Tommy: ‘Yes, mamma-all but one.’