Election Soliloquy--"44 Lest We Forget”
EXPRESSIONS OF SOME AND PROBABLE THOUGHTS OF OTHERS
By Till A. Steel
Dan Sutherland—Never for a
moment did I lose faith in the
integrity and fairness of the
Alaska electorate. They can
not be cajoled, threatened oi
influenced with sordid money
The cannery monopoly, with
the lavish expendituie of
funds, can never go over the
top while an army of sturdy
and honest Alaskans are on
guard, fighting for the best in
terests of the Territory.
R. E. Robertson.—It was a
leal calamity that we unselfish
Corporation lawyers could not
regulate. Altho we have again
been rebuffed and humiliated
after our profuse promises to
the Big Interests, we are up
and plotting. Soon a new vic
tim, of course under pay, must
be selected for the 1928 con
test. Our reserve force in
cludes Henderson, Ritchie, Troy,
Theile, Grigsby, Faulkner, Mc
Bride, Dimond, and—extreme
modesty prevents mention of
another.
Rev. S. Hall Young—When
knowledge speaks they whose
hearts are open understand and
profit thereby, and thus may a
great Territory be saved. The
man who has the courage to
speak truth it at the mercy of
cowards. But having spoken
and if he then keep silent he
is safe, because they will fail
to understand him; and then
he may do them good with
out their knowing it or want
ing it, which is a source of
true humor and contentment.
Blessed be the Lord for his
wondrous works, and his pro
tection of Alaska.
John W. Troy—It was truly
a battle royal, in which every
body won, excepting of course
the Big Interests. But what
is sixty or seventy thousands
to those poor boobs. We need
ed it, if for nothing else, than
to show that they really do
leave in Alaska some of that
sixty million dollars that they
annually take from the waters
and earth of this northland.
Our big victory was in our de
monstrated ability to continue
to lead by the halter the Re
publican official family of Jun
eau and to shoo them into the
Democratic corral, where we
keep the highly intelligent
white man’s party of Chicken
Ridge. Then we have definite
ly established Marquamism and
Troyism as the high standard
of ethics in the Capital City.
That slush fund was a wond
erous thing and caused so mucn
glee in the Territory that we
must plot most carefully and
ingeniously for an enlarged re
petition in 1928. We are al
ready at work, but keep it dark.
Frank A. Boyle—They said
I was dippy when I obeyed
orders and threw that useless
Democratic nomination for Dele
gate into the discard. Why,
it didn’t mean any thing, for
we are all one happy family,
after the loaves and fishes. And
besides I have already receiv
ed signal honor thru my Jud
icial oppointment, and unto
the end of life shall be known
as “Judge.”
George B. Grigsby.—The Re
publican Ketchikan rally was
productive of many votes for
Sutherland and his ticket.
Their speakers confined them
selves to facts, which scored.
Our Independent rally, the
night before election, lost us
votes. We tried to mislead
the audience with salacious
stories, in the effort to divert
attention from the real issues.
It was a frost. Our people
are not as gullible as are the
dupes of Juneau.
V. A. Paine.—Maybe I was
too much of an autocrat, and
a d— phool in the bargain,
but I served the bunch, and
incidentally myself, to the best
of my ability. And to be sum
marily fired from my honored
position as U. S. Commission
er after all I did for the
“cause” and against Repub
licanism, was sheer ingratitude.
I even created the new precinct
of Gustavas, to get six votes
for Marquam to nothing for
Sutherland. And I abolished
the precinct of Angoon, hoping
to prevent about 60 Natives
from voting for Dan. It wasn’t
my fault that they took to
their boats and traveled two
miles to cast their Republican
ballots at Killisnoo. Altho in
dicted for election frauds I
have the glory of knowing that
fhe “Intelligent lawyers of
Juneau, after trying my case
in a back room, have declared
me ab-so-lute-ly innocent. We
Chicken Ridgers sure do stand
together. ]
Mayor Billy Hanlon.—Curses