ter waging a strenuous battle
he received 2,158 votes as
againt 5,354 for Sutherland.
Did the “one thousand illiterate
Indians” do it? And the as
piring Stroller White was the
unopposed Democratic candi
date and received the munifi
cent vote of ’83. But Stroller’s
real humiliation came at the
November election of 1922,
when his 1,733 votes were
buried under an avalanche of
6,125 for Sutherland.
In the April election of 1924
the renegade Republican could
find no victim to sacrifice him
self in the primary and Dan
had an easy victory with 4,717
votes. So they joined with the
Democrats and selected Frank
A. Boyle to receive the unop
posed Democratic nomination
for Delegate, giving him the
tremendous vote of 813. Pre
parations were then waged for
the big and decisive battle in
November, wfnen Frank was to
be carried to the very steps of
Capitol hall in Washington on
the shoulders of Bert and Bob,
the corporate money extractors
and dispensers. The Indian
hue and cry was raised as
never before and the timid
ones of Chicken Ridge had to
be escorted to the polls in
autos, fearing the tomahawks
that their imagination saw
brandished in the air.
ine ettorts put torth to de
feat Sutherland were tremendous
but when the smoke of battle
cleared away after Nov. 4th the
conspirators were snowed under.
The vote was 3,916 for Boyle
and 6,769 for Sutherland. The
Delegate carried every division
with a total majority of 3,213.
And yet his maligners would
have the public believe that he
w«s elected because of “one
thousand illiterate Indians.”
Was there ever a more con
temptible lie promulgated by an
assumed respectable citizenry?
Prior to the primary election
of April 27 last the public of
the Territory was given to un
derstand in some vague way
that Dan Sutherland had lost
his popularity and also had
ceased to be useful as Delegate
at Washington. He was to be
defeated for nomination by
Frank Aldrich or Harry McCain.
And yet as the returns drift
in it is found that again Dan
has carried every division with
a vote of more than two to
one against the combined vote
of his opponents. And yet Troy,
White and Morrissey say that
“one thousand illiterate Indians”
did the work. What rot.
out taking a lesson irom
past experience, which these
conspirators seldom do, they
took the precaution of making
sure that they would have a
real candidate against Suther
land in the next general elec
tion. So they resorted to the
new method of inducing that
simonpure Republican, war horse,
Tom Marquam, of Fairbanks, to
forego party fidelity, (easy to
do) and file as an Independent
candidate for Delegate. And
again the battle is on and again
Sutherland be defeated—until
the votes are counted after the
Nov. 2 election.
This is the same Tom who
was a candidate for a Judge
ship in the Fourth division
after President Harding’s elec
tion. But his record was sent
to the Department of Justice
at Washington and it was so
unsavory that even Attorney
General Harry Daugherty felt
peeved at Tom’s presumption
in even thinking that he was
entitled to a place of trust and
honor. Those affidavits pres
ented to the Department were
a matter of public record which,
no doubt, Marquam’s sancti
monious sponsors in Juneau
will present to the reading
public. But they will not like
ly be circulated in Ketchikan,
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