Bill Mahoney, former commis
sioner at Ketchikan, called on a
Native in Hydaburg on elec
tion day and said that he would
give the Native, who operated
a pool room and soft drink
place, three cases of soda pop
free if ‘the Native would work
for Tom Marquam. And said
Mahoney, “If we win the elec
tion, I’ll give you another
three cases free.”
The “illiterate” answered
with one word—“B—1.”
E. Buschman and Bill Ma
honey went to the Sawyer &
McKay and the McDonald
Logging camps and rounded
up the loggers and took them
over to Hydaburg to vote. The
Republican watchers there
challenged a number of them
and they refused to take the
oath. Buschman however in
sisted that one of them vote.
This fellow answered thus,
“Who owns this dock”? Busch
man said, “The natives here,
I. think.” The man then asked
“Who owns that big store build
ing?” Eigel B. said “The na
tives I guess.” Then the log
ger said, “Well, its no use.
We can't fool them.”
Tom Marquam slipt away
from Ketchikan Wednesday
morning after election in a
heavy fog so we do not know
whether he went north or
south. We believe he went
north for we notice that all
the cannery superintendents
went south.
Herbert Murchison
Two years ago, Herbert Mur
chison, altho not a citizen of
the United States, campaigned
for the Democratic ticket.
About two weeks before elec
tion this year, Herbert got re
ligion and made a political
speech in one of the Ketchikan
churches. He said Dan Suth
erland was a righteous man,
Will Steel was the kind of a
senator Alaska should have,
and William Paul was working
unselfishly to uplift his peo
ple. On the day before elec
tion, Herbert was seen all
dressed up in his “Sunday
clothes” hurrying down the
street, Josiah asked him “where
are you going?’, “Oh, to Met
lakatla” was the answer. “What
are you going there for?”
“Oh, to get some of my things.”
He went to Metlakatla and
there said, “Vote for Marquam,
Sutherland is no good, Steel
is a bad man, and Paul is
crooked.”
Five dollars is a small sum
of money, but we guess that
is about all Herbert is worth,
judging from the election re
sults at Metlakatla.
Capt. Jim Davis
Capt. Jim of the Estabeth
wired up to Juneau, “Coverall
Sutherland and Paul money
for me.” And the Juneau Em
pire promptly advertised the
fact that Jim’s money had no
takers. But Jim in Ketchikan
was dodging the men who were
trying to make a real bet with
him. Jim really was not bet
ting.
Jim began challenging every
native vote in precinct number
1, in Ketchikan, and every na
tive qualified either by taking
the oath of the literacy test.
But his methods were so un
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fair, resembling we think his
continuous gambling on the
Estabeth when he had the mail
contract, that a Republican
watcher finally slipt over to
him and got acquainted thus.
“Yes, I know your father well.
By the way I notice that you
are challenging only natives.
Let me tell you something that
happened once in the States.
During the war, a fellow in
Wisconsin began challenging
every German and no one else.
After he had challenged seven
in a row, he was arrested, tried
and convicted of the crime of
intimidating voters, and he
was fined $10,000.” Then the
conversation turned to other
topics. T 1 f>W1[
Jim Davis, the fake or news
paper better, quit challenging.
Albert Weil
Albert used to be the Post
master in Ketchikan and since
losing his soft job, has been
down on Sutherland. He was
wrathy on election day, and
got real nasty. Old man Alt
house happened by and natur
ally objected. Then Albert
got nasty with Althouse and
said something like “I’ll bust
your nose.” But he really
didn’t know Taylor for the
old man immediately put his
fist right under Albert’s chin
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