The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-27
OUR NEXT DELEGATE.

The question of who is to bc groomed for the next delegate race on the Democratic ticket is being given considerable thought by those in the know, and feelers are being thrown out in every direction to get a line on any and all who may have aspirations in that direction. The clerk of the court is considera- bly exercised over the matter. and the available timber
 Of course it is essential that some one be selected who will make the race to win, and with that end in view the matter is being given much serious thought. The election is still a year off, but it is well to have everything ready and have an organization that is in thorough working order, with a candidate in view who has render ed service to the party and is en- titled to the support of the party by virtue of that service.
 The Citizen has that person in mind. and will take great pleasure in presenting his name further on in this article.
 About month ago our esteemed marshal, L. T. Erwin, taking the report of one of his deputies at Ruby as his authority, jumped to the front and proposed the name of Hon. Charles E. Bunnell, the pres ent judge of the Fourth division, and the last gentleman to throw his Democratic hat into the delegate arena, and insisted that the call was strenuous from the fact that His Honor was better known now than when he made the race before and that his election a year from POW would be assured.
 While The Citizen does not de sire to oppose the candidacy of Judge Bunnell, in case he has any serious intention of needing the call of the marshal, yet We do not be lieve that it is fair that he should be the only man who can get a chance at the plum. There are other men in the party who have served it well and long that are en- should be given a chance.
 The one thing that makes a winner of candidate is getting more votes than his opponent, and since the Democratic party took over the lines of the government in the territory the federal appoint ees have done everything in their power to strengthen the party and give it voting strength. They have worked great inroads into both the Republican and the Wickersham ranks by the appointment of men from their midst to fill the different positions in the Fourth division at least. They have been figuring for the past year on totally disrupting the Republican party in the territory by appointing men from that party to fill all offices, and after they had all the G. o. P. faithfuls placed they used the same tactics with the Wickersham followers, until to- day there is nothing in the territory but Democrats.
 That is why the News Miner edi- torals fall upon deaf ears and are as sounding brass or tinklng cym- bals.
 A candidate who desires to take his chances in the delegate political game should have something to his credit as party worker should have done something in his past that would entitle him to rec ognition by the party-and shouli be stalwa1t in the ranks, ever true and ever faithful
 Such man is the candidate The Citizen wishes to place before the solid Democracy of the territory. A man who has been constant to the principles of Democracy whenever that same Democracy had anything 10 offer him in the way of political preferment. A man who is we'll qualified to carry out the duties of the office of delegate to congress by virtue of always holding a fed eral position whenever the party was in power. A man who can win against all corners. This latter state ment is not idle prattle, for the gentleman himself says that he is winner, and he should know if no body else does.
 The gentleman The Citizen has in mind is known in Alaska az Lewis Tumlin Erwin, at the pres ent time marshal of the Fourth di- vision.
 Mir. Erwin held the position Of Indian agent in the State of Wash
 ington under the Cleveland admins tration, and although numerous charges were preferred against him
 while acting as such agent. he sue
 ceeded in ending his term of office
 with that of the party.