The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
DELEGATE MINCP
 WORSE THAN E.\ FER
Ispoc.al to Thc CHIz,n

JUNEAU. Mar. -2. The decision of Judge Jennings in th" matter Of the mandamas proceeding. i-st.. tutcd by Sulze= instead oG clearing up the situation in regard to ta. delegate race, has plunged it into worse confusion than ever, since ont O. this decision has arisen second protest. concerning tho NaUa.Ey ul d large number of votes east ln 'aa election on November 2. The terri torial canyassing board this uarn.ns fiivd a communication ~.;a l.3-. Jennings 10 which was attached protest from Emery Valentine.
 This was a protest against count. ing votes cast in CorH-.e,en pro. cincts scattered throuehou0 the terri tory. and they number among th.u some of the largest polling places. These are Juneau number one and Douglas number one in inc f.rt St. Michael number one. .n tha Sec ond: Valdez in the Third, and Brooks and Nenana in the Fourth.
 In the letter addressed to iutrn Jennings, the board asked him what. they should do with the matter ul throwing out certain votes on a.. count of irregularities as alleged in the Valentine protest. The irreEu- larities as enumerated include failure to include a register Of voters. failure of judges to be sworn, failure 'o include certificates with ballots, and other omissions of the Alaska o.ee tion law.
 At 8 o'clock Judge Jennings replied to the communication Of Inc board. telling it that in it's answer to the alternative writ ii had stated that the canvass of votes was complete with the exception of a law pre- cincts on which the decision Of tLo court had been asked in the man damus writ proceedings instituted bE Sulzer. He also said that this Is 'n entirely new matter, foreign to the decision. which is all he is supDo |, to have anything 10 do wlth and that, as such, he cannot take il up But he is willing to treat the com munication of the board and the ao. companying protest as an amended and supplemental answer to tn" de. cision of the court which was i-an~ ed down Tuesday.
 The protest of Mr. Valentine GOV CTS the territory thoroushlN and i. upheld by the count will mean throw ing out about oncthird of the entire vote of the territory. AS usual. there are two opinions here as to whether the protest will hold water. The Wickershamltes claim that there is nothing left for the court to do but to follow hs ruling in tha for mer protest. while the DcmoCrat@ say that there is no similarity in the two cases whatever, and that the protest is d joke. It is not known tOnlglJ what dtIlpH tIt b'Stt4 ''''' take, although it is probable that it will ask Judge Jennings to con sider the communication and Na'on- tines protest as supplemented an swer and render his decision from that standpoint.
 The precincts which Valentine, as a friend of Judge Wickorsham, and in the interest of public justice, thinks should not be counted include Beaver Falls, Craig, Cbicago.f, Ch.l kat Douglas number one, Dolomi Tenakee, Gold creek. Hoonah Had ley, Juneau number one, Jualpa, LOT ing, Perseverance, Sheep creek, Sitka, Sulzer, Treadweu, in the First dlVi- sion. Council and St. Michael mum Der one are the only ones in the Second.
 In the Third Chignik, Chitina, Gird- wood, Katalla, Latouche, Moose creek, Naknek, Ninilchik, Ouz nIie, Roose- welt, Valdez and Wasilla. In the Fourth division, Brooks, Circle, Fort Gibbon, Fort Yukon, Gilmore, Hot Springs, Little Eldorado, Long creek, Moose creek, Nenana, Nulato, Ophjr, Tacotna and West Fork.