The Alaska daily empire., 1918-04-23

l1OHIllluttl liOi1 etJC OiiCt ination for Delegate to Congress are very much exercised over the qeus tion as to whether or not voter at the primary can write in the name of a candidate for nomination in office is not printed on the ballot They have taken fright at the dec laration that many Republicans whc are not in favor of Judge Wicker sham for Delegate to Congress migh nominate someone else by writing in the name of someone else anG thus prevent the Wickershamites from capturing the Republican party
 Wickite Committee Visits Clerk
 of Court
 A committee of WickershamiteE consisting of J. H. Cobb, J. B. Mar shall and c. F. Davidson called or Clerk of the Court J. w. Bell yes terday and protested against the bal lots printed for the primary election which have a blank line for each of flee so that the voter can write ih the name of his choice for party nomination in case his name is not printed on the ballot.
 That there is a movement or among Republicans to prevent the nomination of Judge Wickersham is known. Some Republicans favor writing in the name of some Repuh lican for the office. Others favor writing in the name of Delegate Sul ger on the Republican ballot.
 It also is known that some Repub licans are interested in nominating Legislative tickets in those Divis ions, like the First, where there have not been enough Republicans tC file to fill out the ticket. Many of those who are interested in Legis lative nominations are not in favor ci Wickersham for Delegate, and if they determine to write in the names Of their candidates for the Republican nominations for the Legislature they are almost certain to write in the name of some one else than Wick ersham for Delegate to Congress.
 Wickte Gang Out to Job Things
 The Wickershamites are opposed to this plan. They want to capture the Republican nominations and the party organization without using their strength in the Republican primary They purpose to get the Wicker tA int hn ic primary in order to debauch that party. They realize that if only Democrats vote at the Democratic primary Sulzer will be renominated hands down. and they are trying to rush the Wickershanites into the Democratic primary in violation of the spirit of the law and in the face of all the rules of decency so that they might capture the Democratic party, also, and thus rig things for their man.
 Those who contend that the voter has a right to vote his choice insist that it was never the intention of the law that voters should be denied the right to pick out party tickets. They say the law does not contem- plate condition that would permit minority of the voters to select the tickets of all the political par ties, and thus defeat the will of the people.
 In Other States
 These point to the operation of the primary laws in other States. In the beginning there was no pro vision in the primary law in many States for writing in the name of the voters choice where it did not ap- pear on the primary ballot, but the courts held votes of that kind to be valid
 It was sometime after the pas sage of the original primary election law, and after many persons had been nominated and elected to offices by having their names written on the ballot by individual voters, before the Washington State Legislature passed a law which provided that when a man who had not declared his candidacy for an office could not have his name placed on the offic- ial ballot unless he accepted the vol untary nomination in writing and