The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-02
DELEGATE FIGHT
 TERMED RAID ON : U. s. TREASURY
Crigsby Declares Wicker sham's Successful Contest
 Attempt to Grab ,0O0.
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 the Chickaloon precinct because thC election officers changed the voting place.
 The committee report threw ou the vote of the Cache Creek ue cinct in the Third Di1ision, because there was testimony to snow that the election started at o'c'o:k in the morning according to the watches of the witnesses, though it was ad mitted that the camp time showed it two hours later. One witness testified that the camp time had Teen advanced the night before, and intimated that 1t had been done tC make it possible for a lot of fellows who were leaving camp to vote be fore they departed. The committee held that the vote of this precinct should be thrown out entirely. Ii gave Sulzer 23 votes and Wicker sham 2.
 Precinct Thrown Out.
 Because the United States Com missioner in the Fortymile coun- try had changed the boundaries of Chicken, Moose Creek and Franklin precincts, less than 60 days before the election. the majority of the committee held that the votes of these precincts should be thrown out entirely. They gave Sulzer g votes and Wickersham 13.
 The majority report held that the soldiers, including those who re-en- listed in Alaska, had no right to vote. It found that 44 soldiers voted Of these 24 admitted they had voted for Snlzer and } that they had voted for Wickersham. Of those who voted at Va, leg. II re, fused to disclose for whom they vot- ed and at Valdez Bay, refused to testify as to whom they had voled for. The commit .e therefore. threw out 24 Sulzer votes md Wicker sham votes, threw ou: the h votes of those who had refused to testify by dividing the loss in proportion to the total vote of the cr"cinct ir which they voted. in this manner s of the Il Valdez votes were taken from Sulzer and 8 from Wickersham and of the Valdez Bay precinct votes were taken from Sulzer and l from Wickersham. The committee made no deduction for soldier votes cast at Fairbanks when they re- fused to testify for whom they voted That precinct was carried by Wick ersham, and if the votes had bean subtracted from the total and the loss divided in proportion to the vote of the precinct they would have shown a Wickersham loss.
 The soldiers who voted were in the Signal Corps and many of them living with their families in their own homes.
 Wiekersham Gets Seat on Techni-
 caIities
 By making all these changes each one in favor of Wickersham. House Elections Committee No 3 found that Wickersham received a plurality of 37 instead of Sulzer's 8 as found by the Canvassing Board
 It is worth while to note, however, that the figures given in the re- as a base for it's calculations. show that Sulzer actually received a plur- ality of the admittedly legal votes that were cast, and that the de cision in favor of Wickersham. ar rived at ten months after the argu- ments had been made, and the case finally submitted were purely tech nical.
 The ruling of the committee in the matter of those otherwise qualified voters who, under the Territorial law. voted in precincts in which they did not reside but within the Divi sion in which they did live. the throwing out of Cache Creek for opening the polls two hours before the specified time, notwithstanding that the qualifications of those de prived thereby of their votes was not questioned, the elimination oi the returns from Chicken. Moose Creek and Franklin precincts be cause the boundaries had beer changed less than so days before election, were all technical docis ions and deprived Alaskans of thei votes.
 The Committee ignored the sol dier vote at Fairbanks. At tha precinst, Wickersham received a pl rality. Soldiers voted there and rt fused to disclose for whom the voted. At Valdez and Valdez Ba the vote of soldiers who refuse to disclose for whom they voted were deducted from the total and tn loss of votes so deducted was d vided among the various candidate in proportion to their total vote in the precincts If, instead of il noring the soldier vote al Fairbanks the committee had treated them i the same manner. as they treate the Valdez case, Sulzers lead woul have been increased.
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