The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-06
DELEGATE PLAYS OFFICIALS OF
 lST DIVISION

Judge T. M. Reed and United States Attorney A. G. Shoup were oo- iects of vicious attack by Delegate Dan Sutherland in a political address by the latter at Juneau. The Delegate charged that the allegiance of these two officials to the bipartisan money interests in Ketchikan" was put ahead of their consideration for an allegiance +o the administration of President Harding.
 The ire of the Delegate had been aroused, apparently, over the appoint ment by Judge Reed of Edward G. Morrissey as U. s. Commissioner at Ketchikan and he accused MT. Shoup of manipulating that appointment His criticism of the appointment was based mainly on Morrssey's utilization with the Democratic party in Alaska, al- though he said that his reputation in Interior Alaska was not such as would warrant any official in appointing him to an office of trust and honor.
 Courts are maintained by public sentiment" declared the Delegate. Courts in the United States, right up to the Supreme Court, are governed by public sentiment. * Confidence in the courts is absolutely indispens- ible to the welfare of the nation, and the perpetuation of it's institutions. But with confidence lost, by the ap- pointment of such a man as l have mentioned at Ketchikan, there is no security for the social order, no secur- ity for the individuals rights to life, to liberty, to property, to the pursuit of happiness, the fundamental guar antee of the American Constitution"
 He also said that there are two officials in the First division in whom VI am greatly disappointed for the reason that I feel a large respOnsibil- ity for their appointment. I refer to Judge Reed and District Attorney Ar thur Shoup. No young man in the world ever had finer opportunity than Shoup when he entered office. It was expected of him that he would apply himself with diligence to the work in his office and diligently to study the law in which I think I am safe in saying he is somewhat de- ficient, but he has seen fit since his induction in office to enter the busi- ness of warwicking and proselyting. In proselyting the case of Morrissey in Ketchikan is case in point
 "Morrissey was a political leech on the Democratic organization of Fair banks and his reputation in that sec tion is not such as would warrant any official appointing him to this office of trust and honor"
 Sutherland went on to say that since editing the paper in Ketchikan the reputation of Morrissey had not been enhanced. He said Morrissey was transformed into a subsidized Repub- Mcan by Reed and Shoup and that the subsidization consisted of subsi- dizing his newspaper, bipartisan sheet, with the funds of the judiciary" The paper, he declared, was in strengthened circumstances, at least Morrissey was, and the Interests that control the paper had to have their interest paid" The interests Of Ketch- ikan wanted their servile tool in the commissionership and they got it.
 "The welfare of the Republican party and the success of President Harding's administration, as might be added to by a good administration of this division, did not appeal to Shoup and Judge Reed," he added. "Their first allegiance was to the money in- terests, the Ketchikan interests that would exploit every sea toiler on the North Pacific, the same interests that canned decomposed salmon for sol diers to eat in Flanders"