The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-09-24
MARQUAM S U R E.
TO Be ELECTED,
STATES C0NRADT
F Fairbanks Mining Man Pre-
diets Sutherland's De-
feat in November.

IT. A. Marquam. Independent Can
didate of Fairbanks will be Alaska's
! next Delegate to Congress" declared
August W Conradt, prominent min
! ing man. of Fairbanks, who is visiting
here on mining business There is
IA general realization in the interior
that he will carry the Fourth Di-
vision, and | was assured by promi-
lnent leaders, business men and
| others at various points enroute here
from the interior, that he would be
given good majority in the Third
Division he continued
! Mr.. Conradt is visiting here with
Robert S. Donaldson. manager of the
Healy River Coal Corporation, who
is also Interested with him in
dredging proposition in the Hot
Springs district. Mr.. Donaldson was
Ia Sutherland supporter for many
years and until very recently He
Joined with Mr. Conradt in saying
that the trend OF sentiment in the
Fourth Division is definitely toward
Mr. Marquam.'
Speech Loses Votes
The speech made by Delegate
Sutherland in Fairbanks lost him
votes and support there and on the
neighborng creeks. Mr.. Conradt said.
Sometime ago the statement was
made in Fairbanks that Mr.. Suther
land was responsible for the charges
of lawlessness and depravity laid
against Ketchikan and Bristol Bay
in special article in the Hearst
American Weekly magazine section.
AT that time, Sutherland leaders in
Fairbanks denied the truth of the
claim and asserted he had nothing
to do with the article. The people !
of the interior had been loath to
and many of them had placed faith
in the denial of his supporters, Mr.. |
Conradt added.
"Very naturally the admission OF
the Delegate in his Fairbanks speech
that he had sponsored this attack on
Ketchikan and Bristol Bay changed
the situation. 1t left widespread
feeling that he was attempting 10
destroy the good name OF certain
Isections of the Territory in order
that he might gain some political
advantage for himself. 1t left a
had taste in the mouths OF many
voters who up to that time had beeh
inclined to stay with him. IL was
resented by most of those who place
the GOOD name of Alaska above parti-
san politics And those voters who
had accepted as true the statements
of Sutherland's spokesman In falr-
banks that he was not connected
with the American Weekly articie
deserted him when their claim was
n,oven false by the Delegates own
admission.
Mud Shining Reacts
"The scurrilous attacks upon MI
Marquam made in surreptioasiy
circulated letter are reacting strong
''1v in favor of him and losing votes
for his opponent who was expected
to be the gamer" Mr.. Conradt con
tinued. This letter was not maze
public by it's author or sponsors
hut was being secretly passed from
hand to hand always kept under
cover, and made the basis Tor
whispering, slanderous campaign OF
the muddiest kind. Fortunately MI
Maruuam was able to secure copy
of it and with his usual courage
made it public in the first campaign
address he made in the FalrDanks
district-at Chatanika Of course
the letter was resented by interior
neople who have known Mr.. Mar
ouam for years. as it will be by de-
cent. fair.minded people all over the
Territory. 1t represents politics OF
the most Objectionable character, OF
1.-THE kind that Alaskans in particular
do not approve. Had those VINO
initiated it been successful in keep
ling it under cover 80 that 1t never
nassed the whispering stage, 1t might
have injured Mr.. Marquam's chances.
But when it was exposed by the man
whom it was intended to ruin, when
the voters realized to what extreme
ends his opponents would stoop, 1t
reacted against the latter and ma
terially strengthened the hold which
Mr.. Marquam had already attained III
the interior.
Policy Of Desperation
| "Personally, believe this cam
paign Of mudslinging was adopted as
| = 1naA dasnerafe measure to staYe OIL