Seward daily gateway., 1926-09-25
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cases this year, he reports. The above was an Associated Press dis patch which was published in The Seward Gateway for September 15.
 During the last two years, and par ticularly this year they have examin- ed the men who were brought north to work in the canneries at Bristol bay and the criminal element and drug addicts stopped at their source
 "I want to say to this audience that if anything is incongruous, it is the way in which the attorney was sitting in our legislature with retainer from the fishing interests and at the same time being in office to represent the people by whom he was elected. Work ing for the fisheries interests in 1923 Dimond vigorously opposed the reser- vation act, which was the fairest and most equitable ever introduced in the territorial legislature.
 During my eight years in the Alas ka legislature, l saw men come to serve both sides, to serve the inter- ests of the people and receive retain CTS such as MT. Dimond They never could do it successfully. It cannot be done. You cannot serve God and mammOn.
 Another item of the indictment is that l made unjust attack on the Alas ka judiciary. I made no attack on the Alaska judiciary. They refer to the charges that were filed against two judges and United States attor- lney. These men were given hearing before the judiciary committee of the senate, as fair a tribunal as ever sat on Gods green earth. They were giv-
 en the fairest hearing that men could
 have and were found guilty of corrupt practices, and not fitted for the posi-
 tions they held, so were rejected. You will ask me what constitutes corrupt practice will mention only
 one case, that was the defrauding of
 MT. John Frame of his seat on the na- tional committee. The evidence show
 ed that they had stolen the election. Another article of the indictment states: By his attack on the admin
 istration he has destroyed his useful ness as delegate in securing any, thing for Alaska needs They should decide what Alaska needs and ask me | if I can get it. If it is reasonable I
 think I shall succeed.
 "One of the unfortunate features of the work as a member of congress, is the dispositions of federal patronage. This system has grown up with the
 government and is almost impossible
 to abolish party in congress.
 My relations with the administra
 tin are very cordial. My relations
 with the cabinet are good, with but
 one exception. My relations with the president happen to be very cordial come fro mMassachusetts, his home
 state and many of niy friends of boy hood days have been his friends dur ing his political career.
 Tn answer to the statement: Tn opposing a fair literacy test he has opposed the wishes of the white vot- CTS of Alaska and made it possible for the Indian to control election results,
 wish to say:
 "The proportion of Indians to white in voting is only one to eight and a half, so the Indian vote would not con-
 trol an election. I am opposed to the retroactive literacy test. It would be
 as unjust to the whites as the natives. Some whites who voted in Alaska for twenty years would lose that privi- | lege. Nothing so drastic has ever been passed in the states, It would make it impossible for anyone to vote who could not read the constitution with
 out humiliation.
 There is a privilege-seeking class Alaska. In Ketchikan they ask the privilege of unrestricted lawlessness and vice. They say if it isn't allowed there the people will go over to Prince Rupert for that sort of thing. They say that restriction in Ketchi- kan would make for system of in- ternational depravity.
 "The minions of the law can see the man in overalls who has liquor eight blocks away, but the white col lored bootlegger close at hand, the blue button man, goes unnOtlced These are the privileges extended by the law to the wealthier lawbreakers. That may not be true in Seward but 1t is on the southern coast or Alaska where I am better acquainted" MT. Sutherland here, discoursed at some length on the subjects of the blue but tons.
 'I oppose special privilege in Alas ka as much as 1 would in the states if I were there. I am opposed to spe cial privilege because it causes most of the disturbance in the territory. Every time hear radical statement I study the cause, for there must be at the root of it all.
 T will not decrease my efforts, but rather will follow the course that have outlined if elected MT. Suther- land stated, in his concluding sen tence.
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