The Alaska daily empire., 1926-11-01
ALASKA VOTERS
READY TO Vote
ON ALL ISSUES
Contradictory Campaign
Ends Tonight-Big Vote
Forecast Tomorrow.
OUTCOME MAY DEPEND
ON SIZE INDIAN VOTE.
Issues of Campaign Well De-
fined and Proven to Ma
jority Of Voters.

Alaskans today were ready to go
to the polls tomorrow in the biennial
Territorial election to choose a Dele
gate to Congress for two years. a
Territorial Senator and four Repre-
sentatives and two road commits
sioners in each Division While the
campaign has been the hardest
fought since 1918. it has been para
doXical in this res )ect--it has been
on one hand chart eterized by abso-
lutely clean and legitimate politics
and on the other by the most vicious
mudslinging ever Known in any Ter
ritorial campaign.
The local vote is expected to
break recent records. Good weather
conditions are expected to bring out
at least 1900 voters here. The
forecasters predict that the Division
will cast between $500 and $500
votes.
Issues Aretieanout
The issues are sharply drawn and
well defined. The Independent Ticket.
headed by T. A. Marquam, Of Fair
Delegate Sutherand's record all
along the line. charging him with
responsibility for unfavorable pub
licity the Territory has received in
the press of the country, with court
ing Indian votes by seeking legisla
ton favorable to the tribesmen. with
blocking extension of roads in South
eastern Alaska by criticising those
already constructed with blocking
genuine literacy test law both in
the Alaska Legislature and in Con
gress, with preventing new capital
from coming to Alaska by his con
tinuous fight on money already in
vested in Alaskan industries and
his depicting of the Territory as "A
vicious and lawless place where
| there is no protection for either
! property or life. The charge was
also made that the Indian faction
was aligned behind w. l.. Paul to
break down all pension bars and to
force their way into the Pioneers
Home at Sitka, and that Sutherland
was cognizant of this purpose and
would not oppose it.
Proofs Are Cited
| In his address here, and similar
! speeches delivered throughout the
Territory, Mr.. Marqnam cited official
documents from the records of Con
gress to prove that Sutherland was
alone responsible for the many news
paper articles reaching reading
public in the States of some 3O,oo0'-
900 people in which Alaska is depict
ed as vice-ridden, immoral and
lawless community where law en-
forcement officers are in league with
bootleggers, dopepeddlers and other
| law violators.
The Delegate attack on the Bu-
reau of Public Roads as an ineffi-
cient organization and his assertion
before Congress that the roads IN
Southeastern Alaska begin and end
nowhere and effect no real develop
ment was cited also from offlciai
Congressional records.
| Two bills-one to extend CITIZEN
ship to Canadian Indians and the
other granting Indians patent to
lands occupied by them within incor-
porated towns to be held free from
taxation or lien-were cited as proof
of his courtship of the Indian ma
chine
The record of Senator Hunts posi-
tion on the Literacy Test issue in
the 1925 Legislature, which prevent
ed the enactment Of law applicable
alike to all voters, and Sutherland S
opposition to such law before Con-
press. were cited in proof OF the
Delegates opposition to real liter
acy test law.
Depend On Indians
The outcome of the election Is
believed to rest largely on the
liability of election officials and
watchers to enforce the so-called
Literacy Test law Of 1915. 1t is
openly claimed by the Paul-Suther-