The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-10-28
MARQUAM SPEAKS
 IN WRANGELL

sa Thomas A. Marquam and other members of the Independent ticket when they spoke at the starland Theatre Thursday evening.
 4. D. Gurr, candidate Tor repre- sentative. presided as chairman of the meeting.
 The first speaker was Allen Shat tuck. candidate for the Territorial Senate. He pointed out that The In- dependent ticket was made up of men who are not politicians. but who are fully capable of giving the Territory a business administration. He also touched upon Alaska need for capital, and how that through the unfaYorable advertising the Territory has had 1t has been made more difficult than ever to induce capital to come to Alaska.
 \. O. Hardy Of Juneau. candidate for representative, was to have been he second speaker. but owing to 9 severe cold contracted while travel ing on a gasboat. he vas too hoarse to speak.
 The chairman then introduced Mr. Marquam who spoke at eonsid- erable length. Mr. Marquam, un- like many political speakers, carries no stock of jokes or funny stories. He was serious and earnest through our his address and much of the time his manner was though he were summing up evidence before a jury.
 He attacked vigorously the con tract system in vogue of caring for Alaskan insane al Morningsi5 aThis is one thing upon which have very positive ideas. If I am elected Delegate and I do not Ifing about a more humane method of caring for these unfortunate peo- pie, promise you this-I will not return to Alaska" He gave a gra- phic description of conditions exist ing at Morningside which had come under his personal observation.
 A large portion of MT. Mar quam's address was devoted to dis playing exhibits of slanderous at taeks made upon Alaska for which he charged that Delegate suther- land was responsible single handed and alone. The attempt made by Judge Wickersham to assume this he declared, was as futile as it was foolish.
 Taking first the notorious article carried in the American Weekly sec tion of the Hearst newspapers which characterized Ketchikan and Bristol Bay mainly as the wicked est spots in Uncle Sam's dominions he quoted from a letter written by the editor of that magazine to the business manager saying that the author of the article had obtained his facts from Delegate Sutherland. that he had submitted the article 10 the Delegate before it's publiea- tion and that the Delegate had ap- proved it in full He cited second a similar article in the Fellowship Forum quoting excerpts from the official records of the hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee for Alaska appointments in which all of Alaska was characterized as law less and vice ridden.
 He then read from stenographie transcript of the Senatorial hear ings quoting Dr. True Wilson's as sertion that nowhere in the world did such vice conditions exist as are now found in Alaska. He charged Mr. Sutherland with the responsi- bility for this testimony and read from the transcript a request the Delegate made to Chairman Cum mins saying. T should like to have you hear Dr. Wilson at this time. Thus, he declared, not only was Delegate Sutherland present at the time Dr. Wilson made his slander- ous attack on Alaska, not only did he not refute such charges, butitwas at his request that Dr. Wilson was able to testify and make such charges. Consequently, he assert ed, the Delegate is justly to be charged with sponsoring them.
 He charged that the Delegate was animated in this matter solely by a desire for personal and political vengeance on Judge T. NJ. Reed and U. s. Attorney A. G Shoup and late Judge E. E. Ritchie.
 MT. Marquam also cited the prop uganda issued by the Peoples Leg ;s,atiye Service of New York which