The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
ALASKANS VOTE. TOMORR ROW FOR MANY OFFICES
Will Elect Five Territorial
 Officers and Entire Legislature
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
 IS DRAWING TO END
Issues of Campaign Sharp ly Defined as Voters
 Wait for Hour

In the biennial Territorial election tomorrow, Alaskans will march to the polls to cast their ballots for candidates for five Territorial of fices and the entire membership of the Legislature composed of eight senators and 16 representatives Only one elective office-that of Attorney General of Alaska-is not at stake. A Delegate to Congress, Treasurer, Auditor, Commissioner of Educa- ton and Highway Engineer will be elected in addition to two Senators and four Representatives from each fthe four Judicial Divisions.
 Rivals are Confident
 While the voters were today with holding their judgment until Tues day, when they will register their individual and collective wills ir the ballot boxes throughout the Territory, rival leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties were protesting confidence in the outcome of the balloting. Each party claimed that victory was as- sured on the strength of reports that were being received from all over the Territory.
 In the campaign which was vigor- ously waged for the past two months, the issues have been wide ly discussed by the candidates. The Democratic keystone plank--"Self Government through full form of Territorial Government was met by the Republican plea for Sup port for President Hoover and party unity"
 George B. Grigsby, Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress, pledged himself to work unreserved- ly for Home Rule, and his oppon- ent, Judge James Wickersham countered by protesting his own belief in the righteousness of that issue, asserted he would work for it, but said it would be too bitter ly fought by powerful bureaus for him to promise to obtain the pas sage of the necessary legislation. He points with pride to Alaska's Or ganic Act.
 Fisheries Agitation Revived
 The ever-recurrent agitation over Alaska's salmon fisheries was re- vived during the campaign, but it lacked the bitter, personal animos- ity characterizing the campaigns of former years when Delegate Sutherland was on the musings at- lacking Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, and Henry O'Malley United States Commissioner of Fisheries, for what he termed mis- rule of Alaska's fisheries.
 MT. Grigsby championed the right of Alaskans to administer their own fisheries without interference from anyone, and to control their game and other resources. His op- ponent offered fish trap leasing bill having for it's purpose long, term leases on all fish trap sites giving preference to present site holders. Judge Wickersham assert ed it was a good bill and ought to pass, while MT. Grigsby ridi- culed it as a sell-out to the can- ming interests, and an encroachment upon the right of the people of Alaska to control the fisheries.
 Schools Made Issue
 The Democratic candidates made a cleancut issue out of the system of choosing Commissioner of Edu- cation by popular vote. Charging that this had thrown the entire Territorial school system into poli- tics, they pledged themselves to use every effort to remedy this evil by legislation to create a Board of Ed ucation empowered to appoint and remove for cause the head of the Department of Education. Their Republican opponents met this by promising to obtain a Territorial appropriation to provide for sur yey of schools to determine where and how school funds are being expended.
 Legislation, promised by the Dem ocrats. to authorize absentee voting for Alaskans, was passed over in silence by their opposition.
 The Republican plea for party harmony, the urgings of the sev- eral candidates to vote the ticket straight, were met by the Demo- .-l.- .I Ii..4 4l,o osalu auidanne