The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-01-24
ABOUT MR STEEL'S HOME ETC.

The Empire is in receipt of letter from Steel. declarant for the Republican nominati IT Territorial Senator, written at Juneau Janus . in which is the following
 In the Jan q issne cf the DalIy Empire referring to my filing declaration or can didacy for renomination on the Repuphcah ticket for Territorial Senator, among other things the statement is made
 will A. Steel who recently arrived
 from Seattle where he has been making
 his home for the last few years lleo HIS
 declaration, etc"
 The statement that I have been making my home in Seattle for the last few years is unqualifiedly false. For more than elght years past I have been resident and ln- habitant of Juneau and during that period I have never registered or attempted to vote in any other precinct than Juneau, where have yearly for the past eight years registered or voted, so far as l can now recall.
 Since coming to Juneau nearly nine years ago I have annually made a trip to the States going as far East New York and south to New Orleans, including trip once or twice each year to California. At all places I have registered a resident of Juneau and at no time have I ever repre- sented that I was a resident of Seattle.
 During the past three years I have done much work on the Al-Alaska Review, which has required much time in San Francisco and Seattle. During the past year I have been associated with some people from Los Angeles in establishing the Alaska Siberian Fur Company and also a company that expects to drill for oil in the Katala field the coming season.
 Recently I have also been occupied in making the necessary arrangements to start a daily newspaper in Juneau, when the time seems propicious fsicl. A real NEWS paper for all people, that will be enterprising and truthful.
 Having always been an unfortunate batchelor, Gsicl and since leaving the home of my parents in Pennsylvania, I have al- ways lived at hotels and have had no occasion to establish real home, otherwise l would have one in Juneau, where I expect to be continuously for some time to come
 I am giving you certain FACTS about my legal [sicl residence so that if you have been misinformed and have unintentionally done me wrong in harping about my al- legged residence, you may make the proper correction in the columns of the Daily Empire. Your paper tonight states that "The Empire has no primary choices" Ii this be untrue and you are seeking to prejudice my candidacy in the eyes of the voters then I know there will be no cor rection
 Just why I should be made the target Of misrepresentation in a Republican pri- mary by a Democratic Organ [sicl may not be clear to some readers but to others it will need no elucidation If your statement were true could not legally be candidate for Senator, as the Congressional law re- quires that a Senator shall have the ouali- fications of an eector in Alaska and must have resided in the Division from which he IS elected for at least two years prior to the date of his election
 The usual dictionary definition of home is tl is the place where one dwells, the place wht , lives, his abode. Webster says of home "on VII dwelling place. the house in which one live C. The New Century says it is "one's abode sdence" etc. An abode is a place where c 'ides which may be a permanent or tempor ace of residence. Both home" and "resident yer rather wide ranges Usually they depend up e "act or fact of abiding" where one "actua 'es" One may have more than one home So ople have winter home and a summer hor hers have a town home and country hor e learned the other day that Senator Pi ans Washington home burned to the groul S Nevada residence is presumably intact In e of five dictionaries have we found it said u e's home abode is the place from which gisters at hotels.
 Everybody has access to one or more dictionar d if one is interested he may pursue the mat rther
 Whether or not MT. Steel is technically a le ;dent CThe Empire did not raise that questio know that he has not lived in Juneau, exc, ring the biennial legislative sessions and one 0 very brief visits. for several years Our inform n is that he has lived most of the time dur } last few years in Seattle. It is not clain 1t he was absent from Juneau to attend sch to serve in the army or navy or any otl inch of the public service.
 The Empire said that MT. Steel had lived lska. He had lived here two or three times l been connected as editor or publisher or bt h newspapers in Nome. cordoya and June