The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1940-03-15
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POLITICAL
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reaching as the Gallup poll nor as
entirely incorrect as the Inflated
old Literary Digest poll, but the
dope from various places in the
First Division on the House race on
the Democratic ticket begins to re-
veal who will be the pacemakers
when the votes start coming in at
the primary April 80.
Our informants from the principal
voting precincts in the First declare
the name OF Van h Fisk of Wran-
CELL appears on every slate prophe-
sled as victorious. Over in Sitka.
where Neil Anderson is naturally
the fayorite son, Wrangell's Fisk is
/ No. 2 man. In juneau, where they
have doped out two or three states,
Wrangelps Mayor is on every one of
them. IN Ketehikan, where Ed
Sampson and W. H. Mccall are the
hometown boys, our informants say
it's Fisk and Sampson. From the
west coast comes word that Fisk is
expected to lead the ticket in that
region.
These same dopesters who are try
/ ing to get the trend for primary
day are predicting that John MeCor-
mick of juneau, who got more votes
when he was elected to the Legisla-
ture two years ago than any man
elected to the House from any Di-
vision, will be a nominee These
brave prognostieators. whose predic-
lions the voters may blow sky high,
are forecasting that the four nom
/ inees on the Democratic ticket will
be chosen from among Fisk, Ander-
son, Mccormick, John Walmer.
James V. Davis and Crystal Snow
JENNIE, the latter four from Juneau,
which would appear to center the
contest in Juneau where there are
some eight or ten other candidates,
all of whom are bound to get some
votes. And it's six long weeks before
the primary election. The primary
campaign is only now starting to
get underway. The complexion may
be entirely different come election
day.
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In the Republican camp dopesters
are dubious The hurdle of White"
or "anti-White" appears to have
them in quandary. One report
that seems to have some foundation
in fact is that many conscientious
Republican voters will be driven to
taking a Democratic ballot at the
polls on April 80 or they will stay
away altogether due to the rumpus
within the G. o. P in the Territory.
Deputy Marshal James Nolan of
Wrangell, who has just returned
from an extended trip through the
States, from west coast to east and
return, reports that talk generally
among travellers, ON trains, in hotels
and around club rooms. is Franklin
Delano Roosevelt-will he run or
will he name the man to carry the
Democratic banner?
Many men in all walks of life and
various political faith with whom
the marshal was in conversation ex-
pressed the belief that if the Presi-
dent seeks reelection he'll get it.
Much of this opinion, particularly in
the east, is based on the inter
national situation. One man put it
something like this: Roosevelt is
the only man who can talk turkey
to those guys over there, meaning
Hitler Mussolini, Stain ct al. The
expressed thought seems to be, No
Ian said, that the President will
have the controlling votes at the
Democratic convention in Chicago.
He will have the choice of either
running for third term with an ex-
ce1lent chance of election or naming
the standard bearer of the party,
who, If the President doesn't run,
may we'll be Cordell Hull, Secretary
of State, another expert ON inter
national affairs.
Sentiment for Thomas Dewey, the
young New York prosecutor, while
warm, is not of the vote-getting var
iety, the marshal found. Opinion ap-
peared to be that no glamour boy
from New York can match the gla-
mour of Roosevelt and that anything
less would appear third grade to an
electorate grown used to such gla-
mour as the Roosevelt brand. There
is growing sentiment for Robert
Taft as the Republican contender,
he found. Senator Arthur vanden-
berg of Michigan appears to be los
ing ground as a COP possibility. he
reported.