The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-02-13
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

If you want to, you con walk into your polling place next April 27, primary election day. with copy of the Compiled Laws of AL aska. 1893, and point out to the election judges you want to vote according to section 1908. that k. with a party ballot You can in- sist that il is still the law of the land. and be dead right, too, but you won't get your party ballot. Instead. you'll get the new blanket primary ballot with the names of all the candidates on and you can vote any way you want, jumping party lines like scared deer At any rate. that's what the man said, and he was backed up with legal opinions which would reach from Shustak Point to the Elks Club. It all came about when the Clerke of Court started making up their poll books for the forthcoming ei-! ection and found to their consterna-I ton that good old section 1908 was still part of the election laws, l so, what to do? Half the attorneySI in Anchorage. where Clerk NJ K. 1 s. Brunelle first smelled the mouse. | opined that maybe it would be l necessary to have two ballots after all Section 15OS definitely had not been repealed they held. Appeal was taken to Attorney General Ralph Rivers, who went into a huddle with Alaska election laws since the beginning of time and came up with the opinion that section 1908 had been repealed by i implication Said the Attorney General:
 This situation calls for the ap- plicatjon of the familiar rule of statutory construction that a sub sequent seatute revising the whole l subject matter of a former one, and evidently intended as a sub l stitute for it. although il contains l no express word to that effect. l must operate to repeal the former 10 the extent to which it's proYis- l ions are revised and supplied. The | revising statute shall prevail and | whatever is excluded therefrom shall be discarded Therefore, sec tion 1508 CHA. 1933 which | speaks of declaring party affilia- tiOn has been repealed by implica- tion, and such procedure is mol longer required" (And further more, if you don't believe this just look up Ralphs pal known as "59 Corpus Juris 921" This guy, Cor pus Juris, can give you more darn answers to more darn things and lawyers get paid for proving he's right.
 So, among other things the last Legislature forgot to do such as failing to raise enough revenue to l meet appropriations, it's members | also forgot to repeal section 15O8 | Just as if it makes any difference. | Whats law or two among l friends?
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 Alaska's COP Boss Albert White and Abraham Lincoln, who once made good in the White House. | were giving a party this week Os- 1 tensibly, it was to observe the l martyred Presidents birthday on Feb. 12. For more practical pur- i posses it was to whip up Republi- can party interest and try to get the most votes next October.
 Boss White was week up on his political rivals, the Democrats They were planning their banquet around the Territory for the fol- lowing week, Feb 19, to be ex- act. They were ringing in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson to weld the party harmony and Jackson banquets, honoring the two former Presidents. Their main purpose, too, was to get the votes, in case you've overlooked the fact that this is a campaign year
 The Demos, being the ''in" par ty, were being pretty elaborate a. bout it. In the national capital they were planning to fill a couple of hotels at s100 per plate to hear President Truman. Elsewhere throughout the nation there would be scores of banquets and Alaska would have them in all Divisions. w. c. Stump of Ketchikan, James Nolan of. Wrangell and William A. Holzheimer of Juneau were ar ranging the affairs in the First. Walter Dowd, Conrad Yenny and Mrs. Carrie McClain in the Sec ond; Victor c. Rivers, Walter Mickens and Marion Smith in the Third and John B. Hall, Stanley Nichols and Mrs Essie Dale in the Fourth.