The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1952-11-07
THROUGH
THE SENTINEL
PERISCOPE
Last Democratic Deer

got in Tuesday evening With the
last Two Democratic deer before
the landslide which wiped out 20
years Of donkey-riding b II k s
lrisking in the wilderness. Prob
ably the Republican bucks will be
equally plentiful but they'll be
wearing an I like Ike express
sion that may be something OF a
handicap to the shooters of the
easy-going era when Communism
was a "red-herring' and corrup-
ton in government was nothing
more alarming than a smear
So let the archives show that
just as Ike was conceded New
Jersey, Virginia and Tennessee,
we dragged our spike buck in a.
longside the Country Campbell
press and, as GPOs Chairman
Symmetrical grabbed the mike"
to predict a landslide for Eisen-
hover, we gently laid the two
pointer at its side. As the an
nouncer said they were conceding
New York to Ike, we saw in those
bucks the end of one of the most
free-wheeling periods in Ameri-
can history: the days of spend,
spend. spend" and elect, elect,
elect" the days when a tinge OF
pink was a badge of honor, and
the grass in the streets gave
way to a acknowledgements
WPA project. If you didn't have
shovel to lean on, you could go on
strike and draw unemployment
wages.
Those were the balcony days
or were they?
Nearly 35 million voters inlast
Tuesdays election decided to vote
for Ike and the Republicans, in
dicating that while they strung
along with the tabled follies for
20 years, it was time for
change.
The desire for change was so
lopsidedly evident that we have
half a notion to save the antlers
off those two bucks as a trophy
to be labeled shot under Tru-
man" so many things were.
As Wrangell Goes -
For quite few years now the
retiring Governor of Alaska has
been telling the world that "as
Alaska goes, so goes the nation"
a slogan he picked up in Maine
when he was running the Port
land News and applied to Alaska.
After the Alaska election of Oct
ober IA, he contended it was still
appropos because Delegate Bart
lett, a Democrat, had been success
full although the legislative races
had gone preponderantly Repub-
lican.
Apparently Ernest overlooked
Wrangells 449 voters who really
cut the pattern for some 35 mil
lion voters in the States to fol-
low, and the conclusive evidence
is that they did.
Along with those two Demo-
cratic deer, we might as well note
that LAS Wrangell goes, so goes
the nation
ms Out
The desire for change, sharply
reflected in tn e Republican
sweep, was carried to the point
of the "ins should be out" in many
individual races, regardless of
party. For example, Republican
Senator Harry Cain of Washington
and Republican Zales Ecton of
Montana, both of whom visited
here. lost out Democratic Con-
gresham Henry Scoop Jackson
apparently is defeating Cain by
more than 100000 votes and Ecton
is being decisively defeated. There
were similar examples throughout
the 4S states where the voters ey:
pressed a desire to put the man in
office out. 1t was obviously a vot-
ers' revolution against incumbent
government, and those who suffer-
ed most were the Democrats be-
cause they had the most offices.
In The Mail
A note in the mail from Henry
"Esky" Clark, former Wrangell
boy whose record of achievement
is well known and who is now an
executive of the Alaska Steam
ship Company. Seriously injured
some months ago in an accident,
Esky reports he is gradually I'm
proving and hopes to get up to
Alaska during the coming year
Sends his congratulations and
best wishes to the new city ad-
ministration.
Larry Moore, manager of the
Associated General Contractors
for Alaska. along with a note OF
curiosity about those two votes
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