Douglas Island news., 1900-01-17
ALASKA AT WASHINGTON.
Hon. John G. Price Working for Proper Legis' Iation-fiis Admission to Seat
 Doubtful.

non. JOn0 U. HriCe "OTkllS TUT FIOPSl LSSiS-
 Iation-tiis Admission to Seat
 Doubtful.
 The Washington Post of the 29th ut. has a column and half write up and interview with ourrep presentative, Hon. John G. Price. He is no doubt doing all that he can for Alaska and will be able to accomplish much. He will probably not be admitted to a seat, which our people will regret. It will be difficult matter to secure the nec- essary legislation for this district. Those representatives who know noth ing concerning our needs will have an equal voice with those who visited us last summer and informed them selves, and if the civil code is not as miserable a piece of patchwork as the criminal, now in force, we will be eX- tremeIy fortunate, and under lasting obligations to MT. Price.
 Mir. Price plainly stated that we did not want such territorial government as President Mckinley recommended. Wedo not need f-government-we want proper, necessary, carefully drawn laws. Self-government would be pos tive detriment to the development of Sou theastern Alaska at the present time, and especially so if we were to have a council sent to us from the pol itical hot beds of the East. Give us good laws and we will be satisfied.
 Concerning the personality of MT. Price, the Post says:
 "PersonaIly Mir. Price will size up we'll in comparison with the run of statesmen at the Capital who are re- ceiving 5000 year for their services. 1 He is stopping at the Elsmere and pro- ceeding about his business before Con- gress in business-like fashion. MT. Price is a man of medium height and weight and attires himself in the con- ventional Prince Albert costume. He has a small, welI-shaped head and wears a heavy mustache. His dark hair is rather thin and is neatly parted suspi- ciously near the middle of the forehead. This does not mean that Mir. Price is dudish. He has prominent chin, quite heavy eyebrows, and converses in an ordinary tone of voice. His manner is that of a lawyer and does not savor as much of the mining regions as one might expect from an Alaskan. He is twenty-nine years old, was born in Guthrie Center, Iowa, and is graduate of the law department of the Iowa State University. Mir. Prices early life was passed on farm, but he did not go to Alaska till August of 1897. He joined 1 in the throng of settlers who went to Oklahoma, but after he had resided there fora time, he went to Colorado. From there he went to Alaska"
 The Post quotes MT. Price as saying that he supposed Alaska was democrat ic, although he himself is republican. In this we believe Mir. Price is mistak- en- The good, prosperous times. that Alaska enjoys go hand in hand with re- publicanism. The great majority of Alaskans are bright, active, intelligent, educated men who know just as well as MT. Price does that democracy under the leadership of Bryan is back num- Der, as dead as the dried salmon that keeps life in our natives. No, indeed. You can not make us believe that any great number of AIaskans are anything but good, old, Simon Pure" repubi- cans. That is what they ought to be- ] thai is what they are