The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-18

praise for it's course. It has reproduced every editorial the Seattle paper has given the subject which has not escaped it's notice.
 The people of Alaska lid not decide to hold the convention in Seattle over the bitter opposition of the Daily Alaskan. The Nome chamber of com merce called the convention for Seattle in spite of the advice to the contray of the press of Nome, of Fairbanks and of southeastern Alaska, and that Of many of the chambers of commerce and city councils in various parts of Alaska The Daily Alaskan did not oppose hold ing the convention in Seattle because ot any feeling against that town, but like every paper in the district, save one, 1 it contended that inasmuch as the pur- pose for the convention Is to secure for Alaskans a recognition of Alaska as 8 political division of the nation it should be held Alaskan soil,
 But this has nothing to do with the point made by the Daily Alaskan that the people of Alaska have not been thruthfully represented before congress and the nation by Seattle people and the Washington congressional delega- tion. The people of this district have made use of every opportunity they have had to ask for self-gOvernment. Ia 1900 both the republican and demo- cratic conventions demanded 1t. Four years later both repeated the demand. A non-partizan convention held at Juneau two years ago adopted an ad- dress to congress asking for it. At the request ofan Alaskan delegation, repre- senting southeastern Alaska, Valdez, Nome and the Yukon valley, the Trans mississippi Congress, holding at Seattle in 1903, passed resolutions favoring it. The press of the district have urged it, The Post Intellingencer, itself, re- cognizes the demand and, as it says, has reinforced It.
 h spite of all this there has never been one word favoring territorial government for Alaska uttered in con- gress by Washington member of the senate of the house Of representatives. The Seattle chamber of commerce, in the face of the sound advice of the Post-Intellingencer, voted down a resolution favoring self-government for thts district, and if any Alaska com mittee or other delegation of Seattle citizens has eyer asked 8 member of congress to grant Alaskans the right to manage their own affairs that fact has been kept cut of the press of that city. While the Post-Intelligencer has been urging territorial government for Alas ka iu it's editorial columns it's news columns have been filled with accounts of how others in it's city have been asking for a delegate in congress, for appropriations for one thing and another and for this amendment to the code and for that, We have asked for bread, they have been begging stones for us,
 While the people of Alaska, who are fighting for the recognition of rights to which their American citizenship en- titles them, are receiving the aid of senatars and congressman none of them hail from Seattle or Washington. While their demands have been sup ported by the Post-Intelligencer they get little or DO assistance from the Se- attle commercial bodies and other or ganizations of that city. The Daily Alaskan contends that a convention held in Seattle might serve to open the eyes of those down there It might teach them that the Post-Intelligencer has been truly representative of Alas ka rather than have those ''selt-ap- pointed representatives" of which the Daily Alaskan complained.
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