The Ketchikan miner., 1908-07-25

 exactly what I am in favor of, will tell you. l am in favor of congr ess passing an act granting the territory of Alaska a local legislature composed of an upper house and lower house, such as we have in all territories in the United States and in all the states of the American Union.
 ''rhen, with the governor having the veto power, you will have the or dinary legislative department of the erlitory. Let the upper house be composed of five members, and let tIie uwor house be composed of fif- Les.n members. Let five of the mem- b, Is of the lower house be elected ltou Southeastern Alaska, let five of them be elected from the interior of Alas ka and let five of them be elected from the Nome country. You will then have territorial legislature of fifteen members in the lower house. Let the five meinb bers of the upper house be appointed by the president of the United States. (Cry of No sir from the audience.
 "There we differ. That is matter that can be easily remedied. If the people of this territory want all o1 them elected, we'll and good. But you must remember this: that you have to go to congress for this legislation. And congress has passed Porto Ri can act in which they give the Porto Ricans just that form of local legisla- tion, and they have given it to other outlying territories, and they cannot refuse to give it to Alaska if we de- mand it; but, if we demand more they may refuse it. I agree with my friend that every member of the legislature ought to be elected. But I am no, gong to be reckless if am elected g member of congress, and am no going to promise you to do impossible things. l will not go to Washington undertaking to accomplish things that know I cannot accomplish, anG propose to talk honestly to you about it at this time.
 ''Let.u have the local legislature all of them elected if we can get the n, the upper house appointed il we must have it that way, but the lower house always elected by the people. Then you can remedy youl lien law; you can remedy the associ- ation group mining claims law. You can limit those matters, although you cannot add to them.
 "Some gentleman may say: If we cannot have everything just as we want it, we don't want anything, we will go ahead and suffer just as we have suffered. l do not believe ir that. If we can't get a whole loaf, ge, a good half loaf and then go back anc demand the other half."
 It may be that the voters of Alaska will vo1e to send Judge Wickershan to Washington to demand the ''hal1 loaf," but it is hardly probable.
 AT THE CONVENTION.
 vention settled down with grim de. termination to listen to the nomina- tion speeches..
 "Alabama!n called the clerk
 
 A delegate from Mobile arose ano after ryrotechnic effort lasting the better part of an hour he closed as follows:
 Ut is now my honor and pleasure to present to you the name of our peer less leader, William Randolph Taft. J
 What's that?" demanded the chairman bringing his gavel down sharply on an incipient cheer or two
 1T beg your pardon, said the gen. tleman from Alabama. ''I meant tc say William Jennings Hearst. y
 ''Put him out" "' yelled delegate from New York.
 civilian Howard Bryan," per- sisted the speaker.
 "Guess again." cried a delegate from California.
 civilian Rannings Jendorf , stammered the speaker desperately, then civilian Randolph Jennings. :"
 ''Your'e drunk, sit down." said the chairman.
 "I'll not sit down." declared the speaker, 'I came here to nominate William Howard Bryan of Ohio and Pm going to do it if it takes all day. I now have the honor and pleasure to present to you the name of our peerless leader, William Jennings Randolph-Howard,' he said des- perately. but hopefully. "I mean Willia Randolph Bryan-Big Bill Bryan of Onio.''
 The chairman quieted the tumult by stating: ''If the gentleman from Alabama means William Jennings Bryan of l1ebrasks we will consider his speech concluded, if not we will hand him over to the police." |"
 "That's the name!," yelled the Alabama delegate happily, "'I knew it was something like that. Hurrah for our nsxt president!'
 ''Huh, he's talking about Taft