The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-20
Phone 262 Phone
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ORGANIZATION.


 The gathering al the Jackson Day banquet was notable one, if for no other reason than that i was probably the first occasion on which the Democrats in any part of Alas ka have demonstrated sufficient or ganization to carry out such an at- fair l. was noteworthy. also. be cause it has made it plain that very large portion of the voting population has Democratic tendencies and is willing to align itself with the party providing there is enough organization shown to warrant any probability of success.
 Heretofore the Democracy of Alas ka has had little or no opportunity for expression This has been be cause there has never been more than a half-hcarted attempt to or ganize the party. and the election of the candidate. where there was one. has hitherto appeared 10 be an impossibility Had a good strong candidate been put in the field last year. with organizations in the yari- ous large voting centers seeing tC it that the full party strength was canvassed fl is possible that a Democratic del gate would now be representing Alaska at Washington. IL is. however, much more certain that in 1912. if organization is not neg'ected the Democratic candidate will be returned with a handsome majority
 But there are two kinds of organ ization. There is the one by which it is planned To have the people as a whole fitly represented, with a candidate pledged 10 nothing but a promise to do the peoples will. In short. a Democratic organization in every sense of the word-by, for and Of the people. On the ether hand is the type of organization which in Alaska has been peculiar to the Republican party, and which has, by reason of it's selfishness, doomed that party to consistent ig nominious defeat. This organization, or, more properly speaking, frame up. has been initiated by a few self seekers at Juneau, who have been aided and abetted by some near-pol- itiCians in Fairbanks, and it's pur- pose has been the election of can didate pledged to do the will of the 'lnteres;s." Fortunately the people of Alaska have too much good sense to allow such a clique to fool them, and it is doubtful if any candidate, with character and reputation as good as any portrayed in the Scrip lures, could be elected if he were unfortunate enough to have back of him the Republican organization of Alaska as it exists today.
 The time for the formation of a Democratic organization is right now, when all the signs are propit ious. There is much work to be done if the whole of Alaska is to be drawn into the movement, and communication with the far-distant cities takes time. One of the chief necessities of the party is to remove its control from the Southeast. The strength of the Democrats will be found in the interior, and to the westward, where real Alaskans dwell Leave the near-Seattle towns of the Southeast to the Republican organization, for that is where it had it's birth, and from whence it gets its bidding Let it be the task of the Democrats of the Panama to form an organization which shall spread throughout the country, as the spokes from the hub, and which shall so do it's work that when a competent standard bearer is se- lected next year he will be able to rely on the full strength of his party