Valdez daily prospector., 1912-04-02
THE PLATFORM.

Preamble.
 We hereby affirm our allcg- fence to the principles or Dcmoc- racy as cxpUundeu by Jefferson and Jackson. The course of the Democratic party ill the present house of representatives does but accentuate the fact that that party Is true to the people, and Is the uncOmprOmiSing foe of all Laws enacted under the protect ing Aegis of that party make the rights, while the mightiest citi- zen dareS not exceed his legal limitations. We are in hearty accord with the principles and policies enunciated and advOcat- ed by William Jennings Bryan, the greatest tribune of the peo- pie since the days of Thomas Jefferson, and we are unalter- which could be justly construed as reactiOnary.
 We favor the initiative, the ref erendum and the recall.
 Alaska and the Republican Party. party towards Alaska has been marked solely by non-feasance and malfeasance; the things which it ought to have done, it has not done, and the things it has done it has done badly.
 1t ought to have given Alaska an elective legislature. On the contrary it has attempted to foisL upon the people a commission appointed by the prcsidcnt; it ought to have brought under pub lie survey many thousand acres of public land, on the contrary it from exploration, vast tracts of land whose development would add tO the comfort and wealth of the people; instead of aiding or facilitating the upbuilding of the country it has, apparently, purposely retarded and hampercd our advancement. It ought to have fOstercd and developed the fishing and other industries, and to have opened the coal mines and encouraged exploration and development, but instead of doing that, 1t has devoted it's energies and the protection of the brown bears; II has brought industry and enterprise to a SlandStill; il has pandrrcd to the special in tcrests, and under it's malign sway nOISumc scandals have arisen, carpet -baggers have brru fast "ncd upon Us and a horde of special agents have OVrrrun the land: and in dealing with our people II has proceeded upon the theory that every cnlryman and every applicant for patent is a thlrf and that inc burden is up- on him to prove that he is an honest man.
 Delegate.
 The people of Alaska arc sick anu lIrrd or the intcrnccinr quar- rel between the two factions of the Republican party. While they lnNeiGh with each other. indulg- ing in criminatiOn and rc-crimi- nation, Alaska suffers and her in tercStS are neglected. The Dem ncraiic party offers tO the Dc0- pie of Alaska d remedy for this unwIolcSOme condition. We r1- gard it as a practical certainty that the next national adminiS- trat ion will Dc Democratic in all it's branches, and we believe that Alaska should have a delegate Wh" ii@ in complete harmony with the dominant party. We pledge
 
 candidate for delegate. will, if elected, represent the whole of the territory according tO each interest that fairness and justice to which il is entitled, but watch ful that no interest shall have the power tn wrong or oppose any of our people.
 Home Rule.
 The power to make inc laws which are to govern us in our To- cal affairs is but the application to Alaska of right sanctiflcd by the blood of our fathers and jus tified by more than a century of actual experience. Every Demo- cratic convention ever held in A laSka has insisted upon that right, and we do but rcitcratc the uitcrances of those conventions when we again represent to con- RrcSs:
 CD: That the people of Alaska want home rule.
 t2). That the people of Alaska ought io have home rule.
 (3) .SThat until inc people of AlaSka' get home rule, they will never cease demanding il as the right of Amrrican citizens.
 And we pledge io Inc people of Alaska. 1T elected, our Candi- date for delegate will use every effort io secure the enactment of q law giving io Alaska q local legislature, elected by Inc prO- pie, with power covering every rightful subject of legislation, not essentially national in char actcr.
 Conservation.
 While we favor a sensible sys- tenn of conservation of our re- sources, we oppose the present cult of. conservation as applied