The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-15

ton will be held at Skagway, accord ial central committee at a meeting held Tuesday at Juneau. Although the news of the selection of Skag way for the convention was a dis appointment to the local members of the party who wanted it in Fair banks, not one word of resentment has been expressed, and everyone Eere is preparing to work for the best interests of the territorial or sanization The convention will be opened at 10 o'clock on the morn ing of August 3.
 The official call for the conven- 1ion is as follows:
 "A Democratic territorial conven- tion is hereby called to convene at Skagway, Alaska, on Monday, Au gust 8, 1914. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said date. for the pur- pose of nominating candidates for delegate to congress and to elect nine members of the next territorial committee, and to transact such oth- CT business as may properly come before said convention.
 Under the rules adopted at the last Democratic convention, each di- vision is entitled to 50 delegates. the same to be apportioned among the precincts of said division by the territorial committeeman of said division. In each division, delegates shall be elected in such manner as the local committeeman for that division shall determine: provided, however, that in the incorporated towns the delegates shall be chosen at the primary election under such rules and regulations as said com mitteemen shall prescribe.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 9th day of June, A. D. 1914.
 "C E. DAVIDSON, Chairman Democratic Territorial
 Committed"
 At the meeting of the Tanana Valley Democratic club, held Tues day evening, the names of w. T. Burns and E. w. Griffin were men, toned as possible candidates for the office of delegate to congress, but the club took no definite action in i6ata
 The name of MT. Burns, who is a mining man on Chatham creek, was presented by Marshal L. T. Erwin, who explained that inasmuch as MT. Burns is representative to the legislature, and as he is also back ed by the laboring people of the Territory, he would be an exceptional ly strong candidate. He said that there would evidently be no opposition to him from Juneau, as in reply to letter written by MT. Erwin, Judge Jennings had written that in his opinion Mir Burns would be a strong candidate.
 
 E. w. Griffin, president of the Tana- na Valley Democratic club, as a suitable candidate for delegate to congress. It was Mir Noes opinion that Mr. Griffin would poll the larg- est vote of any man in Alaska.
 By unanimous vote. resolution was passed favoring the giving of all federal patronage to The Alaska Citizen, which is the only Demo cratic newspaper in Interior Alaska. The resolution was offered by Mar tin Harras and was seconded by John Moe. It recited the fact that in order to succeed, the local Demo- cratic party must have publicity and inasmuch as The Citizen has been Democratic from its incep- tion and is pledged to support the Democratic nominee for congress, it should be given the federal printing here, in accordance with an order issued some time ago by Secretary Lane to the effect that work of that kind should be given to news papers supporting the administration
 The resolution. as passed by the club. is as follows:
 Whereas, the Democratic party in Alaska must depend in a large meas ure for it's success on proper publi- city, and
 Whereas, The Alaska Citizen has been a pronounced Democratic news paper since it's inception; has pledg- ed itself to support the Democratic