The Alaska daily empire., 1914-08-15
.KATCHIKAN HAS
 MANY ASPIRANTS

Ketchikan is fairly running over ! with asplrants for membership in the Legislature. The last candidacy an nounced, though probably not by any means the least, Is the first woman asplrant for an elective position in Alaska-that Is the first for an elective position other than position on school board, Mrs, M. A. Gibson, of Ketchikan, has announced her candi- dacy for Representative.
 Other Ketchlkan Legislative candi- dates are Mayor D. Smith Harris, men. ton of whose candidacy already has been announced, for the House; Thomas J. (Tex) Alexander, for the Senate, and Gilbert Mann for the House. Alexander Qualihes his an- nouncement. and is Q candidate sub ject to the action of the non-partisan primary at Ketchikan. If the latter endorses him, his name will probably be submitted to the non-partisan con yention that will be held at Juneau September 8.
 Mrs. Gibson and Mir. Alxander and Mir. Mann accompany the announce ment of their candidates with plat. form. Mir. Harris announces that he will present his platform later in the campaign.
 Mrs. elbson's Platform.
 Mrs. Gibson's platform is as fol- lows:
 l. Complete enfranchisemont of women.
 ?. Legislation to prevent further location of Rshtraps in Alaskan waters and the removal of those now locat, ed.
 3. Legislation obliging a husband to support his wife and children, the penalty for failure to do so being im- prisonment under employment by the Government, and wages so earned to be devoted to the benefit of wife and children.
 4. The passage of a law requiring residence of six months for non resident fishermen to qualify for the right to fish in Alaskan waters.
 5. Legislation making Southeastern Alaska. from Dixon's entrance to Mount St. Elias, a separate territory.
 6. Forbidding Government em- ploees to engage in other business on penalty of removal.
 AIexanders Platform.
 The platform of T, J. Alexander candidate for Senator, is:
 A liberal appropriation for the sup port of the Pioneers Home, at Sitka
 A government highway from the city limits to Charcoal Point.
 Amendments to the municipal laws so as to permit the election of Mayor Ey direct vote. a rotary system of electing the Town Councilmen, and the initiative. referendum and recall.
 Making a separate Territory of Southeastern Alaska.
 Government construction, ownership and operation of Railroads for the de- velopment of the resources of Alaska A direct primary election law so AAAAN NAOoN "AO dooAoN HI bNtAAAh6 ANo burdens may share equally in the privilege of government.
 Mann's Platform.
 1. Abolition of the fish traps.
 ?. A nonresident fishing license of not less than $25OO per annum.
 8. The enactment of law compell- ing all employers of labor in Alaska to pay wages in full for each calendar month not later than the 10th of the following month.
 4. The enactment of an Employ. CTS liability law"
 5. A law to have all taxes spent in the district where they are collected. 6. Unconditional fight on any Poll" or Head tax" graft, as a survival of serfdom.
 My record on the Poll tax graft is known to all in this district and the fact of its non-collection shows how we'll fought.
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