The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-23


 E ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE FRIDAY oCToB ABOUT THE FSoPLE's oroLBEcTgvE 1HE BOSS THE SECRET CAUCUS;S' "HAND-PIGKED DELEGATES;
 THE NoN-PARTISAN CONVENTION, ETC.
 Nl21--22--4 H0TDO ,Y&GlSII ,&T2A,4 AT WAS high aimed and patriotic sounding address that l. was put forth by the Non-Parsan campaign committee m
 behalf of the Non-Partsan Legislative ticket Wenthe circumstances surrounding the nomination of the No-Parsa and Democratic tickets taken into account it was also very peculiar address.
 The crx of the address contained the following para graph:
 @The day has come when the people in their COL
 LECFIVE MIGHT intends conduct the public business M without boss rule and parsans combnationis the
 method by which it is to be4done, THE BOSS MUST
 CO., the purpose of the non-partsan effort is
 to arrange the public business that the people for
 mulate their best th6ughtinto law through direct ap
 peal to the people who longer have confidence in I the boss, THE SECRET CAUCUS, acorporaton con-
 troled convention of HANDPICKED delegates" (The
 capitals are ours Mark the words because refer to E them ater9 4 -s@a i-a 3-8a Fine! Denocratc to the core The country belongs to the people should be conducted by them in their coec tive might There is no doubt about that That what the rebapsm of the United Satesl from which camel the nomination election of President Wilson all about
 And further sthe must go5 and with him the secret caueus That what Bryans WordWide famous light at Baltimore signfed-a fight which bore early fruit in the nom election of Wilson and the triumph of Democracy and demoeracy'S joo ,aohEod GG i9[) #C(FF0 But the question is Which of the two Legislative tickets before the voters of Southeastern Alaska better representative of the collective might of the people, and which aag onistc boss rule and less contaminated secret % cus.' 9rclisa. yIrprT g--o.ra 5-,E--~.r --oa heeoeetiye night ofthe people when they act through representative conventions is eXerted at the primaries which chooses representatives, conventions m he recently held Non-Parsan convention, there only EIGHT OF THE MORE FHANA SCORE OF PRECINCTS represented There nine if Wrange proxies from which were presented who say there was primary hed that thewere delegates and did not proxies How
 
 of the convention.
 Among the important towns not represented the conve on Skagwa Hane WrangG and the country along he West coast of Prince of Wales Isand ,gn aF T e e1 Not very strong expression of the collective might of the people of Southeastern Alaska se But that is not all
 In only one precinct in Southeasern Aaskaas far wei have been able to aScertandd the Non-Parsans hold prT mary election to select delegates to give expression to their collective mgh the Divisional conventions Ketchkan held an election 90 votes tOtayote of city estimated at 65O In all the other towns the dele gates the Divisional convention were handpcked (?by the Ecaucus system There were just SEVEN5 MEN PRESENT AT THE "CAUCUSe TO REPRESENT THE COLL LECTIVE MIGHT" OF JUNEAUhe total registration of Ju neau last Spring was These seven men HANDPICKED twelve delegates represent the collective might of Juneau the convention. And thatis not alasd w m @ r,- bI When the Non-Parsan convention metn Eks Hall to perl organization adoptts platform nominate it's ticket it discovered that THE REAL WORK THEE CONVENTION INCLUDING THE SELECTION OF ITS .13EGs ISLATIVE TICKET, HAD BEEN. ARRANGED IN. SECRET CAUCUS" THE CONVENTION MERELY RATIFIED THE ACTIONS OF THE SECRET CAUCUS" sao(Au3s NorT22 ' Eliminating speeches and the detail work in adopting the reports committees the NonParan convention in session only few minutes The SELECTED AS CAN DIDATESs BY THE, SECRET CAUCUS were unanimously, expedousl and smoothly nominated In the Democratic con vention it is ruethe delegates in most instances selected at but the caucuses generally speaking largely attended sbrparg .a, 7go. The Democratic convention was in session three days. It deliberate assemblage and it's debates, nations other performed in the presence public r ,a.a- ,f r -s...r. So much colectie might" of the people, the "boss and his secret caucus "handpcked delegates anb Partisan friends. zs. '''' u,'7 7J,,N"7 ''" SEWARD MAN MUST GO IPRRfs MUNICIPALITY 7F717TTT7 -. ,.r, TO PEN, FOR YEAR ' HARD sTRkiTst SEWARD octI 1O-Judge PARIS Oct 23zrhe Paris unern this morning sentenced John assistance at the IcEvcry and day with the penitent for attempted child This he and also sentenced RoOoes to city SSOOOOO monthly oQ0