The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-29
DELEGATE ATTACKS
 DEMOCRATS
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- i am being criticised by one Of your newspapers. My friend John w. Troy is writing editorials roasting me. He has been criticising me for weeks because have not secured full Ter. ritorlal government for Alaska. HeI does not know what full Territorial government is. ''*' Some gentle man here wrote to a member of the Cabinet that they were in favor of a full Territorial government in Alaska and got the President to put those words in his message, and this was the one false note in the message. I have been in favor of Q full Territor- ial government for years, and more than that we have of it." He said that a full Territorial government consisted of a Governor appointed by the President, a system of courts, the judges of which are appointed by the President and a legislative body elect ed by the people, just as we have itI here.
 Federal officeholdIng Brigade.
 "We have a full Territorial govern ment here, but they talk glitterlng gen eralities because they say that the Territorial legislative bill does not provide for a full Territorial govern ment.
 "The men who are doing this are prominent here in your midst. The gentlemen who are carrying on this propaganda are federal officials; they do not realize that they are servants; that they should go way back and keep their mouths shut while their masters are running the government" "
 From His Letter File.
 Here is a letter from one of them" he said, reading an extract from let ter purporting to have been written by Judge Jennings in connection with the bill providing for an elective leg. islature for Alaska which he had in- troduced. Judge Jennings had had an opportunity to pass judgment on the bill. the speaker declared, and ap- proved of It. This was followed by extracts from several letters from John w Troy congratulating him on the passage of the legislative bill and approving all that he had done. The Troy letters were written, he said, from the Arctic Club in Seattle. Let ters purporting to be from Charles F. Bunnell were read in which the state ment was made by Mir. Bunncll that he Cthe Delcgate) was the right man in the right place. Extracts were read in which Mir. Bunnell had declar- ed that he had always supported him (the Delegate) One letter was read in which Mir. Bunncll stated that he was supporting Judge R. w. Jennings for Congress. He was just turning" said the Delegate, Unto a Democrat"
 Claiming Credit.
 The Delegate stOutly maintained that he was entitled to the credit for pass ing the house bill creating an elect i've legislature and charged that the Democrats tried to steal it away from him but that MT. Flood was too sincere and honest to face the members Of Congress and insisted on giving the credit where it was due, He also stoutly reiterated that his was the brain that conceived the idea of con structing a government railroad in Alaska and that the Democrats were simply carrying into effect the plan as started by President Taft after the latter had ben brought to the point of endorsing the Delegates idea. Mo- indeed. the Wilson administration was not entitled to the credit. He said that the Wilson administration, and especially Franklin K. Lane. whom he had known for 25 years. had helped him to get the railroad bill through Congress.
 He declared that Bunnell had been a Republican, and read excerpts from a petition of Valdez Republicans ask ing for the removal of Governor Hog gait The second name on the list he declared. was that of Charles F. Bunnel
 Not Responsible for Reserves.
 He referred to the forest reserves, and the criticism of the Democratic platform because of the fastening of the Pinchot policies on Alaska, and de- clared that these reserves were un- der the direct control of President Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Lane; that these reserves were made long before he went to Congress and that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. He said that if the people wanted the reserves abolished they should take the matter up with Presi- dent Wilson and the Secretary of the Interior.
 Did 1t.
 "Our Democratic friends. need not swell up their chests over what they have done "*"* wrote the AL asla railroad bill and l made the fight for it. Brother Cheney may think he is some pumpkins but he does not