The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

States naval academy in 1869. He was promoted through the various grades to rear-admiial July 2i lguj. He was placed on the retired li5, on November '. 1910. His father. Rear-Admiral Thomas Stowell Phelps. died in 1901.
 ELECTION lN DOUBT
 LOUISVILLE, Nov. 4-Both pas- ties ale claiming 10 have eelcteG the governor at Tuesdays election and the result is yet in doubt. From the incomplete returns that are in. t appears that Stanley, Democrat. is only two thousand ahead of Nor row, Republican, and there are stil; many small districts to be heard from.
 DELEGATES ARRIVE.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov Alan, delegates to the American Fedora tion of Labor convention are already arriving in the city from all part of the country. The convention will open on Monday
 WILSON'S PROGRAM.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-With q carefully prepared speech delivered at the Manhattan club tonight President Wilson pened the cam paign on behalf 9 the administra tion's national defMse program. The address was a %Angthy one and covered the principal issues with which the country is faced, which wide unrest of the past fifteen months Among other things, he said:
 ''If We have had aggressive pur- poses and covetous ambitions they were the results of indiscretions on the part of our thoughtless youth as a nation we have put them aside, We shall, l confidently be- lieve. never again take another foot of territory by conquest For ourselves We wish nothing but full liberty of self-development and with ourselves in . this matter we associate all peo&e of our own hemisphere,
 The mission of America is es- sentially mission of peace and good will among men. She ha become the home and asylum of all men of all creeds and races, but We feel justified in preparing ourselves to vindicate our right to independent and unmolested action by making the force that is in us ready fo, action
 Tt is not merely a matter of building battleships, cruisers and submarines, but also a matter of sure that We shall have an adC quate equipment of men muni- tions and supplies for the ships we build now and intend to build in the future
 Tn fulfillment of the program 1 propose I shall ask for the hear-v support of the country. of the rank and file of America, of men of all shades of political opinion.
 "Voices have been raised in Amer ica professing to be voices of Amer ican, which were not in deed and truth American. but which spoke all alien sympathies. These voices have not been many, but they have been very loud, very clamorous. They have proceeded from the few who were bitter and who were grevious- ly misled. These men are the spokesmen of small groups whom it is high time the nation should call to reckoning. It dcas nnt be come America that such things should be tolerated within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his own and worship God as he pleases."
 The President criticised hyphen- ated citizens in bitter tones. the keynote of his remarks being ta the effect that the country is bet ter without the immigrant who is not willing to become wholly Ameri- can when he takes the oath of citi. zenship. His speech was accorded a splendid reception frequent ap- plause interrupting him as he was delivering it.
 BRYAN AGAINST TT.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. B. Former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and President Will son are not in accord on the ques, tion of national defense. This was made plain this afternoon when Bryan issued statement in which he came out squarely against the plan advocated by the chief execu- tive in his speech delivered at New York last night before the Man. haitian club. Bryan declares that the Presidents plan of defense, which he asks the country to sup port, Is a radical departure from our traditions. and a reversal of our national policy. It Is a men ace to peace, he says, and a cha, Cpn fn 10 t~i& of ~iCt{c