The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-01
WICK DECLARES
 FOR FULL POWER
 FOR TERRITORY
contlnued from Ind One

Territorial government in Alaska, with power to enable her citizens to protect their own and the public ln- terests, and to increase the general prosperity without limit.
 6. Statehood for Alaska as soon as it can be organized in the in terest and to the advantage Of the people.
 2. The prevention of further ex- tension and the repeal of the pres ent bureaucratic form of government in Alaska, whereby bureau clerks in Washington really govern her peo- pie by the Issuance of rules and regulations" having the force Of laws.
 8. The abandonment of the pres. ent useless and harmful forest and other reservations in Alaska, where by great bodies Of our lands are withdrawn from settlement and use by the people and form Q basis of bureau control from Washington without rational excuse and to the great loss of the national treasury.
 9. Opposition to the levy of any tax on trade or business in Alaska by Congress, and the repeal Of the law now providing for such system, and the control of all taxation in Alaska by the Territorial Leglsla- ture.
 lO. The centralized control of all national administrative activities in Alaska by a national administrative body. to the end that there may be one business head to such work in- stead of twenty or more.
 II. The appointment of Alaska Alaskans, and none other, to appoint i've offices in Alaska; and l utterly repudiate that plank in the Seward platform seeking to take away from the people of Alaska their right to be consulted in the consideration Of such appointments, and to give the sole power of naming such officials to a Seattle lawyer; 1t is m-Ameri- can. un-Republican and the begin aing of boss rule in Alaska by the great corporations able to employ the lawyer; l pledge the people of Alaska that if l am elected twill not recommend any man for an appointive office in Alaska who is not first approved by the people of the Territory. and by those residing in the vicinity where he is to serve.
 12 The enactment of primary election laws for the purpose of en- abling the people by their votes to control their conventions and the nomination of their officials without the corrupt manipulation of political bosses.
 1S. Continued opposition to the efforts of interested copper compan- ies to secure the passage of a bill in Congress for the appointment of a commission to revise the United states mineral land laws in Alaska; their purpose is to take away from the Territorial Legislature of Alas ka it's power to alter, amend or revise such laws in Alaska, and to disapproye and repeal all such laws heretofore passed by our Legislature and rob i. of all power to legislate hereafter on that subject in Alaska. lt is a scheme to extend to all min sral lands in Alaska the principle )f reservation and leasing by a gov ,rnment bureau in Washington, af- ter the plan of the Alaska coal leas- ing law, which was drawn by Secre- .ary Lane, approved by Mir. Clifford Pinchot. introduced by Democratic Congress and signed by President Wilson. shall oppose such reser. yation and leasing of placer and
 luartz mineral lands in Alaska, and
 ayor the revision of such laws when necessary, only by Congress or by
 he Alaska Legislature
 H. Finally, l shall support Hughes and Fairbanks, and the National Re publican platform, unless they or those representing them shall inter- fere with the passage of needful and beneficial laws for Alaska, in which event I shall stand by Alaska and her interests, as always have done without regard to party threat or favor.