The Alaska daily empire., 1916-10-20
SENATOR SULzER MASTERFULLY PRESENTS ALASKAN ISSUES TO
 LARGEST MEETING OF CAMP AIGN

! QEulal. A1e 0ShGA HIS AAAlkplo o bO pay no attention to any charges that might be surreptiously circulated. He paid particular attention to 8 report sent out from Juneau that he had returned to the First Division from ! the westward on account of labor troubles at his mine. denouncing it as false absolutely. and circulated Go change the laboring vote that his opopeuts knew was going to him MT. Srlzer said that the laboring people were supporting him because they knew they had performance rather than promise to rely upon
 Party Affiliations are Helpful.
 Senator Sulzer said that party aC. fBauons were necessary in order to get the best results at Washington. ! If a Delegate could sit in the party caucuses and have advantage of par ! ty assistance he would develop great. CT influence than one who could not act with any party at Washington and had no political associates or af- filiations.
 Wiekersham's Record On Territorial
 Government.
 Senator Sulzer said that while Delegate Wickersham pretends to support full Territorial government in this campaign. he pointed out that he had contended at times and in many places that he does not know what full Territorial form ot gov ernmont means. He quoted extensi- yely from a speech delivered by the Delegate at JuneaU about 8 year ago in which he accused those in favor Of full Territorial form Of govern ment of Alaska of being a menace to the Territory; and showed that our fisheries laws, school laws and laws covering other important government al functions had not been changed since Modernism went Go Congress. He showed by the record that Wick ersham had consented to the inser- tions of restrictions in the Organic Act that prevented the Territory from exercising control over the fisheries and game of Alaska, and that he has inserted other restrictions him self.
 The Senator said that the record disclosed that had there been any thing approaching an insistence upon the right of the people of Alaska to
 manage their own governmental functions. Congress would have grant ed the right. as there was no ser ious fight made against the right, and no evidence of any kind that any "big interests" had been concern ed in at all Tremendous applause greeted the declaration that if Wick ersham had been in favor of real self-goyernment and on the job, when the, Organic Act was being discussed in Congress. there would have been no Alexander bill.
 Not only had Delegate Wickersham opposed the extension of the powers of full Territorial government to AL aska, not only had he written a Territorial Legislative bill that gave the people no powers, but he had de- nounced the Legislature for trying to secure more powers and told its members Ito keep their fool me- morials' at home. saying 'T am the representative Of the people Of Alas ka."
 OuarreIs Hurt Alaska.
 Senator Sulzer said that one Of the things that had hurt Alaska more than anything else is the intermin- able quarters and feuds of the Del gate. particularly. he said, damaging has been the constant fight the Del egate has made on Col Richardson, and the Alaska Board of Road Com missioners. He said that the never ending attempt ot discredit the road commission and It's work had a very damaging effect upon the work of Col. Richardson in getting appropriations for Alaska roads He called particu- lar attention to the attempt of the Delegate to force Col Richardson to remain in Alaska in the winter in stead CT of spending a considerable portion of the time in Washington, working for money to spend on Alas ka roads. 'I feel that this has been one Of the most serious matters that has initiated against the best in- terests Of our Territory. feel that 1t is uncalIed for. and that 1t is time that it was stopped" declared the Senator
 Plan Cooperation and Constructive
 Policy.
 CT stand for the most liberal ap- propriations for Alaska, as an invest ment by the nation to promote Ma. tinnaI hnsinass and ,relfara and ln.