The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-04-29
KEEP OUR DELEGATE

From the reports being received an( from knowledge that these reports ar founded upon uncontrovertible records, it ap pears that Alaska is now in position to be gin to help itself in the matter of develop ment The territory has had too much ex ploitation from outside sources and too litt development of its real resources during thu past decade or more.
 Mir. Riggs, in leaving Seattle Wednes day, stated that he hopes to work out pro gram which will result in the developmen of the territory and that in this connection h will endeavor to support Delegate Sulzer' legislative program A few days ago Mir ing the candidacy of Sulzer for nomination at the primaries next Tuesday: q am fo him first, last and all the time He is clean manly and energetic, with high standing il Washington"
 The scope of Delegate Sulzer's legislativ program and his standing in Washington i well brought out in recent statement mad by Representative Scott Ferris, chairman O the Public Lands committee, in which he said
 Delegate Sulzer has all Alaska legisla tion we'll in hand and is doing all that morta can do. He has secured provisions in th oil-leasing bill that will open the oil wells O Alaska and bring about the development O. Alaskan oil fields. This provision has alread, been agreed to in committee. He has mad progress ln his fight to secure a modification i'll the coal laws so that the coal lands of Al aska can be opened up and that latent indus try go ahead. His bill for the protection O the fisheries of Alaska, his bill for self-gov ernment of Alaska, the abolishment- of th SO-rod reservations, are all receiving intelli gent attention from Delegate Sulzer,a and believe that congress will adopt his views ol Alaskan matters"
 The above IS statement from mar who is in a position to know just what h' is talking about. Notwithstanding the fac that the time of congress has been largely in fact, almost entirely, devoted to war legis lation, Mir. Sulzer has been able to make ex celent progress, and if given united suppor will get legislation enacted for the territory which should have been secured years age and which would have been done if some one had not been asleep on the job.
 The opposition party leaders in flask; know this to be true and are trying to sub marine Sulzer by splitting the Democratic alignment. For this purpose they have en veigled William Maloney into entering tht race for the Democratic nomination for dele gate. It is not mere suspicion upon which this assertion is made The Citizen has beer the recipient of unsolicited campaign propa ganda which is being circulated by the Jul neau Dispatch and Editor Russell backing Maloney for the nomination.
 Russell grows real peeved over Mir Riggs endorsement of Delegate Sulzer's can didacy and declares that it furnishes all the stronger reasons why William Maloney should be supported" etc. Of course anyone who knows Editor Russell and the Dispatch car imagine just how disinterested is this sup port of Maloney.
 The Russell brand sticks out all over Maloney's campaign. What Alaskan is SC uniformed as not to know Russels politica adherence? The only interest Russell and his party have in the Democratic party in Alaska is to see that it is slaughtered at the polls next November, and the only way they see il can be done is to put MT. Maloney in to dc the leading.
 Surely the Democrats in Alaska are not going to be made such fools of For the first time in years there is now chance to pu, the territory on the high road to real prosperity, and if the Democratic party falls for this Republican gag, and fails to send Delegate Sulzer back to Washington this chance will have been thrown away.
 HAVE you forwarded the questionnaire to your back lot garden yet?