The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-20

The League for National Unity is making ap peal for the election of to office who will sup port the for democracy. The league is composed of such Cardinal James Gibbons, Thos. N Vail Samuel Gompers, Otto H. Kuhn Charles E Hughes, Vance E. Mccormick Rabbi Wise and other of national prominence In it's appeal sent it says:
 The Nation must be able to upon both par ties nominating the forthcoming Congressional Primaries who wholeheared and unequivocal sup porters of the aims of government, and its purpose to prosecute the to a successful termna tion. No ought be nominated by either party of whom it certain that if he will sup port the government in it's high resolve destroy Prussan militarism and establish just and secured peace
 In order that the next Congress may be undvid edly American and antPrussian it will not suffice for the nation to vote for better man" the less dsloyal of candidates election day. will be the business of the two dominant political parties generally, whatever their natural divisions be domestic policies, that whoever be elect ed every American district will be represented by American patriot It will be disoyalty in either party nominate at the primaries to abe the nomina tion of any whose support of the governments program is reluctant qualified
 the interest the nation ask for more. If in any district it become likely than ant-war didate be successful, it is the imperative duty of the two leading parties to effect coalition against the non-American anti-American candidate in order to make certain his defeat. An equitable arrangement should be effected between the two parties covering all districts require the expedent coalition order to avert the election of a dsoyal candidate peculiar responsibility rests parties in those dis tricts which preponderantly partisan for either party is bound to direct its affairs that the choice at the primaries if it be equivalent to an election shall be between absolutely loyal candidates.
 If in any Congressional or Senatorial election there prove to be danger of the election of dsloya candidates it will become the duty of Americans, gardess of party affiliations, defeat such candi dates and loyalty to the nation above personal loyalty to the party. The defeat of men supporting the Union in Congressional election of 1862 did much lengthen that war, and like result in the elections of 1863 and GA would have enabled the dis loyalists to put the Union in peril
 Let party nominate elect to Congress candidate soealled peace platform. The Ameri nation under the leadership of the President of the United States Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy, is for peace but righteous and enduring peace be secured until America and the Allied Powers shall have achieved victory over the armies and governments of the Central Powers, their peo ples. having repudated those who have been guilty the crime willing, initiating and carrying the shall in the interest of just peace have re covered their right control their destiny.
 Congress must be elected which shall signify to the whole world that the American people in divsibly united in their determination to go with until it's purpose shall have been accomplish ed The voice of compromise must not be heard in the next Congress Whether dominanty Republican donnanty Democratic, the next Congress must be supremely American.
 Every member of the next Congress, whatsoever his views domestic questions, must be war-till victory American
 The pro-Germans and other seditious forces lack ing the courage or their disoyalty and hiding their treason behind the mask of pacitism, will not dare openly to frame an antiAmerican platform frank, to nauc prc.German candidates. They will devise