The Alaska daily empire., 1920-10-02
W|CKITE OFFERS
 VOTERS NOTHING,
 LOSES STRENGTH
Disappoints Friends = Plat. form Contains No Solution
 For Problems Noted.
Especial Correspondence )

! nouncement of the Republican plat ! from thot of the Democrats, and Dan Sutherland having disappoint- ed his friends in his Anchorage speech, the threatened defection to the G. o. P. standard has died aborning. Even MT. Sutherland's most ardent supporters openly state that they are disappointed
 They had expected him to say something in harmony with the platform of his party, but instead he reviewed merely those things that are being done, failed to reveal any defects in the Democratic pro gram, contenting himself with fguratively promising that if chosen Delegate to Congress he could do them better than the Democrats. The people ha dexpected to hear him tell of Democratic inequalities and suggest something concrete in the form of constructive legislation. h. stead he told them there were is sues, important issues, but did not explain them nor offer any tangible program for solving them. His re- view of the question Of a gold bonus was disappointing. He, asked the mining interests to find their own solution, and handing it to him, if elected, he would take up the mat CT hoped he would have plan to his own superior to that of the man who is digging gold.
 Ignores Southwest.
 The ground covered embraced 1 matters of importance to South eastern Alaska, completely ignoring the Southwest, save in relation to the suggestion that gold bonus was needed, something no enc dis puted, but which everyone desired to be brought forward in concrete form. The mere promise that he would support such a measure if brought before Congress by some statesman from the States was un satisfying. They felt that one ap- pealing suffrage should have had at least an outline of what was need ed and offered it for consideration.
 His appeal for votes on the ground that he had lived in a com munity where mans antecedents were not questioned, left bad taste in the mouths of the voters, for it implied that there might be large number of men in the Southwest who had rather have their past remain in obscurity than reveal their correct names and previous addresses.
 Appeal Loses Potency.
 The old slogan We need a change" lost it's potency when the Republican candidates failed to of fer something superior to that which the Democratic party had given and promises fer the future. All the forensic effort of the Re- publican candidates has failed to obliterate the consciousness that past ills were due to their party's | misguided attitude toward the Ter ritory.
 What Did He Mean2
 Anchorage is still wondering what Mr. Sutherland meant when he re fcrred to the non-enfoYcement ot i law, for crime has been almost neg ligible in the Southwest Despite the fact that the Pacific Coast states were supposed to be shipping in | their objectionables for work on the government raiload, and that this dement, is supposed to be turbulent, | lside from an occasional set-to with | fists, the discovery of a little white | mule" and an occasional petty theft i here is no crime in the district. | | Three killings have occurred within ] the past six months including theI | staying of Ben Agnew by a degen- l crate, influenced by home-brewed whisky supposed to have been found | in q cache belonging to a man serv- lng time for it's manufacture and 1 sale. The second was the result ot
 he careless handling of a shotgun by a man under the influence oi 1 he same beverage, who was exon
 rated by a coroner's jury. The 1 third was a case Of self-defense
 when Filipino used his rife to
 repel an attack with a butcher knife
 and hammer. and he, too was freed by a Coroner's jury.
 Analyze His Offerings.
 During the time intervening
 since MT. Sutherland's visit the vot CTS have been analyzing the Repub
 lican offering with the result that
 they fail to find anything better I than what they have, and viewing ! the announcements of the Republi can National Convention as merely i series of platitudes instead O.
 blanks destined to aid Alaska. they
 have come to the conclusion that
 bird in hand is worth a multitude of promises.
 If anything was lacking to guar !: antee a sweeping record fer the Democrats the presence of Attorney General Jerry Murphy on the scene !: supplied it. MT Murphy has been making dignifiod. quiet canvass