The Nome nugget., 1921-03-26
DEATHeEo REPENrENce
(FTom Juneau Capital)

H1oht SStpiLIp It will be interesting to the citizens of Alaska to learn tIiat the democratic press has supported the Bourbon party full conscious of it's inequalities and de- fciencies and is frank enough to &C., knowledge this fact.
 A change of heart and the act of reformation is acceptable at all times, but when We read:
 Tt (the democratic party) had reached the point where it was for the good of the country that 1t give way" one cannot help but arrive at the con clusion that both the democratic party and the people have been betrayed. If the above is true. why did the men now giving voice to these deduc tioTs support that party? Why at the beginning of the campaign, did not the press possessing these opinions, voice them for the good of the country. in- stead of waiting until after the people had rendered a sweeping verdict to ar rive at the conclusion? In other words knowing that the party was unequal to the task. and that the nation was suffering thereby, these same organs labored to mold public opinion in sup port of that party regardless of this consciousness of deficiency.
 It will be equally interesting to learn what the men who followed the demo- cratic standard think of this latest deathbed repentance. Leaning as they did upon the leading det1ocratic organs of the territory to guide them, they have, like lambs. been led to the slaughter by false prophets.
 The world admires the man who is willing to back his opinions by every means in his power and wage q con- scientious battle in an effort to convert his fellow man to hie vsiwpoint, but what is to be said of the individual or institution who commercializes opin icns to the point of where they mislead and threaten destruction to the body and while so doing line their own pockets?
 A victorious general does not kiss the cheek of his adversary and adorn his breast with medals, neither will a. victorious political party welcome in to its councils the enemies of the party as well as the nation.
 Further on we read: Every chanee 1t (the democratic party) makes loses it some of it's support, and finally it reaches a point where it cannot make more changes without being a minority party. or when it ceases to prosress and only attempts to get by and hold a majority of the people for the sake of being in power"
 Are We then to understand that support given during the recent can- paign was not for the purpose of con- tinuins in power & party equal to the exigencies of government and progress, su. merely to secure the spofis that fan to the lot Of the faithful?
 Tho basic theory of government 's tho greatest good for the greatest num- Der. Under the above deduction 1t would appear that the leaders of the now defunct democratic party terri tcrally as well as nationally were bat ting for a meal ticket rather than for the good of America
 Cities maintain dumps for refuse. Political parties may do the salme. and into the local political dump will go all the rubbish accumulated during eight years of democratic admfnistra- ton. The party in power. put there On q set of progressive principles. will man ship and do the steering and hardly will welcome the gratui.ious ad- vice that became an unmarketable pro- duct with the demise of the Bourbons.