The Nome nugget., 1928-10-06
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 Hoover. He has taken the same position in Fairbanks and elsewhere about MT. Hoover and Chairman Curry, who he might have offend- ed by his attitude. only they are too big to pay any attention to him. Now a man may be pretty big. He may overlook objections to his politics. He may stand for being opposed. He may stand for having his doctrines opposed open ly. but when you call a man a crook and a grafter. not only here but in Russia. and say that he came up here in Alaska to steal and graft. he is not going to go out of his way to do anything for the man who makes these state- ments.
 will put it up to you in an- other way. Suppose that the town of Nome or the Second Division wanted something that the Legis- lature had no power to grant or deny. Suppose that you decided that you ought 10 send one of your best men of your community down there to lobby for you, to help put it over. Just one matter. Just one specific appropriation. for harbor, or tramway. or any thing like that. and you sent q special delegate to get something over for you and Mir. Hoover is President Who would you select? Is there anyone in this audience who would say that Dan Suther- land is the man to send down there in the present situation
 Who is the Delegate for Alaska He is not allowed to vote. He Is lobbyist for Alaska who is allowed seat in Congress and he is sent down there to lobby for specific things. not only for Nome or the Second Division. but to lobby for general legislation for the good of the whole of Alaska. and there are people in this audience who would not send Dan down there for one particular thing. but who would go out and vote to send him down there permanently.
 Now is that common sense? Of course it is not. That is. in the event that MT. Hoover is elected. and if MT. Smith is elected, as I hope he will be, I want to tell you am the man to send down. read you where Dan said some very kind things of me in his speeches. in Nome and other parts of Alas ka. and I want to tell you he has spoken some kind things for Al Smith, but I want ito tell you also that there is no room for Dan on the Al Smith band wagon. I want 10 ride there myself.
 I was shown here the other day 7. statement by the Chamber Of Commerce. guess you all know what it is. It is an exhaustive brief on the subject of the advis- ability of the extension of th, tramway up to shelton and Can de, and for the improvement of Nome Harbor. Here is a copy Of the hearings. It is one of the strongest and most complete re- ports I ever read on any like sub ject.
 This matter was taken up in Congress through bill introduced by Mir. Sutherland. I saw in the Nugget an account of Dams speech how he commended me when l sought to secure more appropria- tion by calling in the assistance of General Richardson as to the ad- visibility of increasing the road appropriations. He said that g what I did He has taken a leaf out of my book, as it were, and I saw the same thing in the Fair. banks newspaper That is some thing that all lawyers do when they want to convince anyone-tn bring witnesses All of us when we bring witnesses before a court or jury to prove our case, the first thing to find out is if those wit nesses are going to testify for us because if they testify against Us we are not going to bring them