The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-10-03
TRUITT GIVES
 HIS POSITION
 ON CAMP AICN
Democratic Nomin ee for Attorney General Out
 lines Issues at Stake


 nominee for Territorial Attorney General, who left yesterday for his home in Anchorage. prior to sailing outlined his views on the issues in the present campaign in an interview given The Elm pire.
 He emphasized the necessity for harmony between the office he seeks and the Legislature; liberal interpretation of laws; improvement in certain phases of , the probate laws, and declared he stands squarely on the party's platform as adopted last January at Seward. The full text of his statement follows:
 Work in harmony
 "I have canvassed the Intericr and Southern and Southwestern Alaska and I have seen nothing l but evidences of increased pros perity and a feeling of optimism for the future, and that this feel ing may be encouraged and fost cred would appear to be a duty devolving on the coming Legis- lature through program of constructive legislation and the avoidance of radical enactments that would tend to injure future prospects.
 "If I am elected, as I con i fidently expect to be, to the office of Attorney General, I shall place 1 all the aid and assistance the office affords at the disposal of 1 the Legislature, together with all /, the advice and counsel within my power, to the end that the Leg 4islature and the office of Attpr- ney General may work together as harmonious unit in the enactment of such constructive legislation as the situation re- quires. And further, that the | legislation so enacted by the duly elected representative of the people may be such that it may be tremendously administer ed and subject to liberal inter- pretation, and not subject to nullificaticn as has been done in two or three vital instances by the present incumbent.
 Not Nullify Laws
 ''I look on the office of Attor- ney General as an instrument created to guide and assist in i the enactment and administration of laws that will express the will of the people, but 1 do not be- lieve that any incumbent has the right to usurp the office of the courts which the present incum- bent has done by his decisions which have nullified the laws of the Legislature on several oc- casions. Law in any country or community is the expression of the will of the people and with that idea in view should be giv- en as liberal a construction as necessary to attain the aims of the law, especially in a compara lively new Territory like Alaska. The present incumbent, MT. Rustgard, constantly complains of the lack of harmony existing between his office and the Legis- lature, until a thinking person is constrained to believe that per haps the tail is trying to wag the dog. A perusal of the per sonnel comprising the member ship of the various Legislatures that have functioned while MT. Rustgard has been in office. re- jgardless of party affiliations and the factionalisms that have at times obtained, will show some lof the brightest minds, both legal and otherwise, available in the Territory. It wolld therefore seem that if these minds disagree with one as to what is best for the Territory in the way of leg islative enactment, it would be- hoove the one to accept the sit uation gracefully and bow to the will of the people as expressed l by their representatives.
 When the Alaska Legislature commenced to function it found the Territory with a mere skele- ton structure of law which it has endeavored to revamp and formulate into a serviceable and reputable, code, and that it has succeeded thus far is evidenced from the comparatively small amount of complaint with basis lcf fact to sustain it that has risen as result of the admin istration of the law. It must be remembered that in many in- stances the scope of the Legisla- ture is limited and that there re- mains lot of work to do; that proper legislation is not the work l fCcntinupd on Page TWo.)