The Nome nugget., 1928-09-29
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 which now Judge Wckersham and Dan Sutherland say is iniquitous. bureaucratic, which takes away your liberty and should be cured by the Controller Bill. This little volume containing the record of when Judge Wfckersham got that act passed will be left here in town. Anybody can See it. l will leave it with MT Gaffney. He will be pleased 10 show it to you.
 From 1914 when that Wicker sham act was passed by congress. allowing the legislature of Alaska to impose all those ministerial and clerical duties on Federal officers of Alaska, every session of Alas ka's Legislatures copied the prev ious legislature, and continued to impose further and additional dut- ies, and all the time that Dan Sutherland was in the legislature. from 1913 until his last term in 1919. he voted for every act that passed duties upon the backs of the Federal officials. If it was a mistake that his conscience inn plores him to correct he ought to go back to the Legislature to do I it, but not come before you after eight years in Congress and make a campaign on platform of cur ing his mistakes he made while in the Legislature, if they were mis- takes
 The Controller Bill. the ma chinery, and all that is largely question of expense and expediency. It is net an issue which could con cern the Delegate to Congress in the least. He has nothing to do with it. The Legislature of Alas ka has the power and right to enact that law or similar legtsla- tion, and after all these duties have been created by the Legisla- ture, which grew from year to year and required the employment of more and more clerks and more and more machinery. Judge Wick ersham forgets that he was the boy that started this whole thing He saw an opportunity to hold office. Everbody down in the First Division knew that if the Control Ter Bill passed Judge Wickersham would be the Comptroller. together with Paul who introduced the bill and McCane, the discredited dis tr.ct attorney. They saw an op- portunity to concentrate all this machinery created by the Legisla- ture into the hands of three in dividuals and put strangle hold on the political affairs of this Ter ritory.
 That IS an iniquitous thing. There are plenty of ways for your Territory to get its work done with officers, and without putting , up an organization like that I have heard in Fairbanks different members of the Legislature accus- ed by Mr. Sutherland of selling cut their constituents, of being al- most estranged from their consti- tuents. because they would not vote for that Controller Bill in it's present form. and. while I am 
 running on platform which l know myself would denounce the system of having work done by Federal officers. would not vote for | either if I was in the Legis- lature. and commend MT. Gaff- ney for not voting for it. So much for the Controller Bill.
 heard MT. Sutherland quoting from Rustgard. and using his own language, drawing colo. full pictures of the way your legislators that you send down to Juneau get inn pressed with pomp and power o! the Federal officials. They bow down and prostrate themselves on the floor and forget their constitu. ents before they get before the right people. want to tell you that that is all bunk. Pure and simple bunk.
 Now. ladies and gentlemen. am running on the National platform of tho Democratic ticket and lam