The Nome nugget., 1928-09-29

l publican party of this division, but not so carefully and it endorses most of the same things that the Democratic platform endorses
 have been informed that there is difference in these two plat forms on the subject of Pioneers ture issues which concern the AL aska Legislature, and which I will have nothing to do with whether | am elected or defeated. But I want to tell you for your informa- ton that it was the William Paul crowd that defeated the increase legislature.
 Now do not know what the divisional platform of the Repub- | lican party in Nome is on that sub l iect, but want them. in case any of them should be elected. and Re- publicans do get elected once in d "ule' want tueLl lO toHsluei I that question carefully. Maybe !! some of them have never been in Sitka. But when man gets along l to 75 or 80 years old, pioneer. who needs aid from the Territory. | if you give him a pension of S30. a month or s35.00, which I believe is advocated by the Democratic platform, with that assistance he will get along very nicely and be live and energetic man for 15 years. He will do some hustling for himself, and live in his own cabin and be happy; but s20.00 or | S25.00 is not enough. Rather than take s25.00 a month and starve, someone will advise him to go to | the Pioneers Home in Sitka. He will get senile and get old and die some fifteen or twenty years before his time, and it is great deal better to give them S15.00 or S20. month more than to send them down to Sitka.
 I was down there last month and I saw some old boys I knew in Nome. I never thought of them getting old left that home. went out on the street and I met Yorkey Sikes. He is up there and has job working. He is over 90 years old and brighter than he ever was. He is not getting any pension either. That is the merits of that proposition.
 After Bryan's speech at Seattle in 1909 and in every national plat form since then, the Democratic national party has decreed for home rule. for Alaska Everybody is for home rule for Alaska that lives here. I know that I do not want to live in a Territory that is not fit for self government. Now am running on that principle. MT. Sutherland and his adherents are running upon what they call their principle. I want to contrast to you what he offers you in the way of home rule and what I pro mise you I will try to do.
 What does the Republican party as represented by MT. Sutherland say they are going to do for you in the way of home rule? Pass the Controller Bill. Did you ever hear of one of them saying any thing else? Have they ever ad- vocated anything else? Has Dan Sutherland ever advocated any thing else? Has Mir. Wickersham We got a legislature through the efforts of MT. Wickersham in 1912 and 1913, legislature with less power than any other legislature ever had That was in 1912. That is sixteen years ago since that law passed and since then there has never been a law passed giving us any more home rule.
 Mir. Sutherland has been in con gress eight years. Can any one here who is supporter of Dan s show where he has ever introduced bill or made the slightest effort to give you this home fule which We are entitled to. No. He comes up here and says the legislature