The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-25
GRICSBY GRIPS
 AUDIENCE WITH
 GREAT ADDRESS
Defines Home Rule Issue and Portrays Alaska's
 Limited Government
WITH LOGIC AND WIT
 EXPOUNDS DOCTRINES
Democratic Candid a tes Make Fine Impression
 Upon Large Crowd

OPOIi LdI SC NIOWO
 Home Rule versus bureaucratic government was strikingly portrayed last night by George B. Grigsby Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress, in the finest speech of his long career in Alaska, to a big crowd of Juneau voters who gave him and other speakers rounds of applause many times during the meeting which lasted more than two hours.
 Others who spoke were: Thomas Gaffney nominee for Auditor, who as usual captivated the audience with his real Irish wit and broad northern tolerance; Allen Shattuck candidate for Senator; Judge Frank A. Boyle and E. L. Sampson, House nominees. Mayor Thomas B. Jud- son, himself a candidate for the House, presided
 Holds His Audience
 SD eaking last, MT. Grigsby' $ speech filled with keen wit, enliven- ed with flashes of humor, was an arraignment of bureaucracy, dig nified in tone, measured in argu- ment and convincing in both text and delivery It held the attention of the large audience throughout, not one person leaving the hall until he had concluded Bothss he and MT Gaffney were forced to pause frequently to wait for out bursts of applause and laughter to subside.
 q have no charge to bring against any man. I am not attack ing persons, or any individual. It is the system of bureaucracy that is under fire; the system that gives men the power to make our laws for us; that deprives us of the tra- ditional right of Americans to make their own laws through our legis- lature, to administer their own resources" declared MT. Grigsby.
 Builds Up Case
 He demonstrated convincingly that Alaska has at no time had many of the powers of self-government which all of the 35 other Territor- ies of the United States were grant, ed in their pioneer days. Alaskans have been denied the very rights that the founders of the American republic broke away from the mother country, England, and fought to win for themselves and passed on as a precious heritage to their descendants, including the peo- pie of Alaska.
 i've have been struggling with bureaucracy for 20 years, reserved to death, conserved to death, and as John Rustgard has strikingly said, 'embalmed'," he asserted. If I am elected, I promise you that I will introduce and work earnestly for a measure to restore to you those rights, to give to you the responsi- biliyt for and right of administering your own affairs"
 - Charges Wickersha1n
 MT. Grigsby directly charged his opponent, Judge James Wickersham, with the responsibility for the pres ent bureaucratic form of govern ment with which Alaska is now burdened. The responsibility of the grim phrase Except Alaska which has characterized with telling evil effect, the Territory's Organic Act and other legislation, he laid square ly at the feet of Judge Wicker sham.
 ''If you vote to elect Judge WICK ersham and William L. Paul, you will be voting for the prettiest pair of political tricksters who ever dis graced our Territory" he asserted, amid a gale of laughter and hand clapping.
 Except for the terms of Frank H. Waskey and Thomas Cale, ana the parts of terms served by the late Charles A. Sulzer and himself, MT. Grigsby pointed out that Alas ka has been represented all the time by either Judge Wickersham or 'his protege," Dan Sutherland. The former is the author of the Organic Act. or Alaska's Constitution. Pass ed in 1912, Judge Wickersham serv- ed eight years in Congress and MT. Sutherland ten years, yet neither has ever made any effort to amend that law to wipe out the restrictions it imposes, and bestow upon the Territory the powers it's earlier pro- totypes have had.
 There is no hope that Judge xr,;otorrnon, will undertake to do