Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-05
DEMO CANDIDATE ID CONGRESS, D|M0ND,
 DISCUSSES ISSUES

For one and one-half hours last evening, Anthony J. Dimond, Dem cratic nominee for Delegate to Congress, broadcast over KFQD, at Anchorage. His address was of such interest that it is certain those who were tuned in, remained until he had concluded his re- marks. Inasmuch as MT. Dimond is scheduled to speak Thursday evening in Seward, only the high lights of his Anchorage broadcast will be mentioned briefly here.
 Tn opening his address MT. Dim ond first paid his respects to MT. Zeigler of Ketchikan and MT. GrigSby of Juneau, both of whom volunteered to stump" for him at the time MT. Dimond met with an accident on the banks of the Iditarod. Both of these men, op- ponents in the party election, com mand his highest respect and ad- miration; and both are now speak ing in his, behalf at the present time in the First Division.
 Mr. Dimond said he has no apol- ogy to make nor explanation to of fer, in his candidacy for the of flee of Delegate to Washington from Alaska.
 Owing to the vast extent of the Territory. he recognized at once the necessity of obtaining an air plane in order to visit each place before the election.
 With the exception of a matter of about $50, at Fairbanks, he said he is paying his own expenses. The statements made that big interests are paying for his campaign are absolutely false
 If elected as Alaska's Delegate to Congress, MT. Dimond will sever his law practice entirely in order to devote his time to but one client, the people of Alaska.
 His political influence has never been for sale, nor is it now, nor will 1t be in the future. But not so with Mr. Wickersham, he said. The Delegate has sold his political in fluence. Mr. Dimond adding that he would reveal the facts later in his speech. Though not illegal, yet such action is dishonorable, he said.
 There are far too many fish traps in operation in Alaska; traps fos- ter monopoly and lessen opportu- nity for local labor. He then charg- ed Wickersham and Paul with re- ceiving $14,000 from cannery inter ests to try and put through a fish trap bill. The attempt failed. He also termed Wickersham as a lob byist; that during the years he has been in Washington he has done nothing to remedy the fish trap situation.
 The Democratic nominee adyo- cates extension of greater govern mental power to the people of Alaska; that control of it's natural resources, including fish, fur and game, be vested in the Alaska Leg islature. He is confident the people of Alaska as represented in the legislature, can do better job.
 Wickersham, he said, is against Territorial control of it's natural resources.
 MT. Dimond is also opposed to the Alaska Game Commission and will do his best to have it abolished. | But MT Wickersham is in favor of the game commission, he charged.
 MT. Dimond then spoke at some l length against the transfer of the Alaska Road Commission from the War department to the Interior de- partment, the plan of charging tolls, etc. He stated that MT. Wick ersham. when heading the transfer act, deliberately omitted reading to his audiences pertinent para graphs; that he Intentionally con- cealed other sections of the act, es- pecially that section dealing with tolls. At no time, MT. Dimond add ed, has MT. WickerSham tried to
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