The Nome nugget., 1932-10-08
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roads. They have the same author ity that the army officers had and have just as much money When that appropriation bill went thru the House by that six majority it provided for only S35O, 100000. II saw Senator Jones and other men On that committee and they raised it and We got S50O.O0O0O in that way. Now, nobody can say or ac- cuse me of wasting my time and not working for Alaska and both of those yarns are just as false as they can be because here is the Record that demonstrates just what was done in both of those matters. have never been away from my point of duty but once Just before Congress adjourned, I 1 went over and talked to the Dem ocratic leader, MT. Rainey of Hi nois, gentleman whom I have known for several years. I asked MT. Rainey if he knew when Con- gress would adjourn and he said, It Is going to adjourn Saturday night" That was just a few days off and he repeated that they were sure to adjourn in few days. said "I want to go to Chicago and want to know when adjournment will take place." He said "We will adjourn In few days" They did not adjourn until two weeks after that. went to Chicago. There was no bill pending for AL aska and nothing to come up for Alaska which required my pres ence in Washington, anyway. There wasn't thing I could have done if had stayed there. Al White and Karl Theile were the Republican delegates to the Ma tional Convention from Alaska. E. A. Rasmuson had been elected Republican National Committee man and he suggested to me that I ought to so to Chicago and as- sist in getting aid for Alaska de- velopment, and went for that purpose. We four men sat and prepared what we thought we wanted included in the Republi- can platform as a plank on Alas ka. We submitted this to the Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and he said, Well, I will take it and look it over" And he did He corrected 1t and then took it to the committee and it was a dopted by the Republican National Convention, and 1t is plank in favor of Alaska.
 It will give Alaska the widest possible form of Territorial gov ernment. The citizens of Alaska shall have the same rights that the citizens of the States have as nearly as is possible and AIaskans will be appointed to offices in Al aska. It could be no stronger
 We secured the passage of that Act while we were there and we secured the passage of another act, promising the support to the Indians in Alaska for the protec- tion of their property rights and the provisions for them of educa- tional and health facilities So We got two blanks in the Republi- can platform for Alaska and it's inhabitants. The Republican Ma We should have these rights in Alaska and pledged it's loyal sup port to us. And we have a right to depend upon their honest pled- ges. They pledged us that we should have those rights in Alaska and we will have their support when these issues arise. We will have the House behind us, in favor of bills for the development of Alaska because of the passage of those bills in the Republican National plank Now ladies and gentlemen, these are matters of great moment to you. It is im- portant that we should have the support of the President and the House.
 Now, what did the Democrats do when they went to Chicago? By the way, we had only two Re publican delegates to the Conven- tion and the Democrats had six, one of them prominent citizen here and another from over in Eagle City and the others were from down on the salt water. What did you men do (Here the N. c. whistle blew) That's what they did. Made a loud noise and yelled their heads off for booze. They helped to nominate Mi. Roosevelt and MT. Garner. Yes, you did and I feel sorry for you boys. I feel sorry for you. MT. Roosevelt is the Governor of New York and MT. Garner is the Speak CT of the House of Representativ- es. I don't know Mir. Roosevelt, but I do know MT. Garner-well But we're going to meet you both, and we're going to beat you. You are not going to beat us. The