The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-25


 kans will administer them as they fought to be done for the benefit lof the Territory, but that crimin- als, racketeers,' such as he charg- led Olsen was, will gain control, ideclared the Democratic nominee
 Charges Insincerity | He charged that Judge Wicker sham throughout his career as Delegate had been wholly insincere If he believes in the doctrines 1, of Home Rule why hasn't he done something about it? If I had been in Congress II or 12 years would at least have got a bill out o1 committee to show my earnestneSs and that is more than he has done" he asserted
 If you don't want Home Rule, If you don't want to control your fisheries and game and your oth- CT resources and all domestic af- fairs, then you ought to vote for Wickersharn. But if you do you ought to vote for the Democratic candidates for that party is pledg- ed to get it for you and will make a sincere effort to fulfill that pledge" he added.
 Now is the Time
 He pointed out that now is the time for action. Gov. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential nominee whose election is regarded as in evitable, has pledged the country a new deal" And Alaska is rightfully entitled to share of it, and can get it if it is represented by a Democratic Delegate in Con- gress and he is backed by a local Democratic administration. Gov. Roosevelt has made 1t plain that ne means to give the United States local control of local affairs and local resources and Alaska can share in that restoration if it wants it and will elect men to office who believe in that principle and are wholly in sympathy with it, he said. &f
 To elect officials who had den1- onstrated, as Wickersham, lack of understanding of the principle and who n1anifestly- did not be- lieve in it, would result in a per- petuation of the present bureau cratic system If we wait until bureaucracy is wise enough to real ize that local control is necessary, all of us today will be in our graves for 100 years before any thing is done" he said. He made it very clear he was attacking the system and not the personnel of bureaus, which, he said, is sim cere.
 Would Curb Traps
 He cited the difference between his own position on fish traps and that taken by Judge Wickersham, who a few years ago was paid several thousand dollars to pre- pare a fish trap leasing bill that would have perpetuated the trap system here He supported his own record by calling attention to a memorial he introduced in the Alaska Senate in 1929 which sought to prevent the establish nlent of many new traps and the eventual reduction of existing can- nery-owned traps to one for each line of machinery operated by ev- cry cannery.
 That memorial was defeated by four Republican votes. with three Democrats and one Republican voting for it. Senators Dimond, Dunn and Hess, Democrats, and Benjamin, Republican, voted for it. Senators Anderson and Sund- auist, of Nome, Frame cs Anchor age, and Steel, who is now Wick ersham's private Secretary, voted against it. All four of the oppo- nents, who voted without any dis cussion, were and are Wickersham supporters and one word from him would have insured the passage of the memorial, declared Senator Di- mond.
 Would Aid Territory
 He declared his conviction that