The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-18
C.O.P.SPEAKERS SEEK 10 EvADE'
 NATIONAL. TIEUP
Local Candida ates Urge Voters 10 Forget | New
 Deal When They Ballot

Before a moderate sized audience in which minors were about as numerous as a adults, Republican legislative candidates last night l s -e.ll to disentangle themselves from national politics and to stress ,ccal matters over the New Deal issus. They spoke from the plat form at the Coliseum Theatre.
 The keynote of their campaign was sounded by Judge H. B. Le- eyre, President of the Gastineau Channel Republican Club in his opening remarks. He called it "a vast campaign of two opposite is sues = one side (the Democrats) seeking to eradicate everything that has gone before, everything precious to us; and the other tthe Repub- licans) demanding a reversion to the old ways and customs"
 Of Nc Impo1 .ance
 After he had thus defined the New Deal issue, he assured the audience that the national cam paign doesn't concern us except to an infinitesimal degree Local matters, he protested, are para mount.
 , He introduced the three speakers, H. R. Shepard and Frank J. Foster of Juneau, and Harry G. Mccain of .Ketchikan. The first two spoke { but briefly, giving way to MT. Me- : Cain for the main talk.
 MT. Shepard's talk was featured by his declaration that the Re- : pub.icans of Alaska had united in
 endorsing Tony" Dimond for Dele gate this year.
 He appealed for votes from Ju- neaus electorate, particularly Demo- crats, on the ground that there are
 no Democrats from this end of the
 Division on the Democratic House
 ticket. We believe the northern
 end is entitled to representation, '
 he declard. As a member of the il923 House, he believed he had ? acquired experience fitting to rep
 resent the Division in the Legisla- lturc. He claimed authorship of the lexisting Old Age Allowance law,
 which increased pensions, and ad- vocated construction of Home for , Aged Women at Sitka.
 FC5.er Is Veteran : MT. Foster, veteran of three AL
 aska Legislatures, fumbled in his
 mental calculations when he was
 describing the Alaska Legislature. This, lie pointed out is smaller in membership than that of any State s and smaller than was ever before allowed any Territory. Tt is com posed of only 32 members he said.
 He continued his attacks on the New Deal, and again referred to the expenditures for relief, etc, as P 'rictous expenditures" predicting
 that unless it was checked, within I eight months the countrys credit would be exhausted and it would
 be faced with dire disaster. He was
 especially harsh on his condemna- F tion of the Agricultural Adjustment i, Administration, which was the only , specific New Deal agency he men, n toned
 He, too, urged that the voters pay no attention to national poli- cies, and urged them to vote solely on local issues. He declared there
 should be a change in the existing Workmen's Compensation Act and , said he believed it could be worked 1 out so as to make it profitable , for industries to hire local labor
 He was in favor of taxing fish
 traps out of existence, he said. He r favored making the Commissioner r of Education elective
 :, Praises Gov. Troy He opposed on principle, he said
 appointment by the Governor of a
 board which selected the Commis-
 sioner of Education. T don't be-
 l.eve Gov. Troy would knowingly { or intentionally do anything wrong
 but I don't know who is going to , be the next Governor of Alaska, , he asserted.
 r He said the present system of l liquor control was not giving sat-
 isfaction. The Control Board, he
 said, had not permitted local con-
 trol of the traffic.
 After the Alaska Brain Trust
 MT. Mccain, praising the ac-
 complishments of President Roose- r welt and expressing the hope that his recovery program would be suc- ? cessful, drew round of applause the first that had interrupted any of the speakers. He, too, thought
 the New Deal ought not to be f permitted to become an issue here
 whatever was done elsewhere. Hf . isn't after the Administrations r brain trust" but the Alaska brain
 trust he said. He termed the Board of Liquor : Control colossal failure" It had g established a system of liquor sale 2 which he declared is worse than g the old saloons. Tt must be abol- L IL vrf favS>