The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-06-12
THE REPUBLICANS MEET
{ lKetchikan Chronicle


 Tomorrow. the nations republi- cans will meet to nominate a pres idential candidate The meeting will not be entirely one of harmony because there is a strong element which fayors throwing to the ash heap those old guard policies which did so much to make the party distasteful to a great mass of Am erlcan people.
 It is not enough to say that Mr hoJseyelts administration has been extravagant It is not enough to say that MT Farley has gone hog-wild and that the democrats have pOunc- cd on national control as a feeding trough for job seekers who went hungry too long. Instead, the repuo- ucans must be able to demonstrate that they can and will do much better.
 The spectacle of the Job hungry who cry too loudly that to the vic tor belongs the spells is not a pretty one whether it goes under the name of democracy or repui ncauism. It is that spectacle which is disgusting to many a citizen.
 Even a national convention be- comes a great place for that trad ing which is less conducive to. good government than To political support. A man may be next thing to a crook and still win the prom ises of good jobs for such political support as he may be able to swing. When one stops really to think about the political practices. the wonder is that We have as good government as We do.
 Now the republicans. although the most honest of them do not go so far as to say unequiyocaly that Roosevelt will lose, do contend that there is a good chance this year for a republican victory But as the Chicago Tribune recently warn ed, such a victory hinges on t must" which dictates that the party shall step easily and not re- vert to those unsayory tactics whic' may sound the doom of the repub- lican party.
 It seems to us that the party has made one step in the wrong direc- tion through the action of the old national committee in giving temp orary seating to Albert White and his crowd from Alaska Mr White crammed down the throats of dele gates to the Douglas convention a set of rulings which surely coulI not be upheld by any national com mittee which considered the case on it's merits. Mir White himself is an old time republican and he cried to high heaven at Douglas that he and he alone worked for the party during the seemingly hopeless years after the new deal landslide. He wanted to know where were the others when he was contributing to the nationai party. And like some of the repub- licans now at Cleveland, he prob ably thinks that every republican who voted democratic four years ago should vote democratic again. That is a fine thing for a republi- can to think, because it will mean that MT Roosevelt 3s assured of of flee as long as he wants it.
 Of course, details of the acti~ . at Cleveland still are not available in Ketehikan, so intelligent com ment is in possible.
 But it is plain that at the Doug las convention Mr White had the support of only one vote out of 22 from Ketchikan. of one out of four from Wrangan, of none from Petersburg, of only a part of the Third division of none of the Sec ond division and none of the Fourth division. It is indeed strange that the national committee should de- eide that covention controlled by a man who did not have the sup port of more than a small part of the Territory should De allowed Ia continue his domination in Alaska.
 The catch, of course, is that AIr. White made enough enemies in Douglas in addition to those he al- ready had to make his domination