The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-13
YOUNG REPUBLICANS ON MARCH, BENSON
 TELLS HIS AUDIENCE

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 Continued from Page Ore) cluded: Piano selection, Mrs. Eliza beth Key; trumpet solo, Byron Miller, accompanied by Mrs. Mill CT; vocal number by Ralph Wag- goner, accompanied by Carol Beery Davis, and music by the Triolians.
 Sounding an appeal for greater interest in government, Mir Faulk-l her declared the two greatest ene-s mics of the Constitution are ignor- ance and indifference. The latter he, pictured as the worst. He urged an awakening among the people relative to matters of gov- ernment and stated there are two views relative to the Constitution. One of these, he said, feel the present form of the Constitution is adequate and should be preserved and perpetuated. The other class, sometimes referred to as radicals, feel the document has outhved it's usefulness and should be discarded. The Republican Party of Lincoln, he declared, believe in perpetual ing the Constitution as the basis of sound government.
 Says Platform Repudiated
 Picturing the New Deal as re- pudiating it's 1892 platform, Albert White, Territorial Republican Chair man, appealed for a swing back to the Republican Party.
 Tt is fitting that this day, Lin coln's birthday, that we, the mem bers of his party, speak in praise Of that great American and Re- publican, Abraham Lincoln, whc was called to the Presidency in a great crisis, and who won his place in history" MT White said "To- day we are facing another great crisis. A crisis forced upon the American people and called the New Deal I feel it is now the time for the American people to respond and elect to the Presidency some great American who will be i the standard bearer of the Repub- lican Party in the forthcoming el- ection"
 Relief is no longer a project, but bureaucratic racket with the American taxpayer as the outraged sugar daddy the speaker declar- ed. He pointed to figures of the American Federation of Labor which, he said, revealed that thers are some l1,500,000 unemployed ir the United States. He charged the Government had spent $3,542 ,949, 785 on direct relief up to Decem- Der of last year, had contracted the greatest public debt in history : and there are still more than elev- en million unemployed And he added, the Democrats have the / audacity to tell the American peo- pie that we are in the midst oi : prosperity
 Plays Alaska Democrats
 MT. White bitterly attacked the Democratic Party in Alaska, dub ping it the Juneau Machine"
 The record of the last Demo cratic Legislature is before you, he said. What did they accom-. plish for the welfare of our peo, pie? That another such body should again be elected to control tht Territory and its affairs would b, nothing short of tragedy
 1 The Speaker quoted excerpts iron a statement he said had been mad, by Representative A. P Walker O Craig, who served in the Hous, last session, in which the Legisla ture was taken to task. Walker who served in the last session as { Democrat, is now running as al independent.
 Many people are wondering whar has become of some of the wal horses of Democracy, who have 1T the past taken such an active interest in the Democratic Party, MT White said. in referring to the national picture "Is it because of the machine age? For seeming ly they are not within the active council of the Democratic regime nor do they SC the donkey on the ship at sea in storm. He is way ing a white flag for help, but nc one Is interested but the office holders and they are too busy fight. ing among themselves to see tho distress signal.
 Al Smith in a recent speech charged that the Democratic Party broke it's promise to the people ir 1882 and buried the platform, anc the Democrats had better take i
 rem the9 grave where it is nov iburied and put it to use and keer