The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14

sel for the Republican Party in
 l Alaska, at the Lincoln Day din ner in Juneau Thursday eve
 ming.
 MT. Postmaster, Officers of the Regular Republican Organization of 1 Alaska, Candidates upon the Re- publican ticket, Ladies and Gen. 1 tlemen and Fellow Republicans.
 The most pleasing news that I can give to you tonight is that dur ing the week of June 20th at Phila- delphia we are going to nominate the next President and Vice. Presi- dent Of the United States. And in Alaska in october this great Ter { ritory will also find it's way into 1 the Republican column. Alaska has always had away to find out the | way the political wind was blowing, in 1912. recall vividly that William Howard Taft was President, and the
 succeeding years Alaska seemingly saw the path of Woodrow Wilson, , Warren c. Harding, Calvin Coolidge |! and Franklin D. Roosevelt for as one partisan has said Alaska can change quicker than you can change your coat, fer in the past Alaska has always been on the winning side This year will be no exception for as in the years past Alaska has
 either been Republican or Demo- cratic during the terms of the Presi- dent of the United States.
 We, of course, realize that under the New Deal that thousands have
 been put on the Government pay
 rolls with a limited population and
 no farming group to draw from it's
 not an easy matter for Alaska to
 change it's politics, but the great issues that confront us will make
 those who do not follow, perhaps
 straight political voting, think well
 before they cast their ballot and
 see just where the economic policies
 of the Democratic Administration
 is leading us to and 1t has been
 said, give city hall or county courthouse politician a political job
 with authority in Washington, and
 he becomes a giant of wisdom to even question him is impertinent and he thinks mpatriotic to have
 opposite views
 But soon the Bells of the City of Philadelphia, where the first Re- publican Convention was held in 1856, and where the Bells of Liberty was first heard on these shores will ring again and the 1948 Republican Convention will bring forth lead- ership, and write a platform and a declaration of policy that will shape the destiny of America and the world in the years ahead. That con- vention will write a platform that will guide our country to the high road of sound, honest aAd decent and that is why all thoughtful and observant citizens of this nation and other nations are conscious of this fact, and that is why this convention will be the most historic since the first nolni- nation of Abraham Lincoln and the appreciation of our people of what is to be done at that convention will rebound two fold to the Re- publican candidates in Alaska, and they will feel that it's both a duty to our great Territory and it's peo- pie but also to themselves to be a nominee for office in 1948 of this Great Party-the Republican ticket in Alaska-and we appeal to all citizens of Alaska to serutinize our nominees for office and appraise them as against their opponents who will have in support of their candidates the wholesale use of taxpayers money to put them again in office. You will find projects here that have been dormant for years all of sudden come to life. We will see a mighty pleasing in- terest all of a sudden in communi- ties for roads. We will see more highway patrols put on with shiny bright, new autos to give our voters a ride and every effort will be made