The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-02

mitteeman if he were lot present at Phil> adelpha. MT. Held said that such sug- gestion had been madd 10 him. but he did not believe It. He repeatedly said he did not know anything about it but took no stock in the rumor.
 ''lf the reasons he gave for turning Mr. Price down were real, he would resign now when those reasons have ceased to be operative"
 John c. Price was ssen at his office yes terday, and he said:
 "There seems to be a disposition on MT. Heid's part to make an unprovo<ed and personal ass ut on ma never asked him to resign or to exl hin. He had hard lv landed in Juneau when he attacked me in an interview in the Dispatch. don't know why he should do this except it is the common action of one who has wronged another to justify himself bv abusing the man he wronged.
 But as to his statements in relation to the convention every member of that body including his own delegation and himself knows every statement to be absolutely false.
 "He says played double with him. This has no more foundation in fact than any of his other statements. told him that could not go to Philadelphia. Fur ther than that we neves had any conver a tion. The question of the national com mitteemanshp was never mentioned be tween us.
 "Mr. Held says he did not know of my being candidate until 3 few hours before the balloting. This statement, he knows to be absolutely false. For more than day the matter and the Brady resolutions were the chief questions in issue. The evening paper nearly twentv-tour hours before the election m de the national com mitteemanship featl.e. He was the day before working with every delegate he could approach. Everybody who was in Juneau knows this. It was only after he made this canvas that he came to our headquarters to make terms.
 "Mr. Held boasts of the number of his friends. While have never said that he had none, say now that he had more be- fore his recent unprecedented action than he will eyer have again in Alaska. l acted the part of friend to MT. Held all through the convention and he knows it, and if he does not his friends Sheppard and Willis of Douglas, Judge Page and MT. Collins of Wrangel, and those of his own delega ton can tell him so. My only regret is that we did not listen to the frequent warnings of Juneau people, who knew him so we'll that they said he would play traitor. His subsequent actions have proved that they knew whereof they spoke.
 ''His statement that he told me to defeat him if dared is untrue, but in his state ment he admits we could have done it, which proves false his assertion that l tried it.
 "He says my name was not mentioned at Philadelphia, in this he gives the lie to MT, Grant, of Wrangel, who was with him, and denies his own interview which appeared in the Juneau Record Miner, wherein he is made to say:
 "'When the call came for the presenta- tion of national committeeman, Mr. Grant, chairman of the Alaska delegation, pre- sented the name of MT. Price, He was promptly informed that only members present were eligible.
 "Mr. Held talks about fighting this mat ter out, etc. Well. have asked him for nothing, and all this fight is not of my choosing. If he has anything to fight about let him do 1t with those whom he has wronged. They include all Alaskan republicans, and especially all those who trusted him.
 "This is only another instance of fel' low doing base and dshonorable thing and trying to raise so much dust that the real questions involved may be lost sight of.
 If he thinks he can get newspaper fight out of me he is as badly deceived as he is when he fondlv wraps himself up in the thought that he has deceived the peo- pie of Alaska concerning his own duplicity.
 What hurts MT. Held worst is the preking of what little conscience he has left"
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