The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-03
MA KING THE WATER MUDD

nneau. in spite of the trenzied oPposl- tion of whom the delegates from the recently held Alaskan convention at Washington are about to get re- suits for their labors, is trying to muddy I'D the waters for the purpose Of max ,ng obscure the mean and miserable policy it and its brand have pursued ln all things that pertain to Alaska's good. Its latest disturbances is an a. tempt to show that SksgwsY was over represented in the convention at Sea- tie. It points out that the proxies Of the Juneau delegates were turned ov1r to Q skagway citizen to vote, in accor>- apcs with the instructions of 8 mass meeting of Jupeauites, tthe latter pro vision was not mentioned, of course, by the Transcript It continues;
 "Skagway cast four votes by her del coates present, two votes by Price and four votes by Burns for Junesu, mak- irc TEN votes in all,
 "Skagway, with her 1000 people, had 10 votes, and Ketchikan, with her SOO psople, had three votes, while the oth- CT s. 200 people of Southeastern Alaska had two votes, and the man elected by such a representation of the people had the immaculate gall to go to the congress of the United States of Ameri- cs and ask to be admitted as delegate on the floor of the House IT"
 How silly! How abjectly, nsuseat- ingly silly a tory, pititully laundering in words for an excuse for his existence in an American country, can make himself
 Aualyzed. this hysterscaI sttersnce means tbat the convention should never have been held because the Juneau delegates elected to it did not attend in person. h other words, the momentthe delegrtes from Nome, and Fairbanks, and Skagway, and Ketchikan, and Halnes' and Council, and Chena, and Seward, and the dozen other towns, who went there with instructions hot from mass meetings of the people, discovered that no man from Juneau was on the ground they should have gone home !
 But that is not ali! A Juneau proxy, signed in blank, was sent to W. E. Crews, who for number of years was a leading member of the Juneau bar It was accompanied by instructions Mir. Crews discovered that be would be unable to attend the sessions of the con ven.ion. He gave his proxy, and in- structious from the mass-meeting or Juueauites, to a SkRgway citizen, in whom he had confidence. The conVen- tion, uot desiring to deprive Juneau or 8 voice in the conventicn D, according to scustom that is universally followed in | county, state and national conventions, Darr,it.e5 the representatives who | wer, present to cast the entire vote for theis delegations. This imposed upon Mir. 8urns the duty to represent Juneau He did it in accordance with his in- structions.
 Is this skagwsy crime? Or, is 1t Juneau negligence? l
 If the Juneau paper proves anything it is that the towns and peoples who were represented at Seattle did their part in an effort to free Alaska from the control of congress which the se- at.le Post-Intelligencer aptly says is contented in it's ignorance of this dis trict. That the declarations of that convention are ss nearly in accordance with Alaskan aspirations as could be hoped for under any circumstance is not denied. That it's delegates at the national capital are standing Loyalty upon the platform adopted cannot be denied. It is apparent, that those who seek to destroy their influence do SO from mean and selfish motives, and stamp themselves as enemies of the dis trict.