The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-16
STTII, THINKS so

The Miner recently Senlufeu the suggestion that it thought it could see danger of disruption of the coming republican district convention, through the ill-advised personal strife which threatens to inject itself It the imminent hazard of the har- mony which the advocates of home government should be first and fore most in endeavoring to promote, with the further remark that ii these latter are wise they will Studiously refrain from injecting into the convention any and all matters of a personal char acter, or which can be construed as such. The proposed demand for the removal of Governor Hoggatt will not only be in bad taste, but will avail nothing other than to work an injury to the cause the friends of home rule for Alaska profess to have most at heart. They will be but tyros in par ty politics why essay anything of the kind in that convention.
 1U lHCSC I0llaNS, MSll solely directed to the furtheranee of just cause, the Skagway Alaskan re- spends:
 Tt was Republicans who got for Governor Hoggatt the position he is abusing. The men who will assemble in the convention at Juneau on the 14th of this month, with the exception of the Democrats who were elected by the Perseverance Mine and the Tread
 we'll company as Hoggatt delegates from Juneau, will be Republicans. Why then should they not attempt to remedy the evil their party has un
 willingly been instigators of? Natpr- ally, any man or set of men would be adverse to causing the destruction of another mans life work and aspira- tions ;-it is human nature to rebel against such actions, But that is neither here nor there. A territorial blight was thrown over Alaska when the Republicans endorsed and secured the Governorship for Hoggatt. Who then, pray, is more in honor bound to try to remove it than the Republicans when they assemble in their next con- yention?n
 If The Miner were disposed to deal with this question from a purely par tisan standpoint, and for the discus sion's sake alone, it would be inclined to most emphatically deny the truth of the first proposition set out in the foregoing extract. The appointment of MT. Hoggatt, whatever may have been his endorsements, was not asked for by any distinctly republican organization in Alaska, and 1t is within the knowl edge of the editor of this paper that the influence which operated most strongly in his favor with the presi- dent while coming supposedly from Alaska. came from very few persons who bad previously been known as democrats. men in whom the presi- dent placed, as he was justified in do- ing, the most implicit faith and conf dence.
 But were it otherwise, the republi can party does not embrace in it's ranks the whole, if indeed majority of the people of Alaska: consequently the retention or dismissal of Gov. Hoggatt is matter that concerns not alone the republican party, but the people of Alaska generally. Bat that is neither here or there at this time. 1t appears to be evident, and has so appeared all along, that the conven- tion will unequiyocaily endorse the administration of President Roosevelt. Whether it will, or will not. at the same time be in bad taste to de- nounce and demand the removal of his chief appointee to official position in 4 'aska, is matter that requires no elucidation. What The Miner meant to have its readers infer from the re- marks to which the Alaskan takes mild exception was that between the contention that such proposition would be most likely to provoke. and the strife for seats nearest the pie counter, the main question it hopes to see decided by the convention may be lost sight of. or made to give place to some wretched compromise that will amount to practically nothing at all, if it be not indeed victory for the opponents of home rule.
 FUN WITH THE BOYS