The Alaska prospector., 1908-06-25
OPPOSED TO PEACE

It is plain that Gov. Hoggatt and his political family do not want peace in the republican party of Alaska. They want absolute control and if further evidence were needed it Is outbreak at Seattle inspired by his exultation over petty victory. This was scarcely needed because conclu sive proof was given at Ketchikan. The Juneau cabal wants to own the territory with Gov. Hoggatt for shogun.
 The Hoggatt squad is entitled to all the success it has won by untiring in dustry in peanut politics during the past three months while the opposi- tion slept or attended to legitimate business. Results only count in poll ! tics but the results accomplished by the Hoggatt men may not be pleasant for them hereafter. Members of the governors kitchen cabinet were told at Ketchikan that they were pursu- ing course which would alienate from them every man who did not believe that the present governor should be dictator in Alaska affairs.
 This argument was put forth by men who felt kindly toward Gov. Hoggatt personally and who were so anxious to work in harmony with his friends that they offered to do any thing for peace except go into the Iloggatt camp. They argued that everybody in and out of Alaska who skRkes interest in Alaska affairs was WsafS' of factional politics ana puerle quarrels. To all this the IIoggatt men assented in theory but they refused any and every compromise that did not give most of the turkey to them. They objected frankly to giving any posi- ' tion to any man who was not at least ma personal friend of the governor. 5&rhe IIoggatt fetish was everything 70 them and they even seemed sur prised and grievcd that others could 2Qt appreciate the desirablity of de
 1ering all political power into the
 sS rnor's hands. Neither could they
 Jade to understand that public &nent in the Second and Third
 
 X Av. Hoggatt personally and bit Z aostile politically.
 pvernor's junta at Kctchikan 'saSs 35A }o think the time had arrived when his supporters could run things their own way. Offers of reward and even thre &ts were put forth to make everybody climb upon the IIoggatt trn., .,,I T . notice the rickcty condition of the Awagon or the discordant tunes played #Ay the band.
 N othing can be clearer than the
 that the Hoggatt project has been to seize all influence which Alaska may possibly hold at the national capital, SO that his faction can dictate all Agaska appointments and shape or def@at all Legislation proposed for the teEritory. The governors violent out burst at Seattle against all advocates /of territorial government and oppon- ents of himself shows that the plat form of the Hoggatt convention at Ketchikan was made to get in on but not to stand on afterward. Shacklc- ford Is In but where is COrson? Hog gait ct al do not care CorsOn and his territorial government plank merely made q ladder for them to climb up on.
 Probably Gov. IIoggatt is but fol- lowing the laws of his nature and education in seeking to fasten disre- pute upon, men who have been his personal frictIds. Every drop of his blood has eyeS that look downward and he is no dbubt sincere in his doc Urine that proPerty is entitled to hold all the S6ins e government. Natur- Aly Ne regards as Il public and per sonal enemy every man who 'chal- lenges the virtue of that theory. He in entitled to his own belief but his ] feuilleton at Seattle absolves every man included in the attack from every, previous promise to support his can ,didate for congress or any satellite of ] his for any office hereafter. When John W. Corson is defeated he can | charge the heaviest part of the bur den to Gov. Hoggatt and his fool friends.
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