The daily Alaskan., 1908-05-27

In the republican convention as brought to the city by Chauncey Boyer. delegate from tue inside, throws new light on the subject and adds nothing to the credit of 'the Hoggatts-"as they were dubbed-in the tr ,nssctiOa. Under the guiss of a harmony play, we'll understood for what 1t really was by those who proposed 1t, dOggatt man made was tempOrary-and afterwards permaueut-chairmau. This chair mau, iu his first ruling, limited the voting iD the further preliminaries, to the men on the aoor-oue vote each and thus at oncs put the Gale men out of business, as it was designed to do. The Juneau contingent and the Ketchi- kan contingent were the linen on the aOOr"-that is to say they had the numbers because they lived there or near by. Fairbanks and Nome on the contrary, the long stretch oI coast to the westward, were repre- seuted by solitary individuals, oi course, because of the great djstance to be travelled. These cane bearing proxies. Boyer carried 2S and Perk- ius 3I. Practically all the rest of the country save Juneau and Ketchikeu, were for Gale and against HOgGatt, Bu.lhey were necessarily represented by proxies, as stated-ior the most part uucoutss,ed proxies. But Juneau and Keicbidan, practically at home, both with selfish interests moving them Jo support HoggaIt, were there with men iu the flesh, with loud voices and strong arms, ready upon notice 70 eject any who might oppose them iu their settled purpose Of putting up au appearance before Washington tha, the people Of Alaska assembled in convention favored the governor. It is a most important thing 10 the gov eruOr and he has gone the full length in attempting to carry 1t through. He knows that be and the people are not iu sympathy, that they are working 10 different ends; have nothing in common. He JcId the president that the people were not ripe for seli-gov- ernmeut and he feels that it is up to him to prove i,; be would have the president and congress believe that the people are with him. He made state meuts with regard to the candidates for the postmasterShip Of three widely sepera,e towns, that, upon poll of the residents Of two of those towns being taken, ard investigation by the presi- dents special agent, were shown to be wholly at variance with the facts Be is iu extremity lest all the prestige Of bis office be gone. He must make au appearance at the convention. So he employed the patronage of his office in his home town of Juneau and at Ketch- isan to job the rest of the district and give him this that be needed so greatly.
 The men representing all the vast country save Juneau and Ketcalkan were literally disiranchised iu the repub- Iicau convention. Proxies were secured l by telegraph from fake conventions aud placed in tbe hands of commercial tra- velers and others who were not citizens of the district and these were allowed to vOte-for HOggatt, With this show iug of unanimi,y he is now presenting himself before the national committee at Cn.cago a,kiog to bs recognized as the regular republican organization of Alaska. His claim is as jus, as his rep reseutatious ou the posrmas,erships were true.
 Ifthis mongrel crowd that endorsed an snri-,erritorial goveruorin the same platform that called for territorial gov ernmen,; that nominated for congress with these votes of au anti-territorial governor candidate who bases his claim ,o the sufrages of the people upon bis clamor for territorial govern ment-if this mongrel crowd is repre- sentative of the capacity of the people