The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-08-26

rpeOTteu,Jt OUT cannot permit the
statement as published to go UNI
challenged
Yours very truly,
John S. McMillin.
The request of Mr.. McMillin to
give publicity to the above commun-
ication is cheerfully complied with.
The islander has no disposition to
do him an injustice and its respect
and kindly feelings for Senator Blair
are SO great that it would be a mat
ter for sincere regret if anything
were published in these columns mis-
representing any public utterance
of his in any essential particular. At
the time of the Poindexter meeting
the editor could not attend as he was
i'll at his home and the papers brief
report was based upon what he was
told by others who were present.
If any misunderstanding upon their
part or upon ours has led the Island
er to place Mr.. McMillin and Mr..
Blair in false light before the peo-
pie of the county, we express our
sincere regret. The people can draw
their own conclusions from the state
ments which the gentlemen them
selves make. Senator Blair says ::
While the brief mention Of the
Poindexter meeting as reported in
the Islander was not exactly correct
as to my remarks, it can readily be
seen that what said, having been
repeated from one to another might
have been understood as reported,
by the time it reached the Islander.
with Mr.. Rudow | arrived in Sc
attic the evening before the conven-
ton and called upon friend there
who was chairman of the delegation
from his ward of the city. He told
me that we would have nothing to-
do at the convention except to in
dorse what had been done at meet
ing held that day in Tacoma ssand
from which he had just returned.
Arriving at the convention the
following morning and meeting Mr..
McMillin, / told him | thought we
would elect Mr.. Rudow chairman of
the San Juan delegation as held
two proxies of delegates who could
not attend He replied that / would
not need to vote my proxies as
everything was already fixed, or ar
ranged. / offered no objection,
knowing it to be useless. We were
consulteH by Mr.. McMillin as to the
assignment of the members of our
delegation to the committees and
the names OF our three committee
men were announced by Mr.. Rudow
just previous to adjournment for the
noon recess.
At the afternoon session of the
convention, Mr.. McMillin assumed
the craftsmanship of our delegation
without having been elected land an
nounced the vote of the delegation
on each question before the conven-
ton. / offered no objections simply
because | knew it to be useless,
and because | felt as Mr.. Moran
stated later regarding himself, in
his letter, that wanted to take no
part in convention run upon the
plan of having everything, even the
selection of nominees for the judges
of the Supreme Court of the state
(for which the convention was call
led decided upon by few on the
day previous to the convention.
Concerning my recent correspon-
dence with Mr.. McMillin | will say
that as it was upon matters in no
way connected with either the con-
vention or the Poindexter meeting,
the thought of mentioning the meet
ing or the report in the paper did not
Iocctrto me at the time Of writing.
It is not agreeable to me. to have
any personal controversy with Mr..
McMillin and / do not intend to. In
my remarks about the Tacoma con-
vention and his part therein told
the simple truth as I understood it.
In many Of the statements contain
ed in his letter, especially in regard
to my endorsement Of the conven-
tons proceedings, he is mistaken.
John L. Blair.
RICHARDSON
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