Valdez daily prospector., 1912-05-15
TELL FAIRBANKS
 0F CONVENTION
Harrals Friends in Interior Em- barrassed Because O'Connor
 Made Committeeman

In anticipation of decisive ac- Gon upon the relative merits of the two conventions at Valdez 1 last mOnth--that which nominat- ed Robert w. Jennings as Dem- !ocratic candidate for delegate and designated A. J. Daily as the choice for national commit tecman, and that which nomi- mated Martin liarraiS as candi- date and William O'ConnOr for national cOnmiitccman--abOut| seventy members of the Panama Valley Democratic club attended the special meeting of the club in the auditorium last night. There were present Charles F.. Davidson, d delegate to the Val dcZ convention, and now terri tnrial committeeman in the Fair banks district, and John Moe, who held a prr:.y at Valdez from the 1 Fairbanks district. Davidson look part in the Jrnnings-Daly convention. and Moe in the lar ; raiS- -O'Cunnor convention.
 The greater part of the meet 1 ing was taken up by the reports of Davidson and Moe. Mr. Dav- 1 idson explained that the llarraiS- ! O'Cnnnnr crowd started out by i packing the convention with luufcrs and buns from the streets and saloons of Valdez, IIarraiS distributing among them the proxies which hn carried wilh him iron. Fairbanks, and other prox- .i"S being fakrd for tho occasion.
 Mr, Davidson read an affidavit sworn tD by one of the IIarraiS- O'Connor delegates, describing in detail meeting the evening be- fore the convention. at which meeting, it was alleged. prnyips were forged for Harrais in the presence of llarraiS, O'Connor, , Moe anu Frame, and at the same meeting it was agreed tO start a rough house to prevent roll cal } unless the IlarraiS-O'Cnnno crowd Was clearly in control ol the convention. He produced cvi-
 drncr in show that ihc Jennings
 convention Was not regular il i.any srnS", but simply a Schcn,
 on the part of Frame, news
 paper man Of doubtful rrpula-
 tinn, and OConn"r, inc discrrd-
 itrd labor agitator.
 1, Mr. Moe explained his attiiud,
 by relating his trip from Seattl,
 t" Valdez, how he had discover Erl in the saloOns ur t1re various leitirS on tho way that Jennings Was not popular lie arrived in Valdez with the firm conviction
 that Jennings could not be elect
 cd, and firmly refused to consid-
 CT hint from Inc Republicans
 that If the Democrats in Valdez on March 20 nominated Jennings
 the Republicans in Cordova on
 March 90 might fail to nomi-
 nate a candidate of their own.
 He entered readily into the Har- rals-OConnor combination, but
 denied the statement in the afri- darit read by MT. Davidson, and registered his denial in coun- ter affidavit. He apologizcd for Inc selection Of O'COnnor as na- tional committeeman by stating that the choice was forced by tho Valdez crowd.
 Both Davidson and Moe were 1 questioned by the members pres ent, hut most of the discussion was at random. The important point seemed to lie in a question of technical procedure in politi- cal conventions, and nobody present seemed to he familiar with such questions. According ly, the question of endorsing one convention or the other was not brought to. vote. A telegram was read from the acknowledged and longtime leader of the Dem- ocralic. party at Nome, declaring fraudulent inc Nome proxies vot- cd in the Harrais- -O,Connor can vnntion and refusing to rccop- nizc that. convention. Valdez Democrats also sent similar 1 4