The Alaska daily empire., 1916-03-10
'SPIlT WlLL CAUSE
 TWO PRIMARIES
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 ly thrco and half years ago. and leit ! inc Territory for good Hc sold hia house and home and every thing he own ! ed at Juneau. and both ho and hia Wiie announced that they had eataohsnol thcir residence in Seattle and cxpccteu to 1.-Two there tho rest of their days ! There has. therefore. bccn vacancy ! thnt poeltion for tho last three years land a half ! requested of the Territor- liai Committee. when they met at see ward. Co an the vacancy ond reQuested' also. that they all it by the appointment of someone who was not on the payroll ] of any person vitoly Interested in the party organization. However. the machine refused 10 nn tho vacancy and | tho excuse given was that Robert c. hur- ] lev held the proNy of Hr. Wells. and | that Wells had not left Alaska took stops Co ascertain definitely what tne facts were on this subject. and nm rec uabiy informed that both 0ir. md Mrs. Wells have voted at Che Inst two city elections In Seattle and evidently have | made tholr affidavit that they pro resi- dents Of Seattle This is in conformity with what both Of them told me before they left Alafka.
 .If Charles Wells .ia stiM Q committee man, he certainly resides further away rom Juneau than does Mir. O'Connor
 This may be called technical question, but evidently the machine. when it pro- mulgated the call, did not look upon it as a technical question, os they did not authorize any primary to be held In any other form than under the direction of tho committeeman nearest tho precinct
 Moreover. there have generally been two delegations going from Alaska to the National Republican Convention, and tho question of who was legitimate and who was not hns invariably been decided up- on purely technical questions; and inas-
 much as a member of the machine an- nouncod three days ago to friend Of his that he was going as delegate to Chicago whether he majority at the
 Alaska convention or not. it seemed 10
 me proper to take every precnution Co hold every primary under the atrict
 rules of tho call Issued.
 "As far aa the appointment on Judges lis concerned ] suggested about @ week ago four gentlemen, any one Of whom ought to be satisfactory to any ioir- minded Republican. J suggested Judge Gunnison. Judge Folsom. Alfred D. Malt
 by and John G. Held. but my sugses-
 tion did not meet with tho approval Of I those who claim to have control or the Wells proxy. So far. Mir. OConnor has | not named the judges. but inasmuch aa I no step has been taken to give notice Co I the public as Co lhe place of holding the ] primary. lt wns thought fair Co announce :. llt as early as possible, and as soon as
 quarters were secured for that purp9nc ! the announcement was made. lt anybody 1 Interested In the Wells proxy has any
 suggestion Co make as to who should act
 as Judges. his wish will undoubtedly DC
 c ,mrI d with u ef names feas' tniy
 iii- men.
 I New as to the si ir't Of fairness co m-
 ed by tho ,triui e. J want Co call Jnur I Iatt.atlon to a few lectures of the ap- I po-lo ment of dclcgates. fetrhikan. a ! cit, oi ciosc 70 5000 people, was slvc , i siN dcl.gatcs ChiehsroN Alins was iivcn
 four delegatcs.-just as many as was giv- T en to Trcadweli. They did not allow the T people either at Hadlcy at Sul1er. or l at Craig to express their wish in one ] form or another. and no delegates were I allowed to these prosperous communities I Nor was Juneau allowed to work out her
 own salvation by electing her own dele ] gates. Thane and Perseverance were
 thrown into the same precinct with Jul neau. This has never occurred before. These two camps Al"ala utlft HaN NANiA j own precinct at elections. There was no I moro legitimate reason for putting rhane and Perseverance in with Juneau than
 there would be to put Douglas and
 Treadwen into the Juneau precinct
 'Inasmuch os the machine saw ht to make one precinct out Of Juneau. Thane and Perseverance. there should be only one voting place. and that should be at
 Juneau But the machine concluded scv-
 eral days ago to establish separate sta-
 tlons for voting at Thnne and Perse-
 verance and it is suspected that this
 was done for the reason that if the peo-
 pie of Perseverance and Thane came to
 Juneau to vote. they would be at liber-
 ty to exercise their own discretion as to
 who Co vote for.
 'In view of the evident purpose of the
 machine Go rob the public of Juneau of
 their right Co elect their own delegates
 untrammeled by outside interference. it is in the interest of fair politics to re-
 move tho voters as far as possible from
 the omlnous threat of tho bis stick"