The daily progressive-miner., 1916-06-07
HAZELET GIVES OUT SOME INSIDE WORKING MANY WILL WONDER WHETHER THE WRITER LEFT SOME
 THING UNSAID.

The doings at the recent Republi- can convention at Seward, was re ported, but in some unaccountable manner, after all the reports were read, they left the mind of most read CTS concluded, that Is to say, there was something that a layman could not fully understand This lack of clearness, however, is absent after
 one has read the following love? letter, taken from the Cordova Times of May G. The writer says
 Cordova, May 6, 1916. MT. Ed. c. Russell,
 Editor Juneau Dispatch,
 Juneau Alaska.
 My Dear Ed.-Since you took the opportunity at the late Love Feast held at the Hippodrome in your city, to tell the people of Juneau and the First division all the inside workings of the Republican convention at Sew ward on April 19, and just why it was Judge Wickersham was not nomi- mated; and as you have seen fit to connect my name with the fasco in such a way as to make 1t appear that the Copper river valley blocked the game and was responsible for Judge Wickersham not receiving the nomi- nation, 1 feel, in justice to the people of that valley, where Judge Wicker sham has many friends, l should ad- dress this open letter to you, giving the other side of the question.
 I am sorry that l could not have at tended the experience meeting at the Hippodrome, for you must have had a real nice time, judging from the loud and prolonged applause CD so frequently accorded, but 1 could not In fact, did not know it was coming off, so win have to content myself by congratulating you on the splendid success of the meeting and the clear and explicit explanation as to why Judge Wickersham did not receive the nomination, as recorded i'll the paper of which you are editor
 The paragraph which refers to the Copper river valley and myself, reads as follows:
 MT Russell said that when the delegates entered the Seward con vention practically all of the delegates were not in favor of Wickersham. The Nome, or Second division, delegation, was opposed to Wickersham. Thomas Lloyd, of Fairbanks, with forty-fve votes, was opposed to Wickersham and half of the delegation from the third division were opposed to him. But. in the interest of harmony all of these, save George Hazelet, of the Copper river valley, were willing to swing their votes to Wiekersham.'
 Now Ed, if that is true, why was he not nominated? The convention con sisted of 220 delegates. If 60 dele gates from the Second division, 45 from the Fourth, and 30 from the Third were all willing to nominate Wickersham in the interests of har- mony, to say nothing about 60 from the First, which, according to all re- ports sent out from Juneau, were elected with the express and only ob- ject to bring this about and make Mir Shackleford delegate to the nationaf convention, how, in heavens name was it that he did not receive the nomination? You give the Copper rvier valley and myself too much credit, my dear boy We had nothing whatever to say about it.
 I can tell you, however, in no un- certain language, why it was not done. It was not done because Judge Wick ersham would not stand to have his hands and feet tied and a gag put and the only reason, and you know it, and trying to shove the blame onto Hazelet and the Copper river valley will not do.
 Did you not walk the streets of Seward, with the Resurrection river winds blowing through your long locks, hour after hour, waiting to re- receive cables from Wickersham? Did you get them? No.
 Did you not come to me on Main street in front of the Overland hotel. about D. m., of the night of the con vention, during one of the many re- eesses taken for no other purpose than to hear from Wickersham, and ask me what the Third would do if you could rustic 70 votes for Wicker sham, and did 1 not say 1 could not answer for all of the Third division, but I believe we could throw enough votes to nominate him. provided you