The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-04-10
HAzELET MAKES A TRIP SIZING
 UP POLITICS


 known influential AlasHanS in this section of Alaska, and personally known to hundreds of A!askans throughout the territory, a candidate for delegate to the Republican Ma tional convention, arrived on the Alas ka last night from his home at Cor dova and registered at the Hotel Ov- eyland Mir. Hazelet left on the Gate way City limited this morning for An chorage but will undoubtedly return here on Mondays train and go to Cordova on the Alameda.
 Mir. Hazelet was attacked the other day in d Wickelsham special dispatch from Washington The dispatch made many of the usual Wickersham mis- statements and the loyal Alaskan, read easily between the lines eSpec- ially when Wick said "HerrOn, Valen- tine and Reed" should he elected by the Republicans at the primaries on April 27th, to the positions they aspire. While WickcrSham is practlc- ally out ot Ai4s,;a politics, he Is con tinuing in his usual policy of disrupt- ing and attempting to set forth state ments, founded on mere presumption, without any iota of facts, and trying 70 behttle prominent AlaskanS, like he did Mir. Hazclet, Straining to boI- Ster up his crumbing Wickersham- Heron machine.
 To go back, Mr. Hazelet, who was recognized as perhaps the most fore most and influential Alaskan Repub- lican, was named recently on the com mittee to suggest blanks for the Re publican platform to be decided upon at the Republican National conven- ton. This was the first time a Repub- lican in Alaska had been so recogniz- ed and all Republicans are satisfied with the w.se selection of Mr, Haze let. AS such a committeeman, Mr. Hazelet wrote letters to all classes ot people. laborelS. merchants and other business men, asking for suggestions as to what Alaska really needed and these suggestions would be taken up with the remainder of the platform committee and Alaska would be re- cognized. As Mir. Wickersham had been for a number of years Delegate from Alaska, llr. Hazelet addressed letter to him asking him to make a ergrc.tion for all Alaska plank or blanks. Mir. WickeIsham replied, but rave out the letter to the press O. Alaska weeks before copy had been received by Mir. Hazelet. The suggeS- ton of Mir. WickerSham was along the usual manner of attack But Mir. Hazelet replied in full to the sugges- tions of Mir. Wickersham and incident ally asked the former delegate for certain information relative to certain parts of the suggestions. This letter must have reached Mir. Wickersham about last Wednesday and the "pa;d press dispatch" to Alaska newspapers was the result, a triade against Mir. Hazelet. by which all Republicans and Democrats, for that matter, can easily see through. Mir. Hazelet suave and astute business man and an Alaskan throughout, is paying little attention to the WickerSham epistle, and is now making little trip and personally acouainting the people of the real is- sues involved and his outspoken view point on Alaska matters in general. To the voters both men and women, anything that Mir. Wickersham can say against Mir. Hazelet, is taken with grain of salt and instead of poli- teal knock is rather boost.