The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-30
RUSTGARD WIRE
 ABOUT MEETING
 NOT BORNE OUT

NOI BORNE OUT JUNEAU EMPIRE. OF JAN. 9TH . CONTAINS ACCOUNT OF REPUB-
 LICAN CLUB MEETING WHICH ' JOHN RUSTGARD SAYS WAS
 NOT MENTIONED
 On January Sth there appeared in The Citizen a special despatch from its Juneau correspondent relating to a dissension in the ranks of the Ju- neau republican club caused by a coup put over by WiCkersham and anti-Heckman forces by which con- trol of the Juneau organization was seized by the combination. day or SO later, telegram received by the local republican club over the signature of John Rustgard of Jul neau, was published in a local paper in which it was denied that such a disturbance had taken place and the statement made that no mention had been made in the Juneau press of any meeting of the republican club at that place, or words to that effect.
 At that time it was not considered worth while to dispute MT. Rustgard's assertion especially as there was no way to prove which was correct, he or The Citizens cores spondent. How ever, on the last mail copies of the Juneau Empire of January 8th were received containing a full account of the meeting in question The follow ing is the article as it appeared in the Juneau paper and of which MT. Rustgard seems to have been in ig- nOranCe.
 Anti-Heckman republicans. with whom co-operated former Mayor Elm ] cry Valentine John Rustgard and other Wickershamitcs who believed i that bad politics was indulged in at the previous meeting of the Juneau | Republican Club when Territorial Senator J R Hcckman was endorsed for national committeeman finding themselves in the majority at Tues 1 day nights meeting of the club, turn ed the tables by declaring all the offices vacant, and electing complete set of officers. The motion which was adopted providing for the new cleo ton declared the new officers perma- nent and elected for one year
 The follo~ing were elected
 Earl l.. Hunter President; Dr. l.. . P. Dawes. Vice-President; James E. BaIragar, Secretary and John Reck, l Treasurer.
 A motion prevailed to lay on the table the constitution and bylaws reported by a committee consisting of H. T Tripp, C. D. Garfield, John Rustgard l.. L. Harding and H. B. Le Feyre.
 A new committee on constitution and bylaws, consisting of John Rust gard, Ray Stevens and l.. l., Hard ing was appponted and directed to report at meeting to be held next Tuesday night.
 J. White, E. p. Kendall and Sidney D. Charles were appointed as a com mittee to arrange for meeting place
 There were s present and voting at the meeting The vote by which the old officers places were declared vacant and the new officers were elected was 34 to 21 The vote on the presidency was, Hunter 34, Me Bride 21
 There were less than half the number of members present last night that were present at the pre- vious meeting when Senator Heck man was endorsed for national com mitteeman. At that time there were about 12O present, and 67 voted for the endorsement of MT. Heckman
 H. L. Faulkner, who managed the bpllItNl lOl lIlt' tIliOl StIltul OI StU- atOr Heckman, made a statement be fore the meeting adjourned in which he charged that the plan to remove the old officers and elect new ones was carefully planned and the pro gram worked out without knowledge of the friends of the old officers of the club. MT. Faulkner declares that if it had been known even only q few hours before the meeting what was planned the old officers would have been sustained by substantial majority. He says the acton last night was not representative of rc- publican sentiment
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