The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-09
BATTLE0PENS SREPUBLlC CONVENTION


 T was at this meeting last night, put in MT. Arnold again, and I did not understand that procedure was decided on. In fact, it seems to me nothing was done about it." At this point he challenged some of the actions of National Committee man E. A. Rasmuson.
 The latter gentleman was imme- iiately on his feet. MT. Arnold trying to make personal feud If this,' he declared.
 T demand something be done ibout my notion shouted MT Winn. Have I got voice in this convention, or haven't I?"
 "All those in favor of MT. Winn's notion to refer back vote aye, de- Jared MT White.
 .'There was chorus of ayes.
 He asked for the negative; anoth- r chorus, this time of nos
 "The nos have it." declared the chairman.
 Bedlam
 Shouts that shook the rafCers oi he lodge room resounded through he building as half a dozen were or heir feet challenging the decision
 What kind of a racket is this? How do you get that way? Hun! team roller stuff From severa- directions sallied the charges.
 q demand standing vote, houted some one:
 Again bedlam broke loose.
 Now who is going to decide on who can vote?' asked MT. Faulkner We are right back where we started from. There are people in this lall who are not delegates, in fact ome from the opposition party What is to keep them from voting?
 Don't Like It
 MT. Nerland was on his fleet, with I don't like this,' and again pro- esting against what he believed tc De denying all Divisions the right tc )e heard.
 If the chairman will declare a ive-minute recess I'll ask all the 'elegates to give me their names nd then we can vote by roll call, ffered MT. Foster. The smoke was .etting pretty thick in the hall by his time, and it was so decided.
 Reconvening, the battle broke ou' again, but the vote was finally talk ,n of just those present and showed T against referring the question pack and 19 for it. The die hae been cast. The White organization vas very definitely in charge of the convention, at any rate, for the time being.
 Secret Ballot
 Secret ballot was then taken, al- owing none of the proxies to vote and MT. Engstrom defeated MT. Ellis for temporary chairman by a vote of q to 16. Effort was made ,y MT. Winn, MT. Robertson and MT. Faulkner to be allowed to vote as they held proxies, but the action failed. They did. however, have heir protest officially recorded in he minutes and MT. Arnold was all owed to have spread on the minutes his statement that he carried II proxies from Nome and that Na- tional Committeeman E. A. Rasmu- ;on by voting against referring the procedure question to the Central committee had definitely denied the Second Division right to be heard as there was no representative in per- son. The National Committeeman explained that the reason he voted no was because he was on the cen- tral committee and did not want to decide such matter, rather feeling it was up to the convention. He declared the Second Division had no representative on the committee until he had appointed o. s. Weav- CT, who had no representative present.
 MT. Arnold countered that he car ried full authority from MT. Weav- CT to act for him.
 Further trouble threatened, but MT. Winn moved that committee of two be appointed to escort MT. to the roster Clyde Ellis, the other nominee, finally proved to be the committee of two and did the honors with proper gestures.
 Recess until l:30 was taken imme- diately afterward
 Afternoon Session
 While the battle continued this afternoon, the delegates finally got 3 credential committee appointed with J. Lindley Green of Anchorage as chairman and w. H. Caswell of L. w. Kilburn of Doug las, H. D. Stabler of Juneau and Ronald Lister of Juneau serving with him.
 A bitter verbal fight ensued before Temporary Chairman E. E. Eng strom named the committee, Terri torial Chairman White announcing that he was entering protests against the delegates from Nome, Petersburg and Salmon Creek. The Anti-white faction im- mediately countered and both Ar.