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CUKPUVA, ALASKA, fl IH'KSPAY, APRIL 1, 1915.
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DECEPTION OF AN ARTFUL DODGER
NOT FOOLING THE PEOPLE OF CORDOVA
IF TRICKERY, deceit and cajolery could win elections, the
Daily Alaskan would land the entire Citizens’ ticket in the
winning column, hands down. Fortunately, however, such
is not the case, and the cheap demagoguery practised' by that
paper is making votes for the Peoples’ ticket with every publi
cation of its blackmailing editions.
In a desperate attempt to stem the certain tide of an over
whelming defeat, Tuesday’s Alaskan devotes over one-half of
its paper to what it considers the Political Issues of this Cam
paign.
Directing its entire fight against George C. Hazelet, it seems
to forget that there are six other candidates upon the Peoples’
ticket, all of whom are well qualified to administer safely and
properly to the affairs of the municipality.
The Editor of the Daily Alaskan wants an answer to some
of his queries:
“Did not the last Council cut the tax rate in half!”
By this, we presume, he means that last year’s taxation amount
ed in actual dollars and cents to about half of the
previous year’s. But does he tell you that the preceding year’s
tax levy was the FIRST IN THREE YEARS? Consequently
the tax levy by his “Progressives,” was OVER ONE-THIRD
MORE than the preceding years, for, if the preceding year’s tax
was divided into three, which would be the proper way to figure
for one year, it would only equal TWO THIRDS of the tax
levied by the Bolye, Goodall and Currier administration. Ae
evidence u£ tlrfs statement we submit the following:
Tax fbj- 1913, the only tax levied in three years $11,063.99
f One-third of which would equal one year’s tax or 3,687.99
Tax for 10f< under the “Majority Members”
administration . 5,506.00
In addition to the above monies the “Majority Members”
Council came into office with a balance of, THREE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY DOLLARS, left by its pre
decessors, as follows:
Cash on hand.$1,941.63
Due from the Cordova Power Co. .. 1,000.00
Due from Delinquent Taxes . 948.60
Total --- - $3,890.23
All of which was paid into the “Majority Members” Coun
cil. Does he tell you these things? Oh, No. He does not ex
plain; he seeks to mislead.
Referring to the installation of the street lamp posts, etc.,
does he tell you that Mr. Hazelet was opposed to this installa
tion, and spoke against it as a too extravagant measure, when
it was first proposed? No, certainly lie does not. And then
does he tell you that when this order was made, Mr. Haze
let was away in the Sushanna? Certainly he does not. Does
he go on truthfully, and tell you that Mayor Boyle, the Alas
kan’s protege, was urgently and insistently in favor of these
self same street lamps, and that he insisted upon one being
placed in front of his place of business. Certainly he does not.
If he told you these FACTS, it would rob him ot one of his aigu
ments as to why Hazelet should be “licked, and Boyle elected.
These are the ways of an artful dodger and wily demagogue.
A great hue and cry is raised by tin* Alaskan about the
cheaper lights and the cheaper water that the people of Cor
dova are going to have when he, and his and Currier s and
Goodall’s Company shall give it to them. Did we say Currier’s
and Goodall’s, excuse us, just a slip, we were only thinking oi
the time when Currier and Goodall were once before given a
franchise for light and power, etc, by a previous council, and
that they at that time were interested in this same power plant.
Of course, they are not now.
■Well to go back, when are we going to have that cheaper
light and power—when are we going to have that $60,000.00 or
$70,000.00 spent here? We all would like to know. Will it be]
just as soon as that 150,000 shares of stock at $1.00 per share is
unloaded on an suspecting public in the “States?” or will we
have to wait until Cordova grows some, and probably make it
necessary for the Town Council to grant three or four more six
months-at-a-time extensions, Bali! This water and light
“Stuff” of yours, doesn’t taste right, and you can’t cram that
kind of rot dfiwn the voter’s throats. Most Alaskans come from
Missouri. Most of us would wlecome cheaper lights and power,
but we don’t want the town deprived of an opportunity of get
ting it from some LEGITIMATE source by granting a “peren
nial” franchise which, like the babbling brook, “runs on for
ever.''
And then, the voters would like to have the Alaskan ex
plain these planks in the platform of the Citizens’ ticket:
Tell just howYOUR council proposes to reduce the price
of coal?
Tell just howYOUR Council proposes to lower the price of
building lots.
It is not enough to “favor” these things, tell us how are
they are going to do it.
No, Daily Alaskan, the voters of Cordova feel that they
can safely leave the town’s affairs to be handled by Ed. Davis,
Henry Slater, Tom Price, Geo. C. Hazelet, Bill Smith Bartley
Howard and Doc Schmitz, men whose hearts and hands are
ever ready to do for the right.
They do not feel that they can trust your statements. They
have proved too often false. They are going to the polls on
April sixth to forever eliminate the evil power and baleful
influence that you have exerted on municipal affairs during
the year past.
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The convincing argument contained in the truthful state
incuts about the Planking of Front street lias proven a boom
erang to the capital the Citizens’ party had hoped to make out
of this public improvenment, through its misrepresentations.
But the voters can no longer be fooled by the campaign of abuse
and distortion of facts, as conducted by the Ahukan.
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“No strings tied to Boyle, Currier and Goodall,’’ declares
the “official organ.” It is to laugh, when everybody knows
that these councilmen are the pawns of Judge Frazier, Jack
O’Brien and the editor of the'Alaskan. But in a very short
time they will be relegated to private life and municipal affairs
will again be conducted in a business like manner by seven com
petent men.
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One by one the many flimsy charges preferred against re
putable Cordova citizens and concerns, by the organ of Boss
oodall, are being answered in the most effective way—by a plain
statement of absolute facts, which cannot be refuted. A distor
tion of the truth is the desperate method being adopted by the
Citizens’ ticket, in tin' hope of fooling a few voters. The public,
however, is wise to this gang and on Tuesday next will show its
disapproval of their methods by casting a ballot for the straight
Peoples’ ticket.
Boyle, Currier and Goodall true to the people who elected
them sounds amusing. Their records in council do not bear
out the above assertion of the Daily Alaskan. When candi
dates a year ago they pledged themselves as being opposed to
members of th etown council being interested directly or indi
rectly, as agent or otherwise, in any'contract with the city or
in the performance of any public work or improvement, as
being against public policy. Thirty days after the election
these same men repudiated the platform they ran on and’stul
tified themselves by voting to pay Goodall $10 per day to over
see some work, which service had heretofore been done without
pay by every chairman of the street committee since the in
corporation of the town.
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Although a private citizen, who has been absent from Cor
dova during most of the present campaign, Capt. A. E. Dath
rop has been subjected to much criticism and abuse by the
paid hirelings of tIk* Citizens’ party. They attempt to justify
this contemptible action on the ground that as manager of the
Alaska Transfer Company the city paid him $778.(?.'l, for ser
vices rendered during a three year period, with his teams and
men, and state that under Boss Goodall’s regime of one year the
Transfer Company’s bills were cut to $308..'17 which is in reality
$48.8.') per year more than was paid the company during the
period complained of. Another evidence of juggling with fig
ures which refuse to lie, even to suit the purposes of as des
perate.and unscrupulous a crowd of politicians as ever infested
a small community.
DR. W H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
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Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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Fait and commodious steamer, sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, 8kagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PAS8AQE.
Sails frcm iMttli Saits from Cordova—
March 24.NORTHWESTERN ..March 31
March 30.MARIPOSA . April 6
Regular freight eervTce ror Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. 8. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC 8. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, March 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, March 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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;; Chitina for Kennecott— 11
;; Tuesdays and Fridays 11
;; Kennecott for Chitina— 11
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