The Cordova Daily Times
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CORDi>\ A, ALASKA. FRIDAY, A 1*1 ML 2, 1 !)!■')
CITY CLERK WELL QUALIFIED TO
SPEAK ON INCOMPETENCY OF THE RING
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EINU an active member and worker in the “ inner circles”
of the Citizen’s party, and knowing the met boils adopted
by its members on the present city council and their abso
lute unlitness to hold this oltice, City Clerk Flynn lias taken the
public into his confidence and in an article written by him, for
the Alaska Times, he points out wherein Messrs. Hoyle, Good
all and Currier opposed an important measure for the protec
tion of property against lire, in order to “get even” with some
body. In other words they were willing to sacrifice the inter
ests of the people to punish those who held a contrary view to
these misguided officials. Mr. Flynn also deals in other mat
ters that are pertient in this campaign, and that his version of
these men may be made clear we will republish excerpts from
his article.
At a meeting of the council there was a heated discussion
over the removal of part of the fire apparatus to the fire hall on
Front street. Clerk Flynn furnished the Times with an ex
tended account of tin- proceedings. Here is what he wrote
about the action of the majority members:
Councilman Goodall arose at once in great wrath
and strenously objected to spending part of the city
funds for such a purpose. The great civic economist
who has so faithfully served the city-sinee April last
at ten dollare per day whenever there was an oppor
tunity to force his services on the city—in a lengthy
argument attempted to point out that the nceesity
for a fire hall and chemical on First Avenue existed
only in the minds of a few people. *
Mayor Boyle, the boy orator, then took a hand
in the debate. After clearing his throat and assum
ing proper attitude for person holding this important
position, lie proceeded to administer what would have
been a crushing blow to what might be termed the
opposition members of tin- council. He pointed out
that efforts were continually being made to disregard
the authority and ignore the importance of the mayor
of the town; that some heads of departments listened
to persons outside of the “Ring” and failed to com
ply with specific instructions given out by the Hon
orable Mayor and Boss Goodall. That such things
must cease or other heads besides that of the former
•chief of police would fall. He wound up his brilliant
and elightened argument with a general denunciation
with the council to avoid spending the city funds for
what he deemed an unnecessary purpose. The only
thing he omitted to state was that while his common
sense and property interest would naturally urge him
to support the other business men of First Avneue in
demanding all possible fire protection, his personal
feelings towards certains citizens who favored such
protection, and the influence exerted over him bv tin*
big boss compelled him to make a spectacle of him
self before the other members of the council.
It is to be regretted that men who are elected
to the council will so far forget their obligations to
community, and allow their personal feelings to in
fluence their acts to such an extent as to make them
worse than useless for the-purpose for which they
were elected.
The council has spent a large amount of the city
fund's for public improvements during the past sum
mer, some of the work was probably necessary, and
a great deal of it was not. The building of the First
Street bulkhead, while an improvement to the street,
could have very well have been disposed with until
the town was in a more flourishing condition finan
cially, especially when it was necessary to pay a mem
ber of the council $10 per day to superintend the
work and another man $7.50 per day to boss the job.
The opening of B avenue was of course necessary
to some of the members in order to curry out a politi
cal promise made previous to flu* election when cer
tain support was desired.
The same men who urged and voted for the
spending of several thousand dollars of city funds
during the summer, whether for public or personal
benefit, have the temerity when the expenditure of
a few dollars for the most important thing to any
town, fire protection, is broached, to arise and preach
economy.
That four members of the council '(meaning
Counci I men Slater, E. J. Davis, Hazelet and T. J.
Davis, who voted in favor of fitting up the First
Avenue fire hall) placed the good of the town before
their personal feelings and' petty differences, is a good
sign that the interests of the community is safeguard
ed from fhe attempts of a boy with a bad attack of
swelled head, and a would-be politican who imagines
that he has been selected as dictator for this particu
lar section of the territory.
_ T.he Public will probably have to listen to the
t vaporing* of this pair for a few more months. Let
us hope it will bear the burden patiently.
. ,lh^,C°1rd^Va VoInnteor Fin‘ Department last night r
elected Clark Byers as the chief and thus ended a bitter fight
that engendered of considerable feeling among some of the fire
boys. Now that the matter has been disposed of' for another
year it is hoped that every member of the department will de
X°fr!8 towards maintaining the highest efficiency in
that branch of the municipality.
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BALTIMORE SUN STRONG ADVOCATE
OF AN “EVEN BREAK” FOR ALASKA
From the Baltimore Sun.
WK are inclined to think that the poem of Pat O’Cotter
on Alaska, republished in yesterday’s Sun from the
New York World, will help our young sister of the
frozen North ns much as any plea which has recently been made
for her. There is a rough Kipplingesque swing in the lines
and it manly sentiment in the words that attract attention and
make us sit up and take notice. Alaska and adjacent regions,
since the gold excitement subsided, have had little everyday in
terest for us. We have grown slightly excited occasionally
with regard t<i political and public issues connected with it,
but most of us have given very little thought to its needs, its
development, or to the question of how far the average man
up there is getting a square deal. We have taken it for grant
ed that he was getting on all right, or if we had a vague notion
that he was not, we have wondered why he was such a fool as
to stay there. At intervals church workers and church mis
sionaries have described the hard'conditions of life in that ter
ritory, but there has bet n no general realization of the fact that
there are many grievances of which Alaska can justly complain.
After we read the poem of the Alaska Kippling we begin
to feel that something should be done. We have been treat
ing our little sister much worse than nature treats her. Na
ture [»ut her out in the cold, but we have been keeping her there
in the matter of legislation and protection. We have been
colder to her even than the ice and snow, which occasionally
relax their grip. It appears that we have been meaner to her
than if she had been an orphan whose support was a hardship,
anti for whom we were under no moral obligation to provide.
The 0’(.’otter poem wakes us up to a sense of shame and delin
quency. It ought to he recited in the next Congress and print
'd in the Congressional Record. It puts the case much more
effectively than the average speech and appeals more strongly
to national justice and obligation. \\ bile we have been sepnd
ing millions on our adopted and dusky child, the Philippines,
we have left our youthful white relative, Alaska, to suffer for
the most ordinary conveniences and to be exploited at every
body s pleasure, it seems. It is time to stop this sort of tiling
and give her an “even break.” If Alaska is “with Uncle
bun in spite of his neglect and unkiudness,” Unde Sam should
'how that he is with her and should hasten to make amends
for liis indifference.
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1 lie .Juneau Socialists liave placed a full councilmanic tic
' t in the field, Mrs. Lena Lewis, who lias mail 1 several visits
111 ( ordova, being one ol the aspirants for niiinieip.il honors.
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Sails from giatMa SaHs from Cordova—
March 24.NORTHWESTERN.March 31
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Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Expto*
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