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A WILY POLITICIAN TO GET HIS.
It will be gratifying to many Alaskans to know that United
States Senator Poindexter, who visited the territory a couple of
years ago in company with the erstwhile Gifford Pinchot, stands
no more show of regaining his seat at Washington on the Re
publican ticket than a blind toad has of escaping from an
empty cistern. Statesmen are not made of men of the calibre
of Poindexter, who attempted to meddle in Cordova’s federal
affairs because a local paper excoriated him and his methods
when he visited the Copper River section. His dire threats
of vengeance availed him naught, because half the time this
gymnastic bird’s head is where his tail ought to be, to use a
borrowed expression; upside down, wrong side to, jumping
about, he possesses apparently no appetite for anything ex
cept the bug beneath the bark, and it matters not to him how
he gets it; he dines with his head down, or on his beam ends.
Poindexter’s first election was an accident, and in such
eases lightning never strikes twice in the same place. He slid
into office as a Bull Mooser and then came to Alaska to assist,
as far as he knew how, in the bottling up process that has re
tarded the development of this northern empire. His bosom
friend and companion was dear old Giffy, formerly of the fores
try service, whose political death-knell was sounded in Penn
sylvania wdien he bumped against Senator Penrose. Since then
what little prestige he attained by maintaining a publicity
bureau at the government’s expense, has been on the wane,
until now he is almost a forgotten and withered rose. ,
Poindexter still has his hat in the ring, but as the writer
predicted w hen the Honorable Miles was in our mindst that his
tenure of office would cease at the expiration of his present
term. Of course this was impertinent on our part, because lie w as
Poindexter, but then there is some satisfaction in knowing that
our prophecy is likely to come true. But he is after the bug;
and after flitting about for some time and much examination of
the bark, has concluded again to be a Republican. He has with
held this determination, not by reason of any doubt as to his
ability to accept Republican principles over night, for long
practice has fitted him for changing his foothold as easy a?
a tinsmith sheds his jumpers; no, he desires merely to ascertain
where the bug is likely to come out.
Let it be said to the credit of the intelligence of the voters of
[Washington state that this wily politician will be thrown into
'discard, and Alaskans will then feel that they have a host ot
real friends on Puget Sound.
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Two bits a word makes talking over the government tele
phone line between Seward and Anchorage rather expensive,
and is crowding the rate, especially when it is taken into con
sideration that the line was built by thirty-five cents an hour
labor, and principally by “bohunks” at that. Consistency thou
art a jewel—but the flash is a “phony” one.
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THE JUDGE ON THE BENCH.
When a newspaper in a community like Fairbanks devotes
nearly two columns of its editorial space to an attempt to wield
a political whip over the shoulders of a judge of the United
States district court it proves that the sentiment of the people
it represents is vicious.
That is what the Alaska Citizen did. It complained
that Judge Charles E. Bunnel had appointed a Republican to
a United States eommissionership; that he had become “affili
ated” with United States Marshal Erwin (who is a Democrat):
that he had appointed as referee in the bank cases “ a good man
every way but a Republican,” etc. The Citizen says a political
ring exists in Fairbanks, and implies that Judge Bunnell be
longs to it; says the doings of the ring promise to disrupt
Democracy in the Territory, and adds: “One of the lament
able features of this contemptible betrayal of trust that Presi
dent Wilson has placed in these men by appointing them, is the
fact that it reacts in a harmful way against Mr. Wilson and
other party leaders who favored them.Figuratively it is a slap
in the face of .Mr. Wilson, who is known to be a man of high
ethical standards, and who would never tarnish his good name
and enviable reputation by becoming a party to machine poli
tics.” (By all the saints, that’s a fragrant bouquet!)
The Record-Citizen knows not overmuch of Judge Bunnell
as a man, and his career on the bench has been too short to dem
onstrate his character as a judge. We do know, however, that a
newspaper which attempts to demean a man in his position in
order to force him into the quarrels of petty politics commits
an offensive against the institutions of its country.
If Judge Bunnell owes political debts his assumption of a
moratorium is sound, and to that extent, at least, he is a good
and a wise judge. Ruby Citizen.
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It’s a race toward Turkey now. The allies will increase
the pressure on the Gallipoli peninsula in the hope of breaking
something before Germany and Austria are able to subdue
Serbia and open a way through the Balkans to relieve the
Turks. The next few weeks may be expected to develop ter
rific battling, bold strategy and daring diplomacy. The Teu
tonic allies already have won notable diplomatic victories in the
Balkans. Whether they can hold what they have procured
may be determined very shortly.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URGE0N
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
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Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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Also four groups of copper
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ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, September 5
ADMIRAL EVANS, September 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, YakutaL
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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Two trains every six days between Cordova and £
|| Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making £
£ connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving
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Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, £
% and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and
£ Cordova.
All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street :
£ Depot. ||
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be- £
tween Cordova and Chitina.
£ The above schedule subject to change without notice.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or up-town office, Alaska £
£ Steamship Company building £
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Superintendent Cordova Agent £
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