The Cordova Daily Times
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niHDilVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1!>ir>.
The best interests of the city will be served by electing
the entire Peoples’ ticket. Vote it straight.
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BY VOTING A PEOPLES’ TICKET STRAIGHT
YOU WILL ELECT A GOOD CITY COUNCIL
CORDOVA is on the eve of its annual municipal (‘lection,
and the fight waged by the element now in control has
been a long and bitter one. In order to bolster up a lost
cause much personal and unwarranted abuse has been in
dulged in against some of the oldest and most reputable of our
citizens. Villification and mis-statements were the principal
weapon used and with recklessness that has thoroughly dis
gusted a great many of our people. Many trumped-up
charges were advanced as arguments why such men as Geo. C.
Hazelet, William L. Smith, Edgar J. Davis, Thomas C. Price,
Hartley Howard, V. A. Schmitz and Henry A. Slater, candi
dates for councilmen on the Peoples’ ticket, should not be
elected.
Of course there is not a resident of the community who
does not know that all of these men have been shamefully
maligned and without justification.They are our neighbors and
friends, whose integrity or honesty of purpose cannot be ques
tion. Yet to read the attacks made upon them a stranger
would be given a contrary opinion, and thus would a great in
justice be done these men and the community in which they
live.
"That Messrs. Hazelet, Smith, Davis, Price, Howard,
Schmitz and Slater would make ideal councilmen there is no
doubt and the best repudiation of tin* despicable campaign
methods adopted by the enemf* would be to vote flu* Peoples’
ticket straight tomorrow. By so doing the affairs of the city
will be placed in safe and competent hands and this continual
petty bickering and strife eliminated from the community.
It’s up to you, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, and that your verdict at
the polls will be in favor of a cleaner and better administra
tion goes without saying, as every indication points to an over
whelming victory for the People and' the candidates on their
ticket.
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The polls open at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning and close
at 7 o’clock in the evening. When you go into the booth place
an X opposite the Peoples’ ticket.
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COUNCILMEN’S TREACHERY IN LIGHT
FRANCHISE LAID BARE IN AN AFFADAVIT
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THE article in Saturday’s Times, making an expose of
• the direct personal and financial interest Councilmen
Goodall and Currier have in the Knox franchise,
created quite a sensation among the voters of Cordova. It
will be remembered that these officials, together with Council
men Boyle and T. ,1. Davis made a desperate effort to give an
alleged new light company a blanket franchise, without in
any way safeguarding the interests of the city. They were
thawarted, however, through the fight made by Councilmen
Slater, Hazelet and E. J. Davis, who insisted that the same re
strictions be placed in the ordinance that were exacted from
the old company. Public sentiment was so strongly against
the move of the majority members that they were finally forced
to embody the recommendations of the minority members in
the tianchise before it was finally passed. When this was
done there was not a dissenting vote against the Knox fran
chise. In tact all of the members voted for it.
At the time the ordinance was before the council for con
sideration it was openly charged that Goodall and Currier
were either directly or indirectly interested in the franchise.
This, ot course, they denied, although considerable doubt al
many ways existed in the minds of many people as to the ac
curacy of their statement. Evidently believing in that old
axiom that the public like to be fooled these officials have had
the effrontery to attempt to make political capital, in this
campaign, out of the fact that the present council granted' a
new light franchise. But “there’s many a slip twixt cup ami
lip,” and it remained for one of their own men to give the rea
son for the unusual interest Councilmen Goodall and Currier
took in trying to have tin* council pass an ordinance which
gave away everything and received nothing in return.
Albert ()hman, whom Knox has left in charge of the water
I’ight, is authority for the statement that the onlv interest
Goodall and Currier had in the franchise was that they were
to build the plant, in case T\nox could raise the mony to go
ahead with the improvement. Oilman went further and re
lated the conditions upon which the work was to be performed1.
Their pay is to be half in cash and half in stock. This con
versation was had with Thos. C. Price, and as the charge
against these officials is of such a nature that it should dis
qualify them from even again holding their present municipal
positions, the Times has taken the precaution to have its
story verified and today prints an affidavit by Mr. Price in
which he declares under oath that the statements made by
this paper were correct, and substantially the same as those
made to him by Mr. Oilman.
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Vote the Peoples’ ticket and vote it straight and elect
Geo. C. Hazelet, Wm. L. Smith, Edgar J. Davis, Thomas C.
Price, Bartley Howard, V. A. Schmitz and Henry A. Slater as
councilmen.
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A straight Peoples’ ticket means a repudidation of the
abuse heaped upon friends and neighbors.
DESPERATE EFFORTS OF THE GANG
TO WIN ELECTION BY HOOK OR CROOK
MPCII speculation has been going on around town becnuse ,
of the large number that have registered for the com
ing election. It is of common knowledge that men
have been registered that are entitled to vote, and' tin- public
should know that others have been refused registration even
though they were entitled to vote. The registrar is C. I*.
Mickelson, who presided at the caucus that nominated the
candidates on the Citizens’ Progressive Ticket and who is one
of the loyal supporters of the Goddall-Boyle element in city
politics.
The charge of unfairness against the registrar has been
made frequently and the facts bear out the truth that he has
allowed his political affiliations to influence his official acts.
It would seem that Mr. Mickelson has been so anxious to see
Messrs. Boyle, Goodall, et. al., elected', that he has attempted
to bring about that end by refusing t° register voters who were
favorable to the Peoples’ ticket and placing men on the list
who would vote with the Goodall element, even though they
were clearly not entitled to vote.
The whole town knows that Tom Wallace has never lived
in the city limits. Wallace, familiarly known as Whalebone,
has always lived in the old town until last Thursday when he
moved into one of the Dooley cabins. The next day he reg
istered. Does Mr. Mickelson believe that lie has lived six
months within the city limits, or was the fact that he intends
to vote for the Goodall-Boyle ticket sufficient to entitle him to
register? Certainly there is only one conclusion to arrive at
and that is that the registrar has used his office to help elect
the Citizens’ Progressive ticket. There are other names on
the list who are no more entitled to vote than Wallace, and any
ordinary questioning by the registrar would have brought out '
that fact, but their political affiliations were known, so they
nxriiitnrurl i
Now, on the other hand, there is the case of Oapt. Geo.
Scott, a supporter of the Peoples’ ticket. Was he allowed to
register? Oh no, an excuse was found against him although
there are other men who live on their boats who are registered
and will doubtless be allowed to vote. A man tried to register
Saturday, named Peterson, has lived for over a year in Cor
dova in a cabin behind the Copper River Lodging House. Mr.
Mickelson refused to register him because he said he did not
know him, and demanded that lie be indentified. Mr. Mickel
son clearly would not do as a registrar in a large city for he
would only register the people whom he knew. Now, the
registrar has the power to administer oaths, and it was his
duty if lie had any doubts about the man, to put him under
oath and ask him the necessary questions to find out if he was
a qualified voter. It he* had done that there would have been
no criticism of his acts, but lie refused to register the man
simply because he did not know him. There is no requirement
specified among the qualifications of a voter that demands that
the registrar know all the voters before registering them.
However, it is to lie presumed that this man was going to vote*
tin* Peoples’ ticket.
Another man who was refused registration made out an
affidavit and swore to all the requirements entitling him to
vote, but even after presenting said affidavit to the registrar
he was turned down. This man was a known supporter of the
Peoples’ ticsket.
Another case in point is that of the wife of Gus Lingquist,
1 amiliarh known as Gus V\ iison. Gus is a citizen and his win*
is a native women. 1 lie marriage of tiie native to the citizen
makes her a citizen, yet Registrar Mickelson refused to allow
her to register. Gus; is registered and his wife refused.
\\ hy 1 here can be only one reason. She must have been on
the wrong side of the political fence.
1 he public should consider these facts before casting their
ballots tomorrow and vote to rebuke such methods as set out
above. The majority element, have claimed great credit for
purifying the ballot in the passage of an Australian ballot
law, yet they and their appointees have it in their power to
prevent a fair election, and their acts, so far justify the suspi
cion that they are not so much in favor of the purity of the
ballot as they would have the public believe. Their refusal
to allow the Peoples’ party to have one of their number act
as clerk of the election board was the first indication that they
were going to win this election by hqok or by crook, and the
actions ol Registrar Mickelson show another view of their cam
paign tactics that savors largely of questionable methods That
the voters will endorse such tactics is not to be believed, and
tin* proper way to administer the deserved rebuke is by voting
a straight Peoples’ ticket tomorrow. Never before in the his
tory of the town has any political party ran an election with
such a high hand as the Boyle, Goodall, Currier coterie is run
ning this one, and it would be a disgrace to our principles of
American freedom and liberty if they should be allowed to get
away with it by electing a majority of their ticket. All fair
minded people must in conscience vote against them and so
put an enduring stamp of disapproval upon such methods.
The permanence of our institutions and our liberties demand
that the free expression of the public will by the voters be un
hampered, yet by refusing to register people opjKised' to them
politically tor that reason alone, the majority element in the
city council are endangering this free expression of public will.
Their opportunity to'do further mischief will cease after this
election.
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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
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Sours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
dentist
Office In Adams Building
E. P. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
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March 24.NORTHWESTERN.March 31
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