The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
_ _ C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915. .
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DAILY ALASKAN’S ABUSE AND EVASION
IS NOT DECEIVING VOTERS OF CORDOVA
IN a two column article the Daily Alaskan, in last night's
paper, makes a sorry ami futile attempt to answer an edi
torial that appeared in this paper on Thursday evening.
Not a single point is successfully refuted, not a question prop
erly answered. By evasion, ridicule ami abuse this w ily dodger
attempts to cloud and obscure the issues, hut they fool no one
hut themselves with this childish twaddle.
We showed' clearly, and gave the figures, that the total
tax levied in three years by the three previous councils which
the Daily Alaskan designates as “the gang” amounted to
$11,063.99; that tlifey ran for two years without any tax what
ever, whereas the “Majority Members” council in their first
year taxed the citizens $5,505. If, God save the mark, they
were to be empowered for three years, on this basis, their tax
would be $16,515.00 for that period. And yet the Daily Alaskan
waves aside this mathematical conclusion with the remark,
“Isn’t that about as foolish a statement as was ever inflicted
upon a reading public,” and let’s it go at that.
Then they say in answer to our next, assertion, that the
“Majority Members” council inherited' $3,890.23 from the re
tiring Council, that we told an absolute falsehood. We give
again the figures proving this, and the records will so verify.
Cash on hand.$1,941.63
Due from the Cordova Power Co. .. 1,000.00
* Due from Delinquent Taxes . 948.60
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Total .... $3,890.23
All of these monies were paid to the present council, and
consequently must be figured as a part of the year’s receipts.
In answer to the statement that Mr. Hazelet was away in
the Shushanna wfien the order was made authorizing the street
lights, they want to know “why Hazelet didn’t stop them.”
Does the editor really mean this? Does he need some one to
tell him why a man cannot be absent and present at one and
the same time? They say that Mayor Bolye denies that he
was urgently and insistently for the installation of tlies lights.
Well, the record bears out our statement that he was, for it
shows that all mmbers of the council who were present voted
aye.
They pass over our comments on the proposed Light &
Power Company with the remark that they are unworthy of
attention. Well, they may be from their standpoint, but we
really think they meant to say, “the less said the better.”
And they aren’t going to give away the secret of how their
Council is going to give cheaper coal and cheaper building lots.
If they did, “the gang might block them.” Two of the planks
in the platform of the Citizens’ ticket that they have made the
most to-do about, and yet they are afraid to talk about them.
But what can be expected of a paper that is conducting a
campaign of mistatement and deceit, but that when driven
into a comer, when confronted with the proofs, it should break
torth on a tirade of ridicule and abuse calculated to deceive and
mystify.
h ortunately the voters have been educated to the motives
behind the vicious attacks of the Alaskan and can be counted
on Tuesday to repudiate in no uncertain manner the attempted
domination of our municipal affairs by an unprincipalled' organ.
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Nobody is safe from the vituperation of our competitor.
That paper having attacked most of the male residents of the
community, the fair sex are now not even exempt.
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. A statement of the receipts and disbursements of a mu
nicipality always proves interesting, as figures do not lie when
properly given. But some men do, and it is always well to
look out for the “joker.”
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When the mis-statements of the official organ are refuted
its batteries of abuse are turned on all who hold a contrary
view, but the waging of this kind of a campaign has won neither
friends or votes for the Citizens’ party.
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Workingmen, don’t again be fooled by promises of jobs
from “Boss” Goodall, as his tenure of office is short. When
he was in a position to give you employment were you ever on
the city roll? Old-timers were not given the preference.
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If the majority members of the town council have appoint
ed the entire election board they have not made the fact known
to the public. George Dooley and C. M. Frazier have been
verbally agreed upon as judges, but who the third one is to be
still remains a secret.
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The Alaskan’s editorial space last night was “too valu
able” to comment on the communication which occupied most
of the front page. It appears that tlibre are some things that
even that paper hasn’t the effrontery to publicly endorse, and
one of them is the doubler-crosser.
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Beware of the last day campaign canards. The gang
now in control of the city, for the benefit they get out of it,
see defeat staring them in the face and are desperate. They
would resort to almost any means to win, but as their doom is
sealed nothing can save them from political oblivion.
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Yes, there’s a reason for this hullahaoo about the light
franchise, on the part of Councilmen Goodall and Currier.
One is a contractor and the other an electrician, and if Knox
can “raise the wind” they are to be rewarded for ser
vices rendered and—but you better read the full storv in our
ipcal columns.
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According to the Daily Alaskan Counoilmen Hazelet, Sla
ter, and' Davis, as well as Thomas Price, V. A. Schmitz, Bart
ley Howard and William Smith, candidates on the Peoples’
ticket, should he defeated in order that the affairs of the city
can he run by one Ooodall, Boyle, O’Brien, Frazier and the
purity editor. But the voters, fortunately, will decide this
little municipal controversy and vindicate the citizens who
have been villified as well as the good name of the town by
electing the peoples’ ticket straight.
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Imagine what wheat might do in price were the Mexican
successful in their attempt to prevent shipments of sisal. Si
sal is a product of the American Aloe and gets its name from
Sisal, a town it) Yucatan from which it is shipped. It is neces
sary iti the manufacture of binder twine. A scarcity of binder
twine might compel a partial reorganization of harvest meth
ods at great expense; a serious shortage would leave great
quantities of wheat unharvested. The Progresso affair, there
fore, is of great importance to the United States.
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The editor of the Seattle Argus, who wrote the following
editorial paragraphs prior to the recent election in that city,
hit the nail squarely on the head so far as political conditions in
Cordova are concmed:
“ Whenever a man cannot make a living outside of politics,
the people can better afford to pension him handsomely for life
rather than to give* him office.
“ Whenever a man puts in his time talking about the wrongs
of the poor, downtrodden workingman, make up your mind' that
he is trying to work the workingman, and he is complaining be
cause others work.
“And whenever you find professional politicians throwing
stones at a candidate, without filyig a bill of particulars, it if
a safe bet that they are doing so because they cannot use him.”
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In their desperation to seize upon any measure to gain votes
for the Citizens’ Ticket and' to deprive the Peoples’ Ticket,
the Registrar, whose expressed preference is for the Citizens’
ticket straight, is reported to he permitting illegal registration
of voters whose sympathies are known to be with the Citizens’
ticket, and is refusing to register those whose inclinations are
for the Peoples’ ticket, wherever the slightest pretext can be
found. As instance of these unfair methods, we cite his re
fusal to register (}(*orge K. Scott, the well known boatman, who
has always voted in Cordova, and who had’ expressed himself
as favoring the Peoples’ ticket. The reason given for not al
lowing him to register was that he lived on his boat, whereas
Frank Cftle, whose residence is also on his boat, but whom they
count for the Citizens’ ticket is ^permitted to register. And
there are many similar instances' Yet this is a specimen of
,rl he Justice to All” policy that the Citizens’ ticket advocates
so strongly.
DR. W. H. CHASE
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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Rainier-Grand Hotel
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Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. H/LE
dentist
Office In Adams Building
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