The Nome nugget., 1903-04-04
A PECKSNIFF IN POLITICS.

"Nome has been cursed with faction which has hereto fore domnaed our public affairs These self-arrogated they have shared the gains of prostuon they have pro tected thieves percentage of oo and now they de- lending the taking of human e committed solely for the purpose of quelching an expose of their own dis honorable
 gang and the gangs interests they have invariably mis- represented the people. It is high time for the people together and elect councmen who not bound to the ring and who will not deal in ring methods Men who will subserve the best interests of the communitya whole; who will be honest to themselves honest to the people and true to their oath of ofce."
 The above excerpts taken from the Gold Digger of March 31 remarkable only for the colossal gall which inspired them. There is old but honored saying to the effect that tits foul bird that drties its nest," but that is ust what Stevens, accidental member of the Nome City council for two terms, has attempted to do, The paragraphs quoted the merest rodomontadc, intended only to show the trans cendent "virues," God the mark of this fellow Stevens who lost to all of decency if he ever had any, gratutously insults and libels his fellow members of two city councils He says that Nome - has been cursed with 'action that has dominated city affairs and these self-arrogated leaders have plunged the city deeply in debt" Not Stevens mark you, but the "other fellows" Good MT. Stevens never would do such thing And yet we challenge Mir. Stevens to show wherein he not consenting party to every act that has "plunged the city into
 
 himself i? He has in hundred ways proved his incompetency. his untitncss for office o any kind And vet like potroon, because he has the columns of newspaper 10 use as shield to save himself he charges his colleagues with extravagance with lootins with aiding and abetting crime, with misrepresenting the people, with malfeasance and misfeasance and various other crimes. Among the who have composed the two city councils of Nome such well-known as Mayor Valentine, for mer Mayor Gese, sam Archer, w. B. Goodrich, w. H. McPhee, Capt. Geiger, J. B. Harris, (Sevens bosom frend) William Tierney, Charles E. Hoxsie and others well known; yet these men and men like these charged by this utterly irresponsible man with having protected thieves percentage of loot, with "sharing the gains of prostitution" and defending the taking of human fe.' The charges monstrous that they would lead one to believe that they are the imaginngs of diseased mind. Has any dared to charge that Mayor Vaen- tine exMayor Cese or any of the gentlemen named have shared in the gains of prostitution ?' That they proteced thieves percentage of loot defended the taking of human life ?" Shame, say! The pity is that there is no adequate re- dress for such vile islanders upon reputable citizens With a man like this fellow Stevens there is no such word as responsibility" The character reputa- ton of is safe in the hands of such creature he having to hatful of type, little printers ink and a quire or two of paper. Such is fungus growth on the body polite.
 There is limit that even the slanderer and the blacknlailer reach There is also limit to hu- man endurance. Such man, in tho opinion of THE NUGGEr is totally unfit to represent the people of Nome in the city council; he is demagogue we have shown above; he is irresponsible; he has slan dered honest men, his colleagues in the city counc he ia nah of he first vate fhera loot, he charges, it may be taken for granted that he got his share; if thieves protected it is safe assume that he "stood in;" if there sharing of