The Nome nugget., 1903-03-28
SSqns of Awakening
 Interest 
AND PLENTY OF LIES
A.,SAaIl C0terie Busy Distribut. ing the Political
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There is as yet little stir noticeable in municipal politics, though evidences are not wantingDf awakened interest. Nonew candidates have been announced for either council or school board, there being 12 of the former and five for the latter position.
 Up to the present it seems to have been free for all race, though now come rumors of combinations" of many kinds. It will soon be in order for tickets to appear with the names of the ',.winners'' arranged under some dis tinctive heading.
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 The usual number of campaign lies srU being started, and they will prob ably multiply as the days go by. An irresponsible local contemporary yes terday devoted 8 page to campaign slush, of which may plainly be de- nominated lies, though perhaps it is scarcely worth while to dignify such tommy-rot with name of any kind.
 The people of Point Belmont as will benoticed in another column have en- dorsed five candidates, and they also will make the request or demand for free bridge, !, The people of the sand spit hevee endorsed John Rustgard while those of the east end are backing JsL. Pidgeon, both of whom it seems sobe conceded have excellent chances ofbeing elected. The candidacy of c. E. Hoxsie and pr. Ed. Hill the last council candidates to enter the race, seems to have disarranged somewhat the plans of a little coterie of pOli- tiuiaus and their whipper-in, and ex- pressions of confidence in their linen" Rre not nearly as vibrant as few days ego. This clique is said to have al- ready promised the offices and are get ting things named up to suit them aelves 9ensrally and particularly. /3sel E. Warren is to be chief of police soft k alleged, and Dave King, "polit- ical editor of the News'' is to be city ,clerx. King wanted to be appointed W. s. commissioner and recorder for Kou.arok precinct, but the claims of young Lars Gun1erson were stronger than those of King and Gunderson was sppointed. King formerly worked for the Gold Digger. and it is said he has reason to be. under deep and lasting ob- likation to "Editor" Stevens, who paid hfn aprincely salary when King blew tn from the Kougarok more than year ago. Steel, titular "editor" of the News, it is said, will be appointed as- Pessor and poll tax collector, provided the slate goes through. Steel was for A~few months clerk of the district court, having succeeded in busting the present incumbent after much plotting, only in turn to be himself thrown out. He has not as yet recovered from the duN sjckening thud; he tasted real gov srnment pap for once in his life, and in his life, and the remembrance of it haunts him still. Heis also embittered against any and all officials, because, iersooth, they hold their jobs. The now office, when it is secured, will not bring the perquisites of the old, but it will be an office, such as some ''soles" hunger after.
 The News through it's political ed isbr" says that MT. Stevens is rat pmoller. It is quite probable that he is. The aforesaid p. e. worked for Mir. Ssevsns not 50 long ago; the p. e. is also seers ot . printer, and long-tailed rats sre sometimes found in printing offices, among the underpaid employees. There fore 1t may be that the News has made sAA mistake of telling the truth for 0nee. Mir. Stevens may not only be rat-smeller but an authority on rodents Aad their habits as we'll.
 
 Ihe present school board, Dr. Call,