Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-03
Fort Dodge Temporarily Re-
strained From Patronizing
the Fort Dodge Chronicle
EDITOR SAYS IT'S sP'rEwoRk
The Chronicles Proprietor, Mayor Dun
combe, Points Out That if He Is
Barred, Weekly Paper Should Be
Also, as Its Editor and Principal
Stakeholder Is Councilman.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to meS-RepuDlCan.
Fort Dodge, June 3.-Thru his attor-
neys, DR.. j. W. Kline councilman from
the Fourth ward. filed a suit Tuesday
noon against the city of Fort Dodge
and its officials. to restrain them from
the office of the Fort Dodge Chronicle,
or from patroniZing that office In the
future A temporary injunction was
granted by Judge Lee, and the case
will be heard at the coming term Of
court.
The councilman from the Fourth
ward is alleged to be notoriety seek
er. and recently when appointed to mn
out an uneXpired term on the city
council proceeded to take the bull by
the horns for the purpose OF reVolu-
tioniZing the government of the city.
His efforts proved of little avail, and
after he had met with flat failure
in his efforts to revise the water ordi-
nances of the city, he resigned as
chairman of that committee, and thru
Willy the other members of the body.
The gauntlet was Immediately taken
up by Mayor Duncombe, who is also
the editor and proprietor of the Chron-
icle, with the result the medical man
was made the laughing stock of the
city. The injunction suit was the Sc
quel Mayor Duncomhe was nominated
as candidate for mayor In peoples
caucus, and was elected by the larg-
est vote ever given to any man in the
city, but before he accepted the NOM
ination he consulted one of the best
legal firms in the city regarding what
difference it might make with the bus
mess of his office in the way of print
ing for the city, both of the daily pa
pers of the city being considered the
official papers. and each being given a
share of the city printing. He was In
formed it could make no difference, in
that there was but three papers in the
city, two dailies and one weekly, and
II he were to be barred, the weelll''
must also be, in that the editor and
principal stakeholder in the same was
member of the city council.
Speaking of the injunction suit last
evening" Mayor Duncombe said: Il con-
slider the action Of Dr. Kline as a
piece of malicious spitework, in that
no action has been brought against the
Post as we'll as the Chronicle. The
most childish act l ever saw on the
part of man of mature years was
that of DR.. Kline when he resigned
as chairman of the water committee
of the city council, because he could
not secure the passage of a new water
ordinance, a measure which would In
no way change the rates now in vogue
in the city, and actuated merely by a
desire to have it said he had revised
the water rates of the city. That he
is not consistent in holding that no
printing shall be done by a city Off
Ger. is shown when no action is
brought against the Post, Of which
Councilman Cook is the editor and
withstanding the doctor is member
of the city council, he offered to coll
lect the water rents of the city for a
certain annual salary, merely because
he had desire to relieve a young
man from work at the city hall. He is
inconsistent, and shows it in a hum
dred ways"
During the recent newspaper squab-
BILE, members of the council advanced
the idea that as Councilman Kline had
been appointed to office by the other
members of that body, he held his
office only during their pleasure, and
it NAV be this matter will be tested
before some good attorney and an