The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-03
TOMoRROW'S ELECTION

Four years ago a council was elect ed through the efforts of Dodge and associates, with the aid of the Times, which plunged the city into debt from which it has not yet recovered The heavy taxation of the pay of the debts left behind by that DodSe-Times ticket. For those ex- penditures, made illegally. that council vas severely criticised by the grand jury. It was the only coun- cil Fairbanks ever had which has brought forth such criticism.
 Today Dodge and the Times, and many of the same old elements, are combining to elect a majority of the council which will take up the reins of office a week from tomor row They care not whether they can elect a full ticket so long as they can land a sold four" There their part to get council before this because the city was plunged into debt and the job of councilman under such circumstances is. at best. thankless one But the city today is in splendid financial circumstances There is only an indebtedness of between 5000 and s6,0O0 and there is nearly s3O,OOO owing to the city in delinquent taxes to pay this with
 The Dodge-Times ticket names only five candidates. Afraid to put their popularity to too great test by naming complete ticket they have picked just five to stand or fall by. If only one is defeated they will still have the solid four" and can control the council in every thing
 This ticket of five is headed by Dan Callahan. As Southworth, an other of the candidates, said on Sat urday, Me and Heacock are on Callahan's ticket, we understand each other" Dan was a member of the DodgeTimes council of four years ago and was defeated when he stood for reelection. This was at a time when the transactions of that body were fresh in the public mind. He broke into the council again to fill a vacancy when he had practically no opposition. About the only ex- travagant outlay of the present city council was incurred by him when a small army of men was employed on the streets to do practically use less work at cost of nearly $900. At the next meeting of the council this matter was taken up and to head off any such further expendi- lures 1t was necessary to rule that there was no moro work of any kind 10 be done on the streets.
 Henry Rappolt has been on the council for the past term. As he remarked last Friday night, at the council meeting, he has been chair man of the finance committee for ffty-one weeks and he does not yet know what his duties in that ca pacity are He has consistently vot- ed the same as Callahan, except on those occasions when his named was called first and he had not re- ceived the office" from Dan.
 Southworth is the "editor" of the Times. For the past week he has been endeavoring to the best of his ability to destroy the credit of the camp by his useless and misdirect- ed agitation; and his veracity, as will be seen from another editorial on this page, can be relied on to about the same extent as that of Ananias.
 Messrs. Moody and Heacock are untried in the administration of civic affairs. The fact that they are on this ticket, however, sub- jects them to the inference that they use mighty poor judgment in select ing their company.
 Apart from these i've men there are seven other candidates, and the Citizen takes pleasure in champion ing the cause of each and all of them. Three of them are members of the present council and have earn ed the thanks of the whole commun. ity for the manner in which they have pulled the city out from un- der its burden of debt
 Dan Driscoll has served on the last two councils, and there has been no harder worker ever called on to look after the city's interests Levelheaded, with a practical busi- ness mind, Dan has many times proved himself the sheet anchor of the council, and no man who has business interests here can afford