The Cordova daily times., 1915-04-03

NHOA WhJeT anu ilBHl iTduCntSe lOl what it might profit them in dollars and cents. Didn't Will Steel go tC Seattle and even to San Francisco 1T an endeavor to float a company tC put through this light and power deal Isn't it intimated that that was tn, business that took Ed Currier to Sc attle for three months during the past year? Does anyone believe but that these men expect to reap a financial reward if successful?
 As a matter of fact isn't it well known that Will Steel is the req Boss" of the present majority mem bers of the council? That he is the power behind the throne7 That these men, Boyle. Goodall and Cur rier are his mere pawns, pulling his chestnuts from the fire? Could we have any plainer evidence of this than on the occasion of the trial of Commissioner Adams, arrested at the instance of Steel because he had ad. ministered a deserved chastisement Tn that case the municipal judge and the municipal attorney used every endeavor in their power to instruct jury to convict Adams. a proceed ing absolutely contrary to law, and one never heard Of in a misdemeanor case and were only prevented from doing so by the defendants attorney urg ing so strong an objection, and show ing so clearly the "frame-up" that the magistrate reluctantly desisted Many disinterested people who wit messed that trial were heard to re mark that it was a disgrace to the community that Steel should be able to control the municipal officers, anC that with such conditions existing fl the community no citizen could fee safe from persecution
 This man Steel Is now engaged, tc to hear him tell it, in a great "tlghr for the people" He is using his ut most endeavor, by cunningly wordet articles, to create a class sentiment to give the impression that the High brows," as he terms them. are on ont side of an issue, and the common peo pie on the other. This Is nothine more than political buncombe calcu lated to catch votes, and has long since ceased to fool the people. Pub fishing articles alleging that the par ty known as the Peoples party" are calling their opponents "Roughnecks' Is probably calculated by Steel to ere ate and foster prejudice, but every one knows that these statements are absolutely false, and the creature oi his own vivid imagination.
 Now let us turn to George c. Haze let. What right has he to be re turned to the council, and by the way Mir. Hazelet was nominate, during his absence in Washington, D. C., and has not returned, so that he, himself has not sought this nomination, but at a party meeting of sixty-two of Cordova's citizens he was unanimously chosen as a candidate of the Peoples party.
 MT Hazelet has resided in Cordova since its birth, He represented the Townsite Company, and it was under his supervision that the town of Cor dova was hewn from the hillside oi Orca bay.
 Almost one hundred thousand dol lars was expended In laying out the town, all under the direction of MT Hazelet, and to the satisfaction oi the Townsite Company. All of Mir Hazelet's interests are in Cordova his home, his property, his business Cordovas success spells success foI him. He has been loyal to the towr in every way that man can prove his loyalty.
 It is not our intention here to re flute the charges that Steel has brought