The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-22
OUR CARTOON.

OUR CARTOON.
 This morning we portray the yer satllity of our worthy competitor, the News Miner, and attempt to show it's method of getting the money in d picture way With apologies to MT. Bray, author ot Col Heeza Liar
 4 glance at the cartoon shows the playthines that paper has had II has championed the cause of the c. O. P, has fought the battles of Delegate Wickersham for the past year or two, is now carrying ou an educational campaign for the l.Guor dealers on tae Outside all for the. good of the cause and the money ii could get and now. acco dung 10 latest reports. it has the local Democratic party eating out of it's hand
 It appears from all Information tl4dl Gall pf SdtHtItt that Ju9i Dt- fore the campaign two years ago certain members of the Democratic party in order to secure the sup port of the Times offered hat paper. aside from the sum of 500 cash, pleaSn that it would get the federal patronage eman2ting  from the courthouse, which was the cause of The Citizen clubbing that paper the kept lady"
 About the first of the present month there was a deal on the tapls whereby the paper would change event that the change was made the lady would forsake the Demo cratic ranks 10 become the mouth piece of the Republican party. This information threw a scare into the courthouse bunch, in one way. and in another t relieved them consiG- erably, for they were between the devil and the deep blue sea as lust how 10 close the mouth of the News Miner
 When the report of the change m ownership of the kept lady came to their ears they fairly bum ed the path leading to the News Miner office, there to make a deal with the editor of changeable fa.th who is guiding the destnies of that illegitmacy, and there made :heir terms whereby the patronage of une federal building would be 'rans- ferred, and :o seal the bargain the notice for application for patent Serial No. 04o6, Survey No. 354, was ordered printed in that paper In the meantime it looks a good deal like the contemplated change in ownership of the kept lady" ill not take place; at any rate it is up in the air for some reason Lest known to the parties interested but even at that it gave the polite ans the out they were looking for, and now the best either can get out of the federal business is a division of the spoils.
 The New Miner was the l,rst paper in the city to discover that ring existed and was being worEed for the individual advancement and benefit of the members of the lpg. It was the editor of that paper who made the assertion that tEe outfit was more crooked than the notorious Si Reed gang. without the ability to carry out their work It was the editor of the New s-Miner that made very unkind remarks about Marshal Erwin after he had instituted his is the editor Cf the News Miner that is always really to give some other paper advice on how to go after the --
 Talk about biting the hand that feeds it. If there ever was help ing hand extended to the News Miner or tie other twenty-seven publications for which it's editor has been responsible, it is a Safe prediction that ninety-nine ou' of every hundred came out of the enter prise with more experience than oaFh. and it is safe to say that the Demo cratic party will get no more than | they pay for in this latest deal