The Cordova daily times., 1919-08-29
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1919
THE DIET OF CAESAR

The Anchorage Times is "all het up" over the outcome of recent activ- ities of the marshals office in that town, which apparently resulted in trial by jury in the commissioners court of some unnamed prominent citizen of the railroad town for some unnamed offense, the said trial evi- dently resulting in a disagreement by the jury.
 In a somewhat curious writeup which commences with the mis- quotation, Upon what meat does this our Caesar eat that he should grow so fat?" and concludes in a flow of elOQuenCe, the administration of justice as eXemplifed in this particu- lar instance is excoriated and ridi- 1 culed The article constitutes a rid | de which perhaps only the residents i of that city can solve. But it is clear that the actions of the marshal the | commissioner and the jury were most unsatisfactory to the Anchorage l Times. In the editorial columns of the newspaper is found the following paragraph, however, which gives a slight clue to the riddle, and suggests | that the toes of somebody closely 1 connected with the newspaper may have been stepped upon:
 The question which is bother ing the people of Anchorage to- day, particularly those who fre- quent the cigar stores and in-
 dulge in an occasional game of solo for cigars, is whether by so doing they are laying themselves liable to arrest and prosecution for gambling" The rather sensational article, in part follows: "The 'mightier than thou policy so closely associated with the federal ad- ministration and subsidiary offices has at last awakened Anchorage from it's lethargy and caused the tax payers to wonder with the Romans, Upon what meat does this our Caesar eat that he should grow so fat?
 Anchorage is not at all satisfied with the verdict rendered by the un- representative jury that heard the puerile case in which the House of Clean Sports fought the combined federal feeders Tuesday afternoon in the United States commissioners court. By the people of Anchorage it is intended to imply the large ma jOrity of business men, the men who pay the taxes, the men who construct and the men whose unselfish efforts and public-spiritedness has made An chorage pOssible: Not the hirelings, nor yet the feeders from the rapidly Vanishing Democratic trOugh-nOt these, but men of real affairs and commercial importance and broad minds whose policy is constructive, and who desire to live and let live. They are satisfied.
 Perhaps in livelier times this case, which is the common topic of con- versatiOn today. would not have caused more than passing interest and would have gone down in local history simply as another case of either overzealousness or the at- tempt of a public official venting personal animosity through the power vested in him by the @reat Dem j. cratic party which found it's in- ception in that preamble which says by and for the people,
 "The aftermath of this case is in- teresting and the cause of more than ordinary comment. The jury was personally selected with one Anchor age business man represented. Per- haps to the four men who stood fast for acquittal Anchorage owes it's existence today, or at least the pre- rogative to transact business. The defendant pays more taxes in An chorage than the combined jury; more than the combined federal of