Baltimore Evening Sun (17 October 1911): 6.

Only 1,312 days more! And perhaps, after all, the experience won’t do us no harm.

Recruiting for the Citizens’ Relief Committee is still going on. A tedious, baffling business!

From a letter to The Sun April 20, 1911, signed Francis K. Carey:

I am perfectly willing to say that it is my belief that his [the super-Mahon’s] term of office will not record any backward step, and that there is much reason for believing that he will use his great influence with the people who voted for him to bring them to the support of still greater advances in good government.

Notice the date of this letter. Nearly a month before the gentleman under discussion had solemnly promised that, if he were elected Mayor, he would promptly bounce all men of the John Finney type, and had openly and proudly admitted that he was on terms of intimacy with Mahon and Padgett!

From a letter to The Evening Sun March 20, 1911, bearing the sign manual of the Hon. Eugene O’Dunne:

Why is Preston to be considered unfit for Mayor? Thousands like myself are asking the question and receive no answer.

Delayed in transmission—but no doubt the honorable gentleman and his thousands have got their answer now.

Another extract from that remarkable epistle:

All over the city today you can find people otherwise indifferent to politics and without much choice for Mayor who are turning to Preston because there is born in the blood of American manhood a love for fair play and they instinctively resent unfair tactics, arguments and cartoons.

Virtuous words—but just what tactics were unfair? What arguments? What cartoons? The independent newspapers argued that the nomination of the super-Mahon would be a victory for the worst sort of reaction, that he was a professional politician of an extremely dangerous sort, that his friends and confidants were avowed foes of good government. Were these charges unfair, untrue? Has the event justified them or refuted them?

The latest betting odds in the downtown kaifs:

Four to one that Preston will serve out his term.
Two to one that Carr will be elected.
Six to one that the first batch of judges and clerks tried for stuffing the ballot boxes will be acquitted.
Five to one that O’Dunne, if nominated, will not poll 10,000 votes.
Six to one that the Democratic organization will carry the city in the next primary.
One to three that Hughes will be elected.

As the Bible would have to be edited if it were printed as a serial in The Sun:

For a fire is kindled to mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest h–l.—Deuteronomy, xxxii, 22.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that belteveth not shall be d——d.–Mark, xvi, 16.
Which devour widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater d—nation.–Luke, xx, 47.
How is the faithful city become an inmate of a disorderly house.—Isaiah, i, 21.
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the internal organs of h——l cried I, and thou heardest my voice.—Jonah, ii, 2.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the d——nation of h——l?—Matthew, xxiii, 33.
And there was a certain disciple at D—ascus.—Acts, ix, 10.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul, but the abdomen of the wicked shall want.—Proverbs, xiii, 25.
My vermiform appendix, my vermiform appendix! I am pained at my very heart!–Jeremiah, iv, 19.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, I suffer from a slight internal complaint.—Lamentations, ii, 11.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and h——l delivered up the dead which were in them.–Revelation, xx, 13.

As the classics emerge from the hot bichloride of virtuous journalism:

Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell,
In hope to merit heaven by making earth a h——l.
—Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

D——n with faint praise,
Assent with civil leer. –Alexander Pope.

The deep d——nation of his taking-off.–Macbeth, I, 7.

All h——l shall stir for this.–King Henry V, V, i.

To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite,
Who never mentions h——l to ears polite.
–Pope’s Moral Essays, iv, 149-50.

I myself am heaven and h——l.–The Rubaiyat.

From the virtue which passeth all understanding—kind fates, deliver us!

The standing of the clubs in the National Typhoid League for the week ended September 23:

Cleveland.................... 982 New York.................... 323
Baltimore.................... 949 Chicago........................ 280
St Louis....................... 364 Philadelphia................. 264
Boston......................... 328 Pittsburgh..................... 225

O, lamentable! Baltimore, for the first time in years, has lost first place! But halt! These averages are calculated upon a basis of cases reported. Let us now examine the deaths reported. At once Baltimore goes back to first place! Thus:

Baltimore.................... 143 Philadalphia................... 032
Cleveland.................... 071 St. Louis......................... 029
Boston......................... 059 Pittsburgh....................... 019
New York.................... 047 Chicago.......................... 014

From the report of the McNamara trial at Los Angeles:

The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association * * * was brought into the situation today.

Can it be that the funerals of the dynamite victims are yet to take place?

Meanwhile, the anti-vivisectionists continue amassing their proofs that the Pasteur vaccine will not “cure” hydrophobia. Courage, dear hearts!

From the report of the Knights of Columbus banquet:

Mr. Robert E. Lee, the Mayor’s secretary, delivered a short address in which he said the city of Baltimore was second to none in civic virtue.

Well, just imagine what would have happened to him if he had not said it!