Baltimore Evening Sun (13 March 1912): 6.

From the estimable Evening Sunpaper of yesterday:

The city water will soon be as bad as during the famine last summer. It * * * will have the same old odor.

Thus the fates once more favor the Orioles and the pennant of the Typhoid League again flutters Balimore-ward.

Go ahead and elect who you please, but I bet you a good cigar Harry goes to work and nominates himself.

Less than three weeks more of Sunday clothes and celluloid collars at Annapolis! Then the simpler, suaver garb of the Maryland muszhik and the old, old war upon hog cholera and pip!

Unburied cadavers in the dissecting room of boomery:

The Star-Spangled Banner Exposition. The See America First Convention. The massmeeting of booming school children. The Quarles-Dickey charter. The ambushing of the super-Mahon. The bridge across the Chesapeake. The Factory Site Commission.

The boomers may be down and out, but it seems like them Johns Hopkins professors is more down and outer still.

From the estimable Sunday Star, of Washington, D. C.:

The men most mentioned for the Vice-Presideney are: Democrats Isaac R. Sherwood, of Ohio. James A. O’Gorman, of New York. Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts. Oscar Underwood, of Alabama.

Another proof of that satanic newspaper conspiracy, of that gehennic, hobgobblian plot to keep a Great Man from his just dues!

Open letter to the Hon. William A. Larkins, Superintendent of Street Cleaning:

Dear Chief–Or course, I know that the residents of other alleys are howling, too. But let ’em howl! Clean Booth street and I’ll give you two cigars. Do you doubt me? I hope not--after all these years! Beside, Dan Loden is my bondsman. Ask him. H. L. M.

Somebody ought to put up that Corrupt Practices law in a bottle of alcohol and give it to Murray for a souvenir.

At 12 o’clock meridian today the vote for a rhetorician to place the Hon. the super-Mahon in nomination on the floor of the Democratic National Convention (disregarding all candidates receiving fewer than 50 votes) stood as follows:

The Hon. James McC. Trippe....................................499
The Hon. Harry S. Cummings....................................497
The Hon. Jacobus Hook.............................................494
The Hon. Bob Lee......................................................481
The Hon. Aristides Sophocles Goldsborough............407
The Hon. Francis K. Carey.........................................263
The Hon. Stovey Brown.............................................194
The Hon. Bob Carr.....................................................192
The Hon. McCay McCoy...........................................150
The Hon. Trauty Trautfelter.......................................141
The Hon. William H. Anderson.................................135
The Hon. Edward Rossmann..................................... 135
The Hon. J. M. T. Finney, M. D. ...............................146
The Hon. Isidor Rayner..............................................107
The Hon. Frank A. Furst............................................. 90
The Hon. George Lewis.............................................. 64
The Hon. Bill Garland................................................ 54

The votes for the Hon. Mr. Trippe came from Annapolis this morning in a package marked “500,” but a count showed that there was one missing.

Regarding the eligibility of the Hon. Mr. Cummings, which carpers have questioned, I have received the following advice from my solicitors:

The Hon. Mr. Cummings, we are informed, is an Old-Fashioned Republican, just as the Hon. Mahoni Amicus is an Old-Fashioned Democrat. Thus a point of contact at once appears, and there should be no difficulty whatever about converting it, by astute dialectic process, into a point of coalescence. The essential thing about an old-Fashioned Republican is not his republicanism but his old-fashionableness. And so with an Old-Fashioned Democrat. The same theory of government--the theory, to wit, that the one aim of civilized government is to provide honors and emoluments for politicians--animates both of them. They are at one in their abhorrence of the Merit System and of all other such hellish devices for depriving the victor of his spoils. The differences between them, if any such exist at all, are purely theoretical and gaseous. Besides, the question of the Hon. Mr. Cummings’ orthodoxy is one which the Hon. Mr. Amicus, as titular and actual head of the Old-Fashioned Democratic party in Baltimore, may settle by simple fiat. If he issues a rescript declaring the Hon. Mr. Cummings an Old-Fashioned Democrat, then the Hon. Mr. Cummings will be an Old-Fashioned Democrat in fact (Jones vs. Sweeney, 64 Md., 92). He need consult no one. His own unsupported ukase is all that jurisprudence demands (Meyer vs. Meyer, 79 Wis., 76, 82).

No such ukase, of course, has yet been published by the Hon. Mr. Amicus, but his well-known admiration for the Hon. Mr. Cummings is sufficient, I believe, to set up the probability of its existence in petto, and so I feel free to record the votes cast for the Hon. Mr. Cummings by his friends of the Druid Hill Avenue Preston Club.

Of the Hon. Mr. Cummings’ fitness for the post I can myself bear testimony. I heard him second the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt at the Chicago convention in 1904 and have ever since held him in high regard as a homilete. He did holler, on that day, to himself and to his race, for he made a brief and sensible speech--in a dignified and impressive manner.

Meanwhile, here is the voting coupon, which is to be sent in, when filled out and signed, to the Judges of Election, in care of The Evening Sun.

For the distinguished honor of placing the Hon. Mahoni Amicus in nomination as Democratic candidate for Vice-President of the United States, I vote for
The Hon. ...................................
(Signed).........................

This coupon will be printed again on Saturday, when the progress of the vote will be reported. The poll will close on April 1, promptly at the stroke of noon.