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The pitiful drivel with which the obi
Gus Otis chap undertook, in last Fridays s
Times, to exploit the spelling habits of
NJ p. Snyder is graphic illustration of
the senility of the Otis scribbler and the
collusive asininity of the other addle-
pated chump in the odious office who al
lowed the raucous rot to run after it was
written.
There are many good and sufficient
reasons why even those skilled in Eng
lish orthography might make occasional
mistakes in hastily written notes, mo-
tions and reports. The sensible portion
of the world knows it's liability to err in
such a fashion; and it goes on writing,
as if there were nobody to howl when
ever an "i'' is knocked out or TX" add
ed for good measure.
If the Otis chap will cast his learned
eye--Squeers fashion-over the editor
ial page of the very sheet in which he
attacked Mr.. Snyder's orthography in
hastily written motions made in the city
council, he will discover that even the
punk-headed Otis has, in two separate
and distinct places, written Congress
District where other and equally good
people would have written Congress
ional District" The grammatical Otis
critic also speaks of Council records" :"
and 1.-The imports of live beef
Were it not for the patient and poorly
paid efforts of the typesetter and proof
reader we might have score of murder
Gus and unorthographical attacks in
every column of the Otis drivel. AS it
Is, the readers of the Times are forced
TO endure occasional spasms because of
the villainous rhetoric of that alleged
journal.
Just now the people of this overtaxed
city are not adding their brains over
any idiotic search for a professional
speller, or rhetorician, or past master in
the art of bombast and platitudinous
drivel.
Neither do they consider that it is vi
tally necessary for this city to possess or
be possessed by a mayor whose chief
qualifications are the ability to spell
correctly, or to keep an amanuensis who
can spell correctly to represent" this
royal city by going on frequent, ex-
tended and stomach h-distending tours
with the representatives of corpulent
corporations.
This city wants a mayor who is an
honest man; who never made "entan-
Cling alliances" with any 'grasping cor
poration," or with any individual thief,
who is deeply interested in the welfare
of the city, as well as himself; who will
aid the council in disbursing the $1,400,-
900 that we annually collect in taxes
from the citizens of this city, in such a
manner that the city in general will get
some benefit for bearing such an oner-
GUS burden; who will help to regulate
matters so that a ward like the Eighth
ward, which pays nearly one-third of
the city's revenues. shall get more than
it's present pitiful three per cent of the
general expenditure of said revenues:
and who will be at all times and under
all circumstances the honest agent of
decent city.
The people of this city are we'll ac-
quainted with the record of Mr.. Snyder.
He has done we'll under trying circum-
stances. The disgraceful methods pur-
sued by his enemies will only serve to
increase his majority. He will do we'll
for the entire city in the trying period
that is about to open for the angelic
burgh."
My former remarks concerning the To-
cal need of political kindergarten
would bear repetition, and this would
be a suitable time for the opening of
such q school.
There have been SO many jobs to attend
to In various quarters that the real busi-