Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-05-12
THE CAPITAL A VOTER


il boy or girl - The reply.was :;
Guess 20 tits boy" saidIthe in
terrogator lyon are wrong" said
the father. "Well then fits girl, "
aud the happy father said BE hang
ed if you didn't guess.
This thought is suggested to-the edi-
tor by the fact that the Capital is to-
day twenty-one years of age. Five
years ago we were 'sweet sixteen"
and we thought we we're a girl, and
we bore our honors with all the mod
esty and naiyete of a blushing de-
butante. But in five years we have
changed our views and now that we
are twenty-one and women can't vote,
weFclaim TO be Of the male persuasion
with the right of franchise. and as
the municipal election is near at hand.
the Capital hereby announces itself as
candidate for Mayor. Indeed we have
been the Mayor for long time, al
though we have not had his emolu-
ments of Office nor cast his vote. but
we have helped mould public senti-
ment, which has dictated many OF
those votes.
The Capital has also been the sug-
gester of most of the material improve
ments in the city, among which may
be mentioned the Market House. Work
ingmen's Building and Loan Associa-
ton, the Emergency Hospital, the
Public School, the new Postoiiice and
all the improvements connected with
the Fire Department After the big
ssarket Space fire we started the sub
scription which resulted in the pres
ent new Fire Department. Indeed
there is not line of improvement and
progress in the town that we have not
advocated and hammered at in these
columns until the good work was ac-
complished.
Twenty.one years have we labored
as the friend of the town aud there
are monuments to our interchangeable
work. They are on every hand. In
deed what has been accomplished in
the past twenty one years for the city's
benefit owes its inception to the Cap
ital Can we vote We'll we just
guess we have a right to. and nobody
has a better right. and we don't have
20 be naturalized, either. How many
votes do we control Well, modesty
forbids us to say. Besides large
family of sons aud grandsons. we con-
troll many hundreds of male votes, for
our subscribers are largely influenced
by what the Capital has to say of the
men who are to be voted for.
Speaking of ourselves we were about
20 say "That twenty-one years ago
we launched our barque ON the
troubled sea of journalism. but that
expression is hackneyed, and the Cap
ital is nothing If not original, so we
just say lin the spring of 1884. when
the grass was springing mp the flowers
in bloom and the trees in leaf, we
sprouted-sprouted like an acorn. and
we have typified the thought that
large oaks from little acorns grow"
and for a small city, in view of all the
difficulties to establish and maintain
a Ndaily paper. we think we are
risht smart" oak. =
We've had pull. but we have pull
ed through and are now on the high
grounds of success. We shake our
own hands in congratulation. Yes
we have had a pull. We have adver
tised for all kinds and conditions of
people and we have taken all kinds of
commodities and articles in pay for
ads. and subscription. For instance.
when we advertised for dentist. he
would pull our teeth; n lawyer would
pull our leg" and sometimes when
we gave some free advertising by tell
ing the truth on some of our fellow
citizens, they have come in and want
ed to pull our nose. ears or hair. but
our trusty old boss pistol was always
on our desk and when they saw that
they said neigh" Cabbages, turnips.
chickens. bacon, etc. have
paid for ads. and subscriptions and we
feel happy in theNfact that our next
Sundays dinner is provided for as one
of our subscribers promises 20 bring us
a side of country bacon and basket OF
cabbage sprouts, another has brought
us some cornmeal, so if any of the
brethren of the clothsshould drop in on
us about dinner timJ. he shall have a
ration of "bacon aud green's" and corn
dumplings, and who wants anything
better than that. The smoke comes
out of tile chimney as a country sub
Acriber has Just left us q load of wood.
We have had 20 struggle. but we are
We have tried to do our
best. Wherever we could do q good
turn we have done it. II we have
offended, il has been mistake of the
head. not of the heart. We have such
a Christmas Feeling in our heart that
we forgive evely body and ask for
giveness for ourtoffences. The Capt.
tai is more prosperous today than il
ever was, and it intends to keep in the
band wagon and keep mp with Il Q
procession. Before the next birthday
"a shall be in our own new home and
sntlook is very encouraging for