Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-28

two years and seemed anxious to get
more.
Just before his term ended" sail
Mr.. Ballinger, dwelling on his first
born among law cases, "he wrote me,
asking if | thought it would be safe
for him to come out"
Mayor BaIlinger Closes Tho Town.
The rolling stone tendencies of the
tribe began to assert themselves and
Mr.. Ballinger departed southwark in
to the far country of Alabama. There
he had forensic differences with a
gentleman of the bar. named Jones.
The chivalric Mr.. Jones reached fo'
a pistol but Mr.. Ballinger beat him
to it, After the vulgar Mariner Of his
own native CLINE he swung On Mr..
Jones upon a principle carried -
perfection by the celebrated Mr.
Fitzsimmons. and Knocked him out.
Alabama didn't offer all that The
Ballinger heart could wish for and
next we hear of our hero IN the far
northwest. He hal acquired a tast1
OF office-holding long before in Kan
sas, where he performed briefly and
In lowly capacity in The Office Of 'he
county clerk and treasurer. His duty
had been to pay the bounty OF five
tNIitS pu JdthldDplt SKINS anu S'Wo
the pelts. The office smelled like a
tannery, but Mr.. Ballinger liked it,
dotted upon it as if it had been the
odOrs of Araby the blest, and the lust
for office which he then and there
contracted began now in the Tar
northwest to walk the floor.
Mr.. Ballinger became a United
States commissioners at Port Town
send on Puget Sound. Then he was
elected judge. Next ne went 10
Seattle and became mayor.
Seattle was wide open" Mr.. Bal
linger named a gentleman with an
Irish name chief of police and went
at the saloon-keepers, gamblers dive
owners and hurdy-gurdy folk.
1t took a hard fight which lastei
six months. In the finish Mayor Bai.,
linger was victorious and CLOSED
the town.
Nota bene-when a town is wide
open what vicious ones who Wouid
drink rum, gamble or do worse go N
through the front door. When tht
is closed" they go in through
the back door. The actual ditfefen,s
between closed and wide open Is
than the uniformed and innocenl
fancy. Thus was Seattle
closed" Thus are all closed places
closed. It's all right. IL SUM"
moralists who, upon an argument o.
is not seen isn't known, dom
mind vice in the back alley, so thai u
Is kept off the street. Where was II
once read something anent "hIueu
sepulchers?
Mr.. Roosevelt was in the NhHr
House. Junior Jimmy Garfield SAT !"
he Cabinet. Mr.. Roosevelt went io"a
ng about for a superintendent OF ~
office. Mr.. Garfield said, u"
Mr.. Garfield had met Mr.. Ballnse'
It Williams about the time Mr Noos
Telt Harvard VAS meeting MI II"
hot.
What's his politics." asked MI
Roosevelt.
He hates thieves was the reply.
Then MIR. Garfield told Mr.. koos
'elt an engaging tale of how MI "a.
niger had once killed three raltn
with his quirt during those -
N cowboy days. This TRAGEDY W."
lace appropriately on the banks
tattlesnake Creek ,s
There are rattlesnakes in the In
ffice," observed Mr.. Roosevelt 70 -"
sallinger. having speciousiy fol
he latter into the White House ca"
retense OF lunch. i've pitched upon"
TO kin them"
Mr.. Baliinger bleated a pI..r
hen he took the place. Hay.
oticed how none Of these gent