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A SYNOPSIS OF
DR.. E..S. RILEY'S BOOK
Baltimore City-The Political Kaiser
WelheIm. Of MARYLAND

The following is a synopsis of DR.
Elihu S. Riley's latest book, many
copies of which should be in the
| hands of the Anne Arundel county au-
thorities who are opposed to annexa-
ton
The Book is entitled Baltimore
City-The Political Kaiser Wilhelm OF
Maryland"
Chapter First-Mr. Wormwood
Gall. of Baltimore city. and Miss An
ME Arundel, of Annapolis, agree to a
joint debate on the question of an
nexing part of Anne Arundel TO Bal
timore city. without the consent of
the people OF the section to be an
| nexed.
Chapter Two-Mr NORWOOD Calls
scheme is suddenly to substitute in
his place Mr.. William Preston Carter.
a noted lawyer of Baltimore, is coun-
ter-cheeked by Mr. Temperance Boy
Slingluff hearing of the plan, and by
informing Miss Arundel of it. who Sc
cures Mr.. William Pinkney Davis, OF
.Annapolis. to be her spokesman when
Mr.. Gall unfolds his strategy
, Chapter Three-The great occasion
opened with Mr. Norwood Gall pre-
tending to have a cold and asking to
permit Mr.. Carter to take his place,
which Miss Arundel agreed to, and
offered Mr.. Davis in her stead Mr.
Carter WINGED at that, because he had
met Davis at the bar of the Court of
Appeals to his great undoing. He,
however, summoned all Of his powers
to his aid and made strong speech.
Chapter Four-Mr Carter had clos
ed his address with the appeal TO save
Curtis Bay and Brooklyn from the
wickedness within them by annexing
them to Baltimore. Mr.. Davis. COM
mencing his reply from this point,
with whitening remark denounced the
brazen effrontery of scarlet women
lifting the brazen serpent in the will
derness and offering to protect the
virtue of the chaste daughters of
Anne Arundel. Where, he asked,
where is your vice commissions re-
port-so foul that it had to be buried
out of sight, not to protect the demi-
monde of Baltimore, but its high peo-
pie, professional and even divines.
from the scorn of the populace.
Satan, he said. was Offering to reform
Satan. He that made the counties
come to its relief and to save it from
itself by passing the Police Board
bill. the Supervisors of Election Act
and the Liquor License Law, without
which an honest man could not live
in Baltimore, and, being unable to
govern itself, now seeks to manage
the whole State.
Chapter ive-Documentary evil
dence presented at a meeting on the
Campus of st. Johns College No an
nexationists appeared Mr. Davis
made a thorough and exhaustive legal
argument to prove that the Court of
Appeals was in error when it deliv-
cred the opinion in Morgan VS.. Daily
in 1888, and traced more fully the
history and outrages in Baltimore
that compelled the counties to come
to its rescue by passing the Police,
Supervisors of Election and the
Liquor License Laws.
Chapter Six--Mr. Temperance Boy
Slingluff, vehement prohibition adj
vocate, calls a meeting in Baltimore
at his own expense, which is broken
up by mob, and when the police
come down after call, without finding
out who were the rioters, close in on
the innocent temperance people,
crack their heads and break their
bones with their espatoons and take
them to the magistrates where they
were compelled to give bail before
the third assistant police marshal ar
rives and discovers the shameful mis-
take.
Chapter Seven-Mr. Norwood Gall
and other annexationists plotters
overheard making their scheme to
carry. at the session of the Legisla-
ture, their plans to annex part of
Anne Arundel, by making deal with
the Sunday and prohibition people.
and then after getting their own, re-
peal in the next Assembly what they
had given to secure support for
annexation
Was II Vandalism