Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-25
OUR SWAN SONG.

eswans sing before they die,
Twere no bad thing
Were some folk to die before they
sing
This is The Capitals Swan Song.
We are not dead yet" however, nor
win The Capital ever die, it has
changed hands, has come from under
the control Of the one family whose
head founded and established it near
~ thirty-four years ago, who, for
twenty-eight years edited himself,
and whose sons and daughter have
conducted Il for The past six years.
We repeat, The Capital will never
die. II has established living, en-
during monuments to its memory that
unlike marble or stone cannot crum-
bic into dust
''The evil that men do lives after
them: the good Is oft inferred with
their bones" With apologies TO Mr..
shakespeare. we beg to differ in this
particular instance, for the good The
Capital has done under its old man
agement and the good it promises to
do under its new management viii
live long ages to come.
II has been the city's and county's,
and the States bulwark of defense.
It has stood for the right and opposed
the wrong 1t has upheld morality
and clean living and endeavored to
uphold clean politics, but that is
another question.
The Capital has been no mans tool.
no political party's parasite. And
there's the rub. 1t has often lost out
financially because it would not stand
for that which it believed wrong, yet
which would have filled its Golfers to
have advocated. The Capital has not
been afraid to stand up for the con
vietions of it's conscience in publish
ing both news items and editorials
From under its old management The
Capital passes on Saturday evening,
January 26, after it's issue Of that
date. and it will be issued on Monday,
January rs, under its new manage
ment. The Capital Publishing Com
pany
It is a long time for one firm, and
especially for one family to print
daily paper in Annapolis for nearly
thirty-four years. more than third
of a century
To be exact. on May Il, 1884, the
Evening Capital was founded and es-
tablished by the late William NJ. Abb
bolt, who was it's editor and proprie-
tor until his death on March Z, 1912.
For nearly six years his daughter
has edited this paper with the assist
ance OF two younger brothers. Our
lines have not always fallen in pleas
ant places. and it was at first an up
bin road to travel, to take up the
threads dropped by our father. to
catch up the stitches and weave the
woof that was given daily in print to
the public. to meet its favor or dis
favor. its commentator or its criti-
cism Yet we have done our best,
and angels could not do better"
To part with The Capital Is like
parting with ones favorite child (if
parents ever have favorite childrenl
We love it. II has endeared itself to
MS until we seem a very part Of it and
it a very part Of US. Yet in the part
ing we feel the new management win
do bigger. better, broader. nobler
things for The Capital and the city it
represents than we could do, and we
commend il and them 10 our friends,
the General Public" to our subscrib-
ors. advertisers; to our patrons. ans
to all to whom we owe grateful ac-
acknowledgements as The Capitals
friends and readers for the past
thirty-four years.
Ii is not goodbye. it is au revoir,
the Capital viii go on as OF old, only
ii viii be better. and there is always
room for improvement