OCR Text |
Show CARDINAL IS GENIAL AND DEMOCRAT' "Thu most popular rM in Baltimore, Balti-more, tar none. Is Car GibDons." says a newspaper rerrf-sr who served a term of sit years iD ithat city. "He Is also the most 'Jenwicratic man and 'jiaybe that's th'j reason for his popularity. popu-larity. He is iot only revered for his learning and "Ms wisdom, but liked personally per-sonally by ';very one, Jew and Gentile. Roman Catholic and Protestant. And the children they put him next to Sp.nta. Claus in their affections. The cardinal is as fond of the children as they are of him. "Some of the cardinal's best friends are newspaper men. All of them have the greatest respect and liking for him. He is always open and frank with them. He has been interviewed thousands of times and I don't think he has ever been misquoted or his confidence con-fidence betrayed. He was wont to receive re-ceive the reporters on Saturday afternoon, after-noon, when they desired to get his sermon ser-mon for the next day. He would bring out his sermon, written in a composition book and let them go to work. . "The cardinal is a familiar figure In the streets of Baltimore, or was when I was there. Ete enjoyed walking and walked much even in his rooms in his residence, just back of the cathedral." |