February 18 Tuesday –MARK TWAIN IN WASHINGTON dated Jan. 11 ran in the Enterprise. Sections included: “Stewart’s Speech,” and:

The Political Stink-Pots Opened.

They are opened, and awful is the smell thereof! Millions of politicians have suddenly begun to prate, with unprecedented energy, even for their tribe, and they foul all the air with their corrupt and suffocating breath. It is all about reconstruction. The truth is, that the more Congress reconstructs, the more the South goes to pieces [Schmidt].

Sam’s article, “Washington Gossip” dated Feb. 15, ran in the New York Herald [Camfield, bibliog.]. Note: attributed to Sam by Louis Budd—See Feb. 3 entry and notes.