“Who do you give your casting vote to?” [ENGR]
It's the midterm election season in the United States, which is like playoffs in sports, with constant advertisements and team rivalries, but with less fun and more existential dread.
As part of our escape to “That age before the world went all awry,” let's turn our attention to elections in the Sherlock Holmes stories. What's that, you say? You can't think of any elections in the Canon? It's elementary, if we put our minds to it.
After all, the Prime Minister Lord Bellinger and the Secretary for European Affairs, the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope were both members of Parliament, which requires one to be elected to office. So it is logical they must have stood for election.
And then of course there's J. Neil Gibson, the so-called Gold King who “was once Senator for some Western state,” from "The Problem of Thor Bridge." It's clear he was done with politics and was spending his gold in England.
But can you name an individual in the stories who was said to be running for office? We'll give you a moment to parse it.
This individual's name was “mentioned as the probable Liberal candidate for Mid-Devon at the next election.”
It was none other than Sir Charles Baskerville. Would he have gotten your vote, if you were a resident of Devon?
Meanwhile, there's undoubtedly politicking going on at Baker Street Elementary...
Baker Street Elementary follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at the Baker Street Elementary website.
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