The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-05-08
COLONIAL CLUB PoLITIcs
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bv Cruel Thor.s

| Fresh Roses wilmer when They Are stuaG
| ~ Cruel Tsor--.
The Roses and the Thorns had red. hot
battle at the Colonial Club last night The
Colonial Club Is q leader among the upper
| west-side clubs. and has a handsome house q!
seventy-secord street and the Boulevard II
has never had fight before. and there has
| never even been any dissension among the
| membera The present row. as near as Il can
| be learned, came over q dinner party at the
Manhattan Club.
First. there was what the young blood. the
Roses. called . snap convention. at which Q
nominating committee was named. Then
came the dinner party. The more prominent
| in getting up this party were Scott Foster L.
| Latin Kellogg. William l. Strong. and William
f. StigsE
1t is not alleged that dinner parties are OBJ
jectionable. but It 10 alleged that to this party
| not . single Rose was invited. There wore
| only the old members. the hard Shells or
Thorns. as they are called. It was
at the party that the ticket to be
voted for at tho annual meeting was
got up. Not one little Rose was consulted.
and naturally the Roses were all angry and
they determined to get up ticket of their
own and call Il the Colonial Club ticket
The regular or dinner ticket was headed By
ames A. Punderford for President MIR. Pun
derford has been the President for year The
rest Of the ticket was: Vice. Presidents. Will
liam T. Evans. Henry L Burnett. Will
liam l. strs eng; SSscrstsry l. Latin Kellogg;
Cyrus Clark. or%s nd q Smith. T. latin KsI:.
loge: Com mittesson Admis.iens. William +
The ticket Of the Roses was hsadeG p by Mr..
Frederick Taylor for President. The Vice
Ps Tsgor as w q. the Hs
for Secretary and James MeNaught for
was nomin.ted for the place Of Scott Fo S.T.
Charles W: Drake In place OF Cyrus Clark, and
saa ci Ssn o I Rs S M saS
niss: 81 in10 was named In
and there isn't one Of the 76o msmbers Of the
eampaisn committee Of Is, each membsr Of
which wore pink rose n his buttonhoIe The
mittee and they wore no badge.
The polls opened at o'clock. The club
comm om.ittse Of The Rose. lifted ab"a, with Snn.
a real ward worker at the polls. He Intercept:
fell into the hands Of another Rose
were not nearly as conspicuous. hut apparently
they did more effective work. At Dii o'clock
isl into the hands Of the Rose at the door. Tie
got ticket and was invited inside to vote with
tho young men.
The ballot box was up at tho head OF tho
room. surrounded by both Roses and Thorns
who were there to challenge. and the rsnorter
suggested that II would hardly be safe to try
and vote on anybody else's name. He was
turned over 10 another Rose. who told him the
story about the dinner party.
Has there heen any lnisma nagement or
anything to plain OF" he asked.
zee these people want to hold once all tho
time. don't you know. They held the snap
Convention. and then their dinner party and
they didn't invite one Of our fellows lon see
for the last year the club has been standing
still. and IL hasn't made any progress We
young men want II to forge ahead. Progress
10 what We want. and we named our tick ct for
the club the Colonial Club ticket I'll tell you,
the pretty incident OF the election to- mig hit IL
this" He pointed TO the rose in his button
hole. We are all wearing them. and we call
:, The leader Of the Roses was n. Archibald
shaw. He said At a. quarter before 10; IT
the polls would only close now the Roses
would have been beaten out OF sight. but this
can't tell, you know"
One OF the leaders OF the Thorns was APP
preached later He said: oh. the sweet
young things Their papas will have to spank
them to- night. Sad isn't Iii"
The spanking was done. When the votes
were counted II WAS found that the Thorns'
candidate for President had been elected by a
vote Of lod to 175 The rest of the dinner
ticket received about the same majority.