The evening times., 1896-09-17
Queer Sort of Barbecue Given
by District Politicians.
NOTASPEAKER WASONHAND
COiored- Club Had Advertised Many
Disting uished Cent? g men to Be
Present at Annapolis Junction. But
None Appeared-A Demonstration
Principally of Wind and Nerve.

terday, at which everybody and everything
was stuck" but the steer, says the Balti-
more Herald today. ar''r'al7n .s.s
This was, as might be expected. pleas
ant surprise for the steer, but as to the
| gOodly body of men assembled there to
do justice to the roast. disa prominent was
written on their faces in fourteen differ
ent languages. ..,.-..-.-
1t was to have been o monster demonstra
tion this barbecue. -Hoo-'-ar 7'r'- .r',
Circulars OF clIea p paper, with great black
type, announced that 1t was to be "a meet
ing for all - and that no race creed, color
or politics would be barred. Then 1t went
on 10 say that there would be ''Grand
ratification and jollification meeting and
barbecue, at Annapolis Junction, Nd,
September 16, 1885, Barbecue was
spelled with ana 49, ...- --.--.
Then came the announcement in large
type that the meeting would be "under
the auspices of the Mckinley and Hobart
Republican Campaign Working Club, OF
the District of Columbia. in honor of the
Republican nominees for President and
Vice President OF the United States OF
America, and the Republican. nominee,
Hon. S. E. Mudd. Of the Fifth Congress
sional district of Maryland" All of
which appeared to BE- perfectly straight and
proper.
AN ARRAY OF TALENT.
The next bit of information was the state
nent that .'the meeting viii be addressed
by the following speakers: His excellency.
the governor OF Maryland Hon.. Lloyd
Lowndes. Hon. NJ. NJ. Parker. Hon. j. ".
Babcock. Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, DR..
G. b. Purvis and Rev. George W. Lee. DID,
of the District OF Columbia; Hon. Sidney
E. Mudd. Dr. G. w Bryant, United States
Senator Wellington and DR.. w. &. Tuck,
of Maryland; United States Senator Hon.
W. E. Chandler. Of New Hampshire
Hon. K. j Bell. of the Union Club, Of the
District OF Columbia" II was also most
positively promised that 1.-THE Mckinley
and Hobart Rep. Campaign Marching OF
Dist OF Col. VIII also furnish one speaker"
II brought n tinge of pleasure TO the
cheek, too, to read that Miss u. Gleason,
the daughter of Col. A: Gleason, will read
II political poem
Still farther down the paper IL is an
nounced that Col W. S. Odell, of the Dis
trict of Columbia. would preside, and that
the meeting was to he called to order by
the president OF the club s.Js-, fee .-.s.
SPEAKING FROM 10 TO 3.
Speaking will begin at 10 O'Clock
a. M it said, land continue until 5.
O'Clock p. III, at which time the barbecue
will begin, under the direction Of Hon.
j. w. Coghill, OF Baltimore. Campaign
enthusiasm, combined with a plenty of
roast beef and Grassland music, assures
a good time for all. ..r- "-
The Hon j. w Ceehill doesn't figure
in the Baltimore City Directory for / $50.
That doesn't preclude his living here, nor
does il cast an aspersion upon his fair
fame as director of barbecucs but IA cit
izen SO distinguished as to have won an
honorable at the hands OF his fellows
certainly ought not 10 hide his light under
a buslel in such an appreciative town as
the good old Monumental City. The
Hon. Mr.. Coghil should venture a little
more from out Of the shadow OF privacy
into the Calcium rays of publicity.
Some of the Information contained In
the circular was that the club having
in charge the ratification would leave
its headquarters, Tenth and F streets
northwest, Washington, headed by the
National Band, and arch to the Balti-'
more and Ohio station: that round-tip
Washington for T5 cents, "chiluren1 under
twelve years old half price, and that re
freshmepts would be in abundance, under
the direction of the Ladies' Auxiliary Club
All the Republican clubs of Baltimore,
Annapolis and the District of Columbia
were said TO have been invited. saes.. q
WHAT HAPPENED.
Now, all this looks nice enough when
neatly printed But sometimes the types
hold the truth lightly, and this was one
of them. Everybody who bought a round
trip ticket to A Annarolis Junction at Cam
den station yesterday paid 80 cents for
it. If tickets were sold anywhere else in
the city for 10 cents it stands to reason
that someone besides the railroad company
got the remaining 10 cents.
I'VE don't know anything about that
said the ticket agent, when shown the cir
cular. Sometimes they get things out that
way on US" s- s-
But there wern't many people who want
ed to 20 from this city to Annapolis juno
ton yesterday. somehow or other. The
early morning train carried a mere hand
ful. and the neon train carried two passen-
gers for, that station-Chief Detective
Lloyd of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and the Herald reporter. Tie officer slip
ped out to take peep at the meeting Gd
see that order was being preserved in IT.
wing Park. where the barbecue was to come
off, and which is the property of the rail-
road company.
s. barbecue, begun yet?n asked. the de.
tective of countryman standing on the
platform.
.Ain't killed the steer vet - was the re-
ply.