The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-13
WH|SKER CLUB FORMED
Is in Opposition to Jack Bamill's
Famous Organization.
QUALIFICATIONS ARE RIGID
a Complete Set OF Whiskers Necessary
to Membsrship-No Indians or Chi
namen Can Come 1n-Gsorre
s. Miller President,

| They may call it simply The whisker
club, which is distinctive and direct:
or perhaps The Gay whiskerandoes
might be adopted as the name for this
new organization, or even The Be-
Wh1skered society-any of these would
do. but so far the gentlemen who have
banded themselves tigether have made
the name secondary to the objects of
| the association.
| Inc new club is in direct opposition to
the famous No Mustache club on which
I'D. Hamill rode into national fame and
with which he now makes the sacred
slopes of Sheep gulch to howl once a
| week 1t is movement of the be-
Mustered to uphold their right to
pear Wh1skers, protest against the
eirort to drive them into public dis
grace and a challenge to the hairless
aoorlglnes on Jack Hamill's reserva-
ton to come forth and do battle.
George s. Miller the county assessor,
is at the head of the new organization
and has been elected it's president,
City Treasurer John r. Walkup is sec
rotary. Mr.. Walkup only recently be-
came eligible to membership and is
proud of the fact. Hence his activity
in the organization.
one OF the promoters of the club said
last night:
Without rejecting upon any par
tlcular organization or any Individual.
want to say for our club that it is a
club to which none but a white man
notice, l said man-can belong. a
member Of our club must wear a full
beard. We do not recognize imperials
not even such splendid one as that
which adorns the chin of P. J. Ma
q
Maloney myself, but in case he comes
up for membership 7 must vote against
him unless he will consent to thin out
that imperial of his and spread it over
his face. Side whiskers. weeping will
lows or Dundrearys, so-caled, and mus
taches of any description alone do not
entitle one to membership: a full out
fit Of whiskers is required the whis-
kerry the better
with these qualifications you read
lily can see that the membership Of
this club will be of the highest type
OF manhood. cigarette smoking, cal
low, knock-kneed weakling or an OPT
UNI smoking Chinaman or an Indian
from the reservation, in fact the dregs
OF humanity, are eligible to member
snip in some clubs / might mention,
1t takes man to raise whiskers"
Inc members of the new organiza-
ton argue that in all times and in all
ages marry race has been the emblem
Of manly strength and vigor Even
Byron, beardless though he was, recog-
nized this fact, for did he not write
to Tom Moore:
THE czars look I own, was much
brighter and brisker,
But then he is sadly deficient in whis-
ker." $50 >& --
The poet knew that to kingly ap-
pearance bearded face is necessary.
How much more an emperor does
Nicholas II. of Russia look with his
splendid beard, than the melodramatic
William II. of Germany, with his turn
ed up toy mustaches? And Dom Paul,
too; is he not much more a patriarch
al ruler of men than the beardless
Queen Victoria?
Clerk of the Court Ed Corcoran and
County Clerk Martin Martin already
are members of the new club. Police
officer Nick Bozanitz has a beard in
training to present as his credentials
when he applies for membership. Sam
Gosnell recently acquired the neces-
sary qualifications, though they are
somewhat scraggly, and is a member:
and Frank Root also is on the char
ter list.
The full constitution and bylaws
have not been adopted officially, but
will be soon at meeting to be held at
the city hall A ritual is in course of
preparation. The club sign of distress
is to be the exclamation: "Whi-z-z-z-z,"