Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
STRUCK BY A CYCLONE
Feeling at Democratic Com
mittee Headquarters.
OLD BOYS JUBILANT
RETURNS WERE TO THEIR EN-
TIRE SATISFACTION.
A Joint Committee Calls Upon the
President, Escorted by
Marching Club.

Once upon a time so the story goes, there
was a clergyman This clergyman pur-
chased a parrot This parrot had been
guaranteed not to use other than biblical
language in his talking. This guarantee
was of no avail, for it was found that the
parrot could and did "cuss like sailor"
The clergyman was shocked. and hied him
self to a bird fancier in search of a cure.
The bird fancier told the clergyman to go
home and prepare large tub OF water ana
place it alongside the cage in which the par
rot was kept. Then when Mr.. Parrot COM
menced to use bad language the clergyman
was to take the cage and souse it in the tub
of water. giving the parrot good ducking,
which, it was guaranteed. would cure him
of his bad habit. The clergyman followed
instructions to the letter. He prepared the
tub of water, and shortly thereafter Mr..
Parrot made the air blue with his cuss
words. The clergyman grabbed the cage
and soused 1t in the tub and gave the bird
a ducking he thought it would remember
for all time. When he put the cage back
on it's stand the parrot was nearly dead
Slowly the bird came back to life. He shook
himself well and hoped up on his perch.
AS soon he had gotten comfortably fixed
the bird cooked his head on one side. and in
a perky manner said: Where in the hill
This is the story of events at the head
quarters of the democratic congressional
committee in the Riggs House last night.
For many weary months Chairman Cow
herd and Secretary Edwards, with corps
of faithful assistants, have been working
for the victory of Alton B. Parker and the
various nominees of the democratic party
for Congress. Early and late they have
served their party. From time to time, in
fact as late as yesterday afternoon, state
ments claiming an overwhelming victory
for the democracy We're given out. When
the blow fell it came with crash, and was
so stunning that it could not be realized
and Secretary Edwards, quoting the parrot
of the clergyman, has been asking all his
friends ever since, Where in the hill were
you when the cyclone struck?
Early In the evening, when the first re-
turns began to come IN, it was realized that
there was something doing" The realiza-
ton of this something came like q
cyclone, and shortly thereafter the rooms
of the committee looked as if they had
been struck by the cyclone They were
literally deserted. while to the remaining
few Secretary Edwards was telling them
how it happened. These few stood it as
long as they could and before midnight had
left the building.
A Scene of Jubilation.
On another floor of the Riggs House there
was another picture. A picture as rosy and
bright as the first was dark and gloomy.
Boys Club, who had assembled to do honor
to their standard-bearer and receive bull
letins they felt would keep their party
chieftain in the White House for an add-
tional four years. And they were not dis
appointed
When an apparent certainty was found to
be an absolute certainty the Old Boys de-
termined to pay their respects to the Presi-
dent and call at the White House was
arranged. For this purpose a joint COM
mittee was selected.
The committee representing the Old Boys
Club was follows: DR.. Robert Reyburn,
national committeeman; William S. Odell,
DR.. William Hughes. Theodore L. De Land.
Sydney Perham. ex-governor of Maine, and
John B. Chase. The representatives of the
Roosevelt and Fairbanks League were
Charles A. Pfau, director Of the Merchants
and Mechanics Bank and treasurer OF the
league; George A. Drew and William A.
Hickey. The officers in command of the
marching club during the parade were:
Captains, John F. May D. W. Wood and
William A. Hickey; lieutenants, ]. 2. Car
ner James H. Harries and Charles Will
Jams. Col. Dan A. Grosvenor headed the
procession in the absence of the president,
Frank K. Raymond.
These committees were escorted to the
White House by the Old Boys Junior
Marching Club, carrying lighted torches
and wearing the uniforms they have worn
during the campaign. The parade, TOT
which permission had been secured in ad-
vance during the day, was led by band
and followed by a cheering mob as it made
its way up Pennsylvania avenue as far
as 18th street and back.
At the headquarters of the Young Mems
Democratic Club 1920 Pennsylvania avenue,
the merry click, click of the telegraph
sounder announced the results of the cleo
ton to barely half dozen of those who
remained after the first indications of the
landslide. and even these few listened to
the results in a listless and dazed sort of
manner. 1t was clearly not a democratic
night, and those followers of the clan VINO
had been shouting and hooting during the
hours of daylight crawled quietly to their
homes by way of the back streets within
short while after another sun had set
on their hopes.
Returns were received at the University
Club.
1t evidently was a Roosevelt crowd
which gathered last night in the parlors
of the local Y. NJ. c. A. where the cleo
ton returns We're received by special
ways has been a favorite with the officers
and members of the local association, and
as soon the result of the voting was
apparent cheers and applause became
ceaseIess. The figures were announced in
all parts Of the big building as soon as re-
ceived. and during dull moments vaude-
vile program was offered. Roney's Boys
amused and entertained with instrumental
music, and refreshments were served later
in the evening
A Mournful Reception.
The reception of the returns at the head
quarters of the democratic central commit
tee and the Columbia Democratic Club at
904 Pennsylvania avenue last night was as
mournful as funeral. From the very be-
| ginning the overwhelming majorities for
Roosevelt left little room for hope in the
hearts of the faithful and 1t was only the
| old timers who have been against a losing
| game for the last two presidential cleo
| lions, who even thought for a minute that
| something favorable could happen. Up to
| $50 o. clock this faint hope fickered and
! fiirted in breeze of adverse dispatches,
! but when Judge Parker's telegram of con-
graduation was read it was all over. The
crowd of two hundred or more who had
| gathered in the rooms during the early
| part of the evening began slowly to melt
away. The grizzled veterans of many cam
| paigns hung on to the last, hoping against
| hope.
| Secretary William Nick Clayton, secre-
| tary of the Columbia Club. read out the
returns as they were received. There was
| no enthusiasm and no applause. AS dis
| patch after dispatch was read from the al
| legged doubtful states showing the frail
| foundations on which even the lightest OF
| hopes had been based. gloom settled down
| on all in the room, and one stepping out
on the sidewalk at the beginning of the
end was not surprised to find drizzle of
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