The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
A ZONE Of GR|NS
AROUND THE GRID
Teddy's Cabinet MuzzIe
Inspires a Roast.
TALE OF W0EFR0M cox
1T Was All Right to DissembIe Your
Love, But Why Did You Kick
Me Down Siairs?" Crooks
and Cotton. Finance
CiEchurance.
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec At the annual
meeting of the Gridiron Club today
the following officers were elected:
President, Richard Lee Fearn, New
York Tribune; ice-President, Sam
uel G. Blythe, New York World; Sec
rotary, John S. Shriver, Cincinnati
Times Star; Treasurer. George H.
Walker
Executive committee: Scott c.
Bone. Chas. A Boynton, Associated
Press; Louis Garthe, Baltimore Amer
lean W. W. Jermane, of the Mime
apols Journal, was elected a resident
member of the club.
tanned by the Gridiron Club at the
annual fall dinner. The table at the
New Villa was spread for more than
two hundred persons among whom
were the vice-president nearly all the
members of the cabinent, foreign am
bassadors and ministers, senators and
representatives and prominent people
from every part of the country.
The program was unusually attFac-
tive and the wit and humor, the va
rious skits, the songs andthe speeches,
all tended to make the dinner a MEM
en- by this famous club of Washing
toms correspondents.
"A Peace Conference" composed of
the club, endeavored to to settle dis
putes between many prominent guests
who We're personated by members of
tbs clubs. but all was unavailing until
a messenger from W. T. Jerome. of
New York. with a bottle of chloro-
form put them to sleep.
Tho initiation Of fbrea now mann
bers afforded an opportunity for real
roasts. Ii had reference to the re-
cent letter of the President to the club
officers relating to the dissemination
OF news bythem. Three cabinet Off
GERS were personated and they formed
a grand inquisitorial comission, put
ting on the rack the baby members
for daring to inquire what had taken
place in cabinet meetings. The whole
blame was finally placed on headed
DEVIL who had Numbered" in send
ing a letter dictated by the grand in
quisitor
Several dispatches were received on
a fake" wireless telegraph apparat-
US These were read greatly to the
amusement of the guests. Among these
dispatches were the following:
Madison, Wis.
Hon VIM. 3. Allison
Please advise me on this point:
Do you think a sensational career
leads to a nomination for President
ROBERT b. LaFOLETTE.
New York.
Robert Bacon.
Asst Sec'y of State:-
Aren't you glad to get out of it?
GEO. w. PERKINS.
Columbus. Ohio.
Hon. Chas Dick
pnncaytoIt RI
duplicate to me the message Pres
ident Harrison wrote about falling
outside the breast-wOrks.
MYRON T. HERRICK.
Cincinnati. o.
Hon VIM II Taft,
Secretary OF War.
Dear Bill: 1t was all right to dis
semble your love. but why did you
kick me down stairs"
GEORGE e. cox.
Thought transference" act af-
forded another opportunity to pass
quips upon the prominent guests.
Among the thoughts thus transfer
red and uttered by members who
were blindfolded and under the
spell of the operator were the fol-
lowing:
Secretary Shaw: 81 positively re-
fuse to stay in the caginet after
March 4. 1909
Secretary TO the President. Nsr.
Loeb: Nobody knows the trouble 1
have
Secretary Taft: whats sixteen
millions between friends?'
Secretary Wilson: There's many
a leak between the cotton and the
crook
j. p Morgan: since my Oh. and
d. experience have come to think
there is merit in the government own
ership of railroads"
Attorney General Moody: "One
big trust litigation i'm hand a worth
two years more in the cabinet
Pau, Morton: Every insurance
president should have his own sub
marine boat"
Chairman Shonts: "Oh. where is
my wandering canal tonight?"
Senator Aldr;ch: Some folks say
sugar and oil won't combine. but I
know.
Speaker Cannon: There is no
tariff on football; SO revise it all you
please"
Senator Beveridge: 81 can make a
better speech than any that has been
made yet"
David Belasco: yes. 1 think 1t
may fairly be said that William
Shakespeare was the David Belasco
of his time
Senator Lodge: "a Goldfish from
the deep blue sea a highly protected
article of commerce is to me. and