Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-23
THE WHIP-POOR WILLS
THEY GAVE A BANQUET TO SEN
AToR WARNER.


gether there is something doing. The or
ganization is composed of men who served
in the army navy of the United States
during the war of the rebellion now resid-
ing In the District Of Columbia, and these
old soldiers gathered around the banquet
board at the Shoreham last evening TO do
honor to their guest and comrade, Senator
William Warner of Missouri. Immediately
Maj. Warner was elected senator dispatch
was sent him by the -poor-wllls. ten
dering him this banquet, and it had only
been deferred to suit the senator's con-
yenience.
The senator was called upon for a speech
after dozen prominent members of the
CLUB, including past commandments OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, Speaker
Cannon and members of Congress had with
great good humor heartily indorsed him for
the Presidency, In keeping with his true
missouri modesty he endeavored heroical-
~ to dispel the BOOM but he was inter-
rupted by Speaker Cannon.
None of that" warned Uncle Joe. Were
all for you, Warner"
Whereupon the senator declared that II
the Whip-poor- wanted to get behind
some real Presidential timber they would
not have far to go.
II m not mentioning Names added Sem
ator Warner, but / am looking right at
other outburst of applause. and just such
pieasantries as these occupied the entire
evening.
Gen. Grosvenor Endorsed.
Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor, the veteran
member of Congress from Ohio; Gen. ].
Warren keifer, another member from Ohio,
and formerly Speaker of the House, and
various and sundry other statesmen were
present. The Whip-poor- enthusiastic
cally Endorsed Gen. Grosvenor for another
term In Congress, and declared II would be
sin and shame If he was not reelected
by his district in the Buckeye state Rep
resentative Bartholdt of Missouri took adj
vantage of the occasion to make a few per-
tinent remarks anent the threatened boom
of Gov. Folk of Missouri for the presidency
on the democratic ticket
There is nothing we would like better -
said Mr.. Bartholdt than to run Senator
Warner against Gov. Folk and l will guar
antee that Senator Warner will carry the
state of neutrality-suspicious. democrats
and ALL
You will remember that during the
revolutionary war" Col. McElroy began,
but the veterans would have none of it,
When Senator Warner was called on he
likened his Presidential boom to Davy
Crockett's highway, first it was macad-
amized avenue, then 1t dwindled into a dirt
road, then to farm road, then to a path,
then to squirrel track then up a tree and
into hole But the veterans disapproved
OF this, and 1t was then that Uncle Joe
Cannon broke in with his comment. He
cautioned the veterans not to live in remin-
lscences. Never crawl up on the SHELF
said he, for while your past has been
glorious there is work for you to do today
We are living In the present. and not in
the past, and we must be as much a power
now as in the days OF old. We read that
the liberties of the American people are in
danger, but l am not q pessimist. Fear not
comrades. the American people will solve
the problems of the present and of the fu-
ture, as they have solved the problems OF
the past"
Those Who Were Present.
The members and guests included the
following: Senator William Warner, Speak
er J. q. Cannon, Gen. C. H. Grosvenor,
Gen. ]. w. Keifer, Sen. J. q Bates, Eu-
gene B. Payne, s. e. Faunce, William NJ.
Meredith, N. n. Brooks, Albert II. Van
Deusen. N. NJ. Mccullough, John S. Garri-
son, Henry A. Castle, A. Hart, Mai. Joseph
w. Wham, Commissioner of Pensions War
ner James d. Porter, Judge l. G. Kimball,
w Howard Gibson, Lucius d. Alden. l.. X
Brown, w. w. Brown, A. H. G. Richardson,
w. S. Chase, Robert Z. Grant Willis L.
Moore. William P. Seville, j. H. jerks,
Thomas S. Hopkins Representative w A.
Calderhead, E. r. Campbell, J. Atkins A.
b. Clements, E. B. Allen, Edward F. Daley
John g. Taylor, George w. Johnson, c. H.
Treat, Harry r. Sullivan, Charles p Lin
coin, S. S. Burdett, J. j. McCardy, A G.
Gen. w. w. Dudley. B. II. Warner, ]. L.
Davenport, George Corson, l.. M Kelly,
John c. Black, r. G. Tyler, H. G. Jacobs
Nathan Bickford, S. r. Burch, George c.
Ross, Richard Bartholdt, r. w. Tyler, Dr.
Franklin 7. Howe, w. Glen Coulson, Hy-
resentative James Monroe Miller, Charles
LYMAN,