The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08

getting entirely too personal, and or
 dered 1t out of the room.
 All during the dinner Secretary Cor l te1you sat modestly in the background, evidently hoping that the eagle eye of the presiding officer would overlook
 him It was not so to be. Indeed MT
 Cortelyou was thought worthy of
 musical introduction, and that Is the
 highest tribute which the Gridiron club can render to a guest. The first verse
 described MT. Cortelyou waiting for the
 ligh thing to strike him, the poetic | language employed being as follows: With campaign approaching 'tis quite safe to say,
 The candidates are alive;
 They are hunting around for few delegates
 So that their boom may thrive. There's Fairbanks and Cannon and all the rest of them, Lining up already for the fray,
 But standing in the background is an- other patriot,
 Hoping it will come his way.
 
 "cortelyou, Cotelyou," thereupon sang
 the chorus,
 Come from behin your chair; 1 Cortelyou, Cortelyou, we see you hiding there;"
 And the next verse which MT. Cortel- you enjoyed as much as the audience, was thusWise:
 If you ask him to speak, he just shakes his head,
 l He will not affirm or deny But when he goes home each night from his work, He looks for his star in the sky.
 He's mute, dumb and silent, and don't say word,
 And wears his gum shoes every day; But he'll have a leased wire to Chicago next June.
 Hoping to hear them say After this introduction MT. Cortel-
 you was naturally invited to respond to
 the base islanders heaped upon him, and
 acquitted himself admirably.
 The meeting of '"The Undesirable Citizens association" was made the oc- casion of bringing together the dis tinguished characters, who, at vari-
 ous times have fallen under the executive displeasure. There, were
 Hartman and Rockefeller, William F.
 Chandler and Senator Foraker, Rogers
 Mingo, Sanders and all the decorated ones for the time being. They fur rish ed proxies to members of the clup'
 who were duly labelled in order that there might be no mistake on the part of the audience as to their identity Even Harry Orchard, costumed as typical Bad Man" was also present When he came in, and at the point Of a revolyer. relieved all the undesirables of their watches and money, MT. liar riman" was led to remark that Brother Orchard ought to get vote Of thanks .what for? This is the most practical
 suggestion about getting money that has yet been offered"
 When the meeting proceeded to elect us officers and some suggestion was maoe about taking ballot, the response was immediately made that the "ballot' was obsolete, and that White House methods
 were now in vogue. One of the "citizens thereupon took dice box out or ms
 nocket and invited everybody to take throw.
 Best three in i've" he said. "HiSn man goes out and takes first choice
 There was no doubt of the instant appre- citation of this reference-the drawing of straws which recently settled the South Dakota Senatorial scrap. At one point in the meeting 'Mr. Rocke- feller" was observed to be apparently in great pain. In response to sympathetic inquiry he announced that he was going
 to have a rush of conscience to his
 pocket" Thereupon he walked over to
 Secretary Cortelyou with big bunch of stage money 'Allow me, sir" he said, ito pay you that s29,ooo,oOo ine," and Mir Cortelyou stuffed the wad in his pocket, just as if a fine from the Standard oil company was daily joy. The session came to close with the in- troducton of an enormous photograph from the caprcious horn of which there came forth such phrases as Undesirable citizens,'' 'Mendacious scoundrels,' "wilful falsifiers,r 'Malefactors of great wealth." Criminal rich" "A shorter and uglier word" "No swollen fortunes" and other similar utterances. Thereupon, in solemn unison, the undesirables said: "Our masters voice'' and left the room There was quite a large attendance of United States Senators, which gave espe- oial point to witty and delightful lecture on "Duties of New Senator's" Among
 those who were present to heed the words
 which fell trippingy from the lecturers lips were Senator Bourne of Oregon. Johnston of Alabama. Paynter of Ken
 lucky, Davis of Arkansas, Brown of Ne braska Dixon of Montana Gore of Okla homa, and Guggenhem of Colorado. Senator Gore of Oklahoma seemed espe- cially pleased when a member of the club