Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
WAS GUEST OF HONOR BRYAN GETS THE HOOK
Capt. Baldwin Toasted by Empire State Republican Club
Fellow Aeronauts. Hands 1t to Him.
NEWSPAPER MEN AS HOSTS AND THE BAND PLAYS ON
Aerial Phaseology Applied the Something Will Happen When No.
Food and vember's Ides Arrive.
SPEECHES BY NOTED MEN WHOEVER THE IDES BE
This
Hit With Stunning Crush
Dgbe ing Compliment
Empire State Republican Club
Hands 1t to Him.
AND THE BAND PLAYS ON
Something Will Happen When No.
vember's Ides Arrive.
WHOEVER THE IDES NAY BE
Lawyer Jones Of This Town Makes
a Hit With a Stunning, Crush
ing Compliment.

With the crash Of cymbals. the blare
of horns. the falsetto piping Of reeds. the
stamping Of feet and the mighty roar of
approval from hundreds Of thrOats, the
Empire State Republican Club hurled the
javelin into the ranks of democracy last
night, and in no stilted terms told Will
liam Jennings Bryan to jump of the map.
At least it started that way, and sew
eral speakers at True Reformers' Hall
stuck to their purpose, but others forsoOk
the path of politics and told story after
story illustrative Orwell, anything at all.
The program stated that there would
be short speeches. but four addresses in
as many hours seemed to contradict the
idea of brevity. There were the Rev.
George. w. Lee. four gentlemen with
honorable in front of their names on the
program and two without 1t. Those two
were lawyers. Six speakers took q chance
at the democratic party and platform ana
demanded that some one show them one
reason for any sane man following the
lead of Mr.. Bryan.
The Band Was Right There.
meeting was pleasing to the audience. the
hard-worked band also deserves mention
because it always produced the proper
There were songs of stirring measure.
marches. waltzes. echoes Of minstrelsy-
everything in fact that has been written
from Mendelssohn and Georgemcohan-or
from the music of the tower scene in I'll
Trovatore'' to that latest lyric insight
into the humor of intoxtcation, m
Afraid To Go Home In The Dark"
Standing on the sidewalk before the
meeting had opened, they played while the
members of the club collected. Played
ragtime and whole time. soft and low.
loud and brash. and ended their al fresco
concert with the old-timer, shouting the
Battle Cry of Freedom"
"And wen rally round the nag. zing.
ira, tara ia boo. rig a zing tara. tara IA
boom ling Boom tara. tara ia zins and
we will not do a thing to the boom tara,
rara rig and jung boom. Hurrah for the
Mary, hurrah for the lamb, hurrah for
the teacher who didn't give q boom tata
rata boom
Goo, Hear the Racket!
And SO forth. The snare drummer roll
ing his staccato majestically, crescendo,
allegretto. diminuendO; the trombone
player reaching far out for notes that
dwell only in the ultima thule of melody:
the piccolo player swapping his fingers
up and down on the keys: the French
lungs into the only three notes his instru-
ment can play, and the bass drummer
getting the zing zing boom Of cymbal and
drum to 30 rhythmic a turn and with so
beautiful a twist Of his hands and hau-
teur Of glance that he looked like the
head liner of the troupe.
The first speaker was Lawyer Harry
Cummings from Baltimore. Between
cheers he made the statement that Taft
would be elected. Some in the gallery
I,~,A he In
eulogy Of Taft and wept because the Dis
trict Of Columbia has no vote. About this
time the biggest man in the club-perhaps
anywhere-came into the hall ana Mr.
Cummings stopped speaking for few
minutes while Rev. George Lee took two
seats on the platform. and seeing every
one else applauding added his own little
bit.
Repeat on the "Ides."
Mr. Cummings was making reference
to election day by calling it the ides of
November when Mr.. Lee came in, and
thought so much of the figure Of speech
that he said it over again several times
and then sat down amid deafening ap-
plause, through which the strains of
Maryland, Ny Maryland" could be
heard coming from the band.
The Rev. George Lee started out to be
smiled and said This is q solemn time"
every one agreed with him by laughing 50
hard that one ancient republican had to
be led out of the hall.
at is rumored that lam g. democrat,
said the Rev. Mr.. Lee. but 1 am not.
That party never gave anybody with any
sense any inducements to join in with It.
Then he told q story about the mourn
ers bench that pleased the meeting
nightly but had no bearing on the great
issues of the campaign. He continued
though, in his politics by saying:
II would have been democrat IL there
was anything in democrat to be. SO
I'll stay right where I am. where at least
I can quarrel. Bryan is a splendid engine
to a terrible train of cars. I'm afraid
they'll slip going up HILL
Then he mentioned Mr.. Taft. casually.
BY saying that If William Howard did
not stand by his platform the republicans
would ram 1t down his throat for four
years to come.
Right Hand on Foraker.
'Tf Foraker should jump from the
ship" said he. I'D remain with the ship.
If the ship was sinking and Foraker was
sitting in a little dark hole, and showing
over the ballast would help get me
ashore then I'd shove with the boys. for
I'm interested in getting ashore. 1 want
to save myself
when 1 went to England the captain Of
oh, t<~l1 hat H<ar