The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-04-18
FAMOUS ORGANIZATION GIVES
DINNER IN HONOR OF NEW
ADMlNiSTR STRATION.
CLEVER PROGRAM GIVEN
Besides the Pres dent, Speaker Can
non, Members of the Cabinet and
Royal StyIe-A eurIesque Minstrel
Show Is Feature of Evening.

w NdSHHI6 6toH, ApIH LINE Drolier
of the Gridiron club, that famous or
ganization of newspaper men, was
kept busy tonight serving up wit and
humor at a special dinner compliment
tary to the new administration. The
dinner was given in the banquet hall
OF the New willard
care was taken that men prominent
IN the public eye got all that was com
ing to them in the way of thrusts and
jlbes, and the great assemblage was
| in constant uproar.
or course President Taft was there.
| as We're Speaker Cannon, members of
| the cabinet and the diplomatic corps.
senator's and representatives, men
| high in the industrial and financial
world and many others of distinction.
In the absence of President Henry
Hail. who is Just recovering from a
| long illness, Vice President Scott C.
! Bone, of the Washington Herald. pre-
sided
The onslaught on the banquet room
| began when the clubs old fashioned
dinner bell announced that everything
| was ready. AS soon as the diners
| were seated the room was thrown into
| darkness visible a musical welcome was
| extended to the distinguished guests
| Then the mammoth electric gridiron
| flashed into view, the lights were
| turned on throughout the room and
the fun commenced
Almost the first thing to greet the
| guests was a handbill distributed by
| some speedy messenger boys, an
| nouncing that there would be a great
minstrel show by all-star performers.
including vocalists. comedians and
cabinet officers This was the hit of
| the evening.
In true minstrel fashion, with all
the accomplishments OF busters and
| more or less dscordant band. this
troupe of club talent paraded through
the hall before going on the stage
The program of this show was a clever
imitation of the real thing, even to
| the naming of the executive staff,
together with a special mote by the
management which called attention
to what was to come, and with the
injunction that there should be no
flowers. Eating through Georgia"
was the opener, and it ran like this:
Sound the good old dinner horn,
Wen sing another song;
About the trip that Taft once made
when, with digestion strong,
!, He ate his share of everything that
/. they would bring along,
As we went eating through Georgia.
We tackled 'possum that they took
| care to bake,
We ate canned watermelon and a dish
they called hoe cake
We didn't even draw the line at ali-
gator steak,
As we went eating through Georgia.
by southern hospitality our hearts
were surely won.
And we resolved to do the very best
that could be done
For democrats, and so We saved some
pie for Dickinson,
J As we went eating through Georgia. 4"
And the chorus
Well, it would CRATE on the nerves
of hungry man if he heard these
words:
"Hurrah, hurrah, we sound the jubilee;
Hurrah, hurrah, twas something fine
to see;
We put away three meals day,
And sometimes three times three.
"As we went eating through Georgia. -
Then there ensued some lively con-
J Versation between the middlemen,
who posed as the vice president" and
t the speaker of the house." and the
cabinet Officers who composed the
balance of the troupe. After a good
deal of sparring over the meaning of
dead literature" and whether it re-
ferred to Sanscrit or Aztec, the end
men declared 1t to be the presidents
. messages.
Say, MI Vice President" a mem
Der of the cabinet inquired, do
you remember the morning when all
lot of people,"
| "Oh, yes, | remember it perfectly,
but I do not see why it should have
scared anybody II was merely a big
, noise"
) Yes, that was it. Everybody
thought Mr. Roosevelt had come
back"
Please Leave the Dear Old Trusts
! Alone They Are Seeing Things at
> Night" was the title of a song by
: James S. Heney of the Philadelphia
Free Press the wonderful soft pedal
t baritone" in which the trusts in
} formed Attorney General Wickersham
5 that they were tired and sleepy, too,
I and appealed TO him to put them in
= their little beds. Secretary Mac
{ Veagh was classed among the 81 va
5 rieties of democrats and reformers
= Ibo had great difficulty in remem =
/ bering when registration day came
l around. This discussion was cut
!, shortly some references to the tariff.
. which, it was stated, was being talked
pro and con.
: Indeed" remarked the vice pres
: ident," with evident surprise.
a Yes" replied the end man. PRO
I means for the trusts. Con- Is what
the consumer gets"