Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-12
CRIDIRON CLUB CELEBRATES
 ANNUAL FROLIC AT CAPITAL
Newspaper Correspondents Entertain Statesmen and Diplomats With Many Quaint Conceits-Two
 New Members Initiated

7.ASHINGTON, D. C., December II. -wresident Taft and members of his ca net, senators, judges, scientists and dramats and men of high station in pa.l.c and private life spent several b,.s tonight as the guests of the Grid. i-. Club in revelry and song and uon-anse, blended with wisdom. They head many homely truths told in strange form and enjoyed many a joke s. Ncir own expense because of the ge- pra. uumor in which the shafts of wit were concealed. Men of strongly op- pos.I politics and others who although of tne same political party, had found ser0us reasons for wide divergence, were present at the dinner and listened, not anly with philosophy, but with glee 10 inc eOmical exploitation of their ouarels.
 T.e distinguished company learned in sn uthOritative way the truth about ha discovery of the North Pole through , ,ucntific commission which reported per>onally to the Gridiron Club, and undertook to arbitrate the differences between Peary and Cook, who in this instance were represented by the two initiates into the club membership-Ed- WayI l.. Keen of the United Press and Ira F. Bennett of the Washington Post and san Francisco Call.
 One of the explorers said he had iden flied the Pole by the resemblance of the climatic conditions to Inauguration Day n Washington. He had qualified for his task by climbing Capitol Hill to reach the apropriation committee and was equipped with a fountain pen and meg sphone The Pole was found to be as far distant from land as President Taft fOunl it from the Insurgent Wigwam to Stan pat lgloo.
 Strange discoveries were made. San n Claus was found heavily laden with packages marked: My Policies-from !. R. to W. H. IT.
 The Aurora Borealis resemble the halo that Taft put on Aldrieh while Cannon's halo resembled the midnight sun without the sun). Matt Henson Ppcared claiming to have located the Pole in Savannah and produced it in he shape of barber's pole, tunefully telling of his exploits. The question of Identity being raised, barbers ruthlessly removed the enormous hirsute append ages of the pseudo-explorers and dis d0seI the initiates. Then the electric { bulbs were dimmed and in the brillianey I of calcium light Uncle JOe' Cannon vas portrayed in a series of elastic poses on a pedestal as 'The Iron Duke with the inevitable cigar, grown to HOrmous proportions and tilted upward lt the familiar sharp angle, while the warette chanted ditty to the tune of Pony Boy" the first verse of which was:
 h the chair up in the air, sitting there,
 See the Speaker, our own. Uncle Joe; Hear him swear, see him tear all his
 hair
 When insurgents defy him;
 Every man in the house is as still is a
 mouse
 While Cannon is present;
 But when he's away for a day they allI
 play
 Anl ,ay they don t fear him. 4 Scarcely had the guests turned again 0 their entree when the dinner was in 4 4tsuuptol by the noisy entry of a dozen aTi faced old danes, leading meek and { telPecked husbands. These turned out be a delegation of aggressive suffra g'tes, demanding "Yotes for Women' l stringent voices. Several noted men tn0ng the diners were called upon to isclara their positions on this momen
 ns question, to the great amusement
 the company. Finally the president the club decided against the women s lnm> whereupOn they announced their Impose 10 participate in the dinner and 'are only driven away through a threat feed them after the British fashion, J