Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-25
WITH MERRY JEST
Secretary Dickinson Enter
tains Party of Tennesseans.
AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
Evokes Hearty Applause at Gather
ing in New York.
THEN LEAVES FOR THIS CITY
Governor Of State Also a Speaker.
New Found Power Of South
His Theme
AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
THEN LEAVES FOR THIS CITY

NEW YORK, January 25.-"Do the
onerous duties of the Secretary of War
put cobwebs on the brain Of Jacob NJ.
Dickinson of Tennessee They do not.
chorus ali the members Of the Tennessee
Society in New York, who sat in front
of their crumpled napkins at the end OF
the annual dinner OF their organization
in the Waldorf last night and listened to
some new ones that were uncorked with
pop and a sizzle by the Tennessean
who holds the portfolio Of war in Pres
ident Taft's Cabinet.
when 1 heard that this was repre-
sentative body of Tennesseans." said the
Secretary Of War after he had arisen
from his place at the Speakers table and
cast his eyes around on the feminine
product of that hera1ded state. when
I heard this could not believe it" Here
there was slight gasp of anticipation
and doubt from the fair ones. Because,
the Secretary Of War hurried to add, !
said to myself If any state turns out
all this galaxy Of fair women there can
be enough left in its borders to make
real state"
That made Jacob NJ. Dickinson solid
with about one-half OF the Tennessee
ans about the tables and he proceeded
in a mellow vein of reminiscence.
What the Tennessean Learned.
you know a fellow from Tennessee
came to New York few years ago and
before he came he told the people down
home thar he intended to show those
New Workers that they didn't know 1t
all. He calculated that there were few
tricks that could be learned from real
live one from Tennessee. A friend met
him after he'd been three months here
and asked him how 1t was going.
well, said this fellow who'd had
ambitions, I've about made up my mind
that il they'll let me have mine they can
keep theirn.'
And that reminds me OF the spirit Of
a certain Governor Of Tennessee whose
name 1 don't have to mention and who
seemed to be taking the duties OF p
ONCE pretty seriously. One day a MEM
Der of the legislature who knew this
governor personally dropped into his Of
fee and asked him what he thought Of
being governor.
well, do you know, Bob the governor
said, sometimes ] don't think I'm fit to
be governor of this here imperial state
Put her here Cow the senator replied
instantly That makes 1t unanimous.
The Secretary went back into his
memory and unreelel some others which
used to serve him in passing away an idle
political hour in and around Nashville.
Most Of the Tennesseeans present had
been a long time away from Nashville
anyway.
Only Sure Antidote.
You all heard the story about the
fellow who'd been bitten by rattle
snake" said Dickinson in a gentle query.
NO? Well. fellow got bitten BY a
rattlesnake and he was in a desperate
condition. Friend OF his grabbed a quart
flask and started for a place where he
knew he could get the only recognized
antidote for rattlesnake bite. The man
there started to fill up the flask, but II
was one of the eastern commercial TASKS
that didn't hold a quart when it ought to
have. You know the kind maybe-that
is, you gentlemen. The man who was fill
ing the flask had about a three-f1nger dose
left over and the kind friend who was
waiting to take the flask to the stricken
over.
"'Whatll I do with this left over?''
asked the man who was filling the. flask
well. come to think Of II, that pesky
snake took an awful strike at me- says
the fellow who was waiting for the flask.
And he pretty near got me too
And speaking OF TASKS, there was q
fellow went to the legislature down In
Nashville once and he stood up and
started to make a speech. Maybe he'd
been treating his bald spot with that stun
that comes in TASKS; anyway one of the
opposition party-and there isn't much
Of an opposition party In the Tennessee
legislature at any time-got up and hol-
Tered You're drunk.
az may be drunk this member said.
If l am, that's a temporary condition.
But you're a damn fool, and that's per-
manent condition
After that one the Secretary caught the
midnight train for Washington.
Governor Makes Address.
Gov. Malcolm r. Patterson Of Tennessee
followed the Secretary Of War with an
appeal for the recognition of the new
found power Of the south, and John b.
Keeble Of Nashville said some things cal
culated to make the expatriate Tennes-
scans turn their thoughts backward to
lands not incunbered by piles OF steel and
stone.
Charles G. cowan, the president Of the
society, was toastmaster, and with him
isle, president Of the Kentucky Society;
william G.. McAdoo. president Of the
Southern Society; DR.. j. N. Steele. presf-
dent OF the Maryland Society: Augustus
Van Wyck, president of the South Caro-
linians; Hartwell B. Grubbs, president OF
the Missouri Society: Bruce l. Rice.
Junius Parker, president of the North
Carolina Society; Thomas Mcguire. presi-
dent Of the Georgia Society; DR.. George
r. Harrison, president OF the Virginians;
Mai. Edward Owen, commander OF the
Confederate Camp of New York. and
Henderson NJ. Somervile, president of the
Alabama Society.