The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-06
Gridironers Spare None
at Their Silver
Dinner.
INSURGENTS AND
TRUSTS SUFFER
Cannon Gets His" and Back
From Elba Club Is Fully
Representcd-Zclaya Comes
to Take Job. but Scott
c. Bone Beats Him to
Presidency.


Washington, D. c., February 1.-THE
Gridiron Club gives two dinners each
year, and 1t fell out that tho one given
tonight Mt the New Willard was the
silver dinner, marking tho twenty
NTH Anniversary of the foundation or
the club. Whcrcfor there was great
gathering of notablcs--a President
Cabinet officers. ambassadors. jurists,
grave and reverend Senators, frivolous
REPRESENTATIVES In Congress. and
number of simple newspaper men
gathered from many States OF the
Union. Each and all bore off re-
membrancc of the nappy event In the
shape of a souvenir silver ash re-
ceivcr. crossed by the mystic Grid
iron.
Fun starts Early.
The fun started almost as soon as
the guests were seated, with tangle
over the Inauguration of the new
president of the club--Scott G. Bone,
editor Of the Washington Herald; for
entering untimeiy upon the scene,
army. composed OF half dozen gen
erals in Falstaftian uniforms, and one
lone private. Zelaya. looking for a
fob, had picked out the presidency Of
the Gridiron Club was suitable, and was
elected only by the threat that sec
retary Knox was approaching.
Scarcely had peace and quiet been
restored when another interruption
came, when. to the strains of the
'Marseillaise,' entered tho Back from
ElSr Club" clad in ,Japoleonic tni-
films. and including rersoniiscat'ons
of public men who have been identified
by common report with the movement
TO return Roosevelt to tho White
House. The "Big Stick fHured i'll
this. and in the fierce glare of the
electric light and in defiance of all
rules OF secret orders. and in the pres
cnce of several hundred "Ouitlanders'
were dragged forth and duly Initiated
tho two unfortunate neophytes of the
Gridiron Club. George Edmund Miller,
resident correspondent of the Detroit
News. and John Callan OLaughlin. of
the Chicago Tribune. They were made
to ftIsw.ar all of the policies OF theit
respective newspapers and 10 pledge
themselves to be on the pier to vel
como THE Only One" when he re-
turned from Africa-all this to. the
chant OF When Teddy Comes Sailing
Homo Again, Hurrah!"
GriIling for insurgents.
Tho insurgents got their grilling
dered an affecting scene from "Uncie
Toms Cabin" for this occasion de-
| scribed as "Uncle Joe's Cabin, or Life
/ I've, q, 4 =
ment Of Speaker Cannon was the clev-
| er lawyer Marks: another OF Whir
Dwight was the brutal overseer "Le-
i gree" and various prominent insur-
gents figured as Uncle Tom" and his
| fellow slaves, and Little Eva"
They were roughly treated. told that
| they had been deprived of all patron
age, and their appeals to the Speaker
to 'resign" were mot by demands for
Finally put upon the block at auc-
| tion in dubious market. the Demo-
| Gratis and Republicans alike holding
Off from the bidding, the sale was
stopped by orders from the White
| House In the shape of an emancipation
| proclamation. in order to secure party
! harmony.
Roast for Trusts.
| If the insurgents We're grilled, tho
trusts were fairly roasted in another
skit, portrayins the infant indus.
coal and tobacco trusts--seeking pro-
lection from number Of ugly-look-
ing customers identified as "the ulti-
mate consumers" This was verse
from one of the chants Of the trust
\ song:
has to come to us,
4 Cause he hasn't any other place
to go;
Hc viii rise in Indignation: he viii
make an awful fuss,
Cause he hasn't any other place
Il TO so.
"Mhy are all our guests assembled
hero Tonight in glad array?
WHY do Congressmen keen coming
to our city, day by day?
Why did Roosevelt grab a gun and
beat it clearato Africa?
! Cause he hadn't any other place to
go"
some "shlrt-slccve" Diplomacy.
4 The new order of things in the
state Department was disclosed in a
skt illustra1,ve ana q ,,,n gatherins OF
4 ants and bureau chiefs OF recent crea :
Y ton. Thero was an under secretary
Il and a secretary OF Near-sighted Af-
4 fairs" and ono ono Of Of, "Iar-slghted AZ
shibition OF "shirt-sleeve diplomacy
I resulting in the summary settlemen,
\ OF the Nicaraguan question and rne
Chinese railroad imhroglio and other
matters that have engaged tho atten,
tion of the diploImatic branch of the
- Among Those Present.
Among the guests were Presiden
Taft Wi9e Pn9Taep5 tbo sNNsrmhan the Ger
> lster Secretary Knox, Speaker Can
non Postmaster General Hitchcock, As
socIate Justice lMrton. United state
Supreme Court; Secretary Nngle. al
Il torney- General Wlclersham, Governo
) stuart, Of Pennsylvania, Senators Bev
eridge, OF Indiana; Bourne. Oregon
Minis, iowa; Depew, New lYorls. Dnlli
! ver. Iowa: Gordon. mississippi; Gug
: genhelm. Colorado; Nelson, Minnesottn, tt,
\ Oliver, Pennsylvania: Scott, West Vir
gln!s; shiysy sn1oasntatlats ltnla.ans; stone Mis-
sfnMuaa,Iwooa snuar, sn!osAss N1aSans Gia1k nb Missouri
tho Associated. Press, Washinaton-. NY Il
! hi; y. n. CLAWS. Portland c,ra. W +