Arizona republican., 1910-02-06
JOURNALISTS HIGH LINKS Silver Dinner Of the Grid
 iron Club
 MERRY CORRESPONDENTS
In Celebration of Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the Organization of the Club, Spared Neither Person, Party Nor Faction.

Washington. D. C., Feb. 5.-Th Gridiron club gives two dinners eacl year and it fell out that the one giv, en tonight at the New Willard wa the Silver Dinner-marking tn. twenty fifth anniversary Wherefo there was great gathering Of not ables. Among the guests were Pres ident Taft, Vice President sherman the Chinese minister and Senator. Bourne. Carter and Guggenheim There were jurists. grave and rever. end senators. frivolous representative: in congress. and number of sim pie newspaper men gathered from many states of the union. Each and all bore off q remembrance of ths happy event in the shape of a sou venir silver ash receiver, crossed by the mystic Gridiron.
 The fun started almost as soon as the guests were seated. with tan gle over the inauguration of the new president of the club. Scott C. Bone editor of the Washington Herald; for entering untimely upon the scene came Fl Presidente Zelaya. with his army. composed Of half a dozen gen erals in Falstaffian uniforms. and one lone private. Zelaya. looking for a job. had picked out the presi- dency of the Gridiron club as suit able and was elected only by the threat that Secretary Knox was ap- preaching. Scarcely had peace and quiet been restored when another interruption came. when to the strains of the Marsellaise, entered the Back From Elba Club clad in Napoleonic uniforms. and including personifica- tiOns of public men who have been identified by common report with the movement to return Roosevelt to the White House The Big Stick" fig ured in this and in the fierce glare of the electric light and in defiance of all rules of secret orders. and in the presence Of several hundred "Ouitlanders'' were dragged forth and duly initiated the two unfortunate neophytes of the Gridiron club. Geo. Edmund Miller. resident correspond ent of the Detroit News, and John callan O'Laughlin. of the Chicago Tribune. They were made to fore swear all of the policies of their re- spective newspapers and to pledge themselves to he on the pier to well come The Only One" when he re- turned from Africa-all this to the chant of When Teddy Comes Sail ing Home Again; Hurrah,''
 The insurgents got their grilling, too. when between courses was rem dered an affecting scene from Uncle Toms Cabin. for this occasion de- scribed as Uncle Joe's Cabin. or Life Among the Insurgents" A present. ment of Speaker Cannon was the clever lawyer Marks; another of Whip Dwight was the brutal over seer "Legree'' and various promi- nent insurgents figured as Uncle Tom and his fellow slaves, and Little Eva They were roughly treated. told that they had been de- prived of all patronage. and their ap- peals to the speaker to resign" were met by demands for their return to the republican caucus. Finally put upon the block at auction in du- bious market. the democrats and re- publicans alike holding off from the bidding, the sale was stopped by or ders from the White House in the shape of an emancipation prociama- ton. in order to secure party har- mony
 If the insurgents were grilled the trusts were fairly roasted in an other skrt portraying the Infant ln- dustries"-the Lumber. Whisky, Beef, Coal and Tobacco Trusts-seeking from a number of ugly looking customers identified as The Ultimate Consumers This was verse from one of the chants of the trust magnates, to the air of a pop ular song:
 "Oh. the ultimate consumer always
 has to come to us.
 Cause he hasn't any other place
 to go:
 He will rise in indignation. he will
 make an awful fuss,
 Cause he hasn't any other place
 to go. Why are all our guests assembled
 here tonight in glad array? Why do congressman keep coming to
 our city. day by day?
 Why did Roosevelt grab a gun and
 beat it clear to Africay?
 Cause he hadn't any other place
 to go' -
 The new order of things in the state department was disclosed in a skt illustrative of a gathering of Knox and his faithful as- sistants and bureau chiefs of recent creation. There was an under sec retary. and "Sicretary of Near, Affairs and one of Far