Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-06
GR|D|RON CLUB
BURLESQUES
NOTABLES
INSURGENTS, TRUSTS
AND ROOSEVELT ROASTED
Speaker Cannon Portrayed mi
LaughabIe Farce Entitled
"UncIe Joe's Cabin or Life
Among the insurgents.

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased WireI
Washington, y. G., Feb, 5-Thc
Gridiron club gives two dinners each
year and it fell out that the one Civ
en- tonight at the New Willard Was
The silver Dinner marking the twen-
tN-ffth anniversary OF the foundation
Of the club Wherefor there was a
great gathering OF notables-a, presi-
dent. cabinet officers. ambassadors
jurists, grave and reverend senators,
frivolous representatives i'm congress,
ana number OF simple newspaper
men gathered from many states of the
Union Each and all bore off re-
membrance Of the happy event in the
shape Of souvenir silver ash re-
ceiver. crossed BY the mystic Grid
iron
The fun started almost as soon as
the guests were seated with a tangle
over the Inauguration o the new pres
ident of the club--~Scott G. Bone. ed
itor OF The Washington Herald for
entering untimely upon the scene,
came El Presidente Zelaya, with his
army. composed OF half dozen gen
erals in ia lstaffian uniforms. and one
lone private Zelaya looking for a
job had picked out the presidency of
the Gridiron club as suitable, and was
elected only by the threat that Sec
retafy Knox was approaching. Scarce
~ had peace and quiet been restor-
ed when another Interruption came.
When To the strains Of the Marscllaise.
entered the Rack From Elba club
clad i'm Napoleonic uniforms and in
Guiding porsonifications of public men
Who have been identified hy common
report with the movement to return
Roosevelt TO the White House. The
Big stick figured i'm this and in the
fierce glare of the electric Tight and
in defiance Of All rples Of secret or
ders, ana in the pftt Nee ~ several
hundred ''outlanders' were dragged
forth and duly initiated the two un
fortunate neophytes Of the Gridiron
CLUB, George Edmund Miller, resident
correspondent OF the Detroit News,
and John Callan o'IAughlin, OF the
Tribune They were made to
foresWear all the policies Of their re-
spective newspapers and to pledge
themselves to be on the pier TO well
come The Only one when he re-
turned from Africa-all this to the
chant of "When Teddy Comes Sailing
Home Again, Hurrahi'
The Insurgents got their grilling,
too when between courses vas rem
1ercd an affecting scene from Uncle |
Toms Cabin. for this occasion de-
scribcd us tncle JOe's Cabin, or
Life Among the Insurgents. pre-
of Speaker Cannon was the
clever lawyer Marks" another of
Whip Dwight was the brutal overeer 7
'Legrce" and various prominent i'm I
surgcnts figured as Uncle Tom and /
his fellow slaves. ana Little Eva.
rhcy were roughly treated, told that \
hey had been deprived OF an patron \
lge, and their appeals 60 the speaker
o resign" were met by demands FOR
hcig return To the republican caucus
Finally upon the block at auction IN
, dubious market the democrats and
'cpdblicans alike holding Oft from the
the sale was stopped 10y or
lers from the white HoAse III the
hape of an emancipation proclama-
ion i'm order to secure party har-
norg.
II the insurgents we're grlllcd. the
rusts were faiily roasted in another
kit portraying the Infant lndust-
ies"-the Lumber. Whisky Beet
,oal aud Tobacco Trusts-sccking
protection from q number of ugly
ooking customers as The Ultimate
Consumers This was Il verse from
me OF the chants Of the trust mag
iates. to the air of "a popular song
oh. the ultimate consumer always
has 10 come % as
cause he hasn't any other place to
10;
He viii rise in indignation, he viii
make am awful fuss
cause he hasn't amy otner place 70
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 il cleal GO Africay?
Cause ne hadut any other place 20
go.'
The now order of things in the