Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-11
CR|D|RON CLUB
Has Its Annual Fun with
Men Of High Degree.
Supreme Court Given Its Full
Share Of Attention.
Genuine Grand Opera by the Grid
iron Club Quartet.
Washington, Dec. 9.

1
| sword
This touching little parady of a verse
| from Winters poem Barbara Fret
chic" gave the key note to the Decem-
Der dinner of the Gridiron Club tonight.
The red banner of insurgency was flung
to the breeze and every skit and gibe
was super-charged with the spirit OF
revolt against present conditions, poiti-
cal, social and personal. Nothing was
too sacred to escape the irony and wit
of the actors who played their parts on
| the small stage and the choristers who
| chanted to the tune of popular airs the
| grievances of the common people and
the glowing promises of the reformers.
That venerable body, the United States
| Supreme Court, came in for its share of
attention early in the evening. After an
| overwhelming majority vote of the din
| ers had vanquished all of the regular
candidates and placed DR.. Wiley in the
| presidential chair, the Supreme Court
| found itself completely reconstructed,
having passed through the process of
Recall" The new court was headed by
| Bath House John" Coughlin, as Chief
! Justice. and among the Associate JUS
tees were Eugene Debs, "Hinky Dink
| Kenna, Sam Gompers, "Fingey'* Con-
ners, Charlie Murphy, Stubs of Kan
sas. Ex-senator Aldrich < Theodore
| Roosevelt.
| When the attorney for the Sugar
Trust, which was on trial before the
court. sought TO call attention to the law
in the case. he was chided by the Chief
| Justice with .'Can that Chatter about
the law. We make our own laws" The
Trust was convicted and ordered pulled
apart"
| The Steel Trust was the next victim,
charged with having "Goldbricked I.
r." although the justice of that name
violently protested that they didn't gold
brick me" The protest did not avail
and the president of the trust was SEN
fenced to four hours private conversa-
ton with Attorney General Wickersham.
An appeal for an injunction TO prevent
Bryan from again running for the pIesi-
deney was denied by Justice Aldrich who
said: "Oh; let him run. What difference
does it maker" Attorney General Wick
ersham asked for an injunction to re-
strain Champ Clark from annexins
Canada but one of the justices sug-
gested reciprocal action by inviting
| Canada to annex Champ Clark
A petition to prevent the Taft boomers
from grabbing the Presidential nomina
: ton from Bob LaFolette was denied oil
I the ground that 1T is no crime to TAX
l candy from a child"
In the stirring ballad of Barbara
Frfetchie" which was dramatized for thi!
: occasion was shown the rough window
r of the little cottage in Frederick, Md.
l when stonewall Jackson's troops passed
) | oil Era
easement was the face of Uncle Joe
Cannon. representing the Stand Pat ele-
ment, while the Confederate leader was
depicted as LaFollette in the little mill
tary procession. With meodramatit
effect the troops halted. and musketry
crashed:
Then Barbara leaned out on her win
dow sill
| And shook her manner with a royal Will,
, Shoot if you must this old. gray head;
But spare your party's flag she said
AS the troops withdrew the reader gave
the last stanZa as follows:
] THE party flags may come and go
n The Nation lives and fears no foe;
= ITS own fair flag flies full and free.
Spotlight on American fiag)
/, For every party and for you and me.
: Genuine grand opera by the Gridiror
= Quartet and Chorus was novel fea-
Y ture of the entertainment. Faust
a somewhat condensed was the act, but II
e was distorted from its high moral pur-
4 pose to demonstrate the certainty of the
{ ultimate victory of evil as represented
by standpattism. The shade of the i'm
a mortal bard. Dante, being still in quest
of knowledge. made another pilgrimage
i to He'll where he discovered some an
! cient friends, such as Marguerite De
mocraey, Progressive Faust and stand
@ Pat Mephisto, who, sis never wholly
down and out" Faust pursued by Miss
Democracy, declared: Next year Is
Leap Year. She is on my trail The
4 | ancient lady retorted in song charging
ingratitude and hatefulness. declaring
that the thanks of Progressives shout
be Democracys due.
Marguerite Democracy next warbled {
. message she had received from Rober
4 LaFollette asking her to be Ibis valen
tine" She sang;
: "He is flirting with me; he's always
He smiles out like lover; in each mag
| aZine cover
When his features ! see. | am hlied WIN
am filled. / am filed. with fear"
Il At Mephistos demand ballet APP
peared. its members included Miss In
| dependence League" who complained
that she was "broke." She sang II
Think Bill Hearst Has Quit for Keeps ;
| Miss Prohibition warbled the story of
how near she came to losing her Home
Way Down in Maine; Miss Socialism
announced, II Don't Want Any Dyna-
mite; just Give Me Beer; Miss Populist
appeared as a Lass of Olden Time;
Much Courted in Her Prime" and Miss
Greenback complained that Free Silver
Stole My Wig and Tights" The basso OF
the quartette terminated the act with
this verse:
"I'u gather you all in ere I have done,
For every party as il starts in life
Is led by q reformed brave in strife,
And when his cause is won he does MS
Il best
To bravely hold it safe against every
test
, Defending each assault with all his
Il powers.
We're all stand patters-after we get
ours"