The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-10

Round the table are offices fair, President and Congress all are there. Look them over. you lnsurgent horde, And take them all If you have the
 sword !"
 i ilis touching iittie paIiodv of a verse from Whittier's pome, Bar bara Frietchie,' gave the keynote to the December Dinner of the Gridiron Club tonight. The red banner of in surgency was flung to the breeze and every skit and gibe was super charged with the spirit of revolt against pres ent eeonditiosis, political. 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 christerners who chanted to the tune of popular airs the griey- ances of the common people and the glowing promises of the reformers
 That venerable body. the United States Supreme Court, came il for it's share of attention early in the evening. After an overwhelming ma- jority vote of the diners had van quished all of the regular candidates, and placed Dr. Wiley in the presiden- tial chair. the Supreme court found itself completely reconstructed, hav ing passed through the process of Recall The new count WAS headed by Bath House Johnr Cough lin, as chief justice. anu among the associate justices were Eugene Debs, "Hinky Dink' Kenna, Sam Gompers. "Fingey" Corners, Charlie Murphy, Stubbs of Kansas; Ex-senator Aldrich and Theodore Roosevelt.
 When the attorney for the Sugar Trust which was cn trial before the court, sought to call attention to the law in the case, he was chided by the chief justice with Gan that chat ter about the law" We make our own laws'' The trust was convicted and ordered pulled apart.
 The Steel Trust was the next vic tim. charged with having .''Goldbrick- ed T. R." although the justice of that name violently protested that 'they didn't gold brick me-" The protest did not avail and the presi- dent of the trust was sentenced to four hours private conversation with Attorney General Wickersham
 An appeal for an injunction to pre-. ve.at Bryan from again running for the presidency was denied by Jus. tiee Aldrich who said: "Oh, let him run. What difference does it maker" Attorney General Wickersham asked for an injunction to restrain Champ Clark from arnexing Canada. but one of the justices suggested reciprocal action by inviting Canada to annex Champ Clark.
 A petition to prevent the Taft boomers from grabbing the presiden- tial nom'nation from Bob LaFollette was denied on the ground that 1t Is no crime to take candy from a child.v
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 Frietehie' which was dramatized for this occasion was shown the rough window of the little cottage in Fred erick. Md, when StonewalI Jackson's troops passed through the old town. Framed in the caseinent was the face of Uncle Joe" Cannon, representing the Stand Pat element, while the Con federate leader was depleted as La Toilette in the little military proces- sion. With melodramatic effect the troops halted, and musketry crash ed:
 The Barbara leaned odt on her win
 dow sill
 And shook her banner with royal
 will
 Shoot if you must, this old gray
 4 head.
 But spare your party's flag. she
 said. 2"
 As the troops withdrew the reader gave the last stanza ag follows: The party flags may come and go. The nation lives and fears no foe {. It's own fair flag flies full and free.
 Spotlight On American fIag) For every party and for you and me.