Arizona republican., 1911-12-10
Gene Debs, "Hinky Dink, |" Bath House" John, Sam Gompers, and Fingy Con ners Are Associates On the Bench.
BUT, REMEMBER,
 IT'S ALL A JOKE
Famous Gridiron Club of Washington Gave Its An nual Dinner Last Night to the Usual Delighted Audience.

l WASHINGTON, b. C.. Dec. g. Round the table are offices fair.
 President and Congress all are there.
 Look them over. you Insurgent horde, And take them all if you have the i sword"
 1 This touching little parody of | verse from Whittier's poem Barbara ] I'rietche. gave the key note to the ! December dinner of the GridirOn cluo 1 tonight The red banner of insur- gency was flung to the breeze and every skit and gibe was per-chargeG i with the spirit of revolt against pres cnt conditions. political. social and 1 personal. Nothing was too sacred to | escape the irony and wit of the ac- 1 tcrs who played their parts on the small stage and the choristers who i chanted to the tune of popular airs the grievances of the common people and the glowing promises of the re- formers.
 That venerable body. the United States supreme court. came in for its share of attention early in the even ing. After an overwhelming majority vote of the diners had vanquished all the regular candidates and placed pr. 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 justices were Eugene Dcbs, "Hinky Dink' Kenna, sfrag Charlie Murphy. Stubbs of Kansas. eX-Senator Aldrich and 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 vic tim, charged with having "GoIdbrick- ed T. R." although the justice oC that name violently protested tha 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- l vent Bryan from again running for l the presidency was denied by Justice | Aldrich who said: "Oh. let him run. | What difference does it make" At | torney General Wickersham asked for | an injunction to restrain Champ Clark | from annexing Canada. but one of the l justices suggested reciprocal action by | inviting Canada to annex Champ | Clark
 X petition to prevent the Taft | boomers from grabbing the presiden- tial nomination from Bob La Toilette | was denied on the ground that Tt is | no crome to take candy from child" l
 In the stirring ballad of Barbara | Frietchie" which was drawn for | this occasion was shown the rough | window of the little cottage in Fred crick. Md. when Stonewall Jacksons | troops passed through the old town. Framed in the easement was the face 1 of Uncle Joe" Canno. representing i the standpat element. while the con- federate leader was depicted as La Toilette in the little military process sion. With melodramatic effect the troops halted. and musketry crashed:
 Then Barbara leaned out on her
 window sill
 And shook her banner with a royal
 will.
 Shoot if you must this old gray head. But spare your partys flag. she
 said"
 As the troops withdrew the reader gave the last stanZa as follows:
 The party flags may come and go. The Nation lives and fears no foe: Its own fair flag flies full and free"
 Spotlight on American flag) For every party and for you and me"
 Genuine grand opera by the Grid iron quartet and chorus was a novel feature of the entertainment Faust" somewhat condensed was the act, but il was distorted from its high moral purpose to demonstrate the certainty Of the ultimate victory of evil as rep resented by pattism. The shade of the immortal bard. Dante. being still in quest of knowledge. made an- other pilgrimage to hell. where he dis covered some ancient friends. such as Marguerite Democracy. Progressive Faust and StandPat Mephisto. who lis never wholly down and out" Faust pursued by Miss Democracy. declared Next year is Leap Year She is on my trail.". The ancient lady retorted in song charging in-