The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-13
.Gridiron Clubs Annual Roast

!, Gridiron Club
NEWSPAPER MEN BURI4EsQuE
tt THEIR HI
, (The Gridiron club Of Washington
is composed Of the newspaper CORE
spondents located in that city. TIL
club gives an annual dinner in De
cember at which the guests. which
include those highest in public life ar
the dinner last week fOllows.)
The dinner given by the Gridirol
club was one Of the most successful
in the history of the club, extending
over a period of more than twenty
five years. High officials Of the gov
eminent. diplomats. senator's and
members of the house and financier'
and captains of industry from variou.
parts Of the country were the guests
Of the club. which is composed o.
Washington newspaper correspond
nts.
There were present about ESQ per-
sons. including President Taft. the
ambassadors of Germany. Russia and
Brazil: seven members.of the cabinet
Secretaries Knox, Stimson. Fisher,
MacNeagh, Meyer. Attorney Genera
Wickersham and Postmaster Genera
Hitchcock; Governor Harmon of Ohio
Governor-elect. Goldsborough Of Mary.
land, Ex-Governor Folk OF Missouri
and the speaker of the house of rep.
rcSentatives.
Owing to the absence aboard Of
Richard V. Oulahan. the president OF
the Gridiron club. Vice Presiden,
Louis Garthe presided over the dinner.
At s o'clock the old-fashioned dinner
He'll was rung and Mir. Garthe. escort
ing President Taft. led the way to the
banquet hall.
AS the guests took their places at
the tables the lights in the banquet
hall We're eXtinguished and in the
darkness the Gridiron quartet chanted
the welcoming SONG Of the club. Then
acting President Garthe made a few
appropriate remarks welcoming the
guests. At the finish he flashed the
! electric Eridiron and the marine band,
in full! dress uniform. struck up a live:
ly air. The guests when seated found
time to look over a souvenir book
which each found at his place. The
book was entitled Mother Goose in
Gridiron Rhymes" 1t was a volume
Of eighty pages. containing clever car
,oons by Bergman a member of the
club. hitting the prominent men of the
day and the guests Of the evening.
First. there was an alphabet OF Mother
Goose rhymes. each with a cartoon of
the distinguished guests. some Of them
being as follows:
c is for Cannon or Clark. as you
please:
Cars before whom all fall on their
knees.
The cartoon showed these distin-
guished statesmen crowned and look.
ing very happy.
n is for Maggie from St. Louis town.
4 Cabinetecr who aspires to a gown.
The cartoon showed the secretary
looking longingly at Il supreme court
Justices gown.
There was a busy man who lived on
a hill:
He lives there yet, but not always
still.
OF Tennessee iron he says he was
wise
And hes the n man who never
tells lies.
The cartoon showed Roosevelt
dressed as Il Puritan father, sitting un-
der a wide-spreading tree.
4 is for Taft, or tariff SO high.
Which must be revised (In the
sweet bye-and-bye.)
The cartoon showed President Taft
In an a%eroplane, flying over the WASH
ington monument with a pennant fly
ing, marked The Tariff"
The frontispiece of the book was
labeled The House That JACK Ought
to Have Built" and represented the
white house with wings of an areo-
plane, a locomotive cowcatcher on one
end. a propeller at the other and the
whole house on railroad trucks and
wheels.
The guests had hardly. time to
glance at the book before their atten.
ton was called to a ballot at their
plates, labeled For the Progressive
Presidential Primary" This ballot al
lowed each guest to vote for his choice
of progressives for the presidential
nomination. While many were look
ing over the ballot. two members of
the club. disguised as Senators La Fol-
lette and Bourne. entered the room
and began duarreling. declaring that
they had been bunkoed. stabbed in the
back and unfairly beaten. Before they
am to blows. Acting President
Garthe called them to order and de-
manded to know, what was the trou-
Bile. Then a member of the club arose
anu ANNOUNCED lilttl tlIS DallOtS LOT the
presidential primary had been taken
up and counted and that he would an
nounce the result. He then declared
that 20 votes had been cast. OF these
James r. Garfield and received 4, AL
bert 3. Cummins 1. Moses T.. Clapp /,
Joseph II. Bristow 1, near-Minister to
China Crane 8h. Senator Robert La
Toilette 10R. Jonathan Bourne. Jr..
20, and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley 161. and
declared that DR.. Wiley was the choice
of the primary. Then pseudo Sena-
tors La Toilette and Bourne left the
room, still protesting and shouting
that they had been bunkoed. :.
The laugh over this skit had hardly
subsidized when Herndon Morrell and
the Gridiron chorus were introduced
and SANG q song to the tune Of Every
Little Movement Has a Meaning of Its
own which ran as follows:
In politics the styles have changed,
And parties once SO strong
In now affiliations ranged
Will push reform along.
The referendum and recall
Is n movement rather new;
Its chances are exceeding small
When the veto glides in view.
(Chorus.) il.
Every little movement has a meaning
all it's own. :.
Every reformation has a boom that's
nearly grown.
And when you notice the high
position
That's assumed by some politician
You will notice a great ambition
For a glory that's all his own.
Things began to go with a rush aft
er that. The Gridiron chorus then
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