Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-10
GRIDIRON CLUB
GRILLS REVOLT
Red Banner of Insurgency is Flung
to Breezes at Annual
Dinner.
DIR. WILEY IS MADE PRESIDENT
Supreme Court IL Recalled, Sugar
Trust Pulled Apart aud steel
Trust Sentenced for Gold
Bricking Teddy.
WAsIIINGTON. Dec. -
Round the table are officers fair;


Round the table are officers fair;
President and congress all are there.
Look them oVer you lnsurBent horde
And take them all IL you have the sword.
This touching little parody OF verse
from whittier's poem, Barbara
Fritchle," gave the keynote TO the
December 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,
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 choristers
who chanted to the tune of popular airs
the grievances of the common people
and the glowing promises of the reform
ers. -A
THAT venerable body. the United states
supreme court, came I'm for its share OF
attention early I'm the evening. After
an overwhelming majority vote of the
diners 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
justices were Eugene Debs, "Hinky
Dink" Kenna, Sam Gompers, "Fingey"
Connors, Charlie Murphy. stubbs OF Kan
sas, Ex-senator Aldrch 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
L ~.
law. We make our own laws" The
4 trust was convicted and ordered pulled
apart"
steel Trust Next Victim.
The steel trust was the next victim,
charged with having "gold-bricked 7. r.
although the justice OF that name vio-
lently 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 presi-
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 annexlng
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reciprocal action by inviting Canada to
annex Champ Clark.
! A petition 10 prevent the Taft boomers
from grabbing the presidential nomina-
ton from Bob La Toilette was denied on
the ground that "It is no crime to take
! candy from a child"
In the stirring ballad OF Barbara
Fretchie," which was dramatized for this
occasion, was shown the rough window
Of tho little cottage In Frederick, Md
when Stonewall Jackson's troops passed
through the old town. Framed In tho
easement was the face Of "Uncle joe
Cannon representing the "standpat" ole
ment. while the confederate leader wai
depicted as La Toilette in the little mill,
tary procession. with melodramatic ef
feet tho troops halted and musketr,
l crashed:
Then barbara leaned out on her window
sill
And shook her banner with n royal will
| Shoot IL you must this old gray head
But spare your party's flag" she said.
As the troops withdrew the reader CAV,
the last stanza as follows;
The party flags may come and 20,
The nation lives and fears no foe,
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