The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-19

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fellow guests.
thinking that he had quieted all
opposition in disposing of the Com.
nllttee of Fifteen the newly Install
ed President of the Club had been
nlled into false security. Before his
very eyes big table was spread like
magic in the open space below his
seat and in twinkling an opposition
dinner was in full blast over his pro.
tests. 1t appeared that there were in
surgents even in the Gridiron Club
ana they had taken this method of
showing their independence. They ut
terly disregafded the President of the
Club and smugly constituted them.
selves mutual admiration society.
1T is perfectly wonderful how we
do It, (meaning the dinner) says one.
ut is amazing that newspapermen
should have so much talent" volun-
teers another to which third gravely
assents However, we admit it." Not
able guests had these insurgents, too.
Among taem were counterfeit present
ments OF Carnegie, Tawney, Cannon.
Sherman, Beveridge, Fairbanks and
Champ Clark Gall of whom We're pres
sent in the flesh at the real guest
tables, and these were called upon in
turn to briefly address the diners
Each of the little speeches was a bit
of delicious parady upon the we'll
known oratorical styles of the origin
ais Carnegie, for instance, objected
to the number of windows architects
placed in ais Libraries, as not affording
dead wall space in fifty-seven places
for his own name, and his ambition
was ito die poor, but advertised"
Fairbanks had never attended a
more joyous dinner, wherefore he felt
called upon to add to the hilarity by
few words 'in tribute to the great
leaders who nested beneath the mos
sy tombstones on yonder hills" He
had mentioned them at the preceding
Club dinner but felt justified in recur-
ring to the subject because they are
still dead"
Vice President Sherman's double
tcld the inevitable anecdote, only in
this case it was unspeakably aged and
shop-worn, which can never be said OF
the original article He would like to
be a newspaper man. LET me but
write the political news of the nation
and the Old Guard will get tle votes,
said he.
Beveridge's representative stood
fearlessly for the nplift." In fact he
was the uplife, himself. He had never
missed an opportunity to make a
speech, and indeed he had made a
great many when there were no oppor-
tunities." Champ Clark was fairly
obscessed with his love for Uncle Joe,
but of course that mad nothing to do
with the fact that "he will be fussing
around en- the floor of the House when
am up in the Speakers chair
All Of the speakers. by a singular
coincidence expressed their undying
admiration of the Gridiron Club, mo
member of which had ever betrayed
taeir confidence
Catching up and holding together
the various sxits and adding to the
iollity of the occasion were the topical
songs of the famous Gridiron Quartet,
replete with sparkling humor yet
Astounding in the sweetest msody
President Taft was not given the
usual number of turns on the red hot
gridiron, so he had a better opportun-
ity to enjoy himself and doubtless one
of the songs especially appealed to his
risibilties. 1t was entitled The
Tariff Whcop," and pictured the
Night of a sturdy Kansas member o.
Congress who had been shrieking Tor
tariff reduction and:
kicked up such terrible DIM
,.Taat President Taft suggestiyeiy.
laughed"
"To cut rates he started right IN.
"He framed Canadian treaty
ePut farm products on the free list
"But the Kansas insurgent held views
so divergent
sHe begged his colleagues to deslst'
And the solo in the chorus rang ou',
Great guns, Holy Smoke, cant Biii
Taft take joke"
Carnegie received a special tribute
being saluted in coon song pegn-
ming:
"a man named Andrew Carnegie was
busy giving things away
"He thought that he was Santa Claus
and every day." etc.
And Uncle Joe, and Roosevelt and
Champ Clark and Guggenaeim ana
Beyeridge had their rcast in combina-
tion IN a Song of Famous Men"
# is not to be supposed for a mo-
ment that the Gridironers did all the
roasting. though. The victims OF the