The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-17
UNCLE JOE'S FAREWELL
At One of Most Notable Banquets in
WashingtOn's History.

Washington, feD. Ii.-tIesiueA'
Taft, cabinet officials, Chief Justice
White. members of both houses of
congress, past, present and prospective
and a host of other political and per-
sonal friends of Representative JOS
eph G.. Cannon, of illinois, former
program and guest list of the fare
well dinner to him.
Plans had been made for approx
mately 500 guests.
1t was a feast of fun and a tribute
of affection The program abounded
with novel features merrily an
nounced by the POSTMASTER, Repre-
sentative J. Hampton Moore, OF Penn
sylvania The dinner was the cuiml-
nation of plans laid many weeks ago
to make 1t one of the most notable
banquets ever given in Washington.
The scheduled speakers included
the president, Chief Justice White,
Speaker Clark, Representative Under
wood of Alabama, the Democratic
leader of the house Secretary Nagel,
Postmaster General Hitchcock, Sena-
tors Root of New York, Williams OF
Mississippi, Penrose of Pennsylvania,
Representatives Mccall of Massa-
chusetts, Mckinley of Illinois, former
Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Her
bert former Representatives Tawney
of Minnesota and Grosvenor of Ohio,
Senator-elect James and the former
speaker.
When the guests assembled they
found at each plate souvenir pro-
gram with a poetical tribute, unsigned,
but written by Representative. Moore
1t read:
may blow, the saplings and the pines
fall but tempered to the sun ana
snow, the sturdy oak survives them
ali. And so in legislative halls, where
men and measures come and go, on
Fafne's enduring record calls, the hon
or rests With Uncle joe"
On the reverse. beneath the curling
smoke of a pictured cigar, ran this
quatrain:
You may break, you may shatter the
rules if you will:
But the Cannon aroma will hang to
them still"
A skit burlesquing members of the
house from the viewpoint of the press
gallery, was contributed by the news
paper men at the capital, who attended
almost in body. In this stunt cub
reporter asked a variety of questions
the personalities of states
men and near-statesmen, and the re-
plies he received from the six cor
who joined with him in
the cast were hits on the whims
and ideas of various public men.
Who's that fellow down there that
looks like Alexander Hamilton" asked
the cub.
That's jeff Levy. He's just hooked
his $4,000 overcoat to Martin Littleton
to lift the mortgage on Monticello"
was the reply.
And so the skit proceeded with E. c.
Snyder in the role of the cub reporter
and E. B. Clark, r. H. Patchin, George
Miller, Oswald F. Schuette, Gus J.
and Theodore Tiller as the cor
Other features of the banquet pro-
gram were moving pictures of 1.-The
seven ages of Cannon" presented by
Henry L. West, a former reporter and
for some years a District of Columbia
commissioner; lighting cartoons EXPO
sitions by Clifford X. Bergman of
Washia gton and c. 3. McCauley of
New York; parody When the Chu
Chu Leaves for illinois," by H. G.
Stevens. newspaper correspondent in
of the bust of Mr.. Cannon
as a gift to him of colleagues in the
house, with Representative Barthcldt
of Missouri as their spokesman; songs
by the Gridiron club quartet. and the
Water Million Song by Major A. ].
Stofer.
Mr.. Cannon's speech in acknowledge
ment of the farewell tribute was re-
served until almost midnight.