Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-17
GOODBYE CANNON.
MerryFareWeII DinnerCiven
Him By Hosts Of Friends.
BurlesQue on Members Of House
From Press Viewpoint.
Seven Ages Of cannon"..An Affair
Of Brilliant Nit.

Taft, Cabinet officials, Chief Justice
White, members of both houses of
Congress, past. present and prospec
tive, and host of other political and
personal friends of Representative 10
seph G. Cannon of Illinois, ex-Speaker
of the House, featured the program
and guest list of the farewell dinner
to him, Saturday night.
Plans had been made for approx
mately 500 guests. 1t was a feast or
tun and tribute of affection. The pro
gram abounded with novel features
lnerrlly announced by the postmaster.
Representative J. Hampton Moore oi
pennsylvania. The dinner was the
elimination of plans laid many weeks
ago To make it one of the most notable
banquets ever given in Washington
The scheduled speakers included the
President, Chief Justice White Speak
er Clark Representative Underwood
of Alabama, the Democratic leader of
the House; Sec. Nagel Postmaster
General Hitchcock, Senators Root Of
New York. Williams of Mississippi.
Penrose of Pennsylvania. Representa-
tives Mccall of Massachusetts, McKin.
ley of Illinois. Ex-Sec. of the Nav
Hilary A. Herbert, Ex- Representative
Tawney of Minnesota and Grosvenor
of Ohio, Senator Elect James and Mr..
Cannon.
When the guests assembled they
found at each plate souvenir pro-
gram with a poetical tribute, unsign
ed, but written by Representative
Moore. 1t read:
The storms torn. may come and winds may
saplings and pines may fall;
BIT tempered to the sun and the snow,
me sturdy oak survives ALL
And so IN legislative halls
Where men and measures come and 90
On Fame's enduring record. calls.
The honor rests with Uncle Joe
On the reverse beneath the curling
smoke of picturesque cigar. ran this
quatrain
You may break, you may shatter
The rules II you will
But the Cannon aroma
Win hang to them still.
y skit burlesquing members of the
House from the viewpoint of the press
gallery was contributed by the newspa-
permen at the Capitol, who attended al
most in a body. In this stunt, "a cub re-
porter asked variety of questions re-
sarding the personalities of statesmen
and near-statesmen and the replies he re-
ceived from the six correspondents who
joined with him in the cast We're hits
on the whims and ideas of various public
men.
Who's that fellow down there that
looks like Alexander Hamilton asked
the cub.
Iaff 81.
his $4,000 overcoat to Martin Littletor
to lift the mortgage on Monticello" was
the reply.
And so that skit proceeded with E. C
Snyder in the role of cub reporter and
L. 3. Clark, X, J.. Patchn, George Mi.
Ter. Oswald f. Schuette, Gus ]. Kargei
and Theodore Tiller as the correspon.
dents
Other features of the banquet program
We're moving pictures of "The Sever
Ages of Cannon, presented by Henry
Il West, former reporter. and fol
some years a District of Columbia com.
missioner lightning cartoon exposition.
by Clifford X. Bergman of Washing.
ton and c. b. Macauley of New York; {
parody, when the Chu Chu Leaves fol
Illinois, by II. c. Stevens, newspaper
correspondent; presentation of bust Of
Mr. Cannon as the gift to him of col
leagues in the House with Representa-
tive Bartholdt of Missouri as theil
spokesman; songs BY the Gridiron Clul
Quartet and "The Water Million Song
by Maj A. j. Stofer.
Mr. Cannon's speech in acknowledg
.ment of the farewell tribute was reserv
ed until almost midnight.