Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-01-20
NOTED CHARACTERS ~ IVES
TERN LIFE IMPERsONATED
At JOLLY MEETING.
SPEECHES TO DEAD HOOK
Publisher, Managing Editor and
Printer Represented Ia MINI
ic Modern Newspaper
shop.

By Associated Press.
DENVER, colo. Jan lo.-S state
officials including Governor Am
mons. State Auditor Rody Kenehan
and Secretary OF state i u. Pierce,
members OF DcnNer's city commits
sion. Commissioner Of Safety NlsbHi
and Commissioner of Finance Clair
pitcher. District Attoraes JOIN A
Rush aud city Attorney ! y Ste'
ems, Chief Of Police Felix O'Neill ana
Inspector Of Police Len De Lue. saw
themselves cayort in caricature To
night at the first annual stunts of
the Brand Iron" clubs dinner at
the Albany Hotel
publisher John C. Schafier ot The
Rocky Mountain News and Denver
Times and owners Fred e. BOnfils
and r. n. Tammen OF tn D'nv"r|
Post together with John Evans o..
the Denver Union water company
and former Mayor Bob Speer mad,
up the characters for o setting anD
tableau called "A suggestion
The Brand Iron dinner under the
auspices Of the Denver Press club
given for the first time In connec-
tlon with the National Western
stock show. which opened here To
night. furnished screams Of laugh
ter and much amusement for 100
visiting editors from Wyoming. Utah
New Mexico and Colorado. roo
members Of the Denver Press club
and state and city officials including
members OF the state supreme bench.
Outdoing anything Of its kind
ever attempted In Denver the Brand
Iron dinner went to smashing eli
max and during It's progress the car
featured public office holders and
newspaper owners sat back and
laughed themselves out Of their
chairs while the prssS club actors
tore inta ,nelr quests official and
business lives with fusilhies of wit
and humOr that made the victims
take their medicine good naturedly
Underlying each Jest and quip and
skit were touches of human sympn
thy and kindllness for the victims of
the "hrandiron" as well as some bits
OF homey advice and warning for
others that kept everybody In good
humor
Speech-making and toasts wer,
relegatod to the dead hook and The
fun began early with bang and
ended IN blaze OF glory
The opening scene was set In O.
newspaper shop where the eutir,
staff. from copy boy 10 managing
editor were hurrying through Oh,
last edition IN order TO get 90 th.
Brand Iron dinner Each charac
ter. reporters printers and m O.
were faithfully portrayed and as the
dinner proceeded each stunt was bul
letiucd on proof press and copy
delivered To each Of the seated
guests
Tho publisher brought iu deIin-
Quent subscribers by pot shooting
them from the window of bis office
a. The backward ones passed th,
door Tho man with the .un would
invariably shoot EN- in tho foot and
they'd wohblc and pay up their sub.
scrlption
Master of ccremos4a- Colonel
! Gideon y McFoll had hardly wei
coined his gous'. iu behalf of Oh.
Denver Press club when % mr,-Dut'.
flushed into the banquet haI Ni''
the announcement that rrr-ijoH
Woodrow Wilson an honorary mem
ber OF the Denver Press club. vN
az the door with @ messa-, '0 'U.
visiting editors and guest a 1E
.cstion from Colonel N.Ta'I O.
bring iu the message hruueh' fort.
a protest from the courier "ho STAT
cd that Mr. Wilson was Boz the habit
az personally appearing where W'-.
sagcs were 20 be read and i' Oh.
name OF the president OF tha Iu.'r'
States the messenger demanded
hearing for the chief executive
Show Mr Wilson In. command
ed Colonel McFall
IN walked Mr. Wilson Tor h.
double. and % vas sometime before
the startled guests recognized th.
counterfeit and with the di-nir
with which the president deliver hi-
messasc the psuedo executive 'N
planned his erraud
IN" message OF president NI.~ON
mpersonated bv John T. laHucs
dealt in no kindly manner with 20,
press OF the country for the con
tiuued misquoting Of his attitude ou
all the prepCnderating question. and
pulling problems OF the day The
president declared that he had Nos
~ opposed the annexation OF Next
60. save for one paramount and pre-.
dominating reason which was that h
would have flooded the United State.
with hot tamalcs and frijoles but
IN this grave and portentious mat.
ter. the press misquoted him. de-
clarlng that Il was his consideration
for the lives % our soldiers which
would be- sacrificed In fact. th'
, president warmly stated. he did not
give the troops a thought In deciding
the issue
Mr. Wilson just back from Pas.