New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-17
Brethren of the Corner
Hold Annual Session at
Waldorf Astoria
MAYOR LAUGHS OVER
A TAMMANY STORY
Electoral College Now a
CO-eduCational lnStitu-
ton, Say Jokesmiths

10 isn't plain Tom Smith, secretary OF
Tammany Hall. any longer IT'S T.
Frcvlnghouscn Smythe. n YOU please
who asks questions as hc sQulnts at
you through an cyc-glass, and who's
done with yu,csh ricknamcs forever.
&c said so himself. no later than last
night. and before no less distinguished
a body than the Brethren Of the Amen
Corner. who held their sixteenth annual
dinner in the Waldorf-Astoris Hotel
The custom of Amen Corner dinners
is for different ones of the Brethren T.
impcrsoustc, iu the interim between
SOUP and nuts, practically every chdI-
acter who has been IN the pubic eye.
Years ago Tom Smith was lmpersonatel
lust that way Since then he mas never
taken s. chance. Tie attends me amer
Corner dinner IN person and always
arises 60 impcrsonate himself.
Whatever Us 90 'Salu about NJ
Murphy. Tom insists on saying oeI G
= lot OF explaining TO be made Monday
morning. perhaps, but that's always
thirtv-six hours after the Amen Cor
nor dinner is over. -.
So last night. when Patrick T. RelI-
han. president of the Corner and the
presiding officer at the dinner wanted
20 know about Tammany's knitting OF
Wilson In the recent election, ION
smith was ready for him.
"In nv opinion" he asserted, no
Rrutus in Tammsny knitted the mighty
Caesar in the ides o. last November.
Then the Mayor Laughed
Then who did the carving" the
president wanted TO know.
In my opinion" came the reply,
"tbe dagger was used by a lean and
licbt-footed Cassius who rules In a
han south OF the Fourteenth Street
Mayor Mitchell, who was seated at
table close by, also laughed.
And what about Mr.. Murphys pre-
6iction that Wilson would sweep the
state?" the president inquired.
Didn't he sweep the state ~
what statet'
THE state Mr.. Murphy meant
Texas"
with Tammany next election MI
Smith ."
81 am. He is a typical Tammany
man because. like Mr.. Murphy, he never
talks for publication. As a silent and
invisible worker IN the recent cam
paipn. Mr.. Mitchell and Senator OGor-
man made Colonel House look like an
animated victrola.'
The catch line Of the evening oc-
Cured during a dialogue between
Colonel Harvey and Colonel Waiter
SON."
"Mr. Murphy worked his head of for
Wilson. and see what he got. "Coionel
Harvey remarked.
what was tnatf'
THE same thing a man gets by hang
ing around the stage door Of moton
picture theatre waiting for chorus
girl"
Electoral College Fun
The dinner took the form Of al Elec-
tcral College. and Luther b. Little was
asked 10 define such an institution. 1t
is an educational Institution that
bryan is always trying 20 enter" he re-
turned, "while Roosevelt is always
seeking post- graduate course
And what is national election
the president asked.
a national election is that form OF
decision by which the American people
allow William J. Bryan and Theodore
Roosevelt. IN alternate periods, to re-
ward their enemies and punish their
friends
Henceforth the Electoral College is
10 be co-educational. for which fact the
Brethren Of the Amen Corner have the
word Of the CongresswOman from Mon
tana. who appeared by proxy at the
dinner last evening. She wanted TO