Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-27
Gridiron Club of Washington Makes Merry Over Foibles of the National Conventions of the Coming Summer.
FAMOUS MEN TAKEN
 TO TASK IN LISTS
Meetings of the Two Parties, in June, Are Harpooned by the Newspaper Men of the Nations Capital.

1 WASHlNGION, FeD. Zb.-lh ne Grlu iron Club tonight as its second dinner Of the winter. projected itself into the convention activities of next June and helped a distinguished party of presi dential makers and candidates board trains for Chicago and St. Louis tC meet the fates awaiting them there In a make-believe railway station the actor members fthe club satireiZed the foibles of some of their guests and some well-known men who were not present.
 President Wilson was among those who looked on and he may have re- ceived an intimation of the opposition he will meet later in the war. Vice President Marshall. the Secretaries of State, Navy and Interior. the Brazilian Ambassador, the Chinese and Bolivian ministers, several members of the Senate and House. officers of the ar my and navy. and number of the most notable figures in the nations financial and industrial life were pres. ent.
 The most ambitious of several sketches presented by the club was the political one. Scrambles to make trains. strange travelling companions, and ticket complexities that confound- ed the railway gatemen offered extra ordinary opportunities for fun-making Passing through the Chicago gate were regular and progressive Repub- licans, characters representing former Senators Burton and Beveridge. for mer Vice President Fairbanks. Sena- tors Sherman, Borah, Cummins. Week and Penrose, Representative Cannon, former President Roosevelt, William Barnes and George w Perkins of New York Through the St. Louis gate passed Secretary McAdoo, Postmaster General Burleson. Charles F. Murphy of New York and William Jennings Bryan.
 The first passenger to reach the Chi cago train was recognized by one of the two gatemen as Senator Burton. Nervous and fussed. he inquired if he were too late and appeared greatly re- lieved when told that he was leading the parade
 "You won't be too late till you get to Chicago" he was informed as the gateman punched his ticket.
 Next came a passenger for St. Louis who was hailed as Secretary McAdoo. He produced a weird looking ticket. finally recognized as mileage, which the gateman examined laboriously. Muttering that it seemed as cOmplicat- ed as the shipping bill. the gateman asked if mistake hadn't been made. It's intricacies were explained by meth ods of addition and subtraction, and the passenger passed through grinning. The gateman. recovering. remarked to his pal: That wasn't no railroad tic ket: that was today's treasury state ment"
 Among the next batch of passengers was a tall. heavy-set man. carrying broken plank under his arm. who tried to crowd through the St. Louis gate way.
 Hey, Mir Speaker" expostulated the gateman. "this ticket ain't no good It reads for Baltimore. And it's four years old"
 'I knew iti" shouted the passenger, who resemoled Champ Clark. Still Hearst told me to try to work it off. 'but the darn ticket never was any good"
 The Speaker finally got through on Missouri mileage" but the plank be- came wedged in the gateway. As he tried 10 disengage il. he explained that if "came out of the Baltimore cyclone" and was the last surviving bit Of the one-term plank. They asked him what good it was. and he replied that he was merely following T. R's advice Learn to swim. but always carry a life preserver"
 Vice-President Marshall extremely nervous. was closely followed by Sen ator Lewis of Illinois.
 "I ought 10 be nervous" he explain ed. He follows me all the time. He followed rye un 10 the rostrum in the
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