Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-12

Wilcox in GOod-Natured
Dialogue
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Travesties
on the recent national election and pup
lie issues enlivened the annual dinner
Of the Gridiron club tonight. President
Wilson, members of the cabinet, diplo-
mats, political leaders, members and
members-elect OF congress, publishers
and prominent industrial and financial
| figures of the country were guests.
| Musical and vaudeville skits satiring
public men and events with members of
the Washington newspaper correspond
| ents corps in operate and thespiau
| roles kept the guests in merry humor.
/ The climax of the entertainment was
| presented in THE Gridiron F'Ollies of
1916" a musical review revealing facts,
foibles and fancies of the hour. The
| scene for the follies was laid in Lafay-
| cite Park opposite the White House
| and revealed principal characters
| Vance Mccormick, chairman of the Dem
| ocratic national committee, and William
r. Wilcox, chairman of the Republican
national committee.
| a
sung by galaxy of states" with the
theme Come, let us have a jolly time
no matter who's elecvted," Mccormick
and Wilcox were disclosed and engaged
| in good-natured dialogue:
| McCormick-Cheer up, Mr.. Wilcox,
the battle is over. Somebody had to
lose
Enthusiastically did.
| Observation-Disclosures, you've much
4 - L. Ell
Willcox-Yes, We lost Utah, but we
saved Vermont.
| McCormick-Never mind that Here
| in the presence of this galaxy of states
we can talk things over dispassion-
ately.
Willcox-Say. I thought you said the
battle was over.
l. McCormick-So it is. Tonight we
are just indulging in a little caustic
comment on current events.
Willcox-Well, if you're holding a
post-mortem, what was the matter with
New York?
| McCormick-Murphy, curse him.
Willcox-What will become of the
Tammany Tiger?
McCormick-It will be an open season
on tigers for the next four years. Here
comes the wandering minstrel now.
| At this point the Tammany leader
1
March and the Fluctuations from Will
cox who said he (Murphy) was Gin
Dutch" Murphy replied that he took
gamblers chance and lost" and then
sang:
Forsaken, forsaken,
| Forsaken am 1;
The Tammany Tiger
Is turned out to die
go to the White House
| And find the door barred
| For Wilson still lives there
And his heart is so hard
With exit of Murphy the dialogue be-
tween the national chairmen continued:
| WillcoX-By the way, did William ].
| Bryan participate in this campaign?
| notwithstanding. He support
| ed the president Loyalty.
Willcox-Perhaps. But he must have
had laryngitis. His voice didn't carry
| as far as usual.
misunderstanding of weak voices
| the state of Maine had some impediment
in its speech on November Z. From H.
900 in September to 1000 is some drop.
| Wiilcox-But Colonel Roosevelt did
| not suffer from vocal trouble. His
voice was heard throughout the land.
McCormick-So I noticed from the
returns. He helped us in the winning
/ of the west.
VOICE FROM OYSTER BAY.
Here the voice of Roosevelt interrupt
ed the colloquy, saying: II am now
devoting my attention TO my duties as
grandfather. But my health is bully.
| In 1920 the country will know where to
find me. My address is still at oyster
Bay"
! Willcox-What about New Jersey?
| McCormick-Hush, hush, we will talk
of other things.
| Willcox-Well, how about Indiana?
McCormick-We save Tom Marshall
out of that wreck.
Willcox-That's so. He was running,
wasn't he? 1 wonder what went wrong
| I'm Kansas.
Kansas can tell you. Two-dollar
wheat, ten-dollar hogs, Ford machines
and player pianos.
willcoxLDo you think he kept you
out of war?
Kansas dunno. But somebody got
us out of debt.
Next came a vaudeville sketch, the
scene a theatrical booking office, with
Roosevelt and Bryan, as ''the Criss-Cross
twins" Senator Lewis, Colonel George
Harvey and other national figures APP
plying for engagements. Roosevelt and
Bryan were first tried out.
T R.
The Victoria Cross I'd greatly prize;
| The Iron Cross l do despise;
But if 1 can't the hero be,
Some medals of my own you'll see
They'll get the double cross from me.
Bryan:
| They got the cross of gold from me;
The Noble prize I've hoped. to see.
Now. humbly. bearing my cross l come
| To say, you shall not cruelty the bum
Upon the cursed cross of rum"
T. R--Say, Willie. what is the diff
ference between what you intend to do
| to the Democratic party and what
have done to the Republican party?
Bryan-Well, Teddy, what is the diff
| ference?
T. R.-You intend to make the Dem
ocratic party dry and L have made the
| Republican party sweat.
When I. r. and Bryan had been or
! dered out of the booking office, Sena-