The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-11-02
CANDIDATES
SEE SELVES
IN HUMOROUS
DISCUSSES
SOUTH CANON HIGH SCHOOL
POLITICAL CAMP MEETING CAR
. RIED OUT IN CLEVER BuRLES-
QUE STYLE AND GIVES EVEN
ING OF. ENJOYMENT TO LARGE
CROWD.

1he SOuth canon HlRh SchOol stu
dents opened the eyes OF many folks
Friday night and pulled off one of the
cleverest and timeliest stunts of the
ing" held in the school assembly
room.
All the elements of a rousing poll
tical campaign were utilized and all
the leading figures in our politics to-
day were humorously impersonated-
Mr.. Harold Sprinkle made himself
resemble Woodrow Roosevelt-er. that
is to say-Wilson. CHe admitted that
Roosevelt was getting on his nerves
so that the name seemed ever pres
enD and with his mule. Democracy,
covered with Rooseveltian mud he
made an energetic and seemingly eff
fectiye plea for votes. But it was
sad indeed that Democracy got mad
and kicked when he tried to wash of
the mud Democracy had to be fed.
of course, and the Colorado alfalfa
seemed TO effect his inwards to such
an extent that Woodrow had to call
for VIM. J. Bryan. (Ford Cooley) to
doctor up the mule. After scratch
ing his dome from which the wool
had been tarifIed of. William suggest
ed piece of anyprice" which APP
parently helped some but the audi
ence was left in doubt because Ter
rible Teddy was heard coming in
the distance on a lively cayuse and
il was up to Woodrow and William
to say "Au Revoir'' rather hastily
Mr. Teddy Roosevelt. (Haskell
Randolph) in hunting garb. was nat
urally "Dee-lieht-ed" to be present
and forthwith. instanter. and with
out further ado, began to commence
to begin to tell what a wonderful
hunter he was. He dramatically re-
cited that wonderful episode of his
active career when. in the junEles
of darkest Africa. an ill-advised lion
attempted to devour him. II was
really a foolish lion because when it
sprang at Teddy what did he do2
What did he do? Why he just
stuck his strong right arm down its
throat. grabbed its tail and turned
the lion inside out And Teddy was
very modest in the telling OF II. He
only occupied fifteen minutes and
only said II" 1ig times which seem
ed pretty reasonable to the audience.
How much longer he might have talk
ed nobody knows for just then the
militant sufragettes stormed into
the Auditorium with their banners
and war songs. They grabbed a
chair and placed their suffragette
leader. Miss Marie Farmer. upon it.
TO make rousing speech for the
cause. The noted sufferer stated
that man was incompetent to run the
White House. that II il wasn't for
the women il couldn't be kept clean
enought 10 be known as the White
House" bot by now would proba bly,
he the black housesor a brown house.
She said some more too, but what IL
was couldn't be easily distinguished
because those indomitable and cour-
ageous spirits. the local candidates.
captured the floor.
George +. Colgate (Roland Marti.
nezp charged into the fray first but
his opponent Orion Locke John
Kl'ese) rode in on an improvised
chariot and began TO expound sound
Democratic tdoctrine. Prohibition
IIrrh Logan) horned into the battle
az did j. V. Blake Orchard Fitzeer-
pidJ and C. 4. Linkins (Dale Hoover)
Such a hub bub of political gush YOU
never before heard in your life II
sounded like boiler factory with
he doors open.
But Il proved fitting climax to a
remarkable meeting and the audi.
ence felt they had absorbed enough
Nolitlcs to last the coming four years.
II was a very clever burlesque and
kept the large crowd in an uproar of
laughter continually.
After the political feature the
crowd was ushered down stairs where
they were entertained by the girls
with folk dances and also by the ex-
csllent glee club which Is under the
direction of Miss Lena Hodgin.
Later refreshments were served to
those who cared to expend the necas-