Milford chronicle., 1928-12-21
GRLDLRON CLUB SAYS
FAREWELL COOLIDGE
SkitS On Recent Election Are Main Features
of Annual Dinner

8, was in the nature of a farewell to
President Coolidge, whose term will
have expired before the next dinner
of this organization of Washington
correspondents of newspapers takes
place. Although at prior dinners of
the club and in some of the skits
performed in the evening the Presi-
dent was the subject of good-natur-
ed raillery, he was made to feel that
he was in the midst of personal well
Wishers.
President Coolidge delivered a
speech at the conclusion of the din
ner after he had been acclaimed IN
a farewell song with the refrain,
'The Green Hills of New England
Call You Home" and a semi-serious
exhOrtatiOn, modelled on Washing
tons Farewell Address.
Toward future candidates. for
your high Office" the President was
told, have friendship for all but en-
tangling, alliances with none. Then |
we shall feel that perhaps your fu-
ture attendance with us here will be !
a prospect from which you do not |
choose to run"
The dominating note of the din
ner was the recent Presidential
election with various skitS designed
to expose the foibles of both major
political parties and their leaders.
Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith
came in for much attention
Peep Into Future
There were peeps into the future
for the benefit of Republicans and
Democrats alike. Vice President
Dawes, who will retire from Office
along with President Coolidge, was
not overlooked. Nor was his sue
cessor-to-be, Senator Charles Curtis !
of Kansas, who also was present.
Other guests were members of the
cabinet and the diplomatic corps, :
governors of states, senators, repre- !
sentatives headed by Speaker Long
worth, and men prominent in the -
professions, finance, business, arts, :,
letters and journalism.
One musical interlude presented
by club members attired as South q
ern gentlemen of anti-bellum days !.
was devoted to the breaking of the
Democratic Solid South through Mr..
HOover's victory. A character, i'm
personating Senator Carter Glass of Z
Virginia, indicated the drift of this n
feature of the performance when he tt
remarked in a sad tone:
Grant was more magnanimous oi
than Mr.. Hoover. He left us our &c
horses; Hoover took our shirts"
And to emphasize the South's gi
support of the traditional party of IN
the negro he sang with feeling: bl
Gone are the days of Cox and Will as
liam j.; pc
Gone are these votes from cotton tiS
fields away; an
Gone to North, and the South is deep
in woe au
For Democrats are voting now with VII
Old Black Joe.
"Old Black Joe," a familiar plan eq
alton figure, appeared in person and IN
said he was to be postmaster at
but had hoped to be an lei
until he was told that ma
III the ambassadors "are Nordics."
whats Nordic?" he was asked. ru
"a Nordic," responded "Old Black
-oe," "is a Southern Democrat who wa
axes a good stiff shot of 100 per
ent American cOrn-and then votes IN
or Hoover"
Cannon as a "HOOVercrat" Tal
One of the Southern group of tor
as Senator Glass has the
allied them, impersOnated Bishop on
annon of Virginia Asking how Vir- cri
inia came to be carried by Mr.. Hoo Ho
er, he answered the question him inc
elf, and with burst of camp-meet- ash
lg fervOr the chorus repeated his del
ords: hal
was the old-time religion, the old Ho
time religion; "
was the old-time religion that did a c
the trick for me. tor
John J. Raskob' appeared having Ho
st everything except the barrel in mu
hich he was clad, End told how he
lpected to wipe out the Democratic r
lmpaign deficit. bot
Swing low, sweet Cadillac" he n
ing, and there were references to .el
sweet Chevrolet" ''sweet Pontiac" as as
I'd sweet Oldsmobile," with a uIs'
light change in the concluding lines ael
Swing high, sweet common stock,
1omin' for to carry me home. 4io
Mr.. Hoover's eulogy of the Ameri- o,l loi
n home in his speech of accep- ~ oTu
o,,,s4 .,,,,, |le Ss 80 20 and
rise that sought to picture home "A a
'e in America under the influence sen
Hoover efficiency. It ran: an
was the night before Christmas, ooI'
when all through the house an IN
)t a creature was sleeping, not eiIe
even a mouse. neI
le glasses were set on the 1nantel ei,
with care r.
hopes that the bootlegger soon eu
would be there. SIve
lie children were dancing to KDKA mug
II six brand new tubes had been PaIs
purchased that day, II
Id mamma with her diamonds and the
I with no trumps, men
ere winning a hand from a couple pres
of chumps, eu
hen down in the street there arose ZOO
such a clatter lze
e children all cried, what in wori
h-ll is the matter?" TO q
went to the window, although euue M
somewhat bored, II
d saw on the pavement a second sres
hand Ford, were
th a little old driver who 1oo1,od of N
like a hick; SIN
new in a moment it must be Saint appe
Nick. sOug
had cheaD German trifias oil the
packed in a trunk, ed Il
1 shouted: Don't bother to had
hiring I'M that i11nl, . wv