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Show in his wrath, replied. The President made a rejoinder and then the club adjourned before the dinner was half oyer. That shows the difference in men. j When Abraham Lincoln was President, before the world knew he was immortal, it was his fashion to look at the illustrated papers as soon as they arrived, and whenever they cartooned him as a gorilla go-rilla and a monster, the effect on him was that he would laugh until the tears ran down his cheeks. Had he been at the Gridiron club banquet and they had gone after him as they did after the President, he would simply have said as he did when a man sent him a whistle made out of a pig's tail. Lincoln tried it, found that it worked, and simply said, with a smile, "I didn't think he could do it." The chances are President Roosevelt will not attend at-tend the next annual dinner of the Gridiron club, even if he is asked, and Senator Foraker ought to keep away, because, when a Senator of the United States attends a banquet and cannot enter into the spirit of the occasion he is too obtuse to mix with his fellow men, but then we must keep in mind that the President and Senator Foraker hate eaeh other with the old-time paean hate, and when they meet, each has the samp feeling that had the hloodthirsty men of old Rome, when they went to see poor slaves killed by gladiators or tossed to wild beasts. THE ROW AT THE GRIDIRON BANQUET. The Argonaut gives as the reason for the row in the Gridiron club, the fact that President Roosevelt is deficient in the point of humorous perception. He forgot that the Gridiron club has for its chief object at its annual dinners, the guying of everybody, every-body, official station bringing no reverence and high names do not count. The idea is to have fun and there is not a bit of care at whose expense. At the last dinner the club had this poem: I'm bufv with thine night and dav; A rough rider was once heard to say: Writing vipws. singing tunes. Killing bears, firing coon; Or composing aD old Irish lay. T. R. had a little Lodge. Well trained and nicelv taught He did whatever T. R. said And thought what T. K. thought. There was a voudjj person named Loeh Who was vastlv more patient than Job: When T. R. makes a break For appearance's sake. They put all the blame upon Loeb. In his own impulsive way the President could not see any joke about that; his official dignity was hurt and. Vising he made a furious, red hot speech, iin which he was personal, and then Senator Foraker. i |