| Show NEWS WRITERS POKE POE FUN AT- AT ATU ALU U S POLITICS GridirOn Gridiron Club Holds Na Na- National National Convention With Music WASHINGTON April 6 26 at nt Us Its It spring din dinner nor tonight the thu Gridiron club ot of Washinton nO newspaper corre corre- correspondents held a national pol tI- tI cal tl-cal cal convention co with mith Ith music Jt lIens 11 with lIh a podge ot of o song sons and satue II in which no Pu- Pu po political HUcal party was mas spared The Tho nomination ded to President Coolidge but the Democratic standard bearer proved pro eJ to be the most tn- tn fa dark boise hoise ho se in history history- history theman the theman Oman man In the lh Iron Ia lmar The sincer sang sane the Ie note ot of the dinner to the tune tuna of Sixt Seconds Every Emery Minute Minute c s c 0 do liol intend to ow Jiow a pie pie- piet pic picture ture t ure done In III oil ce ec turm unit ii d that OnO one to ii e C all Well cil 13 1 til pla In a good oU oM pui trait time rant Cant spoil One tint t mIlC upon us ua nil still all tills thit Irl tore ture Is our Icle Sammy's PI pIcture Its a portrait scandal soil soli j t J-t L Norton or of o tho the Dos Dos- Doston Bos Boston ton ot mm was n as initiated 03 LS a new of or the club and W ti ii 1 Brigham corl cone cone- corr e- e ll of ot the Boson Doson 1 n was as Inaugurated prom pre president ident ideal ARRIVE t I The club had little difficulty ii 11 picking the tho Republican PI nom nominee I nee 1 he problem of at the lo convention com was wa much macli perplexing r riom om his Ills place an was s called to Issue subpoenas for a number o of dIstinguished personages personage Ho He with him his executioner 1 1 ho he first tm witnesses se were the Three Musketeers l TIme Th proved to bo be Al AI Smith of at New York rt of o nn and l Geol roe E r Brennan Br ot or Chicago The trio identified themselves as t expert epert political swordsmen i On rage Tofe Two ran NE WS WRITERS RAVE HAVE Continued hum Page PaiO Pe One Asked hat they Intended to do doIn doIn dIn In the th forthcoming campaign c mp the announced In Me Ic lc doo A cowboy who proved to be b bV Villiam V rn G 0 McAdoo rushed In Into into Into to Inquire breathlessly hether is hether the Three Musketeer had h d de- de departed departed de departed parted He lIe asserted ho was ws Vil Wil VIl William liam ham the th appearing as asa asa a ft voluntary witness and announcIng announcing Ing he be nominated on the tho first ballot billot even It if I have h to to claim residence In every state In the th union James the Just turned out to tobe tobe tob be James M lit Cox o ot of Ohio Wil Vil liam llama the th Silent nas v 08 Identified as William M It Butler the tho th Coolidge manager m n ier vho sho spoke not a word ord but offered 0 a deposition tion In the form torm of ot a cather forecast for tor Cleveland In June Jun Coolidge Pair Fair and nd calm I 1 rank tho First was tras I H Hiram Johnson s manager who was wa unable to pro pro- produce produce pro produce duce his candidate c the latter missed hi his train Con Inco 1 that the Democratic to dae da scads loads like a John Doe warrant arrant the th Inquisitor gen en- general to- to tamona fa famous eral subpoenaed the the most mot mona mOlls John Doe Doa In history the history Uio 11 laak who slid said man In the tho Iron mask ru CD CE 01 01 OPINION I Some ome men m n think I am m Samuel M I Ralston Ralton anti and nd me in with I The Moon I Briehl Tonight Along th the I 1 hav have b been addressed as John W Davis D and andi forI asked to trade de trad fat retainers for fora forI fora fora I McI I a nomination Some call me mo Mc- Mc McAdoo Mc McAdoo I Adoo and ask whether I ani am m from I New Nw York Tork or California I have been toasted as Jame M J Cox Cog and assured that seven ven million aront arent nt so many after niL alL 1 I ha hate ha eben e been boen feted UK as a O Oscar car W Yo Under Under- Underwood wood while the th band played Dixie as a some som others other said Hello AI Al and snug sang The ot of J ew York Some believe my name Is Houston and dub me inc the lead lead- lea leading leading 1 ing residuary legatee l I 1 ant am m Iden Iden- Identified iden- iden Identified also alo as Copeland tha thu medi medicine dab cine man of ot the Tammany tribe Colonel Harve Barve thinks I 1 am m Sen Sen- Senator Semi Semi- Senator ator Joe Joo Robinson of Arkansas They once called me m Ret Reed Recd 1 before Jim tried to show em In Mis Mis- Missouri Missouri sour Some even think Im I'm a college president president-I president I o 0 forgotten ori Ills his name namo nam I have hav only one ono con con- consola consolation con consolation sola lon J has hils suggested that I am eta Eran Bo an THI GHOST PIE RS The Inquisition was isas ed when Banquo s ghost entered dS as the third party mo Falling to aoh olMS e th the problems problem ot of the campaIgn b bi tho the methods ot of Inquisition the th club borrowed the tuneful straIns strain of Gilbert and Sullivans Sullivan's Mikado but even esen the musical cons com convention could find none but hut a dark horse horte The rho convention ned to the theair theair air ot of For For Ho He s Going to Star lIar M r Yum Ium lum um converted Into a patriotic number President Coolidge Sir bir Ermo Eme Hovard HO the tho new nw ambassador ot of Great Britain to the United Sates S atos and John W V Davis Dais acme ele the tho speakers at th the dinner the I rule rul that are aro over never present their store ere not published When WI Representative Uv live tive Clifton A Woodrum Woodrum of ot Vir- Vir Virginia Vir-Inia Vir ginia know l a n to his colleagues as the the troubadour congressman con ho- ho Clu bo-Clu cause ho he h sang sang n his hi n way ay ay Into con con- congress cress con gross gress was called on to speak he heI I burst Into a song full tull of o can canto co to seekers after er public ot- ot ot-fic ot I flee The satire of ot the tir dinner ran the 1 gamut ot of tho the bobbed bobb d haired ban ban- bandit dit to Hamlet In 1924 1 24 The Tho Republican colored deleGate to the lican lIean convention con soviet so let lion the murder of ot the tile worl world 1 I court Hiram Johnson Secretory SecretarY Mellon the th recent caLI cabinet net changes and lIs Miss Misa Democracy and ond a Broad w n I The Orl Gridiron lIron pIa ers drama drama- dramatized the thc third patty pal ty Idol Idea In time the torm forni of ot a a 19 1924 1 24 of ot Hamlet Assisting the melancholy Dane Danof ot of present da day politics were nero two grave a diggers a non leaguer and aDd a labor farmer-labor party party- party party-Itc who ito who oro ero ro preparing graves for tor the coffins of ot the timo Grand Old Party and ill a sIble In the tho th shado hadow s ot of o the stage After ACter one grave grovo digger differ had abjured the other to get get thee gone to the bootlegger an and 1 fetch me a stoup loup of ot but be b care care- ful rul careful to be that of ot the th poor poor old Bull Moose too o and gave Hamlet an opportunity to atel The Th haired bobbed bandit caused a it furor Before Brigadier General Smedley D Butler di- di director director di director rector Philadelphia of public safety atty In Plum Phila delphia could mae mahe an arrest announcement ai nt itt wr 0 made mad that the haired haired bobbed departed bandit had depart depart- ed cd with Ith an apology nkA She had been pursuIng Ir A for somo som time Lime to get t him to give fIve her 0 n a job and she he h thought ah ahe Rhe taw saw w him comIng andI I In her here It was a I |
