Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 208, 25 August 1906 — Page 1
RICHMOND A ABIUM, N A. VOL. XXXI. xNTO. 203. Richmond, Indiana, Saturday Morning, August 25, 1906. Single Copies, One Cent.
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CHAUTAUQUA DPEHS WITH ADDRESS OF CHEERY OPTIMIST
Senator Dolliver Tells His Audience to Quit Grumbling, for Conditions are Not so "Awful" as Pictured.
0EALS WITH CONGRESS AND GIANT MONOPOLIES Speaker Regrets that Local Men Had Helped to Form Tin Plate Trust Boosts Richmond's If. M. C. A. Movement.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Showers Saturday with cooler In south portion; Sunday fair and warmer; fresh east winds, shifting to south.
OHIO Showers Saturday with cooler in southwest portion; Sunday fair and warmer; fresh east winds..
BOYS ARE NOT YET HOME
INTEND TO COME THOUGH
Hubert Snaveley and Raymond Harrison Have an Itching Foot, However, and Would Like to See the Southland.
TODAY'S PROGRAM.
9: SO a. ra. Athletic Exercises under direction cf Prof. N. C. Ilieronimous. 10.-D0 a. m. Pictures with Chalk, Hon. Frank Regan. . 2:00 p. m. Popular Lecture "Old Times in Dixie," Col. H. V. J. Ham. 4:00 p. m. Popular Chalk Talk, lion. Frank Regan. 7:00 p. m. Concert, Glazier's Jubilee Singer. 8:00 p. m. Popular Lecture, Dr. L. G. Herbert.
. United States Senator Dolllver preached the doctrine of optimism to the first audience of the Richmond Chautauqua yesterday afternoon, and when he had finished his eloquent and altogether practical address, there were many of his hearers who left w ith the thought uppermost that after al', the kicking, the complaining and the general, fault-finding about the "awful" conditions that exist in this country, are to a great degree imaginative. Senator Dolliver finds the inspiration f. of his cheery disposition in the good things of life. He refuses to borrow trouble and he proceeds along the theory that there are laws of nature, laws of God, which arc more deeply implanted in this world than any of those made by man, and which more than counter-balance the evils which may exist. In other words Senator Dolliver is firm in the belief that this world is growing better inead of 'worse ,as many persons are inclined to imagine; that conditions of the
present in political and social life are in fact better than they were a few decades ago and vastly better than a half century ago. Many Speakers Are Gloomy. "This country," said Senator Dolliver," has a great many men and women who are speaking from the platform at gatherings of this sort, who are persistent In expressing views of the people and and of the, country that are gloomy in the extreme. I rer fuse to take this view. I have inherited the philosophy of - life which makes it essential to believe that things as a whole are going on well. I met a man a few days ago who stated to me that if the great trusts hd monopolies of this country did not put us into actual slavery, that they certainly would put our children there. He thought we needed a new party to save these 80,000,000 people of ours. I have been as mad as any
body about some of the great industrial methods that confront us today, ' but it is incredible to think that a great and good God should have planned this universe without providing some laws of nature which can and will remedy the evils that exist. Instead of this world growing worse, I Juiow that it is growing better. I have made it my business to go back and find out just what the conditions were twenty years ago and seventyfive years ago, and there is ample proof for the assertion. The doctrine of the late Senator Hoar is worthy of emulation by every American. Read his memoirs and you will find that he was sensitive to every wrong and hopeful of every good. I have been a member of the American Congress for twenty years and during that period I have seen the mor
al level of American life constantly foing up. I heard a coHere of mine say recently that public life was going to ruin, that Washington was corrupt, that Congress was corrupt and that no such conditions existed In the National Capital forty or fifty years ago. The trouble with this man was that he did not know the conditions of the past nor of the present. For example, in 1S60 there existed in Washington, midway between the White House and the Capitol, a gambling house in which representatives of tV lower house. United States Senators and men who were candidates for the presidency were gathered every night. The keeper of that gambling house died. His funeral was attended by scores of men in Washington official life. Even the man who was then President of these United States was there and that man was 'your uncle, James Buchanan. Can any person conceive that such a condition could now prevail in Washington public life? Twenty years ago when I entered congress V saw men reeling from intoxication
The parents of Raymond Harrison and Hubert Snavely ,the two boys who left the city Wednesday, in company with Claud Weeks, have written to their parents that they are in Indianapolis and will return home in the course of a few days, although they say there is some likelihood of them going south. As the boys have only
tifteen cents in their pockets, it is hardly probable that they will go any
farther than Indianapolis.
Claud Weeks ,who started with the boys, but who was separated from
them in Indianapolis, also wrote a let
ter to his wife stating that he would also be home soon. As he has several relatives In Indianapolis, he will prob
ably visit them for some time.
WATSON ASKED FOR LETTERSENT HIM Roosevelt Answered Request He Made for a Defense of Last Congress.
THE MOVE A WORTHY ONE
MR. WATSON FELT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS BEING DONE AN INJUSTICE BY REPORTS THAT HE WANTED A CHANGE.
REFUSED INCREASE; OUIT THEIR WORK Wholesale Strike of Freight Handlers Started at Cincinnati Yesterday.
MAY AFFECT ALL ROADS
WORKMEN DEMAND A RAISE TO
SEVENTEEN CENTS AN HOURNO DISORDERS HAVE YET OC
CURRED.
Publishers' Press Cincinnati, O., Aug. 24. A whole
sale strike of freight handlers on almost every railroad in Cincinnati was
inaugurated today. The first set of
men to quit work were the freight
handlers of the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Kentucky Central division of
the Youisville and Nashville railroad. Several hundred men, having their demand for an increase of wages re
fused, announced that they would not work. As a result it was expected
that many freight trains that were on
ly partly loaded or ready for loading
to leave Cincinnati this afternoon
would be delayed. However the railroads brought men from nearby
points, and employed many new men,
and are not greatly interfered with
It is expected that next to strike will
be the Cincinnati Southern, as the ne
gotiations were considered practically
at a standstill this afternoon. Following them, it was said that in the Pennsylvania Pan Handle, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern forces,- similar
trouble would occur. The BigFour
claimed their men had not struck noi
would . they. One of the strike leaders made this statement: "Every railroad freight handler in Cincinnati will be out by Saturday night." The ordinary freigh handlers demand an increase from 15 cents to 17 and a half cents per hour. The "pickers," those who select the freight and then turn it over to others to remove, demand an increase foom 154 cents per hour. No disorders were reported today.
The Shirkey Funeral. Cambridge City, Aug. 24. (Spl) The funeral of Patrick Shirkey. aged S6, was held at St. Elizabeth's church this morning at 9 a. m.. Father Coulter officiating. Those who attended a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Vynn, of Brownsville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Gerling. of Connersville, Mrs. Catherine Connors of Connersville, Michael Wynn, of Connersville. Mrs. Catherine Eagean of Richmond, and Mrs. David Winters of Connersville.
POLES FAST BEING SET
Central Union Telephone Company is Getting Along Nicely With Its Reconstruction.
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The Central Union Telephone construction gang is now employed in stringing cables. There nil be trom thirteen to twenty miles of them strong throughout the city. Most cf the poles are set with the exception of a few, which will be put up as they are needed. The companr is having difficulty in getting labor. The gang at work now is composed of from seventy to eighty men and
about thirty more could be used.
Louis Ludlow, the well known po
litical writer, in a story sent out from
Ridgeville, where Congressman Wet-
son spoke at the Old Settlers' picnic
tells the truth of how Presilent
Roosevelt happened to write his re
cent letter to Mr. Watson. He says:
The accepted version that Speaker
Cannon invented the arrangement
which has worked out so felicitously.
or securing the president s public ap
proval of the house of representatives
is wholly erroneous. According to a
story telegraphed all over the country Speaker Cannon, while on a visit
at Oyster Bay a few weeks age, asked the president to write such a letter and when Mr. Roosevelt inquired tto
whom it should be addressed, th speaker said:
"Oh .address it to Jim Watson. He's
a good fellow. Watson the Inventor. "The genesis of this skillful politic; al movement may not be highly important, but it certainly is interesting.
especially to Indianans, because the
scheme was incubated in the gray
matter of a Hoosier statesmanJames E. Watson. Speaker Cannon knew nothing whatever of the pres
ident's purpose to write such a letter until Watson, at his home in Rushville, read the now famous epistle to him. This was after Mr. Cannon's
visit to Oyster Bay, while he wras en
route to his home at Danville, 111.
"Only one-half the big half, one
might say of the correspondence has yet been published. The other hal? is not for the public eye. ,. "Mr. Watson's letter to the presi
dent,- which drew out the latter's eco-
mium on the house of representatives
exposed a condition of the public
mind that needed doctoring. It is
fully as interesting as the president's reply. Vatson Writes to Roosevelt. "The idea of writing such a letter to the President came to Representative Watson in the still depths of night several weeks ago. Ha had been campaigning over a considerable portion of the country and his mind was troubled by the trend of talk he had heard among the people concerning the president and congres s. He determined then and there to write to
the president. "The next day he framed a leller with considerable ,care. Ite informed the president that he had sieut a good deal of time since congress adjourned
in Missouri, West Virginia and Indi
ana and that he found quite a strong feeling that the president and con
gress were not in harmony, Ilia he had heard it said many times that the president would rather have a Democratic House of Representatives elected this year than a Republican
House. This idea that the president was secretly hoping for a Democratic House was being told everywhere, and emphasized, he stated.
Need for Contradiction. Mr. Watson asserted that he him
self knew what a collosal wrong was done the president by such reports,
but that there was a tendency among the people to accept them at their face value and to . hold in members
of the house who are candidates for re-election as culprits who had sought at every opportunity tto defeat good legislation and thwart the will of he
president. He. recalled that while
members of congress often disagreed with the president, just as they disa
greed among themselves, as far as the main objects of legislation were concerned, the president and con
gress stood together and co-operated without division or discord. ITe added that he believed the president could not afford longer to permit such reports to go uncontradicted.
Speedy Response. A response quickly came from the
president. He replied that he would be glad to write a letter to him (Watson) as whip of the House, disabusing the public mind of any notion that
he desired a Democratic house of representatives or that he was dissat
isfied with the assistance which he received from the last congress. He asked Mr. Watson to consult with Speaker Cannon and Chairman Sher
man of the congressional committee.
as to their views on the matter. They heartily agreed as to tie propriety of the proceeding and the remainder of the negotiations related to the details of the manner and time of giving out the president's letter. Thus it wiil be seen that while the president s epictolary performance has attracted the attention of the country it should not be overlooked that James Eli Watson is something of a letter-writer himself."
AN END-OF-AUGUST SKETCH. Perspiring Humanity I'm certainly glad to see you headed toward the
exit" sign.
NDIAHA CLUB IS FOR "UNCLE JOE"
At Least it Would Appear So
from Conduct of President Matthews.
IS TROUBLE OVER BOOMS
MATTHEWS, FORMERLY SECRE
TARY TO FAIRBANKS, WRITES ON INDIANA CLUB LETTERHEAD ENDORSING CANNON.
Publishers" Press! Washington, Aug. 24. Trouble is
coming between tne memoers oi tne Indiana Club in this city and its pres
ident, J. W. Matthews. The latter was former private secretary of Vice President Fairbanks, but of recent months he has beencrpoisg the lather's presidential a'spirations whenever he could do so. At last night's organization of a national Cannon Club, to boom the Speaker of the House of Ropresenta tives for thepresidency.Matthewswas prevented from attending, but wrote a letter breathing undying fealty to Uncle Joe. The communication was written n the letterhead of, the Indiana Club, and Matthews signed it in his capacity of president of that organization. He was elected vicepresident. Many of the warm friends
in the Indiana Club of Vice-President Fairbanks declare that Matthews should resign or permit the adoption of resolutions explaining that the club was not booming Uncle Joe Cannon.
EARLY OPENING AT HAGERSTOWH
The Prospects for a Good School Year are Better Than Ever Before.
D. k W. CONDOCTOR
MOST FACE COURT
THE VIEWS OF SUPT. V0RIS
PROF. CHARLES WOOLLARD.POPULAR TEACHER IS TO HAVE CHARGE OF HIGH SCHOOL WORK OTHER INSTRUCTORS.
CH1CKEH THIEF CAUGHT
WANTED AT WINCHESTER
Irwin Penry Arrested Here at th Request of Detective Buck Fletcher Made a Confession Implicating Others.
Irwin Penry was arrested at the Pennsylvania Station yesterday afternoon by Officer Livelsberger on information received from Detective Buck Fletcher, of Winchester. Penry is wanted on a charge of
stealing chickens and had made u
escape as far as here, having a ticket
for Portland, when he was taken into custody. He gave a bogus name and insisted upon it until late in the evening, when he admitted to the name of Penry, and implicated two other persons in the thieving. Fletcher was notified of the man's capture and will probably come after him this morning.
The Hagerstown public schools will open Monday, September 3, and it is expected that the largest number of pupils in the history of the schools will be enrolled on that date.
Supt. O. L. Voris stated yesterday that he is not a believer in system of opening schools late in the fall, and keeping the children in confinement during the late spring months, when they should be free above all months in the year. The prospect for a large and successful high school at Hagerstown is extremely bright at the present time, and it is expected that more than sixty five students will be enrolled when school starts. Owing to the narrow limits which the school has to draw from, a high school of this size is considered a large one. Chas Woollard the popular teacher of last year,
will be principal of the high school this year. O. L. Voris who for the past eight years has been connected with the Hagerstown schools, two years as principal of the high school and four years as superintendent will be retained in that capacity this year. Under his care and guidance the Hagerstown schools are flourishing. A capable corps of teachers has been engaged for all the dierent sections of the school, they being: O. L. Voris, Superintendent.
Chas. Woollard, Principal of
high school. Room Xo. 4, Mrs. Elnora Root. Room Xo. 3, Blanche Coffman. Room Xo. 2, Anna BurgessRoom Xo. 1, Ada Waltz.
J. A. DeArmond Will Be Called
on To Explain About Running His Car.
J. B. GORDON'S COMPLAINT
LITTLE EDITOR CLAIMS THAT
T,RACTION CAR WAS NOT STOP
PED FOR HIM AND CONDUCTOR
WAS INSULTING. j
the
J. A. DeArmond, a conductor on the D. & W. traction inne was ar
rested last night on a warrant sworn
out by J. Bennett Gordon charging
him with provoke. De Armond fur
nished $23 cash bond for his appear
ance in City Court this morning.
It seems that Mr. Gordon boarded
one of the late east bound cars night before last, and told the conductor that he wanted off at 17th street As they approached 17th street the con
ductor showed no signs of pulling the cord and Mr. Gordon took the matter into his own hands. Immediately the conductor turned on him and with a gust of profanity told the little edito-
where to "get off."
This being one of Mr. Gordon's own
hobbles he reiterated that he knew where to "get off," and that it was
17th street. The conductor then said
that he would handle the car after
this and that if Mr. Gordon didn't get
off the car he would throw him off
The car having stopped at 17th street Mr. Gordon got off. It is stated that once before Mr. Gordon wanted off at 17th street but was carried out to Glen Miller. It is said that when the D. & W. traction line sained admit
tance to the city over the city tracks,
it was with the agreement that after
10 o'clock in the evening their cars should accommodate passengers, both going and coming at each street crossing. The case will come ud in City Court this morning.
LUTHERAN BOOK CONCERN -MAY GO The Preliminary Committee of Ohio Synod Makes Such a Recommendation.
PLAN CALLS FOR ITS SALE
IT IS HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT THE TEACHERS IN SYNODICAL INSTITUTIONS WILL GET BETTER PAY.
VESSEL BURNS IN RIVER
to lay out; ADDITION
The new home Robt. Hodsin is building on Xorth 14th street is now being plastered and Mr. Hodgin
hopes to move into it the first week I sold on the easy payment plan. The
Cornelius Ratliff yesterday sold thirty acres of land situated north of School Street between the G. R. & I. railroad tracks and Boyer street, to the McCain Realty Co.. Lima. O. The property is to be modernlj- improved and converted into lots which will be
in SeDte ruber.
"land sold for $10,000,
Merchant Liner at Chicago Catches
Fire from the Explosion cf Blank Cartridges.
ROLAND HAMMOND QEAD
Son of Former Richmond Resident Passes Away at Minneapolis After Long Illness
Word by telegraph was received yesterday morning of the death cf ten year old Roland Hammond, at tht home of hi3 mother in Minreapcli3. His death was caused by spinal meningitis from which he has been a sufferer for some time. His father was Will Hammond, who was at one time steward at the Westcott Hotel, and his mother was Marie Wright before her marriage. The family lived in the city for several years.
Publishers' Press J Chicago, . . . ..v.- on board a merchant liner in the Chicago river endangered the lives of 20 men, constituting the crew cf the vessel. Several leaped into the water and were rescued with difficulty. Explosion of blank cartridges and the Igniting of barrels of benzine, which formed part of the cargo, created a panic among the men. Tugs went to ;ie rescue and towed the lighter to a dock. The property loss is estimated at SS0.O0O.
TL.e County Commissioners will
A report is being persistently cir- j meet this morning to finish up the
culated to the effect that Richmond preparation of the recuisition list and
will be in the Central baseball league to consider any other business nest season, brought before then-
The Revs. Feeger. Beck and Klopfer, wJio are attending the meeting of the Lutheran Ohio Synod at Columbus are now Mislly engrossed in the affairs of cuurch management and will not get home until Tuesday of next week, unless the Revs. Bock and Feeger should have to return here Sunday to preach. A dispatch from Columbus Kays that if the recommendation of tha preliminary committee of the-Lutheran Ohio synod is followed out, tha Lutheran Book Concern will be a thing of the past. At a meeting of this committeo such action was decided upon, although it is difficult to forecast what
stand the synod will take in view of the fact that the institution has for years been paying handsome dividends. A few weeks ago Fred J. Heer. who for years has been at the head of tha publishing house, handed In his resignation, that he might establish a pubishlng. plant of his own. " " ' Dispose of Plant. The general plan Is to dispose or the composing room, press room, foundry and bindery, but keep tha book department and have all job printing done by competitive bidding. The property now owned- In East Main street at Columbus, will likewise be retained .lthough the . pre ent buildings will be torn down. I Is planned to build a four story offlc building, which will occupy all of th available ground. Caught in Bank Failure. Announcement was made at thl meeting of the committee that tin Jewish missionary work has beei hampered not a little by the failun of the Enterprise bank. In Pittsburg in which practically all of the fundi for that cause w'ere deposited. Reso lutions were adopted deploring th failure of the bank although the officials were not censured. It Is more than . probable that all instructors In the synodical Institu tions will receive an advance in salary. For several years the impression has been general that the teachers have been underpaid and the plan now is to fix salaries according to the length of service. It looks now as if Dr. C. II. C Schuette will again be selected ae general president of the -synod and In deed resolutions urging him to again accept the honor were adopted. II was further recommended that th presidency remain the same in scope and character as In the past and 11 was urged that the president should not be hindered by having additional duties not contained in the original conception of the office. The committeo went on record as favoring the appointment of a -super intendent of missions, who Is to bu- ;' pervise the extended missionary operations of the synod. A Knecial workman was recommended for work among the Jews.
A
L TALK
GIVEN BY CONG. WATSON
Politicians Attending the Sunday School Convention at Innalls Had Expected Him to Touch on Politic But He Didn't.
Commissioners Today.
'Anderson, Ind., Aug. 21. (Sp!)
Wlien be delivered an address at the Sunday school convention at Ingall3 yesterday aRernoon. Congressman
Watson disappointed several politi
cians, who expected to hear the
Whip of the House" touch at least
upon his open letter from President Roosevelt, and, perhaps make some reference to his great friend. "Uncle
Jo" Cannon. Instead of giving his address any political color. Congressman Watson delivered a talk regard
ed as fit for a sermon from a pulpit.
He discussed great forces, all of
which, he said, were founded upon
religion, asd he exhorted Sunday-
schools much as a minister of the
gospel might do. Congressman Cromer also appeared, and so also J. A
M. Adair his political opponent in the
Eighth district. Both were invited tc the platform, but both refrained froir. any more political effect than giver, to the occasion by their presence.
Mis3 Mary Hill, daughter of Rer. and Mrs. G. H. Hill, who has been seriously 111 for some time with tubercular trouble at Denver, Col., will arrive in the city this morning, accompanied by relatives and friends.