Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 236, 23 September 1906 — Page 1
BICHMOND ED A ADIUMo N VOL. XXXI. NO. 236. Richmond, Indiana, Sunday Morning, September 23, 1906. Single Copies, Three Cents.
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FRENZIED MOBS OVERRUN ATLANTA
DEFYINGOFFICERS
'$f our White Women Assaulted by Negroes in Space of a
Few Hours and City Was
Thrown into a Wild Excite
ment.
FIVE NEGROES WERE
KILLED BY THE MOBS
Hundreds of Men and Boys
Chase Every Negro Seen
and Scores Were Injured
The Actual Assailants Es
caped Arrest.
. Publishers' Press!
Atlanta. Ga.. SeDt. 22 Four at
tempted assaults upon white -women
bv neeroes were made in Atlanta
within a brief period tonight, an.l as a result of the riots that followed,
five negroes' were killed and scores of negroes were injured. The riot call was sounded and the police department did strenuous duty in an effort
to quell the mobs. ALL NEGROES ;N DANGER. Numbers and numbers of negroes were hauled and jerked from the street cars, beaten and cut and hurled into the gutters. Negroes whereever seen were chased to cover and in many instances shot at by the blooodcrazed mob of angry men and boys. The women on whom the assaults were made are: ' MRS. ESSIE CHASSIN, living near the Soldiers' Home on the outskirts of the city. MISS ALMA ALLEN, 1S2 Davis street. MRS. J. S. ARNOLD, 1S7 Bullion street. MRS. HATTIE HOLCOMBE, 273 Magnolia street. The negroes who were shot down were: Will Durham, bootblack at the Leland barber shop; unknown negro on Broad street; deaf and dumb negro in front of the Kimball House; three unknown negroes at the corner of Prior and Richardson streets. FIRE DEPARTMENT USED. At midnight the fire department was called to Decatur and Richardson streets to throw water on a large collection of negroes at "Nigger Bowery" and drive them away. Shortly after this Mayor Woodward and many
of the leading citizens of Atlanta
drove through the mob in an effort
to pacify the frenzied men.
None of the negroes who committ
ed the assaults had, up to midnight
been arrested, but they are being pur
sued.
The local newspapers predict that
by morning over a dozen negroes will have been killed and found dead on the streets in various quarters of the city, through which they were
chased during the riot.
The Bijou theatre has been con
verted into an emergency hospital,
where all wounded negroes found on
the streets or in public places are
being taken.
Atlanta is the scene of a perfect
fcedlam tonight, and it is expected at
any moment th:, anoi.er riot will
burst forth. Probably no more out
raged and hostile crowd or mob has ever run the streers of any city of the south.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Fair Sunday and Monday, . cooler Sunday In north and central portions, diminishing northwest winds. OHIO Fair and cooler Sunday, Monday fair, continued cool, fresh northwest winds.
STEM'S DIARY REVEALS HIS : LIFE
Interesting Document Unearthed in Chicago by Authorities.
HAD MANY LOVE AFFAIRS
BITS OF PASSIONATE VERSE FOUND WHICH THROWS LIGHT ON HIS CHARACTER OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN CASE.
Publishers Press! Chicago, Sept 22. The diary of
Paul O. Stensland, defaulting presi
dent of the Milwaukee Avenue Sav
ings Bank, now on his way back from
Morocco to answer for embezzlements
exceeding $1,000,000, . was found today
in a vault in the looted institution.
Through it runs the Arabian Nights
story of revelry, financial and domes
tic intrigue, wastefulness and pleas
ure during the banker's leisure hours during the same years that he was
known to the business world as a
man of spotless character.
The diary is a marvelous record of
a creature of dual personality, talking to him g If. through his pen.
Passionate Verse Appears. One page contains a bit of passion
ate verse. Another, pays tribute to his love for a beautiful woman. A third tells how, with a snap of his- fin
gers, he filled his purse with the gold of the provident.
In one. place he outlines the plan
for the creation of the Milwaukee Avenue Co-Oporative Store, the mercantile establishment which, by its heavy losses, finally proved Stens-
land's ruin.
, Many Love Affairs. "It is perfectly ridiculous," he
writes in ocei place,, "to give yourself
over to one person wholly." ,
Stensland didn't. He was a man
of many love affairs. Several pages
of the diary are given to the addresses of women of whom he 'speaks on other pages in tones of the most glowing devotion.
Former Teller Walter Frantzen
made another confession today which the police say makes the case againsf
Stensland complete. He denied hav-
ng himself embezzled any" of the
PRESIDENT PALMA LIKELY TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE - - The Head of the Cuban Government Expected to Step Down and Out, Taking Cabinet with Him.
MORE WARSHIPS ON LOOKOUT FOR ORDERS
Cruisers Minneapolis and Newark Have Arrived at Havana Armed Intervention Believed Probable.
ANOTHER PEACE EFFORT.
Havana, Sept. 22. As a result of the conference of Liberal leaders with Secretary Taft today, and at Secretary Taft's request, the revolutionists appointed a committee of eight: members with Senator Zayas as chairman, and" invested the committee with full powers to carry on the negotiations for peace. If peace is possible at all, this step is a great advance toward its realization.
Havana, Sept. 22. The United States cruisers Minneapolis and Newark have arrived here. A congressman, whose relations with the administration are exceedingly close, asserted that President Palma and the members of his cabinet probably would resign and that intervention was expected. Messrs. Taft and Bacon, accompanied by Consul General Steinhart and Captain McCoy, called on President Palma and got Ms ideas on what he was willing should be done under the circumstances. The secretaries also listened to t"he Viws of a number of prominent insurgents and Liberals," including Pino Guerra, General Castilo, Juan Gualberto Gomez and Jose Miguel Gomez. , Secretary Taft said: "The proposals of the Moderates, while not bread and far-reaching enough to meet' the necessities of .the case, evidence a desire on the part of the Moderates to maintain the integrity of the republic, even though they are compelled to abandon their control'. Consequently, the situation is at least somewhat
bank's funds, but he gathered up the' more hopeful. There must be some
threads of the case in such a way that
the prosecution regards its case as unassailable.
THE GRAND JURY AT WORK
MAINE LIKED WATSON
The Kennebec Journal Pays Complj. ment to Sixth District Congressman.
The Kennebec Journal, a leading laper of Maine, has the following to eay editorally of Congressman Watson's recent visit to that state: Among the strong men from out of the State who have done and are doing effective work Tor the Republican cause in Maine, is Congressman James E. Watson of the Sixth Indiana distict, one of the ablest and most influential members of the National House of Representatives. Mr. Watson is a clear, forceful and convincing speaker, and his presentation of Republican principals and the grand record of results achieved through Republican legislation has made his work in the Maine campaign productive of the most gratifying results. It has made a pleasure to the people ,of our State to see ana hear Mr. Wat
son. He will carry away with , him
their Jjeartiest good wishes.
tPublishers Press Bedford, Ind., Sept. 22 The grand jury today took up its fourth investigation of the Shafer murder mystery, working on the line of the latest Tanksley clews. Nellie Rainey, arrested with suspect Thanksley at Evansville, was before the grand jury all day. She says that the letter containing the information connecting Tanksley with an engagement to meet her on that night is a forgery.
resignations showing the good faith ot the government before the rebels will consent to law down their arms." As the secretary turned to enter his automobile he added: "At "least we have got the ice broken."
MARION GETS THE TROPHY
Publishers' Pressl Marion, Ind., Sept. 22 The MarIon Canton, a company ' composed of the uniform rank of Odd Fellows of Marion lodge, won first place and a prize of $1,000 in a competitive drill in Toronto, in which crack companies from all parts of the United States and Canada participated.
MADE REPLY TO WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
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CITIZENS APPROVE OF APPROPRIATION TO REID HOSPITAL
The Institution Came ; to the
City as Gift that Should be Held as That of the People for their Benefit.
TRUSTEE RUPE GIVES
OPINION ON MATTER
Maintains that the City Coun
cil Had Perfect Legal Right to Take the Action it Did Friday Night.
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WILL BLOCK COUNCIL
City Attorney Study said yesterday afternoon relative to the action of the city council in appropriating $6,000 for Reid Memorial Hospital, that it was likely that the city controller would be instructed to not honor any warrant which calls for money on this appropriation. From this statement it is evident that the city council is to be blocked in its effort to go to the relief of Reid Mei..orial Hospital and should this result there are many people who believe that the hospital will not be able to continue in the service of the people. ,
OVATO
GREAT
FOR REVERIDGE III WINDY CITY
Indiana Senator Makes Reply to Bryan's Government Railroad Ownership Proposition in Presence of Vast Throng of People.
FEDERAL REGULATION THE PROPER REMEDY
Senator Beveridge.AIso Points Out the Only Cure for Cuba's Ills America Must Ultimately Go to the Island's
Rescue.
SIDELIGHTS ON BEVERIDGE'S SPEECH.
ON RAILROAD OWNERSHIP PROPOSITION. The government should do no business that the people can do better themselves. The government should control industries owned by some people that are so great as to affect the welfare of all the people. Government ownership of nation-wide business is the - European theory; government regulation of nation-wide business Is the- American theory. Open and above board must henceforth be the motto of American business. Railways whose rates -are a tax upon all the people, should be controlled by the government of all the people. If the making of the people's food and medicine, which concern the health and life of the people ought not be owned by the people's government, railroads, which affect only the business of the people should not be owned by the people's government. , '
ON THE PRESENT CUBAN UPRISING. It cannot be that American blood was shed in vain in Cuba, did not go to war for liberty that liberty shoud be mocked.
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Is it best that Cuba continue the battleground of foolish factions or that American law and order should regulate their industry? Do you feel that the cause of human freedom would best advance under the Cuban. flag or under the banner which, wherever it has been lifted, meant practical progress and real freedom? Liberty that is the method of human progress and the nation, which, under God, is leading the world to liberty is this American Republic.
BANK INQUIRY CONTINUES
THE INDICTMENT HOLDS
HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE. Indiana's Brilliant Senior Senator, who last night delivered an Address at "Chicago, formally launching the Campaign. t " '
Citizens in general approve the unanimous action of the city council last Friday night, when it voted a special appropriation of $6,000 toward the mamtenance of Reid Memorial hospital over the protest of City Attorney Study, who declared that the hospital was in no sense a city institution and that the city council could not legally give it financial 'aid. Reid Memorial Hospital, it is maintained, was a gift to the people of Richmond, and with possibly one exception is the most complete and beautiful institution of its kind in Indiana. Daniel G. Reid, who came to Richmond's assistance at a time when a modernly equipped hospital was needed, made it very emphatic
that the institution was for the people of his home city, though it was
provided that the direct management of its affairs should be vested in a board cf trustees, all of them citizens of Richmond, though not 'necessarily city officials. By this arrangement the institution is kept clear from politics and the consequent effects of frequent changes in the city administra
tion. It is declared, however, that this in no sense keeps the institution from being one that is essentially public in every way. Mr.-. Rupe's Opinion. John L. Rupe ,one of the board of trustees of Reid Memorial Hospital, said last night to th Palladium: 'I maintain that . the city council ,( Continued. on Pa Xw9.-
Horace Goodrich of the Wrecked Ar
lington Bank Must Stand Trial . at Rushville. Investigation is of Much Interest. ,
Publishers Pressl Rushville, Ind., Sept. 22 Judge Sparks in the' circuit court has held the indictment- good as - returned against ' Horace Goodrich, ex-president of the "defunct Arlington Bank, who is accused of embezzlement, and the case is set for trial Xov. 20. The specific allegation against Goodrich is that he received a draft from the Blair-Parker Co., of Indianapolis, for $50, knowing his bank to be insolvent. . - -
SEEKS TRACE: OF : FATHER
Dennis Clancy, Trying to Find Parents Through Agency of Theatre Programs,
PLAN CAMPAIGN OPENING
THE COMMITTEE MEETS
Republicans will Soon Headquarters Senator
Establish Beveridge
Likely to be One of the Speakers Who will Come to Richmond.
Publishers Pressl Logans port, Ind., Sept. 22 Dennis Clancy, 1544 West Sixty-second street Chicago, has asked J. E. Downing, a local theatrical manager, to help locate his father through theatre programs used at the Dowlin in 1S84. Clancy's father was a Congregational pastor at Terre Haute. Mrs. Clancy left her husband when he went on the stage. S. years ago the mother died, and CI. )cy Jr., has no clewsave that he .'members when his father played a leading part in a melodrama, and he was taken to see him act. The Chicago man hopes that some one here will recollect his father and be able to supply the program ypon which. Ms name appeared.
The Republican County Central
Committee held an informal meeting
at the Court House yesterday after
noon. The matter of the selection of a room for headquarters was discuss
ed and finally left to. Chairman Gard
ner and Secretary Converse, who
stated last night that they had no idea
of where the headquarters would be,
as they have not looked into the mat
ter fully.
The selection of speakers was also
under debate, but no announcements
were made as to who they will be. It
is expected that within the next few days all will be in readiness for the opening of the campaign in this county. It is reported that Senator Bev
eridge will be one of the speakers who
will come to Wayne county.
NEW RECTOR TO PREACH
The Rev. David C. Huntington to Begin His duties at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Today.
The Rev. David C Huntington, the. new rector of SL Paul's Episcopal church arrived In the city yesterday from Syracuse, X. Y. He will preach his first sermon as rector this morning at 10:30 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Huntington was rector of All Saints' church at Syracuse for several years and before leaving a farew&H reception was held in his lionor by his parishoners. He was presented .with, a gold watch and ring.
CPnbllshers' PrsJ ' Chicago, 111., Sept. 22. The mosr notable public address which can tx construed as a direct reply to Willianv Jennings Bryan's government ownership proposition, was made here to-' night by Albert J. Beveridge, United States Senator from Indiana. Th address marked the formal opening of the Republican campaign in Chicago and the Auditorium held a vast audience which welcomed the brilliant Indiana statesman with wonderful warmth. Senator Beveridge being one of the closest friends of President
(Roosevelt, spoko with what really
.was the endorsement of the administration, if not with its authority, and -; his address is a valuable contributioa ( to the Republican cause, j The Senator's Address. In part Senator Beveridge spoke as j follows: I "The people's government should do no business that the people can do 1 .better themselves; the people's government should own no business that the people can better own themselves. -' 'But the people's government "should control and regulate industries ; owned by some of the people that are so great as to affect the welfare of all the people. f "The people, through their government, should not permit some of them
to practice business methods that will be unjust to all of them. Dut the people's government, should not own any Industry which, private enterprise can efficiently manage and whose abuses government regulation can prevent.' " V'-' . : "Government ownership of nationwide business Is the European theory of industry. Government regula-, tion of nation-wide business Is the American theory of industry. I am for the American theory and , against
the European theory. Let Europe copy America, not America copy Eu-. rope. Government control of rail-; ways, but not Government ownership of railways. A Public Trust. "The day was when individual could do the business of communities because those communities were: small and communication with other, communities was difficult. All business was private business then. It was one man dealing with another man. But railroads, telegraphs, telephones came " and that period passed away. .Universal, .communication brought another period Into being. What was before the needs of hundreds became the needs of millions.And so the organization of Industry' grew out -of the interests of the people. "Nothing but great combinations of capital could answer the enormous need3 of the masses. And because one man was no longer dealing with another man, but vast corporations
were dealing with millions of men. those corporations became no longer private concerns, but public servants.' Their managers became no longer private business men, but public business men. Every manager of every great industry which touches all the people is no longer an individual dealing with another individual; he. is a statesman of affairs dealing with a nation. He is no longer an exclusive owner managing a private business for his exclusive gain alone; he is a trustee managing a great business for the people's welfare as well as his own welfare. Organization Needful. "I repeat that the modem development of organized industry Is not onljf necessary, but that it is good. Take as a single illustration the railways. Without them Chicago would still be
a xronuer town, w iinout mem tnei
farmers of Iowa could not get their
cattle and grain to market. Without them merchants would be without .
soth customers or, stock. Without them the daily newspaper could not
be served to the country districts. Without them the nation would fall asunder.
'They make the man who lives on
the Atlantic the neighbor of him who lives on the Pacific and all Americana brothers. They are the greatest element in creating that common Americanism which makes the republic's
eighty millions a compact, homogeneous people. 1 They are highways of commerce, avennes of . intelligence, .
agencies of patriotism they ' are all;
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