Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 319, 14 December 1906 — Page 4
The Richmond Palladium, Friday, December 14, 1906. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM COMMITTEE FAILS Entrd at Richmond Postofflc as Saeond Class M attar TO AGREE Oil BILL FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1906
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RICHMOND, IND.TM
NUMBER 30 1.
f ISosurd. of Works Statement.
la yesterday's Palladium appeared the statement of the Board of Works calling attention to the fact that the competitor of the Muni
cipal Plant was Becking to gain business by declaring that the city plant
would be unable to 'properly take care of its commercial lighting during the holiday season. The Hoard of Works declares that this statement
of the Municipal Light plant's competitor is false and that the plant will
be able to give its patrons first class service both in regard to quality and quantity of electric light. Thi3 is a first class example of, he way in which a trust works. Not fairly and above-board, but in the dark and by casting untruthful insinuations. It is the way in which a man like Mr. Witherby lives up to the religion he claims. You remember
ho said last spring, "It is a part of my religion whereever I meet a
municipal light plant to try and destroy it." And that is what' he, or
rather his company, the Light, Heat & Power Co., branch of the elec
tric trust, Is trying to do to our municipal light plant. But in Rich
mond the people have not forgotten the tyranny they had to submit to
when the Light, Heat & Power Co. was in the saddle and there was no Municipal Light plant to break the high rates. The local branch of the
electric trust goes about now 'cuttfng" rates and loudly proclaiming
the fact as evidence of its good intentions with regard to low rates if
Jt ever succeeds in putting the city plant out of business. But let the people cease to support the Municipal Light plant and let the Light, Heat and Power Co., get on top again, and they will find that the trust's good intentions are just like the good Intentions with which
tho streets of Hell are said to be paved. Stick to your Municipal Light
plant and if you are a consumer of electricity in any form purchase it from the city's plant. Only a short time ago the trust approached a
local man to get him to change from the city plant to the L. H. & P.
Co. and offered him a special low rate. He agreed to do so if they
would give him a five year contract, but they wouldn't do so. Their
low rates are simply made from year to year with the vain hope that the Municipal Light plant will be done away with and the good old high
rates oncemore in vogue. In this case a five year contract would be
embarrasins. ....
Ship Subsidy Measure Threat
ens to Cause Trouble and It Is Dropped.
ISow Muncic Views The Local ISffor-t.
Tho Muncle Star, commenting editorially yesterday morning on the
local effort to raise $100,000 for a Y. M. C. A. says:
"The efforts of the people of Richmond to build a suitable house for the local branch of the Y. M. C. A. continues, and although at present
many thousand dollars are lacking of the amount required, there is no sign of a falling down. The spirit animating the citizens of that beautiful city Is manifested in the case of a young man, 18 years of age, who works for a living, and who subscribed $30 to the fund, and in order to make good his
pledge has decided to do without a new suit of clothes and an overcoat
this winter. He avers that the old suit and overcoat shall answer his
purpose. ' When such spirit among the young men is shown it is not unlikely that the sum required (IIOO.OCO) will be forthcoming. In this con
nection a few brief words may be appended from Robert Quayle, superintendent of motive power and machinery of the C. & N. W. railroad shops of Chicago: 'My personal observation and personal touch with Young Men's Christian association work has caused me to know that the Young Men's Christian Association Is to men what the lighthouse is to the mariner. It . helps him to guide his small bark more safely. It helps him keep away from the shoals and rocks of life. It is not only that 'Thou shalt not, but
it constantly appeals to them by lessons, and lessons in practical good living. In short, it Is a means of displacing evil by development of the good. The environment of each association Is such as to increase man's respect for himself and thereby increase his usefulness. And work that will increase man's self-respect, his usefulness and make him a better man he at once becomes a better citizen, a better employe, a better business man and his better influence Is at once useful in helping to increase the usefulness of others'."
ADVISORY BOARDS
FAIL TO QUALIFY
AttorneyGeneraI Appealed' to Decide Unusual Contingency in County.
visory board members must qualify
"immediately" following the election,
but that no special limit is fixed. County Council is O. K.
The Wayne County Council, elect
ed at the November election, is gov
erned by the same law which regulates the method of township advisory board members qualifying. The members elected to the county council
all filed their certificates of election, thus qualifying within ten days from
the day of election. yK
PERRY TOWNSHIP IS 0: K.
if HERE-ALONE' HAVE' THE NEWLY ELECTED BOARD MEMBERS BEEN SWORN INTO OFFICE AS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
With the exception of la Perry township, it appears that none of the istlng law the members of the advisory boards elected in November, qualified as the law prescribes, in fact they have not yet qualified. This fact was developed at yesterday's meeting of the trustees, it being maintained by most of tho officers that under the existing law th members of the advisory loard must qualify within ten days from the date of the election. It was argued that under this condition of affairs, none of the advisory boards elected in November can be eligible to the office, and, therefore, the old boards will continue in service. Under tho law all officers in whatever position, hold until their successors
have been regularly elected and have qualified and If it is now too late for the advisory board members to qualify, then, it is contended, the old boards will hold sway until the next general election. It was suggested that to save trouble and confusion the old boards might resign, but another stumbling block was met with here, for there is no provision for the appointment of their successors and therefore
winieu. uf r? one memoer 01 au .avisory board resigns, his successor is appointed, the two remaining members of the board attending to this duty. The law, however, did not contemplate any such contingency as an entire board being disqualified for duty and hence no provision is made for filling such vacancies. Attorney-General Miller will be communicated with and his decision is awaited with interest. One of the trustees yesterday said after the meeting, that his understanding of tho law was that ad-
P. MERKLE IS ARRESTED
HAD MISSING PROPERTY
owner or naiiroad Restaurant in Hands of the Law, but Learns that It Is a Joke Before He Is Taken to
Jail.
Peter Merkle the owner of the de
pot restaurants at Richmond, Indian
apolis and Columbus, ran up against
the law yesterday afternoon as he
stepped off the Indianapolis train in the
local station. Mr. Merkle had his first experience with a policeman and he likely will remember it a long
time, even though it was a joke that
is partly a joke. Yesterday noon Mr. Merkle was preparing to leave the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis. He was talking to a group of friends when the 'bus driver called him for
his train. Mr. Merkle grabbed what be presumed was his overcoat and dashed out of the hotel. Some of Merkle's friends discovered his error and they telegraphed to the railroad
boys here to have an officer Intercept
him and claim the overcoat. Patrol
man Mort Little was "let" in" on the affair, and when Mr. Merkle entered the depot restaurant, he was inter
cepted in accordance with, telegraph
ic instructions and the overcoat demanded. . Mr. Merkle, until that moment had not discovered he had the wrong garment. Now he is wondering which one of the jokers .has hl3 coat
and contemplates having every friend he has In Indiana polis "arrested until
the find is male.
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Publishers' rress.J
Washington, Dec. 13. The house
committee on merchant marine failed
to reach an agreement on a ship sub
sidy bill. Four of the Republican mem
bers of the committee expressed them
selves as opposed to reporting any
measure and a caucus of the Republi
can members of the committee will
b held Friday to consider the n atter.
Chairman Gresvenor presented the Gallinger bill to the committee with amendments confining government
aid to mercantile and South American
shipping. Opposition of the Republi
cans to the measure developed at
once. Finally the committee, on mo
tion of Representative Watson of Indiana, adjourned without action to
meet again Saturday.
Four of the Republican members,
Fordney (Mich.), Wilson (111.), Bird-
sail (la.) and Hinshaw (Neb.), an
nounced that they would not be bound by the action of the caucus. Wilson told the chairman he had no thought
of accepting the caucus -action as bind
ing. Grosvenor replied: "Well, it
doesn't make any difference whether
you attend or not."
"But I'm going to attend. That's
what my constituents -send me here
for," replied Wilson. "I am opposed
to ship subsidy and my constituents
are opposed to it."
At present nine members of the
committee are said to be for oriental and South American ship subsidy, while nine are opposed. Only one
Democrat on the committee, McDer-
xnott (N. J.), favors government aid
to shipping.
The house agreed to vote on the
resolution increasing the salaries of
senators and representatives to $7,500,
and making other increases in official salaries, when the legislative bill is
reported to the house from the com
mittee of the whole. The resolution
also fixes the salaries of the vice pres
ident and speaker at $15,000, and of
cabinet officers at $12,000.
The house authorized an Investiga
tion into the so-called "lumber trust.
A petition for the establishment of
postal savings banks bearing the
names of nearly 20,000 persons in 18
states was presented to congress by
Representative Bouteii oi luinois.
Representative Smith of Texas in
troduced a bill requiring railways to furnish cars promptly to shippers of
live stock.
The senate confirmed the nomina
tions of William H. Moody of Massachusetts, to be associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States;
Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland, to
be attorney general; Victor H. MetCLlf of California, to be secretary of
the navy, and Oscar S. Straus of New York, to be secretary of commerce and labor.
The senate in executive session rati
fied the general act to the delegates
of the powers represented at the con
ference which met at Algeciras, Spain, in April last, to draft a treaty concern
ing Moroccan affairs. Opposition by the Democrats compelled the adoption
of a resolution disclaiming responsi
bility for the participation of the United States in the program arranged by the conference as to the future of Mort ceo.
President Roosevelt was directly
charged in the senate with using his influence for the election of Republican Mormon candidates In the receat election in Idaho and Utah. The
charge was made by Senator Dubois
in the course of a speech in which he discussed the right of Reed Smoot to a seat in the senate. Mr. Dubois asserted the control of the Mormon church to be complete hierarchy, consisting of the presidency and the 12 apostles, of which Mr. Smoot is one.
This control, he maintained,' is ecclesiastical, political and commercial, and exercised completely over followers, who come principally from foreign countries. Polygamous relations
are being sustained, Mr. Dubois said, by the Mormon president, Joseph Smith, and a majority of the 12 apos
tles. Continually there Is contracting
of new polygamous marriages surreptitiously arranged by the church in Canada, Mexico or on the high seas.
Polygamists, he said, occupy the highest positions, politically and in the church, and constitute the wealthiest
and most powerful members of the
church organizations. .This is a
change, he asserted, from the old days
when polygamy was entered into in
discriminately. Now the polygamists
are selected by officers of the church.
and in this way is being built up a cult and aristocracy of polygamists. But no record of polygamous marriages is kept which is available for
the people of the United States. Because of this, he pointed out the futil
ity of passing a national law prohibit
ing the practice. Politically, hesaid.
the Mormon church holds absolute
way in Utah and is extending its con
trol In Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.
As to Senator Smoot, he said, it
makes no difference whether he is or
is not a poljgamist. The senator is a
pillar ia the church, and in control of Its temporal, spiritual and political p6iicies."andws selected'for the Sen
ate TiMfluaa f Viie nncitfrtTi In tha
church. "Smoot represents the church car Kirlin, V. G.; Lenny Mimmel, and not the state" he said, "and R- S.; Lafe Rayle, F. S.; Frank Penwould do the bidding of the church ninger. Treas.; I. F. Sweney, Trustee
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ests or tne state or nation. By Demg an apostle of the church Smoot is a member of this high conspiracy. He is one of the chief conspirators, and by his acquiescence supports the plans and aims of the conspiracy." Turning his" attention to the campaign preceding the recent election, Mr. Dubois read the press dispatches of Oct. 22, which stated that the president sent Secretary Taft into Idaho to speak into advocacy of law and order. At that time Dubois telegraphed the president that the only issue in Idaho was the desire of the Mormon heirarchy to continue to dominate the policies of the state, and that the president was mislead if he thought there was any other issue. The Republican state platform, he said, "was absolutely siletft regarding law and order, and notwithstanding the Democratic platform denounced the murder
of Governor Steunenberg and demand
ed the conviction of the guilty party, none of the Democratic speakers dis
cussed any subject save that of Mormonism, hence there was no other issue in the Idaho campaign. A majority of a committee of the senate, after patient and exhaustive research, reported Reed Srcqot is not entitled to
his seat as a senator. It was not a
partisan report. It should not be a partisan subject. No president, heretofore, has made it a matter of parti
san politics; President Roosevelt has. When Governor Gooding of Idaho and the chairman of the Republican state committee were engaged in inciting
law breaking and law defying Mor
mons to additional lawlessness, the president of the United States sent
his secretary of war o Idaho to plead with the people to stand by Governor Gooding in order tc maintain law and order in Idaho."
Mr. Dubois referred to messages of
Presidents Buchanan, Johnson, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, and citing
what he termed the menace of Mormonism, proceeded: T call attention to these messages, of presidents for
two purposes, to indicate the views of
our former executives, and to mark
the contrast between them and the
present occupant of the White House. Mormonism is more insidious, more dangerous and a greater menace to government and civilization today
than it was at any particular period when these messages were addressed
to congress. Yet President Roosevelt does not deem the subject worthy of
mention in a message filled with suggestions. The ljon-Mormon citizenship of Utah and IdaJio think they are entitled to the support of law abiding citizens everywhere in their efforts to maintain citizenship in these Mormon states, and if they can not receive that
they have the right to demand that the president of the United States shall not use the great power vested in him In the interest of those law defying and un-American organiza
tions In their determination to rule the politics of this section of our country. In Utah there is a Republl-
Mormon party and a Democratic Mormon party, both equally controlled by
the Mormon heirarchy. The American partyin Utah is composed of Gentiles, both Republicans and Democrats, who are battling there under the very shadow of this tremendous ecclesiast
ical power for American citizenship,
for the separation of church and state, and against the degradation of womanhood and home. It is a noble, magnificent contest they are making.
They have abandoned all hope of political orerment. and suffer financial
ly in their unequal' struggle for principle. President Roosevelt throws the weight of his mighty Influence against
the Americans and for the Republican Mormons in Utah, led by President
Smith and Senator Smoot, and de
mands in Utah an endorsement of Smith and Snoot.".
Has Begun His Term.
A dispatch from Leavenworth,
Kan., yesterday stated that among
prisoners arriving to begin terms in
the federal prison there, was Daniel Engelbert, of Richmond, who recently plead guilty to rifling the mails.
Milton Lodge Election. Milton, Ind., Dec. 13, (Spl.)
The newly elected officers of Odd
Fellows are: D. A. Trine. N. G Os-
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Rankin Duvall, New York Actor, Commits Suicide in Bar Room as He Had
So Often Effectively Portrayed on Stage.
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Publishers' Press.J New York, Dtc. 13. A sensational attempt at suicide was made in a Sixth street saloon by a man who described himself as Rankin Duvall, 40, an actor. Duvall entered the saloon, and walking up to the lunch counter picked up a long bladed cheese knife and turning to the bartender with a smile asked: "May I use this?" "Certainly," replied the bartender, thinking he was about to carve some Cheese for himself. Instead he unbuttoned his coat and vest and pressing the point of the knife to his abdomen, threw himself heavily to the floor, so that the big blade ripped his body. Before any of the men close by could wrest the knife from him he had thrust the weapon twice more into the frightful wound. Duvall did not lose consciousness and when asked why he did such a thing replied: "Oh, I'm a criminal; that's all." Duvall Is said to be the son of a Baltimore merchant. He recently played in the "Darling of the Gods," in the last act of which he nightly enacted suicide in ''Japanese fashio.
FOUNTAIN CITY.
Fountain City, Ind., Dec. 13, (Spl.) Mrs. Alice Hunt preached at the Center church northwest of Fountain City last Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. James Schroeder were entertained Sunday by Mr. and Barlow Price.
Suda Nickels of Richmond who has been here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas has returned to her
home. The Christian Endeavor gave a Hard Time Social last Tuesday even
ing at the home of Lin Reece and
family east of the city. Refresh
ments were served after which they departed for their homes all kaving
a nice time.
Fred Thomas and family have
moved in the house vacated by Bar
ney Marine and wife and Ed. Vore
and family moved in the house vacat
ed by Thomas on Green street.
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