Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 330, 11 January 1908 — Page 1

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HARMONY MANIFEST IN

ELECTIONS Township and Ward Elections Held Yesterday Gave Evidence of Republican Prosperity in County. ENTHUSIASM EVIDENCED ALL OVER THE COUNTY. Number of Voters Turning Out To Select Members of Central Committee, Alternates, and Delegates, Large. CAMPAIGNING WAS LIVELY. JN NEARLY EVERY PRECINCT IN THE COUNTY THERE WAS ONE OR MORE CANDIDATES FOR POSITIONS TO BE FILLED. WILL POLL BIG MAJORITY. Interest Shown in the Preliminary Skirmish, Puts Heads to Nodding And Party Leaders to Smiling in Anticipation. Yesterday in every township in the county and in every ward in the city, lepublican meetings were held for the purpose of electing members of the wayne county republican central committee, precinct committeemen and delegates and alternates to the county convention at Cambridge City. The lovvnship meetings were held in the uftornoou while the ward meetings in this city were held last night'. Uejiorts of these various meetings, which v ere slow in coming in. show that there was a large turnout of voters, indicating that this year the keenest interest is being taken in politics. According to the reports received tnt re was hannon. spelled with a cap ital II at every meeting. At nearly: eery meeting there were two or morej candidates for each oflice and the cam-( jialgning for votes on the i.art of the j candidates was lively but no ill feel-j i:ig iti any instance was displayed. j , At the fourth ward meeting there! vas a large turnout and the work was tarried on with enthusiasm. In the Second ward the balloting addresses! were made by the Kev. .1. (). Campbell; end other well known citizens. I As a result of the meetings held yes-! tcrda.N it is freely predicted that; ayne county will this year poll the largest republican majority in recent i Scars. ! The following; is a partial list of the; chairmen, w ho will represent - t heir I respective w ards and townships on j the. central committee, and dele-! pates and alternates to the count'! Convention : WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Chairman Uriah Norris. Delegate H. A. Davenport. Alternate Will Spalding. First Ward. Chairman Harry r.cniin. 1 e 1 eg a t e William T c r b ec k . Alternate Clifford Shurley. Second Ward. Chairman William Plummer, Delegate George liishop. Alternate John Fou'.ko. Third Ward. Chairman John lYUz. Delegate- S. H. Jo-ies. Alternate T. J. Goldti'.g. Fourth Wsrd. Chairman Richard Genu. Delegate Dr. S. C. Mark 1;. Alternate C. R Hunt. Fifth Ward. Chairman I low ard Hrooks. Wles-ate 1.. K. Harris. Alternate Harry Gates. Sixth Ward. Chairman W. A. P-nd. Dele-scat o- J. S. Harris. Alternatt 1'anl Coni.-'oek. Seventh Ward. Chairman Get rge Matthews. I Mega t e- Lev i I Va cock. Alternatt James Kessler. Eighth Ward. Chairman Hugh Spink. lVlegate Charles Smith. Altern at e 1 1 any Minkle. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. Chairman--T. 1 Crist. Dele cat It. S. Calloway. Alternate Y. YYillo'.s. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP. Chairman W. H. Porter. IVdegate J. M. Knapp. JACKSON TOWNSHIP. Chairman P. II. Zchring. Chairman George Frazee. Chairman P. H. G'o. Delegate K. G. Jacob-. I lelogate A. M-.-sk.-r. Alt ornate Junius Knipo.

MEN OF

Alternate U. F. Hartman. FRANKLIN TOVNSHIP. Chairman Albert Anderson. Delegate Robert Anderson. Alternatt W. J. Curtis. GREEN TOWNSHIP. Chairman F. S. K-Miolds. Delegat W. K. lirown. Alternate Oliver (J. Davis. HARRISON TOWNSHIP. Chairman Frank Work Delegate Robert Petson. Alternate J. H. Carr. CENTER TOWNSHIP. Chairman Francis MeMinn. Delegate William Mathews. Alternate John C. Harvey. PERRY TOWNSHIP. Chairman Ethan Denny. Delegate Dr. A 1,. Kupc. Alternate--Charles Harris. NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP. Chairman Lewis Hampton. Delegate Robert A. Men ton. Alternate C. S. Keever. CLAY TOWNSHIP. Chairman K. S. Martindale. Delegate W. S. Hatfield. A 1 1 e r n a t e F rank to y d . ABINGTON TOWNSHIP. Chairman J. P. Mecks. Delegat Will Robbins. A 1 1 e r n a t e Robert C ol v i n . DALTON TOWNSHIP. Chairman Frank Sherry. WEBSTER TOWNSHIP. Chairman Arthur Palmer. BOSTON TOWNSHIP. Chairman Winfield Smelser. The following is a list of the city and Wayne township precinct committeemen, with the exception of committeemen from the "rd. "Mth. "th. c.th jtul tilth precincts, who will be appointed by the fifth ward chairman: First -Jatnes C. Horrell. Second William A. Morrow. Third- A. O. Moyd. Fourth Harry Meek. Fifth -Will Spalding. Sixth- William Torbeck. Seventh-Clifford Shirley. Eighth Claude Thomas. Ninth Henry Seherb. Tenth- E. C. Dickinson. Eleventh -Elam Hill. Twelfth -John 1,. White. Thirteenth - George Bishop. Fourteenth O. G. Wnelau. Fifteenth - Pat McKinley. Sixteenth - Elmer Hall. Seventeenth - Harmon Noss. Eighteenth- Harry Hoover. Nineteenth George Zmterraeister. Twentieth Will Meerhoff. Twenty-first- Joe Edwards. Twenty. second August Thomas. Tweut-cighth -Lafe L.arsh. Twenty ninth - R. K Moore. Thirtieth- Chris Uemmert. Thirty-first -Clark Walls. Thirty-second Argus Horr. Thirty-third - Frank Swain. Thirt.v-fourth- Alpheus Baldwin. INDICATION OF VICTORY. Harmony Ruled Convertion in Jefferson Township. Hagerstown. Intl.. Ian. 11. If harmony is any indication of republican victory at the polls this fall. Jefferson township will certainly remain in the republican column, for the convention Friday afternoon was one of t;ood will and fellowship. William II. Porter candidate for township chairman and James M. Knapp candidate for county delegate were elected without opposition. The convention . voted to nliow- the newly elected chairman to name the three (.Continued on Tag? Five.)

AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND

D. W. WALTERS. Richmond Steam Laundry,L ALL MEN'S CLUBS Plans Formulated Whereby They Will Join in Union to Further Christian Work in The City. Y, M. C. A. DIRECTORS DISCUSS THE MATTER. An Enthusiastic Meeting Held Friday Night Union Will Not Be Connected With the Christian Association. Hans were formulated for the amalgamation of all of the men's organizations in the various churches of the ciiy. for the purpose of furthering christian work by the Y. M. C. A. board of directors Friday night. While the directors of the Y. M. C. A. are the first to take up the work of forming a federation of the men's clubs of the city, yet it is emphatically declared by Secretary George Good win that the federation, if accomplished, will in no way he connected with the Y. M. C. A. It is the purpose of this federation, according to Secretary Goodwin, to look after the general religious work of the city much in the same manner that the Commercial club looks after the commercial interests of Richmond. John H. Johnson, chairman of religious work for the Y. M. C. A. and Secretary Goodwin were instrumental in bringing about the meeting last night which was largely attended. Mr. Johnson was elected chairman pro tern and J. M. Judson was chosen secretary pro tern. The object of the meeting was set forth by Secretary Goodwin. He stated that the proposed federation was to afford a greater and- broader field of usefulness among the men of! the city's churches. He pointed out I that a general organization of this character wou.d be able to outline and j carry into effect general plans for evangelical work that no individual organization could accomplish. It :s not the purpose, however, according to Mr. Goodwin, to in any way minimize the work of the different men's organizations. The idea met with general favor anions; those present when explained, and a motion was unanimously carried to the effect that the proposition be submitted to the various churches for their ratification. After a general discussion by those present, a committee of three, composed of Messrs. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Colder Saturday night with fair in north and rain or snow In southern portions; Sunday fair. OHIO Rain of snow and colder Saturday night; Sunday flurries and older.

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GAMATION OF

RICHMOND

John Johnson. E. M. Haas, and Geo. Goodwin, was selected to prepare a written proposition and submit the same to each of the men's clubs in the churches of the city for their ratification. This committee is at present at work on the proposition and a copy will.be officially presented to the various clubs at their regular meetings. When each of the clubs has either accepted or rejected the proposition, if a sufficient number favor the plan, a mass meeting of Die men of the churches will be held at some future date to complete the federation. In

all churches where there are no metis clubs, the men of the church will be asked to send representatives. Mr. Goodwin states that similar organizations exist, in other cities and that the possibilities for christian work among tne men of the city churches will be greatly enhanced. ADAIR CANDIDATE FOR He Will Probably flnnniinPP Candidacy for Democratic Nomination. PREDICTS WINNING FIGHT. Washington, tative John A. January 11 RepresenM. Adair, of Portland. will probably announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor shortly. While he is not yet ready to talk about his plans, it is known he is only waiting until he can be assured that no other candidate for the place will appear in the Eighth district. Mr. Adair was gratified to receive twenty-fire letters from prominent Democrats in different parts of the State, today, asking him to become a candidate for the nomination. Many such letters, he says, have been coming in recently. Mr. A'ftiir says he believes the Democrats will be prepared to make a winning light for the governorship next fall. REBATES GLADLY DISPENSED. WITH Supt. Neff of the Pennsylvania Claims It. Supt. ;s'ettleton Neff of the Pennsylvania Richmond division states that rebates have been gladly dispensed with by the larger railroad companies of the country. He also maintains that the Pennsylvania railroad company has always been opposed to the rebate proposition. Former President Cassatt was one of the instigators is securing the anti-rebate legislation according to the local superintendent. He says that intens" competition between the roads was responsible for the .arranting of rebates. Mis.-? Emma Houghton, a former Richmond teacher, who was so seriously ill In the early fall as to necessitate her resignation at Lawrenceburg, has entirely recovered her health. She has been teaching- in In I duaJj'OiiB since Thanksgiving.

GOVERNOR

PRISONER AND HIS PRETTY WIFE AflE PLEASED WITH JURY

Twelve Men Who Will Decide -The Fate of Harry Kendall Thaw, Selected and Approved by Both Sides. RECORD MADE IN THE SELECTION OF JURY. Speed in Selecting Jury Largely Due to Firmness With Which Dowling Insisted on Completion of Work. EDNA GOODRICH VINDICATED SHE DID NOT TEAR UP SUBPOENA BUT IT WAS HER MOTHER TAKEN FOR FAMOUS ACTRESS BY AMATEUR DETECTIVE. DETAILS GIVEN YESTERDAY. Testimony in the Case Will Begin To Be Heard Monday When the Court Again Resumes Prosecution Will Make Strong Case. THE THAW JURY. 1. Charles F. Gremmels, ship broker, foreman. 2. Arthur M. Naething, employing baker. 8. George V. Cary, dry goods. 4. George C. Rupprecht, salesman. 5. John H. llolbert, mineral waters. 6. David K. Arrowsmith, manager. 7. William F. Doolittle, auditor's clerk. 8. William II. McTIngh. clerk. !. Frank J. Howell, manufacturer. 10. William II. Rurck, assistant secretary Y. M. C. A. 11. Francis Dovale. real estate. 12. James A. Hooper, meats and provisions. .New York, Jan. 11. After five days of hard work the jury that will decide the fate of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White was completed last evening. With the decks thus cleared for action the case will be called at 10 o'clock Monday morning and the great battle will begin. It is an intelligent looking jury of 10 married men and two widowers. There are five gray j head j in the box. None of the !2 is below middle age. Most ot them are' fathers of families. to be broad-minded. Ml of them streni level-headed and without Idas. They were selected only ;ifter the most thorough drag-net examination. Harry Thaw is satisfied. Mrs. Thaw is pleased. The lawyers on both sides are content. And thus at last Hairy Thaw will again face his fate at jury of his jvers 12 the hands of aj men who will j hew to the line of absolute justice, whether that line ends in acquittal or the electric chair. In the selection of the jury Harry Thaw has been consulted on the merits and demerits of every man examined. He has practically had the casting of the dice which will settle his fate in his own hands. He can have no just complaint if his jurors decide against him. A Remarkable Record. The facility with which the jury has been selected is remarkable in the annals of the New York criminal courts. In the former trial almost two weeks were required to fill the jury box. Out of Z.30 talesmen "99 were examined. In the present trial 372 talesmen out of 4T.j were examined. The stuped with which the work has progressed has been due mainly to j the firm stand taken by Justice Dowlinc. I'nder his direction the wheels of justice ar kept moving almost without cessation. There was uncon scious sarcasm, therefore, in the suave way in which he thanked t.'ie nrosecution and defense for the facility and dispatch with which they had handled the examination. At the beginning of the afternoon session Thaw had entered the courtroom with a sq lare tin box. He be - can to nore earnestly over its contents paying but little attention to the examination of the talesmen. He seemed quiet and apathetic. trc Thau.- f'id not tmt hor usual blue veil. The proceedings eventually became so monotonous that she ciosed her eyes and apparently fell asleep. Like her husband, she seemed to take but little interest in the proceedings until the last man of the, jury had been selected. Then she straightened up and scanned the entire 12 men closely. A Little Comedy. It came out during the afternoon that the young and ambitious dctecdelegated to serve a subpoena on

Mis Edna Goodrich, the actress had failed to accomplish his object. He waited at the s.tage door with the patience of a Proadway Johnny and j the eye of a lynx He kuesv how Kdna Goodrich was dressed mink he;nN with glass eyes. floy tails floating about, hat with a Muffed parrot, an i all that. About midLight the door open -d and i out ;-me the flo.sy mink tail-, the furs the parrot and a face conctalcd1 hy a In a y i'.. "You're it." aid the sleuth to linn-

self. Tluii making rapid flank movement, he put the subpoena in tli veiled lad"s hand, explaining at the same time .is full puropse. The lady flew into a red rage, ilisgrabbed the paper and tore it imo fiiii'ieis. Hut she was only Kdna Goodrich's mother, sailing under false mink tails and a collusive disguise. In the meantime Miss GtMdrich had walked out through the front door and was ht'i tying Inbsterw ard. So the subpoena had to lie served again. It was served last night and this time there was no mistake. Miss Goodrich received the paper and will appear a a witness for the defense. FIFTY F INJURED AND SIX -DEAD OB DYING Thirteen Story Building in New York Burns, Dealing Death And Destruction to Those Fighting Blaze. FIRE GUN SHOT LIFE LINE TO IMPERILED. So Great Was the Number of Injured That a Nearby Ho tel Was Turned Into a Tern porary Hospital. New, York. Jan. 11. Fifty firemen were injured and six are known to be either dead or dying, in the ruins of the thirteen-story Parker Ilulldins at iMneteenth street and Fourth avenue, which was totally destroyed by fire last night. The blaze was the most spectacular one which has occurred since the skyscraper owned by Rogers, Peet V Co., was consumed at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street. So great, was the number of injured men that the Florence Hotel, at Eighteenth street and Fourth avenue, was turned into a temporary hospital, while surgeons from Pellevue, St. Vincents, Roosevelt and Flowers hospitals dressed their wounds. Among the known dead are Firemen Thomas Phillips. Thomas O'Connor. John Lynch and John Fallon. For the first time in many years the tire gun was used to rescue persons t imperiled by the flames. On the roof ; of the big building which, with the hotel, occupies the entire side of the street, five men, whose names are not known to the firemen, were standing! amid a whirl of smoke and flames. Far ' below m the street thousands upon thousands of persons had gathered. Used the Fire Gun. Fire Commissioner Lantry whirled through the police lines and after a hurried consultation with the battalion chiefs a squad of men was sent to the roof of the hotel, which is six stories bight and stands only Y2, feet from what once was a spTendid office and factory building. Planting their cannon behind a coping, the firemen shrieked through trumpets to the five on the Parker Puilding to drop. Suddenly above the din the crowd heard the boom of the gun, and a rope, wttn a weigiu at the; end, shot into the air and made an j arc over the burning structure. The j hair stined men tied tne end to a chimney and the firemen took care of the other end. i Hand over hand in the glare of the i fire, and going painfully through the gushes of smoke that rushed upon them when the wind shifted, the men descended on the life line. As they leached within a foot of the coping of the hotel firemen frrstsped them, and they were hurried below for medical attt niion. A block away the thrilling spectacle could be witnessed, so intense was the lieht cast by the fire, which reddened the sky for more than a mile. There were severs I men and women i working on the sixth floor for the Ditfmore Company. These reached fire ! escapes and get out. ! 1 " - -'" -"-" - r paratus. Ensir.es 8c-mM to be everywhere, and in 15 minutes men and women bound for the theater or taeadj ed for hotel3 for dinner, filled the thor'oughfare. The situation became so i baa tnat commissioner uuerner i3sued I a call for reserves from eight preany J cincts a move seldom made at fire. BUYS FINE FARM. Thomas Pickett Laa just purchased the Gmelick place at Elkhorn Mills, and will convert It into a fine stock fartn. The farm has 104 acres and is called Elkhora Heights." Mr Lancaster is in charge of thf Chad farm

I and high bred hores ars- to fce raised.

DEFENDS UNION RIGHTS IN GREAT NEW YORK SPEECH

Secretary Taft Was Placed on The Rack and a Volley of Queries Are Fired at Speaker by Cooper Union. LABOR NEEDS CAPITAL TO GET BEST PRODUCTION. On Other Hand Capital Needs Labor in Producing Anything While Mutual Interest Is Necessary to Success. LABOR SHOULD NOT OBJECT THE RAPID ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL IN THE HANDS OF THOSE USING IT ACCUMULATES MORE CAPITAL FOR LABORERS Volley of Queries Fired at Sec'y Taft. "Will you stake your political future on the attitude of the administration on the Brownsville affair?" Taft declined to answer. 'Do you think laborers get enough money?" "Some get too much and some not enough," was the answer. "Why have you changed your attitude on the labor question since leaving the Ohio btnchr "My attitude has not changed," he said. "Is not an industrial situation based on a tariff a false one?" "If the tariff were abolished now there would he no business at all," he replied. "What is a man to do if he is out of work in an industrial crisis like this?" "God knows," the secretary replied. "Would government ownership of mines and railroads make disoutes between labor and capital easier to settle?" "I don't think so' he said. "Has the time come for an income tax law?" "No," he answered. New Yor. Jan. 11. For the first time since he became a recognized ran didate for the republican presidential nomination. Secretary of War William H. Taft tonight faced a New York audience, set forth in detail his stand on ths pertinent question of th relative lnterht and rights of labor and capital, and in turn submitted to a rapid-fire attack from the audience which quizzed him keenly and in a controversial spirit, according to the practice of the People's Institute, whose guest he was. Opening his speech with the statement that he would ask the audience to give their attention to '"the xubjeci of labor and capital, their common interests, their necessary controversies, ttieir lawful acts, and the legal remedies for their abuses," Secretary Taft traced the "origin of institution of property," and the interdependence of property and capital and labor from the earliest days, and the principles tnat lead to the accumulation of capital in the world. Mr.Taft said: Labor needs capital to secure the best production, while capital need labor in producing anything. Th? share of each laborer in the joint product is affected, not exactly, but in a general way. by the amount of capital in use. as compared with the number of those who labor. The more capital in use. the more work there is to do. and the more there is to do the more laborers are needed. Manifestly it is in the direct ititereft of labor that napital shall Increase, faster than the number of those who work. Nothing is so likely to make, wealth idle as Insecurity of invested capital and property. It follows, as a necessary conclusion that to destroy the guaranties of property is a direct Dlow at the interest of the workingman. It only requires tte effects of a panic thro-sgh which we are passing or through which we passed in lftt and 1S7'. to show how closely united in a toiumon interest we all are in modern society. We are in the eame boat, and financial and business storms which affect one are certain to affect all others. The laboring men should be the test to object to the repid accumulation of capital in the hands of those who ase it for the reproduction of capital. The thoughtful and intelligent laborer has therefore no feeling of hostility toward combinations of capital engaged In lawful business method3. Rich Not Philanthropists. "The men who have by economic orI sanitation of capital, at the same time i i'icrcei n- amount oi tne country! capital, increased the demand and.