Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 55, 10 April 1908 — Page 1

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THE RICHMOND P

HIS EYES FILLED WITH TEARS

THOMAS DAVIDSON WITHDREW

A TUMULT RAGED WITHIN THE BREAST OF THE MAN WHO MOVED ON THE 385TH BALLOT THE UNANIMOUS NOMINATION OF BARNARD AFTER HE, ON THE PREVIOUS BALLOT, HAD THE HONOR WITHIN HIS GRASP.

WAYNE REPUDIATED HER CANDIDATE AND LOST THE BATTLE Notwithstanding the Urgent Appeals From Other County Delegations to Stay With Minister, Local Men Broke. OTHER COUNTIES THEN VOTED FOR BARNARD. Surprise Sprung When, Ballot After Ballot, the Smaller Counties Remained True to Their Choice. WITHDRAWAL EPIDEMIC. WHEN STIVERS OF UNION COUN TY QUIT THE RACE, HOUGH, CAMPBELL AND MOORE FOLLOWED THE LEAD. . SHELBYVILLE PRAISED. Cared fop the Hundreds of People Attending the Convention in a Most Admirable Manner Townsmen Interested. (By Roy H. Compton.) Wayne county repudiated its own fcandidate, thRev. J,-0. Campbell, and thereby lost to him the nomination for congress from the Sixth District at the Shelby ville convention yesterday. This Is the entire story in a nut shell, and it was freely asserted in the convention Stall, that Judge W. O. Rarnard, the successful candidate, could not have won. if "Wayne county had not started the landslide. It was one of the peculiarities of political conventions that made the Wayne county vote result in n boomerang and bring about the defeat of Thomas E. Davidson, of Decatur county, second choice of many of the delegates, as well as its own representative. When the dissenters demanded the right to break from Campbell, who had topped the list consistently, they did so in the expectation that the other counties would fall into the tide and carry the convention fo Davidson. The result instead, was Nvhat it had been desired to avoid. Instead of going to Davidson, Fayette, Hancock and Shelby counties went to tlarnard and brought about his selection. Before Wayne could vote on the Jast ballot, Davidson withdrew and tuoved the nomination be made unanimous. Campbell could have brought about the nomination of Davidson had he teen fit. On the next to last ballot, Campbell clung to his delegation that had divided against him and constantly gave indications of further split. On this ballot Davidson needed but twelve Votes to win out, when Wayne county's turn to vote arrived. If Campbell had withdrawn at this time, there is Ho doubt Davidson would have received enough votes to elect. Before the last ballot could be taken Campbell announced his withdrawal. Stivers Started Slide. Charles Stivers, the Union county candidate, precipitated the landslide to flarnard. He was the first of the six candidates to break and the fever of withdrawal soon became an epidemic. Btivers quit on the ."V'trd ballot, and tfter one more ballot was followed by Moore. Campbell caught the infection, and with good grace presented his resignation. There was nothing left for Will Hough, of Hancock county to do, but get out of the way before he was sunk into the quagmire of defeat, fend he followed the lead of the other three. Everyone knew Barnard and Davidson would fight it out, man to tnan. Union In Disfavor. Many Wayne county delegates expressed disfavor because of the attitude of Union county. Wayne and Union counties are united upon the Joint senatorship and It was declared by Wayne's delegation that Union abolyed Wayne from all future obliga

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tions, when it refused to throw its vote to Campbell, after Stivers l.ad quit, the race. The solid Union vote went to Davidson. Previously Barnard had drawn more from Union than had the Wayne county candidate. Union refused to play politics and voted for the man only. Politics Played. Shelby and Rush counties played politics throughout the conven; ion and Franklin did likewise with its seven votes. Those three counties were complimentary in their vote. Hush, county refused to vote in any way tint two and one sixth to each candidate up to the last ballot. It was then that the answer to the insistent cries from Henry: "Come to us, you owe it to us. Henry has been your best friend," that the delegation broke and went solid to Barnard. The vote of Hush indicated clearly the direction the baud wagon was moving and Shelby look its sixteen votes from Davidson, its last favorite and threw them intact to Barnard, thereby nominating him. Franklin had favored Barnard with six and Davidson with one. Wayne Untrue. The outcome of the attitude displayed by Wayne comity, is such that no favor can be claimed of the successful nominee and nothing can be expected from the loyal supporters of Davidson. Wayne refused to nominate Davidson and Barnard was nominated without any aid from Wayne. Wayne's vote had been polled and had the HSoth vote, been taken. Barnard would probably have received only eight votes. Wayne county did nothing to help it in future political emergencies. By bolting from its own candidate when such small counties as Union, Fayette and Hancock were standing steadfast by their choices, elicited censure from other delegations. At different, times during the convention delegates from Hancock and Fayette counties urged Wayne's delegates to stay with Campbell. It was well known that with Campbell in the race it would have been a contest of endurance and that Fayette and Hancock along with Union counties would be the first to break. Instead. Wayne county with the largest delegation deserted its candidate and brought about a feeling of unrest that was reflected everywhere. To the outside counties, it was a real surprise that Wayne remained loyal to Campbell as long as it did. owing to constant predictions and assertions of Wayne delegates that they would break from Campbell. Although Wayne county did nothing to take pride in, the convention itself was the greatest ever held in the history of the district. The crowd was the largest and enthusiasm was higher than that displayed at any previous convention. The number of ballots taken broke all records. Calling the roll of counties was a mere matter of routine throughout the afternoon. Franklin and Shelby, two neutral counties, proved great flirts and frequently shifted their votes in order to enliven things. K)n a number of times these two counties threw their solid strength to candidates in the attempt to bring about a nomination and start a stampede. Just as often their support was given to the weakest candidates in order to keep the race progressing and stave off the nomination. The vore of Rush county was laughing stock for the convention because of its consistency. Surprise Was S.-,rung. It was surprising to the Wayne delegates that Hancock and Fayette stood solid by their candidates so long. The surprise was not without its disagreeable features as the example appeared luminous as contrasted to Wayne's attitude. It is probable that if Campbell had not withdrawn, balloting would be continuing at this time. Will Hough and E. E. Moore, the candidates of Hancock and Fayette counties met in the Ray House after the convention and Housh made the statement he never would have left the race if Moore had not withdrawn. No Unpleasant Features. Shelbyville had prepared for the convention and did so in such a way that no complaint was made as to the arrangement- Although the excitement in the hall was the most marked it ever has been and the pandemonium j that followed the balloting was ter rific, there were no disorderly ones to mar the progress. The balloting was done so rapidly until the SoOth vote that only 24 seconds were required to call the roll. The voting was the most rapid of any convention held in the state this year. The constant uproar throughout the hall deafened the ears of the group of newspaper men gathered at the front, and they found difficulty in keeping count. The official tellers were unable to hear the secretary announce the vote, although he stood but three feet distant during the reading. A stone mason's hammer finally was procured for use (Continued on Page Two.)

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FOR BARNARD GREAT ADDITION TO LOCAL H00S1ER DRILL COMPANY Louisville Branch of American Seeding Machine ompany Will Be Moved to This City About May 1. KENTUCKY BRANCH EMPLOYS ABOUT 200 MEN. With the Removal to This City, W. G. Munn, for Many Years Manager, Will Retire Is an Old Branch. An announcement that will b 1 the cause of great rejoicing on the p t Of those interested in commercial and manufacturing welfare of this city has been made at Louisville. Kentucky. It is to the effect the Kentucky Drill plant of the American Seeding Machine company, will be removed from Louisville to this city about May 1. The concern employs about ism nun at. its factory and does an annual business of about .ftotMMio. This addition will make the local plant the largest, in tho country owned by tne Seeding Machine company. When the Hoosier Drill branch of the American Seeding Machine company petitioned the city council for an order to vacate North Fourteenth street from E to F streets, it was stated that in case permission were given the company would enlarge its plant and increase its capacity. After a number of weeks of delay in which the petition traveled a stony road, because of the opposition of certain proprietors of small manufacturing concerns located north of the railway, council ordered the street closed. Officials of the company represented that such an order would result in ultimate advantage to the city. The amount of money assessed against the company as damages and allowed by the board of public works was paid into the city treasury and the company became relieved of any further obligation. Suit was entered against the city afterward, alleging the amount of money was insufficient. The cases were compromised or heard in court. The company has erected a new brick, three story buildings that extends from the rear wall of the old factory on E street east about l."io feet. New equipment was provided and arrangements made for the ac commodation of an increased force of employes. The prosperity of the concern continued, but, about two weeks ago it was found necessary to lay off, temporarily, a large force of employes. The statement that the plant that, will be consolidated with that in this city, employs about L'x men, may be accepted as indication the full force in the present concern will be restored to work and augmented to a large extent. With the removal of the plant at Louisville. W. G. Munn. who has been manager of the concern for some years, will sever his connection with it and will remain in Louisville, engaging in some other business. A. H. Rice, sales manager: Edward Christman. manager of the experimental and improvement department, and E. H. Cureton, superintendent, will come to Richmond. The Louisville factory was organized in 1S.V by A. G. Munn. and was known as Munn. Co.. Dr. W. H. Goddard being associated with Mr. Munn. Dr. Goddard retired and Thomas Erennan was admitted to the firm and the name was changed to Brennan & Co.. proprietors of the Southwestern Agricultural Works. It prospered , and new stockholders were added. In j 1SNX5 the company was merged into ! the American Seeding Machine com pany. TWELVE WERE KILLED. Bad Mine Explosion in England Today. London. Ens:.. April 10 Twelve killed and many were injured as the result of a gas explosion in a coal mine in Somersetsshire today. The force of the explosion was felt many miles. Rescuing parties are at work. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Showers and warmer Friday night; Saturday fair. OHIO Showers Friday night; warmer; Saturday nene rally fair.

ARTIST EARLE AND AFFINITY ARE GREETED WITH CAT CALLS AND HISSES

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New York his "affinity April 1V-Bringing back as his bride, whom he is said to have married in a little Italian town, Frederick Pinney Earle, whose first wife obtained a divorce in France to enable her husband to marry Miss .Julia Kuttner, returned today on the North German Lloyd liner Frederich Der Grosse, from Naples. Many reporters awaited Mr. and Mrs. Earle as they got on the train to gc to Monroe. Several newspaper men accompanied them, and when one of ih em asked Mr. Karle what he and his wife intended to do, where they would live, and other things which might interest the public, Mr. Earle got up abruptly from his seat, and without a word reached out his long arms and struck the reporter full in the face, breaking his glasses and cutting him. When Mr. and Mrs. Earle reached Monroe they found a curious crowd of villagers awaiting them at the little

station. The crowd gathered in close about, the couple as Earl and his wife alighted, but no personal violence was ment and that if she succeeded he offered them. There were many cat would marry Miss Kuttner. his neighcalls and a good deal of hissing: The bors in Monroe made several threatenrestless feeling among the crowd was ing demonstrations toward him. His plainly evident, but it was carried no first wife went to her former home in farther than to demonstrate the feel- France and secured a divorce. Mr. ing existing against the artist. Earle is said to have returned to this When Mr. Earle announced last country in order to secure a legacy to summer that his first, wife would seek- which he, has fallen heir since he went to secure a divorce from him by agree- to Europe.

TENANTS OF THE COLONIAL BLOCK BUSY AS BEES Are Now Busily Engaged in Looking for New Store and Office Rooms and Cleaning Those That Are Left. FIREMEN ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM FIRE. Veterans on Duty Today Presented a Sorry Appearance When They Reported to an Alarm. The numerous tenants of the ruined Colonial block, are now diligently searching for office and store rooms. All of them desire to locate on Main street and at the present time quarters in Main street business blocks are at a premium. Employes of the Knox 5 and 10 cent store, do not know where this concern will be located. They are now waiting for the arrival of an officer from the Main offices of the company. He will assume the task of finding a suitable location for the store. It is probable that the Model Departj ment store, the Colonial barber shop I and the Watson piano store will leoccupy their old quarters in tne tire gutted block. It is stated that the roof I over the Main street front of the ! bulldine is in r-fettv good condition and the fire did not touch the quarters of these concerns, so it appears that thev are alricht for occupancy. The onlv nuestion of doubt regarding the advisability of the reoceupancy of these rooms is the condition of the walls of the building. Some reople are of the opinion that the walls are unsafe owing to the intense heat of the fire and the tons of water thrown against them. Tenants of the offices on the second and third floors of the building that face Main street were busy in mopping out and rearranging their rooms. The fire did no damage in this section K c-s,T.A lL a T-OCllIt from t lO TX-Qf-er that penetrated the steel ceiling. Jurist did 6me damage 10 th a force of men was Put to work in

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the Imilding. Police were stationed about the building today and none but those who had business were permitted to enter. The arc lights in the Knox store room were removed. The basement of this room presents a scene that belies description. This morning hose companies 1, 2 and !5 and the hook and .ladder company were called out by a false alarm from the Cox livery barn on North Seventh street. The veteran members of the department who were able to be on duty today present;d a sorry appearance when they arrived on the scene of the supposed fire. All of them bore marks of the big Colonial blaze. One fireman had his head cov ered with a bandage, another had both of his hands encased in linen, all of them were hoarse from colds contracted during that long to be remembered night. Chief Miller is still suffering f-om the effects of his gallant fight against the flames. His breathing has ben greatly affected by the smoke he inhaled. Carl Wadman of the No. I hose company was removed to his home yesterday afternoon in the ambulance. Wadman is suffering from the effects of being overcome by smoke and the intense heat. Insurance men were busy today as a result of the big fire. It is expected that the various tenants of the block will receive insurance which will total to the sum of S75,oW. Seth F. Watson spates he lost about $1,200 in the Colonial fire but insurance fully covers this. TWO CHILDREN LOSEJHEIR LIVES Victims of New York Tenement Fire. New York. April 1. Two lives were' lost and a score of people were injur-' ed.,and twelve families driven into the ; street, as the result of a fire in a ten ing. The dead: William Chesner ! & four- and Solomon Chesner, aged three. Both were suffocated. TROLLEY ACCIDENT. Ten People Hurt, Three of Them Seriously. New York, April 10 Ten people were hurt, three seriously, as the result of a collision of trolley cars in Brooklyn this morning. I The Telephone is a lyour Classified Ads to the j ;esst bother to you. Either

IS TO GET NEW THEATRE Vaudeville House Will Be Erected at Tenth and Main Streets. MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT TWO BUSINESS ROOMS WILL FRONT MAIN STREET AND COM MODIOUS FLATS WILL BE BUILT ON UPPER FLOORS. Richmond is to have a r.ew theatre, and it will occupy one of the most prominent sites in the. city. It is to be devoted exclusively to vaudeville. O. O. Murray, manager of the New Phillips, and who is interested in a number of other vaudeville. houses, nearly all of whic h are scattered over Ohio, has closed a deal for sixty feet of the ground at the southeast corner of Main and Tenth streets, just across from the Westrott hotel. There is thirty-three feet frontaee in the Jot and Mr. Murray has taken that abutting Tenth street, giving him as good a location for a theatre as it would b possible to secure in the city. He ex- j pects to let a contract within a few i weeks for the building, and to have it completed by the first of September, j It will reDiesent an outlay of approximately .."( Mr. Murray will not only provide Richmond with a modern theatre, which, by th1 way will b called "The Murray Theatre." but he will also provide two handsome business rooms facing on Main street that will be for rent. There will be a business room on fither side of the Main street entrance to the theatre. A commodious : lobby will also be provided. The ; theatre is to be to the rear of these i business rooms, and will be on the j ground floor. The seating capacity j will be ;"w of which number will be taken care of on the first floor. aDd the remainder in the balcony and gallery. The Tenth street side of the theatre will be used for exit only. The alley at the rear will also make possible exits at that point, &o that all the regulations of Indiana department of inspection can be complied with a3 to fire protection. The new building will be three sto(Continued on Page Eight.) Willing servant to bring Palladium office with the PhoneI 121 Automatic,

RICHMOND

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THREATEN STATES OFFICIALS Both President Roosevelt and His Cabinet Are Addressed By the Reds From Patterson, New Jersey. . w LIFE OF VON MEYER HAS BEEN THREATENED. Thought Vicious Attacks on Anarchism by Roosevelt Yesterday Brought About The Present Danger. Washington. D. C. April 1 Tn postoffice authorities hae confiscated a number of letters to the president and the members of his cabinet, threatening them. The letters are is,tmarked Paterson. N. J.. the anarchist moeca. I nusual precautions ate heing taken to guard the president and cabinet from possible outrage. The threatened attacks upon the gov ernment officials, were lrought about by the president's advocacy of the extermination of anarchy and the suppression of their anarchist paper, published at Paterson, N. J. One letter made a direct threat against the life of Post Mater General Geo. L. Meyer. Secret service men have been detailed to guard him constantly and accompanied him to Boston, where he speak to the republican state convention today. MAD MAN SET FIRE TO HIS H) CELL He Is Dying and Two Men Are Seriously Burned. Akron. ().. April - An insane Jailor. Joseph Pessonian, set fire to his padded cell in the county jail thi? morning. Sheriff Stein and two deputies were seriously lmrtied rescuing the mad man. Pessonians clothing was burned off. He is dying of injuries in a hospital. Several prison'rs W4re overcome by the smoke before the flames were extinguished. ATTORNEYS ARGUE FOR LOVE LETTERS Defense in the Smith-Vaughan Case Would Like to Squint at Them. TRIAL BEGINS MONDAY. TIME FOR ASKING A CHANGE OF VENUE HAS EXPIRED AND THE CASE WILL PROBABLY BE TRIED HERE. Argument was heard in tne TTayn circuit court this afternon on a petition of the defendant in th case of Maria Smith vs. John D. Vaughan, for breach of promise, to require the plaintiff to bring into court for inspection of the defendant's attorneys, and permit the defendant to make copies of all postal cards, love letters, notes or written communications of any kind signed by either parties to the euit, as they passfl betwfn, and are now hlci under direction of the plaintiff. Th time limit for the presentation of a motion asking a change of venue in thia case has expired and there seems to be no doubt that the case will be, called for trial Monday morning. The letters, which are held by th plaintiff and the posfieseion of which the counsel for the defendant desires to obtain temporarily, are regarded by the plaintiffs attorneys as trump cards. They are said to contain a great deal of evidence, which, if it comes before the court, will divulge information relative to Vaughan's alleged promises of marriage and many other interesting matters that will tend to show the sort of relationship that ex isted between the parties to the suit. BOMB EXPLODED. Chicago Black Hand Gets in It Work. Chicago, Hi.. April 10 A dynamite bomb wa3 exploded In front of the ptore of H. E. Daas and it shattered the windows. Daae had received blaclc iajad. letters.

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