Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 129, 23 June 1908 — Page 1

THE RICHMOND) PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM, jVOIi. XXXIII. NO. 129. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. DEATH BECKONS AMD W. B. LEEDS :" ANSWERS THE- CALL Millionaire Financier Was Invalid 3 Years E FAD IS ILL RIGHT THINKING MEN WILL APPROVE PLATFORM PLANK A SECOND SON BORN TO BEAUTIFUL QUEEN OF SPAIN WILL PUT LIFE

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Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Stricken in Cleveland. .1 CONDITION IS NOT CRITICAL

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Richmond's, Most Distinguishl; ed Son in Financial World, Succumbs to Critical Illness Jn Paris.

HIS CAREER MARKED BY HIS GREAT DEEDS. JVith Stern Determination, He Forged From the Bottommost Rung in Business World to the Top. HIS SAGACITY FAMED. WHERE OTHER FEARED TO TREAD HE FEARED NOT AND AMASSED A FORTUNE OF MILLIONS. ACTIVE IN RAILROAD WORLD His Perseverance and Response to Business Won Him a Place as President of the Rock Island Railroad. William Bateman Leeds, multi-mil-iionaire railroad and trust magnate and for many years a resident of Richmond, died at ten o'clock this morning at the Hotel Ritz, in Paris, death presumably being due to a stroke of paralysis similar to those "which have made Mr. Leeds an invalid i lor three years. But the barest details were covered in the cablegram received by his son, Rudolph Gaar Leeds, this morning. Although not a resident of his native city for over ten years, William B. Leeds was widely known in Richmond, where still live a great many of his former friends and business associates. During the past ten years his visits here have been infrequent and much of his time has beer spent abroad, where he has been under the care of French specialists owing to his paralytic condition. To those who knew of the state of his health, the Slews was not a surprise. The remarkable business and financialcareer of "Syilliam B. Leeds is known intimately to most of the citizens of Richmond, having been exploited in newspaper and magazine many times during the period of great 'industrial successes following the :election of 1896. Mr. Leeds made the etart of his large fortune in Elwood from tin plate mills he established there with Daniel G. Reid as a partner, and his subsequent dealings in. the steel trust, the Rock Island Railway and on Wall street greatly added to his wealth. He retired from active business some time since and has fceen living In Paris with his wife and young son, William Bateman Leeds, fir. Mr. Leeds was born in Richmond on September 19, 1861, his parents being Noah S. Leeds and Hannah Starr Leeds, both of whom lived their whole lives in Wayne county. Young Leeds attended common school and the Friends' Academy, but. discontinued tetudy to go into the greenhouse business with his father, who had, late in fche seventies, bought out the firm of "A. K. Williams, on South Fifth street. 3A little later Mr. Leeds acquired control of this and for a time did a flourishing business, but after five years ,Jie became unsuccessful and the company failed. i In 1882 he went to Edwardsport, Indiana, a small coal-mining town near IVIncennes, to take charge of the .weighing of coal for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The following year he returned to Richmond and at the age of twenty-two, married jennie Gaar. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gaar, n August 16. 1S83. This period marks the turning point iJn the business life of William Leeds, lie went to wrk In the fall of 1883 lor the Pennsylvania railroad in this city, receiving no pay for his services. He worked long hours and when he returned home, studied until late in the night. At four in the morning he would be at his books again, master ing the principles of higher mathematics. Spurred on by his young wife, who accompanied him in his studies and took the keenest interest in the line of work he had laid out for him self, he became proficient in trigon ometry and later he took special courses at Earlham. under the tutorship of Prof. Trueblood. When he had made himself capable of filling the position, he was made assistant engineer maintenance of way on the Indianapolis division of xne f ennsyivania nnes ana men, a year or so later, was made engineer, having under his supervision over one hundred miles of the main line of the Pennsylvania system. Harry I. Miller, also of this city, was division super(Continued on Page Two)-

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WM. B. LEEDS, SR. Stricken some years ago, former Richmond resident was in care of French specialists until th etime of his death. WINGS OF LOCAL OWLS FLAP AND FLUTTER 11 RAGE Members of Local Nest Object To Monarchial Rule and Decided to Secede From Old Order. SERIOUS CHARGES PREFERRED BY NEST. Say Grand Officers Are Grafters and Local Organizer Wined and Dined With an Actress. At a meeting of the Richmond nest of Owls last evening, the members enthusiastically voted to secede from the Order of Owls and to affiliate the or ganization with the American Order of Owls, which has been organized by nests all over the country, who have become ashamed and disgusted at the action of Supreme President Talbot of the Order of Owls. It is openly charged that he is crooked and that the men associated with him are of the same stripe. President Talbot organized the first nest of Owls at South Bend, appointed himself the head of the organization and adopted its constitution. This constitution caused the split iu the order. It provides that the supreme president should serve for life and that he should appoint all th supreme officers. These two sections gave him the power of an absolute monarch and, local Owls aver, he immediately began a reign of graft. At the recent national convention of the Order of Owls, held at Nashtille, Tenn., an effort was made to amend the constitution. Talbot fought this and after the convention adjourned for the evening, he called a midnight session of his henchmen, went through the order of business to satisfy himself and then declared the convention adjourned until the next annual meeting. The following day when the rebellious delegates heard of his action they went into session and organized the American Order of Owls. Richmond Delegate Active. At the first session J. C. Braxton, the Richmond delegate, caused a sensation by demanding that James L Nimel, the supreme organizer, -who installed the local nest, be removed from the floor. He denounced Nimel as a crook and said that he had been expelled from the Indianapolis nest and, consequently was not a member of the order, and had no right to the floor. Talbot stated that Nimel's case was now pending and that he attended the meeting as a representative of the Phoenix, Ariz., lodge. The delegates, however, forced Talbot to order Nimel removed from the floor. Wined an Actress. Mr. Braxton, the local delegate, pre sented charges against Nimel preferred by the Richmond nest. It was al leged in these charges that Nimel spent all the money paid to him by the charter members in leading a fast life in tnls city. Most of the money, so the charges read, was devoted by Nimel in wining and dining an actress who accompanied him to this city. It was also charged that he never paid for the banquet he tendered the members of the local nest and that the nest had to pay this bill. Another charge was to the effect that Nimel went to the secretary of the order and by false pre tense secured $S in money paid the secretary for dues. Other delegates to the convention charged that all of the organizers sent out by Talbot were crooked. The San Jose, Cal., delegate stated that the organizer who installed the nest in that city was a convict. A Chicago delegate charged Talbot himself with being a grafter and said that he had been disbarred from practice at the South Bend bar. -

"Bill" and "Jim" Clubs Will Be Organized Over Indiana Under Direction of the State Committee.

BREWERY CASES NOW ATTRACTING ATTENTION Whatever the Decision of the Superior Court on Merits of Bingham's Fight, There Will Be an Appeal. Indianapolis, Ind., June 23. If there are any "Jims" or "Bills" in Richmond or both for that matter, they are going to be in demand for tne coming political campaign, provided they bear the republican stamp. Of course, there is "Bill" Bryan, and there may be a "Jack" or a "Tom" at the end of his presidential kite before the Denver convention shall have finished, but the nick-name fad will probably be used up by the republicans before the democrats can get into action, and far be it from the democracy to copy after the mmmon enemy in anything. At the republican state executive committee in Indianapolis soon, the nick-name proposition will be aired. The committee will nave before it a suggestion that "Sunny Jim" Sherman and "Smiling Bill" Taft clubs be organized throughout Indiana in order that the campaign -may be enlivened by a little humor that can do no harm and may bring about a lot of good in the way of enthusiasm. Old campaigners ugree that it is going to be a difficult matter to work up organization enthusiasm this summer, and it is hoped that the nick-name plan will catch on And so, there will be a special demand for "Bills" and "Jims," as it is propos ed to make use of these as charter members of political clubs. There is little doubt that the committee will fall in with the scheme, as it is considered sufficiently novel to attract, and there fore sure to prove effective. Organizers are to bo sent over the state, according to the plans as now formulated, and they will be furnished with sufficient funds to cover all Initial expenses of organizing. Once organized, it is expected that the clubs will show sufficient pride in the cause to 'continue the life of the organization through the campaign. These organ izers are to be carefully selected, not with their political enthusiasm as their chief asset, but rather their ability as organizers. That they be republicans is to be a necessary, but secondary matter. Fight Over Saloons. Now that politics has taken second place for a time, there is opportunity for considering other things of import ance, and one of these is the fight of the state on brewery ?owned saloons, The latest phase of the cause is now in the hands of the superior court, and whatever happens, there is to be an appeal to the higher courts and a thor ough try-out of the position taken by the state. The attorney-general argues that every brewery in the state and all are guilty which has gone on the bond of a saloonkeeper or backed him in the obtaining of a license or the operation of a saloon, has violated its charter and gone entirely outside the privileges permitted under their charters. Lawyers who have watched the case closely are predicting that the attorney-general will wrn, but there are not many, perhaps, who have stopped to consider what such an outcome would mean. If the courts hold that the breweries must live and operate strictly within the wording of their charters, 3.500 saloons will be wiped out of existence in Indiana at one stroke. In Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute and other cities, where breweries are in operation, the practice of breweries furnishing the money for saloonkeepers to begin and to continue in business on. is general, and it is these cities that will be hit the hardest. In Indianapolis alone, close to 125 saloons would be affected, it is said. If there is any other angle at which the saloon can be fought it has not yet been found, for the saloon is certainly traveling a rocky road in Indiana and is having an awful struggle for existence. There was a forcible example of the fight on saloons during the national saengerfest here last week. The fair grounds, where the concerts were held, are in a dry township Just outside Indianapolis, and the thousands of Germans and others who attended, found, to their disappointment, that no beer or other liquor was sold on the grounds. Inquiries brought the reply: "Oh, this is a -dry township out here." It was, perhaps, the first time that it was impressed on the people of Indianapolis as to just what the word "dry" means as applied to the selling of liquor, for the township in question went "dry" by remonstrance only a tew weeks

Cleveland, O., June 23. James Schoolcraft Sherman, republican vice presidential candidate, was today taken to the hospital and a specialist summoned from Baltimore and his family is enroute here from Utica. He has been seriously ill twice in the past two years. The trouble Is diagnosed as catarrh of the gall duct. An operation may be necessary. Doctor Carter admits that Sherman's condition is somewhat alarming, though it is hardly critical. An elaborate welcome program at Utica has- be cancelled owing to Mr. Sherman's illness.

BIRTHOAYOFTHE TO BE WELL OBSERVED City Council Votes to Assist Every Way in Making July Fourth a Notable Occasion. COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO AID K. OF G. E. Business Men Will Be Solicited For Funds to Promote CelebrationCouncil Meets to Consider Matter. The( city council last evening at a special meeting decided to make the Fourth of July celebration in this city, planned for and being arranged by the Knights of the Golden Eagles, a municipal affair. On a motion made by Councilman Von Pein all members of council and all city officials were ap pointed members of a committee to assist in promoting the affair. After this motion had been adopted. Mayor Schillinger stated that such a large committee would be an unwieldy body and he thought that an executive committee consisting of four or five members should be selected to co-operate with the Knights of the Golden Eagle committee and do the active work for the city in making preparations for the celebration. This suggestion met with favor on the part of the councilmen and Councilman Leftwick made a motion that an ex ecutive committee of five members. consisting of the mayor, the president of the board of public works and three members of council,' be appointed. The motion carried and Mayor Schillinger appointed Councilmen Leftwick, Deuker and Williams as the council members to serve on the committee. To Solicit Funds. The action of council in voting to make the Fourth of July celebration one in which the city is officially interested, insures the complete success of the affair, as it gives it a prestige which it would otherwise lack. The city executive committee will act in complete harmony with the committee of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and will make a canvass of the city to solicit funds to carry out the project. There was a general effort on the part of councilmen to side step positions on the executive committee on the excuse that they were too busy to serve. When the Mayor appointed Mr. Deuker and Mr. Leftwick to this committee they made no further "effort to doge the duties imposed upon them but Mr. McMahan asked to be excused. The Mayor then appointed Mr. Bartel, but he also asked to be excused. At this point Councilman Williams took the floor and volunteered his services. Amidst applause he was appointed as third member on the committee. Fears the "Lid." Councilman Englebert caused much amusement by taking a crack at the "lid" which is dropped upon Richmond each Sunday and every holiday. He said that it would be a hard matter to get people to come to Richmond on the Foarth because every thing would be "tied up so tight here on that date." All the councilmen assured the mayor that they would do everything in their power to make the affair a complete success. The city officials will appeal to the business men of the city to subscribe to the expense fund and to be represented in the Industrial parade. "Let's give Richmond a real, old fashioned Fourth of July celebration," will be the motto on which the city

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Madrid, June 23. A son was hprn to Queen Victoria of Spain last night. Queen Victoria, formerly princess Ena of Battenberg and King Alfonso, were married at Madrid on May 31, 1906. Their first son waa born May 10, 1907. Queen Victoria, who opposed the ancient Spanish royal custom of having hired nurses attend the royal children during their early infancy, and who was defeed on this point in the case of the first baby, has won this time BANKS OF WAYNE ARE PROSPEROUS This Is Shown by Assessments Made by the Board of Review, VALUATION IS INCREASED. BUT ONE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT DOES NOT SHOW INCREASEWORK JUST COMPLETED IS IMPORTANT. Banks and trust companies in Wayne county, are in a prosperous condition, as evidenced by the assessments of the board of review. The list was completed yesterday and shovs an Increase in the valuation upon each financial institution with but a single exception. The Fountain bank at Fountain City, is the only one in the county that does not show an increase. The matter of assessing banks and trust companies is one of the most important with which the board of review has to deal. In order to make a basis for assessment this year the board agreed to take 75 per cent of the total of capital stock, undivided profit and surplus as set forth by the bank as the valuation for assessment. The same plan has been followed by other counties. The assessments are as follows: 190-S. 1907. Dickinson Trust Co $ 9S.00O $ 'Xi.StO Richmond Trust Co 108.7o New Cit.Bank Centerville lt, 12.080 Wayne Nat. Bank . . 39.510 3H.440 First Nat. Bank Hag 35.410 22,430 First Nat B k Green. 21,000 19,240 First National Bank Greensfork 21,000 194240 First National Bank Richmond 116,730 102,820 Second National B'k Richmond 453,450 337,5O0 Union Nat . Bank Richmond 186,930 114.300 First Nat. Cambridge City 46,500 43,400 Fount'n B'nk, Fountain City 7.970 8,960 First National Williamsburg 19,4 New First Nat. Dublin.. I9.2no New Farmers' B'k Milton 15.980 17,620 the Weather prophet. INDIANA Fair, continued warm Tuesday night; Wednesday fair, cooler; light to fresh southwest Winds, shifting to northwest.'

and will exercise her mother's prerogative and nurse the second child herself. ''. Another point on which the queen has her way this time is that the heavy iron decoration which hangs over the royal crib and has rocked back and forth over the baby heads of many Spanish kings will come down. Queen Victoria fought this hanging menace when her first baby was being cared for in the cradle, fearing it would fall and kill or maim the child. This time the Iron hanging has disappeared.

YOUNG MEN ARE TO FACTORS Will Organize Club to Promote The Interests of the Republican Party. A CALL HAS BEEN ISSUED. YOUNGER MEMBERS OF THE BIG PARTY WILL MEET TO ELECT OFFICERS AND ARRANGE PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN. NOTICE TO YOUNG REPUBLICANS. The Young Men's Republican club will hold a rousing meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock on the first floor of the court house for re-organization and election of officers. Every present member, every first voter and every republican who thinks he's young is wanted. For Taft's sake, be there. BYRAM C. ROBBIN'S, President. The Young Men's Republican club intends to take an active part in the campaign this year. An effort will be made to have every young republican in the county join the organization and work to secure a republican victory at the polls next November. The club will hold meetings at regular intervals from this time until the close of the campaign. Several public meetings will be held and the best speakers obtainable will be secured. During the last national campaign the club cut a prominent figure in local politics and it intends to do bo again this year. President Robbins states that the club will organize a bugle and drum corps as large as the one ine ciub had in the field last campaign. At that time there were twenty-eight pieces in the organization and it was in great demand all over this part of the county. After the' club has been thoroughly re-organized and new officers elected, the complete plans for the campaign will be mapped out. Some time in the early fall. President Robbins states, the club will probably arrange for a monster Taft parade. The organization will not seek to dominate republican politics In this county but will work In thorough harmony with the republican county central commit-

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Wade H. Ellis Replies to Wm. Jennings Bryan's Attack on Anti-injunction Measure in Platform.

BRYAN'S OBJECTIONS ARE ALL ANSWERED. Insinuation That Party Is Trying to Deceive Labor, Un worthy of Presidential Candidate. Columbus. O.. June 23. Attorney General Wade H. Ellis of Ohio, who was a member of the committee on resolutions of the Republican national convention and chief author of the platform adopted, in a statement issued last night replies to criticisms of the platform made by William Jennings Bryan and denies that the draft of the platform, as published prior to the convention, was Aanged "with the intention to displease or disappoint the President or Secretary Taft." The attorney general's statement in part follows: 'Of the seven omissions tie (Mr. Bryan) refers to, six are In no sense issues before the people at this time, nor has there been any attempt to make them such by the administration nor by any other influential element in the party. "The seventh concerns Injunctions. Upon this subject Mr. Bryan's criticism exhibits his usual recklessness of statement and readiness to assume that his own lack of Information must be the prevailing condition. "The charge that the Republican declaration with respect to the use of the writ of Injunction was designed to 'deceive the laboring man is unworthy of a candidate for President, and the further charge that this plank merely declares the existing law and will give no relief in those rases in which there has been abuse of discretion or the apprehension of It Is unworthy of any lawyer who has examined this question. Frank, Clear Statement. "The anti-injunction resolution Is a frank, clear statement of the Republican party's position on a question on which others have been attempting to deceive labor. The sole basis of any rational complaint as to the Issuance of injunctions in labor cases has been the use of the writ without notice and the long delays in some instances which have Intervened before a hearing of the case. "The present statute does not require any notice at all before the granting of & temporary order, and it is entirely within the discretion of the court to postpone, to any time the judge may see fit, the hearing upon the question of an Injunction. "The Republican plank simply declares that notice shall always be given unless an Irreparable Injury will result from delay and, in that case, there shall be a speedy hearing provided. In other words, the platform declaration Is designed to give assurance that what is now the general practice In the federal courts shall be made universal by statute. In order that hereafter no cause of complaint or misapprehension shall remain. "This may not satisfy the extremists on either hand, but it was not expected to do that. It will meet the approval of every right thinking man, whether an employer or an employe. No party can lose by bravely taking a stand for what is right, whoever complains, just as none can profit by taking a stand for what is wrong, whoever applauds. Defense of the Courts. "Mr. Bryan objects further to the phrase in the injunction plank which proclaims confidence In the Integrity of the courts. It is true, perhaps, that the convention which Is yet to meet at Denver rather than that which has just adjourned at Chicago, should express faith in the integrity of the courts; but in view of the democratic attack in 1S96 and the fact that the same forces which then controlled that party are once again in supreme command it would seem entirely appropriate for the Republican party not only to remove any possible cause of complaint In the use of the writ of injunction, but to make it clear that it would resent again, as it did in 1836 any attempt to assail the judiciary. "All that any one wants Is that powers of the federal courts, with respect to the nse of tujunction, shall be accurately defined by statute, to the end that all occasion for complaint in labor cases, which happily have been rare in the past, shall disappear altogether in the future. The Republican plank points to a simple and straightforward way of achieving thl purpose." SHERIFF IN DARK. Nothing has been learned by Sheriff Meredith In answer to Inquiries as to the identity of William Rinehart, the Insane man arrested Sunday afternoon on the Union Pike. What final disposition will be made of Elmer Baker, the Insane imbecile has not been determined. He Is being cared for by rela-

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