Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 142, 6 July 1908 — Page 4

THE RICII3IOXD PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TELEGRA3I, 3IOXDAT, JULY G, 198$. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. a city, the other is paid, and paid royally? Less than ten rears ago, the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie railroad, now the C, C. & L Ry.t was voted a subsidy of ?225,0O by the people of Richmond and on this gold platter, the franchise was taken to the officers of the road. The C, C. & L. has benefited the city and will continue to do so. The Dayton & Western has been operating for several years; it has put Richmond In connection with the trolley systems of western Ohio, and until recently ordered to stop running freight cars, was of much practical service to manufacturers and business men. It is to be hoped that no such radical steps as charging for a franchise issued to another freight carrier for Richmond will be taken. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN TAGGART IS A CONSPICUOUS FIGURE AT DENVER. Don't Impose upon the 'liberality of your neighbor. Buy a suit case; have one of your own. STEP BY STEP We can save you from 10 to 15 on your Leather Goods. Palfadlum Printing Co., Publisher. Office North 9th and A Street. RICHMOND, INDIANA. PRICE Per Copy, Dally 2e Per Copy, Sunday 30 Per Week, Daily and 8unday. 10o IN ADVANCE One Year $5.00 Is our Leather Goods Department coming to the front. We expect to make this one of the strongest departments in our store and now as the traveling season is here and our stock is complete it will pay you well to spend a few minutes in this department. We will consider it a pleasure to show you through our line of Entered at Richmond, Ind.. Postofflce As Second Class Mail Matter. rm . raelkSo Suifitt Cases, REPUBLICAN TICKET. rm 71 Tm

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NATIONAL TICKET. For President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT of Ohio. For Vice-President JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York.

8TATE. Governor JAMES E. WATSON. Lieutenant Governor FREMONT C. GOODWINB. e Secretary of State FRED A. SIMS. Auditor of State JOHN C. BILLHEIMER. Treasurer of State i OSCAR H AD LEY. Attorney 1 Generaa JAMES BINGHAM. State Superintendent LAWRENCE McTURNAN. State Statistician " J. L. PEETZ. -Jsdff of Supreme Courts QUINCY A. MYERS. Wads of Appellate Court DAVID MYERS.

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OEOROE W. SELF.

DI8TRICT. Congress -.WILLIAM O. BARNARD.

COUNTY. Joint RepresentatlTe ALONZO M. GARDNER. Representative WALTER S. RATLIFF. Circuit Judge H2NRY C. FOX. Prosecuting Attorney i CHAS L. LADD. Treasurer V ALBERT ALBERTSON. Sheriff LINUS P. MEREDITH. Coroner DR. A. L. BRAMKAMP. Surveyor ROBERT A. HOWARD. Recorder WILL J. ROBBINS Commissioner Eastern DlBt HOMER FARLOW. Commlsslonsr Middle Dist.BARNEY H. LINDERMAN. Commissioner Western DistROBERT N. BEESON.

WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Trustee JAMES H. HOWARTH. Assessor CHARLES E. POTTER.

RAILROAD FRANCHISES. Occasionally in the political world there Is found a man whose rabid desire to crush money-power as represented in railroads, telephone systems or other public service corporations, is completely separated in his mind from his personal business sagacity and foresight. He attacks corporations because their share of the national income appears so large, forgetting ever that capital Invested and the business risk are commensurate with the returns. j A statement emanating from, the president of the board of public works Is to the effect that the city should charge the Dayton & Western Traction company for the right to operate in this city. In other words, he holds that this public carrier, should be wade to pay a premium for the privilege of handling freight. Such a policy can be proven short-sighted at a glance. For months the Dayton & Western company has been making every effort to restore- its freight business to and from this city. Shippers in Richmond are clamoring for council to act in regard to the new franchise, but BtiH the inertia of mid-summer stagnation seems to have the administrative departments In its grasp. Now, the president of the board of works announces that he favors holding up the company which does an interstate business and therefore can not become a "dread monopoly" or "throttle the public." With the railroad an unquestionable gain to the shipping facilities cf Richmond, it is hard to see what advantage would be in compelling it to pay to come here.- ...... Is there so much difference between electric and steam roads that while one pays for the privilege of entering

THE BREWERS' CAMPAIGN. Most efficient campaign thunderperhaps for the democrats in the coming state campaign is the fact that every brewer and saloon man In Indiana is practically pledged to support the democratic nominee for governor. The strong prohibition platform of the republicans has been greeted with dismay by the liquor interests of the state and after being successful in getting the democrats to indorse a less sweeping movement against saloons, the brewers have openly announced their attitude and have started their campaign by distributing printed matter to be displayed m tar-rooms and other public places. Thomas Marshall, democratic nominee for governor, holds to the local option idea with the township as a unit. James E. Watson, on the republican ticket, contends that the county should be the unit, and if elected, his party will Introduce a bill in the legislature providing for such a law. The republicans merely give the people more power in deciding the liquor question for themselves; the party does not pledge itself to make the state prohibition. With the growing sentiment against liquor, such a law as will allow the voters to decide what they wish to do, has become necessary and will be passed, if not at the next session, then at the one following. The crowning argument of the saloon men is the report of each county's source of revenue. In Wayne county each saloon pays a license of $100 per annum and as there are now about sixty saloons, the amount reaches a yearly total of about $6,000. Behind this sum, paltry when considered as a part of the great annual revenue from taxation, the liquor men would hide. But the question arises, Whence does the $6,000 originally come? That sum, together with an amount many times as large, is from the pockets of the people, and if there were no saloons, it would remain with the people. The democrats, aided by the brewers threaten to make the liquor plank the main objective in their fight against the republican ticket. The whole question is one of whether or not the people of a county should be granted the power that they seek.

A HOLIDAY AFTERTHOUGHT. Although buried, and without flowers, deep under the heaped reproaches of the citizens of Richmond, it might be well to exhume the memory of the Fourth of July celebration for a brief word of comment and warning. Richmond failed to approve the sort of "celebration" offered under the auspices of one of the local lodges and in doing so, the city was firm in upholding its municipal dignity, which was most certainly at stake. It cannot be expected that a community that supports an art exhibit, a Chautauqua, occasionally a May festival and other high-class entertainment for the uplift of the people, could countenance an observance of the greatest national holiday, the principal part of which consisted of a laborious parade, a greased pig race and a balloon ascension. The comparison is ridiculous. The people of Richmond desired but independence upon Independence Day and this feeling they boldly asserted by taking to the woods and fields and forgetting the stale attractions of a cut-and-dried program. Failure to approve the celebration undertaken by the Knights of the Golden Eagle cannot be construed as a slur upon the city. Each individual acted in his own right, the right vested in him since the signing of the Declaration in 1776, and future attempts to arouse patriotism and high national devotion by the potato race and peanut parade method should be governed by the experience of the last effort.

Mr. George S. Ross has returned to his home in Chicago.

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THOMAS TAGGART OF INDIANA.

Taggart is an unusually busy man, as i naddition to his regular duties connected with the pre-convention arrangements he engaged in furthering the candidacy of John V. Kern of Indiana for the vice-presidency.

CONSERVATISM

IS

PREVAILING NOTE

Only One Radical Plank Will Go Into Democratic Platform.

MORMON ISSUE IS DEAD.

NO PLAN K AGAINST FOLYGAMY WILL BE PUT IN AS IT IS CONSIDERED A DEAD ISSUE AS PRACTICE HAS CEASED.

Denver, July 6. Conservatism is the prevailing note of the discussion of the national democratic platform. This discussion has been indulged in freely among the prospective members of the resolution committee, as well as among leaders of the party generally, and Mr. Bryan has been quoted as being in harmony with the conservative idea. The one radical plank which it seems to be conceded will go into the document, will be an expression on the injunction as applied to labor disputes. Those who oppose strong language on this subject are conceding that their effort will not be potent to prevent the adoption of a plank which will pledge the party to an amendment of the law which will make notice of the issuance of a preliminary injunction imperative; also that provision will be made for a hearing of the case before a different judge than the one issuing the Injunction, and for a hearing of the facts in the case by a jury. There promises to be a struggle before the resolutions committee over the question of an anti-Mormon plank. Four years ago at St. Louis such a plank was made a part of the democratic national platform and an effort is to be made to have it reinstated this time. It is asserted by the Utah delegation that no sucn plank will be adopted. Judge W. II. King, of Salt Lake City, who has been chosen as Utah's member of the resolutions committee, has the unanimous backing of his delegation in opposition to the plank. His argument is that the Mormon question is a dead issue. He asserts that the practice of polygamy has ceased in Utah and that the only remnant of it is in the lives of a number of old Mormon men who married their wives long before the practice was declared unlawful. Equality Before the Law. With the hope of securing the incorporation into the democratic platform of a plank relating to the issuance of writs of injunction by federal judges, which will come nearer to the desire of union labor than the piank adopted at Chicago, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; John Mitchell, James Duncan and other members of the executive council of the federation arrived here today. They were met at the depot by the delegation from the Building Trades' Council of the Denver Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers said he wanted it known that the representatives of labor are not asking for any special privileges In the matter of the issuance of injunctions In labor disputes, but that all they wanted was equality before the law. "There is no warrant of law whatever." declared Mr. Gompers, "for tie

issuance of the injunctions against which we protest. We are opposed to any injunction that does not apply to any other citizen in any other walk of life." Gompers stated that the plank submitted to the Chicago convention would be again offered, but in a slightly modified form. He would not disclose the nature of the change. He denied certain statements which he said had been sent out from Denver to the effect that the American Federation of Labor was opposed to Bryan. The platform offered in Chicago recognized the right' of workingmen to strike and to induce others to do so.

Art Gems Free. Beautiful pictures add so much attractiveness to the home that Richmond ladies will be glad to learn how they may secure fine art specimens absolutely free. Send twenty-five Easy Task soap wrappers with a 2c stamp to the manufacturers, and they will send you a handsome picture by return mail absolutely free.

LIBERTY MAKES MERRY ON OCCASIOHF FOURTH Many People in Union County Capital to Celebrate.

Liberty, Ind.. July G. The citizens of Liberty and Union county observed the Fourth with an "old fashioned celebration" Saturday and there was a large crowd in town to make merry and assist in the days program. The morning was devoted to a series of amusing contests, consisting of sack races, wheel-barrow races, foot races, riding the barrel and other fun-making stunts. This part of the program occurred down town, the crowds lining up on the sidewalks and in the court house park, leaving the street open for the contestants In the various events. At 1:30 an automobile parade was formed on the public square, and twenty handsome machines, gay with the national colors and loaded with the older members of the crowd, proceeded to the fair grounds, where the assemblage gathered for the afternoon events. Here they were entertained with various sports including an alleged game of base ball between the "Fats" and "Leans" which resulted in a score of 11 to S in favor of the "Fats," after seven strenuous innings. Automobile races against time and running races by local horses helped pass away a pleasant afternoon. The evening was given over to a magnificent display of fireworks on the public square, supplemented by the numerous citizens who showed their patriotism by fire works on their private lawns. The local K. of P. band furnished music for the occasion during the day and evening, and taken as a whole, the celebration was one of the most successful held here in many years, although the committee in

charge had made no special effort in the way of advertising.

Gertrude Breslau Hunt will speak on Socialism Monday evening, July 6, at corner of Main and 6th streets.

Through a mistake in this paper in the Railroad Store advertisement of Friday and Sunday ginghams at 3c per yard should read 8c per yard during sale. 61t Tasitka: Raised "biscuiU from Gold Medai Floor are exceUest. Sajcajixza.

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