Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 214, 16 September 1908 — Page 1

CHMONB PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 214. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTE3IBEK 16, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. T WINS NOMINATION, AFTER BITTER FIGHT. E Modern Woman Is Passive Slave to Her Husband TAKES STAND FOR EXPLAIN STAN D GOVERNOR AMIDST GREATEXGITEMENT CAMPS OF BIG PARTIES T E

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Generally Considered However Who Will Vote Against Measure Kirkman for a Short Session. "Tbe Indiana legislature costs about $2,000 a day. In the interest of economy, I shall favor a short session. I believe the work should be confined to three measures, and no more. Namely: The bill to reappropriate the funds for the various state institutions. Possibly a bill to regulate the night riders, and most certainly a county local option bill. I shall do all I can to secure the passage of the best possible county local option bill in harmony with the republican platform. This work can be accomplished in two weeks or less, if the republican members of the legislature agree promptly on a program and follow it out." The above statement was made this morning to a Palladium reporter by Senator Rcscoe E. Kirkman just a short time before he left the city to attend the extra session of the legislature, which convenes Friday. , While Mr. Kirkman states that he will support a county local option bill he does not approve of Governor Hanly's action in calling an extra session of the legislature. "When It was first reported that the governor would call an extra session of the legislature, and that Uis prime motive in bo doing would be to enact a county local option IU, I made the statement; that I did not think "such a measure should be considered by the legislature until it bad been voted upon by the people,' stated Mr. KirkmanA Necessary to Pass Bill. He said that that action of the governor in demanding " Immediate action on the county local option measure had forced the issue on the republican party and, in accordance with the republican state platform, it would be necessary for the welfare of the party to pass such a bill in the event it was presented at the special session. Mr. Kirkman's statement that he will support the county local option measure for the good of his party, will undoubtedly meet with, the approval of the temperance faction of the republican party in Wayne county. Tn full nf 1 Qflfi when Mr Iflrltmnn wrs a candidate for state senator from Wayne and Union counties, he was violently opposed by this same faction on the ground that he was not in sympathy with temperance reform, measures. One of the local papers at that time made a bitter personal attack upon him. v Ratliff Is Silent. - t Walter S. Ratliff, representative from Wayne county, will probably go to Indianapolis tomorrow. Mr. Ratllff was asked to make a statement as to whether or not he would support a county locr.l option measure at the special session. He refused to make a statement. It is the general opinion that Mr. Ratliff will vote against the enactment pi. such a measure. Senator Kirkman states that he will oppose Governor Hanly's Vincennes University t :ssure but will lend his support to tue enactment of a law giving the state authority to properly deal with the night rider problem. The following is a list of the state legislative committees of which Senator Roscoe Kirkman and Representative Walter S. Ratliff of this county ere members: Senator Kirkman Cities and towns; Finance; Fees and Salaries; Judiciary; Public Health: Public Rights and Franchises, Rules and the Senate Joint Committee on Rules. Representative Ratliff Agriculture, Benevolent and Scientific Institutions; Legislative . Apportionment; Roads; Bwamp Lands; and the House Joint Committee on State Library.' OTHER CROOK'S . Wm FORFEITED County Profits by Disappearance of Two "Dips." Not only was the bond of George Fredericks, fugitive pickpocket, forfeited yesterday, but by order of the court the bonds of Thomas Johnson end Frank "Croked Neck" Smith, $300 each, ; were also forfeited. , All these crooks are noted "dlp&," and were arrested a year ago last summer when the Barnum & Bailey circus was in the city.

MRS. CORNELIA DAWBORN PECK. Mrs. Peck Is seeking a divorce from her husband. Prof. Harry Thurston Peck of Columbia University. He declares that the professor 18 an ink maniac and that literary men as a rule make undesirable husbands.. She says that most women seek men of note, those who have achieved fame in the literary world, but most of such marriages go to smash in about five years. She says also that the modern woman is a passive slave to her husband and is deprived of many privileges she should have.

BALOON RACE NOT PROBABLE Heavy Expense Prevents Contest During the Fall Festival. COMMITTEES TO BE NAMED. WILL HAVE ACTIVE CHARGE OF SOLICITING BUSINESS MEN AND FARMERS TO PARTICIPATE IN VARIOUS DISPLAYS. There will be no balloon race, neither will there be an aeroplane exhibition by Orville Wright, during the Richmond Fall Festival. The executive committee has decided that it would be too expensive to have either of these events. It is doubtful if Wright would com4 here for anything less than $1,000 while the committee has received a letter from C. A. Coey, the famous Chicago aeronaut, stating that he would bring his immense gas bag, the Chicago, to Richmond providing he was paid $ 100 per day; that his pilot receive $75 per day, that all gas be furnished him free of cost, and that he be paid his transportation expenses. The committee figured that the total cost for one ascension of Coey's balloon w would reach $500. This would mean an expense of $1,500 for a race in which three balloons competed. The plan to have companies of the Boys' Brigade parade in this city has also been practically abandoned owing to the expense. The committee received a communication from R. E. McDonald, captain of D company, second regiment, Boys' Brigade, of New Castle, stating that the company would be willing to parade here, but all its transportation expenses would have to be met by the Fall Festval association. Other companies would probably make similar, demands so the project is now as good as dead. This evening there will be a meeting of the executive , and industrial committees to canvass various sections of the city for the purpose of soliciting the business men to bo represented by Coats in the industrial parade. B. F. Parsons is now making a canvass of all the farmers in the county urging them to send agricultural, horticultural and live stock displays to the festival. The prizes offered are nearly as liberal as the ones offered this year by the state fair and nearly every farmer Mr. Parsons has seen has assured him that he will be reprethe country are enthusiastic over the big event as are the Richmond people.

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WILL BE BALKED Special Pains Will Be Taken To Prevent Voting of . Floaters. A SPECIAL ELECTION IT WILL BE HELD IN DELAWARE COUNTY TOMORROW TO SE LECT REPRESENTATIVES TO STATE LEGISLATURE. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 16. Realizing that a desperate attempt is threatened by the brewers and saloon forces of Muncie and the state to carry the special election In Delaware county Thursday by means of colonizing hundreds of tramps, toughs and characters of the worst sort from other cities in Indiana, the local authorities backed by the republican county central committee, and the anti-saloon league and the good citizens league have outlined strong measures for combating the proposed effort at illegal voting. The various organizations named are in possession of information in regard to the colonization scheme and, if the liquor forces proceed with their intentions to vote the strangers, the county jail will be taxed to Its utmost capacity when the sun sets Thursday night and each and every case the officials report will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That this i3 no bluff and mere political talk was evidenced last night when representatives of the prosecutor's office, the police force and the various organizations held a conference to exchange their information and arrange for final conference today when complete arrangements will be made for baffling" the liquor forces in their unlawful attempts either to elect Otto Williamson, democrat, as state representative on Thursday or to reduce the plurality of Lewis G. Cowing, republican, to such an extent that the result may be heralded abroad for political effect as an overwhelming victory for the democratic and anti-temperance forces. Arrests Threatened. Wholesale arrests will ensue tomorrow if the strangers are voted or if even an offer to vote them is made. There will be watchers from the republicans and good citizens at each poll from 6 o'clock in the morning till the closing hour at 6 in the evening. Not only will the illegal voters be ap(Continued, on Pace FiTeJ

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ery uanamaxe in uounxy, Asking Their Opinion on the Subject. INDICATIONS POINT TO IMPENDING CONFLICT. In Event County Option Law Is Passed and Signed, Battle Against Saloons Will Be Started. The Wayne County Civic league has written to every candidate in the county, both republican and democrat, to sound them as to their opinions on the temperance question. Those can didates, whom the league finds to be in sympathy with the liquor interests, will, it is understood, receive the vigorous opposition of the organization during the campaign. It is stated that the league will construe silence on the part of any candidate to mean he is not in sympathy with anti-liquor movement, now sweeping over the state. Among the questions put to the candidates for county commissioner are: "Would you refuse a license to any person known to be of bad moral character?" and "Would you revoke the license of any saloonist if proven to you that he ishot conducting his place of business properly?" These questions are not quoted literally, but that is the sense of the interogatlons propounded by the league. It will be easy for any candidate for commissioner to make affirmative an swers to these questions If he so de sires, because for years It has been the custom to refuse licenses to im proper parties and to revoke the li censes of disorderly saloons. Just a few days ago the commissioners refused to grant a new license to a local saloonist because he was convicted last spring of violating the liquor laws. Local Fight Planned. In the event the legislature passes a county local option law at its extra session the signature of the governor will hardly be dry, it is stated, before the league makes its first move in an attempt to drive the saloons out of this county. Local liquor dealers are greatly alarmed over the outlook and are already planning to make a desperate fight to keep this county in the wet column. The liquor dealers have sent out the call to their followers to be ready to muster into service on a minutes notice. The "dry" army in this county is resting on its arms and at the present time is in better state of organization than the "wet" forces. Saloonists to Meet. It is probable that in the Immediate future the liquor dealers of Richmond, Cambridge City and East Germantown, the only three wet spots in the county, will hold a meeting, effect an organization and make plans for the prospective clash between their forces and those of the "drys". This fight would be the most sanguinary, political battle ever fought in Wayne county. DRUGGIST FINED 01 TWO CHARGES Monninger Pleads Guilty to Violating the Liquor Statutes, r HIS CLERK DISMISSED. WAS CHARGED WITH SELLING LIQUOR ON SUNDAY WITNESSES WERE NOT FORCED TO TESTIFY IN CASE. Yesterday afternoon In the circuit court Judge Fox fined A. D. Monninger $50 and costs on a plea of guilty to a charge of violating the second section of the Beardsley act, and $10 and costs on his plea of guilty to a charge of selling liquor without a license. William Tangeman was the prosecuting witness on each charge against Monninger but he did not testify owing to the fact that Monninger entered pleas of guilty. Everett Benham, the clerk at the Conkey-Mon-ninger drug store, was held as a witness for the state but he did not testify. Prosecutor Jessup has dismissed the charge against Benhaxn of selling Honor on Sunday.

Opposition to His Renomination Falls Before the Great Popularity of the Present Executive.

ENEMY MOVES TO MAKE NOMINATION UNANIMOUS Wins in Home of Racing Convention Goes Wild When Hughes Nomination Is Cinched. Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 16. Charles Evans Hughes, of New York city, was nominated Tuesday by the republican state convention by an overwhelming majority and on the first ballot, to succeed himself as governor of the state of New York. He received 827 out of a possible 1,009, as against 151 for James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston county, speaker of the state assembly and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stewart, of Montgomery. The nomination was made unanimous upon motion of State Committeeman William Barnes, Jr., of Albany, who has been perhaps the bitterest and most outspoken opponent of the governor's renomination. The governor's renomination followed the utter failure of a desperate struggle on the part of a number of the county leaders to discover a candidate upon whom they could unite to defeat him. The balance of the ticket was made up in the "good old-fashioned way" as an organization "slate," announced an hour or more before the session of the convention began by Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the state committee, after a conference with the local leaders. A Breathless Hush. It was the 183 votes of all but one district of New York county that car ried the governor's total beyond 505, a majority of the convention required to nominate. The nine votes of Nassau county had brought the Hughes total to 395. Amid a breathless hush in which-was incarnated all the intensity of bitterness and suspense which up to that moment had characterized the struggle to prevent the renomination of Hughes, the secretary of the convention called "New York." Herbert Parsons, president of the New York County Republican general committee, rose in his place and Bald: "New York county, second assembly district, gives four for Wadsworth, the balance of the county, 183, for Charles Evans Hughes." This brought the Hughes total to 578. Every person in the great hall knew that the battle was over and the place was instantly a bedlam of cheering. It was really the earlier action of Kings which signalled what might be called the "stampede to Hughes," and when its 138 votes were cast in a block for the governor, any remaining doubt of his nomination was swept away. Surprise From Racing Center. The convention went fairly wild with the first real roll call, when Saratoga answered: "Eleven for Charles Evans Hughes" for Saratoga is the famous home of racing. It was a full minute before order was restored. The balloting concluded and the totals checked, Secretary Lafayette B. (Continued on Page Two.) THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Wednesday night and Thursday; light to fresh east and southeast winds. OHIO Fair Wednesday night; Thurs day fair, warmer in north portion; light to fresh east and northeast winds.

Love of Music Causes Desertion in Ranks of Local Democrats

Won by his intense love of music, Frank H. Menke, a local barber and formerly confirmed democrat, has enlisted in the republican ranks. At least this is the chargo preferred by his friends. Several day3 ago Menke passed the republican headquarters and heard the sweet warbllngs of the republican glee club. Hypnotized by the harmony Menke remained stationay on tho sidewalk until the rehearsal was over. Even the song which vocally caricatured the Peerless Leader, failed to drive Menke from his post these Insults were offset by the divine "barber, shop harmony, and besides Mr. Menke Is a barber. " Night after night. It is claimed, he formed "an entranced sidewalk audience to the republican glee club musicals, until finally completely mastered by the love of music, he threw 'tis Jeffersonian principles to the four

Y GOV. ChAa. ' E. HUv.ht. Governor Hughes was renominated to head the ticket by the New York state republican convention, late yesterday afternoon. His victory over the enemies, who have so urgently opposed his renomination is one of the greatest ever achieved by any statesman in recent years. WRIGHTS HOW HOLD AERIAL RECORDS Wilbur Wright Breaks European Record Today by Long Flight. IN THE AIR 39 MINUTES. COVERS TWENTY-SIX MILES AT A HEIGHT OF FIFTY FEET LACK OF GASOLINE PREVENTS LONGER FLIGHT. Lemans. France, Sept. 16. Wilbur Wright, the aeroplanist of Dayton, O., made a flight today of thirty-nine minutes and nineteen seconds, eclipsing all former aeroplane records. The gasoline in the machine exhausted or Wright could have remained up in the air longer. He covered twenty-six miles at an average height of fifty feet. The Wright brothers now hold all the world's aeroplane records. Airship Hit by Squall. Berlin, Sept. 16. The Parseval nonrigid dirigible airship, was struck by a squall while maneuvering this morning and the big gas bag doubled up and fell to the roof of the Villa at Halensee. The race with the Gross balloon was a fizzle. PLAN AjEW CLUB Republicans of Jackson Township to Organize Tonight. MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE. Republicans of Jackson township will meet tonight In the town- hall at Cambridge City and perfect the or ganization of a republican club for the western part of Wayne county. It is very probable that there will be many voters in attendance and plans laid, which will materially assist the republican ticket to victory in that section of the county. A .preliminary meeting was held last week in the office of Trustee Trussler. P. H. Zehrung acted as tem porary chairman and P. E. Frazee acted as temporary secretary. All republicans in Jackson township are requested to attend the meeting to night winds of Heaven and Invaded the pre cincU of the republican headquarters and promptly joined his voice with the republican, harmony. Wildly reckless of consequences for hia tct of high treason, he loudly warbled songs which would make Mr. Bryan see red for a week. But what, said Menks, was politics to be compared with, mu sic? . Last evening Ace Bentlaa a bartend er, was married and at tho ceremony the republican glee club tapped its entire repertoire. Brazen as to the opinions of his . fellow democrats Menke sang with the organization It being his first public appearance with the republican warblers. It is said that sao virulent were some of the anti-Bryan ditties that Menke assist ed In singing, one of the wedding guests, a woman with strong democratic persuasions, left the house In a huff before the glee club had finished its recital

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Stand of State Legislators on the County Local Option Question Responsible for. Worry. PARTIES TO CAUCUS ! BEFORE FINAL ACTION.

A Few Democrats Stand for Republicans and Some Republicans, It Is Feared, Will Buck Hanly Program. Indianapolis, Sept. 16. The uncer talnty of the situation as regards lin ing up the party strength at the com ing special session of the legislature. n order to pass a local option bilL ncreases wit'i every hour. Th den concern exists both on the republican and democratic sides and Is confined to the house. The republican leaders, beine final ly brought to the belief that there was absolute dancer of th cnvcnirir'a program falling, decided that it would be best to call a caucus of the legislators, both senate and house and at teniDt thus to fasten a nledcA nti ov. . . ery member to support a local option measure. The call for this caucus as issued yesterday and the caucus is to be held Thursday night, as announced yesterday. Immediately after the call was issued much speculation was indulged in as to whether the reclatitrant members would respond by taking part In the caucus. Doubt on this matter has not yet been dis pelled, although nressure of the sev erest kind has been brought to bear on the wavering ones. The statement that there are four rebellious mem bers of the bouse is said, todav. to be stating only part of the truth, for the number is put higher than that by tnose who, profess to know. That the passage of the local option bill is real ly doubtful is admitted on all sides. ana me caucus was n absolute necessity, as in no other way, say the leaders, is it possible to learn who is who or what Is what. Brewera In Danger. It Is asserted on Rood authority fhat the brewery interests will be represented at the caucus, not for the purpose of seeking a compromise but for the purpose of telling the agents of these interests that they bad better get out of the way and do so quickly, as the party is pledged to local option and cannot turn away from the issue. Nothing will be promised In the way of legislation, for the brewers, on the contrary they will be told that some thing will drop and drop hard unless they cease their tamnerine with leeia. lators and trying to defeat the gover nor s program. The "something" is Just this: Gov. ernor Hanly has said to certain of nis closest friends that if his plans are upset he will take. the stumn not for his party altogether, but for the Indiana Anti-Saloon league. He will go Into every county of the state, force the temperance question to the front, regardless of politics, show up friendf and enemies and let the damage strike where It may. Such a course on the part of the governor would be disastrous, the leaders say, and they will succeed In making it plain to the brewers that their Interests would be hit hard if the governor should b forced Into such a fight by the defeat of hia plans. If these things can be made plain to the brewers, with their resultant disaster, politically and otherwise, the bolters can be forced Into line and all will be well. But If the brewers stand firm and prefer to fight It out. there is no telling what may happen. . Democrats to Caucus. Although nothing has yet been sal about a democratic caucus. It Is knownthat one will be called, as there is danger of desertions on this side of the fence, Just as there Is on the other. True, the democratic leaders believe that the democratic members of the house are safely lined np on the blocking policy, but they are not sure enough of this to permit the taking of a vote without first knowing to a certainty Just where everybody is. The brewery Interests are also playing mm eiuo ux ice lire and it is anything to beat the governor. The democratic caucus will probably be called for Friday possibly as late as Sat urday. There are those among the democratic leaders who believe that a mistake Is being made in attempting to block the local option program of the republicans, and among these is a former democratic official, who said: Are Not Happy. "I for one am opposed to the position assumed by my party's representatives. It would be the wise thing. Ia my opinion, to vote solidly for the local option measure, thus showing to the people that we are for anything in the way of temperance legislation. Suppose that the local option bill Is passed despite the opposition of the democrats In the house. The republican would find themselves In possession of a splendid card. Their speak-

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