Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 221, 23 September 1908 — Page 1

EICHMONB F ABJIJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOI XXXIII. NO. 221. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTE3IBER 23, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

THE

DEATH KNELL

SOUNDED WHEN INDIANA SENATE PASSES COUNTY LOCAL OPTION DILL

AFTER SEVERAL HOURS OF SPEECHMAKING, IN WHICH BOTH THE FRIENDS AND FOES OF THE MEASURE DISCUSS ITS MERITS BEFORE ONE OF THE GREATEST CROWDS OF SPECTATORS EVER ASSEMBLING IN THE SENATE HALL, VOTE IS CALLED AND THE MEASURE : PASSES AMIDST CHEERS OF TEMPERANCE PEOPLE.

BALLOT STOOD

SENATOR KIRKMAN OF WAYNE COUNTY VOTED AS HE WAS EXPECTED TO DO, FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE BILLVOTE WAS DELAYED OWING TO SPEECHES MADE BY EACH SENATOR BEFORE THE VOTE WAS ' CAST BALLOTING STARTED AT 3:45 O'CLOCK.

HOUSE MEMBERS WHIPPED INTO LINE

Several of Those Who Have Stood Out Against Measure Almost Sure to Take Stand With Temperance Element When It Comes to Final Vote Pressure, Legitimate and Otherwise Brought to Bear on Obstinate Ones.

BULLETIN. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23. r-When Karl Wood of Spencer had voted on the local option bill this evening, it was found that the Cox bill for county local option had passed by the .total vote of 32 to 17. When the announcement was made there-was tremendous cheering by the hundreds of people assembled to hear the result , The voting started at 3:45 o'clock but as each member of the body made a short speech explaining why he stood as he did, the final result was delayed. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23. After three hours of oratory the Indiana senate adjourned at one o'clock without having voted upon the county local ' option bill and reconvened at 2 o'clock to hear more oratory. The vote on the till had been made a special order of business for one o'clock, speeches or no speeches, but the demands for the privilege of speaking became so insistent that It was agreed to postpone the vote until 3:45 o'clock. It was confidently expected that the Huestion would be disposed of before , 2 o'clock In the senate. In anticipation of this action the house had adjourned until 3 o'clock to have the bill from the senate at that time, in order to refer it to committee which committee could bring it out for second reading tomorrow. The bill will have at least thirty-one votes in senate and its passage is assured. Indianapolis, Sept 23. The county local option fight came up promptly at 10 o'clock in the senate this morning. Interest wa3 intense and the big chamber was crowded. Early development showed that the fight would end not later than 1 o'clock. All the senators were in their places, when prayer was offered by the Rev. George D. Wolf of the Fletcher Place M, E. church, Indianapolis. Senator Slack wh was to lead the opposition against the bill, read a a petition from the W, C. T. TJ. of his home town, Franklin, asking for state wide prohibition. In the reading the- senator emphasized the petitions statement that the people should rule and that the liquor traffic In any form was wrong. Petitions asking for the immediate enactment of the option law were presented by one or two of the senators and Lieutenant Governor Miller read telegrams from the Presbyteries of Crawfordsvllle and Ft. Wayne, as beThe Cox local option bill now being considered in the Indiana senate and which will be passed, will be found in full on page three of this issue.

OF THE SAL

AT 32 TO-17 ing also for immediate enactment of the law. r.. Discussion Limited. Roemler, of Indianapolis, moved that a vote on passage of the Cox bill be takeu at 1 o'clock, unless debate was terminated before that hour. This was carried without opposition and was important in as much as it revealed a unanimity, to limit the discussion of the measure to three hours. The bill as amended on second reading was read in full by Julian negate,'' secretary of the senate. The galleries and side spaces were thronged to overflowing by spectators. Many of the onlookers wore white ribbons and white ties and coats of ministerial cut, revealed the presence of many preachers. Lieutenant Governor Miller asked the senators wishing to speak on the bill to hand up their names and responses came, cards from Slack, Stotsenberg, Moss and Kistler on the democratic side and from Cox, Ganiard, Kling, Mattlngly, Mock, T. T. Moore, Parks from Marshall and Kosiuski counties and Stevenson from the republican side of the chamber. - King Applauded. The first speaker was Kling. The young senator from Howard and Miami counties got applause when he declared that the republicans were going to enact the law right now because it is right The people desired it he said, as revealed by the petitions and memorials received. "There is no such thing as being right too soon," he said with emphasis, "so we are going to enact this law now." It was the republican party, KMng said that had the courage to enact the Nicholson law and the Moore re monstrance law and the party had the courage now, he declared, to enact the option law without delay. The law he said, would not supDlant the remonstrance law but would be supplementary to it. The county is made the unit, he explained, because it is the natural and logical unit. Other Aye. Nay. Beardsley Benz Bland . .. Bingham Bowser .' Burro, Rep. Boyd Bonnermann, Rep. Stevens Hugg, Rep. Cox Kistler Crumpacker McDowell Forkner Moss Ganaird Parks of Clark Goodwin Patterson Hanna Ranke Hawkins ..... i Shafer Kimbrough Slack Klrkman Stotsenburg Kittinger Tyndall Kling Carl Wood, of Jackson Lane McClellan Mattingly Mock Moore, of Fayette Moore, of Putnam Ornborf Parks, of Marshall Pierson Seltzer Romler Springer Stevenson Strange Wickwire !1 Will Wood

Senate Vote

states he said had the county unit Ohio, Missouri, Delaware, etc. Democrats' Viewpoint. The first democrat to speak was Stotsenburg of Floyd county. The minority members declared boldly that he was going to vote against the bill. Not a ripple of applause greeted this. He said that the whole action now is political, notwithstanding the republican expostulations to the contrary. While disclaiming the pretense of being a constitutional lawyer Stotsenburg .declared, with emphasis, that the bill a3 drafted is unconstitutional. Numerous decisions were cited to back up the declaration. The speaker then spoke of the injustice of the county unit. He showed how by it residents of a rural community could seek to govern the residents of a city and vice versa, he said. Such legislation, he said, was not right and not just and would be resented by the people. He got applause by saying that he was not in favor of any kind of option except that which would repeal the Beardsley law, which legalizes the sale of liquor by druggists in dry districts. Following the house adjournment the representatives came across the corridors and sought admission to the already overcrowded chamber. They wished to hear the argument, but found access practically denied them. Slack Is Firey. Senator Mock of Tipton, chairman of the morals committees, followed in a strong speech, supporting the bill

and wasvin turn followed by Senator Slack, the democratic leader. Slack's speech was full of fire and he was applauded liberally at the dose when he exclaimed: "I propose to hold up the hands of the man who defeated me for the democratic nomination for governor." Klrkman Eloquent. Senator Klrkman was next In part he said: "The compliments of the senator from Johnson and Shelby are returned with double measure. We have, how ever, a more serious duty to perform The republican party has no apologies to make for its past record. Its record, state or national, recounts all the splendid achievements of a half century. The people are not concerned, however, with the record of any party. They are not satisfied with the record of any party. They are not satisfied with either historical data or promises. They demand action. I shall not discuss the constitutionality of this measure. It is too late to raise this question. This subterfuge will not meet the situation or satisfy the people; they fully believe that the Anti-saloon league and the republican party know their business. Both organizations are full of eminent lawyers and jurists who for months have wrestled with the question of constitutionality, nor is it our province to determine finally the constitutionality of any bill. We are required to be only reasonably certain. In 18!5 the question of constitutionality was raised against the Nicholson bill. Yet it became a law and has fully stood the test as to its constitutionality. "The same question was raised against the Moore amendments to the Nicholson law in 1905, yet by its passage, with the assistance of the senator from Johnson and Shelby counties, and under its operation 831 townships out of 1,016 in Indiana are dry. "The senator says we have a partisan measure. If so who made It such? I will tell you. When these Anti-saloon leaguers, a few months ago at(Continued From Page Seven.) Changes in Cox Bill in Brief Making 20 per cent, of voters, instead of 2C0 voters, necessary to calling of special election. Insertion of words "as a beverage," after sale of intoxicating liquors, each time expression appears. Instead of three days after election, commissioners shall canvass vote next day at 10 o'clock. Liquor dealers given ninety days Instead of thirty to go out of business. Changing word prohibit to control in title of bill. Instead of posting two notices in each precinct, general election laws shall be observed. No license Issued prior to the passage of the act shall be affected. Words city or town inserted after Board of Commissioners which grants liquor licenses. THE: WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Showers Wednesday night; Thursday, fair and cooler; fresh south winds, shifting to northwest by Wednesday night. OHIO Showers Wednesday night; Thursday shower and cooler; fresh south and southwest wind.

ASKS ROOSEVELT TO SHOW PROOFS IN HASKELL CASE

William Jennings Bryan Asks Investigation of the Charge That Oklahoma Man Is a Standard Oil Man. DISMISSAL TO FOLLOW IF CHARGE IS TRUE.' Unusual Sight of Presidential Candidate Disputing Word Of Chief Executive of the Nation. Detroit, Sept. 23. The spectacle of a presidential candidate "rebuking the chief executive of the nation for making assertions deemed to be unjustified was witnessed when William J. Bryan in a telegram to President Roosevelt, late yesterday afternoon, defended Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, treasurer of the democratic national committee, against the charge that he had unlawful connections with the Standard Oil company. Mr. Bryan serves notice on the president that as the candidate of the democratic party, "I shall not permit any responsible member of the republican organization to misrepresent the democratic party in the present campaign." The telegram, sent from this city, concludes with the declaration that the democratic party is making "an honest and honorable fight in defense of its principles and policies and expects and will demand honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the republican campaign." ; Bryan Defends Haskell. Mr. Bryan't telegram is as follows: Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States. Bear Sir: In a statement given out by you and pub lished in this morning's papers you in dorse a charge made against Governor Haskell of Oklahoma to the effect that he was once in the employ of the Standard Oil company, and as such employe was connected with an at tempt to bribe or Influence Attorney General Monnett of Ohio- to dismiss suits pending against the Standard Oil company. In indorsing this charge you attack the democratic party and its candidate, saying that "Governor Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Bryan and is the treasurer of his national campaign committee." And you add that "The publication of this correspondence not merely justifies in striking fashion the action of the administration but also casts a curious sidelight on the attacks made upon the administration both in the Denver convention which nominated Mr. Bryand and in the course of Mr. Bryan's campaign." Your charge is so serious that I can not allow it to go unnoticed. Gover nor Haskell has denied that he was ever employed by the Standard Oil company in any capacity or was ever connected in any way whatever with it or with the transaction upon which your charge is based. Demands Investigation. Governor Haskell demanded an investigation at the time the charge was first made, offering to appear and tes tify, and he demands an investigation now. I agree with you that if Gov ernor Haskell is guilty as charged he is unfit to be connected with the dem ocratic national committee, and I am sure you will agree with me that if he is Innocent he deserves to be exoner ated from so damnable an accusation. As the selection of Governor Haskell as chairman of the committee on res olutions at Denver, and also as treas urer of the democratic national com' mlttee, had my approval and indorse ment. I feel it my duty to demand an immediate investigation of a charge against him indorsed by the president of the United States. Your high position as well as your 6ense of justice would prevent your giving sanction and circulation to such a charge without proof, and I respectfully request therefore that you furnish any proof which you have in your possession, or if you have no proof I request that you indicate a method by which the truth may be ascertained. Without consulting Mr. Haskell, I will agree that he will appear- for investigation before any tribunal, public or private, which you may indicate, and I will further agree that his connection with the national committee and with this campaign shall cease in the event that the decision of such tribunal "connects him in any way with this charge, or in case you, after investigation of the facts; say that you believe him guilty of the charges made. Says He Aided President. As the candidate of the democratic party, I shall not permit any responsible member of the republican organization to misrepresent the attitude of the democratic party In the present campaign. I have assisted you to the extent of my ability in remedial measures which I deemed for the public good which you have undertaken'; I have urged democrats to support such measures and I have advocated more radical measures against private mo(Continued on Page Two.)

DESERTED HIS WIFE

Homer Stanley Now Languishes in Jail for His Misdeed. IS AN INDIGNANT MAN. Homer Stanley took up his abode at the county jail today because of his inability to provide bond for $500. He is charged with wife and child desertion. Stanley is a well known young man who worked as a trimmer for electric arc lights for several years. He also has been "in the railroad service. S The prosecutor claims Stanley de serted his wife about two weeks be fore she became a mother. The state claims Stanley knew his wife's condi tion and his running away was prearranged. Stanley is highly indignant toward his wife and the prosecutor, as the result of his arrest. He claims he could not take care of his wife be cause she would not have anything to do with him. GREAT WELCOMEFDR CONG. CRUMPACKER Tenth District Statesman to Open Republican Campaign in City. GIGANTIC PARADE PLANNED ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE MEETING AT COLISEUM. The biggest crowd seen In Rich mond in months will assemble tomorrow evening to participate in the op ening of the republican campaign In this city. Congressman Crumpacker of the Tenth Indiana district, probab ly the ablest member of the Indiana congressional delegation, will deliver the opening address at the coliseum and the big building is expected to be filled to overflowing. Delegations from nearly everyone of the out townships in the county will be in attendance and will do every thing in their power to make the ral ly one of the most enthusiastic ever held in this city. Congressman Crumpacker will arrive in Richmond tomorrow afternoon at 4:50 o'clock and will be met by a reception committee composed of Judge Henry C. Fox. Lee B. Nusbaum and Dr. T. Henry Davis. Mr. Crumpacker will be entertained at the Westcott hotel where he will probably hold an informal reception. Judge John L. Rupe will preside. Before the meeting, which opens promptly at 8 o'clock, there will be a parade and every republican in the county is urged to participate in it. The various republican drum and bugle corps and the Taft Marching club will assemble at the republican headquarters, Masonic building, Ninth and North A streets, at 7 o'clock. The parade will form at this place and will then march by the way of Main street to the coliseum. Republican leaders in this county feel that they could have secured no better speaker to open the campaign in Richmond than Mr. Crumpacker. He has always been known as a most sane and efficient statesman and is popular not only in his district, but all over the state. In congress Mr. Crumpacker has been one of Presi dent Roosevelt's most ardent supporters.

Kansas Cyclone, Carrie Nation, Swoops Down on City for Short Visit

Minus her hatchet, Carrie A. Nation, self appointed president of the Saloon Smashing league slept comfortably in a bed at the Central hotel last night. This morning she arose with the birds and left for Montpelier, Ind., where she will deliver a tirade on the evils of consuming too much liquor and inhaling cigarette, smoke. ' When Carrie arrived here yesterday evening, she decided to enjoy the hospitality of the Central hotel, because it had no bar connected with it. Not knowing that the human Kansas cyclone was any where In the vicinity of Richmond, Clerk Everett Shepard stood guard over the register peacefully smoking a stogie. Witnessing this spectacle Mrs. Nation cleared for action and bore down upon him. In an Instant she had the young man groggy with a broadside of denunciations of tobacco smoking and chewing. Shepard hoisted' distress signals but in vain no one in the lobby dared risk an engagement with the hatchet expert, so the guardian of the register had to bear the brunt of the attack. Shortly after Shepard had "got his m, reporter hove In sight wearing a

SCARLET FLVER RAGES

Two School Rooms at Hibberd Building Closed on Account of Disease. PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN. Dr. Charles S. Bond, city health officer, today warned local physicians to take extra precautions towards preventing the spreading of the epidemic of scarlet fever which seem to have the city in its toils. As a result of a new case reported today two rooms in the Hibberd building on South Eighth street were closed. Lillian, the little ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bogan, a new suffered, was a member of the schooL There are two rooms closed at the FInley building, better known as the First ward school, and the Parochial school conducted by St. John's church, has two rooms closed on account of the epidemic. At the Wernle Orphans' home there is several cases. but this is out of the jurisdiction of Dr. Bond. At the present time it is not known how the disease secured such a foothold on the city. DROUGHT AFFECTS LOCAL FACTORY Hours of Labor at Hoosier Drill Plant Have Been Shortened. ' WHEAT CROP IS IN DANGER. DECLARED BY MANAGER CARR THAT UNLESS RAIN FALLS THE CROP OF NEXT YEAR WILL BE SMALL. Continued drought throughout the country is given by the officials of the Hoosier Drill company as the reason for closing the shops one hour earlier each day than heretofore. Up to the present time the Hoosier had its force of men working ten hours a day and yesterday the new ruling of nine hours went into effect. This was not much of a surprise to the employes as all the manufacturers of plows and other implements that are used on the farms, have been running short hours for a number of weeks. Mr. Fred Carr,- manager of the local concern stated this morning, "The slump in the sales of wheat drills Is due to the fact that the farmers are unable to get the ground in condition to drill their wheat. The ground Is so hard that as a result they have been unable to plow it for the winter sowing. The seed placed in the ground will not germinate and as a re sult the wheat crop of next year prom ises to be very small unless It rains soon." Notice was given out today that the office force with all the books and records of "the Empire Drill company of Shortsville, N. Y., will be moved to Richmond Monday, a delay having been encountered. OKLAHOMA TOWN DESTROYEDBY STORM Reports Meagre; Wires Are Down. Oklahoma City, Okla.. Sept 23. It is reported that Kingfisher with 3,000 inhabitants, was destroyed by a storm last night. No details are obtainable as wires are down. Turkish cigarette in his face. He informed Mrs. Nation of his occupation and informed her she must submit to an interview. Now if there Is anything Mrs. Nation likes better than fat box office receipts, its to have her name in the papers ever little add helps, she figures. As a p'limlnary, Mrs. Nation remarked, as she glared at the Turkish torch, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself smokin' them things, but its no use of talkin' to you newspaper men. There's a chance to reform everybody in the world but reporters. They are hopeless." The . scribe muttered something about having had too many experiences with fake reformers to become susceptible to their arguments, but Mrs. Nation mnffed the retort. Mrs. Nation recalled her invasion of Richmond about five years ago when she stormed divers saloons and invaded the now extinct red light district. She expressed satisfaction when informed that since her last occupation of this city, all local places of III repute had been done away with. She stated that it would not be long before the local liquor emporiums were, numbered among this defunct class.

BRYAN A CHASER

AFTER VAGUE IDEAS SA'S WM. H. TAFT Republican Candidate Makes Public His Opinions of His Adversary at Republican Club Rally. CHANGES HIS OPINIONS TO PLEASE THE VOTERS. He Shows That Bryan Has Accomplished Practically Nothing and Asks Voters to Use Judgment. Cincinnati. O.. Sept. 23. William H. Tart, for the first time since the campaign began last night made public his opinions of his adversary in the presidential race. He was speak ing at the rally of the National League of Republican clubs, the address he delivered being the third of the day. It came at the end of hours of political excitement, fanned by parades and meetings.

Mr. Taft depicted his Idea of the democratic policy of "promise" in no uncertain words. The democratic leader he held up as a chaser after vague ideas, whose political beliefs were easily influenced and worked about so that they would appeal to the greatest possible number of voters. Mr. Taft. In this connection, pointed out the Issues on which Mr. Bryan has made his campaign. The free silver idea of 1896. he said, was abandoned in 1900 for the cry of anti-imperialism and anti-expansion. In 1904 it was Roosevelt's "tyranny, and in the present campaign both are overtopped by the bank guarantee and labor questions. , The republican candidate pleaded with the voters of the nation to use their Judgment in the coming election. On the one hand, he said, there stands the republican party, which has accomplished many ' things aud . has pledged itself to carry out the known and tried reforms inaugurated by the present administration. On the other hand, he added, was the democratic -party, unversed in cne work to be done, having accomplished nothing of worth to the country and promising only theoretical and impracticable things. . Mr. Taft's address follows: After his review of the issues, Mr. , Taft continued: Turning now to the other picture, what is 1t that we have to expect from Mr. Bryan? Have we anything to expect but what he promises? Have we anything to expect but what Is based upon his eloquence and his adroitness as a public critic? Has he ever given -any practical demonstration of bis ability to meet problems and solve them? Has he ever done anything but formulate propositions in his closet of

an utterly impracticable character, largely with a view of attracting votes by their plausibility, and very little with a view to their operation? "By their fruits ye shall know them." What Is the history of Mr. Bryan? It is from beginning to end a record of failures on public questions. We find him first in Congress, in the -second administration of Mr. Cleve -vd, a member of the Ways and Means Commltee, and most active In formulating the provisions of the Gorman-Wilson tariff bilL After five months debate it passed both houses and came to Mr. Cleveland in such a shape that he denounced it as a piece of perfidy. It leveled the industries of this country to the ground. It threw out of employment millions of wage earners. It destroyed all business profit. Farm products, for lack of a market, fell to a point never so low In forty years. Coxey's Army came from the West to Washington to protest against a government under which such things were possible. Denunciation of Cleveland. After having assisted in this suicidal policy, after the country was nearly dead, after the farmers and the wage earners were staggering under debt and mortgage, penury and almost starvation, Mr. Bryan defeats the efforts of the only really great Democrat that they have had in the party for many years Grover Cleveland and hurls at him billingsgate and denunciation, for what reason? Because he opposes Mr. Bryan's pet hobby, that of the free coinage of silver, without the consent of any other Nation. Mr. Bryan announced that the gold standard had slain its tens of thousands, where protection had slain its thousands, and so he abandoned the Issue of protection and free trade and tariff for revenue, which now so attracts him, and he went into the business of trying to persuade the people of this country to resort to the dishonest method of paying off their debts by issuing a debased money which would be equivalent to the payment of what the Nation and people owe at the . rate of 50 cents on the dollar. Repudiation always has an attraction for those who are laboring under debt. In that campaign Mr. Bryan prophei Continued on Page Two.)