Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 332, 4 October 1908 — Page 19

TIIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AJTD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1903.

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LET JOY REIGM" . ; TUESDAY NIGHT

Fantastic Parade of Fa!! Fesv.. tival WilU Be . Held Then, k CARNIVAL SPIRIT TO REIGN.

CASTE WILL BE FORGOTTEN AND ALL WILL JOIN IN THE REVELRYPRIZE FOR BEST MASKED INDIVIDUAL.

GIRL PARRICIDE ACQUITTEDAFTER -TRIAL

Mississippi Lass Who Slew - Father Is Free.

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"Let Joy reign uneonfined."

. Tnls will be the motto of the Young

Men's Business Club on Tuesday even

lng, when the big Mardi Gras fantastic parade Is held. It will be a night solely devoted to good old King Carnival, and any one who has not the true carnival spirit running through his or her veins is requested to remain in "the clear." Main street will be no place for sour faces. On that evening the always mysterious mask will be worn and partriclan and common will lay aside caste, and will, side by side participate. In the fun making. Everybody In Richmond is cordially invited by the l"Tdl Gras committee to cast dignity t the four winds of heaven Tuesday

nlng and take part in the frolic, i more the merrier.

e Mardi Gras celebration has been V Med solely to allow the worn-out

Jar-chasing citizen to forget his fness cares for a -few hours, and

discover to his amazement that he Is

real-for-eure, living, breathing, joyloving human being. If any one on this night when Dame Richmond pays tribute to King Carnival fails to have fa good time, it will be his fault. phe carnival parade will march along Main street and the fun will be fast and furious. For the person Vho Wears the .most grotesque costume the Mardi Gras committee offers a prize of $5.'To the lodge participating in the parade wh'cll hes thr largest percentage bit its rasn!ber:I:ip In Hns a prize f $100 will ba a wauled. ( arboehale and hearty ( fellows of the,Slks' and Eagles' lodges have an,Bouced their intention of participate A , UL. J J ft I 1 V- 1

hf t'other lodges will also be repretc"l jln the column of merry makers. .',. r ' "My -dear." began the minister's wife.

"Were" a hat at the niillln" ."There you go again." he quickly Interrupted. "Alwnys tli!::k!n of world

ly things." MBtt. tjv iTenr. you wrous nie." she M?d:" "Till t I m :: t Is ptTiVctl" hear-

Hattiesburg, Miss., Oct. 3 Lena Richardson, a 17 year old girl of Sumrail has been acquitted by a jury in the circuit court at Purvis on a charge of murder of her father. The jury was out thirty minutes. The girl was at once taken to her home by her mother. The tragedy occurred last December. The father, Jack' Richardson, a saw mill employe, came home In a quarrel

some state of inebriety. The neigh

bors took him away from home so that he would not mistreat his family, but

later In the night he returned and with

a hoe as a weapon endeavored to get

into the house. . His daughter Lena, seized a double

barrel shot gun and warned him to stay away. When he continued to ap

proach she fired Into the floor. Still he came on. Then she raised the gun and with the muzzle almost against his (tomach, fired. He died soon afterward. The girl made her way across the country to surrender to the sheriff at Purvis.

PRECEDENT BROKEN III THIS CAMPAIGN

Year When All Presiden

tial Candidates Have Taken Stump. V

EXPECTED BRYAN TO DO SO.

COUNTRY, HOWEVER, WAS SUR

PRISED , WHEN TAFT ENTERED ACTIVELY INTO FRAYWHAT

OTHER CANDIDATES DID.

pected that he will be equally busy boring commonwealths. He appeared ' could win. As the candidate, though, in visiting the people, and In telling at four or five meetings la Ohio and of only one section of the Democra-

them why they ought to vote for his Indiana, and everywhere, he. attracted cy, the Northern end, he was fore-

ticket. His itinerary covers nearly all

the territory from the Atlantic seaboard to ' the Rocky Mountains and from the Potomac and the Ohio to the great lakes. All the states which any of his supporters say are in doubt,- or

Unly Year When All PreSlden- chance of carrying, will have an op

portunity to greet him at least once during the canvass. If he is elected he promises not to become a candidate again. If he is defeated It is hardly probable that he expects his party will again place itself under his leadership. Therefore his speeches this year will be well worth hearing, as he Is one of the most skillful orators whom the country -has ever met.

At first, however, the country was

rather surprised to hear that Taft was

to appear actively on the stump. His

little talks at Hot Springs were in

lormat, just line inose which were made by Benjamin Harrison when he

invented the "front porch" style of

campaign oratory in 18SS, a style

which McKInley followed in 189fi. But

Toft 1c nil vcffilll V far mnra a.tfv. tKon

ereat nolitical Darties took the stumn. ! . . ... . ...

. . eitner or ms predecessors. He is a

We have had several campaigns in bustling person, and as for years, a

The year 1908 has the distinction of being the only presidential canvass in

which the candidate of each of the i

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Ethel Jackson Engaged to New York Club Man.

New York, Oct. 3. Ethel Jackson, the original "Merry Widow" in the United States, and former wife of J. Fred Zimmerman, the theatrical man, is soon to marry Benoni Lockwood, Jr., a member of an old New York family and one of the most popular men in the Racquet Club, so all Broadway was saying last night. Mr. Lockwood's father married a sister of the late Ambassador Thomas Bayard of Delaware. He was a member of the firm of Frame, Hare & Lockwood. Young Benono Lockwood was recently divorced. His first wife was Miss Mary Bonner. There were three children. Mr. Lockwood was Miss Jackson's

lawyer when she was fighting Zimmerman for a divorce. While poring over

statutes and divorce evidence, the

singer and lawyer fell in love. But

before marriage was possible two di

vorces were necessary. Lockwood is

divorced already, and Miss Jackson receives her final decree on Oct. 15.

which the nominee of one side or the member of the most bustling admlnis-

other made a personal appeal for sup- tratlon. which the country has seen,

port, but this year there are two nom- he had made the country pretty well

Inees making political speeches. In acquainted with him long before the

nearly every campaign the candidates convention met which placed him inl'lliss-

of the minor parties make a tour of nomination. As no republican candi-j Probably Harrison's success as a the country. Debs of the socialists, date, however, had been on the stump campaign speaker may have induced Chafin of the prohibitionists, Watson for the past quarter of a century, the Gen. Winfield Scott, another soldier, of the populists, and Hisgen of the country supposed he would follow the to take the stump when nominated by

independence party, have made many example of all of them since Blaine.

addresses, and were expected to do Moreover the Blaine example was ex

pected to act as a deterrent. But the personal appeals from all over the

a great deal of attention. He was not doomed to defeat. Breckenridge was

a great orator, and being 63 years of the Southern Democratic nominee, age at the time, and not strong phy- while Bell of Tennessee was the stand-

sically, the speeches which he made ard bearer of the Constitutional Union

were short. Moreover he had In cU negationists, the mugwumps of. that service the most accomplished batid day. Neither Breckenridge nor Bell

of spellbinders whom the country has made a speaking tour, nor did Lincoln.

ever seen. These included Webster, the Republican candidate, Douglas -Clay, Clayton.. Everett. Thomas Cor- ttinerarv carried him from Illinois into

win, Cassius M. Clay. Joshua R. Gid- Missouri and through Indiana, Ohio dings and many others who were then and the rest of the states to the Atnatlonal figures, or who became o lantic seaboard. He mads several adshortly afterward. Nevertheless Har- dresses in New York. Massachusetts rison himself on the occasions in an(j other staes in their region, and which he spoke, attracted more atten- went through the Atlantic States o tion than any of them. As the hero 'j,e South. of Tippecanoe and of the Thames, he , Greely-$ Experience Pathetic. had the military record which has or-1 . . , . . ten proven to ave a spell over the ! B' far the most PtheUc Instance of average voter. The largest of ail his misplaced confidence which ever

Catherines, even ereater than that at seized a presidential candidate was

Dayton. O., was the one which was that which accom pnled Greeley on held on the battlefield of Tippecanoe, his stumping tour In 1872. Greeley The survivors of that fight, who were was one of the most pointed and ef-

necesarily few. however, were gathered fective talkers to a mixed audience

from all over the country and carried which the country saw. He was also thither. Harrison himself was Ihe one of the most astute of political

star speaker on that occasion, and be- prophets, but his qualities in each di

fore appearing on the platform he held rectlou failed him when they were ex-

a" reception for all his old comrades erted in his own behalf. He made a

who were present. Necesarily, every tour extending from New York to 11-

one of them, regardless of his preced- linois. which took in nearly all the ing or succeeding politics, voted for states of the Middle West, and which Tipecanoe and Tyler, too, in that can-. crossed over into Kentucky, the state

so. Their predecessors among the chiefs of the "third" parties, in most

cases, did the same. This is the, most t country for Taft to' take the stump

effective way for those parties to attract the country's attention. They have no literary bureaus of any consequence and the number of Influential papers which are on their side are always few. Hence they are compelled to make a direct personal appeal to the people in order to let the country know that they are here. Mr. Bryan, as an accomplished orator and a man of abounding physical vitality, was expected to take the Btump this year. He did this In his two previous canvasses, and probably with some effect. No other presidential candidate ever before spoke to so many people as Bryan addressed in 1896. And he almost equaled that record in 1900. Recently some of his admirers quoted him as saying that he had

made 3,000 speeches, had traveled 300,-

000 miles in making them and had made them to 3.000,000 of people. This of course Includes the journey around the world, in which he made many 6orts of addresses, in many places, and on many kinds of occasions. Every Item in these numbers will be will be largely increased between now and election day. He may be said to have taken the stump soon after the close of the Denver convention, an'' he has spoken in many states, since t. -n, and to many thousands of people. Between now and November it Is ex-

at last convinced the national commit

tee that it would be wise to consent to

a speechmaking tour. Moreover this

determination coincides with the can-

dites own wishes. He said soon after

the nomination that the passive attitude did not suit him. As he is an effective talker It Is expected by his friends that his toures will make votes for the party. Something has been needed to shake the republican voters out of their lethargy, and the advent of the candidate among them can do

this if anything can. The republican remember thta 1892 was a year in complained of apathy during the campaign. In that year the republicans were beaten in their first national canvass. Cleveland had a longer lead ever Harrison in 1892 than Buchanan had over Fremont in 1856. Consequently the republicans have good reasons to be suspicious of anything that looks like indifference even, if, as is probably the case, this results from still have votes to spare. It will be the business of Mr. Taft and the other orators to tell the republicans that they an not carry the country unless every republican voter casts his ballot. There was some surprise when Thurlow Weed and the other whig leaders induced William Henry Harrison in 1S40 to make a few speeches in his home state in one or two of the neigh-

the Whigs a dozen years later. The Democrats, however, were less considerate of the hero of Lundy's Lane and of the march to the City of Mexico than they had been of Old Tippecanoe. He said many things which were given an absurd twist by the Democratic press. More ridicule was heaped upon Scott by the Democrats than was cast at Hancock by the Republicans on account of his "tariff-is-a-local issue" break. From the beginning to the end of the campaign of 1852 Scott was lampooned by the leading Democratic papers and stump orators. Moreover, he was weakened at the outset by the secession of a large

section of the Southern Whigs, led by Stephens and Toombs of Georgia, who went over to Scott's subordinate in the Mexican campaign. Franklin Pierce, the Democratic candidate. Thus it transpired that the Whigs car

ried only four states Vermont, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee while Pierce and the Democrats won all the rest of them. Douglass Tried It in 1860. Not till 1860 did another presidential candidate of a great party appear on the stump in his own behalf. This was Stephen A. Douglas, who was a far greater man than any of his predecessors who have been mentioned. Douglas, however, was the victim of circumstances which he could not have prevented. His speeches were able, and would have been effective had there been any possibility that he

of his old chief, Henry Clay. He also

spoke in several of the New England States. Everywhere he was received with large audiences. His fame had traveled all over the country long before he had made his overland Journey to the Pacific in 183S. Throughout all the free states he had hosts of admirers. As one of the pioneers in the anti-slavery movement, . he had been a big figure in the Republican party. The New York Tribune was the leading Whig journal until the Whig party passed off the stage soon after Scott's disastrous defeat in 1852. It went to the front among the Republican papers soon after the formation of that party as a successor to the Whigs. Those who had been reading his paper for many years wanted to greet him personally, even though they would vote against him. Thus it was that he attracted vast audiences everywhere he spoke. Like Mr. Bryan and others In a similar situation he construed this interest in him to be an evidence that he would sweep the country. For tie

first few weeks' after the Democrats had accepted him as their candidate his chances seemed so favorable that he stood high in the betting In New York, even though his opponent was

Grant, who was nominated for his second term in that year. Many of Gree

ley's little car-end speeches and im

promptu talks at way stations were

models of concise, pointed oratory, They had a powerful effect on the im

mediate audience for the moment. The

Southern end of the Democracy, how

ever, had not yet been extricated from

the discredit attaching to secession.

and as he was warmly supposted by

many Southern leaders. It was easy for the Republicans to arouse North

ern hostility to him. Nevertheless. ha continued to the end to be confident of victory, even after . the August."

S September and October states showed

that the drift was overwhelmingly to

ward Grant. . '

Blaine Made Personal Canvass. It Is the Blaine example of 1884.

which will be oftenest quoted, however. In connection with Taft's appear-)

ance on the stump, tor Blaine was the only republican candidate to make a

personal canvass of the country. After his own state of Maine, in the Septem

ber election, had rolled up an immense majority, 20.000 for the republlcan candidate for governor, some of his most trusted friends, encouraged by the outlook. Induced htm to mak a speaking tour of the country east of the Mississippi. He also .visited some of the ex-slave states Maryland. Delaware. West Virginia and Kentucky. Everywhere he was greeted by large audiences. Unlike the case of Taft, however, the personal Influence of the administration was not eerted lu his favor. President Arthury sought the candidacy In 1884 and would have obtained It. had It not been for Blaine's aspirations. Presl-s dent Arthur, while he did not oppose the ticket, did not make any serious attempt to strengthen t it. Most of Blaine's talk

South, which was then a larger men-'

ace than It is row, for it Included ev

ery one of the sixteen former slave states. Delaware. Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri wer democratic strongholds equally with

the old slave states, which had seceded. Wherever Blaine sroke in , the.

west he received an enthusiastic greet

ing. Everything seemed to be In his

favor until he returned to New York near the close of the campaign. Then the banquet given to him by the busi

ness interests of the city and the re

ception by the ministers, in which

Burchard his stupid outbreak of coupling the democratic party with "rum, Romanism and rebellion," turned the tide against him. t la said that when the business men's banquet was pro

posed he had a presentiment that it

boded disaster, for the popular prejudice against a candidate who would

have any affiliations with capitalist was far stronger then than it Is now. Mr. Taft'a friends, however, believe that the Blaine fiasco has aa little per-

Mr. Bryan's failures. Bryan aroused immense enthusiasm wherever be went in 1898 and also In 1900. Apparently he exercises a little of the same hypnotic spell over the' populace today. The conditions have changed for the republicans since 1884. There are no Conkllng feuds and no diversions like that by which SL John, the prohibitionist candidate, drew off thousands of votes from Blaine. If there, is any Burchard, he Is so tar In the shadow that no glimpse of him has been obtained. Taft'a and Bryan's advent simultaneously on the stump gives the canvass of 1908 a dash of plcturesqueness which all former campaigns lacked.

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