Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 338, 11 October 1908 — Page 8
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THE KICH3IOND PALLADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1908.
BITTERNESS MARKS PRESENT CAMPAIGN
Not for Twenty Years Has There Been Such Feeling As at Present.
PEOPLE ARE THINKING.
THANKS ISEXTENDED Festival Decoration Committee Appreciates Services Rendered.
WRITES LIGHT COMPANIES.
OVERLOOKING MANY OF THE PERSONALITIES NOW BEING INDULGED IN, CONSIDERING IT ALL MERE AMUSEMENT.
Washington, Oct. 10. Politicians ol all parties and all shades of belief are agreed on one proposition, that the
present is the most bitter presidential
campaign for more than twenty, years. It Is 'necessary to go back to 1884 to find a year when the personal element entered so largely Into the struggle for the presidency. The Cleveland-Blaine campaign of that year will long be noted for Its acrimony. There were not
great Issues between the parties and the campaign descended into the of personalities. By 1888 Cleveland, with bis tariff message to congress, had vitalized that issue and in succeeding campaigns the differences between the parties were sharply denned and the country was spared a deluge of personalities. History does not record a more exciting contest than 1840 the "hard cider" campaign. There were no vital differences between the parties and the Whigs did not even adopt a platform but with the cry of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, tod," they roused the country to a frenzy of excitement and swept everything before them at the polls. In times past the personal feuds and animosities of party leaders played a large part In campaigns, and the followers of a popular Idol were ever ready to make his quarrels his own. This is not true to nearly so great an extent today, , but we still find that personal feeling is not absent from the utterances of even those most highly placed. The indignation of President Roosevelt for Senator Foraker's alleged short-comings no doubt was accentuated by the president's personal dislike of the Ohio senator, and we find that Mr. Bryan does not hesitate to castigate those who have fallen under the ban of his displeasure. But it Is doubtful if the public cares seriously about the personal likes and dislikes of either President Roosevelt or Mr. Bryan. That both have their own Infirmities will be admitted by the most ardent partisans of both, something that never could have been true of former generations of partisans. ' In the earlier, days a popular Idol either was a demigod or a villlon, and there was no uch thing as calm appraisement of his merits.
of personalities is something of a shock to those who had thought our politics had advanced beond that stage, feeling la not likely to be carried to the extent It might have been fifty or even twenty-five years ago'. With the growth of newspapers, In numbers and circulation, the people are doing more of their thinking for themselves and they are likely to regard some of the happenings of the present campaign more in the light of entertainment than as serious reasons why they should vote for one candldato or the other. '
At a meeting of the decoration committee of the fall festival yesterday a resolution was adopted extending thanks to the business men and citizens of Richmond for the splendid manner in which the city was decorated. So elaborate were these decorations that they were spoken of In the most admiring manner by out of town people who attended the festival. The committee also extended its
hearty thanks to the Municipal Light
ing and Power plant and the Richmond Light, Heat and Power com pany for the splendid illumination fur
nished by these concerns. The letter
of thanks to each one follows: Members of Board of Works Chas. H. Rogers, Mgr. Municipal Light Plant. Gentlemen:
The electrical display on the streets of Richmond during the fall festival
was a source of pride to our citizens.
i The fact that you furnished us
gratis, the necessary wires, feeders and transformers and supplying cur
rent for the lighting of seventy-five
arc lights and a number of incandescent lamps at various exhibits at an
expense to you of about $600, prompts
this committee to acknowledge your
contribution as one of the best and
largest to the fall festival.
We wish to express our thanks for the service so cheerfully rendered by
the manager and other employes. Yours very truly, , Wm. M. Bailey,
Chairman Decoration Committee.
The other letter reads: Mr. J. Perkins. Mgr. Mr. L. B. Johns, Special Represen tatlve, Light, Heat & Power Co. Gentlemen:
The electrical display on the streets of Richmond during the fall festival
far surpassed the .highest expecta
tions of our citizens.
The fact that you furnished us gratis, the necessary wires, feeders, trans
formers and isub-stations for supply
ing electric current for 2,500 incandescent lamps, as well as, running
wire from your plant to the search
light, located at Ninth and Main, convinces this committee that no single
contribution to the Richmond fall fes
tlval was greater than yours, representing as it does, an expense to you
of about $600.
We the Committer wish to thank you for s the service rendered and
greatly appreciate your co-operation. Yours very truly, Wm. M. Bailey, Chairman Decoration Committee
Had a Close Call.
Mrs. Ada L. Croom, the widely
known proprietor of the Croom Hotel, Vaughn, Miss., says: "For several months I suffered with a severe cough and consumption seemed to have its
grip on me, when a friend recommend
ed Dr. King's New Discovery. I began taking it, and three bottles effected a complete cure." The fame of this life saving cough and cold remedy, and lung and throat healer is world
1 wide. Sold at A. G. Luken & Co's
drug store. 50c and $1.00. Trial bot
tle free.
The gathering in Washington of the many big conventions has again strikingly demonstrated the need of a suitable auditorium at the national capital Foreigners at the Tuberculosis Congress were shocked, when they were conducted for the first time to the new national museum, where the sessions are being held.' The structure itself Is handsome enough, or will be when It la completed, which It lacks a lot of doing now, but the accommodations were entirely Inadequate for such a gathering as this, and the way to the building Is through about the most disreputable-looking part of the city. The scientists from other parts of the world had heard much of the wealth of the United States, and of the beauties of its capital and when they were invited to hold this greatest of scientific meetings In Washington they had expected to be accommodated at least as well as they would have been in one of the capitals of Europe. Instead of that they were thrust into an unfinished, cheerless, barn-like auditorium with almost no arrangements for their comfort or convenience and told to go ahead and solve the problem more vital than any other to the human v race the elimination of the "great white plague." A president is to be Inaugurated next 4th of March, and for more than half a century one of the features of inaugural ceremonies has been the ball. In the early days the attendance was limited and the balls were held in hotels. But their popularity and the crowds increased and of late years the inaugural ball has been held in the pension office building. In order that It may be held here a special act of congress always is necessary and the work of the bureau always has to be suspended for about a week. Four years ago congress gave consent for the use of the pension office only with the distinct understanding that by 1900 a suitable structure for such gatherings 6hould be provided. The citizens of Washington assumed this obligation, but they haven't discharged it. So they are either going to have to go back to congress and confess they have not kept faith, or the next president will have no inaugural baft. ' Actor Are we alone? Voice from the Audience You would be if we could get our money back at the box CScav Footlights,
Temporarily Indisposed. One of the workers in a Chinese m! sion became much interested iu twChinamen who, she found, owned i flourishing laundry business in be. own heme neighborhood. She lookei in once in awhile to see how thing were going with them and one morn
ing found Sam smiling and cheerful as usual, but John was missing. "Where Is John this morning?" she asked. ' "Oh." answered Sam amiably, "Chlistian gen'leman hit him in the head with a blick, and he all same in hospital!" New York Times.
SHIPPERS TO WEST
ARE RULED AGAINST
Indiana-Illinois State Line
Proves to Be "Dead . Line."
DISCRIMINATION IS SHOWN.
SHIPMENTS FROM INDIANAPOLIS
COST MORE THAN FROM EITHER CINCINNATI OR CHICAGO, IT IS CLAIMED.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 10. The In
diana-Illinois state line is something more than is shown on the ordinary maps the boundary line between two
states. To Indianapolis and in fact
all Indiana manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers, big shippers of freight all of them, It is better known as "the
dead line."
This name has been given to it be
cause the railroads have made that line
a great arbitrary freight-basing bound
ary. The Indianapolis shippers show that it is so arbitrary in the railroads' arrangements that thought they will
haul California potatoes 2,500 or 3,000
miles up to it for 73 cents a hundred
pounds, if they bring them eighty miles farther, to Indianapolis, they add an
other 50 cents for each 10O pounds.
apolis rate to $1.23, though the haul is
the same distance to Chicago, which,
like St. Louis and Danville, being on the other side of the line, gets the 75-
cent rate.
This is not serious that it, not very
serious, though it somehow jars pie old idea that Indiana is a cheap place in
which to live. The cost of this dis
crimination is distributed and therefore
it escapes attention.
How the Dead Line Is Deadliest.
But, say the shippers, when the ef
fect of the dead line is noticed on ship
ments from Indianapolis toward the
west even into Illinois, the effect is
seen to be handicapping to all industry
in Indianapolis and Indiana, that seeks
markets on the other side of the dead line. They say it amounts to this: that Indianapolis and Indiana manufacturers shipping to the west have to
pay local freight rates up to the Miss
issippi river and that all of their competitors in Chicago, Milwaukee, Danville and other points just across the line get a through differential rate that is very much lower. Though the system is simple enough for easy explanation, still it would be confusing to try
it. Results show this more strikingly
For instance, take furniture furniture-
making is one of this city's big Industries and one of the Important ones of the state. The west and the southwest are the best markets open to competition. A Jobber in Kansas City wishes to buy chairs. An Indianapolis dealer goes out to sell him the bill. "Well," says the Kansas City jobber, "what Is your freight rate?" Mind you, point out the Indianapolis manufacturers, ' he asks "what is your freight rate?" rather than the price on the chairs. "Well," replies the Indianapolis dealer, "we can land them in Kansas City at 55 cents a 100 pounds if shipped direct, or at 47 3-4 cents if shipped via Peoria." "Well," he says, "I am afraid that
you are not In it.' Chicago has a 30-
cent rate." :
Incidentally, it might be added that
Chicago and Indianapolis are approxi-1
uiBVKij um uisiaace irom . jvansaa City. But Chicago is on the other side of the dead line. Indianapolis shippers are asking, "What has the Indianapolis . or Indiana manufacturer to do if he sells that bill of goods? They assert;
that he has to stand the difference be- j tween his shipping rate and that of the t Chicago competition, using the ordi-.
nary fifty-foot car of 20,000 pounds "ca
pacity." The Chicago competition can !
deliver it loaded In , Kansas City for
$60. If the Indiana manufacturer
ships by the direct lines from Indianapolis he must pay $115.20. or if he
routes his shipment via Peoria, he can get it in at $9S.J4. On these figures he may get the business if he wishes to pay either the ?2S.!4 or $35.20 a carload for the privilege of having his plant in Indianapolis instead of across the dead line in Chicago, or even at Danville, 111. However, this does not tell all of the discrimination against him. His shipment is "light and bulky;" he can not get 20,000 pounds into the fifty-foot car. In some furniture shipments he can get only half that in the car. If he were on the other side of the dead line the railroads would furnish him another car into which he could load
his excess. It would. be shipped through at "carload rates. But the Indiana manufacturer, because he is on this side of the dead line, must pay "broken carload rates" much higher rates on his excess. Still the total handicap is not summarized. The minimum charge for the fifty-foot furniture car on the other side of the line is 20,000 pounds, or $50; but on this side the shipper must pay on 21,000 pounds' for the same car. All in all, he is charged more than double the rates of his competitors across the line, from Indianapolis into Kansas City or any other Missouri river point. Handicaps in Getting West. It is asserted that in shipping into the new great Oklahoma chair market Indianapolis pays $107.62 more a carload than Chicago, and $88.88 more than Cincinnati. On ladders, another Indianapolis industry, 'manufacturers in this city must pay $109.63 more a car than Chicago, though Indianapolis, via St. Louis, the shipping route, is forty miles nearer Oklahoma. The great difference in all these
rates comes on the cost of getting to St Louis. The rate from Chicago, forty miles-greater distance than Indianapolis, is 9 cents on furniture the rate from Indianapolis . is 32 cents. Cincinnati gets the 9-cent rate and Louisville a 4-cent rate to St. Louis simply because they are on a navigable river. They do not, however, ship via the river, and most of the shipments from Cincinnati are carried by the Big Four and the C, H. & D. up through Indianapolis. Some of Louisville's 4-cent shipments are also brought up through Indianapolis and are carried to St. Louis over the same tracks on which Indianapolis pays 32 cents. The effect of this on the furniture industry is taken simply as an example. It applies with practically the same figures to practically all other in; dustries. . The figures themselves may fluctuate, according to classification of the shipments, but the relative rate and discrimination is the same.
In practically all lines of manufac
ture the West, the Southwest and the
Northwest are the big markets for Indiana. The East is filled up with fac
tories. Therefore the dead line is a
paralyser to all industry. Not only does it work to this end, but in cer
tain instances, such as extension lad
ders, whose manufacture is a considerable Industrv in Indianapolis, the
discriminations make it absolutely im
possible to sell goods on the other side
of the dead line.
DELICIOUS
BEE HIVE COFFEE
The Prosperous Person There is no occasion for you to envy me. my man. I have just as many troubles as you have. " The Impecunious One I dare say you have, but the difficulty with me is that I ain't got nothing else. London MaiL
Bobby Pa, what's a press censor?
Pa lie Is a man who knows more
than he thinks other people should.
Judge.
Moore & Ogborn Insurance, Bonds and Loans, Real Estate and Rentals. Both phones Bell 53R. Hom T589. Room 16 I. O. O. F. Bidg.
High Grade Furniture at the Lowest Prices Call and as Gilbert T. Dunham 627-629 Main St.
CoiFLf a: Gold Medal Flour 1 cheapest It's bt. too more loaves to th sack. EirMm.
The only coflee sold In tbe city at
25c POUND That Is A 1
Sold only by tbe Bee Hive Grocery
Announcement Gotnmono Dairy Oomusony Successors to Richmond Cream Co
TANK DEVELOPER
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for perfect negatives, whether films or plates, use a ,
Let us show you bow easy It Is to turn your vacation exposures Into perlect negatives. Kodak Film Tanks, Premo Film Tanks, Eastman Plate Tanks all sizes in stock. W. H. ROSS DRUG CO., 804 Main, Richmond.
YOU CAN BUY GOOD COAL AT OUR YARD HACKMAN, KLEHFOTH & CO.
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Dr. A. 0. Martin, Dentist
For satisfactory plate work. Special service on repair work. Colonial Bk. Newpbone 1637.
Wanted --50 Men
To try our GUARANTEED
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MAKER OF Fine Cigars
American Kid Smokers Like It
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