Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 350, 23 October 1908 — Page 1

Wm Howard Tait, Next IPrsiclerfct, Speaks In IRiclimoixdL Satur

IVgoiraiirigr T RICHMOND FAIXAJDIUM N A ANT) STTNT-TTT PHT? A AT. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 350. RICII3IOND, IND.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE EXPECTED TO HEAR TAFT CONGRESSMAN SERVES TAFT WILL CARRY INDIANA BY A MERCHANTS BUY CONTINGENT UPON TAFT'S ELECTION ATTORNEY MAY BE DECLARED IN CONTEMPT ACTION OF CIVIC BOTH PARTIES WELL. LEAGUE IS HOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY 'I

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EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR THE RECEPTION TO BE EXTENDED TO THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN RICHMOND SATURDAY MORNINGSPECIAL TRAIN ARRIVES IN THIS CITY AT 8:50 A. M.

tUBIMTE WILL MAKE A TWENTY MINUTE SPEECH ft umber of Factories and Stores Will Close That Employes May Hear Judge Taft. INDIANA TOUR IS , PROVING A SUCCESS. thousands-of People Flocking To Hear the Next President Taft Discusses Bryan injunction Idea. Good weather alone la needed to snake- the visit of William 1L Taft to this city tomorrow morning a great puccess. A stand Is to be erected at Tenth, and North B streets from which (the Republican candidate for president will apeak unless It should be raining. In the latter Instance arrangements will be made whereby he will speak from- hi a train In the sheds at the Pennsylvania station. Judge Tagt is scheduled to arrtre here at 8:50 o'clock and the time alloted for his speech Is twenty minutes. ;. There Is no doubt but that an Immense throng will bo on hand to greet him. It will be the first time a Republican presidential candidate has Visited Richmond since Benjamin Harrison was here during his campaign against Grover Cleveland. The occasion will not be permitted by the Republicans to go unrecognized. Stores Decorated. The North E street merchants and business men and the officials of the Pennsylvania depot are decorating the fronts of their stores and the depot this afternoon. The plain red brick fronts are being converted Into things of beauty. Yards and yards of bunting have been festooned from windows and pillars and huge American flags have been woven Into the scheme for decoration. Pictures of Taft and the other Republican candidates are displayed prominently. Those of Watson appear equally as conspicuous as those of Taft. 20,000 Expected. A crowd of 20,000 is anticipated In case of good weather. Extra police will be provided and will permit no vehicles of any kind to encroach near to ithe speakers' stand. A number of factories and stores will close so as to permit employes to hear Taft. It will be Saturday morning but the hour of time lost by the clerks will be more than made up by their good humor during the remainder of the day, so the merchants say. The following men will serve on the reception committee: Wm. Dudley Foulke, Stephen S. Strattan, Jr., John - F. McCarthy, Dr. Henry Davis, E. M. Haas, Henry Mason, L. S. Bowman, John L. Rupe. The above named will meet the Taft train at Greenfield and act as an escort to Richmond. The balance of the reception committee is as follows and will meet the train at the depot: Richard Sedgwick, Dr. C. S. Markley, Jno. F. Davenport, Nettleton Neff, Sharon E. Jones. There are about 50 vice presidents who will take part In the reception given Judge Taft and occupy seats on he platform with the candidate: Frank O. Chambers, Ben. F. Mattis, Cash Alexander, John F. Haner, Chas. I. White. G. F. Pfafflin, J. T. Hill. C. O. Weist. J. Falck, A. F. Guy, Rev. Noah Williams, Godfrey Williams, Frank Medearis, Wm. J. Brannon, D. W.- Dennis, Rev S. R. Lyons. Isaac Jenklnson. Adam H. Bartel, William E. Russell. John Deitz. William Whitacre, Mark Shissler, Oscar Tauer, Jr., C. L. Sackman, Harry Goodwin, Russell Strattan, O. P. .Norman, Harry Highley, James Braxton, John Otten, Frank Goddard, William Hartzler, Fred Heltbrink, William J. Shearon, George Matthews. James Kessler, Lawrence White, William H. Plummer, Oscar Medearis, Alva Crampton, William Hollopeter, William E. Pickett, Henry Engelbert. Stands on Record. Evansvllle, Ind., Oct 2& Taft stood on his record as a judge in talking to miners of southern Indiana, and said that if he had not issued Injunctions against lawless laborers he would not sow be fit to ask the votes of law abiding worklngmen. Vast of Taft'a sixteen- speeches of

yesterday were devoted to explaining

the history and uses of injunctions, but at Terre Haute he referred to Debs as representing a doctrine. America is not ready to accept. Also "ho answered Bryan's charge of bribery in connection with the promises of employers to their employes of more work with Re publican success, and the orders of business men for goods, said to be made contingent on the same result. These were not bribes, ho said, but business. They did not represent false conditions, but facts. Mr. Taft made a clear distinction between the Republican and Democratic platforms on the use of the injunction, and declared business to bo property. Says Crowd Breaks Records. The largest outdoor gathering Taft said he ever had addressed was assembled at Terre Haute when the Taft special arrived there Thursday afternoon. There were many in the carload of local politicians which escorted the candidate to the city that said it was the largest gathering the state had ever had. The injunction was tho feature of this speech, and after It had been explained and the possible of the two parties clearly set forth, tho candidate declared with great vehemence: "That Is where the Republican party stands, that is where I stand, and I don't care what happens politically that Is where I am going to stand, and I havelssued injunctions against lawless laboring men who were violating somebody else's rights. If I had not done it I should not have the right to be here asking for your suffrages. What kind of a Judge do you want? Do you want a judge that distinguishes between classes, decides in favor of one class and against another? Is that the character of a judge you want in a free country? Is it not the judge who, under his oath, with the law as it is laid down In the text book and the statute, and with the evidence before him, under his oath decides according to the justice of the case and then, issues the order that the law requires him to issue? Writ of Prevention Not Cure. "What is an Injunction? An in junction is merely an order with reference to the prevention of the abuse made before the fact occurs which is to injure or not injure the party. Where am Injury has been done a man brings suit to recover damages for the injury, but where the injury is of a character recurring from time to time in small acts for which you can't recover damages that are adequate, there equity says that a man may have prevention rather than cure. Then he may go to court and say: " ' This man is going to cut down my tree. That tree won't grow in twenty years. It belongs to me, It is on my place and he is my tenant. He is going to injure it by wasting that tree.' He goes into court and asks the judge to issue an injunction to prevent the cutting down of the tree. Is prevention better than cure in such a case? Why, then, should a judge refuse to issue the injunction? That kind of remedy has been in force for 400 years and is the most remedial writ that we have. It .arose to protect poor men, not to oppress them. For instance, the way it arose was this: Made to Protect Poor Man. "A man borrowed $500 on his farm. He gave a mortgage which in form was an absolute conveyance, subject to being made void by the payment of $500, but the farm was worth $10,000 He failed to pay the $500 on the dot, and in law they brought a suit in ejectment, and they put the man off of the $10,000 farm for $500. He went to the king, in the old days, and he said : " 'This is a fine kind of justice that you are giving me. You allow this man to take my $10,000 farm for $500.' "The king said to his lord keep, who subsequently became the lord chancel lor: " 'Here you take over this case and see whether there is justice. "The lord keep was then an ecclesiast, and he sent for the officer who had enforced that order, or was about to, and he said: tt rr- i ... . - mis is unconstitutional. I am uui somg vo permit you to ao it. I am going to enjoin you and you have got to come into a court that I am going to create and I will enjoin you until you see that the farm should be sold, that $500 shall be applied on the debt. with Interest, and that $9,500 shall go to this man who owns the farm.' That is the way the injunction grew up. it grew up to protect the poor against injuries for which they coum not nave adequate remedy at law." Taft made three speeches here last night to great crowds of laboring men, despite the fact that Debs was here at a meeting advertised for two months. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA AND OHIO Colder Friday night with fair In north and showera in south portion. Saturday, fair; fresh northwest winds.

'COVVStCKT '.0 "HeeiJ t.WJHO ' CONG. N. D. SPERRY. The nestor of the House of Representatives is Congressman Nehemiah Day Sperry, of Connecticut, who will be very near his eighty-fourth birthday when the Sixtieth Congress expires next Spring. Rep. Sperry has served in six Congresses with distinction and has been a lifelong Republican, although he is broad and nonpartisan in his views of what is right and what is wrong, and would as quickly reprove a Republican as a Democrat when he thinks either one is in error. He was born on July 18, 1827 in New Haven, Conn. AS A CITY HAS BEEN REGENERATED Spirit of Optimism as to City's Future Sounded at Banquet Of Young Men's Business Club. FALL FESTIVAL SHOWN TO HAVE WORKED WONDERS Great Amount of Trade Has Been Attracted and the City Otherwise Benefited, It Is Shown. "Now whenever you want to go out in the country and climb a tree that has been struck by lightning, come to my place," was one of the terse re marks of Stephen Kuth at the banquet to the Young Men's Business club and fall festival associates at the Masonic Temple last evening. About 300 men were guests of the club's president, Rudolph G. Leeds. Mr. Kuth referred to himself as the tree that had been struck by the lightning of the recent fall festival. He said that since the second week of October he and neighboring farmers do not say they reside ten miles west of Eaton, Ohio, but now claim to live in a suburb five miles east of Richmond, Indiana. The banquet and smoker was the most successful event of the kind that has been held in this city for a number of years. There was the prevalence of contagious joy that was to be felt during the three hours the guests were at the banquet boards. There was no place . for the pessimist and none could be found although the toastmaster Instituted a search that extended from the kitchen to the basement. , Richmond was painted as the queen of all cities of this section of the country. Men expressed pride In the fact they are called citizens and the sentiment was preeminent that nothing is too good for Richmond and that she now is entering upon a period of regeneration. The banquet hall had been decorated in an artistic manner. Fall festival streamers of yellow and white were suspended from the huge chandelier to all corners of the room. American flags were draped at the windows. The orchestra was concealed in a bower formed by potted palms, festival streamers and the national bunting. The center of the bower was adorned by a fesival poster. The tables were beautified by bouquets and table pieces of cut flowers of many varieties. Half pumpkins were converted Into resceptacles for fruit and into them were heaped oranges, bananas, pears, apples, plums and grapes. The menu was abundant and satisfying. It was while the Havana laden air was filled with remarks of satisfaction at the repast just partaken ofthat PJ. Freeman, vice president of the club, and chairman of the occasion. OoBttansal on-Page Jlr4

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f uuuimcb riuiu vviiitii is Heard Favorable News to Republicans. GRAND FINISH TO OCCUR NEXT WEEK. Special Trains Galore Will Be Run by the Two Big Political Parties to All Parts of State. (Special to Palladium.! Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 23. George T. Dinwiddle, vice chairman of the Re publican state committee, said today that conditions have so greatly improved in the last two weeks that he predicted that Taft will carry the state by from 60,00 0 to 75,000, and that James E. Watson will bo elected governor by a large plurality also. "I did not think so ten days ago," he sald"but reports are coming in that change tho' appearance of things to a wonderful extent. Why, every county that we hear from brings in the same report. County chairmen come in now and tell us that their counties are showing up as well as ever and that means that we will have about the same plurality that we have always had." Dinwiddie is at the state headquarters all the time and meets every man that conies in. In fact, he is the glad hand artist of the state committee. It is his business to meet every caller and see to it that their business is taken carexOf. He talks with everyone, and it is on his talks with the people that come in that he bases his prediction for such a splendid Republican victory. "I talk with forty or fifty men each day here In the headquarters," he said, "and in that way I am able to get a good line on what is going on. It Is surprising that the gains should be as great as they are." Cannot Lose. What Dinwiddie said was corroborated by Carl Riddick, secretary of the committee. "We cannot lose Indiana," said Riddick. "Things were slow in getting started, but the conditions now are all that we could ask. Take the counties in the Sixth district, for instance. Reports show that in Fayette county and Wayne county, especially, show that everything is In fine shape and getting better all the time." James P. Goodrich, state chairman, came to town yesterday and he added his cheerful prediction to those of Riddick and Dinwiddie. He will remain here until the end of tho campaign and keep at the helm of tho state committee. Several of the Republican county chairmen have been in me city in the last day or two to receive instructions from the state committee and to make reports of the progress of the campaign. In nearly every case they tell of Democrats who are coming out for Taft and Watson. They tell of temperance Democrats who assure them that they will vote against the brewery ticket of the Democratic party, and the number of such Democrats is very gratifying to the Republican managers. Great Whirlwind Finish. The next week will see one of the greatest whirlwind finisacs ever made to a campaign in this state. Special trains will whirl across the state, back and forth and up and down and they will be so thick that they will have difficulty to keep out of tho way of each other. Of course, the big event In the special train line Is the tour that Taft Is making this week, but there will be special trains galore next week. Senator Beveridge starts from Chicago Monday morning on a five days' speaking trip over the state. The first day will be spent in northern Indiana, closing with a big night meeting at Fort Wayne. On the second day he will go through the CTntral part of the state, closing with a night meeting at Richmond. He is scheduled to arrive In Richmond at 7:23 that evening from Newcastle, where he will stop at 6:30 for twenty minutes. The third day will include a trip all the way from Richmond to Evansvllle, with seven speeches on the way. On the fourtn day he will come north on the west side of the state and cross over to the east, closing with a night rally at Anderson. The last day will be devoted to a tour of the northern counties, the trip ending at Laporte, Friday night. Senator Beveridge is sent out by the Republican national committee, which will foot all the bills for tho train, the state committee being relieved of this burden. James E. Watson will have a special train for two days. He will leave Indianapolis on Friday morning arid go into the southern and southwestern part of the State. He will make about thirty speeches, with a night meeting at Evansvllle, Friday evening and closing the campaign in this city with a great rally on Saturday night. The Democrats have planned to run lOoatlMrt. on- Page- ivey

If Bryan Is Elected, Many Richmond Dealers Will Either Cancel or File Smaller Orders.

IS A PLAIN BUSINESS MATTER WITH THEM. Number of Local Manufacturing Concerns in the City Receive Orders Under the Same Conditions. By Harper. Business men of this city are mak ing no bones of the fact they are buy ing their wares at present with a proviso clause in the bill of sale. The little word "if" occupies the most prominent place in these transactions Local merchants are placing orders for certain amounts of goods in event of the election of Taft, but the proviso; makes cancellation of the order in its entirety or partially if Bryan is elected. One of the largest mercantile houses in Richmond has placed an order with an eastern supply house. But this order, which is for $800 worth of stock, provides that if Bryan is elected the amount shall be only $400. "You may talk to me about coercion or whatever else you want to call It," said the merchant. "I'm not buying this way with that point in mind, however. It is business with me and I believe I know my own business better than anyone else. I feel absolutely certain that Taft's election means the restoration of confidence in this country and the demand of the public for my line of goods will increase. I believe on the other hand that if Bryan is elected, this demand will fall off. I don't run my business as a political pendulum, but I do run it for what I can get out of It. and that's the way I feel upon this election proposition." The large manufacturing concerns of this city are confronting a perplex ing situation, 'mere is nardly a one of them that has not received orders conditional upon the election. Right after the nomination a story was printed in these columns about an Ar kansas resident; who wrote to Gaar, acou & uo., placing an order ror a saw mill. If Taft is elected the outfit is to be shipped, but if Bryan comes into the favor of the people, the order is to be canceled in every particular. Conditions similar to those prevailing In this city are being reported from all other sections of the country. The Cincinnati Enquirer, nominally a democratic newspaper stated editorially yesterday that the business men of the etitire country are refusing to place confidence in Bryan and this fact has become a campaign .issue. Such an admission on the part of the Enquirer is worthy of notice. It Is indicative of actual conditions. While the opponents of James E. Watson have entered into a mud throwing contest in this campaign, the republican nominee is gaining friends daily by refusing to delve into the slime and hurl it at his opponent. The republican leaders of this state are supplied with a great amount of personal matter in regard to Thomas Marshall, that is not being made use of. There is a story In regard to Marshall's actions at Shelbyville some time ago, when he was counsel for a man named Ray, who was on trial for larceny, which was printed in the Shelbyville Democrat of April 2, that would make interesting reading used as a campaign issue. Betting boards are run In the open at New Castle. A. H. Wardman, Indianapolis saloonist, went to New Castle and posted a bet of $400 on Marshall. It was snapped up as soon as the bank was opened. Every Marshall bet has been taken, but some of those favoring Watson remain uncovered. "Was talking to two men today, who have been strong against Watson, and they said they are going to vote for him," was the statement of a republican public office holder ioaay. He added: "They are coming in like sheep to their salt." "Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire," is a good adage to apply to the assertions the saloon men are boosting the democratic party this year to the full extent of their ability. If ' there is any doubt (Continued on Page Three.)

PITTSBURG DETECTIVES FIGHT DUEL IN DARK

Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 23. Mistaking each other for highwaymen. Detective Clyde Edlnberg and Special Officer James Farrell fought a pistol duel in a dark section of the city at 1 o'clock tills morning, Farrell receiving two JjmUets in Tils body, causing Instant

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ATTORNEY GARDINER. Asa Bird Gardiner is the attorney who may be declared In contempt for failure to produce Harry K. Thaw in court at Pittsburg. i FIRE LOSSES ARE REPORTED F ALL Greatest Damage Has Been Done Near Economy Where The Losses Will Aggregate About $4,000. FARMERS CONSTANTLY ON ALERT TO CHECK FIRE. Webster and New Paris, 0., Have Been Threatened Dur ing the Past Week Rail roads Held Responsible. Farmers in every section of the coun ty are employing the greatest vigl lance, both day and night, to promptly Etamp out any blaze that may start in woods or in corn and clover fields. In habitants of the rural districts realise that should such a blaze once 'get good start It would sweep everything before it, houses, barns, live stock, ma chinery and crops would be destroyed The threat of the fire demon mocks the farmer by day and haunts bira by night. Like his pioneer ancestor who constantly was armed to protect him. self and family from an Indian attack the Wayne county farmer today, figur atively speaking, rests on his arms to repeal the attack of the fire demon. The fire demon is aided and abetted by the railroad locomotive. Its sparks have nearly every day the past three weeks started a blaze in a forest tract, in a grass plot or in some field. When the vigilant farmer has noticed the ap proach of the enemy he has sounded the alarm and with quickness and dispatch his neighbors, men, women and children, have responded to the call beating out the fire with clubs. Two towns In this section of tho country have been threatened with destruction by field or forest fires. These towns are Webster and New Paris, O. Several days ago an engine spark Ignited the W. P. Mills field on the out skirts of New Paris and a strong wind fanned the blaze in the direction of the town. Citizens realizing the danger turned out and battled with the fire until it was extinguished. The first of this week a blaze started in a strip of woods on the John Crowe farm, east of Webster. Webster people were not! fled and a strong gang of volunteer i fire fighters turned out and successfully conquered the blaze. Had there been , de-lav of aji hour Webster would have gone up In smoke. New Paris reports two other fires of recent date, one on the Pence farm and one on the Danlly farm. Both fires did considerable damage. Fires In Perry Township. Economy has been the center of the worst fire belt in the county. In- the (Continued on Page Three.) death. On his way home Edenberg saw Farrell trying to arrest a man and suspecting that a holdup was in progress hastened . to interfere. Edlnberg mistook Farrell for a pal of the man he was endeavoring to arrest and fired tity. Edinberg-was exonerated.

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tice Has Been Done to Candidates of Both Political Parties. ALL MEN CONDEMNED HAVE CLEAN RECORDS. League Refuses to State on What Grounds Candidates Are Condemned, Which Is Not Understood.. SURPRISE EVERYWHERE. GENERALLY CONSIDERED BY RE PUBLICAN LEADERS THAT IT WILL MAKE . MEN VOTES INSTEAD OF ACTING ADVERSELY. LADD EXPLAINS HIS STAND. In Reply to the League He States That He Will Stand for Law Enforcement Beeson Does Not Comprehend Stand of League. "Don't let it worry you. It will make more votes for you than it will lose for you." This la what local Republican lead ers told Charles L. Ladd, candidate for prosecutor; Robert N. Beeson, candi date for commissioner from the western district, and Homer Farlow, candidate for commissioner from the eastern district, regarding the action taken by the Wayne County Civic League in advising the voters of this county-cot to vote for the above named. - The advice offered by the Republican leaders was unnecessary for none of the "blacklisted" , Republican candidates appeared to be greatly worried. One of the Republican- leaders said to day: "AH of them are honest, upright men who have always borne good char acters In the community and they feel that inasmuch as the action of -the league in regard to themselves was tin Just and uncalled for they have no apologies to offer." One of the Republican; candidates whose candidacy was endorsed by the league, remarked to Mr. Beeson this noon, "as far as I am concerned I would rather not have the endorsement of the league than have It." The Civic League in "blacklisting" three Republican and three Democratlo candidates advances no reasons lor so doing. Yesterday a Palladium representative asked the Rev. W. N. !Nelson, secretary of the Civic League, to state the grounds on which it advised the citizens not to vote for Messrs. Ladd, Beeson and Farlow, the Republican candidates, and Messrs. Drnley, Cook and Stevens, the Democratic candidates. Mr. Nelson failed to answer, the question. "Does the Civic League expect that the voters of Wayne county will condemn a man at the polls on the advice of the league, when that organisation advances no reasons why the voter should take such action?" asked one of the "endorsed" candidates on the Democratic county ticket this morning. All Have Clean Records. Robert N. Beeson, candidate for commissioner, is one of the best known and most highly respected men in the county. "I see know reason why the Civic League should advise people not to vote for me," he said this morning. "My record is good and I have always tried to be a good, honest citizen. The questions asked me by the league I answered. I thought in a way that would be satisfactory to the league officers. I told them that I would oppose Issuing a liquor license to a man who, it was reasonably proven, was immoral and that I would oppose the lssuanco of a liquor license to a man who was known to be a law violator. I don't see what more they could expect mo to say or do." Homer Farlow, candidate for commissioner, is another man whose charaster is beyond reproach and who has a host of friends throughout the county." I was never so surprised in my life as when I read in the papers last evening that the Civic League did not think I was a fit man to hold office. I have always tried to be a good citizen and do what I thought was right. In replying to the questions asked me by the league I said that I would cot favor issuing a license to a man known as a lawbreaker or a man known to be immoral,' he said. "I am a young man and I have always worked hard for what I got I have lived cleanly and honestly and I think the action of the Civic League against me was uncalled for and unmst" remarked Charles Ladd this J mornill& He tnen showed a copy, of (Continued on Paee Seven.)