Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 358, 31 October 1908 — Page 1

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A NT SUN'-TFTJflfyR. AM. .VOIi. XXXIII. NO. 358. KICII3IOND, INDM SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1908, SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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ft RECEPTION Commoner Speaks Twice This Morning Before Large Crowds Asks , Support on Grounds He Is Poorf APPEAL TO LABOR - AT FIRST MEETING. States That Men Who Vote For Taft Are Voting Directly Against Interests of Labor. ROCKEFELLER INCIDENT. NEBRASKAN TOUCHES UPON STANDARD OIL HEAD'S ENDORSEMENT OF TAFT, ALSO THAT BY CARNEGIE. STRIKES AT ROOSEVELT. Again Asks the President to Keep His Hands Off the . Present Campaign as Action Disgraces His High Office. Making a - personal appeal to his hearers for their votes on the ground he is a poor man, who has had to fight his way in the world, and his opponent Is a man backed by immense wealth, William Jennings Bryan, democratic candidate for the presedency, address ed a crowd that packed the coliseum this morning. Previous to his arrival et '- the coliseum" beipoket before? a crowd of about 4,000 from a platform 8t Eighth and North B streets. The crowds at Doth places were eninusiasuc end the speaker was Interrupted , re peatedly by. cheering. The Bryan train was about twentyfive minutes late. When it arrived it was greeted by cheering. The busi ness men of the vicinity decorated their places with bunting. Even republicans removed the pictures of Taft end the republican! candidates from their windows and substituted those of Bryan and Kern for the occasion. This act of courtesy was apparent to the observer. At neither place was Mr. Bryan interrupted by cheers or shouts for an opposing candidate. He and the members of his, party were taken from the train to the coliseum in carriages decorated in bunting. Stokes Jackson, of Greenfield, a number of other leaders of democracy in the state and a ,few newspaper men accompanied the candidate. Accompanying "the Comtnoner," to the city, also, were ChalrJnan Charles Beck, Mayor R. S. Schillinger, Henry U. Johnson and Joseph Urinley, members of the reception committee. Speaks on Labor. ' At the Eighth and North E street gathering, Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: "Ladles and Gentlemen I am only here for a few minutes. I have two meetings to address In a short time. Down here I want to talk to you on the labor question. I see here among you in any men who are laborers. I want to talk to you as wage earners. We tow have got to the end of the masque hall. The masques are being taken off and we begin to see who the men really .re. They are coming out one by one. Only yesterday Rockefeller took his off. . Governor Francis took the mask off of Harrlman. Carnegie lit from his ship just back from Scotland. We found then where he stands. He said tny election would be a tragedy. He came from Scotland and that is the .1 . B . 1 1 V, . 3 T".. . cays a man will talk of what runs in his head. There is a tragedy he never will forget that of Homestead. He is Using a word he can never forget. They Keed not think my election will be a tragedy, these men who have had their hands in the people's pockets for so long. "The laboring men are confronting H ivoi, eutu u i-ucj uatc ucvtri mci before. These men may have defied them, but they never have had the mass of the people decide against the laboring man. If the republican party wins this year, it will be counted a popular repudiation ot everything labor demands. We want to create a department of labor. We want representation such as we demanded In our platform eight years ago. I want a laboring man in the cabinet to help decide upon questions effecting the laboring man. The republican party . Is opposed. I want a limitation of the power of injunction. The republican party is opposed. I want an amend tnent of the anti-trust law. The republican party insists this law be made to apply to the individual man. f rinn't want to rednra thA vnlut. nf tha laboring man to dollars and cents. believe in a trial by jury in cases of direct contempt of court, Even bo

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Commoner Who Was Today The Guest of Richmond

WM. J. BRYAN.

- Bryan made two speeches today in Richmond in behalf of the Democratic -party-of '.which he is ; the recognized leader. Bry an made an . appear to the voters' for their support, on the grounds that he is a poor man.

fore I was nominated I plead this right of trial. When this, matter was first before the eenate.I wrote an editorial in the Omaha Herald demanding a jury trial in cases of indirect contempt of court. "It is these propositions we propose and against them Mr. Taft talks. It means less to me to be defeated for the presidency than for the laboring man to have the verdict against him in what he stands for. Every man who votes against me votes against the lab oring man. The trial by jury is as sured the man who is accused of crime, . why not in the other instance? But what do they do? They find they can't defend Taft. The president attempts to remove Mr. Gompers and make Mr. Knox leader of the laboring men. -He can appoint a governor of the Philippines without consulting the Filipinos about it. but he can not do that way with the laboring man. Urges Kuhn's Election. . "They tell you a panic will come with my (election.. It seems to me a panic, came without it. "If you are with us don't be satisfied with a president only. Give, us a congress, too. My democratic friends, I am more interested In the election of Mr. Kuhn than he is himself. I expect to be in Washington next spring and I want him with us. I urge upon you, also, to give this state for Marshall." Mr. Bryan was escorted to his carriage through a line of police and was whisked to the coliseum where he was greeted with cheers upon entering. The building was jammed full, there being probably 4,000 persons anxious to see and hear the third time candidate. Henry U. Johnson, who had acted in the same capacity to the street gathering, introduced Mr. Bryan to the audience. Mr. Johnson spoke of Mr. Bryan, as the man, who demands re spect as the people's candidate for the presidency. After cautioning bis audience to reserve its 6houting until next Tuesday nigm. mr. .or, au urSu luuuns; "I am glad to be in your midst again and feel honored to be presented by a former colleague in congress. I only wish I had more time to talk to you. You have lent me your presence and I mean to state the Issues briefly and leave you to decide. Before doing this I want to urge your support to Mr. Kuhn. He is needed at Washington. I am not running for president just for fun nor for the hon- ( Continued on Page Two.) THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Saturday night and Sunday; light north winds, becoming variable. OHIO Fair Saturday night and Sun- . djua fresh northwest wind-

TO POLITICAL LETTER SENT IN MAILS Behind Praise of Watson Is Seen Clever Plan Looking Toward Downfall p$ the Candidate. THREE PROMINENT MEN THE VICTIMS. Names of Revs. Wade and Traum and Timothy Nicholson Signed to EpistlesContents of Letters. Letters, alleged to have been written by local democrats who are alarmed at the prospect for a landslide for Watson in this county, have been received by a large number of laboring men in this city. To these letters have been forged the names of the Rev. TL J. Wade, the Rev. S. W. Traum and Timothy Nicholson. Responsibility for these letters is absolutely denied by these men and one of the letters given to the Rev. Mr. Wade by a clerk in a north end grocery has been turned over by him to Postmaster Spekenhier for investigation by secret service men. In the letters, written on ruled paeffusive,y praiged, but the composition

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is so cunning as to be more injurious to the candidate than beneficial. Among the men who received the letters, Governor Hanly is far from being a hot favorite, yet the letter refers to the governor "as "that true and noble statesman." It is also true that the majority of the recipients of the forged letters favor county local option, still they do not regard a man who drinks moderately an undesirable citizen. In the letters the statement is made that there is no evidence which shows that Mr. Marshall drinks to excess, but it is known that he takes a drink occasionally and for that reason alone he is not thought fit to be elected. Doctrine Narrow. The Rev. Mr. Wade stated this morning that such a narrow-minded iContinued. oa Pan TvaJ

BREWING COMPANY

ASKS EMPLOYES TO FIGHT WATSON Are Told That Watson's Elec tion Will Greatly Injure the Company's Business in the State. PROHIBITION IN INDIANA IS FEARED. Brewers Think County Local Option Will Finally Result in Complete Downfall of the Saloons. By Harper. The Jung Brewing company, which has an agency in this cit y, has written circular letters to its agents urging them to aEsist in the effort to bring about the election of Thomas Marshall as governor or Indiana, ine ieuer tells the agents they are aware of the fact Mr. Watson's election will great ly injure the company's business and for that reason the company is anx ious for every one of its agents to as sist in the election of Marshall. But this is not enough, the election of the entire democratic state ticket is urg ed. The letters say in part: "Republican success in Indiana will ultimately lead to state-wide prohibition and county local option is the first step toward the prohibitory goal The election of Mr. Marshall will give us a -new lease of life and therefore we urge you to use your influence toward the success of the democratic ticket and to help line up the other sa loon keepers in your part of the state. Watson's election will so reduce our business that you will lose your job, and therefore it behooves you to be diligent for the success of the demo cratic party." Further indication of the power be hind the Marshall throne. The fact Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Roman Catholic church in America Is an advocate of county local option, Is not being lost sight of by many persons of that faith. Although he does not believe prohibition is practicable in the larger cities he has declared himself heartily and absolutely in favor of local option for all other communities. He says, also, he would have the county as a unit in the election. The greatest political affair ever held at Rushville takes place today. It is in the nature of an all-day rally and John L. Griffiths and James E. Watson are the speakers. Excursions from Muncie and all points between that city and Rushville helped to swell the crowds into the thousands. It is interesting to note what Col Henry Watterson. editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now head of the Bryan press committee, has said of his present comrade in arms through his own paper. In February 1908, Mr. Watterson's columns jaid: "Now, for our part, we see in Mr. Bryan an agreeable lay-preacher who wants1 to be president, and has shown himself willing to take any old thing for a paramount issue, promising to join votes enough, all the way from free silver to the governmental ownership." "As one of the guilty in 1896, though not in 1900, I am so sensible of . my lack of desert that, whilst in the coming campaign I shall labor to elect him still greatly distrusting him I shall not expect any other than negative results from his advent to power, nor dream of crossing his threshold after his election. ' "Just before Mr. Bryan's return last summer a year ago and his bad break at Madison Square Garden, Mr. John G. Carlisle said to me 'I know Mr. Bryan I know him well I like him, but he has no more idea of the responsibilities of government than a child." The one-time running mate with Mr. Bryan. Tom Watson, now populist candidate for the presidency, commenting editorially (see page '8, Watson's Magiiine, March, 1905) upon the small vote Bryan secured for the United States senate in Nebraska in 1904, said: "Mr. Bryan says that 'reforms are not to be secured all at once.' Quite right; and they will never be secured at all by leaders who change front as often as Mr. Bryan has done within the last twelve months. Neither will they be secured by a political party which preaches a certain creed for eight years and throws it aside like a wornout garment." "Watch out, William! The people have loved you and believed in you, but your course in the last campaign has shaken your popularity to its very foundations. Beware how you trifle with the radicals. If you want to come with us, come and be done with it. Be assured of this, William, you can't ride both horses." The vagaries of the Indianapolis News have been displayed in no more lucid manner than by the vacillations

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iavorauie iigui. uu xaiL, iu iavui ui public could not help but see the HURLS BROADSIDE HTO CAMP OP L Dr. Wampler Charges Mismanagement of Policies, Sick and Business . Affairs Of Institution. CHALLENGES BOARD TO SUBMIT ITS BOOKS. Wampler Stands as Enemy to Self Perpetuating Board Having Fought - Body for More Than a Year. Almost helpless in his bed as a result of a surgical operation, but with the battle fires still burning with undiminished fierceness in his breast. Dr. J. M. Wampler, who for a year or more has been opposing the trustees of the Reid Memorial hospital has from his Sheets and blankets again hurled defiance to the hospital powers-that-be.' In a statement issued to the Palladium today, he charges the trustees with "mismanagement as to the policies toward its patrons and the doctors; mismanagement as to-the care of the sick and business mismanagement.' Among the volley of charges fired by the belligerent physician is a challenge to the board of trustees to have its president, who is John L. Rupe, appear before him with the executive committee and in the presence of the editors of the" three local nwspapers, who Dr. Wampler would have in attendance, and submit their books and bills for interrogation. If such a gathering could be arranged. Dr. Wampler would be delighted to have included "among those present" Drs. Johnston, Marvel, Markley, Davis, Bramkamp and Stevenson. Then, , Dr. Wampler, announces, "if I cannot prove the above statements and charges to be true I am not alive." fir. Wamnler curat e& tie sanerintend

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ROOSEVELT. atfib.V White-House' that John D. statement so as to embarrass the ad uijau) aeu v. v. - deception. ' , i ent of the hospital, who .was recently appointed to this position and :who is said to be a very capable woman, with expressing wonder that th people of Richmond are adverse to going to. the hospital .for. treatment, thus assisting in' its support. Dr. Wampler assures the superintendent that the prejudice against the hospital on the part of the public is due to the mismanagement of the institution. Deserted in Fight." " As has been stated,. Dr. Wampler donned the war bonnet and jumped the hospital "reservation over a year ago as a result of constant conflict between-himself, the trustees-, and the former superintendent. He organized a revolt against' the self-perpetuating board of trustees arid, it is 'said, enlist ed in his cause a large percentage of the local physicians. Dr.. Warn pier charges that when the time came for the insurgents to hurl the gauntlet at the feet of the board members." his en tire army suffered with evaporation. of courage and he was -left -alone to con tinue the fight against the "enemy." To say that Dr. Wampler was diseour aged by this desertion and gave up the contest is but libeling his ability as a fighter. Since raising the banner of revolt he has been in a constant state of insurrection. Last winter the board eliminated hjm from, the medical staff of the hospital. At the meeting heid last 'Monday night by the board of trustees and the city council one of the members of the former body slated that Dr. Wampler had been dropped from-the medical staff because "no one could get along with him." Here, in full, is the broadside of can nister and grapeshot fired today by Dr. Wampler from his sick bed: Editor of the Palladium: I read your story as printed in the issue , of last Tuesday of the joint meeting of the city officials and the board of trustees of Reid Memorial hospital held in the Commercial club rooms. It appears now. that it is proposed to broaden the scope of observation into the management of Reid Memorial hospital and that sounds good as far as it goes. Will any member of that board or the council advocate in this day for one moment that a self-perpetuating board of trustees for a public property is a good business policy? Answer that question! Did you ever know of the like in any institution belonging to the people? And yet again that old time chestnut of "politics" invading its walls is offered and the intense fear on the part of the board -that it might obtain. Ye Gods! With politicians on the board and not a plum In sight! With women running the hospital and but one voter in the hospital household, the

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TRICK TO T TAFT Publication of Announcement Rockefeller Intends to Support Taft Is Made to Injure Candidate. ROOSEVELT SAYS TRICK WILL DECEIVE NO ONE. Octupus Desires to Place Re publican Administration in Embarrassing Place in Relation to Suits. NO OIL MONEY RECEIVED. CANDIDATE TAFT AND SECRE TARY HITCHCOCK SAY NOT ONE., CENT OF MONEY HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM "INTERESTS." THE DECEPTION IS VEILED. People Know That the Standard Oil Company Could Not Have Forgiven Administration for Many Prosecutions Promoted. Washington, D. C, Oct. 31. Utile attention was paid by people generally in Washington to the announcement that John D. Rockefeller had spoken in favor of Taft. More attention was paid to Bryan's charges in Ohio Friday afternoon that "Rockefeller Is for Taft because Taft is for Rockefeller." "It appeared after Hryan's speech," said a leading politician ai me www house "tnat some ..people. .were likely to believe Rockefeller- and Archbold and their associates really, were in favor' of the republican candidate. Every republican in Washington has been of the secure feeling that the Standard Oil company was opposed to Taft. The general Impression has been that the "Standard crowd" has covert ly been for Bryan and would be greatly pleased at the Nebraskan's election over Taft. It is well known that should Bryan be elected there still would be a republican bouse and senate and a dem ocratic president could get but few laws of any radical sort through a house so opposed . to him unless h sought to carry out the identical policies of the administration' he now so harshly assails. If Taft is elected, according to bis . friends and his own statements in private and on the stump, he will take up the prosecutions now pending against the Standard Oil company and push them to speedy conclusions. Roosevelt Calls it a Trick.. Mr. Roosevelt regards the Rockefeller statement as a trick and caused the following statement to be madepublic at the white house today: "At the white house the announcement of Mr. Rockefeller through the press agent of the Standard Oil company was regarded with some amusement, in view of what the administration has done to the Standard Oil company and of the bitter hatred borne by the Standard Oil company to the administration. It is a perfectly palpable and obvious trick on the part of the Standard Oil people to try to damage Taft a trick so palpable that it can deceive no one." This statement is intended to head off what the president believes is a gumshoe attempt on the part of the Standard Oil interests to effect a compromise with the administration and lessen the efforts which are being put fort'a to bring that concern to book for its alleged infractions of the tariff laws. The president was plainly annoyed over the Interview with Mr. Rockefeller, in which the latter purported to give his reasons for supporting Taft. Fawning Plan to End Suits. In Mr. Roosevelt's opinion, judging from remarks he has heretofore dropped concerning insidious attempts of the Standard OH interests to call off the government prosecutions, the belated and ostentatious announcement of Mr. Rockefeller means not only an effort to damage the Interests of Mr. Taft. but another ' fawning underhand movement to place the administration in a position where it would be embarrassed in its efforts to trounce th Standard Oil company in the courts and continue the suits against it for its rebating operations which are now being fought Anti-Roosevelt men In Washington are greeful concerning the move of Rockefeller and are rejoicing over what they consider the embarrassing position into which be has shoved the president. Bryan's move against Guffey and the Standard Oil interests in Pennsylvania, the production of the Archbold letters, and many other Inlionunuea oa rage iwo.j

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