Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 1, 9 November 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND)" PAIXAM ANT) STTN-TFT.TOUAM. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXIV. ..XO. 1. HALE'S INTERVIEW WITH KAISER FOR CENTURY KILLED HILL SUIT IS JEING HEARD Argument in Randolph Circuit Court. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS DEMOCRATS NOW

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WEEK IS NEEDED T0SELECT JIM III DEFENSE OF TAFTIRELIGIOII CONTEST RECENT STATE ELECTION Orders Issued for State Wide Canvass. Examination of Veniremen Be gins Today.

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WIFE LED TAFT INTO POLITICAL AREHlSHE SAYS Urged Him to Take Governorship of Philippines and Retire From Bench, Seeing Opportunities.

Republicans Secure Greater Number of Offices and " Chairman Jackson Announces Decision.

ONLY THREE DEMOCRATS ELECTED TO OFFICE. Count Is Kept by Republican Candidate as Returns Come In Charges That Are Registered. MAJORITIES ANNOUNCED DEMOCRATS. Marshall, governor 14,809 Hall, lieutenant governor .. 1,541 Aley, Supt. Instruction .... 900 REPUBLICANS. Sims, secretary of state .... 492 Billheimer, auditor of 'state.. 228 Had ley, treasurer of state.. 838 Bingham, attorney general.. 600 Fels, reporter supreme court 186 Peetz, state statistician.... 316 Myers, judge supreme court. . 1,041 Myers, Judge appellate court 1,168 Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9. The count kept by the republican candidates for state office as the official returns were made to the secretary of state today, shows the election of the pien named by the majorities given: 5' he candidates have made their own totals. There is not much probability serious changes will be made. The official canvass was begun today and the first totals are on the gubernato- ' rial contest. These give the following vote :Marshall, democrat, 348,849; Watson, republican. 334,040; Hanes, prohibitionist, 15,926; Robinson, populist, 8G; Goodman, socialist, 31,948; Btoher, 'socialist labor, 573; Zion, "Independence, 383. - Marshall's majority over Watson is 14,800. The democrats say they will make a contest for every state office given a republican. They will, charge errors ttere made in the count as well as fraud at the election. State Chairman Jackson said a report has reached him that in one, democratic precinct In a northern Indiana county, the tally sheets were burned. The democrats will also charge that many foreigners not naturalized were voted by the republicans in Lake county. The claim is made there men are not entitled to citizenship. Jackeon says he will be able to show that bribery was practiced in several counties. The republicans, however, say they will be fully able to meet any Such charges of fraud that may be tnade by the democrats. MINISTERS OPPOSE - EARLY CAMPAIGN Table Motion Calling for Immediate County Local Option Fight. NO ACTION THIS YEAR. PROBABLE PETITION FOR ELECTION WILL BE CIRCULATED IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS HUBER IS BALKED. Up to the present time no action has been taken toward circulating a petition to hold a county local option election. It Is the general opinion that If such a petition is circulated the State Anti-Saloon league will be con suited as to setting a date for starting its circulation. It is not probable that such action will be take nuntil after the first of next year. The county local option law will not go into effect for at bast two weeks. This morning at the meeting of the Ministerial association the committee on good citizenship submitted a report and the- Rev. Conrad Huber made a motion that It was the sense of the association that steps should immed iately be taken to have a petition cir culated for a county local option election. This motion was tabled by a unanimous vote. The Rev. Dunaway, secretary of the association, states that he thinks it will be at least two months before plans are completed for circulating such a petition. TEN MEET DEATH. Trench Express Train Leaves Rails. Montauban, France, Nov, 9. An express train was derailed Sunday near Grisoles. Ten persons were killed and many injured.

Acting upon instructions from Indianapolis, a. canvass of the vote at the recent election will be made by the democrats throughout the state. Richard Allen is making the canvass in this county. It is claimed there have been mistakes made in the official count and to make sure they have secured all offices to which they are entitled the democrats have instituted a recount.

I'S LIO TO BE ONCLAMPEO New Police Commissioners Will Favor Slight Tilting. PROSECUTOR WITH THEM. MARSHALL'S APPOINTEES HAVE SUPPORTER IN LADD WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TOO STRINGENT POLICY. Will the "lid" come off the first of next year? This is the question that is being feverishly discussed and the consensus of opinion is the lid is doomed to be laid away in moth balls. The present democratic city administration has been opposed to a rigid enforcement of the blue laws, as have been enforced by Prosector Jessup and the local police commissioners appointed by I Governor Hanly. After the first of next year the majority of police commissioners will be democrats, appointed by ' Governor Marshall on the recommendation of the local democratic- administration. Charles Ladd will also succeed Mr. Jessup as prosecutor after the first of the year, and it is known that Mr. Ladd does not believe in a too strict enforcement of the blue laws. He does not favor a "wide open"', policy any more than he believes In a "tight lid" policy. A number of local business men are of the opinion that a little more liberal policy in enforcing the laws will not effect the morals of the community and will be beneficial from a business standpoint. They point out that Richmond was a well governed and orderly community before the authorities decided to clamp the lid on. VIRGIN NOT DEIFIED Father Hoffman Corrects Popular Belief in Regard To Catholics. Y. W. C. A. UNJUSTIFIED. In regard to the statement made in connection with the convention of the Young Woman's Christian Association in session, Saturday, that a Catholic can not become an active member of the association, because that denomination deifies the Virgin Mary, a local Catholic made the statement today that such an opinion is mistaken and that the church does not place this station upon the mother of Christ. He stated that father Hoffman, of St. Mary's church in his sermon, yesterday, made reference to this mistaken impression. The father is credited with saying such an idea is ridiculous on the part of the Y. W. C. A. He outlined the attitude of the Catholic church toward the Virgin Mary and declared the Virgin is held in the highest respect and esteem but not made an object of deity.

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Citizens of Richmond May be Denied Privilege of Buying Meats on Sunday

The Sabbath observance committee of the Ministerial Association this morning reported that their efforts to secure the closing of local butcher shops on Sundays had met with partial success and that within a short time It was expected all butchers would agree to close their shops on Sunday. "Ten of the twenty local butchers have agreed to close their shops on Sunday and I think all of them will sign an agreement to this effect which the committee has been circulating," said the Rev. David Huntington, chairman of the committee. "The butchers and their assistants would like to have their Sundays to themselves, but they have been keeping open because some , of their trade refuse to buy their Sunday supplies on Satur

WOMAN SHOULD VOTE BUT NOT HOLD OFFICE. Wife of Next President Is a Student of Political Conditions Expresses Her Ideas In Interview.

Hot Springs, Va., Nov. 9. Mrs. William Howard Taft has decided ideas on the question of woman suffrage. Her idea of the place of women in politics is that she should be content to vote and exercise her influence in her own family or social circle in behalf of the candidates she deems best fitted for office. Mrs. Taft arrived here with her hus band. While the next president sat in a big armchair at the side of the open fire place in the cozy Harrison cottage and took a long afternoon nap Sunday, Mrs. Taft talked of the interest a woman should take in her husband's career and how she can best conserve her welfare. Most men in public life get their wives entirely out of the way In campaign times, or keep them mightily in the background, but from the very first, Mr. Taft approved of Mrs. Taft's saying what she wanted to say and the manner in which she said it. There was, therefore, no restraint in Mrs. Taft's expression of her views, and, as she always does, she spoke in a straightforward, simple manner. "It seems to me," said Mrs. Taft, thoughtfully, "that a woman can best promote her husband's career by a graceful, tactful management of his social and domestic affairs. She must be a ready and willing hostess and thoroughly alive to the requirements of her position." Should Not Seek Office. "I think a woman should be content with voting," said Mrs. Taft, when asked how far she thought a woman might go in assisting her husband jolitically. "I do not think I approve of women electioneering, at least not in this country. It is different in England and other places where women are agi tating suffrage, but it is a thing not well adapted to conditions in this country. As it is carried on here, no woman would be able to campaign with her husband or for him. I met Mr. Taft in Buffalo during the last days of the campaign, and by the time we reached Cincinnati I was much fa tigued with the travel and excitement, "I think women could best conserve the public by using the ballot. They should not seek office, but, through their vote, should aid In putting the proper men in the proper places. Our principles, so far as I can see, are not adapted to women holding office. I think the natural scheme would be disjointed and the end and aim of the home destroyed. Urged Political Career. "Yes, it Is true that I urged Mr. Taft to give up his position on the bench and return to politics. I felt that while he honored and loved his legal position more than all else in his career, he might spend the younger years of his life in a wider field, and where, too, his income would better enable us to educate our children. "When the position of governor of the Philippines was offered Mr. Taft he pondered over the disposal of the matter for some time, and finally I convinced him that it was a call an opportunity which he should not neg j lect. Probably I am wholly respon sible for his more public career since then, and" here Mrs. Taft stopped thoughtfully for a moment '"now am waiting to see if I acted for the best. "Do I study politics?" asked Mrs (Continued on Page Two.) day. If the public would purchase all meat to be used on Sundays the pre vious day the butchers would be only too glad to keep their shops closed on Sunday." Last summer the Sabbath observ ance committee made an effort to have all the photographers in the city close on Sundays. This effort did not meet with success for the reason that three photographers flatly refused to enter into such an agreement. Many of the local groceries have been making a practice of keeping op en on Sunday mornings for the same reason that the butchers keep their shops open. The Rev. Huntington states that In a short time the com mittee will make an effort to have all the grocerymen enter into an agree ment to remain closed on San tiara.

Laporre, Ind., Nov. 9. With the ex

pectation that it will require nearly a week to select a jury to try Ray Lamphere for the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children, attorneys began the examination of veniremen today. A motion to quash the indictments will be made by the defense. The arguments' thereon will consume but a short time and then, if Judge Richter overrules the motion, both sides will be ready for the selection of the jury, in tms examination two points will be dwelt on in particular by the state, whether the venireman has any scruples against inflicting the death penalty and whether he has formed an opinion as to the death of Mrs. Gunness. Lamphere had but two visitors Sun day, his sister, Mrs. H. L. Finley, and her husband calling to discuss the coming trial with him. An agreement has been reached be tween the attorneys that during the trial all witnesses be excluded from the courtroom. 'S DEFEAT IS NOW IMMINENT Rlvais Organize for Fight Against Present Speaker Of the House. TOWNSEND A CANDIDATE. HE HAS MANY PLEDGES OF SUP PORT THEODORE BURTON IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST MEN FOR THE PLACE. Washington, Nov. 9. Already the opponents of Joseph G. Cannon are or ganizing systematically ,o defeat him for re-election to the speakership of the next house of representatives, and Cannon supporters are free to admit their extreme uneasiness over the possibility of his downfall. While the Cannon adherents profess not to be much worried by the candidacy of Representative Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, for the speak ership, there are two other candidates who have unquestioned strength, and either of whom, owing to the pledges that have been extracted from willing or unwilling congressmen not to vote for Cannon, is likely to carry off the job when the house is reorganized at the assembling of the Sixty-first con gress. These two men are Representatives Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, and Charles E. Townsend, of the Second Michigan District, a man of force and energy and popular as one of the authors of the Esch-Townscnd rate bill. Before the election Mr. Townsend had promises of support from thirtythree republican candidates, and while a few of these were be? n, he yet has the nucleus of powerful backing if he makes a formal announcement THINK IT'S CANNON. Announcement Made He Speaker. Will Be Chicago, 111.. Nov. 9. The republican congressional committee headquarters closed at the Auditorium Hotel with the final announcement that 213 republicans had been elected to the Sixty-first congress and that a clear majority of the" republican members-elect are prepared to support Speaker Cannon for re-election. "There is no question about the election of Speaker Cannon." said one cf the prominent officials who was connected with the Cannon presidential boom prior to the . Chicago convention and who has been at the congressional committee headquarters during the late campaign. "Telegrams and letters from successful candidates in the congressional districts have been received here in quantities sufficient to warrant the assertion." continued this official, "that there will be no opposition to Uncle Joe in the republican caucus at Washington next March and that he will be re-elected unanimously. Jt was suggested that several candidates have already appeared for the speakership and that a definite sentiment in opposition to Cannon has been reported from various sections of toe country, notably from Iowa. THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair in south, showers and cooler In north portions, Monday; Tuesday fair and cooler; fresh to strong northwest winds. OHIO Fair Monday- night; showers and cooler Tuesday; fresh southwest, ahlftiaa to northwest winds.

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Thought Kaiser's Statements To Former Richmond Man Would Have Led to Great Complications.

PRESSURE FROM GERMAN LEGATION IN WASHINGTON Plates for Widely Advertised Article Destroyed Contents of Interview Will Wever Be Known. William Bayard Hal, a native of this city and now one of the associate editors of the Century Magazine, re cently went to Berlin, on an assign ment given him by the Century, and there secured an interview with the Kaiser. This interview had been widely advertised by the Century to appear in its December issue, which comes off the press about the 23th of this month. Today the announcement Is made that this interview will not be published; that the middle of last week the printers of the Century magazine removed the printed "signatures" containing the interview from the partially bound piles of magazines and these "signatures" were carefully burned as well as all proof sheets, while the plates were melted up. Just what the War Lord of Germany told the former Richmond young man will probably, never be known, but. his friends think, it must have been such that the Kaiser and his ministers feared its publication would rouse another whirlwind of indignation against tne German monarch. It is thought that the interview was suppressed it the earnest request of the German foreign office, made through the German Washington legation. Many versions are given regarding what the contents of the interview were. One has it. President Roosevelt was highly lauded and commended for his greater navy policy. Another has it that he spoke of the president and of American affairs in such a manner that would have aroused as great a storm of public wrath in this 'country as has been aroused in Great Britain by the recent interview given the Kaiser in which he stated he had outlined the English campaign against the Boers. Handy With Roasts. One of the men who worked on the Interview recalled that in it the Kaiser took Mr. Hale pretty well over the world. "The hottest think I heard about." he said, "was that it roasted the Vatican and the Catholics generally. "Mr. Hale, it seems, had been a minister, and the Emperor referred to this and to his recent book on a visit to the White House. The Kaiser said that must have been a great pleasure; that Roosevelt was a great man whom he hoped to meet some day. "As I get it he also spoke of the president's action in sending the fleet to the far East as an act of statesmanship. He spoke of the president's 'demand for a great navy and larger army, declaring both to be but means toward peace. "Of course the emperor spoke of his friendship for the United States. He also referred to anti-German feeling in other countries, probably meaning England. As I recollect it. therewas no serious attack on Great Britain." Others did not recall so much as above Quoted, but the one fact that impressed all who read the article was what they were pleased to term "the roast of the pope." William Bayard Hale is a brother of Alton Hale, cashier of the First National bank of this city. Before he was twenty-one years of age he left here and went east where he studied for the ministry. A short time after being ordained he left tbe ministry and began an active literary career, meeting with exceptional success. He has been connected with the Cosmopolitan magazine and a few years ago was (Continued on Page Five.)

Woman Desired Fire Department Called to Fill Her Cistern

Br-r-r-p b-r-r-rp-"Hello." "Hello, is this No. 2 engine house?" "Yes'm." "Well, this is Mrs. South West Sixth street. My cistern Is empty and I wish you would come over here and fill it with hydrant water." "Well, my dear madam, we can't do that." "Well. I don't see why." "We can't, that's all. Good bye." The next day: Br-r-r-p. br-r-r-rp. "Hello, fir department." "Say, this Is Earlham College. Would you people bring your hose

and come over here and flood Re Id

The case of George Hill vs. the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company was heard in the Randolph circuit court today. The case Involves the right of the traction company to occupy North Twenty-third street with a freight track. Hill seeks damages and an injunction to prevent the operation of the line. He claims his residence property, located at Main and Twenty-third streets would be damaged by a freight line using the street. The case is of considerable interest

locally, as Twenty-third street passes through Glen Miller park. FORFEIT MAY RE Delay in Completing Y. M. C. A. Building Causes Dissatisfaction. DEDICATION IN JANUARY. THOUGHT BUILDING CANNOT BE COMPLETED BEFORE THAT TIME ALTHOUGH DIRECTORS HOPE FOR EARLY COMPLETION. Judging from present conditions at the new Y. M. C. A. building, there Is little probability it will bo In condition to warrant dedication before the first of next year. It is likely an attempt may be made to collect the forfeiture provided for In the contracts. A number of the members of the board of directors is known to bo dissatisfied at the continued delay. Upon the re turn of Secretary Goodwin to the city the subject of dedication ..ad forfeit ure will be taken up. Members of the board do not appear to like to dis cuss the subject of the forfeit for some reason or other.. It has been proposed that the dedicatory services be placed In charge of the members of the local ministerial association. The time of th. contemplated dedication has been extended often since the first of September.' For the- last three or four weeks members of the) board have given up in despair and would not undertake to foretell any probable date. Thanksgiving Day has been suggested or even December 1, but both of these dates appear to be in advance of the probable time of completion. An immense amount of work remains to be done. Much of it is of such a nature as to require a great deal of time. On the fourth floor some of the dor mitory rooms are in readiness and today furniture was installed. All the rooms on this floor, however, have not been prepared. The bath rooms have not been furnished completely and the electric wiring inside the rooms and fitting out with burners and chandeliers has not been attempted. The radiators have not been painted. The rooms on this floor are the nearest ready for occupancy. A great deal of work remains to be done on the main floor and in the basement. The decorators have begun work on the walls and ceilings on the first floor and the tlme'consumed is of necessity large. The walls are being given a cream coloring. The greatest time required in the base ment will be on account of the instal lation of the steel lockers and the plumbing. A large amount of the latter has been done, but more remains to be completed. The bowling alleys have been in stalled and the swimming tank is in readiness for the water. There are three alley. The tank Is lined with tile and will be one of the most sanl tary in the state. MANY LICENSES ISSUED. One Hundred and Thirty-nine Hunters Make Application. The county clerk has issued 139 hunters licenses this month. For the entire year 238 licenses have been lasued. At this time last year 296 licenses had been issued. Field for us? t's awful hard and the foot ball boys would be glad. If you'd put some water on It to soften it up." "No, we can't do that." '""" The above are bits of conversations that may have been heard over the telephone at the city hall fire department headquarters. They are the most unique requests made to the department since Chief Miller has been in charge. Many queer requests have been made, but none of this nature. Of course the chief would be willing to comply, but he might have to answer to the board of public works and does not care to assume the risk, when it comes to filling cisterns for private

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President Says It Is Bigotry

To Condemn a Man Politically Because of His Religious Belief. MAKES A REPLY TO CAMPAIGN CHARGES. Statement Made That Voters Would Not Support Catholic For President, Slander, He Says. Washington, Nov. 9. President Roosevelt has made public the following reply .40 one of the many letters received by him during the recent presidential campaign which cited various religious objections to the election of Mr. Taft to the presidency: "My Dear Sir: I have received your letter, running in part as follows: " 'While It is claimed almost universally that religion should not eater into politics, yet there is no denying that it does, and the mass of voters that are non-Catholics will not support a man for any office, especially for president of the United States who is a Roman Catholic " 'Since Taft has been nominated for president by the republican party It is being circulated and is constantly urged as a reason for not voting for Taft that he is an infidel (Unitarian and his wife and brother Roman Catholics. If his feelings are in sympathy with the Roman Catholic church on account of his wtfe and brother being Catholics, that would be ' objectionable to a sufficient number of voters to defeat him. On the other hand, if he Is an Infidel, that would be sure to mean defeat. " "I am writing this letter for the sole purpose of giving Mr. Taft an op? portunlty to let the world know what his religious belief is.' I received many such letters as yours during the campaign expressing dissatisfaction with Mr. Taft on religious grounds, some of them on the ground that he was a Unitarian and others on the ground that he was sus pected to be in sympathy with Catholics. I did not answer any of these letters during the campaign, because I regarded it as an outrage even to agi tate such a question as a man's religious convictions, with the purpose of influencing a political election. Awslted After-Election Calm. "But now that the campaign is over. when there Is opportunity for men to calmly consider whether such propositions as those you make in your letter would lead, I wish to invite them to consider them, and I have selected your letter to snswer because you advance both the objections commonly urged against Mr. Taft. namely, that he is a Unitarian and also that he is 8i spec ted of sympathy with, the Cath olics. "You ask that Mr. Taft siiall Tet the world know what bis religious belief is. This U purely hla own private concern; it is a matter between him and his Maker, a matter for his own conscience; and to require it to be made public under penalty of political discrimination is to negative the first principles of our government, which, guarantees complete religious liberty, and tbe right to each man to act in religious affairs as bis own conscience dictates. "Mr. Taft never asked my advice in the matter, but if he had asked ft I should have emphatically advised him against thus stating publicly his religious belief. The demand for a statement of a candidate's religious belief can have no meaning except that there mar be discrimination for or against him because of that belief. "Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dissensions, which in 'so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religioa. and to all advance in civilization. , . Not Matter for Inquiry. "To discriminate against a thor

oughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life. "You are entitled to know whether a man seeking your suffrage is a man of clean snd upright life, honorable In all his dealings with lis fellows, and fit by qualification and purpose to do well in the great office for which h is a candidate: but you are not entitled to know matters which lie purely between himself and bis Maker. "If it is proper or legitimate to oppose a man for being a Unitarian, as was Joha Quincy Adams, for instance, as is Rev. Edward Everett Hale, at the present moment Chaplain of the senate and aa American of whose life Continued on Page Eight)

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