Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 35, 13 December 1908 — Page 11

ONLY 9 MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. DO YOUR TRADING NOW

SECTION TWO BIG J TTTklv"T"TPK mv A IT IT A TFMTTrTT AT PAGES mOII JU MT II a II aJJUM iVJL 1 to 8 AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, -IND., SUNDAY, MORNING, .DECEJ1BEK 13, lOOS. a?fTTfc

rrp

WOULD BE TIFT'S' SUCCESSOR Senate Seems to Him a Stepping Stone Into the White House. MAN IS MUCH MISJUDGED. NOT COLD HEARTED AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO THINK OF HIM HIS AMBITION CARRIES HIM TO SUCCESS. (By Sheldon S. Cline.j Washington, Dec. 12. Wherever a New Yorker Is met with in Washington he places himself in an attitude to receive congratulations upon what now appears the certainty that Elihu Hoot will be elected to the United States senate to succeed Thomas C. Piatt. For quite a number of years now New Yorkers have taken no part in conversations that had to do with the merits and abilities of United States senators. They have displayed little evidence of enthusiasm over the men the empire state has sent to represent it in the "greatest deliberative body on earth." - But they are proud of Root, as well they may be, even though they may not have learned to love him. The austere Secretary of Stato Is a figure to be admired, though his personality is not one to inspire devotion. By those whose unwilling admiration he has compelled, Mr. Root has been described as a "congealed intellect," and In other frigid terms, but these terms of unendearment are not wholly denerved. Many a man cams the reputation of being cold and distant whose heart beats just as warm and true as that of bis more fulsome brother. Vice President Fairbanks has for years been termed the "human icicle," but the writer recalls that the night Mark 1 1 anna died, he saw Fairbanks sit in H corrfdor of the Arlington Hotel and Bob like a woman bereaved. Ambition Succeeds. President-elect Taft has announced that he had hoped to retain Mr. Root In his cabinet as Secretary of State.. There if not a member of tho senates who would not gladly accept tho premiership of the cabinet. Why then, la often, asked, does Root prefer to exchange the state portfolio for a senate Beat? Tho writer has not been taktn into the confidence of the Secretary of State, but he feels justified in guessing that the thing which brought Mr. Root back into the cabinet is now taking him to the senate. That thing is ambition. Blihu Root wants to be president of the United States. He has fortune, . and he has had every honor public life in America could give him short of the presidency. Service in the senate can add nothing to his distinction, but service of the right sort in the senate might well add to his public prestige and his popularity. Presidency the Lure. It is no secret that ft was tho lure of the presidency that brought Root back to the cabinet after he had resigned the secretaryship of war to return to his law practice. President Roosevelt held out the hope that this year's nomination might go to the brilliant New Yorker, and it was well known at the time that he was Roosevelt's first choioe for the succession. The turn of the political wheel finally convinced Mr. Roosevelt, as it did Mr. Root, that while Roob might secure the Republican nomination he would be in danger of defeat at the polls. Because he had been at the head of the New York bar and closely identified with the great financial interests centered at the Metropolis, Root would have had to make his campaign under a cloud of suspicion, and this was not. a year in which a candidate suspected of such leanings could have been elected. Won Great Renown. . Root's services at the head of the State Department had been a failure, therefore, so far as advancing his presidential ambitions. He had won lasting renown in the field of world diplomacy, won the right to be ranked among the very greatest of American Secretaries of State, but the limelight does not often penetrate the seclusion of the State Department. It became clear to Mr. Root tha to win popular leadership he must seek other lines of activity. The Senate offered the most inviting field to a man of hia tastes and abilities. It is true that for some years the Senate itself and the men who rule that body have not been high in popular esteem. But the fault lies wttn the Senators, not with the Senate as a forum. To a man with the commanding ability and exalted prestige of Elihu Root, the United States Senate offers the most promising field to be found anywhere in American public life. If he will go there and use all his great powers in fighting the fight of the people, he can make himself as much an idol of the people as Theodore Roosevelt has ' been. .. . . People Need Champion. The people need a champion in the Senate more than in any other place under the government. The people have champions there. It is true, but they are not men of the Root mold. And ihare championship is ineffective

BOO

ONE OF THE FAMOUS HAINS LETTERS AND THE WOMAN WHO WROTE IT

;' -f- drp ,:r because they are not strong enough to break down the barriers of Senate caste. But can any one imagine the Senate "gray wolves" disciplining or humiliating Elihu Root because he refuses to hunt with the pack? It may seem far-fetched to picture Mr. Root accepting a seat in the senate with a view to capturing the presidency eight years from now, for it is to be assumed that he would not oppose the renomination of Mr. Taft; but eight years is irot a long span In a man's life, and many men have sought the presidency a much longer time. If Mr. Root is' ever to attain the presidency he cannot wait longer than WW. He Is G3 years old now and in eight years will be 71. Though a remarkably well preserved man he could not hope for the presidency after 1010. Useful In Senate. There is no reason to doubt that Mr. Taft knows of Mr. Root's ambition or that he sympathizes with it. He has the very highest regard for the character and ability of the Secretary of State, and while he would like to continue him In that position he must know that Root in the Senate could be much more useful to him. President Roosevelt has seen the defeat of not a few of his policies because there was in the senate no man he could depend on who was strong enough to overcome the powerful coterie of senators who opposed as far as they dared everything which Roosevelt favored. Mr. Root would seem to have before him. therefore, an opportunity such as' is presented to few Americans. There never was a time when the people were so alive to their own interests in the matter of legislation, and in the battle between predatory wealth and the common people no man of Root's surpassing ability has aligned himself with the people. Under such circumstances, there ought to be no limit to the popularity possible for him to achieve.

Seeks No Legislation or Commiseration, But Equity of Opportunity for His Race Wayne' County's Only Negro Legislator Returns to Richmond and Talks Interestingly of His Career Which Is Considered Remarkable.

"For my race I beg no special legislation. I beg no commiseration, but for my people I seek the equity of opportunity. s Let there be one law which shall apply equally and alike to all. Punish - the bad; encourage and protect the good. No man is necessarily bad because he is colored. No man is essentially good because he is white." This statement was made by the Rev. J. M. Townscnd, minister, statesman, and champion of his race. The Rev. Mr. Townsend, after an absence of several years has returned to Richmond and will make this his future home, residing in his former residence, 516 South Ninth street. He is one of the best known and most popular colored men in this section of the country, and numbers a host of friends in . Richmond and Wayne county, all of whom have extended him a hearty "welcome home." Dr. Townsend is the only colored man that ever represented Wayne coxinty in the state legislature and the one term he served there he performed public services which brought the greatest credit to himself and to his constituency. He is loved by the local members of his race as the founder of the Bethel A. M. E. church. Was a Soldier Too. Dr. Townsend was born at Galopolis, Ohio, in 1S44, and was the son of a poor farmer. He obtained an excellent education by working his way through Oberlin college. At the outbreak of the civil war, he enlisted in that famous fighting regiment, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. During the war he served with the greatest distinction.. After he had been discharged from the ser

1 v

o

MRS. CLAUDIA HAINS. The above.is a reproduction of th e letter which it is axgu was directly responsible for engendering into th e breast of Capt. Peter C. Hains, a spirit of hatred for Wm. E. .Annis and which caused him to shoot Wm. E. Annis, New York club man.

vice he became a school teacher at Evansville, Ind. In 1S73 he entered the ministry and was sent to this city where he raised the building fund and supervised the construction of the Bethel A. M. E. church. Fight for Legislature. During his residence here, about twenty years ago, he announced his candidacy as representative to the legislature on the republican ticket. He made a strong canvass throughout the county and despite vigorous opposition from a white opponent, secured the republican nomination by a good majority. He was elected by a much larger majority. After resigning his pastorate of the fiethel church he served as pastor of churches in Terre Haute and Indianapolis. After leaving that city Dr. Townsend was elected secretary of the HEPBURN NAMES . COMMITTEE NUMBERS Fight for House Rule Change To Be Led by Them. Washington, D. C, Dec. 12. Representative Hepburn of Iowa, leader of the members of the house who are opposed to the existing rules, announced this afternoon the membership of the committee. He was instructed to appoint at a meeting of the insurgents held last night. Mr. Hepburn will be chairman and the other members aref Hayes, of California, Townsend - bf Michigan. Cooper of Wisconsin and Foster of ,Vnuoai. . .

Home and Foreign Missions of the A. M. E. church. He served in that capacity for nine years and during that time he made two trips through Europe and established missions in West Africa and among the Indians in the west and south. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference at London England, and was a member of the general conference of his church for eight terms. Dr. Townsend has built and remodeled several churches in this section of the country and has held important charges in Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, and Columbus, O. During the administration of President Harrison, Dr. Townsend was recorder of the general land office, Washington, D. C, and he has in his possession letters from President Harrison, the secretary of the interior and the land commissioner, commending him for his services. FOUR THOUGHT FATALLY BURNED Explosion in Ohio Carnegie Steel Mill. Youngstown, - Ohio, Dec. 12. Five men were hurt in an explosion today at the works of the Carnegie Steel company. John Kelly was the most seriously hurt. Four others are thought to be fatally burned. Mle C- Caldwell of Coger. Oklahoma, is the guest of Mrs. Charles Lyons of South Fourteenth street, for a few

MPERSONATES MRS. C. HAINS

Women Saying She Is Wife of Capt. Hains Leads Wild Life. FIRST TRIAL ON MONDAY THORNTON JENKINS HAINS TO BE ARRAIGNED AS CO-DEFENDANT IN SLAYING OF WILLIAM E. ANNIS. New York, Dec. 12. With ail preparation completed for the trial on Monday of Thornton Jenkins Hains, named as co-defendant with his brother, Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., of the coast artillery, on the charge of killing William E. Annis, a sensational sto- in connection with the tragedy reached this city from Boston today. According to this report a woman whom Fred L. Norton, Mrs. Claudia L. Hains's attorney, declares was sent to the Bay State city for that purpose, has been impersonating the wife of the accused army captain thwe and living in a manner which is not in the least decorous. This woman, Mr. Norton says, has been stopping at a well known Boston hotel and spending the night and early morning hours in the Bohemian resorts, announcing to all that she Is "Mrs. Hains. the wife of the man who shot Annis." The lawyer heard of the woman's conduct and began an investigation which resulted In his learning, he alleges, that the woman came from New York for no other purpose than to impersonate the wife of the accused man. Mrs. Hains is living with her father and mother in their home in Winthrop, Mass., and is unable to say why this impersonation should have been planned. As yet no date has been set for the trial of Captain Hains, who fired the shots which resulted in Annis's death at the Bayside Yacht club on August 15, as the man was about to step ashore from his yacht to the clubhouse float. Everything possible will be done to expedite the trial of Thornton J. Hains, and it is expected that the case will have this settled in time for the usual Christmas holidays adjournment to be taken. Judge Frederick C. Crane, one or the youngest men, who has ever sat on the supreme court bench in this state, will preside. RECGRD IS POSSIBLE Business Done at Local PostOff ice Greater Than Last Year. POSTMASTER IS PLEASED Business in the Richmond postoffice reflects increasing prosperity in Richmond commercial circles, according to Postmaster Spekenhier. Mr. Spekenhier announced yesterday that the December volume of business so far shows a satisfactory increase over the record for the same number of days last year. There is every reason to believe that the special holiday business this year will exceed that of any year in the history of the office. One of the most noticeable things about the mail now is that the majority of packages being sent, bear the Red Cross stamp. RAILROAD THIEVES ARE CAPTURED $1,500 Worth of Goods Was Found in Men's Rooms. New York, Dec. 12. Charged with having in their rooms stolen goods, the property of the West Shore railroad, two men who said they were Charles Shoen and Jacob Barney, both of Buffalo, were arrested at No. 1217 Third avenue, and locked up a headquarters. Detective McKeon made the arrests on complaint of Wm. Burch of Buffalo, an agent of the West Shore railroad. For months the railroad has been a heavy sufferer from a band of robbers. Cars enroute from Buffalo have been opened and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise taken.. According to the police there was $1,5X) wortji of the stolen freight in the rooms of the men on Third avenue. McBRYDE DEAD. Was Secretary of Coal Operators' As sociation. Wheeling. W. Va., Dec. 12. Patrick McBryde, secretary bf the Pittsburg Vein Coal Operators Association oC Ohio, second national secretary of the United Mine Workers' organizations, one of the most prominent men In the industry in the middle west, died hen today after a 6hort Illness. Death was .da -to .pnetimoniat

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE SOON Large Richmond Delegation Desired.

The Indiana Sunday school association will hold under Us auspices, a Sunday school conference of national and state leaders iu the adult department and teachers" training work, at Indianapolis, on Monday and Tuesday, December 2S and 2!. This is the best possible dates that could be secured as the week of prayer begins in January. The meetings will be held at the Second Presbyterian church. It was In this church that the first international convention was held in 1S72. The secretaries of all the counties and the leaders in the Sunday school work in the various protestant denominations are receiving special invitations to attend the conference. The moderators, presidents of synods, superintendents, and Sunday school committeemen, have all been invited to attend. The invitations are being Issued by the Rev. E. L. Halpenny, general secretary. Mr. E. J. Hunipe, of this city, has been extended an Invitation, in which he is urged to secure all the delegates possible from Richmond who are interested in the adult movement. STUDY IS CRAFTY Awaits Opportunity to Make Effective Entrance in Senatorial Race. BOOM IS LYING DORMANT What has become of the senatorial boom of Thomas J. Study? is asked frequently. The only answer that ean be offered is to say it is lying dormant at present. Mr. Study has made no active effort to influence any of the state democratic leaders in his behalf. Neither has he undertaken to secure the. support of the members of the legislature upon whom it will devolve to name the successor to Senator Hemenway. . But Study is not asleep at the switch. He Is attending to his law practice and the result of the last case he appeared in might indicate very satisfactorily. The city attorney, who says he would like to be a real-for-sure United States senator, is not lying awake at nights and wasting sleep in worry .about his prospects. But he is not closing his eyes and ears, when a chance comes to advance his interests in any way. Study has it figured out that there will be a conflict in the ranks when it comes to select a senator. He sees reasons why there will be objections to almost every man, ' whose name has been suggested. There is no doubt of the shrewdness of T. J., and it is likely he may have a card up his sleeve that will not be slipped until the pot is the largest and the Interest in the game the highest. STREET CAR STRUCK Michigan Central Train Goes Into Chicago Trolley, . Killing One. WOMEN WERE IN A PANIC Chicago. Dec. 12. One man was instantly killed and a score of passengers injured, when a Michigan Central fast freight train struck a trolley car on the Chicago and Southern traction company line at Chicago Heights this afternoon. The dead: B. C. Turner, 25 years old, conductor of the car. The motormah did not see the approaching freight train until it was almost upon him. He threw on full 3peed, but before the car could clear the tracks, the engine hit the rear platform. The car wag hurled from the tracks and Conductor Turner, who was standing on the platform, was instantly killed, as the entire train passed over his body. Women and children were trampled on in the attempt to escape. BOUNDARY LINE CHANGED. Washington, Dec. 12. The honsc this afternoon passed a joint senate resolution changing the . south err boundary line between Volorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma according to i recent survey. RETURNS HOME. Supt. T. A. Mott of this city returned home last evening from Cincinnati where he addressed the meeting cf the Hamilton county teachers association which was held at the Y. At.C. A. aaditnrtiim annAy

ENGLAND FACES PERIL OF REVOLT

India Situation Is Cause of General Discontent in England. THE PEOPLE OPPOSE WAR BUT FEW WARS IN A HUNDRED YEARS THAT ENGLAND HAS ENTERED INTO HAVE THE PECv PLE SHOWED ENTHUSIASM. By William True Hawthorne. London. Dec. 12. There will be two well-defined public opinions in Great Britain, one the well informed opinion of the governing class and the other the opinion of the "man in the street." Well-informed public opinion has known for months that England was facing hourly peril of a native revolt in India, and that all Europe was facing the almost certainty of war over the Balkan squabble. So long as it was able the governing class kept this knowledge from the governed class, but a volcano Is a somewhat difficult thing to hide. The "man in the street" now knows he is liable at any time to be called upon to take up arms in a cause in which he has only the remotest interest, and this knowledge doesn't fail to contribute to his general dissatisfaction with things that are. Not Fighting Nation. Despite his numerous petty wars with half-clad and poorly-armed savages, your average Englishman Is not at heart a fighting man. I do not mean to infer that he is a coward or that he runs away from a fight when the necessity confronts him. but he doesn't like to fight and doesn't want to. The despised Chinaman has just as much stomach for the field of carnage. Nor does the prospect of war arouse in England that patriotic fervor that would at once inflame the United States were hostilities at hand. England is too nearly engaged in constant warfare and too many of her picayune wars are lacking in justification to make war popular with the British people. The Balkan quarrel doesn't Interest the common people of Great Britain in the slightest degree, and should the government permit Great Britain to become involved in a Near Eastern war there would be widespread resentment. Yet war in the Balkans undoubtedly would have more popular support than war in India. The average Englishman is utterly unable to see where the Hindu peninsula becomes a desirable possession of Great Britain. It gratified the late Queen Victoria when she was proclaimed Empress of India and Palmerson became the favorite statesman, because he won the title for her, but the British rate cayer cannot see that he has been benefitted. He knows that some of the best blood of Britain has been poured out in India, to say nothing of the golden sovereigns that have gone into the same capacious maw. ' Wars Not Popular. England hasn't had a war In a hundred years that has been popular with the people. The Crimean war wa better supported than any other, but there was little understanding of or sympathy even with that conflict. The war against the Boers in South Africa was decidedly unpopular, and where .he public has been interested at all In Jie numerous punative campaigns it generally ha been to criticise. . There is general support of the policy of a two-power navy, though there s a huge annual deficit in the revenues, rate payers 'are complaining of he burden and the problem of the un employed becomes dally more serious. But England doesn't want a big navy for the purposes of war. It wants one to prevent war. Should Great Britain become involved in an European war the men and the money to carry it on undoubtedly would be forthcoming, but Great Britain is no mort able financially to undertake a war than is Japan. Trusts in Oppression. Meat trusts are no more popular ey Meat trusts are no more popular in Great Britain than in America. The order of Secretary Wilson of the United States department of agriculture placing the states of New York and quarantine because of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease was made the pretext for an immediate advance in ihe price of teef In the London and the other British markets. This quarantine order would not necessarily diminish by a single head the number of cattle shipped from the United States to Great Britain, as western cattle may still come through the ports of Baltimore, Norfolk and Galveston, but the beef trust in Great Britain as elsewhere knows its business. This British beef trust by the way, is particularly unpopular because it generally Is supposed to be an American creation. Britishers are glad enough to get American beef, couldn't do withoat It In fact, but they don't think it polite for the trust to band out to band out to them tb same medicine that home consumers in the United States are compelled to take. Pulpits Ignore Politics. The attempt of Lord Hugh Cecil, the Dean of Canterbury, and Lord Halifax to convert the pulpits of the church of England into political plat. -ilCoatinuad on Page .Three, Sec. Two.Jt

-