Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 123, 11 March 1909 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXIV. SO. 123. RICHMOND, INI). THURSDAY EVENING, 3IAKCII 11, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS, NEW LIOUOR LAW DESERTS RUSSIA TO HIS REPUTATIQH

HARRIS ENTERS MAYORALTY RACE WITH VENGEANCE In Clear; Comprehensive Manner He Announces That He Is in Favor of a Business Administration.

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Favors Operation of Municipal Lighting Plant Without Dis crimination riattorm is a Strong One. To the Citizens of Richmond : I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Mayor of the City of Richmond, subject to the Republican nomination. In my candidacy I stand free from the influence oi backing of, and free from the obligation' to, any faction, clique, or organization whatever. I pledge to the citizens of Richmond that, if nominated and elected, I will devote my undivided attention to the duties of the office. I am in favor, above all, of a clean, honest and efficient business, administration, alert to the opportunities of . thecity's welfare and conservative In its management. I believe the mayor of the City of Richmond should devote his entire time to the interests of the city In the discharge of his duties and the study and execution of the problems of city government, divorcing himself from all his private business interests. This the duties Imposed by the new law demand and' this the citizens should rightfully expect from the mayor, their paid employe. - . I stand unalterably pledged in favor of the Just' and impartial enforcement of the laws. I favor, witihout reservation, the retention and operation, by the city of the present Municipal light Plant and oppose all unjust discrimination in rates, direct and indirect. I favor the immediate adoption of a uniform and modem system of records and adbounts by this plant; I favor the immediate adoption) of am annual system of auditing the accounts of the officers ; of the city something the city never has had and a thing essential to the conservative, business like and honest , administration of the city. I favor, to meet the need of a large and growing section of the city, the establishment, without delay, of the West Side hose house. These policies I will do my utmost to carry into execution. EDWARD H. HARRIS. The political pot began to sizzle a tittle more energetically this morning by the announcement, that Edward H. Harris was a candidate for the republi can mayoralty nomination. Mr. Harris has decided to make the face at the urgent solicitation ' of a targe number of business men, who are determined to make a hard fight to bave the executive department of the City controlled by a man experienced in finances and in business- affairs, the condition of the city making this an Imperative necessity. It has been generally reported about the streets for several days that Har ris would take the field. and the many friends , of Jtkir hnstSlng young man, when the? heard the word, rushed to lvim and added their demands that he Inake the race. ' Today Harris heeded this general petition' and, as a result, made his initial dip into the troubled tea of politics. He says the water is tine. . Popular Young Man. , . : Perhaps there is no better known or tnore popular young man in the city than Harris. : He is a hustler from the Svord go. and his principal recreation s work. He first attracted general attention by his work in promoting the Good Roads congress, held in this city last summer. As great a success as be made of this event, he succeeded in Surpassing tt last fall by his splendid management of the Fall Festival, the most successful public enterprise ever attempted in Eastern Indiana. Day and night he worked to make the f esjival a success and, when it was finally over, he was almost exhausted. When It was reported about the city that Harris was being urged to enter the mayoralty' race, people would say, why that's the young man who managed the fall festival. Say, he's a good one." Formerly Shop Employe. For some time prior to becoming a bookkeeper in a local banking institution, Harris earned his daily bread, as his father si ill does, working as a machinist iu a local factory. He numbers as many friends among the shop employees as he does- among the business men. "Harris will make an - ideal candidate." said a well known matt today. In the first place; h Is a young man,

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POLICE WORRIED OVER POSSIBLE SHIFTS IN FORCE Quite Probable That Staubach Will Succeed Bailey as Chief and That McManus Will Be Let Out. NONE OF PATROLMEN KNOW MAYOR'S ACTION Officers Don't Know Whether They Will Be Expected to Put in Applications to Retain Their Jobs. " Will George Staubach be appointed superintendent of the, police depart ment to succeed Jesse A. Bailey and will Daniel McManus, first sergeant, lose his job, after Mayor Schillinger assumes the " direction of police affairs in this city? There is reason to believe both clauses of the .Question will be answered in the affirmative. Just now the prospect of what will happen is the chief topic of discussion in police circles. "Hard at work?" was asked one of the patrolmen on night duty. "Not very, what's the use until you know what's going to happen down at headquarters?" was the response. In Semi-Coma State As a matter of fact the police department is in a state of semi-coma at present. None of . the members know what change v.'ill be made when the mayor names a new board. All expect a shift In the superintendent. This will carry withs it a change in sergeant. ; SupL Bailey is conducting the department at present .: as assiduously as the first day, when he took the office. He" expects to keep on until the end, although "he realizes the end most likely is .quite near. ' Members of the force are left entirely ' In the c dark and some do not know whether they will be expected to put In applications to retain their positions or not. "If 'we don't resign, I wonder if .whoever is put in charge will think, we still want the jobs' was the ray one" copper expressed it. The department inasfar as the force is concerned will remain half democratic and ' half republican. The authority, however, all will rest with the democrats; Staubach a Favorite. Staubach' is known to stand in line with the Schillinger forces. He was a member of the police force for several years before he resigned to accept a Schillinger " nomination as a member of the board of public works.' At one time he was boomed for the superintendence and his most ardent triends circulated a petition asking that he be named. But .the republican board chose a republican. It is ex pected that Harry Watt, 'the demo cratic . member of the present board will be retained by Mayor Schillinger. It is also believed that either Edgar Hiatt or Eddy Shera. the republican members, will be retained. Pettis Reid is suggested as a probable member of the board to fill the democratic vacancy. - It McManus to Go. If a democratic superintendent - be named, the first sergeant will be a republican. Daniel McManus is the first sergeant at present. He is a democrati ana rumor connects nis name with a probable vacancy. It Is claimed the genial sergeant stands in a good way to be dropped because he was not a liberal contributor to the democratic campaign fund and . has not been howllngly loyal in his support of democratic candidates. McManus had re-

LAWS EFFECTIVE FIRST OF APRIL

One Hundred and SeventyNine Bills Go on the Statute Books. f ONLY ONE IS NOT SIGNED GOVERNOR MARSHALL. REFUSED TO PLACE SIGNATURE UPON THE SUNDAY BASEBALL ACT PREPARING COPIES. The acts passed by the General Assembly will be published the latter part of this month or early next month according to an announcement at the office of the secretary of state. The first forms, containing sixty-four pages of the acts, went' to press- yesterday and Frank, I. Grubbs, assistant ; Ing the other acts for publication. One hundred and seventy-nine enrolled acts have been turned over to him, only j one of which does not bear the governor's signature. I Governor Marshall passed on all of jthe bills placed before him,-unaided, j In about five days' time. He vetoed seven bills that were not enacted into law. He has cleared his desk and is about ready to look into the question of appointing state officials. He reserved and accepted every enrolled act passed by each House. The House handled 638 bills during the session. The Senate handled 449. The Senate journal force has completed its work but the house force will be at work on the records of the House for at least ten days. Assistant Secretary of State Grubbs said yesterday he could not predict just when the acts would be published. The acts of 1907 were published April 10 of that year. When each county clerk has acknowledged receipt of printed copies of the new laws, the governor will issue a proclamation declaring them in effect. Those with emergency clauses such as the metropolitan police law are now in effect. The governor refused to sign the Sunday ball law and it became a law without approval. RUSHVILLE WOMAN MURDERS HER SON After Committing Rash Act, She Fires Bullet Into Her Own Head. BODIES WERE FOUND TODAY CAUSE OF THE DOUBLE TRAGEDY THOUGHT TO BE WOMAN'S BROODING OVER DROWNING OF HER BROTHER. Rushville, Ind.7" March - 11. Mrs. Lou Summers Crist, of Chicago, who has been a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Ritey, of Rushville, shot and killed her fourteen year old son and then killed herself some time during the night. The tragedy was not discovered until this morning. She fired three shots into the lad's head and one Into her own. No cause Is known for the woman's act except that she has worried recently because of the death by drown-

JUDGE FOX THREW HOUCK CASE OUT OF COURT TODAY

Discovers a Technicality and Orders the Jury to Find That the Defendant Is Not Guilty. CHARGE SUBORNATION OF PERJURY WAS MADE Yesterday Afternoon Attor neys for Defense Confused The State by Springing a Knotty Question. ; ; Marlon, ' Ind., March 11. The case of the state against William J. Hquck a prominent attorney charged with subornation of perjury waa thrown out of court this morning on a technicality by the instruction of Judge Fox, of Richmond, to the jury to find for the defendant. Attorneys for the defense sprung a surprise on the state early yesterday afternoon by presenting a knotty legal question that finally terminated the case. Two full days had been spent in securing a jury and the second witness was being heard when a question that was raised brought proceedings to a sudden halt. The trial was not continued until Judge Fox, who is sitting as special judge in the case, gave his opinion. He asked the ' attorneys on Doin siaes to . present tneir arguments this morning at the regular hour for court. Question Over Supplemental Motion. The perjury charges grew; out of the trial two years ago of Naldo Stevens, son v of Orange Stevens, who "was , convicted of criminal assault. Houck, as the attorney for young Ste vens, filed a motion for a new trial thirty days after' the jury had return ed its finding and before judgment had been rendered. Ninety days after the jury's verdict had been given and before a ruling had been made on the motion for a new trial - and before judgment hMbeen rendered Houck filed a 'supplemental motion for a new trial, representing that 'new "evidence had been discovered. The new evidence was the false affidavit which Skinner confessed to signing. . The attorney for Houck . said . that the supplemental motion was presented too late, since the day of its filing was more than thirty days after the jury had made its finding. READY FOR TRIAL OF ALOIIZO FEEMSTER prosecutor Ladd Gives Notification. His Prosecutor Ladd has notified the defendants and Justice Bowermaster at Cambridge City that he is ready at any time fr the trials of Alonzo Feemster and the Rev. Mr. Walters, who are charged with assault and battery. It was these gentlemen who provided the sensation of. the year at Cambridge, when they indulged in a street fight. Their trails have been delayed pending the recovery of the minister

Perhaps Most Drastic Legis

lation That Liquor People Have Ever Been Called Upon to Face. TRAFFIC DECADENCE - IS CLEARLY SHOWN As a Result of Driving Out Hordes of Saloons the State Has Lost Considerable of Its Revenue. Columbus, Ohio, March 11. Tho r maTkable stringency of the regulative liquor law passed by the general a sembly within the past few days has escaped general attention, because of the hurried manner in which it was discussed, amended, changed and then passed. It is, perhaps the most drastic legislation that the persons engaged in the liquor traffic have ever been call ed upon to face. To their credit it may be said that they themselves proposed most of these restrictions as an evidence of their honesty of purpose In ridding the traffic of its undesirable elements. An Effective Weapon. Yet through this very action; they have changed the sphere of influence ot the Anti-Saloon League. During the 14 or 15 years of its . existence - that body has worked to secure negative results, eo to speak. All of its efforts have been, toward driving the sakx uifc of existence. The new law1 gives it effective weapons that it can use In driving individuals out of business. When the new statute 1 taken with, the others passed during the past five years, it will be found that the traffic. eveni in the most liberal communities, has been exposed to attacks and rendered vulnerable at t almost"" every point. ;- '-H:: The decadence of the traffic In the state under the local option laws pai ed by he last general assembly - is clearly shown by the figures issued to day by Auditor of State Ed M. Fullington'. When the Aiktn law, imposing a tax of $1,000 unon retail dealers, was enacted in 1906, it drove almost exactly 20 per cent of the saloons then in ex istence, to 'the wall. Since then 62 counties have voted out the sale of liquor, and in many cities and villages advantage has been taken of the Jones residential local option law. Many Were Forced Out.,? This has caused a steady decrease la the number of places, where intoxicating beverages were sold. No less tihan 1.G00 saloons and restaurants, where liquors were sold, closed their doors ! since January, 1908. In aH Ohio there are now ony 7,909 places where the traffic is authorized. - j In that month . the t record showed that there were 9,418 saloons in , the state. These paid for the privilege of doing- business, $ 4,600.659.41. Of this amount the state got $1,381,080.22, the balance being kept by the counties, municipalities1 and1 townships where it was collected. " The returns for January, 1900, show. as stated previously, that the total number of saloons is 7,909, and that the total taxes collected amount to $3,418,603.70, or a net loss of f 1,182,055.71. The state's port ion for this year, is $l,025.415w44, a net loss of $355,644.78. The minor subdivisions get only $2,392,188.20. a falling off of $827,410.93. In addition the state was forced to refund to 36 counties $16,240.50, its portion of ' taxes collected and returned to dealers who were forc ed out of business by "dry" elections. This means that these counties gave an amount representing over double this amount, or to be exact, seven tenths of thewhoto refunder.,,, , c . , ' The bulk of the taxes are collected h the five large counties of the state, Cuyahoga. Hamilton, Lucas, Franklin and MontgomeryPROMPT OISPLAY OF COFFIII HAILS Since Repeal of Law, Cigarettes1 Appear. See the various kinds of cigarettes on display in the local cigar stores? How did the supply arrive so soon altor the law was removed? Maybe It didn't nave, to come very far ot farther than the drawers 1 voder the dbunter. A few weiVa ' ago only the "regulars" knew . about that drawer, but noWit is not . needed, since the legislature performed its kind act fw the benefit of the pfflmDera, V THE WEATHER Pr.CPIIET. INDIANA Increasing ctoutfl Frf

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DOWAGER EMPRESS MARIE. AOTO DELIVERY COMPANY MAY BE FORMED III CITY Several Merchants Contem plating Making This Move, Believing It More Effective Than Old System. FIRST MEETING HELD AT COMMERCIAL CLUB Plan Is to Assign a Machine to Every District and Have Regular Hours to Make Dis -tributions. Merchants of the city are consider ing the advisability of doing away j with their delivery service and allow-! ins; it to be handled by a merchants' delivery stock .company. Yesterday af ternoon at a meeting, in the commercial club rooms, between several citizens and an automobile agent, the proposition was considered and re garded as very feasible. It is probable that an effort will be made soon to organize a stock company.' Several of the Main street mer chants who have been investigating the proposition for some time ' find that it has been very successfully car ried on in other Indiana cities. In the east and the northwest the merchants also find a central delivery system to be a' saving to- themselves and the most practical way of doing the business. '" . The agent who met with the mer chants yesterday stated to them that his company had organized several such systems and ' that they have proved to be successful. He broached two plans, one for the merchants to organize a company and promote It themselves: the other was to have a company organized by outside .parties. f ; - In other places where 'such delivery systems are in vogue five, trips made on Ave week days and seven trips on Saturdays, at the following hours. 7:30, 9:00 and again at 11 o'clock, and the fourth and fifth trips at 2:00 and 3:30 In the afternoon, res pectively. On Saturday evening the first trip is made at S o'clock and another two hours later. Where the system has been tried the patrons of the merchants seem to be better sat isfied with the service accorded than under the old system which Is more irregular. " It is believed by the merchants that six or eight automobile delivery wag ons could handle all the business very easily. " The machines, with few incidentals, would be the only investment and the other expenses would be of small amount. . Each au tomobile would be assigned to a certain district and the delivery wonld be systematized much on the same or der as the man delivery is. .The expense for deliverymen would not be more than that expended at present. and, possibly, less, because it would require a less number to do the work. Is fact in some places it has been found that a saving was made by each - 1 merchant in labor - accounts, and also

President Taft, Globe Trotter,

Will Journey Much . About Country as He Wants to Keep in Touch. , JOURNEY TO ALASKA IS NOW POSSIBILITY Chief Executive Considering Making a Trip to Pacific Slope and the Great Snow Territory." By Sheldon 8. Cllnc. Washington. March 11. Much has been said regarding the fact that Mr. Taft is the most traveled man who ever attained the presidency. The probabilities are that he will travel more as President than any of his predecessors. Mr. Taft is anxious to get and keep in the closest possible touch with the people and, strange as It may seem in one of his weight, he likes to travel. Just how he manages to rest within the narrow confines of a Pullman birth Is hard to figure but he does rest and Is less wearied by life aboard train than most men of half his pounds. A Notable Journey. The trip which he is planning for next summer, which will take him to the Pacific Coast and probably to Alaska, undoubtedly will be one of the most notable ever made by a President Without doubt Mr. Taft Is today the most popular man in America, not excepting Col. Roosevelt. The people are just as anxious to see Mr. Taft as Mr. Tf.ft is to see the people, and If his pre-inauguratlon reception in the South is any guage as to what will happen when he goes' West wm wwi waffs m reuiiu viBii iv uio South there-will be a trial of most striking demonstrations across the continent and back again. , ' air. Taffs Opinion.5'";?; ' The hope has been very generally expressed that Mrs. Taft will accompany the President in his travels next summer, but there Is no authoritative information on this phase of the subject. - Since Mrs. Taft rode In the car-' riage .wlth her husband on Inauguration day the title of "First Lady of the land" has had a new meaning to a great many' people. And it also is true that Mrs. Taft has quite a different conception of the position than that entertained by her predecessor. Despite her husband's high official place Mrs. Roosevelt was unwilling to look upon herself otherwise than as a private individual. Mrs. Taft regards the wife of the President as more or less of a public personage and will cheerfully meet any demands the position makes upon her. The President declares the success, of his administration in the Philippines was very largely due to Mrs. Taft's tact and di plomacy, and he expects her to share the responsibilities of his new posi tion. ' Prospects would seem good. therefore, that Mrs. Taft will accom pany her husband on most of his trav els about the country. v Must Have Retinue. When the President : travels ho must have a retinue, and under ent conditions tt Is mighty expensive business.' Until recent years it was thought entirely proper that the Pres ident should accept from railroads the free use of special trams for himself and parties, and junkets then could he made without great expense to the President or the governmec&.jJS'he practice was common until ta coning of Roosevelt, and even Mr. Roosevelt In the early years of his administration accepted these favors from the railroads. Then came agitation for government supervision of the isflroads which resulted in the rate law witiT its anti-pass provisions, aad free transportation ,. for , the . President became a thing of the past. Congress, recognizing the new or der of things, made an aanoal appro priation of 923.000 to cover the President's traveling expenses At the re cent session, however, when the presidential salarv was increased to $75.' 000 this was cut off. Whatever trav elling Mr. Taft does, therefore,, will have to be paid for oat of hfts own pocket, but he will have a f '. salary instead of s S50.000 one with which to meet it. fiOJO EXAL'llE IVQ Invest&te a Fcsteh City Cess. The county Fountain City : this moraixs t examine the dsmsgmv to a resfdeaee ro erty alleged to have resulted from te construction of a bridge CIL The

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