Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 365, 7 November 1909 — Page 1

EICHMOMD PALLADIUM: AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIV. NO. RICHMOND, im, SUNDAY :; MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS. DES MOINES PLAN OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT IDEAL CREAM LIVES ARE SAVED RIVAL SOLONS Hi EXPLANATION OF THE TARIFF BILL WERE MURDERS A RESULT OF WILD DRUNKEN MELEE? STATE ORGAN IS Is Awaiting His Hundredth Birthday BY A WILD DASH OF THE AUTOISTS GREATLY WANTED BY STATE PARTY awiffiiiii

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Palladium Representative After Careful Investigation Finds New Municipal Method Is Practical One.

CITY CHARTER KNOWN TO ALL OF VOTERS Under the System the People Are Actually the Government and the Plan Is Not a Complicated Method. (By Carl Bernhardt) ARTICLE I. Before the Palladium sent me to Dea Moines to investigate the commission form of government, in use in that city, I had already become familiar with the general scheme on which it is based, from articles on the subject and from a study of the charter. I bad gained some idea of the previous conditions and what had been accomplished under the new form of government. To me, as I suppose to every one who looks at the Des Moines plan from a distance, it was a more or less ideal and Utopian development. , Indeed, I was by no means certain that it was not one of those pretty card . nouses erected by well meaning, but impractical dreamers, which are at the mercy of heavy storms which too frequently occur in city affairs. , Simplicity and Interest. But what I saw with my own eyes, and what I learned from men who had daily and actual contact with city government in Des Moines, was far from any but the practical side. I soon learned that . the very things which seemed impossibly ideal, were matters of course. Instead of the plan being complicated, I found that the average citizen (and for that matter men below the average) knew all about the main points in the city government and took it as nothing unusual. And then I wondered just how many of the citizens in Indiana towns (outside the legal profession) could do the same thing with their own municipal government. I knew that few of my acquaintances among the business and professional men, could explain the Indiana municipal code, with its many details and it is by no means surprising. But every man whom I talked to in Des Moines, and I talked to all sorts of men, in all sorts of business, occupation and conditions, knew the city charter and its provisions. I wondered at this for a few minutes and then I knew the answer. Government by the People. The answer is easy. Simplicity of government was the first. -And a close second was the fact that every man was interested because he, himself, yes, he, the average, ordinary man, had everything to do with the city government whenever occasion demands. The people are the government under the Des Moines Plan. And that being so, if the plan were complicated they would know, because for the first time in late years the people have been given their own'righits, which have been taken away from them. It is the simplicity of the Des Moines Plan which has given them back their rights. So it is the interest in their own affairs a realization of their own power which has sent new life into the people of Des Moines. It is no longer a sullen indifference, bred of the lost hope that public service corporations and political bosses shall run the government. That gave me a thrill which wa3 worth traveling the thousand miles I had come, to feel. Not Reform. Let no one gain the idea that conditions in Des Moines were better or worse than they were In the average American city of today. Nor should any one get the idea that the men in office today in Des Moines, as the result of the first election under the new plan are "reform candidates" or "good citizens." The Des Moines plan, though far in advance of the present complicated municipal government in force in other places, is not a "reform movement." As Harvey Ingham, editor of ths Des Moines Register and Leader and the Evening Tribune, said: "Reform government! Bah! We have gotten beyond that What we want is not "good government" bv "good citizens" what we want is efficient government. This is a growing town. We want things done. Any fool knows that competent men can give a competent administration under auy plan of government that an incompetent and imbecile legislature may, in in its foolishness, impose on the cities of its state. Even then' the men will be hampered by a complicated form of government "But we have come to know here in Ues Moines that we have elected av(Continued on Page Two.)

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Although his infirmities have greatly increased during the past two weeks, Fletcher Medearis of Greeasfork, who will be a centenerian "Tuesday, November 16, will not consent to the calling off of the public celebration, to be given in his honor on his birthday. Arrangements have been made for the rental of the Odd Fellow's hall, where an informal reception will bo tendered Mr. Medearis. However, in case his infirmities increase and prevent his attending the ceremonies the event will be held at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Martindale. Mr. Medearis is looking forward to the celebration of his one hundredth birthday and is mustering all his strength in order to participate in the event. He enjoys listening to the plans being made as much as do those who are making the arrangements.

-ELECT HAS CHOSEN A CABINET But Dr. Zimmerman States He Will Delay . in Making Announcement. MADE PUBLIC IN DECEMBER SINCE MIS ELECTION THE NEW EXECUTIVE HAS BEEN BESIEGED BY HUNDREDS OF HUNGRY OFFICE SEEKERS. Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, mayor-elect, announced yesterday that he had selected all of the men whom he will appoint to the various municipal offices at his disposal, during his administration, but that he would not make a public announcement of his selections until after the first of December. Dr. Zimmerman has been besieged daily by hundreds of applicants who have been waiting beneath the municipal plum tree in the hopes of landing a prize and securing one of the coveted positions. There will no doubt be many bitter disappointments but there are not offices enough for all. The police force and fire department positions are sought after by many. , The fact that the mayor-elect has already prepared his "slate" will probably have the effect of slackening up the mad dash for municipal plums. WAS HOSTILE DRUNK Charles Brubaker 'and Harland Wright, two travelers, alighted from the south bound C, C. & L. train this afternoon for the purpose of loading up on "wet" goods, but as they were carrying an exceptionally heavy load when they arrived in the city, they waded into trouble and then into the clutches of the police. Wright was In a warlike mood and after breaking a window in the Kennepohl saloon, North D street, threw a bottle of whiskey at the store operated by Mrs. John Gregory, near by. He was the drunkest individual placed in the jail during the past quarter. BLACKBURN TO QUIT (American News Service) Lexington, Ky., Nov. 6. Governor J. C. S. Blackburn ot the Panama canal zone, who is now on a visit to his home, at Versailles, has announced that he will not return to his duties as governor on the isthmus, but that he would spend the remainder pi his days with his relatives and friends in Kentucky. In some quarters it is said governor Blackburn will become an active candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky.

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Wm" iiJ'!'.'U.'. " Zl SOUGHT AND FOUND Ernest Kelley Hunted Trouble And Found.lt in Big Chunks. IS HURLED DOWN STAIRS Ernest Kelley, well inebriated, hunted trouble in the proper place yes terday afternoon and a fitting memorial will probably be paid him Monday afternoon In the police court. Kelley tried to start trouble in Henry Englebert's saloon, West Main street, ac cording to police information. Then he attacked Peter Hildebrand and took the count. Kelley was thrown out of the Englebert saloon via the back door. He gathered up a lot of different sizes of man's weapons in the stone age and made an assault on the Englebert back door. Englebert, assisted by Hil debrand, threw him down, carried him to Ft. Wayne Avenue and told him to vamoose. Hildebrand started up his stairs at Fourth and Main streets and was followed by Kelley. The alterca tion at the top of the stairs resulted in Kelley rapidly descending in a dis orderly retreat. The police arrived and put the finishing touches onto the scene. HONOR FOR WRIGHTS (American News Service) New York, Nov. U. Orville and Wil bur Wright, the aviator, today wear the cross of the Legion of Honor. France's most prized decoration. Thf cross was bestowed on them by France, through the consul-general, M George Ianel, at the French consulate here. DIPLOMATIC CHANGE (American News Service) Washington, D. C, '-Nov. 6. The state department received official advices today from Ambassador O'Brien at Tokio, that Baron Uchida, present Japanese ambassador to Vienna, ha? been appointed ambassador to the United States. A HEAVY FIRE LOSS (American News Service) Newbern, N. C, Nov. 6. The Norfolk & Southern railway shops were burned today entailing a loss on the part of the company of at least $200,000. Besides the loss of the shops two locomotives and several coaches and box cars were burned. One hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. THE WEATHER. INDIANA Generally fair, Sunday.

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Prevent Easterward Bound Autoists From Lighting Their Benzine Filled Lamps. MATCH WAS BURNING WHEN WARNING GIVEN Frank M. Jones and Frank Taylor of This City Were The Heroes of the Exciting Little Automobile Drama. In an exciting race against time, in an automobile, Friday afternoon. Frank M. Jones, of the McConaha company, and Frank Taylor cashier of the First National bank, were victorious and by opening up the throttle on the big machine and whizzing over the National road at the' rate of about 50 miles an hour, they probably saved the lives of two prominent Johnstown, Pa., men and also saved a valuable new Premier car from destruction by fire. About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon the telephone in the McConaha company's office rang frantically. An excited voice shouted that it was the Premier Automobile company at Indianapolis talking and to listen well for they had made a horrible mistake. When the man who was doing the talking at the Capital city was sufficiently pacified to speak intelligently, he stated that two automobile dealers from Johnstown, Pa., had just purchased a new Premier car there and, through a mistake, the lamps had been filled with benzine, instead of coal oil. Assistance Was Asked. With this dangerous outfit the party had left Indianapolis before the error had been discovered, he said, and In desperation he had called up the Premier agent in Richmond to see if something could not be done to prevent what appeared would result in an inevitable catastrophe. He stated that he realized that it would be impossible for them to overtake the Johnstown men as they had been gone entirely too long. Shuddering to think what would happen unless the party could be notified of the mistake before darkness arrived. Mr. Jones dropped the receiver (after he had been furnished with a description of the two Pennsylvania men) and cranking his powerful machine started out on his exciting race against time. It is estimated that all speed records were broken between Richmond and Cambridge City, but the strain on the big car had been too great and when that point on the journey had been reached, fate proved unkind; the engine broke down and the machine went to the bad. Where Seconds Counted. Each second might now mean a matter of life or death to the Pennsylvanians for darkness was approaching and already a grey dusk had settled over the hills and fields. Never did the ominous shadows of evening seem to fall with such remarkable rapidity and never did the automobile seem so obstinate or hard to fix. Seeing that it was useless to repair the car and realizing the need of haste and that not a moment could be lost, Mr. Jones hailed the next passerby, who chanced to be Frank Taylor. The case was explained to Mr. Taylor, who turned his automobile around and heading it in the direction of Indianapolis, literally burned up the dust in an endeavor to reach tha party of Johnstown automobilists before the front lamps were lighted. A Match Is Struck. Just this side of Dublin a dark object was seen in the road. Upon approaching closer two' men were seen to get out of an automobile and open the front lamps. The cold chills chased themselves up and down the backs of Mr. Jones and Mr. Taylor, and the throttle was opened, to its utmost capacity, for every second counted now. A match was struck by one of the Pennsylvania men and beads of p reoperation stood out on the brows of the two local men. But a kind wind blew and the match flickered and died oat. This fact was probably all that saved the two eastern dealers from a horrible fate. All was saved now. for by the time another match had been lighted the men had been caught up with, and notified of the great danger and narrow escape which they had experienced. It Is needless to state that they made the trip to Cambridge in the darkness. There the lamps were properly filled with coal oil and the dangerous benzine taken oat. PETITIONS A DIVORCE. Mary Lv Zurwell Is the plaintiff in a divorce action filed in the circuit court yesterday afternoon against William ZurwelL She also desires the orifKJf of tbeir children. Abandonment is the ground averred. .

Insurgent Cummins at One Banquet Roasts Boss Aidrich and the Latter Returns The Compliment in Full.

IOWA STATESMAN IN DRAMATIC CHALLENGE He States That the Insurgent Republicans Are Ready for A Fight and Will Give or Ask No Quarter. (American News Service) Chicago, Nov. .-Whlle United States Senator Nelson W. A Id rich, of Rhode Island was upholding his ideas regarding a financial system, in i speech before the Commercial club. Senator Albert J. Cummins of Iowa, in a dramatic address before the Mar quette club, was declaring war to the finish on "Aldrichism" and "Cannonism." The Iowa champion of tariff revision declared without mincing of words that the republican party must cease to be "progressive in platform and stand pat In congress" or it would be swept out of existence. "I say to Aldrich and Cannon." he shouted, that the republicans who are in sympathy with the course pursued by the insurgents, intend to take away from these men, some of the power which ihey now exercise. Their influence will be so reduced that they will take, not give, orders." Ready For a Fight. The senator declared for a tariff commission and more railroad legislation. Among other things,, he said: "Let It be understood, once for all. that we accept the challenge and an ready for the fight. Our struggle will not be to exclude anygody from tho republican party; but upon the principle involved. We ask no quarter and shall give .none. "The day has come for an inquiry into the qualifications of a republican. I am willing to accept an arbiter, but it will not be Aldrich; it will not be Payne; it will not be Cannon. Senator Aldrich pledged his word to the business men of Chicago that the monetary commission, of which he is the chairman, would use its best efforts and business to give the United States the best monetary system in the world. And we will not be hurried." he said, "and shall not report until the third session of congress." Then the senator departed from his discussion to take a rap at the "dem- , agogues." j He made no mention, by name, of Senator Cummins, who at the very moment sat at the other banquet an4 threatened the political life of Senator Aldrich Rapt the Insurgents. Senator Aldrich said: "At all times when monetary questions are agitated or discussed, a familiar class of cranks and demagogues, hanging about the outskirts of every public discussion, appear, swift to parade their views and wares in the public gaze for self-exploitation. "I am aware that with the sanguine nature of the American people we are certain to have recurring periods of over speculation and of abnormal inflation of values, and that such overi speculation and inflation will, practic- ! ally in all cases, end in ultimate fail- . ure. But I am sure that it is quite i possible for us, by confining the efforts of such failures to the transgres- ! sons and their immediate financial i supporters, to save the great business j and industrial interests of the country from disastrous suspensions of banks and a general destruction of credit" A RIVER ACCIDENT Morgantown, WT. Va., Nov. 6. Caught in the heavy swells from a passing towboat three men employed by a pipe line company were drowned in the Monongahela river about two miles above here today. A fourth member of the party saved himself by clinging to the upturned skiff and paddling to shore. The dead: Clarence S. Johns, 31 years old, of Morgantown. Herbert C. Johns, 28, married, of Morgantown. Charles S. Knotts, 25, of Newton, Green county. Pa. SCORE

The following: want ad was carried by the Palladium and its nearest competitor simultaneously, on Nov. 2 and 3: WANTED By a local firm, Intelligent ' salesman; good permanent position for right man. Address H. F, care Palladium. 2-2t The advertiser received 9 replies from Palladium readers, and received 4 replies from the other paper. This Is one of the many demonstrations that Palladium Want Ads give better results than any other Richmond newspaper Learn to use and read Palladium want ads. It means money in your pocket. Turn to page 7 now. Tour want may be there.

Many Conflicting Stories Are Told Authorities by Those Examined in Regard to the Double Murder Case.

DULIC REFUSES TO TALK REGARDING THE CASE Police Think It Odd Alleged Hold Up Men Were Routed By Sleepy Inmates of Dulic Boarding House. A deep air of mystery enshrouds the murder of the two Austrian labor ers. Sam Cracklic and Stif Borat. at the camp of the foreigners west of Centerville early Saturday morning. So many conflicting stories have beeu told by eye witnesses of the double murder, that several of the authorities are now of the opinion that the crime was not the result of an attempted hold un but the outcome of a drunken brawl. In many instances the different versions of the foreigners In regard to the murders do not hang together, Some declare that Cracklic and Borat were given admittance to the &hantv about 1 o'clock yesterday morning and asked for some beer. On being told that there was none they started a rough house, which resulted in a free for all scran and the death of the two instigators of the trouble. Another version is to the effect that Cracklic and Borat and two com pan ions forced open the door of th house and. awakening the sleeping occupants, demanded their money or their lives at the point of a revolver. It is then asserted that Mrs. Joseph Dulic seized an ax and knocked cracklic down while her husband fol lowed suit on Borat and the skulls of both men were beaten to a pulp. The latter theory appears to be the more logical on the surface but even this version of the affair baa so many conflicting points that a grave doubt has arisen in the minds of the more skeptical as to the probable truth of this tale. Dulic Is Silent. Joseph Dulic. proprietor of the boarding house in which the trouble occurred, and who is said to have de livered the death blow to the two men. is still silent in regard to the matter. He refuses to discuss the crime to any satisfaction of the officers and practically nothing can be learned from the mn which tenda to throw any light on the matter. Joseph Chupuvie, another Austrian who was implicated in the murder, it is said, has been taken Into custody and he is also silent on the subject of the crime. It is practically impossible to gain any Information from the foreigners, owing to the fact that scarcely any of them speak English. An interpreter will be secured Monday and an effort made to get some kind of satisfactory story from the Austrian. Coroner Bramkamp will not file his verdict until all of the witnesses In the case have been examined, which will probably require several day at least, it is said. An official investigation of the case was made yesterday afternoon at the county Jail by Coroner Bramkamp. Prosecuting Attorney Ladd and Sheriff Meredith, when Dulic was severely cross examined. However, it was the unanimous opinion of all of the officials that they knew less when they had flnlshct than they did before the examination began. Both Make Denial. Dulic is alleged to have declared to several of the foreigners after the murder had taken place that it was he who had dealt the death blow to both of the men. However, upon the man's arrest, he denied that be had anything to do with It and Implicated several others in the affair. Mrs. Dulic also declares that she did not strike Cracklic with an ax, but several witnesses assert that she committed the act. She has not been arrested. Prosecuting Attorney Ladd states that he will probe the matter to its depth and unless Dulic "loosens up" and tells everything he will be sent up for the crime. It Is Terr probable that several more arrests will be made tomorrow and the grand jury may be called to investigate the matter. The police are looking for Rod! Roderick. The horribly mutilated bodies of (Continued on Page Two.) 9 to 4

Democrats of Indiana Realize

This Necessity and There Is Talk Now of Establishing A New Newspaper. STEVE FLEMING MAY BE A STOCKHOLDER There Has Been No State Par ty Paper in Existence Since The Old Indianapolis Sentinel Cashed In. (Palladium ftpcla!) Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. a There It talk of a new democratic dally paper being established In this citr. to be. come the state organ of the party. It is said that Steve Fleming of Fort vt a ne will be one of the heavy storkholders in the new concern if it la started, and that several other rich democrats In the state have signified tneir willingness to put some money Into the venture. According to the story told, one Indianapolis man has offered to put 1100.000 into the new paper, but his name Is not yet public Whether th plan will work out is a question, bu it Is known that several prominent democrats are working on it with the. hope that It may pan ouL Has Caused Worry. The democrats of Indiana have be-n without a state organ ever since the Indianapolis Sentinel died, four years ago. The lack ot a paper has been one of the worries of the party lead era ever since then, and two or three times they have talked of starting a new one. but each time the plan has fallen through. The Indianapolis News Is Independent, the Star is republican, and the Indianapolis Sun. a small paper, also says It is Independent This has left the democrats out Jn the cold durinx -mi tlmea. cept wnen the Indianapolis News has helped them In their battles from an Independent standpoint The lack of a party paper haa been felt by the democrats In every campaign since the Sentinel died. This was true In this city, especially during the cltr campaign, which closed at the city . election this week. AH of the papers In Indianapolis supported the republican candidate for mayor, leaving the democrats without any help from the press. AH of the papers, however,, gave the democrats a great deal of space for their speeches and other matters of news, and even the democratIc candidate for mayor who was defeated at the election, issued a statement arter the election In which ht thanked the papers for what they had done. But the democrats felt the ne-4 of an organ of their own. and this has led to the consideration of the plan mentioned for the starting of one. Could Raise $500,000. One leading democrat said yesterday that he was confident that 500.(mf could be raised In the stats for tha purpose of starting a paper. This, he figured, would be enough to install modern plant and provide working capita! for the paper until it got osi !t feet. It Is said that the recent rimpslgw for city elections In the various dtlej of the state has led to a reconciliation between Governor Marshall and Tom Taggart. and that there Is not likely to be much of a fight for the control of the next state committee. The fight which the republicans made against Taggart and his followers la the Indianapolis city campaign was 99 strong and vigorous that It stirred ths democrats to the highest pitch of party enthusiasm, and it Is said to have wiped out much of the differences that have held the party Into factions for so long. According to one democrat who ought to know what he is talking about. Governor Marshall has come t the conclusion, after viewing the fight which Taggart made In the city campaign and the fight that was made against him. that Taggart is a good democrat and that he Is really working; In the interest of the whole party. There was a time when the governor did not entertain that viewat least, not as strongly as he Is said to entertain it now. If this Is the case, it Is taken to mean a burial of the hatchet between them and that they will Join hands in the selection of members of the state committee on a common ground. Healed Old Soresr Democrats say that the bitterness of the city fight here healed all of the old sores, and that the party now Is In better shape and more harmonious than it has been for years. For months past ft has been knows ; that Governor Marshall has had la mind a reorganization of the state committee on lines that would practically leave Taggart oat In the. cold, cold world. This Is because of Taggait's connection with the brewery Interests In politic, all of which the governor does not approve. He believes the brewers should not control the party. He says they should stay out of politics and allow the party to (Continued on Page Seven.)