Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 2, 9 November 1909 — Page 1

KICHMOWB PAIXABIUM 4ND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 2. RICH3IOXD, IXD., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEJIBER 9, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. PLAY SAME CAME III IOWA CAPITAL AS OTO PLACES HIS SHORTAGE L I.L Beveridge Meeting Plans Prepared Of Interest to Advertisers In view of the fact that the Palladium's circulation records are open to investigation at all times, and Mr. Post's ideas along this line so clearly define our ideas; we reproduce the following letters from the Nov. 3rd issue of -Printers' Ink," a journal for advertisers. TO BE MEETS A TRAGIC DEATH IN WRECK OFFICIALS STATE

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Story of Corporation Aggrandizement and Mismanagement of City Affairs Told Palladium Representative.

FAULT DUE TO OLD FORM OF GOVERNMENT Proves That Any City May Follow Des Moines and Obtain Freedom From CorporationsThat Asphalt Trust. (By Carl Bernhardt.) ARTICLE 3. 1 have already given some idea of the graft and incompetency in the management of the affairs of the Iowa capital. They were merely those of every .city in the land today under the old plan of government. And the Idea that I wished to create, is not that conditions were so overwhelmingly bad that Des Moines was forced from that very fact to go over to the Des Moines Plan. No, Des Moines could have gone on and on. year in, year out, in the hands of ward politicians, contractors and public service corporations, without a consciousness that things could be bettered without a cry of "turn the rascals out" -"good citizens to arms." And that this is true, I ask you to look at all the cities in the country, that are still prospering under, but in spite of a hopelessly bad form of government. Think of the city you know best and listen to the story of Des Moines before the plan. The conditions are practically the same everywhere. Public Service Corporations. Again let me repeat, that Des Moines before the Introduction of the Des Moines Plan, was a typical American city In respect to the relation of the public service corporations to the management of the city's business. " In the matter of franchises no American who is above the years of puppydom, needs to be told that public service corporations get all they can when they get their franchises. If they can't get them one way they will another. And here it is also well to interject, that the public service corporations under the old style of government, are as often held up for blackmail as they themselves deliberately attempt and accomplish corruption. In this again, Des Moines had the same conditions and problems that face the citizens of every American town. There they bad eltner connivance on the part of the public officials and the corporations, or the open warfare of blackmail. On the one hand, it the officials agreed, it meant a trading of the city's interests to the company for money. On the other hand, it meant business at a standstill, no improvement in service and the unanswered appeals of the citizens for the needs of a growing town, either because the corporations would not be held up or because they could not agree with the ward heelers on the price. Isn't this an average American condition? Which do you prefer under the old system? It makes no difference, you say? That Is the way the Des Moines people felt It was utter indifference and disgust. It is different now. Just an Instance. In a town of a hundred thousand people, covering fifty-four square miles, with laborers relying on the street car service to take them to, and from, their work (to say nothing of ordinary traffic) there has been a Bquabble over the street railways for years. Moreover, one of the members of the present council under the new Des Moines Plan, owes his place to the fact that he asserted and had good proof that he refused a bribe under the old regime from the manager of the street car company. The manager of the street car company has been indicted for bribery time and again. It Is asserted in Des Moines that he escaped by "fixing" the grand jury. In the meantime, the ByBteru has been depreciating at a rapid rate. The service Is shamefully inadequate. This is due to the fact that the company cannot borrow money, because it can not prove that it has a franchise. The citizens say that the only reason the company did straighten out the franchise trouble was because it "wouldn't cough up." Be that as it may, the situation is typical of Des Moines under the old plan; It Is typical of the old plan in every city In the United States. But you should not feel too sorry for the public service corporations. They looked after their interests, never fear, and if they were forced to briba the city officials they got their money back from the people for those same bribes and often enough the citizens paid for the expenses of having their own franchise lights taken away from them. Downtrodden Corporation. Under the old plan of city government the Des Moines council acted as a board of review for the readjustment of the valuations of the city assessor. .(Continued oa Page Five.)

Great Indifference Displayed By the Treasurer of the Big Four Railroad When He Was Confronted.

HE PROMPTLY ADMITS HAVING STOLEN SUM Cincinnati Man Unconcernedly Asked the Astounded Vice President "What Are You Going to Do About It?" New York. Nov. 9. C. L. Warriner. until a week ago yesterday local treasurer at Cincinnati, O., for the Big Four Railroad, one of the Vanderbilt lines, stole $643,000 from that company before he was even suspected of being a thief by his superiors in the railroad service. Announcement to this effect was made last evening from the office of Albert H. Harris, vice president of the Big Four, whose headquarters are in the Grand Central station. This is the brief and formal typewritten statement handed out by Mr. Harris last night: "The amount of the defalcation of C. L. Warriner, local treasurer of the Big Four at Cincinnati, has been ascertained to be $643,000. Warriner has turned over to the company property amounting to over $100,000, and there will be received from the American Surety company, on its bond, $50,000, leaving the net amount of the shortage something less than $500,000. Is Under Arrest. "He has been arrested and is now held to await the action of the grand jury at Cincinnati. "The method which Warriner adopt ed was to cover his defalcation in the Item 'cash in transit' At the end of each month there are ' considerable sums of money on their way to' 'the' local treasurer from the station agents and others which have not been received by him. It was by including in this item the moneys which he had in fact stolen that Warriner was en abled to conceal his defalcation." Just a week ago the general finan cial and auditing officers of the New York Central system were startled to receive from Warriner, in the office of Mr. Harris, at the Grand Central station, a full confession of his shortage. He had been brought here from Cincinnati by Vice President John Carstensen, head of the auditing department of the Vanderbilt lines, accompanied by Mr. Hackney, the Big Four's chief counsel at Cincinnati. Showed Great Indifference. The Saturday before, or on October 30, Warriner told Vice President Carstensen in the Big Four offices at Cincinnati that he was a defaulter "for a very large amount." Carstensen had only a few hours before discovered that there was an unaccountable discrepancy between the actual cash on hand in Warriner's office and that which showed on his books. When he called the treasurer's attention to this Warriner, with amazing coolness, said to him: "Well, I guess there ought to be. I have stolen more than a half million dollars from the company." The vice president was so durafounded at the man's indifference, not to speak of the vast amount of money involved in the theft, that he found speech difficult for a minute or so. The two men sat facing each other in silence for awhile. Then Carstensen asked the confessed thief what he was going to do about it. "The question is, what are you and the company going to do about it?" calmly replied Warriner, without the slightest tremor of voice. It was agreed that they would come to New York together, where Warriner could make a clean breast of the affair at the general offices of the Vanderbilt lines. They left Cincinnati Monday morning and arrived here Tuesday morning. Warriner was not under arrest. He slept soundly on the way from Cincinnati more soundly, in fact, than did either Vice President Carstensen or Attorney Hackney. Arriving at the Grand Central Station the three had breakfast together. Then they went to the office of Vice President Harris. Awaiting them there were Mr. Harris, Vice President E. V. W. Rossiter, at the head of the financial department of the Vanderbilt system, and two stenographers. Got Down to Business.' Without unnecessary ado the party settled down to the transaction of the strange business before them. This was to reduce to writing the confession Warriner had already made, with as much detail as it was possible for him to employ, in order to assist the railroad officials to a better understanding of his astounding crime. After he had concluded his confession, which was taken down word for word by two expert stenographers, Warriner breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "I am glad it's off my mid," he said. This was not accompanied by tears, entreaties, pleadings for mercy. WarContlnued on Page Four.)

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SENATOR ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.

The following committees have been appointed for the Beveridge meeting at the Commercial club next Monday evening: Reception committee Howard A. rill. chairman; Rudolph Leeds, Omar G. Murray, Chas. G. McGuire, Chas. C. Commons, Frank I. Reed, A. L. Jenkins; Ira C. Wood. Geo. K. Seidel, W. C. Converse, Elmer Eggemeyer. Hou3e committee W. H. Bates, E. LIGHT IS THROWN ON WHITE CASE AT Elihu White Fofmeriy Resiiieff In This County and His Character Was Not Considered to Be the Best. WORKED WHILE HERE AS A FARM LABORER First Wife Was a Webster Woman, Who Divorced Him And His Second Wife Was Resident of Cambridge City. Elihu White, alias Rev. Harlan White, who was arrested at Marion Saturday on a charge of bigamy on evidence furnished by his third wife, who is a resident of Michigan, until four years ago last spring was a resident of this county, being employed as a farm laborer by several prominent farmers, living south of the city. White is alleged to have held the reputation of being a very profane and cruel man when angry, and when in such a temper, it is said, nothing was too mean for him to say. Although, not acquainted with the facts surrounding his third marriage, his friends say that bis relations with his first and second wives were entirely regular. However, either because of ignorance or because of his alleged belief in free love, he saw no reason for obtaining a divorce from his first wife, who was Miss Rebecca Ruby, and who he married while living at Webster, in order to marry another. His marriage to his second wife, Mrs. Rosa Hudson, came near not being solemnized, it is said, because of this reason. Called Off Ceremony. However, his second wife did see the reason and would not consent to the marriage until his first wife had been divorced. White and Mrs. Rosa Hudson, who at the time of her marriage was residing at Cambridge City with her two children, by her first marriage, were to be married at what is now the Phillips hotel, North Sixth street. The bride learned on the eve of the wedding that her husband-to-be and his first wife were not divorced. She then refused to be married until a divorce had been secured by wife No. 1. It was later solemnized, Mrs. Wbite No. 1 obtaining a divorce from her husband in the local courts. The exact year in which White's marriage to his second wife tooR place is not remembered by Ms friends, but they well remember the circumstances surrounding it. His friends believe that it was about fifteen or sixteen years ago. It is not known locally if Mrs. White No. 2 ever secured a divorce. THE WEATHER. INDIANA Colder Wednesday.

BIGAMY

MARION

W. Craighead, L. M. Emmons, L. B Campbell, Chas. H. Feltman.

It has been decided to hold the meet ing at the banquet hall in the Masonic Temple. Invitation tickets will be Issued to members for the purpose of in viting business men to the meeting. Owing to the limited room, it will be made an exclusive men's affair. The senator will be entertained over night by Mr. Foulke. COLLIERS MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE THROUGH GLAViS fniWicleTn'htselc's'is sue Department of the Interior Is Dragged Into the Limelight Again. AUTHOR IS DEPOSED FEDERAL OFFICIAL Question Is Asked, "Do the Guggenheims Control the Department?" Expected To Create a Big Furore. (Palladium Sppcial) New York, Nov. 0. Collier's today released for publication its article on the "Whitewashing of Ballinger," which is expected to create a furore -"n the public estimation of the affairs of the department of the interior. Beginning with its editorial earlier in the fall, "Ballinger Should Go:" Collier's has been making war on him ever since and asks the question, "Are the. Guggenheims in charge of theDepartment of the Interior?" The article which will appear in Collier's is by L R. Glavis, who wa3 removed by Ballinger from the land office without a hearing. This hearing Collier's is laying before the country, supported with documentary evidence and pictures of the lands which were bought by the Cunningham interests for a paltry sum, although containing as rich coal lands as Pennsylvania. The statement of Glavis begins as follows: Collier's Article. From 1902 to 1909, I was in the field service of the general land office for the last two and a half years as chief of field division. In September, 1909. I was summarily removed from my posion without a formal hearing by Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior, by authorization of the president of the United States. That removal was accompanied by the publication of a letter, of, the president to Mr. Ballinger. . I ; believe that my removal was unfair. I believe the president's letter was grievously unfair, because in it the president gives weight to a charge against me which I never had the opportunity to see or answer. , The president states In his letter that I withheld from him information favorable to my superiors. I do not know of any such information withheld by me, nor am I conscious of doing my superiors injustice. Neverthe less. I should not now make any public statement of the matter were it not still possible to save for the governt many thousands of acres of coal lands which I believe the land office may In the near future grant to fraudulent claimants. The hope that my statement will help to arouse public sentiment, and that this danger to the national resources may be averted, la what actuates me. This statement (Continued on Face Seven.)

Former Well Known Richmond Man Was Instantly Killed Today in Headon Collision On the L. & N. Road.

DEAD MAN A BROTHER OF EVERETT H. LEMON Left This City About Ten Years Ago and Engaged in Railroad Business His Headquarters at Knoxville. (American News Service) Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 9. As the result of a collision early today between a freight and a passenger train, three men are dead and thirty-fivo are suffering from injuries. Near Kleinarts, 20 miles north of Knoxville, a Louisville & Nashville passenger train bound from here to Cincinnati ran into a southbound freight. Firemen Bowman and Leonard O. Lemon and Engineer Pierce, who was driving the passenger, were killed. All the passengers were badly shaken up, many of them being seriously hurt. LEMON LOCAL MAN. Was Well Known and His Family Lives Here. Leonard O. Lemon who is mentioned in the above dispatch was until ten years ago a resident of this city. Telegrams were received by his brother, Everett Lemon, vice president of a local banking institution, and hi3 mother, Mrs. Ida G. Lemon, South Seventeenth street, this morning announcing his death. Mr. Lemon is survived by his wife and one child, also two sisters and his brother and mother. He wrs aboajt; 4u;years old:: .'Ittghot known as yet whether he will be buried here or not. He was born and raised in this city and for many years followed the occupation of a millwright at the Richmond City Mill Works. He then took up railroading and went to Knoxvillo about ten years ago. He has been an engineer on the L. & N. R. R. for a number of years. The above dispatch speaks of his being a fireman, which is believed by relatives to be incorrect. SWEETHEARTS MET A TRAGIC DEATH Were Two of Victims of the Terrible Chicago River Accident. WERE IN WRECKED 'AUTO MYSTERY OF NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS OF ILL-FATED MACHINE HAS NOT YET BEEN UNRAVELED BY OFFICIALS. (American News Service) Chicago Nov. 9. A prospective bride and groom, according to circumstantial but almost positive developments, rode to their death with Chauffeur Ernest Camp through the open drawbridge on Jackson boulevard on Sunday night. They were Max Cohen, .a tobacco dealer and Miss Beatrice Shapiro, his fiancee. He was 26 years old, and she 22. Members of both the Cohen and Shapiro, families have heard nothing from their son and daughter since they left Sunday evening to attend a theater. They at first suspected elopement, but as the hours went by and no word came from the missing ones, they reported the disappearance of the couple to the police. Identified Photographs. Max Berger, a chauffeur. Identified photographs of Miss Shapiro and Max Cohen as being the persons whom he saw enter Camp's .car at about 10 o'clock. The 'mystery as to the number of passengers in the car has not yet been learned. Berger says he saw two men, one of whom wore a silk hat, accompanied by a woman standing by Camp's machine. The body of one victim of the automobile tragedy was recovered today a block away from the scene, and Identified as Ernest Camp, the chauffeur. At seventy-three, it Is announced. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert Is at work on a new comic opera which will shortly be produced at the Savoy theater in London.

"Interesting passage-at-arms between a nameless publisher and the redoubtable founder of Postum and Grape-nuts. My Dear Mr. Post: Upon my return from ray vacation I learn that the relations between your company and my newspaper have been seriously disturbed. In brief, my paper has declined to allow an auditor. In your behalf, to examine our circulation books, under a guarantee clause in your advertising contract with us. This declination is in accord with a well-defined policy of mine. I got my newspaper education on a New York paper, and came here with ideas that may be wrong, but they are all I have and I have to follow them. I do not guarantee 10.000. or 5,000,' or 1.000 circulation of my paper, and the contract with your company, with a guarantee clause, never could have been accepted had it come to my notice. The situation that now has arisen is that your representative in Battle Creek has undertaken to enforce the guarantee, clause under penalty of non-payment of three months bills and.' of course, discontinuance of all advertising. In view of the progress of my newspaper since It alone In, the West undertook to fight the battles which may best be designated as your battles, too, and in view of the general recognition of this progress among local business men, I regard it as a special hardship to have this situation forced to an Issue in this way, and I should regard it not only as a personal favor' but also as a matter of justice if you would instruct your representative to withdraw his requirements. If you cannot see your way clear to this, of course we must part company, much as I should regret such an event for poiiti cal and personal, as well as business reasons. : Yours sincerely.

Publishers-

Yours of the 1st received. You perhaps know that In prae' tically every town some church prints programs of some enter tafnment, or possibly a cook book, and the women set some kind of a price on the advertising pages, we will say, perhaps $30 a page. In a little town possibly they may print 300 copies, in a larger town S00 copies, and still a larger town, 2,000 copies, price generally about the same, It having no relation to circulation. Now in the first instance the rate Is $100,000 a thousand, where-' as in the last instance it Is $15 a thousand. Naturally they cannot sell their space to intelligent advertisers because some of them are not fools, and I want to say to you that If you believe for one moment that I intend to spend money in an advertising appropriation, buying space no more clearly defined, than a corner lot at the North Pole or four acres in the edge of a cumulus cloud, it is time you got In the procession and forgot that sort of old-fashioned, nonsense that obtained In the minds of publishers some years ago. I contest your right to bring into the case any reference to the altitude of. your paper on a public question on which I have expended several hundred thousand dollars to exploit Publishers are coming to realize that the moment they refuse to place before the man who proposes to buy space for making announcements an absolute, unqualified and honest statement of the service rendered, it forces the advertiser to the only conclusion that he can reach that is. that the man seeking to sell the space is conscious of the fact that the space he has to aell is not worth the price be asks for IL Therefore, he seeks to cover up and to prevent any examination of that which he proposes to give in exchange for the buyer's money. I am the publisher and owner of a newspaper, also a magazine, and I would have to change my ideas very materially before I will ever so conduct my business affairs with the advertisers that they will have any? good reason to suspect that I am keeping facts hidden from them, and taking their money under the pretense of giving service that I do not render. I prefer to leave shell games to the kind of men that run shell games. You may think these words are a little plain, and I will say to you that the situation requires plain words, and please let me state here that in my opinion neither you or anyi other reputable publisher can afford for one moment to take the position you do in this case. I believe I like friends, and in response can be a good friend, but I permit no man to put a blanket over my head in order to prevent me from seeing the details of what should be an honest and fair transaction. aw. post.

TWO COLOHED MEN GREATLY WORRIED Went on Woodie Cook's Bond And Now He Is Said To Be Missing. STAND TO LOSE $2,000 BONDSMEN FOR COOK ARE S. R. OXENDINE AND LEONARD HIATT COOK FAILED TO APPEAR FOR HIS. HEARING. Where is Woodie Cook, colored, of Muncie? This is the question S. R. Oxendine, colored janitor at the court house in this city, and Leonard Hiatt, a local colored barber, are anxiously asking each other. Unless Cook returns before Judge Leffler of the circuit court at Muncie enters up Judgment in the court docket, the two local men will be minus Just $2,000. Some time ago Cook was arrested on a charge of failure to support his wife and child. He was brought to Muncie but was later released under $2,000 bond wheh was furnished by Oxendine and Hiatt of this city. Cook's hearing was set for last Saturday in the Delaware circuit court at Muncie. However the man failed to put in his appearance. His bond was defaulted and his bondsmen will now have to forfeit the money unless they locate Cook and bring him into court before judgment Is entered. Judge Leffler notified the two bondsmen that he

would allow them a short time la which to locate Cook, but that If they failed in their efforts to ascertain his whereabouts, they must stand good to the amount of the bond.

IS TO AVENGE HER - r Father Says He Will Hunt Down Murderers of His Daughter. FOUND DYING. ON STREET (American News Service) New York, Nor. 9. "My daughter was kidnapped, dragged, placed in an automobile, fatally beaten and then thrown into the street and left to die. Of these things I feel certain and I shall spend the rest of my life and my fortune in hunting down her slayers." This statement was made today by Michael Byrnes, the father of Mis Nora Byrnes. 23 years old, who died In BlackweJls Island hospital after having been picked np unconscious in the street by the police and charged with intoxication when she was really suffering from fatal injuries. IS EKIALLY BURIED Pekin, Not. 9. After a year's preparation the funeral of the late Dowager Empress of China, Tan HsI. was held today. The body was carried to the Eastern tombs. 80 miles, throagh unbroken lines of soldiers. The ceremonies at the start from the wallod city were witnessed by the diplomatic corps.