Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 53, 31 December 1909 — Page 8

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THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909.

SMALL BOOMLETS SOMETIMES GROW INTO LARGE ONES i awawawawawawaw And the Boomlets of Governor Marshall for Democratic Presidential Nomination Are Incubating.

ASPIRANT TO INVADE WASHINGTON SHORTLY And Down at the National Capital the Big Fellows Are Preparing to Cast Their Lamps on Him. Washington, D. C, Dec. 31. The presidential boom of Governor Tom Marshall, of Indiana, soon will occupy the center of the spotlight in Washington. It is quite the vogue for presidential aspirants to bring their I'ooms to the capital, where they are surveyed with critical eyes and their fine points are brought to the attention of the political experts. This has become, in the evolution of time, a sort of national fair grounds for the exhibition of booms. The Champ Clark presidential boom Is domiciled in Washington for the winter and its goodly proportions may be eeen by all men. The Harmon boom had an engagement of several days' duration, while the delegates to the Rivers and Harbors congress were still in town, and now the Marshall boom is on the way. Governor Marshall is coming as one of the leading participants in the dedication of the beautiful Italian marble effigy, of General Lew Wallace in Statuary Hall on January 11, an occasion that will call for an extraordinary ebullition of Hoosier oratory, with the governor, Senator Beveridge and Senator Shively In star roles, to say nothing of an original poem by the peerless Hoosier bard, James Whitcomb Riley. Puttin' on Some Lugs. The governor will put up, with his Buite at one of the leading hotels, and, judging from the preparations his followers are making to display his presidential qualities, that hostelry will be the vortex of no mean amount of political agitation while he is here. There will be lunches and dinners and receptions in his honor, and the Marshall boom will sweep like a brilliant comet across the political sky. ' Geographically and strategically the I loosier governor's boom is conceded to have advantages that no other boom : possesses, but it also has its handicaps, which are not being talked of above a whisper by his friends. That Indiana will be an important factor in the presidential equation of 3912 all of the prophets agree. That far-seeing prognosticator, - "Gumshoe Kill" Stone, has doped it out that way, and in a speech he made recently to the democratic senatorial caucus, advocating the election of Senator Shivey as vice leader of the senate minority, he predicted that the old phrase, slightly remodeled, "As Indiana goes, so goes the nation," would lie exemplified in the next presidential contest. Where He Has It On Harmon. In the opinion of Senator Stone and other leaders, it is quite within the Correct Tailoring , See our winter specials In Suitings and Overcoatings at $15, 818, $20 Ecccss Tcilcrtea Co., , Ccr. S3 tzi Eria

COMMISSIONER KIRBY IS FRIEND OF HORSES

Deputy Police Commissioner Kirby, of New York, who attends every sale of the veteran horses of the mounted squad of the department. Mr. Kirby is a lover of a horse to the verge of extreme sentimentality. He knows the names of scores and they know him. There was a tear in his eye at a re cent sale, when Dean, a good and faithful sorrel, was knocked down for $70. Dean is twenty-five years old and had spent nineteen years in po lice service. range of possibility to carry Indiana for the democratic ticket, but so much cannot be said for Ohio, which, as they view it, gives Marshall an advantage not possessed by Governor Harmon. Thanks to the Indiana Constitution, which makes the governorship a fouryear office, Marshall does not have to run for re-election prior to the opening of the Presidential contest, which also may enhance his availability. These elements of strength are not overlooked by the White House crowd but the Marshall boom also has elediscussed by his admirers in low and deprecating undertones. The Governor's friends say he is a statesman and not a politician, and they cannot arouse him to the necessity of doing certain things which are very desirable, if not essential in the proper furtherance of his prospects. Their principal criticism is that he does not strive to attract attention. They admit that, following such a skillful master of the limelight as Governor Hanly, he had a hot pare set for him, and they do not blame him for failing to keep up with it. but they believe he should lend a little more support to the effort to focus national attention upon him. Or Drink a Cocktail. If he would make a spectacular move now and then, if he would rise up and denounce somebody or something, if he would make a moderate use of the "shorter and uglier word," his devotees would be happy. But he persists in being a plain, oldfashioned constitutional Executive, who believes the Governor's office is a business institution and not a theater for the exploitation of screaming farces and heavy tragedy. His followers even doubt whether they can get him worked up to the pitch of accepting some of the entertainments which are being planned for the subtle purpose of advertising his Presidential availability while he is in Washington. Another defect in Governor Marshall's boom is his failure to warm up, like a glowing ember, to certain mem bers of the Indiana Democratic Congressional . delegation. That those members secretly are back-capping him is well understood. Some of them have real or fancied grievances on account of Executive acts of commission or omission. It is suspected that the lukewarmness of others has Its origin in the perennial fight between the brewers and the temperance hosts out In In diana, the Governor, who was elected by brewery support, having recently turned against the brewers. - The hostility of a single Democratic Congressman from Indiana Is re garded as unfortunate, as the Con gressmen are in constant touch with Democratic Senators and Representatives from various states, who are Influential In shaping delegations in their respective bailiwicks, and a dash of cold water now' and then might do a great deal of harm. Good old fashioned cakes are made from Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat flour. Now at your grocers. Compulsory Self Denials. "So yon think there Is good In everythlngr "Yes. sir." said the ready made philosopher. "How about those fictitious mining stocks I bought? "They have improved your habits. Nothing stimulates personal economy like bad investments." Washington Star. MR. HUNT AGAIN AN UNDERTAKER. Mr. Theo. Hunt for a number of years with the firm of H. R. Downing & Son, is now connected with the establishment of Wilson, Pohlmeyer & Downing. Funeral Directors. 15 North 10th street.

QUITE WICKED IS TOBACCO "TRUST"

Bushwhacking Methods Employed in the Use of the Union Labels. GOVERNMENT SUIT FILED ATTORNEY GENERAL WICKERSHAM WAXES VERY WARM IN HIS LANGUAGE IN BRIEF TO THE SUPREME COURT. Washington. Dec. 31. In a printed brief of 2m pages Attorney-General George W. Wickersham and his special assistant, J. C. Reynolds, yesterday presented to the Supreme court of the United States the case of the govern ment in the famous Tobacco Trust case, which will be argued next week in that court. The cases were tried in the United States Circuit court for the Southern District of New York, which, after dismissing the petition as to foreign tobacco companies and some of the subordinate American companies, adjudged the others to be parties to an unlawful conspiracy and enjoined them from continuing their operations and from engaging in interstate commerce. The Attorney-General takes the position that these findings, sweeping as they seem to have been, were not broad enough and he asked the supreme court to extend them so as to take in the foreign companies and some individuals who were relieved from the operation of the verdict. Many other extensions of the judgment are also requested. After showing that in 1890 competition was free, the various coalitions were traced in the document and facts are given to show That the combination has grown until the combined assets amount to $400,000,000. It is asserted that the combination manufactures all of the cigaretts for export and almost three-fourths of the smoking tobacco and of the cigaretts for domestic sale, more than threefourths of the plug, twist, and fine-cut tobacco and almost all of the snuffs that are made. Has Really Been "Wicked." It is declared that "the defendants have persistently exercised duress, have practiced wicked and unfair methods and used their great power in oppressive ways." Further, it is asserted that they have been actuated by a fixed purpose to destroy competition and obtain monopolies. "Competitors have gradually disappeared and the combination, now strongly intrenched unduly restricts the business of those in the trade and prevents others from entering." Coming to specific instances, relative to the operations of the trust, it is declared that substantially all established jobbers in New England were induced to throw out independent products, as were those of Philadelphia, New Yorly and many other specified places. It is asserted that independent jobbers in New York were destroy ed by the organization of the Metropolitan Tobacco Company, which was given an exclusive agency for the sale of the trust goods. "Bushwhacking" Is Charged. It is also asserted that "bushwhacking" methods were resorted to in the use of union labels, and the method in this proceeding is denounced as "iniquitous" and and one such as is "inhibited by a civilized conscience." Indeed, it is declared that "the record contains much evidence and a vast deal of correspondence concerning the operations of these 'bushwhacking' companies, which disclose amazing depravity and show with clearness how these agencies were effectively utilized." The advertising methods of the trust are referred to as a means of influencing both business and public sentiment and it is said that not less than $10,000,000 was expended in this way in the single year of 1906. The Attorney-General interprets the complaint as not merely directed to the acquisition and ownership of stocks or other property, but as against the company's operations in commerce. "Competition has been persistenly destroyed; scores of contracts have retired skilled men from the trade; many have been forced out, and the necessary result of the plan long followed has been to give defendants power to ex clude others and exercise monopoly. He seems Inclined to the view that a receiver should be appointed for the business of the parties to the combina Hon and he adds: "The very existence of certain defendant is criminal, and certainly they can not rightfully com plain because restrained from carrying out the unlawful purposes of their creation; they are willfully in positions where every act Is a transgression." "Growing Down." Everybody has noticed that in ex treme old age people grow rapidly shorter, so that a person formerly of average height "grows down" into quite a diminutive jnan or woman. A German contemporary points out that this decrease of height begins as early as the age of thirty-five years. At thirty, we are told, the human body has reached its fail height, which is retained for a few years, after which the "growing down process begins. At first and for many years the process is so alow as to be almost Imperceptible, bat at the age of about sixty it begins to be noticeable, and after sev enry, even though a veteran does not stoop at all. the fact that he is "growing down" becomes apparent to alL Plenty of dressed chickens at Schwegman's Meat Markets. Phones 1084 and 2204. - 30&31 IItoo ara troubled with side hnailar ha ooanstra nreata or any aristae froB stomach tiwilila nt a SQc wHPOBMatur.uwMi'i syrup

AN AMERICAN DANCER

SHOWS UP A RUSSIAN Theodora Gerard, an American dancer now performing in Paris. She set the gay French city talking hard by smashing a champagne glass in the face of a big Russian, who had been annoying her with undesired attentions. ARE 10 CONSIDER COST OF LIVING Talk of Appointing Committee To Find the Cause of High Prices. BUT MANY ALREADY KNOW SOME CONGRESSMEN WILL INFORM YOU THAT IT IS THE TARIFFSTANDPATTERS OPPOSED TO THE PLAN. Washington, Dec. 31. Several members of congress are prepared to introduce resolutions providing for the creation of a national commission to study the cost of living problem. Whether these resolutions will be of fered and pushed, it was said, will depend on the attitude of the leaders in the senate and house. Members who have this movement in mind say it will not be worth while to offer the resolutions unless they can have some assurances that they will be acceptable to the leaders. The idea is that there should be created a commission of, say twelve or fourteen persons. who shall put in six months or a year making a careful study of the conditions that have led to the rapid increase in the cost of living. Such a commission, men behind the movement say, would not be made' up of members of congress, although the legislative body must be represented. The general impression Is that the real leaders will not favor the movement. Say It's the Tariff. One senator remarked that a com mission of this sort, if it wrent about the work of investigation as it should would, no doubt, find that the tariff has a good deal to do with -the cost of living. It was a sure thing, he said, that the standpat leaders in the legislative body did not care to have this phase of the situation brought out in an official way. Whether congress decides to create a commission of this kind or not, the increased cost of living is going to get an airing in both senate and house, in the next few months. The democrats are prepared to make much of the situation in speeches, and some of the republicans propose to discuss the subject. Secre tary Wilson is busy laying the ground work for the investigation he propos es to make. His representatives are now gathering wholesale and retail prices in many of the large cities. 4 Has Cost of Commodities. ine aepartment already nas a schedule showing the cost of the lead ing commodities at the farm or the factory, and as soon as the wholesale and retail prices are in the work of making comparison will begin. It is the expectation of Secretary Wilson that these comparisons win either prove or disprove the oft repeated assertion' that somewhere during the progress of commodities from the farm or the factory to the consumer a middleman takes more than his just share of profit. Since the announcement, two days ago, that Secretary Wilson intended to discover the cause for the Increase in the cost of living the department has been deluged with letters commending the step the secretary has taken. Men for Customs Court. Acting on the assumption that congress will at this session provide salaries for the judges and attendants of the customs court provided for In the new tariff law, the president Is now picking men for that court. It was said authoritatively today that he has chosen three of the members of the court, but that their names would be withheld until congress

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