Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 62, 9 January 1910 — Page 1

MIC MOOT) F AIX ABIUM 4lSTC 3UN-TTCLERAM. VOL. XXXV. NO. 62. RICH3IOXD, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1910. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS,

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SENATE COMES TO CAMION'S RESCUE WITH RESOLUTION Public Lands Committee Resolution Adopted, Which If Carried in House, Will Aid Your Uncle Joe.

TILLERS OF SOIL SHOULD BE PEERS OF ALL CALLINGS VERY LATEST STOUT You Can Have Grand Opera A FRIEND LEADER Think Balloon of Lost Explorer is Found SEES GREAT NEED TO MAKEREFQRMS New by Using a Wireless Service.

IS PRESIDENT TAFT PLEASED BY BREAK?

It Is an Open Secret That the Executive Liked Stand taken by the Insurgents in the Lower House. PINCHOT IS SPHINX-LIKE HE STILL CONTINUES HIS POLICY OF WEARING A BROAD SMILE AND KEEPING HIS MOUTH TIGHTLY SEALED. Washington, Jan. 8. An effort to set Speaker Cannon back on his feet will be the first move In the direction of repairing the break In the republican ranks caused by the BallingerPinchot explosion. At a meeting of the public lands committee of the senate this afternoon, a substitute for the Jones-Ballinger investigation resolution was adopted, providing for the appointment of the senate members of the investigating committees by the vice president and for appointment of the house members by the Speaker. This resolution will be put through the senate on Monday if possible, whereupon the bouse will be called upon to agree to the senate resolution, instead of the one passed by the house yesterday, and there will be one more chance for Cannon to whip into line a sufficient number of members to win back for him the power to name the house men.. ' r UsueTatlon-Wlde. This is the issue that takes precedence over all others just now and an extraordinary effort will be made to bring Cannon through a winner. - And right here, there Is thrust forward one element of the situation which illustrates the chaotic conditions that exist as a result of the Bal-Hnger-Plnchot affair. It is an open secret that President Taft is immensely pleased at the reverse which Speaker Cannon received yesterday, and for the sake of the effect that it will have upon the country, is willing that the house itself, Instead of Speaker Cannon, shall elect its representatives on , the committee that will investigate Ballinger. Taft Relies on Rebels. This came about that the president is tactfully, it not openly relying upon the insurgents, whom he has sought to force into line by wielding the patronage club, to strengthen by continued insurgency the position of the administration before the people, where all the support possible for the administration is now imperatively necessary. If the Insurgent ranks hold fast the verdict of yesterday against Cannon can be sustained. While this issue of Cannon takes precedence for the moment over the general Ballinger-Pinchot situation, the latter remains the dominant political sensation of the hour. Broad Split in Rank. Clifford Pinchot dismissed yesterday afternoon from his post of Chief Forester by order of President Taft, is the center of a constantly rising tempest, the far reaching political effects of which no one can foresee. Pinchot today maintained his policy of silence which he adopted last night. NV statement was forthcoming from the administration either. But that a broad split has been opened in the ranks of the Republican party no one attempts to deny. GEN. CURTIS DEAD Distinguished New Yorker Is Stricken Today While Walking. HAD A BRILLIANT CAREER (American News Service) New York, Jan. 8. General Newton Martin Curtis, U. S. A., retired, disA, I . 1 . A , uoguisnea scnaier, ui various nines postmaster of New York, formerly collector of customs, former special treasury agent, legislator, ex-congress-, mm and president of the Agricultural College of this city, was stricken with ' apoplexy, a few doors from his home, - today and died before the arrival of an ambulance surgeon who was summoned. General Curtis Vas taking an after dinner stroll when be suddenly felL

Solomon Auguste Andree, the Swedish aeronaut and explorer, who left Spitzbergen, Denmark, on July 11, 1897, to sail over the North Pole. A few days ago news came from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, that Eskimo Indians had found a balloon 900 miles to the north. A missionary brought in word, and he was impressed with the idea from the way the Indians talked of a "big white house falling," and their unwillingness to go into details, that not only had the Andree balloon fallen, but that the natives had killed the explorer because of anger, over, what they considered, some offense. The last heard from Andree was two days after he left, by carrier pigeon. He was then S2.2 degrees and making good progress northward.

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WOUNDS A HEROINE Young Woman to Protect Her Sister, Faces Fire of a Revolver. SHOOTER KILLS HIMSELF (American News Service) Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 8. Jumping in front of her sister to protect her from bullets fired by her brother-in-law, Lena Lear, 21 years old, was shot, probably fatally, at the home of Henry Roth in Spring Garden avenue this afternoon. Miss Lear is in the Allegheny hospital in a critical condition. Roth, after firing three shots at his wife and her sister, turned the smoking weapon upon himself and sent a bullet crashing through his brain. He was dead when officers broke into his home. Roth, who was about 35 years old, recently had been drinking heavily since the death of his mother. Shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon he and his wife had a violent quarrel. Roth announced his intention of ending his trouble and suddenly drew a revolver and began shooting at his wife, but her sister, who was in the room at the time, quickly jumped between them and knocked the revolver downward, but the second shot entered Miss Lear's stomach. CASE IS POSTPONED Th case of John Caylor versus the Ridgeville state bank, which came to this county on change of venue from the Randolph circuit court has been postponed at the plaintiffs costs. The plaintiff has instituted accounting proceedings against the bank and demands $14,000. SONS OF VETERANS The Sons of Veterans will hold an important meeting Monday night at the court house. It is requested that all members be present

ENEMY OF HOKEST MEN SAY EDITOR HENRY WATTERSON Louisville Scribe Takes a Running Jump and Alights on the Quivering Frame of William Howard Taft. FRIEND OF THIEVES THE TITLE APPLIED Says the "Candidate of Straw On Platform Imposture" Has Seen "His House of Cards Tumbling." (American News Service) Louisville, Ky., Jan. 8. Henry Watterson will say in tomorrow's issue of the Courier-Journal, under the ti-j tie of "Honest Men to the Front," in a red hot editorial, concerning the dismissal of Gifford Pinchot from office by President Taft, the following: "For the first time in the history of the country a President of the United States has openly proclaimed himself the friend of thieves and the enemy of honest men. ' Loses His Usefulness. "That, and that alone, is the issue precipitated by the executive order of Friday removing Gifford Pinchot from office. By your conduct; .says Mr. Taft in effect, you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate of those who hold the Republican party as the government, and are bound to protect those, who, by their corrupt organization and campaign contributions, have brought the Republican party to power ' and are relied on to maintain it in power. In other words, the public lands and franchises belong; to the saints, and we are the saints. Abandons a Precedent. "Many Republican presidents have, by indirection, through the protective

WILL BRING A SDIT

Government Will Take Action Against Burley Tobacco Society. A CONSPIRACY CHARGED (American News Service) Lexington, Ky., Jan. 8. The government is about to bring suit against the Burley Tobacco Society, charging conspiracy and violation of the anti-trust law, it was learned here today. The papers will probably be filed at Covington or Cincinnati next week. The society has headquarters at Lexington but operates through Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, and controls 150,000 pounds of tobacco. Secret service men under H. M. Hoagland, of Cincinnati, having investigated the society and made a complete report. The society will be defended by United States Senator Bradley of Kentucky, ex-Senator Foraker of Ohio, and the firm of which Governor Harmon of Ohio is a member, it is said. The government prosecutors will be Richard P. Earnest, A. C. Cassatt and Lawrence Maxwell of Ohio. policy, proclaimed themselves the friends of robbery under the forms of law, Mr. Taft becomes : the first to depart from the process of licensed robbery, and to announce that the debts of bis party are in the future to be paid out of the people's domain. It is not worth while for anybody to beat about the bush, or to deal in anything but plain English. The truth will not down. That the president, is personally an honest, wellintentioned man need not be denied or doubted. The world if full of men who can see no wrong: where their own interest is at stake: who are blind to right when their passions are awakened; who will do for party what they would refuse to God. .The candidate of straw upon a platform of imposture, inducted to office, sees his house of cards about to tumble on him and his cabinet, because of the act of an upright but imprudent servant, and. In a panic- of anger and fear, thinks to avert the threatened catastrophe by driving out the upright servant.'

President Stevens of Horticul

tural Society in His Inaugural Address Makes a Splendid Plea. PROGRESSIVE IDEAS HAVE GREAT DEMAND Farm Life Has the Greatest Advantage in the Production of Strong, Able Men, The Speaker Stated. The regular monthly meeting of the Wayne County Horticultural society was held yesterday afternoon at the court houF, the time being devoted principally to the installation of officers and the selection of committees. The year's work was also outlined as were also the meeting places. Jesse C. Stevens of Centerville is the new president and he delivered his inaugural address. The society determined to hold the annual dinner in June instead of Feb ruary, as has been the custom, hereto fore. The monthly (meetings will be held in different places. The next four will be in the Commercial Club rooms. the June, July, August and September meetings at homes of different members and the last three of the year at the court house. President Stevens announced the following committee appointments: Various Committees. Agriculture Caleb W. King, Thom as Elleman, Wallace Reynolds, Benjamin Duke, Captain W. H. Lough and Isaac Dougan. Fruits Nathan Garwood. Stephen Kuth, Jesse Stevens, Richard Sedgwick, Harrison Nichols and Joshua Rich. Vegetables Evans Kenworthy, Sanford Henning, Eli Jay, Levi Fulghum, Jehu Norris and Oscar Fulghum. Flowersi Hannah Graves, Leonora Noggle, Agnes King. Mary Clark, Ella Kenworthy, Flora Branson, Emaline Elleman, Jennie Kuth and Lizzie May hew. Dairy and Culinary Ella Ken worthy, Anna Garwood, Essie Burgess Emaline Dougan, Rose Reynolds and Dan Medearis. Miscellaneous Randa Runnels, Fan nie Carrington, Leonora Noggle, Laura Kitson, Sylvania Wissler, Emaline Me dearis and Jennie Kuth. Statistics Caleb W. King. Ornithology Walter S. Ratliff and Eunice Shute Frame. Membership Essie Burgess, Anna Garwood, Eliza Stevens, Ella Kenworthy, Emaline Dougan, Leonora Noggle, Frank Clark. Evans Kenworthy and Thomas Elleman. Address of Stevens. President Stevens in his inaugural address spoke briefly and in part, as follows: No person is esteemed by others above the estimation of himself; no calling is esteemed by others above the estimation placed upon it by its followers, and no class, calling or profession commands the respeect of the world at large unless their members first respect their calling. "This being true, the estimation in which farm and farmers are held by those of other callings depends on us. ! We must magnify our calling. This I will not do until we know that we 'are the peers of any in the land and until our ranks are filled with educated men and women. By such, I mean not alone those who have graduated from our schools and colleges, but those who have in any way acquired the power of forming progressive ideas and expressing them in clear and forcible language. "I do not say that all farmers are destined to become great men, or that all great men come from our homes, but I do state that farm life has greater advantages to develop those who have the spirit within them of reaching the top than any other calling. Nature Assists Him. The president stated that the rugged constitution and broad mindedness of the farmer was due to his association with nature, his regular habits, his acclimation to conditions and the j pleasure which true farmers take in their labors. Comparison between the farmer boy and the city boy was made. Too much idleness is the trouble with the city boy, according to the speaker. Real recreation Is not idleness, but a change of pleasant employment and this accounts for the reason why the farmer boy develops the more rugged constitution and the better mental development. "Fashion reduces all young men and women, continued the speaker, "to the same dull and uninteresting levelHow much of a man Is due to the qualities born in him and how much to the early environment? No philosopher has been able to tell us. But it is Impossible to conceive of , a sagacious mind, like that of Lincoln;, of a glorious mind like Webster's emerging from the false glitter and noisy commotion of a city. ' "Now comes a statement, perhaps new to you not one of the presidents of the United States, from first to last.

DEVICE FOR TELEPHONES

(American New Service) New York, Jan. S. Grand Opera by wireless telephone is the latest department at the Metropolitan Opera House. Beginning Wednesday night and continuing every night thereafter anyone in any city within a hundred miles can sit in their public halls, or In their homes if they are fitted with wireless telephones and listen to Caruso and his colleagues warble in far off Manhattan. Arrangements have been made with several wireless stations to be in readinsess to receive the opera Wednesday night over their lines A receiver Is right behind and and above the stage so as to catch every note and echo. Experiments were made last night and persons up town heard Caruso sing. PRESIDENT DIAZ WILL ESTABLISH m A PROTECTORATE Wily Mexican Executive Has a Deep Laid Scheme to Take All Central America Under His Management. HOWEVER UNCLE SAM WAS "JOHNNY WISE" Consequently Special Ambas sador Creel's Mission to Washington Did Not Meet With Much Success. (American News Service) City, of Mexico. Jan. S. That President Diaz intended to establish a Mexican protectorate over Central America and may yet attempt it, and that his action in the Nicaraguan affair was the first step toward the proposed end, was revealed today. The reason Senor Creel's mission proved a failure was that knowledge of the plans of Mexico'c chief were in the hands of the United States government at the time Creel was dispatched. According to high authorities here. Mexico, at the time of her intervention in the Nicaraguan crisis had in view a scheme of the eventual absorption of all Central America under an election calling for union with Mexico. Zelaya Uuged Scheme. Zelaya is asserted to be now urging this scheme on President Diaz and is paid to be backed by the most powerful secret cable in the history of Central America politics. The enmity of Diaz for Caber a of Guatemala and the chances of the union would afford for Cabera's election is said to form the lever . which Nicaragua's ex-leader is using. Political experts are in receipt of advices that trouble is coming in Guatemala and that with the success of General Estrada, it is said here revolution against Cabrera is certain to be started. Every effort is being made to induce General Toledo, Jose Santos, Zelaya's right hand man, to take up arms against the Guatemalan President. Great unrest prevails throughout all Central America according to letters received here. Zelaya expects his family next week, lie will buy a hime and ranch here. was born in a city," stated the speaker. Continuing, he exhorted those present to be thankful and not to allow the destinies which await them to be torn down by their burdens. A plea for the noble type of manhood and womanhood and the purity of the home was made. MINERS WOtl'T WORK (American News Service) Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 8. The railroads are moving, but little coal today. The miners have refused to work on Sunday and widespread suffering is imminent. The situation is without parallel in this state. Women with babes In their arms are beseeching coal dealers with money in their hands for coaL The dealers refuse to deliver more than a half or quarter of a ton to any one person at a time. THE WEATHER, INDIANA AND LOCAL Conditions - generally unsettled Sunday, probably fair. -

Timothy Nicholson Makes Two

Suggestions How Nominations for Office Should Be Made by Party. CONVENTION METHOD LITTLE IMPROVEMENT But After Time Gives an Opening to the "Boss" Voters Should Enter Candidates in the Race. , Need for reform in the prettent policy of the republican party in the selection of its nominees for county and city offices is seen by the Hon. Timothy Nicholson, who suggests two alternatives to take the place of the present primary system. The reform most favored by Mr. Nicholson is the adoption of the old convention method of selection of nominees. He. however, does not believe even this method would prove benefl- -rial, only for a short time. The other reform suggested is that the voters should put the candidate iu the field instead of the candidate entering unsolicited. A Petition System. In the latter reform, he suggests, he believes, the voters should secure the signatures of a large number of representative voters In the county or city, according to the office which they are petitioning for, to secure the desired candidate After a certain number of names' were secured the man would be a candidate. These petitions should b passed upon by a central committee. He believes that the value of such methods would be to free the field of a large number of applicants, thus eliminating the nuisance of voters be ing continuously disturbed by candidatessoliciting their support. The views of Mr. Nicholson on the subject met with favor from some, while others hold that the suggestions are not practicable or beneficial. Most voters asked to state their views favor the present system. Convention Method. In regard to the convention method Mr. Nicholson says that for a few years such nominations would be fair and impartial. He fears that this system would eventually become corrupted, because "bosslsm" would make its advent and the conventions would bo cut and dried affairs. He has attended several such primary conventions and from his observations .he says, they were ideal. In some, delegates held the voting power of selection of party nominees. In others, the conventions was more of the nature of a mass meeting of the voters. Each one present was entitled to a ballot. The nominations were over in a short time, and apparently, all were satisfied with the results. One convention particularly referred to by Mr. Nicholson, was held i by Washington township voters, sev eral years ago. The effect of either of the reforms proposed. Mr. Nicholson believes, would be a saving to the candidates and a more fair election for the voters. Under the present system, often the majority of the people do not rule, when there are a large number of candidates for the same office, Mr. Nicholson says. He citea" one or two Instances in which the combined votes of the defeated candidates at the primary election was double that received by the nominee. CLAIM ISJLLOWED The Commissioners Grant Demands for Commission Made by W. E. Lowe. AUDITOR. STANDING FIRM Washington E. Lowe, tax ferret for the county, refused to put two claims in for his commission on taxes paid into the county treasury on sequestered property brought to light by his Investigations. This afternoon the' claim of which Mr. Lowe says Is due him. was presented to the commissioners and allowed. County Auditor Coe will refuse to issue a warrant for the sum and Mr. Lowe announced that he would Institute mandamus proceedings against Sir. Coe In the -court Monday, through his counsel, William H. Kelley. Mr. Lowe had been advised by other attorneys to file his . claim as follows: $4&1M. commission due him on taxes paid Into the state, county and . township funds, and S24&81 commis sion due him from taxes paid into the city and incorporated towns'