Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 82, 29 January 1910 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AD SUN TELEUKA3I, SATURDAY, JANUARY i9, 1910. The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram Published and owned by ths PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA. THE MAGAZINES. The second class mail matter is before the country as an issue raised by the President in his message. On the face of it we have some little display of figures. Down in Washington the Periodical Publishers' Association is having a meeting at which these figures will be called to the attention of the proper authorities. But the figures and the arguments are not the real issue. For it will not escape the reader of the news sent out from Washington that President Taft and Mr. Cannon are made the objective figures in the landscape. One story says: "Although he (President Taft) made no direct allusion to 'muckraking,' it was plainly evident at what he was directing his attack." "FORTY THIEVES" CLUB WAS FOUND (Dqxd fn:n: (fXi is ! u Suicide or Murder was the Penalty Imposed Upon the Members. ltudolph G. Ieeda Editor Chart's M. Moricu. . .ManalDS Editor Carl Bernhardt Aoi-late Kdltor V. R. 1'ouutlstone Sewa Editor.

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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as ecnd class mail matter. The Association of Americas i Advertisers (New York City) has L examined and certified to the circulation J ol this publication. Only the figures ox 4 circulation contained in its report axe i L guaranteed by the Association. Secretary. ALMOST A PRESIDENT The municipality of Lima, Peru, has presented Mr. Bryan with a gold medal. This is the latest of a series of honors which has been bestowed on the distinguished traveler in the Peruvian capital. When we consider Mr. Bryan's reception there, and elsewhere, the idea that he has managed to secure many of the advantages of the presidency without any of the corresponding annoyances comes irresistibly to mind. In fact, if we leave the disposition of postmasterships and a few other official duties out of consideration it is difficult to see why being an "almost president," as Mr. Bryan is, is not almost as good as being a real president. He goes abroad and reaps the decorations and other honors as easily as a Nebraska farmer reaps his wheat. If a real president could reap any more he would have to tap some new and hitherto unexplored source of supply. But honors and influence are far from being the sole advantages appertaining to the position of the greatest living "almost president." There are others far more substantial. Being an "almost president" has been worth a comfortable fortune to Mr. Bryanworth more in fact than being a real president would have been to hira or has been to many men. If there lingers in the bosom of any American a certain personal regret that Mr. Bryan did not get to be president let him console himself. He got to be an "almost president," and that in itself has proved to be no inconsiderable benefit . In rejecting him with a certain positiveness for their chief magistrate the American people elected him to honors and moluments whereof the tale is still unfolding. It is not improbable that if he were to be a real president for awhile, with all the cares, difficulties, bickerings and responsibilities which go with that office, he would exclaim with sincere regret: "O, my 'almost presidency," why did I ever leave your pleasant and lucrative shades for this place of toil, trouble and ingratitude:". His polite reception of the particular gift bestowed by the municipality of Lima, Peru, suggests that Time breaks down many antagonisms in the breast of an "almost president" as well as in that of any other man. Time was, we imagine (1S96-1900 inclusive) when the attempted presentation of a gold medal .might have struck the distinguished Commoner as a deliberate reflection on his principles and record. But that feeling of extreme dislike for the yellow metal seems to have completely vanished. In view of this fact it would not be surprising some day to hear of Mr. Bryan consenting to sit down here at ome to a ?10 banquet, receive a medal from an imperialist club, appear as a guest at a dinner in honor of the constitution as it is, or sit quiet while some orator insisted that after all the people do not rule in this country. Hall to our greatest living "almost president" who has plucked victory from defeat, substance from disaster, decorations and medals from successive and severe setbacks. Chicago Inter-Ocean. CONSULS AND CONGRESSMEN It has been reserved for the year 1010 and for the senate committee on foreign relations to bring to light a new theory as to the fences which exist between consuls and congressmen. For many decades it has been assumed that when a congressman thought about a consul it was with a view to fixing up his fences at home. A consul's job has always had great utility in the political fence repair department. But no wit appears that congressmen In the mass are constitutionally interdicted from saying any.

It can not have escaped many that the magazines have been pretty active in their attacks on what Mr. Cannon and his works represent; their attitude on the tariff measure can not be called favorable; some magazines, but one In particular, have brought to light some things which have been embarrassing to the administration and to Mr. Ballin-. ger; several magazines are avowedly insurgent in their tendencies; what have these things to do with the second class rate? Is it not significant that at a meeting of the Periodical Publishers' Association where the facts and figures of the second class are gone over that the main tonic of conversation is whether or not magazines should do muckraking against the administration?

It is to be imagined that there is some mighty Interesting conversation going on about the Insurgents, the Cunningham claims in Alaska, and the next congressional elections, which bears directly on whether the second class rates shall be amended in such a way as to cripple the magazines.

thing about consular appointments, and that the real fence is of an entirely different nature. Consular reform bills have been before congress for several sessions without anybody putting his finger on the button and letting forth this flood of illuminating light. Congressmen went on drawing consular jobs out of the grab bag until Roosevelt and Root followed by Taft and Knox, built a strong merit system fence between the said congressmen and the mouth of the grab bag. This was a voluntary system, and the authors of it, backed by business men's leagues generally, are anxious to have the executive rules embodied in congressional legislation. But now comes the foreign relations committee of the senate, taking all the authority which even when judiciary committee takes it, sometimes looks like a sub rosa encroachment on the work of the supreme court: and consular legislation is proclaimed impossible on the ground that in this matter congressmen cannot dabble with the executive's powers and privileges. The argument will look plausible when and not until the constitutional give back all the jobs that ever they got for their constituents in the older days and humbly apologize for their i individual shares in this particular illustration of the kind of thing that is deeply loved de facto in an informal way, but becomes unconstitutional when formal action under circumstances changed for the better is demanded. Chicago Record-Herald. LETTER LIST. Women Lottie Aurich, Mrs. Mark Alexander, Florence Brger, Mrs. Charles Bartlow, Ethel Brown, Emma Dickson, Mrs. Lizzie Hamilton, Mrs ITrtrt-n,. Ihml M i r. i To1' CfMi Aliao ' uai l j I 1 LI 1 1 I , . L 1 V V J U V. 11.U .1 , - . 1 .J Gertrude Lock, Mrs. Olive Pea, Miss j Louise Porter, Miss Lettia Ethel Smith, Nancy Todd, Alca Thomas, Mrs. B. F. Thomas. Men C. A. Brown, H. Chambers, W. H. Campbell. Shruble Cooke, G. D. Cridland, Adolph Clifford, Oral Chalmers, Cargo Mfg. Co., Benj. M. Davis, James Dugnett, Adolph Floyd, Foster S. Gcnan, F. M. Goldsborough, Otto Hiatt, Rev. Geo. Jones, Geo. W. Jewell, J. S. Patterson, Amith Ross, Vincent Rhodes, Jamsey Saunders, Sifton Box Co., 2, Wild Bros. 2. Drops Albert Auburn, Alfred Barrier, Bornio Hill. Package G. D. Cridland. J. A. SPEKENHIER, P. M. A BELGIAN PRINCESS TO MARRY FRENCHMAN Princess Clementine, the youngest daughter of the late King Leopold of Belgium, who. after a weary wait of ! fifteen years, is at last to marry Prince Victor Nr.polcon, grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, and brother of Napoleon the Great. When it first reached King Leopold's ears J several years ago that the young coupie were secretly engaged. his ragi knew no bounds. For his own reasonswhatever they may have been he did no deign to make them known he opposed the union. It is said that for a time he was known personally to mount guard, whip in hand at the Palace of Laeken to prevent the princess receiving her lover.

POISON WAS FOUND

In the Stomachs of the Members of the Wealthy Swope Family. ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 29. Colonel Thomas H. Swope, multimillionaire, and Chrisman Swope, his nephew, died from strychnine poisoning. This information was contained in a telegram received yesterday afternoon by John G. Paxton, a private attorney for the Swope heirs. Mr. Paxton left today for Chicago, to return immediately with the official report of the toxicologists who for the past ten days have been making an analysis of the vital organs of the two men. No arrests are expected until next week. Prosecuting attorney Conkling said last night that he expected to have the official report and the other evidence gathered by the attorneys in his possession within 48 hours. "Until these documents are in my office, drawn up in legal form." said the prosecutor, "there will be no arrest, unless the suspected person attempts to leave the city, in which case he would be arrested, no matter what the hour might be." The telegram from Chicago which announced that Dr. Walter Haines and Dr. Ludwig Hekteon had found poison in the stomachs of the two dead members of the Swope family lends confirmation to the theory advanced some weeks ago that a deliberate plot existed to exterminate the entire Swope family. Colonel Swope, whose fortune was veriously estimated at from 84,000,000 to $6,000,000, died in convulsions. His nephew died under similar circumstances. Shortly . afterward eight members of the Swope family were stricken with typhoid. Then came the startling statement that a person who would benefit by the death cf the members of the Swope family bad purchased typhoid bacilli from a Kansas City toxicologist. This bacilli, it is alleged, was planted in the Swope home. SCOTCH MORE SOBER (American News Service) Edinburgh, Jan. The Budget has already had its effect in making the Scotch a soberer nation. Official statistics published here show that since the higher duty has been imposed on whiskey there has been a reduction of iMh in the number of arrests for drunkenness. In other Scottish cities there has been a similar diminution in alcoholic crime notably in Dundee, where last year there were l.StVl arrests for drunkenness, compared with 2.SS5 in l'.Mis. These significant facts seem to confirm the Scotchman's reputation for carefulness in expenditure. IS Rome, Jan. 20. The Count of Turin brother of the Duke of Abruzi, has been proving himself a mighty hurter in Africa, wheuce he is returning after a great expedition. He brings back a splendid collection of stuffed animals and skins, which are to form a special section of the zoological museum at Florence. It is reported that among his trophies 13 a specimen of a colossal saurian of a species hiteherto believed to be extinct. CROCKER'S RHEUMATIC CURE 7 cures in cases of Articular. InUamisatrr, Sciatic. Muscular and other forms of Rheumatism. Phillips Drue Co., Warren, Pa. CIem.TMstle;bwa.lt W . H SudhotT

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EACH "THIEF" HAD TO CONTRIBUTE SO MUCH EACH WEEK OR DIE STORY READS LIKE A DEADWOOD DICK. Washington, Jan. 20. The unearthing of the "Forty Thieves," a club composed of men and boys, the avowed purposes of which are to collect by hook and crook a certain sum of money each week, the failure to do so being death, either self-inflicted or by some member of the secret clan, has been partially accomplished by central office detectives. According to statements made by at least one member of the band, who is now in jail, the rules of the club have been carried out in every respect. Last Sunday night one of the members William Sorerll, of Southwest Washington, who had failed to contribute his pro rata to the stolen funds, and who either feared punishment from the hands of his compaiions or feared detection by the police, ended his life by inhaling gas. Like Deadwood Dick. The story told by an aged grandmother of one of the members, after she had pleaded with him to clrange his mode of living reads like a Deadwood Dick novel. Charley Hurley, son of John T. Hurley, a stage mechanic at the Belasco theater, closeted in a room with his grandmother, broke down and confessed to her that he was affiliated with an organization with which it was impossible to sever his connection. The youngster, who is IS years old. confessed he had assisted in robbing his uncle, Lewis Boyd, last Saturday night. The grandmother was able to get from the boy the details of not only that crime, but numerous others, which the police have endeacored to unearth for weeks. One young man has committed suicide as a result of the principles of the club, according to Hurley, while others have been beaten into insensibility, and in at least one instance a stubborn member has been thrown into the Potomac river and drowned, his body never having been recovered. The Meeting Place. The mysterious rendezvous of the "Forty Thieves" is in Southwest Washington, but the detectives have been unable to learn its exact location. A dingy poolroom on Lower Seventh street, where nightly congre(intn Tri rr i r 4 Vi-e rf oil o COC a 11 H "ante" room of the real rendezvous. Here it is the members meet at night, and one by one they drift from the smoky room to the street and retreat to their secret quartevs. It is known that at least twenty man and boys are affiliated with the organization, and, if statements made by young Hurley are to be believed, a gang of professional crooks and pickpockets, who make it their business to become friends with youngsters, take them in view and teach them the art of thieving. The story told by young Hurley has been substantiated to a certain extent by Detectives Vermillion and Barbe. Last Saturday night Louis Boyd had stolen from his room a watch, a diamond ring and several small pieces of jewelry. He reported to the police and the detectives immediately suspected young Hurley. Hurley's confession followed. The detectives have placed under arrest four men after they had succeeded in pawning the jewelry and spending the money. Additional arrests will be made tomorrow. Mrs. Austin's famous pancakes make a hearty, wholesome breakfast. Fresh supply now at your grocer's. JUDGE IS LIBERAL Because, As He States, Legislation is Also Inclined To Be. RULING BY JUDGE MYERS (Palladium Special) Indianapolis. Jan. 9. "The liberality of the legislation seems fairly to call for liberality of construction." This is the ratlier interesting statement in a decision by the supreme court written by Judge Myers in the case of Gilbert Williams involving the local option law. The court in effect held that a liquor license issued at. a time between the time the county option law was signed by the governor and the time It took effect is continued valid. The license in question was issued Nov. 3, IC'OS. The option law was signed by the governor September ?C and took effect November 20. The decision of the court is of interest since the option law is an important statute and one that is likely to be much in the eye of the public. The failure to attach an emergency clause to the option law, the court held, indicated a lack of necessity in the legislative mind for the immediate operation of the act and rationally leads to the conclusion that grace was intended to be extended to enable those who might be affected to have time to adjust themselves to the new state of things if an election adverse to licensing should be held.

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And Retired Army Men May Be Placed on the Active List Again. WILL INTRODUCE A BILL Washington, Jan. 29. There is a movement on foot for relieving the regular army of its shortage of officers by requesting congress to pass a law permitting the war department to restore to active duty those placed on the retired list for age or other reasons. The war department wants at least 600 officers added to the force. The army has long suffered from a shortage of officers, much of which has been caused by details which take them away from their commands. Those favoring the movement to benefit the retired officers claim the government's cost would be only 23 percent for each officer so called to duty, not including the cost of quarters and allowances. The bill which is now being framed, according to rumor, would stipulate that they shall not be piaced in immediate command of troops. It is claimed the retired officers could be assigned to duty on court-martials, summary courts, commissary work and post schools, thereby relieving those of the active list now away freni their men. The adjutant general's report for the last fiscal year showed 1,000 retired officers upon the pay rolls, 83 of whom are on recruiting duty and a few other details. As an inducement to them to return to active duty the bill will probably provide for the advancement of the officer to the next higher grade upon five years' of continuous duty. The friends of the proposed law anticipate much opposition from the younger officers of the army, who are hoping congress will authorize the commissioning of the needed men in order that they would receive their next promotion the quicker. Last year's joint maneuvers of the regular army and the national guard will be repeated during the summer, according to present plans of the war department. One. set of maneuvers will be conducted at the government's grounds at Pine Plains, N. Y., and another will be held probably in Maryland. Va. General Frederick D. Grant will be in command at Pine Plains. The southern maneuvers probably will be under the direction of some member of the general staff at Washington. Other camps this year will be at Leon Springs, Texas; Atascadero, Cal.: American Lake, Wash.; Chickamauga, Tenn.; Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and Fort Riley, Kan. Not His Fault. Iler Father Young man, I do not object to your calling occasionally op my daughter, but you mustn't stay so late. It was 12 o'clock last night before you got away. Young Man "Got away" is very good, sir. I either had to stay or pet my coat torn. A WEAK WOMAN AND HER STORY In Floral, Ark., Lives a Lady Who Feels That Her Strength Was Restored by Cardui. Floral, Ark. "I must speak a rood word for Cardui," writes Mrs. Viola Baker, of this place. "About a month ago I was in very bad health. I was so weak and nervous that 1 was not able to do my housework. "My husband bought me ene bott'.e cf Cardui. the woman's tonic. 1 took it according to directions and now I am in good health. "I think Cardui is a fine tonic for weak women." And you are not the only lady who thinks so, Mrs. Baker. Thousands. like vou, have written to tell of the wonderful benefit Cardui has been to them. Cardui contains no minerals, or other powerful drugs. It contains no glycerin or other maw kish-tasting ingredients. It is just a pure, natural extract, of natural vegetable herbs, that have been found to regulate the womanly functions and strengthen the female systemAll druggists sell Cardui. See yours about it N. K Write to? Ladies Advisor Dept. Oartsnooca Medicine Co.. Chaninoosaf cna tor Special Instructions, nd 64-paze book. Horn Treatment lot Wocjca. sent in piun wrapper, oa request.

lVHJRRAY HILL CANDIDATE FOR Sheriff of Wayne County Subfcct to Ibe Republican Nomination

POLITIC A L ANNOUNCEMENTS JOINT SENATOR. WALTER S. COMMONS Candidate for Joint Senator from Wayne and Union counties, subject to Republican nomination. CHARLES W. STIVERS, of Union county, is a candidate for joint senator from Wayne and Union counties, subject to the Republican primary election. REPRESENTATIVE ELMER S. LAYMON Candidate for Representative of Wayno County, subject to the Republican nomination. LEE J. REYNOLDS, of Hagerstown, candidate for Representative of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. WALTER S. RATLIFF Candidate for Representative of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. JOINT REPRESENTATIVE. JOHN C. HARVEY Candidate for Joint Representative, from Wayne and Fayette counties, subject to the Republican Nomination. TREASURER. ALBERT R. ALBERTSON Candidate for Treasurer of Wayne County, subject to Republican nomination. COUNTY SHERIFF JESSE A. BAILEY Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. EZRA N. THOMPSON Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. LAFAYETTE LARS II Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county subject to the Republican nomination. One term of two years only. OSCAR E. MASHMEYER Candidate for sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY CLERK. FRANK M. WHITESELL Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. GEO. MATTHEWS Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. WM. K. CHEESMAN Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the Republican nomination. F. F. RIGGS Candidate for County Clerk, subject to the itepublican nomination. v . . i r.r..N dc II rvi .auaiaate ior i Conntv Clerk, subiect to the Renuh. i - T T- -- T T" Tl . . . lican nomination. THOMAS R. JESSUP Candidate for Clerk cf Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY CORONER. DR. R. J. PIERCE Candidate for

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Coroner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. DR. MORA S. BULLA Candidate for Coroner of Wayno county, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY AUDITOR. L. S. BOWMAN Of Hagerstown. candidate for Auditor of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. ALBERT E. MOREL Candidate tor Auditor of Wayne County, subject to the Republican nomination. COUNTY ASSESSOR. ALBERT OLER Candidate for Assessor of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. THOS. P. SWAIN Candidate for Assessor of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination. WILLIAM MATHEWS Candidate for Assessor of Wayne County, subject to the Republican Nomination. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. ROBERT N. BEESOX Candidate for Commissioner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination for the second term from the Western District. B. IL LJNDERMAX Candidate for Commissioner of Wayne county, subject to the Republican nomination from the Middle District. THEODORE P. CRIST fa a candidate for County Commissioner (Western District). Subject to tbe Republican Nomination. INSURE With E. B. Knollcnbera Room 6 Knollcnbera Annex The Flower Shop 1010 Main Si. Phone 1092 SUBURBAN HOME We have for sale a choice of Suburban property. WM. H. BRADBURY & SON, Rooms 1 & 3 Westcott Block.

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