Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 35, 15 December 1911 — Page 1

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T AND SUN -TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 35. RICHMOND, I2D.t FRIDAY. EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

FARMERS SAY MORE HITCH RACKS MUST BE PROVIDED HERE Several Local Men Say Failure to Heed This Demand Will Affect the Business of This City.

CITY HITCHING LOT IS PLAN OF MAYOR Racks on Streets Make Thoroughfares So Congested that They Are Dangerous, Zimmerman Says. The increase In the number of farmers who drive into Richmond has caused a demand for better hitching facilities. Farmers are complaining of the mall number of hitching racks near the center of the city. They declare that Instead of more hitching racks toeing erected some are being taken down. They mention especially the rack which stood at Ninth and Main Streets. According to a number of prominent farmers who trade in Richmond exclusively, the city should remedy existing conditions without delay. They My that failure to do so will probably effect the business of the city. Most farmers are in favor of Mayor Zimmerman's plan, outlined some time ago at a council meeting. The mayor believes that all hitching racks should be taken down from the principal Main street corners, and that there should either be a public hitching lot, maintained by the city, or that the bitching racks should be placed around a square. In arguing for the adoption of his plan the mayor said that some time ago a man was killed because of the congested condition of a certain street dtt to the hitching rack. Agree With the Mayor. Farmers says that the mayor is right in his contention, and that the racks should be removed, but that before this Is done a public hitching place should be secured by the city. It has been suggested by sonic city officials that the vacant lot at Eleventh and Main streets would be a good location for a public hitching lot. This matter was agitated in council a few months ago, but was dropped. At one time a committee was appointed to confer with the county officials In regard to placing the hitch racks around the court house. Obstacles were thrown tn the way of tho councllmanic committee as soon as the matter was broached. Judge Fox declared that nothing like this could be done as long as he was on the Wayne circuit court bench. In speaking on this subject this morning, a prominent local man, proprietor of a horse shoeing forge said, the farmers were far from satisfied vita the present facilities for hitching. "There has to be some place for farmers to hitch," he said. "Farmers with whom I have talked say that they would be better satisfied if the city would purchase a lot near the center of the city and place hitching racks upon it. "As it is now we have not enough racks and should have more, but it is too dangerous to place more public racks on the streets." "Some farmers have hinted tnat if Richmond does not care enough for their trade to provide hitching racks they will go to other towns to do their trading." another man declared. Dec. 15 Only 7 More Shopping Days Before Xmas. Shop Early and In the Morning. Palladium circulation for , the week ending Dec 8, 7,318

Heads Probe of Dynamite Crimes

U. 3. District Atty. Charles INSIDE POLITICAL HISTORHELATED By Hoosiers in New York, Who Are Booming Fairbanks' Candidacy. (National News Association) WASHINGTAON, Dec. 15. Some of the reactionary Indiana Republicans who went from Washington and the national committee meeting to New Work to try to arouse a little interest in Wall street in Fairbanks as a dark horse candidate at the next national convention have been telling what purports to be inside history of Indiana politics at the last national convention. A New York morning newspaper quotes these Indiana men, without naming them, as follows: "These Indiana Republicans told an inside story of the preliminaries of the convention of 1908, when Taft was nominated. They challenged airy politician in Washington or elsewhere to dispute its accuracy. They declared that early In the spring of 1908 President Roosevelt sent for Harrv New then chairman of the national committee, and informed him that Senator Beveridge must be the temporary chairman of the national convention which was to nominate Taft; that Mr. New, replying to President Roosevelt said that as a Hoosier he certainly would like to favor a brother Hoosier like Beveridge, but that the matter must be laid before the subcommittee having that affair in charge. Immediately Mr. New returned to Chicago where the committee was engaged in the arrangements for the convention, and he had not been in Chicago 48 hours before a message arrived from Mr. Taft. with authority to state that Mr. Beveridge must not be the temporary chairman of the convention. Mr. New, said the Indianans yesterday, were in a quandry. Here was the president of the United States practically demanding the election of Beveridge and here was the candidate about to be named objecting to Beveridge. Mr. New, it was ascertained, laid the two propositions before the subcommittee, and it voted to leave the whole matter to Mr. New himself. He solved the problem by selecting Senator J. C. Burrows. The same visiting statesmen ' were given as authority for the statement that Beveridge had recently admitted to Roosevelt at Oyster Bay that he had lost control of the Indiana organization. They also predicted that New would be the national chairman of next year's campaign. GOVERNMENT BEGS FOR MORE WORKERS A marked lack of Interest among Richmond rople in governmental affairs is intimated in a letter just received by L. A. Handley, local secretary of the United States civil service commission, from the district secretary at Cincinnati, which asks that efforts be made by the local postal authorities to get more applicants for the position of first grade clerk in deperamental service outside of Washington, D. C. Local Secretary Handley reports that but four men have so far lined up as candidates for the office, a number considerably lower than in former years. Handley adds that the demand for men who have passed the examination in this class is apt to be heavy during 1912, and there will be a chance for many more than have appled, to secure positions in the government service

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W. Miller, Indianapolis HOUSE NOW AFTER THE MONEY TRUST Rules Committee Is Considering Favorable Report on a Probe. (National News Association) WASHINGTO, Dec. 15. The house took the trial of the Money trust today when the rules committee began a hearing of the Lindbergh resolution calling for an investigation of modern high finance. Rep. Lindbergh, a Republican insun gent, appeared before the committee in support of his charges that the Money trust is the most malicious of all trusts. The rules committee is thought to favor a report on the resolution, and Mr. Lindbergh says that he has sufficient votes in the house to adopt it and to secure a drastic inquiry into Wall street methods. The Minnesota member made sweeping charges against the Money trust. He declared that a congressional investigation would show that the finances of the entire country are dictated to practically by a little coterie in Wall street; that the banks, railroad and insurance companies are so entwined that those behind the Money trust can create a panic at any time. Some of the most powerful banks in the country, he declared, are under the thumbs of a few men in Wall street. Rep. Lindbergh is opposed to the Aldrich plan on revision. He believes that a reserve bank fund would put all the more power in the Money trust. An investigation of this trust, declared Mr. Lindbergh, would bring more sensations than any inquiry ever attempted by the house. BRITAIN'S INDIAN ARMY IS REVIEWED (National News Association) DELHI, India, Dec. 15. Great Britain's army in India passed in review through the gaily decorated streets of Delhi, the newly created capital of India to4ay. They passed for inspection before George V. the king-emperor of Engladd and Indian and between lines of 200,000 visitors and natives who looked on in awe on the lines of of scarlet and khaki. The scene was one to rival the gorgeousness of coronation day. Flags fluttered at the heads of the vast battalions and scores of brass bands poured forth martial music. Cheers from Britons and natives alike greeted the array of soldiers. It has been feared that the military display might result in a hostile action against the government as unrest has been growing for the past several years and this has later been augmented by the famine. PAYS BIG SHORTAGE Grant County Official Shy $11,900. (National News Association) MARION, Ind Dec. 15. Walter E. Neal, treasurer of Grant county from 1906 to 190S, found to be short in his accounts $11,900, by state board of accounts, has made good the shortage. Bad methods of keeping accounts and many instances of undercharges were

revealed. Neal admitted discrepancies i hours, 32 all night until 8 a. m. Friand requested permission to make res- j day. Temperature at 12:30 p. m. totitution before the report was filed. i day, 36. Barometer low and falling. When the first examination was Precipitation in last 24 hours, 1 inch, made a year ago the amount due from Direction and velocity of wind, nortbNeal was reported to be- only. $73. jeast, 3 miles per boor.

A BATTLE BETWEEN

MILITIA AND COPS NARROWLY AVERTED When the Denver Police For cibly Eject County Official from Office on the Order of the Mayor. GOVERNOR ORDERED OUT THE SOLDIERS But Troops Arrived on the Scene Too Late Ejected Official Had Incurred Anger of "Machine." (National News Association) DENVER, Dec. 15 A battle between the state militia and one hun dred armed policemen, plain clothesmen, detectives and "gun-toters" was narrowly averted at 1 o'clock this morning at the Denver county court house as a result of the forcible ejection from his office of County Assessor Henry J. Arnold, on order from Mayor Speer. Governor Shafroth, who had been appealed to for assistance by Assessor Arnold, had ordered Gen. Chase to mobolize the Denver companies of the state militia, ready to march to the court house under arms. Before these instructions could be cardied out the city hall and headed by the police with crowbars and ramming appliances had battered the doors of the assessor's office and had thrown Arnold and several of his deputies into the street. State Senator Hilts, who also occupies the office of election commissioner and henchman of Mayor Speer and acknowledged representative of the Denver "skyscraper trust," then took possession of the assessor's office. Hilts was appointed assessor by the board of supervisors at an adjourned session late last night. Hilts Sworn In. District Judge Riddle, another member of the Speer faction, was waiting in his chamber to swear in Hilts. Hilts and a dozen "gun-toters" then proceed ed to jthe court house where they encountered Arnold, who had been advised of the move against him. Arnold refused to surrender his office, and when Hilts learned that the gov ernor had ordered out the troops he summoned a big detachment of police and assaulted the office. Assessor Arnold today will begin legal action to recover his office. Both Arnold and Speer are Democrats, and the former was tamed for the office of county assessor by the Denver city hall machine, which Mayor Speer controls. After being elected Arnold refused to do the bidding of the machine. When the supreme court of Colorado recently decided that the consolidation of two years ago, combining the city and county government of Denver was legal, Arnold refused to give up his office and took the case to the courts, alleging his office was exempt from the consolidation order until his term expired. The enmity toward Arnold by the city hall machine reached its most bitter point yesterday when the assessor bluntly announced that unless he was ordered to do so by the court he would not extend the tax assessment from 1912 from fifteen to more than nineteen mills, on the ground that the city charter expressly forbade such an extension. GEO, SWAIN ESCAPED From Easthaven, but Recaptured. Was George Swain, formerly a sign painter, and who was declared to be insane by a commission of lunacy some time ago, escaped from the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane early this morning while the inmates of the institution were marching into the dining room for the "morning meal. Swain walked to the city and was taken into custody at Seventh and Main streets by Sheriff Steen and Patrolman We6tenberg. He made no attempt to resist the officers and was taken to the police headquarters. When an attendant at the hospital called at headquarters for Swain lie asked Swain why he ran away. "I just saw a good chance to get away so I didn't let the opportunity slip by," was the answer. THE WEATHER STATE Rain or snow tonight or Saturday in southern and central portions. LOCAL Rain or snow tonight. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Forecast for Richmond and vicinity, continued cool with rain or snow tonight and Saturday. Highest temperature in last 24 hours, 36 at noon Friday. Lowest temperature In last 21

WATER SUPPLY OF COUNTY DECREASES AT ALARMING RATE

Wayne County Like Other Sections of the State Facing Vital Question, Dr. T. H. Davis States. CITY OF RICHMOND IS WELL PROTECTED However. Mayor Will Send Local Delegation to State Water Conservation Meeting in February. A lowering of the ground water level in Indiana by about ten feet in the past half century, and a decrease in the available water supply, is given aS the cause for a campaign that is being undertaken by the Indiana Sanitary and Water supply association, a movement which was endorsed in an interview today by Dr. Henry Davis, city commissioner of health. Dr. Davis stated that since his com ing to this city fifty lears ago, there has been an alarming decrease in the Wayne county water supply, showing clearly the need for a conservative campaign, as planned by the state water supply association. From reports given by local authorities, many farmers in this community have recently had to lower their wells from twenty to fifty feet in order to supply their families and live stock, and in some cases even these deep wells have gone dry during protracted droughts. Richmond Fortunate. The city of Richmond itself is fortunate in this respect, owing to its situation in a deep valley, giving it water from all sides, according to Dr. Davis. The city has several springs that are still flowing well, which Dr. Davis says will protect Richmond for an indefinite time. The outlying districts here, however, are effected by the lowering water line as much as any district in the statae, and the situation already presents a serious problem for the agriculturists. A convention to find some remedy for the receding moisture is to be held in Indianapolis on the fifteenth and sixteenth of February, next year, under the management of the Indiana water supply association. Mayor Zimmerman will appoint the local delegates. BIG SUNDAY SCHOOL At St. Paul's Lutheran During 1911. Reports on financial condition and the attendance of St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday school were given Thursday evening at the meeting of the members, called also for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. The attendance report showed that the average attendance, so far had been 368 during 1911, and it is believed that when the December report is added, the showing will be even better. The enrollment includes as many men and boys as it does women and girls, a most unusual condition in Richmond Sunday schools. Financially the school is in excellent condition and much better than ever before. . The officers who will serve during the ensuing year include superintendent, Edward Hasemeier; assistant superintendent, Will Kienker; vice superintendent, Will Klute; secretary, Ed. Sweet; treasurer, Jesse Weichman; superintendent primary department, Anna Schultz; secretary primary department, John Klute; distributing librarians, Albert Erbse, C. Smith, Gilbert Horr, Frank Thayer, Harry Thonnan, Harry Denny, Will Niebuhr, Earl Allen, Thomas Selig, John Hanseman and circulating librarians, Lena Weisbrod, Elsie Thomas; orchestra, president Robert Weichman; director, Wilbur Hasemeier; pianist, Elizabeth Hasemeier;-cradle roll department, Mrs. C. Huber, Mrs. John Klute; Home Class department, Mrs. Henry Kettledorfer, Mrs. Henry Loehr and Mrs. Will Miller. TWO RICHMOND MEN JOIN THE CAVALRY Two Ricmond men enlisted in the United States cavalry yesterday at the local recruiting station. Frank Osmer, aged 21, passed the physical test easily, and was enrolled. Sergeant Steinbaugh, of Indianapolis, who was at one time head of the Richmond recruiting office, examined Osmer, and last night departed with the new recruit for the training school at Columbus, O. Russell Leonard, a colored lad of eighteen, also applied for a position in the cavalry, and was passed after completing the physical examinaUon given by Corporal Hern. Captain Ryan, the recently appointed head of this recruiting district, which includes Indiana, and parts of neighboring states, will pay bis first visit for insepction of the Richmond office next Monday. After yesterday's record. Corporal Hern says be probably will remain in this ciy after the first of the year. He is expecting several recruits from Cambridge City, within a few days-

MANY OFFICE MEN TO BE TRAIISFERRE

Big Reduction in Office Force of the Gaar, Scott & Company. Office men connected with the collection and bookkeeping departments of Gaar Scott and company have been ordered to La Porte, lnd. The present clerical force numbers about thirty-five men. Probably less than ten will remain at the local office of the company. In order to provide expenses for moving their household good and families from this city to La Porte, the company has agreed to increase the salary of each employ $5 a week for a period of eight weeKs. This means that each man who is transferred will receive $40 to meet his moving expenses. The system of paying off employes both in the office and in the shops has been changed. In the future every man will be paid by check, every two weeks. The second National bank will continue as the bunking establish ment of the local branch of the inerg ed threshing machine companies. Wheaton Tallant, who has been traffic manager of Gaar, Scott and company for several years, has been pro moted to traffic manager of the Gaar, Scott and company, and the Advance Thresher Machine company's branch es. His headquarters will be in La Porte. A Lost Opportunity. In an article purporting to come from official sources the La Porte Herald declares that the M. Uumely company purchased the Advance Thresher Machine company and the Gaar, Scott and company of this city instead of enlarging the La Porte plant because La Porte people would not build houses to accommodate additional employes that additions to the factory would require. The Herald asserts that when it became evident to the M. Rumely comfpany that La Porte people were not en terprising enough to benefit their city the other factories were purchased. The Herald states it has been officially announced by the company that the many offices of the company will be located at La Porte for the present at least. Later large branch offices may be located at Chicago, but there is no prospect that either Richmond or Battle Creek, Mich., will be the headquarters of the company. Office forces will be located in each of these ciUes, however. The reorganization of the La Porte office force has been started with the sales department. Six high salaried men, including S. S. Strattan of this city, and Harry Gilbert, will be connected with the department. The sales department will push the products of all three companies. The plants for the present will continue the manufacture of the old lines, but later each plant will specialize on the manufacture of certain products. JUROR'S ESCAPE MAY FREE DJU C, HYDE Accused Poisoner of Col. Swope, Once Convicted, Put in Jeopardy. (National New Association) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 15. In the various jugglings of the case against Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, charged with causing the death of Col. Thomas H. Swope with poisons, there is a strong possibility that the accused physician will go free without another trial. The question of being placed twice in jeopardy will unquestionably be raised by the attorneys for the de fense at the beginning of the next trial. Judge Porterfield in his statement in open court yesterday said that because of the mental condition of Har ry Waldron, the escaped juror, the defendant had not been placed in jeop ardy. Judge Porterfield held that Wal dron was insane at the time of his es cape and at the time of his return. But it now appears that the big issue in the jeopardy question which the defense will bring up at the beginning of the next trial may be be fore, will be whether or not Waldron is insane. Therefore as amazing as it may seem Dr. Hyde may go free on the unusual feature of a juror climbing through a hotel transom and escaping a duty which he had sworn to perform. WAS COMPELLED TO STEAL, NEGRO SAYS Charged with stealing one bushel of coal from the Pennsylvania railroad yards, Albert Ertell, a negro, pleaded for leniency when arraigned in police court Friday morning. He said that his mother was very sick , and he had no work, being forced to steal the coal as he was in dire circumstances. When asked if he would return the coal if the charge of petit larceny against him was dismissed, Ertwell eagerly answered that he would. The mayor withheld sentence upon this condition. Ertell was arrested by Lenna B. Cranor, special watchman in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad company, at ErtelTs home. 1326 North F street, last evening. The coal stolen was huJ at HmtaLln mwtm

IS ROOSEVELT STATES IN HIS EDITORIAL He Denounces "Apologists" of McNamaras as "Mere Inciters to Murder" in the Strongest Terms. PROCLAIMS BELIEF IN UNION WORKMEN Urges Wage-workers to See That Their Leaders Stand for Honesty and Obedience to the Laws. (National Newt Asaoclatlsn) NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Denouncing the "apologists" of the McNamaras as "mere inciters to murder and preachers of applied anarchy," Former President Theadore Roosevelt, in an editorial published in the current issue of The Outlook, declared: "The murders committed by men like the McNamaras, although nominally In the interest of organized labor, differ not one whtt in moral culpability from those committed by the Black Hand, or by any band of mere cutthroats, and are fraught with infinitely heavier menace to society." The editorial is under the heading "Murder Is Murder." In it the ex-President declares that all criminals, whether capitalists or laborers, should be punished as their crimes demand, and that their associates fellow capitalists or fellow laborers should not attempt to justify the acts." Advice to Workmen. Colonel Roosevelt, in the editorial, proclaims his belief In the American workingman and in organzed labor, but he urges the wageworkers to see that their leaders stand for honesty and obedience to the law, and to "set their faces like flint against any effort to identify the cause of organ- ' ized labor, directly or Indirectly, with any movement which In. any -shape or way benefits by commission or crimes of lawless and murderous violence." The article, which is brief but forceful, follows: "In May last, when the McNamaras bad just been arrested, and when, I regret to say, many men who posed either as leaders in the Socialiset party or as especial champions and representatives of the cause of labor were frantically denouncing the arrest and were endeavoring to cloud the issue of right and wrong by an appeal to class prejudice. I wrote in "The Outlook" an article entitled "Murder Is Murder." In that article I set forth what certainly seems the sufficiently obvious doctrine that heinous crime should be treated purely as crime, without regard to the political, social or business affiliations of the criminal; a doctrine which, however, obvious in theory, our country sorely needs to have put into active practice. Class Selfishness. "Not only laboring men, but business men, capitalists, have at times shown the worst form of class consciousness that of sinister and brutal class selfishness in standing by criminals simply because they were of their own class. This has been done by capitalists In the case of capitalists who have been guilty of brazen corruption, and by laborers in the case of labor leaders who have been guilty of murderous violence. The two offenses stand on a par from the FtandDoint of damage to the community. In San Francisco in one municipal contest the capitalists who desired to be free from all check on lawless violence struck hands and elected their ticket; and this proved in the end to be a lasting misfortune to San Francisco, to the cause of honest business, and to the cause of honest labor. "Since the startling outcome of the McNamara trial certain apologists of these men have made themselves conspicuous by asserting that these depraved criminals, who have on their seared souls the murder of so many innocent persons All of them laboring people, by the way are "victims." cr at worst "fanatics' who should receive sympathy because they were acting in what they regarded as a "war" on behalf of their class. The plea is monstrous in Its folly and its wickedness. It is preciselv the kind of a plea sometimes advanced on behalf of a crooked man of great wjealth caught bribing a legislature- that he has to do it to protect bis business. Dealing With Crimea, "We are not here dealing with any of the kinds of offenses incidental to the sudden and sweeping changes brought about by modern Industrial conditions Into which capital-' ists or labor men are sometime drawn without any very great cob ' - CoSliaied Ctt Ff TS

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