Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 53, 6 January 1912 — Page 1

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VOI XXXVII. NO. S3. RICHMOND, IN'D., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

-fHESDEDT THII1KS HE IL1S CHAUCE TO OEFERUOOSEVELT fraft Is Talking with Unusual . Frankness to His Political Callers at the White House These Days.

"Queen" Circus Elephant Killed With Poison ARMY WAITS WORD FROM WASHINGTON TO MOVE TO CHINA MANY DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE TO COLD REPORTED 111 U S. LA FOLLETTE IS PROMISED

NEEDLESS ATTACKS UPON THE COLONEL

Made by Some of the Administration Officials Has Worried Ta ft Breach Today Is Very Wide. (Palladium Special.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. President Taft la talking with unusual frankness to political callers these days about his personal relations with Col. Roosevelt. The President believes he can defeat Roosevelt for the nomination. He has a hope inspired by what secretaries Meyer and Stimson of his cabinet and Senator Crane have told him, that Roosevelt will yet declare himself out of the race, but the Roosevelt backers on "ca'pital hill" feel otherwise. They claim to have had assurances from the Colonel before they started in to organise that if the Republicans of the country desired Roosevelt and felt he was the only man who could be elected, he would not decline to run. But Roosevelt is reported to have said frankly be did not desire to be a candidate. President Taft acknowledges his political obligations to Roosevelt. lie says he tried to express bis appreciation of bis predecessor's political favor once, in a way that he believed it would be appreciated. It was when the Colonel was preparing to sail for Africa. An Unfortunate Note. In the note which the' president sent by Major Archibald W. Rutt, his mili tary aide, who aerved In a like capa- , city with Roosevelt, the president aald in substance: "I owe more to Charles P. Taft 'and yon than to any two other men alive." Colonel Roosevelt read it just before shipping for Africa but the effect was far from satisfactory to Major Rutt. Roosevelt's brow clouded with anger. "So he puts money above brains" snapped Mr. Taft's predecessor by way of showing his disproval of the fact that the president mentioned C. P. Taft ahead of Roosevelt In his notice. In relating the incident yesterday president Taft said "I thought I was paying him the greatest compliment by putting him In a class with my brother." If the note had stood alone Roosevelt would not have been offended. At the time he received it he was displeased over other things. He felt Taft should have Invited Loeb to the cabinet. Loeb expected it. Roosevelt conslstenly declined to ask Taft for anything. He Is reported to have said that he felt the president did not need to be reminded of his obligations, both to Roosevelt and Loeb. When urged to name Loeb for the cabinet Taft told people that be intended to make his own cabinet and divorce his administration from every appearance of being under Roosevelt's domination. This was the only explanation he ever gave for not appointing Loeb. Furthermore, the president surrounded himself as soon as he was elected by a band of "reactionary Republicans." headed by Knox and Crane, men who bad fought Roosevelt hardest in his efforts to nominate and elect Taft. So that the note handed to Col. Roosevelt by Major Butt on the eve of his departure for Africa was only one link In a chain of circumstances that was weighing upon Col. Roosevek. More recently the president's official advisers went out of their way to attack Roosevelt needlessly, on account of his approval as president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption by the United States Steel corporation. This was done in the petition llled In the federal court at Trenton, N. J., by the attorney general and special counsel, and ex-secretary Dickinson appeared on the brief. The president explains this by saying that he knew nothing of it. It Is said for him that when he heard of It he sent for Dickinson to come to Chicago, and rebuked him for it. and that he condemned Wlckersham so unsparingly for It that the attorney general took ill v and Is now recuperating, but It Is acted that the petition has not been mended by striking out the offensive language directed at Roosevelt. The particularly Inviting thing about the Steel trust petition is that the attack OB Roosevelt seemed studied. It was ov a necessary averment In the petition. Lawyers like Senator Root denounced the petition as a "stump cpeech. Y,Day after day these delicate questions affecting the relations of the President to bis predecessor are being ' thrashed out at the White House in the eahbaet and on -eaaltol tin.

DEMOCRACY CHIEFS FLOCK JOCAPITAL National Committee Will Be in Session for at Least Three Days. Katlonal Ntws Association) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. National figures in Democratic politics are arriving here hourly for the session of the National Democratic committee, which, when it meets Monday, will find sufficient business to occupy its members for two or three days. Chairman Norman E. Mack, Herman Ritter, Treasurer and Secretary Ora Woodson all believe that the Tennessee and Pennsylvania contests cannot be settled in less time than this. Then there is a presidential primary ques tion to be disposed of as well as a selection of a convention city. Headquarters were opened today by boomers for St. Louis, who are here a hundred strong, also Baltimore and New York. William F. McCombs . the chief Woodrow Wilson boomer, reached Washington today, and established headquarters in the New Willard, where the clans are gathering in advance of the meeting of the committee. McCoombs is most optimistic when talking of the chances of the Princetonian to land the presidential nomination. McCombs said Governor Wilson will reach Washington Monday morning. Wilson headquarters in New York have been receiving the most encouraging reports from all over the country. These reports indicate that Gov. Wilson stands an excellent show of going into the convention with the necessary two-thirds vote. With no idea of compromise John J. Verterees of Nashville, one of the contestants for the Tennessee seat in the national committee, arrived here today. With him are Nathan Baxter, Jr., speaker of the state senate, former Governor McMillan, and Major W. O. Verterees, chairman of the state Democratic committee. Senator Taylor of Tennessee, conducting the fight of Veterees against R. E. Mountcastle, the other claimant, confered with the they arrived here. TO GIVE CONCERT TO HELP CHARITY Mrs. Grace Porterfield Polk, of Indianapolis, will give a recital at the Gennett on Thursday evening, January 25th, for the benefit of the Associated Charities of this city. Mrs. Polk will bring with her Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGibney. who will assist her and who are both well known as musicians and platform entertainers. This concert for the benefit of one of this city's most benelcent institutions should be patronized by all interested in the welfare of thet own's chariUes, as all the proceeds, after the expenses, will go to the Associated Charities. ADMITS NEW MEXICO AS A STATE TODAY (National New Association) WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. Norman Mack, chairman of the Democratic national ' committee, visited with President Taft a few minutes this morning. He facetiously notified the big executive that a Democrat would occupy the White House beginning March 4. 1913.

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ACCUSED MINISTER ADMITS HIS CRIME Rev. Richeson Signs a Confession that He Poisoned Avis Linnell. (National News "Association -BOSTON, Jan. 6. The Rev. C. T. V. Richeson today confessed that he killed Miss Avis Linnell, the Hyannis choir singer, for whose murder he was to have been placed on trial here, January 15. The conlession was made public by Richeson's counsel shortly after one o'clock today. The confession itself was made by Richeson to William A. Morse, one of his attorneys, on January 3, in the cell which the pastor occupies. Richeson admits his guilt of the charge made against him in the indictment, that he killed Avis Linnell by giving her cyanide of potassium, and says that he makes a clean breast of the matter in the hope that "God, who knows all, will protetc me." The confession follows: . "Deeply penitent for my sins, and honestly desiring as far as in my power lies to make atonement, I hereby confess that I am guilty of the offense I stand indicted for. 1 am moved to this course by no inducement of self benefit or leniency. Hienious as is my crime, God has not wholly abandoned me, and my conscience and manhood, however depraved and blighted, will not admit of myself further wronging, by trial, her pure young life I have destroyed. Under the lashings of remorse I have suffered and am suffering, the tortures of the damned. In this I find a measure of comfort. In my mental anguish I recognize that there is still, in the mercy of the Master, some remnants of the divine spark of goodness lingering in me. I can wish only to live because within some prison wall I might in small measure redeem my sinful past to help some other despairing soul and at last find favor with my God. You are instructed to deliver this to the district attorney or tb the judge of the court." TO THE PEOPLE OF RICHMOND All arrangements have been completed for the La Follette meeting at the Coliseum tonight, and a long distance telephone message this morning from La Follette stated that he recovered from his recent temporary illness and would resume his speaking tour, arriving in Richmond at 7:45 tonight over the Pennsylvania Railroad. The committee has arranged to have the doors of the Coliseum open at 6:30 and as the hall is heated by steam, the committee and the Coliseum management assure the public that there will be no discomfort from the cold. The comfort of the people will be the first consideration of the committee. ALFRED BAVIS, Secretary. Saturday Horning January 6th, 1912.

WILL HARNESS THE WIND, SAYS EDISON

Declares Some Inventor Will Put Old Boreas to Some Practical Use. (National News Association) CHICAGO. Jan. 6. "I wouldn't be surprised if some inventor would come along some of these days with a sure method for taming old Boreas," said Thomas A. Edison as he shivered with the coldest day Chicago has known for sixteen years. Today he hurried back to Menle Park, N. J., to continue his experiments. "I have 4,000 men there now and I must hurry back and get on my job," he said. Edison's visit is the first he has made in Chicago since 1893. He was entertained at a dinner especially arranged for him at the Congress Hotel. "It pays to be a live wire. All the dead ones are made up into door mats" he said. "Don't worry over the loss of money, it plays a very small part in our lives. I've made a couple of millions several times and lost it." The inventor didn't like the dirt in the loop district. "How dirty," he commented. "Chicago is an unprepossessing place to look at, but a good place in which to do business." BURNS SPRING COUP Hi KIDNAPPING CASE Scene of Trial Is Cleverly Changed from Circuit to Federal Court. (Vatlonal News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 6. The Federal surety company today revoked its $10,000 bond and surrendered detective William J. Burns to Judge Markey of the criminal court where he is under an indictment charging he kidnapped J. J. McNamara. Judge Markey formally remanded Burns to jail, turned him over to the sheriff who by courtesy, accompanied Burns to the federal court where a writ of habeas corpus was asked. The federal court issued the writ of habeas corpus in favor of the detective, ordering Burns to return next Thursday for a hearing. Burns was released on $1,000 personal bond. He declared in an interview his indictment had been purchased, but declined to indicate who was responsible. Today's proceedings were instigated by Burns himself to get from under the state indictment, claiming J. J. McXamara was removed under a federal statute. Judge Anderson undoubtedly will uphold the habeas corpus wri, thus ending the kidnapping case. MACK SPRUNG JOKE ON THE PRESIDENT C National Newi Association) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. The President signed a, proclamation this .afternoon admitting- New Mexico to statehood.

Fifteen Regiments Ready to Embark on a Transport Which Is Under Full Steam at Manila.

BELIEF IS GENERAL U. S.WILL INTERVENE Chinese Rebels Begin Pekin Campaign New Republic Says the Manchus Caused Peace Failure. (National News Association) MANILA, Jan. 6. Fifteen regiments of United States infantry are ready to sail for China on a moment's notice from the war department. The transport Thomas has stea up waiting a flash order. Intense excitement prevails in official and army circles here over the news from China and the belief is general that intervention by the United States is imminent. LAUNCH CAMPAIGN. NANKING, Jan. 6. The movement of rebel troops northward fron the Yang-tse valley was started today. General Hsu, chief of staff of the Republican army, would not say definitely that this was the beginning of the march on the capital. However, gen eral opinion was that the Fekin campaign had begun. The soldiers were equipped for active service, being well supplied with ammunition and provisions. The entire revolutionary force in the environs of Nanking is estimated to be, about 8,000. Word is received here from a number of points that heavy reinforcements are coming from the south. The revolutionary generals have a large force of Chinese artisans constructing railroad cars to be used in the transportation of provisions, ammunition, artillery and horses. Public sentiment, in the end, will probably determine whether or not an attack shall be made upon Pekin. When the march north is fully under way, the rebel generals ' will " call upon the people at large for volunteers. If the revolutionary sentiment spreads and Chinese flock to the revolutionary standard it will be a determining factor in favor of an attacK. TO FORCE RECOGNITION. SHANGHAI, Jan. 6 The new Republic of China has taken the initiative and will attempt to force the foreign powers to recognize its existence. Through Dr. Wu Ting-fang, attorneygeneral in he provisional cabinet, the republican government has entered into negotiations with the foreign legations in Pekin in an attempt to convince the foreign powers that Premier Yuan Shi Kai and not the revolutionaries was responsible for the failure of the Shanghai peace parley. On the other hand Premier Yuan has turned over all the correspondence which passed between himself and the revolutionary leaders relative to the peace confrence to the representatives of the foreign government to allow them to judge for themselves where responsibility for the failure rests. BOY ENLISTS HERE UNDER FALSE NAME Friend of a Man Whose Name Was Used, Makes Written Protest. That the Richmond recruiting station was the victim of a man who enlisted in the United States cavalry under a pseudonym, was given out this morning by the receipt of a letter to Corporal William Hern, head of the local office. Three months ago, a man, formerly an inmate of an orphan's, home in Cincinnati, enlisted here under the name of Will Willis, of Kitcbell. He passed the tests well, and after serving a few weeks in the training school at Columbus, Ohio, was enrolled in the cavalry. Quite a little commotion was stirred up at the time, as his foster parents objected to his enlisting. Today a letter from H. Freeman, of liberty, states that the real Will Willis of Kitchell, is in Texas and "never had a desire to get Into Uncle Sam's clutches." and will be here next spring. When asked what action he would take in the matter. Corporal Hern responded that "pseudo-Willis" was making good in the army, and that no attempt would be made to learn his real name or prosecute him, unless he failed to keep up bis work. Following is the letter: "The report that Will Willis of Kitchell had enlisted in the regular army is unfounded. It was given circulation through another young man of Liberty giving a similar name whet he enlisted. Mr. Willis is still in the real estate business in Texas, witL no desire of getting into the clutches of Uncle Sam. He will retain, however, in the spring to take charge of his farm near Kitchell. H.

Suffering Among the Poorer Classes Fills Morgues and Hospitals with Dead and Frostbitten.

TOLL IN CHICAGO, SIX; IN GOTHAM, ONE Coldest Spell in Many Years Is General Report Atlantic Coast Fishermen Lost and Thought Dead. (National News .Association) NEW YORK. Jan. 6. With the mer cury steadily dropping towards the zero mar the cold wave in New York claimed its first victims today. The lowest point reached by the mercury during the morning was six above zero at 7 o'clock. William Donovon of 5814 Second avenue, Brooklyn, staggered into a drugstore at Lexington and Franklin avenues and fell exhausted. An ambulance was summoned by Donovan was dead before it arrived. Physicians I said be had died from exposure. The bitter cold which caught the city almost unprepared, is causing intense suffering among the poor. Municipal' shelter houses are overcrowd ed. So great became the applications for quarters early today that the charity dock was thrown open. Supt Park of the municipal lodging house declared that 1, 066 persons had been sheltered there last night, but that he looked for still a larger number tonight. Among those cared for last night were 250 women and four children. SIX ARE DEAD. CHICAGO, Jan. 6. About fifteen degrees below zero today. Fair and continued cold. 'This was , the best government weather forecaster Cox could promise Chicago today, the sixth day in the almost unprecedented icy wave, which in the 24 hours just passed has claimed a toll of six lives. This was to be the coldest day since Feb. 13, 1905, when a temperature of 18 below was recorded, the forecaster said. In anticipation of an increased demand upon them every lodging house and charitable institution made plans for enlarging their overcrowded buildings. Many of the hundreds who stormed the county agents and the associated charities distribution stations early in the day had been sitting up all night in their homes, fearing that if they went to sleep they would freeze to death. The slight rise in temperature just after midnight was short lived. Toward dawn the mercury fell to 12 degrees below zero. Death as a result of the cold came to these persons: Hilda Langley, 5 years old, died of fractured skull from slippy, icy pavement. John Connelly, 53, pneumonia, due to exposure. Arthur Sheets, five days old, smothered to death by blanket. Joseph Richard, 45 years old, exposure. D. Gordon, 29, exposure. Arthur Wilthire, 44, heart disease superinduced by cold. Scores of other appealed to the police and charity organizations for medical aid and other relief. 22 BELOW AT ROME. ROME, N. Y., Jan. 6. Thermometers registered 22 below zero at 8 a. m. here today. FISHING CRAFTS LOST. BOSTON, Jan. 6. Boston had the coldest day of the winUtr today. The cold wave hit all New England. The thermometer registered 10 below here. The coast was swept by a fifty-mile blizard and many craft were caught helpless. Six fishermen were rescued from their fishing boats near the Highland light by lifesavers from the Race Point and Peaked Hill stations. Search is being made today for two other craft, each confining two fishermen, believed to have been caught in the teeth of the blizzard. The two-masted schooner Hattie Nelson was driven ashore on Deer island. The tide waa going out and the crew escaped to land without aid. For seven hours today a Maine Central passenger train, with about 20 passengers on board floundered through snowdrifts, many of them 15 (Continued on Page Eight). THE WEATHER STATE Probably heavy snow this afternoon; colder tonight in east and south " portion. Sunday fair and colder in extreme south portion. " LOCAL Heavy snow this afternoon and tonight. Continued cold tonight and Sunday. Fair and cefd-

Progressive Leader Will Arrive Here This Evening at 7:40 and Will Speak at the Coliseum. BOTH A WARM HALL AND WARM GREETING Progressive Organization of Shopmen Have Completed Every Arrangement To Leave at Midnight. Senator Robert La Follette will be In Richmond toni&ht and will speak at the Coliseum. He will be on the Pennsylvania train leaving Indianapolis at 6:05. and scheduled to arrive in Richmond at 7:40. La Follette will leave Richmond at 12:30, enroute to Washington. This leaves the Senator five hours here and will positively as sure his speaking in Richmond. Secretary A. Bavia of the Hoosier State Progerssive league this noon received a telegram from Mfdiil McCormick, the progressive owner of the Chicago Tribune, who is traveling with La Follette, juBt before the reception committee of the progressives left for Indianapolis to meet La Follette. This telegram announced the schedule, of the La Follette party. Walter Clyde Jones, progressive candidate for governor in Illinois, Is, accompanying Senator La Follette, and will probably make a few remarks before the senator speaks. , The committee in charge of the meeting has been particularly Interested In the .weather bnmo, quite as much aa in the telegram from the progressives. They are determined that the Coliseum shall be comfortable tonight and have kept members of the league in the hall all day watching the thermometer. Is Heated by Steam. The building is heated by steam, and last night the stesm had to be turned off in order to make It comfortably cool for the spectators of the basket ball game. The extreme cold will probably keep away many farmers who had planned to come, and who have been communicating with the committee but it won't keep them all away as several telephone messages have come in from outlying parts of the county today saying, Til be there! 1 certainly want to hear that man La Follette." Whether the exchange of a warmer temperature with snow is better than a cold temperature without It is hard to estimate. Cold Makea No Difference. It apparently doesn't make very much difference to one farmer who is coming from the southern boundary of Preble county, who has to drive six miles and a half before be can catch a train to bring him thirty miles. It is rumored that some of the men prominent in Republican affairs at the state capital will meet La Follette in Indianapolis and perhaps come oversome of them incognito, wishing to see the state of progressive feeling in Richmond. The meeting promises to be somewhat of a novelty in that it has been handled by men who have hitherto been forced into the back seats in party affairs, and expected to hold their hands until election day. No Music But Heat. 'I guess the shop fellows can get along without any band tonight, since they are paying the expenses of the meeting themselves, and since we know where the money for good many bands has come from. And if there isn't any speaking but La Follette why he's the man they want to hear," was the way that one committeeman expressed bis Idea of the arrangements. "We may not have any music but we are certainly going to have it warm and heat goes a lot farther than music this kind of weather. The meeting of the committee last night developed the belief that people in Richmond are going to act somewhat as they did in the Ohio towns, where the weather was against La Follette. In Toledo there were thousand of people turned away In the bitter cold wnlcn swept off the lake. John Diets, A. Bavis, J. A. Reid and D. R. Mikesell left at noon to meet La Follette in Indianapolis, and will have charge of him until he leaves tonight. They will try to provide a chance for the progressives here to meet Senator La Follette and his party immediately following the speech, as has been done uk man yuKva, wuciv arc it wrv h come enthusiastic over him. This wfll be done if Lav Follette la sot too exhausted after his attack of ptoaal ne poisoning and his falL Ja wkieh ho injured his leg alighting from the car