Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 124, 29 March 1912 — Page 1

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TARIFF IS THE SUBJECT OF

T. n TALK (Ex-President Stands for Protective Tariff, but for a Squarer Deal for Farmers and the Workmen. FARMERS MUST NOT BEAR WHOLE BURDEN And Prosperity Must Get Down Past the Office and Be Distributed Among the Wage Earners. (National Nowi Association) ALBERTLKA, Minn., March 29 Taking the tariff as his subject Col. Roosevelt spoke here today delivering the third set speech of his western trip. He called for a square deal for the farmer and wage worker, saying, "we believe this country is committed to the principles of the protected tariff, treated honestly as a principle and not as a bundle of preferences so that the benefits and burdens may be thoroughly and evenly distributed, and special privilege eliminated. We do not believe In any unwarranted profit for anybody, but we do believe in a standard of protection adequate to maintain the high standard of living maintained by American citizens. Tho prime need of any future revision of the schedules or in any future arrangement whatsoever affecting the tariff is to protect the interests of the farmers and wage earners. There must be no alteration of the tariff which compete the farmer to bear the whole burden. The welfare of the man who lives by tilling the soil is vital to the welfare of the nation, and everything that can strengthen him in his social and industrial life should be done. The American farmer Is willing to bear his fair hare of whatever is done, but, he tnust not be asked to do more. Tha Wag Earners. "In any manufacturing, or mining or similar interest the welfare of the workers should be the prime test of the working of the tariff. all our great industries, but unless the prosperity gets uown past me omce then it Is not the right kind of prosperity. In other words while the wage worker Is glad to have his employer get bis full share of the prosperity, yet in return the wage worker has the right to Insist, and we do insist for him, that a fair share of the prosperity gets down past the office to be distributed among the men who work with their hands." The ex-president quoted extensively from a speech he delivered at Sioux Falls on September 3,-1910. In this he said In part: : "It has been conclusively shown by 'experiments repeated again and again haf tha mai hnH a nt tariff mnlrlnir hv congress, which have obtained for many years, cannot from the very nature of the case bring really satisfacMaiiWfl With t)iA ttfaiiAii . tariff made by the same methods as its predecessor and that predecessor's predecessor, there Is great dissatisfaction. The people know that there are some things in it which are not right and therefore tend to suspect, as I think, more numerous things in it which are Tight " CORONER'S VERDICT Coroner Pierce has filed his verdict of the death of Christina Solomen. an Inmate of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, who died at that Institution, March 24. her body having been found on the floor of her room . by a night nurse. .The coroner states that from all Indications, death was due to apoplevy. The woman was admitted to the hospital November 28, 189. She suffered from epileptic dementia. HEAT PRICES SOAR Action of the Packing Trust Is Felt Here. Now meats are going up again. Packers have raised the prices of all kinds of meat in tho last few days, from a cent to three cents per pound, and the local meat men have been forced to raise their prices accordingly. Smoked meat which has been selling from 12 H to 25 cents per pound has been raised from 1 to 2 cents per pound. Beet Is least affected by the raise, going to about one cent more per pound. Pork bears the brunt of the burden f the Increase. Mam. himn nnil alt kinds of hog products have been raised about J cents on the pound. Succulent chops and other pork Varieties of ftppeute teasers, formerly selling about 3S cents per pound now sell at 18 cents.( Meat dealers state further raises are Slot expected but may be made, as the decision In the Chicago packing cases, upholding the packers in their fight gainst the Sherman Anti-trust law, is a clean cut victory for the meat trust. and that any time It chooses to raise the prices again the retail meat deal(rst follow suit.

Are in Gotham's Limelight

Thia photograph shows tho wife of the well known New York millionaire, leaving the court building after giving testimony in the Grand Jury investigation, now going on, into the charges that Foulke E. Brandt, a former valet of Mr. Schiff, was railroaded to the state penitentiary for thirty years for a crime which did not warrant a sentence of over 5 years. This was Mrs. Schiffs first, appearance in the case into which her name has been dragged in a most unpleasant manner by her husband's lawyers.

CARELESSNESS BY -PARENTS CHARGED School Physicians Find Several Bad Cases of Eye Trouble Recently. Negligence by parents of their children's health so appealing as to almost amount to criminality has been discovered in several of the schools of the city by the medical examiners appointed by the school board. The medical examiners have found cases where total blindness would result in a short time if prompt steps to effect cures are not taken. 1 Eight more children in the grade schools with eyes so badly affected that their condition was pitiful have been discovered and the cases referred to the parents with instructions to attend to the cases referred to the parents with instructions to attend to the cases immediately. Two were found in the Vaile school, three in the Whitewater school and three more in the Starr school. A good example of the difficulties under which some of the pupils have been laboring is shown by the experience of one small boy. His eyes were examined. They were found deficient. Glasses were recommended by a specialist to whom the lad was taken. He wore them, and for the first time sawpigeons in flight and saw the tops of building. The lad's entire life has been changed. Before he was unable to recognize a person on the opposite side of a street. Now his eyesight, aided with the spectacles, has improved to a wonderful extent. One girl, whose parents are well to do, and whose eyes were known by the pa rent 8 to be deficient, had never been in consultation with an eye specialist. Her case was discovered by the examiners. She will be supplied with glasses, and her study work is expected to show the effects of the proper treatment. One little girl in the public schools, whose ability as a student showed up well in comparison with the other students in oral work, failed and failed dismally in her written work. Her eyes were found to be deficient. Her errors in her school work were due to imperfect sight. Two girls at the Starr school were rescued from what in a short time would have been total blindness by the inspection which disclosed the fact that they were affected with shortsightedness. This affection of the eyes is progressive. It never gets better, except with treatment and glasses, and in a short time without attention the girls without a doubt would have been blind. One small boy with sore throat was ordered home Wednesday until he recovers. Several cases of aedenolds were discovered, and the recommendation made to the parents that the case be attended to promptly. A boy at Garfield who had a bad case of running ear, was examined, and the parents advised that his condition warranted immediate medical attention. The physicians state this malady which most people think is "outgrown." cannot be cured without attention. The total loss of hearing is likely to result. Immediate operation for aedenoids was advised in the case ot one small girl, whose hearing had been sadly impaired by Uie results of the growths.

SOLDIERS PROTECT A CORONER'S JURY Called Today at Rock Island to Investigate Riot Victims' Deaths.

(National News Association) ROCK ISLAND, 111., March 29. Company D, of the sixth regiment, 11,'fc: nois National Guard has been called to guard the coroner's jury called today to Investigate the killing of the men shot in the rioting here early In the week. Other soldiers maintained their patrol duties today and in many parts of the city the guard was strengthened as a result of a warning received by officers here that one hundred men, among them alleged dynamiters, were on their way here from Muscatine, Iowa, to make trouble. The name of the informant was withheld but the message itself was given out. It alleged that 100 rough characters took an early train for Rock Island bent on trouble. "I say several dynamiters leave here for Rock Island within the last fewhours," the message concludes. The warning received credence from the police here becapse of the fact that much of the trouble is blamed on thugs who do not live in Rock Island. It Is asserted that the heads of the mob that stormed the City Hall Tuesday night in the riot that resulted in the police firing a volley into the ranks of the mob, were from other river towns. Mayor Schriver in a state ment has asserted that these characters were encouraged to come to Rock Island to start trouble, and that it was the people .who brought them in that he was fighting. As a special precaution a guard of troops will be at the railroad stations and every one who arrives and is unable to give a satisfactory explanation of his reason for coming will be arrested. A REPLYJjjOUSER Roosevelt Men Broadside the La Follette Leader. (National News Association) CHICAGO. March 29. The controversy between the Roosevelt and La Follette men has been heightened here by a statemnt issued by a number of the Colonel's supporters who charge that Walter L. Houser, manager of the La Follette camp, who has attacked Roosevelt for entering the race, was one of the first to suggest that La Follette withdraw in favor of Roosevelt. According to the statement. Houser declared early last winter that the only way to keep the Progressive movement together was for the Wisconsin men to withdraw in favor of the Colonel. "Mr. Houser made no secret of his opinion that La Follette was out of the race and that Roosevelt was the only candidate that could advance the Progressive cause.". The statement was signed by Ames Pinchot, William Kent, Gifford Finchot, and - Medill McConnick. '

ft STUDENTS'

BIBLE STUDY E Religious Workers From Nearly All Over the Country and Canada Will Meet Here Next May. OVER TWO HUNDRED DELEGATES COMING Purpose of the Convention ,,Is to Promote Voluntary Bible Study by Students at the Colleges. Arrangements for the conference of professors of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, which is to be held in this city May 2 and 3, for the purpose of considering the student voluntary Bible study, are Bearing completion. A meeting of the committee which has this conference in charge was held at the Young Mens' Christian Association building this afternoon at which time Neil McMillan, of New York City, executive secretary of the student department of the inter national committee of the Y. M. C. A., j made a short address. The conference will bring to this city men who are in close touch with the religious life of the student, from ail sections of the United States and Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains, and from many foreign countries. It is expected that between 200 and 250 del egates will attend the conference. Members of Committee. Where the conference will be held and other details will be decided by the committee this afternoon. The committee is composed of representatives from the Earlham College faculty, the Y. M. C. A., the Ministerial association and the Commercial Club. President Robert L. Kelly, of Earlham is chairman of the committee. President Kelly with Prof. William O. Mendenhall and Prof. Elbert Russell represent the college on the committee; Will Romey, Howard Dill and Charles Jordan, the Commercial Club; Dr S. R. Lyons and the Rev E. G. .Howard, the Ministerial association; and Herbert S. Weed, J. M. Judson and E. M. Haas the Y. M. C. A. Among some of the subjects which will be discussed at the conference will be the significance of the voluntary religious life of students; religious readjustment and intellectual dif ficulties; the cardinal student temptations; the results of Bible study in the individual life, how the leaders can best be trained from week to week for leading their groups and the relation of the American student movement to the church. John Mott to Preside. John R. Mott, L. L. D., general secretary of the world's Christian student Federation will preside at the meeting. Other well known men in this work who will be here are Dean Shailer Matthews, of the University of Chicago; President Frank K. Sanders, of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas; and President S. C. Mitchell, of the University of South Carolina. In a statement made this morning Mr. McMillan declared that eighteen different countris and eighty different nations would be represented at the conference here. The morning and afternoon sessions will be open to delegates alone while the evening meetings will be open to all who desire to attend. The delegates will be selected by the state secre tares of college Y. M. C. A. or by the faculties of the largest universities in the country. The program announced today is as follows : I. Thursday Morning, May 2nd. The Function of Voluntary Bible Study. 1. Address: The Significance of the Voluntary Religious Life of Students. 2. Report of Bible Study Commission and Discussion: Factors Influencing the Religious. Life of Students. ' a. Previous Religious Training. b. Religious Readjustments and Intellectual Difficulties. c. Cardinal Student Temptations. 3. - Address and Discussion : What are the Respective Functions of Curriculum and Voluntary Bible Study. Thursday Afternoon, May 2nd. The Bible Class. Discussion: 1. What are Respective Advantages of the Lecture Class and the Small Discussional Group? 2. Which Type of Class will best promote the Voluntary Religious Life of Students? 3. Can Preliminary Preparations be expected or are the Groups for the Informal Exchange of Personal Religious and Ethical Experience? Bible Study and Texts. Report of Commission and Discussion: 1. What are the Frank Criticisms of the Present Student Movement texts? 2. What are the Essential Features of an Ideal Text Book for Voluntary Study? 3. What New Texts are Needed? Thursday Night, May 2nd. Addresses: The Result of Personal Bible Study. 1. In the Individual Life.

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News Nuggets

(National News Association) NEW YORK, March 29 Justices Steinert Salmon and Fleming, sitting in special sessions court have decided that the turkey-trot and other dances are legal and that the police have no right to interfere. POUGHKEEPSIE, X. Y., March 29 Because he interferred with the other deputy sheriffs who drank, William H. B. Obre, a temperance worker, has been removed by Sheriff Jobn E. Townsend. LYNN. Mass., March 29 When John C. Thompson, a wealthy young man of Lynn, and Miss Violet Wade of Chicago, went to the marriage license bureau for a license, the document was refused on "health grounds." Thompson's head had been injured some time ago. NEW YORK, March 29. The latest is an "art trust." According to a cablegram from Rome, where J. Pierpont Morgan is staying, the great financier is preparing to organize such a monopoly. NEW YORK, March . 29 After proposing a midnight supper Charles Gilbert Nichols, Jr., was married to Miss Mary Beatrice Miller several hours later. The couple had to hunt all night for a minister. DONORA, Pa., March 29. Ernest Fcrrine, of 203 Eighth street, has just died of nicotine poisoning. Friends say he smoked five boxes of cigarettes a day for ten years or 182,500 in all. NEW YORK, March 29. According to testimony given in a damage case against a physician in the supreme court a towel a yard long and foot wide with a red border was accidentally sewed up in Mrs. Mollie Myers after an operation in St. Vincent's hospital six years ago. THREATS ARE HEARB TODAY OF L (National Niws Association) SPRINGFIELD, Neb March 29. Threats of lynching were openly made at the coroner's inquest into the death of Roy Blunt, the young farmer seized as hostage by convicts Morley, Dowd and Crey. The inquest was held in the opera house. Blunt was killed in the battle between the sheriff's posse and the convicts. It is alleged that Chief of Police Briggs of South Omaha killed Blunt. The crowd threatened to lynch the man found responsible by the coroner for Blunt's death. More than one thousand farmers came to Springfield to attend the inquest. Briggs came to Springfield with eighteen of his friends, who were all heavily armed. These friends formed a circle about the police chief as he entered the opera house waiting to be summoned as a witness. The clothing worn by Blunt at the time of his death was brought in as an exhibit. Mrs. Blunt fainted and was carried from the room. The sight of the clothes so engaged the crowd that after a brief inj spection by the coroner's jury they i were removed from sight. There were audible mutterings throughout the room when the exhibit was held up for view. 110 PETITION FOR PAVIIIGJK STREET West Main Street Property Owners Again Ask for the Improvement. May.." Zimmerman stated this morn ing that in his belief Main street would within a year be paved from Fourth street to the east end of the Main street bridge, and from the bridge west to West Eighth street. Yesterday the paving of Main from Fifth to Eighth street was practically decided by twelve out of fourteen property owners asking for this improvement. The mayor hopes for a report on the ques tion of raising the C. & O. oridge soon. The officials of the company state that changes they intend to make in the tracks will make a raise from IS inches to two feet possible. This would render unnecessary the depression In j the street under the Main street i bridge. With the objectionable hole removed from the Main street it is believed all the property owners would consent to the paving of the street. Several residents of West Main street, who recently were successful la j defeating the proposed bricking of Main street from the bridge to Fifth street have approached the mayor, and asked him if it would be possible for another petition for paving the

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street .to be taken up. The mayor ans-1 checked after floors occupied by A. B. wered that it would and that the chan-j Brown, Wilson and Co., and Reuben ces for a successful passage of such aland Reuben had,; been burned. Dammeasure would be good. " ... - . , age was estimated at $125,009. t

WATSON AND STARR RECEIVED BODY BLOW AT CONNERSVILLE

MRUS IS FltiALLV GIVEHJIMCE Special Judge Engle Finds That the Couple Cannot Live Together. With the statenieut that he believed both could be happier if separated, than living under the conditions existing at their home for the past few months, Judge Engle, of the Randolph circuit court yesterday afternoon granted a divorce to Otis K. Karns from Minnie M. Karns in the Wayne circuit court. All of the testimony submitted to the court by the plaintiff's attorney was not concluded until about 5 o'clock. The defendant was not present in the court room and did not fight the action. This was Karns' second attempt to secure a divorce, Judge Fox having refused to grant a decree a few weeks ago during the first hearing of the case. Following the filing of the second complaint in the Wayne circuit court some time ago, a motion was made for a change of venue, which was granted and the case was taken to the Randolph circuit court. However, before the case was called at Winchester, the plaintiff asked that it be brought back to the Wayne circuit court. The plaintiff had a number of wit nesses to testify in his behalf. He based his complaint for divorce on the al legation that the defendant had charged him falsely with having intimate relations with other women. Karns is a railway mail clerk with headquarters at Indianapolis. He was in the service for a number of years in this city. The Karns' are well known here. Both are members of the Christian Science church. A large part of the testimony submitted was unprintable. HYDE T0BE TRIED Will Probably Be Arraigned in Gotham Monday. (National News Association! NEW YORK, March 29. Unless some new delay intervenes former City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde will be arraigned next Monday in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme court to stand trial for the part he is alleged to have played in the banking scandal that has involved the heads of the defunct Carnegie Trust Company, the Joseph G. Robin backing enterprises and the New York political machine. In the indictment returned against him the former City Chamberlain is charg ed with bribery in connection with the $500,000 larceny from the Carnegie Trust Company. Hyde will be the fourth, man of a coterie of prominent politicians, bank ers and promoters to face a jury on charges growing out of the failure of the Carnegie Trust Company and the collapse of the Robin banks. The former City Chamberlain was indicted chiefly pn the testimony of Joseph G. Robin, owner of a string of banks and industrial enterprises, who alleged that Hyde himself and William J. Cummins, convicted on a charge of embezzling $140,000 from the Carnegie Trust Company, met In Hyde's office in 1910, white Hyde was City Chamberlain Here they conferred with Joseph B. Rcichman, former president of the Carnegie Trust Company, convicted latr of making a false report to the State banking examiners, and, according to Robin, Hyde told him that if he would come through with a loan to the then tottering Carnegie Trust Company, he, Hyde, would see that the municipal deposits were increased in Robin's Northern Bank. If Robin had refused, according to his story, he was threatened with having the city money then in his bank withdrawn. The bank was in no condition to stand such withdrawals and he had to accede to Hyde's demands, Robin avers. Sentences iu the cases of both Robin and Cummins have been held up, and it is rumored that they are likely to turn State's evidences againat Hyde, hoping in this way to escape serving terms in prison. It is understood that Justice Vernon M. Davis, who presided over the trials of Cummins and Reichman, will preside over the Hyde trial. PANIC CAUSED BY LIGHTNING FLASH (National News Association) NEW YORK, March 29. One thousand men, women and children fled from their beds in a driving rain early today as the top of the six-story building at 514 West 45th street burst into flame, lighting up the vicinity with a glare which made it appear that a large area was burning. Three alarms were turned in In quick . succession, while the frantic residents of nearby tenements poured bm their homes in fright. A number, of women and children were trampled under foot but none was hurt seriously enough to he taken to a hospital. The fire ' was finally

THOUGHT THEY HAD

ENOUGH DELEGATES FOR TAFT VICTORY However, at the Eleventh Hour in the Convention Hall, Two Shelby Taft Delegates Did a Flop. CAMPBELL PLAYS A VERY FOXY TRICK At the Right Moment He Brings Out Two Roosevelt Votes He Had Buried A Wayne Man Flopped. The following is a statement drawn up and signed by the two delegates who will represent the Sixth Indiana district at the Republican national convention next June: "We, the undersigned delegates chosen at the Sixth district Republican convention, of Indiana, hereby pledge ourselves to vote for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for president as long as his name stands before the national convention. T. C. Bryson, Enos Porter." "I am going to take Harry Starr's advice, quit politics and take up religion. I would make just as much or a success In one field as the other," quoth Charles Hernly, general-ln-chief of the Henry county Taft forces, as he climbed aboard a train at Connersville yesterday, flaunting a "Teddy" badge from his coat lapel, following the rout of the Sixth district Taft army at the district convention, which was one of the most dramatic held In this state in years. ; - The election of two -Roosevelt dele gates to the national convention stunned the Taft men while the Roosevelt men who had entered the halt prepared for a licking were so surprised over the unexpected result that when the Taft men were defeated in their attempt to table the minority report of the credentials committee. Chairman Jackson's announcement was received without any great show of enthusiasm at first, but pandemonium reigned when the Teddy delegates and spectators finally realized that all the contested Roosevelt . delegates had been seated, which was driven Home , to them by Hernly's motion, made with as good grace as Charley could com- : mand at the time, that the adoption of the minority report be made unanimous and that the contested Taft men withdraw from the floor and give their seats to the contested Roosevelt men, thus giving the Colonel's followers absolute control of the convention. The motion prevailed. A Dramatic Incident. . The Taft defeat yesterday was due to the flop of two Shelby Taft votes' to Roosevelt at the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute while the smiling Taft leaders were preparing -'for harmony's sake", to permit balloting on the motion to reject the minority report of the credecjtials committee. The decision had been reached by the Taftites to give, the Roosevelt men a chance for their white alley. Rough work such as prevailed at the state convention would be too crude. Another dose of that bitter medicine might hopelessly wreck the . Republican party in the district. This charitable action was decided on at an early hour in the morning, when the Taft men reached the unanimous verdict that they had safely in their pockets 53 votes against 62 Roosevelt votes, enough for them to control the convention. So at 1:30 in the afternoon they filed into the convention hail radiating cheerfulness. " - - f - ' That Meredith Proxy. Judge Ed Jackson, by grace of the blank proxy which District Chairman Linus Meredith had sent to Harry etarr and bis able lieutenant, Jim Watson, took possession of the chairmanship, firmly grasped the gavel. calling the delegates to order awhile he burled a smile in the general direction of George Morris of New Castle, who from a box, was frantically making a motion that "we have a little (Continued on Page Tea.) THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair and colder. Saturday fair. " HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity;:: Colder tonight and Saturday. Maximum temperature, 46 at noon yester day. Minimum - temperature, 38 at noon Friday. noon Friday, Temperature at 11:2038, Barometer, 29.7 rising. Direction jand Rainfall since yesterday, 1 inch. -