Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 190, 14 June 1912 — Page 1

RIC1MOM) FA ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 190. RICII3IOXD, IND., FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 14, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. FORTY - Leave Alma Mater to Battle With the World BAND WAGON WINS

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t)f This Number Who Will Receive Degrees Next Wednesday, Fifteen Are Residents of City. 1NUMBER OF EVENTS UPON THE PROGRAM Dr. Paul Shorey of University of Chicago Has Been Secured to Deliver the Class Address. Of the forty-nine students of Earllliara college upon whom degrees will be conferred next Wednesday fifteen 'claim Richmond as their place of residence. The other members of the graduating class reside in other cities in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Missouri and Washington, D. C. With the annual music recital this evening at 8 o'clock at the college chapel, the commencement week really begins. Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the Phoenix and Ionian societies will present "Lady of Lyons," by Bulwer Lytton at the chapel. Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock Professor David Worth Dennis will deliver the address at the baccalaureate service. At 8 o'clock Sunday evening the Christian association of the college will hold a public meeting, the address to be delivered by Frank Cornell, pastor of the Friends church at Winchester. This meeting is to be held at Earlham Hall. Trustees Will Meet. - The board of trustees will meet at 1:80 o'clock Monday afternoon. As far as known nothing of any particular imjortance will be done at this meeting. From 2:30 to 7 o'clock the commencement drive will be held, and at 8 o'clock Monday evening the Madrigal Club will present a Chinese Operetta, "The Feast of the Little Lanterns" on the Chase out-door stage.. v The second meeting of the board of - trustees -will be held -Tuesday afternoon.: The Alumni banquet is to be It Id at 12:30 o'clock , Tuesday afternoon at which Dr. Erastus Test, head c-t the mathematical department of Purdue University, will be present. Prof. Test today sent a telegram to President Kelly stating that he would accept the invitation to be present and to deliver a short talk upon the days . when Earlham college was but a small loarding school. Dr. Test is the oldest member of the Alumni association of Earlham college. His address upon the early days of the college is expected to be highly Interesting. Tuesday Class Day. . The annual meeting of the Alumni essociation is to be held Tuesday afternoon. Class day exercises will be held at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening followed by the Ivy ceremony and the presentation of "King Rene's Daughter" upon the out-door stage. At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning the commencement exercises will befiin. Dr. Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago will deliver the class address. Following this the degree will l)e conferred upon the graduates. President Kelly today stated that the class of 1912 is about as large as those of preceding years. He is well pleased with the work done by the graduates during their work at the college. In addition to the forty-nine . graduates two members of the 1911 class will be given the degree of Master of Arts. They are Frank R. Elliott of this city and J. Philip Bruner of Greenfield. The list of graduates, the course in .ivbich they specialized and their place of residence is appended: i List of Seniors. Sarah Addington, English, Richmond, Mark Baldwin, geology, Fair.jnount, Gertrude Mary Bartel, German, Richmond, Lois Lillian Brown, English raoli, FaulH. Brown, physics, SpiceJand, William Ernest Cary, chemical and Biol., Ganesvoort, N. Y., Dudley . Artemus Cox. physics, Indianapolis, Clifford Charles Cook Crump, mathematics, Greensfork. Roy Benton Davis, chemistry, Maitland, Mo., Ida L. LeLong. English. Sandy Hill, N. Y., Benjamin H. Deuker, mathematics, Richmond,.: Edith Anne Edwards, German, 'Indianapolis, Homer J. Furnas, chemisrtry, Indianapolis, J. Lemoyne Gilbert, geology and Biol., Wabash, Albert .(Richardson Hall, Bible, Paoli; John (Hancock, geology, Falrmount, Margaret Hardin, Latin, Knightstown, Sabina lLucile Hutton, mathematics, Loganstport, Agnes James, Latin, Richmond, Elihu E. Jenkins, English, Sapulpa, Okla., Rowena Pearl Johnson, German, Vermillion Grove, 111., Donald Bond Johnson, German, Richmond, T. Elsa W. Jones, English, Fairmount, Henry (Continued on Last Page) When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 2556.

The high school graduating clasp of 1912, held its commencement exercises at the Coliseum last evening before an audience composed of 2,50i friends and relatives .of the class members. The graduates and orchestra were placed upon a raised platform at the west end of the hall, beneath a panoply of American flags. The seventy-three graduates after an excellent program, received their diplomas, tied in ribbons of the school colors, red and white. Dr. Charles Keyes, of New York, gave the principal address of the evening, dwelling at great length on the values of a high school education for fitting the graduate for life's struggle and pleading for a more general recognition of the values of a high school education. The program opened with a selection by the high school orchestra, followed by Dr. Keyes' address. A piano solo by Miss Ruth Hadley followed. Principal Neff introduced the class of 1912, and State Superintendent of Instruction Greathouse presented the diplomas.

A SILENT TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN FUG Richmond Celebrates Old Glory's Birthday by Displaying the Flag. Flag Day was observed generally in this city today. Old Glory could be seen floating on the breezes in front of every public building and in front of a large number of business houses and residences. i'esterday afternoon the Women's Relief Corps of the Sol Meredith Post G. A.R., observed the day in an appropriate manner. Patriotic selections were sung, a brief history of the flag was read and several interesting addresses given by members of the corps. Today is the one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday of the flag. On June 14, 1777, the stars and stripes were adopted as the national symbol. However, not until June 14, 1909, did Congress formally recognize the day and then it became a time set apart .for the special reverence of the flag. According to history the- National symbol was first unfurled from old Fort Stanwix, in the state of New York, on the second of August, 1777. It was first carried in battle September 11 in the same year and a little later, John Paul Jones in the ship ' Danger, bore it into the ports of ! France and gave it introduction to foreign countries. A BIG ATTENDANCE AT THEC0NVENTI0N Is to Be Urged on Pupils of City and County Sunday Schools, Sunday. Five hundred delegates from the Sunday schools of this city are desired tor the state convention, which meets in this city, June 26-27-28. To this end, a special meeting of the Sunday school superintendents of the city will be iheld this evening at the Y. M. C. A. I Steps will be taken this evening to present this matter before the Sunday schools of the city next Sunday. To arouse enthusiasm for the state .. convention, a new departure in this f line of work will be made Sunday, June 25. Eight automobiles loaded with forty speakers will leave this city on that date and make a tour of the county, leaving a speaker at each Sunday school. These speakers will urge a large attendance at the convention and the necessity of a compact organization to carry on the work of the Sunday schools. All the pulpits in the city on this date will be filled with men who will make a special effort to arouse enthusiasm on this subject. The arrangements committee for the convention, chairman Kd Hasemeier, is working hard to make full and complete preparations for a large attendance here and want at least 1.000 delegates from the eounry to the stale convention.

MISTREATS HORSE GETSSTIFF FINE Sidney Smith, Colored, Fined $25 and Given Ten Days in County Jail. Sidney Smith, colored, charged with cruelty to animals was given a ine of $25 and costs and ten days in jail this morning in police court. He was charged with hiring a horse and rig at the Shurley livery barn yesterday at 12:20 end driving the horse continuously until 9:20 last evening without giving the animal food or drink. The horse and outfit were taken in charge by the owner at that time. The outfit was found in an alley back of a saloon in the business district. Smith was arrested shortly afterward. Smith hired the outfit, as he said, "to drive three miles into the country end back," promising to be Dack at 5:30. but he did not return at that

time. When the horse was located by Jerome Shurley, its owner, a white woman occupied the rig. Shurley took hold of the bridle and lead the horse back to the barn, the woman protesting against this action. Her name could not be ascertained She left the barn as soon as the horse was taken from the shaft s and has not been seen since. At the barn the horse was found to be in bad condition, showing the effects of hard driving with no food or water. The stableman who hired out the horse stated the animal could not be used today because of its weakened condition. Smith plead not guilty. Shurley stated while on the witness chair that the practice of some people hiring horses from livery men and then abusing the animals should be stopped and stated he was willing to. go the limit to find cut what could be done with this class of offenders. The fine of $25 and costs was then given with ten days jail sentence added. The jail sentence, if the fine is not paid, will be 36 days. The police state this class of offenaers will be vigorously prosecuted if they are caught. Much complaint has been registered about the cruel driving some livery horses are subjected to by irresponsible parties. The mayor stated he would "handle" them when brought before him on this kind of a' charge. ASSAULT CHARGE Leonard Treep, alleged to have beaten hiS wife' May fifth' was arraiened on the charge of assault and battery ... . . ,. . . . .. (this morning in police court, but his j triai was continued until tomorrow until witnesses can be secured. It is alleged Treep after beating his wife, left her. she going to her parents on South Second street, and he living at his home. Recently, it is stated, he i has annoyed his wife by trying to see his children, this finally causing his arrest- He is out on bond. THE WEATHER STATE Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday; warmer in extreme north portion. LOCAL Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday; not much

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CAN TEACHSCH00L Township Trustee Howarth Hands an Uppercut to Mr. Dan Cupid. - -- Married women, or those intending to get married during the year, will not be given employment as school teachers in the district schools in Wayne township. This is the substance of the edict issued by James Howarth, township trustee today. Trustee Howarth has reached this decision, he says, after carefully considering the matter. He says that he has two reasons for pur suing such a course. "The first reason is because the hus band of the woman ought to support his wife," said the township trustee. "If the wife is obliged to work she will have to find other employment than that of teaching in the Wayne township district schools because I be- ! lieve a woman cannot attend to household duties and teach in addition. The second reason is because the single girls need employment that is more than the married woman." Trustee Howarth stated that he has had very little trouble with women teachers resigning during the middle of the school year, but in order to avoid any future trouble along this line the woman applicant will be obliged to sign a contract that if she is givj en a Position as teacher in the dis tract schools she will not get married until the school year is over. CONNERSVILLE IS MUCH IN EARNEST (Palladium Special) CONNERSVILLE, Ind., June 14. The need of lengthening the I. & C. tracton lines to the eastward or southeastward, and of extending the T. H. I. v E. spur from Milton south to this city are fcoth apparent and the desire f,or both is alive and growing here. The latter proposition, by reason of its being a lesser undertaking and the j consequent prospect of its quicker ac complishment, is now being most actively agitated by local people and farmers living along the proposed route. The temporary arrangements made by a committee of the local Commercial Club together with a committee from the Richmond Commercial Club, citizens from Cambridge City and Milton, which conferred with officials of the T. H. I. & E. company last winter at Indianapolis, is to be carried out as eoon as possible. A STRIKER KILLED IN BATTLE TODAY (National News Association) PERTH AMBOY. N. J June 14. One man was killed and two others wounded in a battle between strikers and deputy sheriffs at the plant of the American Smelting and Refining company today. The dead man and both of those wounded were strikers. They were shot by the depuUes who fired to prevent the men from setting fire to the million dollar plant of the company. One hundred shots were exchanged early today in a strike riot at the works of the Barber Asphait company ! and the American Smelting and Refinting company when two hundred strik-

lrs made an assault on the plants.

day and Taft Will Be Down and Out.

BY CARL MOTE. CHICAGO. June 14. The Rooosevelt band wagon led the Taft steam roller at the quarter pole yesterday by a margin that was indicated in the sentiment prevalent at the Congress hotel, headquarters of the Roosevelt and Taft national committees. The sentiment was all Roosevelt. Gloom hovered over the Tan headquarters and that Taft managers could not understand why the national committee had abandoned its original pro gram to unseat every contested Roose velt delegate presented for the consideration of the national committee. Thursday was distinctively a Roose velt day. The Colonel got the four delegates-at-large from Missouri and four additional district delegates besides four from North Carolina. Of the twelve contested Roosevelt delegates from Mississippi, Roosevelt captured six, despite the fact that it was presumed all were for Taft. The Mississ ippi delegation numbers twenty men. ten of whom are negroes, but it is be lieved that Col. Roosevelt will have as many as eight and possibly ten with him throughout the balloting. Roosevelt Led Taft. In reality, the actual score of yesterday's session of the national com mittee was as follows: Roosevelt Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 8; North Carolina, 4; total 18. Taft Mississippi, 6; Missouri, 6; total, 12. In itself this is sufficient to have made the majors and the brigadiers and the generals at the Roosevelt headquarters feel very much elated. For the first time, it is assured that the race between Col. Roosevelt and President Taft is a dead heat with the indications favoring a sjight majority for Taft on the temporary roll but with the attendant danger that the majority is only nominal and that the Roosevelt band wagon will deal more severely with the margin of Taft delegates than the Taft steam roller dealt with the contested Roosevelt delegates. Has the national committee lost its nerve? That is the question which was paramount last night in the lobby of the Congress hotel. Texas and Washington will tell.' Some maintain that the eight delegates in Missouri and the four in North Carolina were given to Col. Roosevelt as a fine deceit for the larger steals that are to follow when the Texas and Washington contests are decided. Others maintain that the national committee has abandoned the idea that it can nominate a president of the United States and hereafter will decide cases on their merits. There was no more merit in the cases decided yesterday than there was in the Roosevelt cases in Ken tucky, Arizona, California, the Ninth Alabama and the Thirteenth Indiana. That the decision of the national committee was wholly unexpected at Taft headquarters and that it brought the wiser ones to a realization that Col. Roosevelt and his friends have determined to proceed with the contests and that the presidential nomination fight is to be fought on the floor of the convention, was plainly evident. What Taft Men Claim. Conservative estimates from the Taft camp last night gave the president a majority of twenty on the temporary roll of the contention. When William Barnes, national committeeman from New York, who arrived here yesterday, heard that the Taft forces were claiming victory on a majority of twenty votes, he pondered for a moment and added, "Then you are beaten." Col. Roosevelt can prevent the nomination of Taft on the first ballot if he wins very many more of the contested delegates votes. The national committee is bound to seat every one of the Taft delegates from Texas and Washington to have even the temporary roll of the convention. Sen. William S. Borah is to be the Roosevelt candidate against Sen. Elihu Root for temporary chairman of the convention. Sen. Borah's attitude before the national committee will have given him peculiar strength from the simple fact that he has not denounc ed the committee savagely like Heney, Johnson and others. Borah is very popular with the national committee. The vice presidential nomination, which will go to Sherman If Taft is nominated and will go to Gov. Hiram Johnson of California or possibly Gov. Hadley of Missouri if Roosevelt is nominated. The platform will be ultra radical. Unless Col. Roosevelt changes his mind, he will be in Chicago by next Saturday night. This statement was made authoritatively today by a Republican who is very close to the Taft movement. James E. Watson is ready to fight and fight desperately unless he Is Ppointed as tne Indiana member or tne committee on credentials. In fact. Watson may not vote for Taft or Roosevelt since the present strained relations with the Taft managers in Indiana developed. atson is the onIy one of the delegates at large who was left off the Indiana slate of membership on important committees. He does not want to' violate the instruc tions of the state convention, but the

stern dutv of casting a vote for Taft (Continued on Last Page) '

REAL FIST FIGHT OCCURS TODAY AT CONTEST HEARING

Two Roosevelt Followers and One Taft Man in Lively Mixup in Ante Room of the Committee. GAG RULE ADOPTED IN OKLAHOMA CASE The Roosevelt Committeemen Were Kept Silent While the Taft Leaders Committed Burglary. (National News Association) CHICAGO. June 14. The Republi can national committee took almost five hours today to add six more dele gates to those already seated for the president. This makes the total dele gates given the president by the comcittee 163. Roosevelt has secured only ft contested delegates. In addition four administration delefates opposed by other contestants of a Taft leaning were seated today. The contests decided in favor of the president today were: Third Oklahoma District 2 Second Tennessee District 2 Ninth Tennessee District 2 Decision on the Tennessee delegates at large involving two Taft factions was put over. Wild disorder broke out in the national committee this afternoon when Francis J. Heney of California, the ag gressive-Roosevelt leader, charged the committee with thievery after the Taft steam roller had downed two Roosevelt delegates in the ninth Tennessee district. Cat calls and groans greeted Heney. "You can't bluff me," Heney cried. The noise grew worse and the gavel had no effect. "Its a plain steal, a robbery," again exploded Heney. "Lets here about Abe Reuf," shouted Committeeman Chubb of Florida. "Abe Reuf would be ashamed of you," retorted Heney. "You can't frighten us," cried Scott of West Virginia. "We were not born in the woods to be frightened by the hooting of an owl." "You will be frightened before you get through," shouted Heney. At this point order was finally restored. The possibility of uniting upon Senator Cummins as a compromise candicate was given serous consideration in conference this afternoon in which Senator Crane of Massachusetts, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Barnes of New York and other Taft leaders participated. Senator Kenyon, Senator Cummins' manager, also conferred with Senator Dixon, the Roosevelt manager, in an effort to gain support of the Roosevelt men if it is found impossible to nominate the ex-president. NOW AT FEVER HEAT. CHICAGO, June 14. Bitter feeling between the Roosevelt and Taft members of the national committee came to a climax today in a fist fight that followed a decision of the committee btating two Taft delegates in the third Oklahoma district. The excitement over this clash had hardly died down when the committee seated two more Taft men from the first South Carolina district. This brought the total of contested delegates 161 for Taft and 9 for Roosevelt. There was a near approach to a general-free-for-all light in the ante chamber following Oklahoma bearing. Only the quick action of detectives prevented the situation from becoming more serious when a Taft man struck a Roosevelt partisan and was in turn belated by another lieutenant of the former president. Grant Victor, U. S. marshal in the Eastern District of Oklahoma, was the Taft beligerent. L. G. Disney was the Roosevelt man attacked and Patrick Dore ,of Westerville, Okla., came to Disney's aid. Just Called Him Thief. "Disney made remarks about me " ".. J things," Victor said. "Of course I hit him. I would hit any man who would ! . tho thin. hont me." Th -m- ; f rfotti. m the room Lras shown by the quick action In part- : inr tne fiehters. The two blows had no sooner been struck than . each of the three men were being soothed by two nttlcor Othr ltr-tlv were there ? to quell the outbreak which threatened to occur at any moment. No arrests were made. The debate over the third Oklahoma district brought out the most bitter sessions of the committee. The Roose-

velt men fought every inch of the way. j : (Continued on Last Page)

FIGHT TO FINISH GRIMLY SAYS COL. ROOSEVELT TODAY

"I Am Going to Be There in the Forefront of It to See It Is a Good One" Is His Ultimatum. NOT TO MAKE TRIP JUST AS CANDIDATE He Is Going Because for the Time Being He Stands for Principles of the Republi can Voters. (National Sewi Association) NEW YORK. June 14. Col. Roosevelt will leave here at 5:30 this afternoon for Chicago on the West Shore Cannonball Limited train. "I am going to Chicago to lead the fight in person. I shall leave here late this afternoon." This declaration was made by Col. Roosevelt In the Outlook office early this afternoon immediately following a long distance telephone talk he had with leaders of his faction in Chicago. The Colonel dashed out of his private office to a waiting crowd of newspaper men, who were camping on his trail. "Gentlemen I am going to Chicago tonight. I have received count less telegrams from leaders of delegates there urging that I go to Chicago immediately.. It aeema to be the unanimous opinion of the men there of my political belief that I am Imperatively needed there at once. Issue Is Clear Cut. "The action of the national committee in the California, Arizona, Kentucky and Indiana contests makes the issue clear cut as to whether the people have the right to make their own. nominations or whether a small number of professional politicians have declared for me and the principles I represent in all states where preferential primaries have been held. Mr. Taft in these states received only an average of one-seventh or one-eighth of the vote cast." "Is it going to be a fight to the finish in Chicago. Colonel?" asked onereporter. "It Is," replied the ex-president with grim emphasis, "and I am going to be there at the forefront of it to see that it is a good one. "The delegates demand that I come on, not as a candidate but because for the time being I stand as representing the principles for which the rank and file of the Republican party have overwhelmingly declared in states where they have had an opportunity to express their wishes at the primary. "The delegates who represent the people themselves feel that they, the people have declared themselves beyond all possibility of misunderstanding or misrepresentation, and are not in a mood to see victory stolen from them. I will be accompanied to Chicago by R. H. Post, who was governor of Porto Rico during my former term of the presidency." Colonel Roosevelt said he could not at this time give out the details of his plan in Chicago.. "In fact I have not mapped out a program yet. he said. HE WAS EXPECTED. CHICAGO, June 14. There was little surprise manifested by either Taft or Roosevelt leaders when they. learned of Col. Roosevelt's announcement that he would leave New York for Chicago this afternoon. All had expected it and awaited only the formal announcement. The opinion of the Taft men was that his coming forecasted his personal appearance on the convention floor and a bolt If he were defeated there. Franklin Murphy, former governor ' -V- T T-.. TI-.1I " WfW " k k J V we w! 1 hrOU?h ,n l,ona' n"ite "ore nc gets nre80 n WJl1 not baTe muc on us. However, I suppose he will have an effect on the rest of the world. He will be the center of interest and everyone will want to see him and there will be a great deal of excite- ! ment- Ab to the eM?ct on ne conven effect on the conven- " l "ru las a l u - a a - Sa., J , 1 gaira urn lusiruvitru a nu sv uuwnfcble men. A great crowd has been known to be nwayed by outside influences and conventions have been kn;nt do the same thing. Under

! mriuence oi a a. crowa n ts i hard to tell hat a great body of nea will do.