Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 202, 28 June 1912 — Page 1

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B.ICHMO FAULAJDIUM Am AND SUN-TELEGRAM IT VOL. XXXVII. NO. 205J. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1912: SINGLE COPT 2 CENTS. :

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WAS SPEAKER jHls Address Before the Indiana Sunday School Association Convention Was a Splendid One. (DEPARTMENTS MAKE REPORTS FOR YEAR plendid Progress Made During the Past Year. Heads ; of Various Departments Are Elected. One of the finest addresses of the t Sunday School convention, both in sub- ' fiance and manner of presentation, I followed the devotional song service I led by Mr. Excell in the morning seajEion of the convention in East Main Street Friends' church today, the address delivered by Mr. Woelfkin whose appearances have been the most notable of the convention. "My subject is an attempt to answer that question -which should be the vital question with every Sunday school worker," said the speaker. "The quesItinn tha AnAotla To m a a a aVa In tha (fourth chapter of his Epistle what is lyoywrlife?" The individual answers, said Mr. ,1 Woelfkin, will necessarily be contra dictory and antithetical since the reply cannot be the same from the youth who looks down the perspective of the years and sees nothing but rose-color-cd illusion and from the octogenerian who looks back upon the stormy sea of life and realizes its hardships and its difficulties. . Neither can the answer be the same from those of varying social condition, one of whom may see but the romance, the. other the tragedy of existence. Significance of Life. "What is the significance of human life for the brief span of years spent lelou earth? Life must have some goal. There must be some purpose," said the speaker, stating that the creation of l-eiiig merely to end in annihilation, was inimical to the human understand ing, and that the primal instinct for the continuation of life was, as put by Darwin, "absolutely infallible." That therefore . there must besome other state than in the brief moment ot consciousness before the death which was ended in the oblivion of the materialist. Or some other solution that that of-ff-ed by him who stood at the other nd of the passage looking .upon life as a miserable nightmare to be endured until merged into the greater whole where individuality was lost, as says the Buddhist, on the one hand, or the Christian who looks to eternity as the haven to be reached through the meidium of a tortured life. ''He who feels that eternity is everyhlng, life is nothing," as expressed y the speaker. I A Third Class. I Aside from these two classes is that kof the stoic who cares for nothing in the life that is or that which is to come. And yet even the stoic insists upon the inviolability of his personal entity, stated the speaker, illustrating 11b statement by a reference to the jKnglish poet and essayist, Henley, the jfriend and, later, the detractor, of iBobert Louis Stevenson, he of the torjture physical body and life long invalHdism, Mr. Woelfkin repeating Henlly's tremendous poem, two of whose iiiijes are so universally quoted "I am Hhe master of my fate, I am the capjtain of my soul." Eliminating the stole, both of the jforegolng classes, said the speaker, were at once right and wrong. For he fwho takes the negative position forms icoucluBions outside his experience. He pvho assumes the affirmative concludes tfrom within Its limitations. Dr. Woelfkin then followed up with ki seris of beautiful Scriptural meta phors which he showed, also, to be prophetic in their significance and pointing toan actual realization whose W1imax was reached in the birth nf (Christ. j "Jesus Christ is God's last and greatest metaphor," said Mr. Woelfkin. "God manifested in the flesh. You canteot know God apart from Jesus Christ. Without Christ God is a nebulous in finity. In the terms of personality Jes us Christ Is God." "Christ revealed in the flesh is the pattern of what life may be on earth," (continued Mr. Woelfkin, quoting Paul Hit illustration when the latter said. For m to live is Christ. " :Dr. McKlnney closed the morning (Ptssionrwith one of his entertaining ttalks , called "Ragged Edges" and jwhich concerned the necessity of clean jcut administration of Sunday school organizations, with some general ap plication, Dr. McKinney's agreeable (Continued on Pag eight) THE WEATHER )8T ATE Generally fair tonight; Saturday continued warm. LOCAL Fair and continued warm ton'sV.. Saturday warm. '

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GOVERNOR WOODBOW WILSONT

MEET TODAY TO LAUNCH BOOM FOR BRYAN

BALTIMORE, June 28. Three hundred supporters of William Jennings Bryan plan to project him into the race for the presidential nomination, was the statement of James R. Fisk of Virginia, who is in Baltimore to attend the convention, although he is' not a delegate. According to Fisk's statements, a meeting of three hundred supporters of the Nebraskan was called for this afternoon at the Belvedere hotel to discuss the possibility of "saving" Bryan and selecting a man to nominate him from the floor of the convention.

THIEVES TAKE JOY E 'Borrow" Dr. Stevenson's Car, Ride 77 Miles, and Then Abandon It. Four joy riders had a jolly time last evening with an automobile "borrowed" from in front of the . East Main Street Friends church, while the owner, Dr. David Stevenson, was inside. The quartet drove the car a distance of 77 miles, shown by the spedometer, and after using up all the gasoline in the tank, left the car in the driveway at the Richard Sedgwick home, west of the city, near midnight. The unknown thieves then left the car, hurried away and have not been seen since. Dr. Stevenson stopped his car- in front of the church at 8 o'clock, and went inside. His car was seen standing in front of the church at 8:30. Then it disappeared. The next seen of the car was when it stopped at the Sedgwick home on West Fifth street. Footsteps at that place indicated four people bad, been in the machine. The car was found this morning by Mr. Sedgwick, the gasoline tank empty, but the machine had not been damaged. The police have very few clues to work on, and it is probable the joinders will never be brought to account. '

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GOVENOR HADLEY TELLSJTA DEAL Says Taft Forces Offered to Withdraw Taft if Hadley Would Run. (National News Association) CEDAR RAPIDS, la., June 28. Gov. Herbert E. Hadley of Missouri, in passing through here,' confirmed the statements of Col. Roosevelt and Comptroller Prendergast of New York that Taft leaders had offered et Chicago to seat the Roosevelt delegates from Washington and Texas if Roosevelt would consent to the nomination of Governor Hadley or some other third man. "The proposition was made to me and I understood it waB also made to Roosevelt," said Hadley. "I refused to consider or discuss it unless it first had the approval of Roosevelt, as I was for him' for the nomination and no one else. It was also told afterwards that Col. Roosevelt had refused to consent." THE WANT AD CHANCES ARE : cheap, forceful, reliable. THOUSANDS READ THEM EVERY- DAY.

CAR COMPANY

DELAYS WORK BOARD ANGRY Superintendent Gordon Told to Get Busy Today by President Homer Hammond of the Board of Works. LACK OF LABORERS THE EXCUSE GIVEN Councilmen Say if Company Thinks They Are Joking on Franchise Revokation, It Will Awake. The dilatory tactics of the street and interurban company do not meet with tjje approval of the city officials, and this morning when Supt Gordon, local representative of the T. H., I & E. Traction company stopped at the city building for a consultation with President Hammond, of the board of works, he was given official warning that the company must prepare to comply to the letter with the provisions of its franchise. , Six weeks ago the franchise of the traction company was revoked by council and the company given ninety days In which to make needed improvements to its system. Mr. Gordon stated that lack of laborers to carry on the work was the cause of the small amount of work done up to the present time. Heavy rails are being laid on South West Third street, the National Road, west, and on East Main street for two squares. Heavy rails are to be laid on South Eighth street from A to H street, and on North Eighth from A to E street, stated Gordon, who also said this work would be the next taken up by the company. The negligence of the company in not keeping the tracks and the roadway between the tracks in repair, which was the principal cause of complaint against the company, was displeasing to the board. Hammond said. Gordon, replied that this work would be taken care of Just as soon as the company could secure the men to do thfcorto : 'Y'-v -i ' Pole Being Painted Two men are now at work painting the company's poles green, as required by the ordinance. However, Hammond explained that the citizens did not ride tfte poles, and consequently did not derive much comfort out of this improvement. The total absence of modern cars was also called to the attention of Gordon, and he said he would do the best he could which from past experience is taken to mean nothing. Council has complained repeatedly about the apparent lack of interest of the company in retaining its franchise by making improvements called for by its franchise, and the councilmen say that unless the company obeys orders it will have to discontinue business In this city. "If the company thinks council's action was a bluff," said one councilman today, "it will realize to its sorrow that it was greatly mistaken. No car service at all is better than what we now have." MRS. HILL DIES WHILE IN PASADENA 00 Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, mother of Mrs. Roscoe Kirkman, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sanford Woodbury, in Pasadena, California. Mrs. Hill had been living in Richmond with her daughter and huBband, Mr. Levi HilUTbut on account of ill health had gone to Californiawhere she had hoped to be benefited. She suffered a second stroke of paralysis and died soon after. She will be buried in the Pasadena cemetery at the foot of the mountains near her grandson, Mr. Chauncey Woodbury, 'ho died some time ago. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkman and family will soon' leave for California for a permanent residence. (Mrs. Hill was 'a prominent member of the Christian churchknd was loved by all who knew her. She was about seventy years of age. The news of her death comes with regret to her many friends. STRANGE HOBO IS GIVEN HIS LIBERTY Jim Miller, the strange hobo captured by the police Wednesday night, was released this morning, it being found that he was not wanted anywhere. He shouldered his two large grain sacks full of personal belongings, with which he said he "would not part for any price " and started for Indianapolis. It was found that Miller had worked near Hartford City, Indiana all spring under the name of Pat Kirbey, and had gained the enviable reputation of being a "typical hobo. He. was suspected of stealing a horse and buggy at Ridgeville. He could not be connected with this case. The stolen outfit was t recovered. Miller said he was looking for work, and that "out West you couldn't get a job unless you had a change of clothes and blankets," which be said his two sacks contained. No one at police station j bad . nerve enough to delve . into the ! myetery of tlie sacks. : -

CLARK WAS THE LEADER IN FIRST BALLOT BUT A LONG CONTEST IS QUITE PROBABLE

SHIVELY PRESENTS E OF MARSHALL Indiana Senator Lauds Mar-! shall in Advocating His Nomination. (National News Association) BALTIMORE, June 28. In nominating Governor Marshall. Senator Shively said: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the convention: Within a comparatively few hours this convention will execute the high commission with which it is charged and will have been dissolved by final adjournment. With the fall of the gavel, the work of this convention will have gone before a less partial assize, and one that knows no adjournment until the last vote is cast on the fifth day of November. "I speak for the Democracy of a state whose vote has carried the state for every Democrat inaugurated from James Monroe to G rover Cleveland. "Four years ago the Democracy of Indiana selected a candidate for governor from a field of unusual talent. Though in every appeal to the voters of the state he had placed the cause of the national ticket before and above his own, he led the national Ucket by nearly 25,000 votes. "It wag therefore altogether natural, logical and fitting that the Democracy of Indiana, in convention assembled on the 31st day of March this year, without one dissenting voice adopted the resolution indorsing the record of Governor Thomas Marshall. That convention was composed of 1,747 delagates; these delegates represented 400,000 Democratic voters. "With this high testimony from all those who know his best, I speak the voice of that convention and in behalf of the united Democracy of Indiana, I nominate Thomas Marshall, of Indiana. "This is a time of great expectations but those who prophesy vivid change &hd-beckon experiment in new places, arj reminded that their expectations are still only the shadows of things hoped for, the substance of things that remain to be seen. It is to be hoped that their fondest expectations of reinforcements from territory that has not gone nationally Democratic in fifty years may be realized. "Would you have a candidate, who by his practical Bense and his solid wisdom in the administration of the high office of president will render his administration invincible in the respect and esteem of the whole country? Such a candidate the united Democracy of the state, which, within the memory of men in this hall has given to the public life of the country the shining talent and the patriotic service of a Thomas Hendricks, a Joseph E. McDonald, A Daniel W. Voorhees and a David Turpie, names and commends to this convention in the person and character of Thomas R. Marshall." CAUCUS WAS HELD BY BOSSES TODAY They Want to Have a Harmless Candidate that They Can Always Control. BY CARL MOTE. BALTIMORE, June 27. Before the Democratic national convention recon venes to nominate a candidate for ! president at 4 o'clock this afternoon, ! Thomas F. Ryan. Charles F. Murphy, Roger Sullivan, Thomas Taggart and Si even B. Flemming will have held a chucus to settle the fate of the Democratic party. The caucus was to have been held this forenoon but no one of the quintette could be found and it is not kaown where the caucus will be held. New York was suggested as the probable meeting place, but the late adjournment this morning may have made a change in the plans. The object of the meeting was to pass on assets and liabilities for a president who will be mutually satisfactory and assuredly harmless. Taggart and Fleming were to insist that Governor Marshal was just that tort of a man, while Sullivan, Ryan and Murphy were to appear in the role of listeners. A deadlock seems Ineviaable. . The story leaked oat last night that a scattering vote from reactionary delegations would be cast for Marshall for several ballots and then, according io the plana, the vote wai to drop- off to his Iriginal 30. In this way, it was raid, Marshall could be sneaked oat of the race and Kern entered for the sweepstakes.- ' The plan looks good except that the governor may fail to fall in with the project at the psychological moment and the obstacle of an instructed delegation will be just as formidable as IiCW. ' -

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First Vote Was Taken at 7 O'clock This Morning Following an All Night Session and Following the Deadlock the Convention Adjourned Until 4 This Afternoon Wilson Second in Race.

CHAIRMAN JAMES PICKS CLARK AS VICTOR

(National X( Association) BALTIMORE. Md., June 8. OUie James said this morning: "Clark, on the next ballot when t! convention convenes this afteraoon. That's the way it looks to me. I am speaking, you understond, only as a member of the Kentucky delegation. I need not say that I am no seer uor prophet and the prediction is merely my opinion, but from what 1 am able to infer from the trend of tMnjts. there is no one else to it but dark. "Understand, my state is instructed for Clark, but aside from h. speaking only as a member rf that delegation. I believe I am viewing 21 in an absolutely fair and sourd vay whenI say there is nothing to it but Clark." BALTIMORE, Md.. June 28. After one fruitless ballot following an all night session the Democratic national convention at 7:10 o'clock this morning adjourned until 4 o'clock this afternoon when the great struggle for the presidential nomination will be resumed. In the first ballot there wis neither sign nor token of what would be the last chapter of the story. Votes were cast for eight men. The total columns showed under the several candidates, these figures: Clark. 440V; Wilson. 324; Underwood. 11714; Harmon, 148; Marshall. 31; Baldwin, 22; Bryan, 1; Sulzer, 2; Absent, 1; not voting, 1. Something Must Give. And in this line of totals there wan no radical departure from the estimated votes sent out by the Nation! News Association yesterday and no changes that could be made the basis for a new deduction on the face of the actual figures. The net result of the balloting was that all of the elements of the convention were left in tact and unbroken in strength and it was obvious that Bomttning must have to give way under strain or pressure before the complexion of the day's news changed as to the figure making. Chief among the unknown quantities that were in part solved by the earl' morning vote, and which clarification is here first made plain, was the an Instructed list This list, originally containing 184 votes, had be-n reduced to 178 by the dropping of the Philippines from the total, v.h'.ch same operation in political mathematics changed the total vote of the convention 1088 and made the number essential to a nomination 725 1-3 by the two-thirds majority rule of the convention. Here is how the uninstructed vote lined up on the first ballot: Delaware, 6 for Wilson; Maine, 1 for Clark, 9 for Wilson, 2 for Underwood; New York, 90 for Harmon ; North Carolina, 16 and one-half for Wilson, one half for Harmon, seven for Underwood ; Vermont, 8 for Baldwin, Hawaii 2 for Clark," 3 for Wilson and one for Underwood. Total, 178 votes. It will be noted that this unknown quantity vote gave to Wilson thirtyfour and one-half votea; to the combined Harmon and Underwood, which may be taken collectively as the conservative element, 1006, and to Clark three. The conservative vote from the unknown list therefore be somes of the utmost importance in making subsequent calculations as to what can take place in event of a long drawn out combat Bryan Winds Vote. Putting further the meat of the political breakfast before the fruit of the early morning of struggle, with its picturesque spots, daring stories and brilliant sidelights, and the moments when the spotlight could not be turned rapidly enough to do Justice to all of the leading actors, the net result shows that 363 votes, held cohesively, will prolong the convention indefinitely. It shows that Wilson, generally conceded to represent the Bryan last ditch strength, needs thirty-nine votes to same sure of this deadlock. And it is remembered that Bryan, on the lowest of his test votea of strength since the convention began, held 147 more votes than is necessary to tie up the voting until such time as he is satisfied with the candidate. Whether or not he can still hold this 147 votes is a matter that no man, jealous of his prophetic reputation, would care to make the subject a definite statement. As a strong factor in this calculation it must be considered that a large element of the delegates desire victory &nd harmony without so much regard to personal issues. Tennessee strikingly illustrates this element, on the first ballot when she cast six votes each for Clark, Wilson. Harmon and Underwood, dividing exactly between the radical and the conservative wings of the party voice. New York Against Bryan. As for the New York vote it can be taken as no criterion of the future action of the state. Undoubtedly it represented the sentiment of the controlling factors In the delegation. Possibly it did not represent the political judgment of the same leaders. They

are free to throw the vote any way they please, and it is assured beyond' the question of any man that it will be thrown In subsequent ballots ia that direction which will most surely tend

to defeat Mr. Bryan. Mr. Wilson and ! all that is allied with that element. An exact two-thirds of the total, vote in the convention is 7251-3. On1 almost every ballot that has been taken, fractional votes have appeared in the total. It ts possible, therefor that some candidate might receive )7254 votes. This would constitute the 1 niAfturir tm-fwf tifrtla TttA r nat inn mm to whether the fractional part of a vote should be accepted as completing the necessary two-thirds has not arisen and it such a contingency arose, an interesting contest would be sure to ensue. Summarising the pressing needs ot the elements. Clark, the high man will have to add 285 t votes to his initial ! vote in order to win. Wilson will have to get 402 more than he has. The conservative element must corral some 600 votes, taking the . scattering strength at Its best estimate, before It can hope to land a man of Its simonpure faith. It thus becomes of moment as the main question, whence can these several elements draw the strength. The Roll Call Begun. The table Is before you. and the feast of mathematical possibilities Is served. It was 6:43 a. m. when the calling of the roll on the fimt ballot began. Wary from the night of sensation, of surprise and tumult, the delegates listened to the calling of the first few states with Interest, interpreting a few stray demonstrations of the lung tire brand. Then they settled back In their chairs, many of them to slumber. Er",it had acquired black clrcler " -is . sleepless vigil of the night. t..a and beads dropped. For all the world the convention hall resembled a huge hennery In which the fowls were drowsily dozing on their perches, awaiting the chanticleers reveille heralding the breaking of dawn. And. per Incident, there had been an early morning performance calculated to break the nerves of the most doughty knight . who ever stormed political castle or tilted headlong into a forlorn hope. The clock on the east wall had swung by the hour of midnight. The convention was still hamming with the sensational aftermath of William Jennings Bryan's attack upon the citadel of ' finance when a delegate from one of the states plucked his state standard and ran before the speaker's stand. It was a signal that seemed to be understood, for almost instantly the leaders from 22 states seized their standards, and holding them like lances at rest, rushed from1 the front of the speaker's stand and massed for a demonstration. It's rallying reason-to-be was soon apparent. In the speaker's stand appeared Mies Genevieve Clark, the j winsome daughter of the candidate I whose supporters had assembled bej fore the stand. Her dainty and fetchj ing blue gown was slashed with an' , american flag. She pulled the flag from her gown and waved IL Never did action more promptly follow the flag. Mies Clark Cheered. "Hurrah for Genevieve," called a delegate and again and again the ciy was repeated until h big armory re-" sounded with the cheering of the Clark followers. The young woman stood at the head of this tumult, as an enthusiastic cheer leader and whip of the big demonstration. Forty-five shoutj lng. cheering, howling, horn blowing : minutes went by. Clark's name was sent to the roof and echoed back again In a mighty chorus, governed as completely by the nndulating form on lb speaker's stand as any great band ' might have conducted by Its martinet leader. Delegates who had not taken off their coats did so. They tossed them j in the air. A vast rain of descending . coats obcured the vision from the speaker's stand for a moment, but when it had passed the Clark dele-' gates were seen evolutlng war dances' after the most approved fashion of the Sioux In the palmy days before ! Nelson Miles went West with a mission to fulfill. In the meantime New York's delega-j tlon sat at its collective feet silent! and unmoved- The Wilson delegates.hitherto fast to take op a demontra tlon challenge joined In the decorous quiet of the Gotham brethren. Evident ly big lichen" Fisher of Tennessee.) jtM.ce star center rash of Princeton,; (Continued on Page Eight) When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation ad dress to No. 2566.

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