Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 210, 9 July 1912 — Page 1

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MIC AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 210. RICH3IOND, IXD., TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 9, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. NAME HILLES TO LEAD THE TAFT FORCES. Views of Marion Traction Wreck Sunday G.O.P. DECIDES TO MARK TIME TO ASK TAFT (The President's Secretary Is Chosen to Act as Chairman of the Republican Na- . tional Committee. Citizens Objecting to the City's Refusal to Pay Municipal Plant for the Lighting of Streets. Executive Branch of County G. O. P. Central Committee Postpones Call Until Next Month. Resolution Has Been Prepared and Will Be Passed by Iowa Republican Convention on Wednesday.

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NOT FILLED TODAY James C. Reynolds of Illinois Was Chosen Secretary. Boss Bill Barnes Gets a Throw Down. (National News Association) i Washington. July 9 Charles Dewey I Hilles, secretary to President Taft, tojday was selected by the committee on i organization of the Republican national committee to act as chairman of the Republican national committee. James C. Reynolds, of Illinois, personal friend of President Taft, and a member of the defunct tariff board, ;was selected secretary of the national committee. " No man for the treasurership of the committee could be decided upon. The selection of Hilles was made on the direct request of the president and followed a white house conference today. The advisory and other committees will not be selected until the next meeting of the sub-committee, which will be called in about a week or ten days, probably in this city. William Barnes, cf New York, was objected to as chairman of the national committee ou Ihe ground that he is tainted with the stigma of bossism, and his Selection, it was feared, would alienate the entire west. The names of Representative McKinley, manager of the Taft forces during the pre-conventlon campaign; Senator Sanders, of Tennessee, and Harry M. Daugherty, of Ohio, were considered for the chairmanship. McKinley positively declared that he would not accept the responsibility. The sub-committee was strong forOtto Barnard for treasurer, after Geo. R. SheldtJirrwiw-hfts- twice gathered the Republican mazuma, had refused to seve, but no definite conclusion was reached. PRESIDENCY FIGHT IS VERY WARM ONE teharg es and Counter Charg es Hurled at Teachers' Convention Today. (National News Association) Chicago, July 9 The fight over the presidency of the National Educational Association has reached the dark horse jstage. With two candidates in the field for the office, and with feeling so ! bitter that the other work of the convention has been overshadowed, talk of a new candidate intended to "har monize" the various sections of the association has been launched. The new candidate may be brought forward, according to the gossip among the delegates, when the nominating committee 'with members from each state meets. In the meantime charges of book (trust coercion, and attacks on Secretary Irwin Shepard have thrown the convention into an uproar. For a short time yesterday afternoon the delegates forgot politics long enough to attend tne formal opening of the convention. But as soon as the meeting was ended the gum shoe and steam roller were placed in commission again. The book trust charges were hinted n connection with an attempt to swing jMrs. Ella Flagg Young and the teach.ers of Chicago into line for Miss Crace C. Strachan, of New York. The .charges were hinted broadly, but members of the Chicago delegation refused to make direct charges. The only fact brought out to support the allegation that outside influences were being brought into the fight was the fact that Miss Strachan brought out a letter to Mayor Harrison from Mayor Gaynor. According to the New York .candidate herself, this was merely a )etter of introduction. The fight was harked back to the "Boston meeting of the association 'when Mrs. Ella Flagg young was The Chicago teach-1 elected president ers association demanded an explanation of Secretary Shepard of statements made in an alleged interview given by E. E. Soribuer of Michigan, printed iu a San Francisco paper at 1he time of the convention there. Jhe article .asserted that the Chicago teachers association went to the secretary In Boston to buy $1,000 worth of nembershlp badges. The teachers demand an explanation of the charge that the Boston convention was packa for Mrs. Young. Secretary Shepard refused to discuss the matter, and Scribner said he had never given sucn Interview.

CROWD AT SCENE WHERE MOTOR MAN BURSTING METEOR CAUSEFOR ALARM Many Richmond People Last Night Thought End of World Had Come. There were many Richmond people last evening about 9:45 "who for a fraction of a second thought the end of the world had come, and many a well developed shiver crawled up their spines.. The cause of their alarm was a heavenly phenomenon, a meteor, which dashed through the southern skies with a long, brilliant tail, then burst like a sklrocket, spraying out every color of the rainbow. The in stant the meteor broke the city was ! bathed in a light as brilliant as sunlight at noon, and the heavens were tmted a ngnt rose color, mis remark-.,. able spectacle lasted only a brief space of time. When the city was illuminated by the bursting meteor people sitting on the verandas or at their windows could distinctly see the outlines of the bricks in the houses across the street. Dispatches from Vernon- and Anderson today state that pieces of the meteor fell in those places and thoroughly alarmed the inhabitants. METEOR FRIGHTENS FOLK. Celestial Visitor to Vernon Explodes With Great Force. VERNON, Ind., July 9. A large meteor fel1 here at 9:55 last night' feak" i ing tne city as ngnt as aay. i ne rorce of the Ploion when it struck the farm was lerrinc ana equal to a severe earthquake shock. Many people were badly frightened by the appearance of the meteor. ANDERSON, Ind.. July 9 Residents of Anderson were startled short ly before lo o'clock last night by the sudden illumination of the sky us an; immense meteor shot earthward and shook the ground to the southeast of ' the city. The surrounding country was j lighted for more than a minute. Local j astronomers state that the heavenly ooay must nave siruca wiuun tnree ji118 of 11115 cit'

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PERRY WAS INJIRED. CHICAGO INVITES A DUKEJO VISIT Asks Connaught of Canada to Cross the Border and Look Her Over. (National News Association) CHICAGO, 111., July 9. A delegation representing the Chicago Association of Commerce left today for Winnipeg to investigate opportunities for the extension of trade with western Canada, and incidentally to invite the Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada, to pav a visit to Chicago, His Royal Highness is scheduled to arrive in Winnipeg at the same time as the

Chicagoans. It is hoped that the Duke organization of the Democratic nationmay find it possible to visit Chicago , al committee in 1908 Mr. Taggart said

some time during the present summer. WINNIPEG THRONGED. ! WlWtPITfi Man, Julv 9 Manv V1S- , wntnor m as-1 sist in the welcome to th Duke of Connaught and to attend the opening of Canadian Industrial Exhibition, at which His Royal Highness will officiate tomorrow. The exhibition, which is to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the coming of Lord Selkirk to Canada, promises to be one of the most successful as well as one of the largest affairs of its kind ever held in the Dominion. Numerous large conventions and other gatherings are booked for the exposition period. ANOTHER VICTIM (National News Association) PARIS, July 9. Aviation claimed another victim today when Aviator Bedel was crushed to death beneath the motor of his aeroplane. Bedel ran into a thick fog and landed his machine so violently that it was overturned and he was caught beneath it. He was dead when picked up. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 2566.

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TOM TAGGART FORGETS ALL ABOUT FUNDS Indiana Democratic Boss Before the Senate Elections Committee Develops Lapse of Memory. HE REMEMBERED HE DONATED THOUSAND During a Bryan Campaign and "Thought" Belmont, Ryan and a Few Others Also Aided War Fund. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 9. Little information concerning the Democratic campaign contributions of 1904 was gleaned from Tom Taggart, chairman of the national Democratic committee of that year and until after the nomination of Bryan of 1908 when the Indianapolis politician was quizzed by the sub committee of the senate committee on privileges and elections today. Disclaiming all personal knowledge of personal contributions except one of $1,000, which he paid himself, Mr. Taggart declared that he had. learned from his associates that August Belmont, Thomas Fortune Ryan and a few others were the chief contributors. "You have no Idea of the approximate receipts and expenditures of the committee?" Senator Clapp asked. "When we got through it wasn't worth while." He told the committee that when George F. Peabody, the treasurer of the committee, resigned, August Belmont was named in his place. Belmont resigned prior to the Democratic convention of 1908 and sent Taggart the record of the committee. After the rehe surrendered all records of the cornmittee to Chairman Mack, but burned the records relating to contributions, believing them of no further use as thev were then four years old. AN ITALIAN REIGN OF CRIME CRUSHED Caraorrists Found Guilty and Aftre Now Being Closely Guarded by Troops.

,.,auoni,.,ew,.!(Ki,llon, ,ma afternoon declared that all the VITERBO, July 9. A heavy guard 1 missing had been accounted for but of troops was maintained today about ! many of the miners in the vicinity the prison holding the Camorrists con-'"111 cMnS to the belief that the death ... . . , . . . list will exceed forty. Many of the victed yesterday for the murder ot. . , . . . . ... ' bodies taken out were burned so badly Genarro Cuceola and hi3 wife. The au- j thy could not be identified. thorities fear members of the band i . . untrapped when the leaders wew:pprtnrc rounded up will make an attempt toi5LAjKfco Ur. rescue their colleagues. ! PROPERTY Members of the jury will be guard-' ryr kirnc

ed for six months and their families . I if any are assassinated. The death knell of the Camorra has j been sounded. Cavaleri Santono who prosecuted the Camorra today received a message I of congratulation frcm Signor Fani, minister of Justice.

BIG PATRON LOST TO CITY'S PLANT

Elliott-Reid Fence Company Objects to the Administration's Attitude Toward the Municipal Plant. The municipal lighting and power plant has lost one of its largest consumers, the Klliott-Reed Fence company, principally for the refusal of the Zimmerman administration to pay the plant for street Mghting. which amounts to the tidy sum of over J20.000 a year. The fence company is now a patron of the city plant's competitor, and the city plant, in consequence, it is reli- I ably reported, is a loser to the extent of about $10,000 a year. Walter V. Reid, president and sup erintendent of the Elliott-Reid com pany, this morning frankly admitted the company had withdrawn its pa tronage of the municipal plant. He said that several causes entered into the action taken by the company, but the principal reason was the adminis tration's method of conducting the plant. Views of Mr. Reld. "The city can not expect to make an effective appeal to the patriotism of its citizens in supporting the mu nicipal plant so long as present conditions exist. Both large and small consumers are entitled to a rate reduction, which can not be accomplished so long as the plant is conducted as it is now," state Mr. Reid to the Palladium. This statement was made by Mr. Reid in response to a question as to whether he did not believe the city should pay the municipal plant for street lighting. From inquiries made all over the city by the Palladium, it has been revealed that the Elliott-Reid company is not alone in the position it has adopted in regard to the municipal plant. Any number of light and power consumers have stated that the city's refusal to pay for its street lighting is not only unfair to the plant itself, but to the citizens who are patrons of the plant. Those questioned on the subject all pointed out that under the present system of compelling the municipal plant to light the streets gratis, the patrons of the city plant were carrying this burden on their shoulders. There is no special tax for street lighting, consequently the patrons of the city plant's competitor are not contributing one cent toward street illumination. Because of the burden of lighting the streets, without recompense, the city plant finds it impossible to reduce its rates. A Protest Planned. Several business men have been discussing a plan for launching a general protest against the administration's attitude toward the municipal plant, and to take the matter before council and demand that the city pay the city plant for street lighting. The administration's only reason assigned for its refusal to play fair with the municipal plant is that the city cannot afford to meet this expense. However, when the budget for this year was made up last fall there was no attempt made to provide a fund for street lighting. The mayor recently stated that the 1913 tax rate would be raised at the council budget meeting

this fall, but he did not go on record ibe proper for the executive committee as to whether the city plant would j to adopt a resolution which in subbenefit by such action. There is a stance would be in condemnation of possibility that the administration will I the unfair attitude of the National stubbornly hold out against the pro-j committee in control of the Chicago

posed relief of the municipal plant because of the deplorable condition of the city's finances, which have grown more tangled each year for over a decade. THIRTY KILLED IN A MINE EXPLOSION National News Assoc? at !on CONISBOROUGH. Eng.. July 9. At 2 o'clock this afternoon thirty bodies have been recovered from Gadevy coal mine which was wrecked by an explosion arlv todav. Th min nffiriala make a season profitable by a well-worded Want Ad which attracts SCORES OF .LIKELY CUSTOMERS.

WILL WAIT UNTIL PROGRESSIVES ACT

After Third Party Formulates Its Plans There Will Be a Show Down by Leaders in the County. LEE ISSUES CALL INDIANAPOLIS. July 9 Chairman Lee of the National Progressive state executive committee, announced today that a meeting of representatives of every county in the state had been called for Thursday afternoon in this city. Mr. Lee announced that tickets would be put in the field in' every county in the state except where Progressive Republicans who had already become candidates for county offices on the Republican ticket will also make the race on the new party ticket. Invitations have been extended to all such candidates and a particular effort will be made to have presidential electors nominated on the Republican ticket make the race on the Progressive ticket. The anticipated '6plit, in the Republican party organization of Wayns County was averted by the action of the executive committee of the Wayne County Central committee last night in postponing the call for a meeting of the Central committee which was to have been held next Saturday at the court house. The meeting will be held in August. The action of the committee is attributed to the fact that the third party has not been fully organized and that the Republicans in this county are not as yet fully apprised of the "principles" which the new Progressive or third party Republicans will stand for. There is little doubt that there will, be a division in the Republican party in this county if the Progressive party is organized. This was demonstrated at the meeting last evening. A number of the members stated that It would be inadvisable to have a meeting of the Wayne County Central committee until after the convention of the Progressive party at Chicago. Several members of the committee stated that they may be members of the third party when formed, although they were not willing to decide what their action might be until there is in reality a third party. Since the meeting is postponed the voters of the county will be given opportunity to thoroughly investigate for themselves the principles of the Progressive and of the Republican parties, and will therefore, be qualified to make their decision. For County Ticket. Even though there will be a split in the national issue it was definitely decided by the committee to stand behind the Republican county ticket which has been selected. When the conventon of the Progres sive party is concluded in Chicago ' next month, the Wayne county party leaders likely will call for a show down. Every Republican leader will be expected to show exactly where he stands, and for this reason there will be many "bolts" from the Old Guard party, and numerous, resignations from the Wayne County Central committee. When it was suggested that it might convention, there was a discussion pro land con, without an actual test of strength being resorted to. The matter was dropped, temporarily, at least. ROBT. TAFT DIDII'T KNOCK HIS FATHER Indignantly Denies He Said His Father Would Be Swept into Discard. (National News Association) CHICAGO. July 9. Robert Taft. son of the president, while in Chicago today asserted that he was convinced that hia father would be re-elected. Toung Taft became indignant when told that it had been reported front Eij gic. Ill, that he bad said his rather j had been swept into th- discard and had no chance for re-election, "hat is absurd end ridiculous. How could I make such a statement. I never talked to anyone in Elgin. I don't even know where Elgin is. He was informed that he had passed through Elgin on his way to Chicago. He Insisted that he was certain his father would be re-elected-

MONSTER PETITION

MAY BE PRESENTED To President, After Being" Circulated for Signatures All Over the Country Ask- . ing Withdrawal. (National News Association) Des Moines. Iowa, July 9 A resolution asking President Taft to resign his nomination for the presidency, and rebuking the action of the Chicago convention in naming a candidate for president before purging the. roll of fraudulent delegates, will be presented to the state Republican convention tomorrow. The progressives are overwhelmingly in control of the convention and it is expected the resolution will be adopted. The convenUon is also expected to endorse Roosevelt for the presidency. PARTY CHIEFS FEARFUL Washington. July While PreaW dent Taft consulted yesterday with, some of the members of the national committee, consideration was beinggiven by members of congress to the advisability of circulating a petition' requesting Mr. Taft to withdraw from the presidential race. This petition, it was finally determined, is to be prepared in Washington. It may be circulated in the various states, probably with the aid of state and county candidates. If the plans of the men engaged In this movement and it is admitted most of them are progressives or members who fear they will be defeated s a result of the organization of tha Progressive party are carried out. It vrlll mean that in a few weeks a gigantic peUtlon of Republican voters will be presented to Mr. Taft asking him to retire from the race. Tafts' Aid Undecided. The news of this movement, together with other difficulties besetting tha president's party, probably is respon sible for the Indecision which charac-. terized the several conferences held yesterday. As a result of the information tha president received from his political visitors, greater apprehension has been produced as to the possible polling strength of the Roosevelt Progressives. Moreover, the fact has been driven home at the white' house that , the country does not like what waa done at Chicago, and that this is keeping away from the president's support thousands of voters who approve tha conservative attitude of the chief executive and the policies of the party he represents as described in tha platform adopted by the convention. Plan Reply to Demand. It is considered essential above all to present to the country, in a fashion that will be believed, an answer to tha charge embodied in the commandment cited by Col. Roosevelt: "Thou shalt not steal. This answer is to be made in tha shape of a formal statement which will be issued by the president probably tonight after his conference with his political advisers have ended. Senators Crane and Penrose and Williams Barnes, Jr.. of New York, are aiding in the preparation of this statement, and they intend to make it so conclusive that the public will regard it as disposing of the charge that Mr. Taft is the rcelplent of a stolen nomin ation. An explanation is considered neceesary. though an explanation is a thing upon which the average politician looks with horror. President Means to Stick. The men who called upon the press dent baa been in conference with publican members of congress who are candidates for re-election, and they had heard some of these men urge the preparation of the petition to the president signed by Republican voters throughout the country asking Mm to announce his withdrawal. They knew, however and they heard as much from Mr. Taft' lips that he would not withdraw under an circumstances. He cares nothing about any petitions that may be signed or whether they express reallr the sense of a great mass of Republican voters. He defends the method of bis nomination on the ground that it is the product of practical politics which have been known in the country since the beginning. THE WEATHER STATE Local thunder showers to; night or Wednesday; continued warm. LOCAL Fair and continued warm to night; Wednesday fair and slight. jr cooler. . -