Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 227, 29 July 1912 — Page 10
THE RICHMOND PAJiLAIIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY JULY 20, 1912.
THIRD PARTY IN DISTRICT
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Meetings Held in Nearly Every County in the Sixth on Saturday, and Enthusiasm Is Shown.
(Continued from Page One) president and Beveridge for governor. Judge George L. Gray, Democratic leader, was present as a spectator, but, being urgently called on for a speech, talked in a general way for fifteen minutes. Following are the delegates chosen: H. L. Frost, George R. Carter, Charles R. Thomas, John Murray, Clarence O. Wise, Charles W. Neff, Harry Cottom, Thomas W. Stoops and Alva Bilby.
FAVOR COUNTY TICKET. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., July 29. More than 100 prominent Republican workers attended the mass convention here Saturday for the organization of the Progressive party in Shelby county. The main business of the meeting was to select delegates and alternates to the state convention at Indianapolis but it was also tentatively agreed at the meeting that a county ticket should be . placed in the field. The meeting was called to order by the provisional county chairman, J. Oscar Hall, and Attorney George H. Mciks, former member of the City school board and recently Republican candidate for mayor of Shelbyville, was elected chairman. Attorney O. L. Lilliams was named secretary. Twelve of the fourteen townships were represented and the provisional chairman was empowered to name the delegates for the townships not represented. The delegates elected are C. J. Limpus, M. R. Montgomery, Cyrus Carmony, L. E. Webb, city clerk of Shelbyville; C. W. Clendenning, Byron Duffy, Wilbur Pell, W. W. Wilcoxen, John Wortman, James H. Barlow, Richard Marshall, Elmer Howell, Charles Larrison, Jesse W. Lennox, John W. Shadley, Mellis Talbert, W. J. Hungate and William Harrod. Not all of these are entitled to a full vote, as sixteen will be the county's voting strength in the state convention. C. W. Clendenning, Richard Marshall and Chester Gordon formed the committee on resolutions. The report declared against boss rule in both of the older political parties and especially against the conduct of the credentials committee at the recent Chicago national convention. The report stated that the work of the Republican national convention was illegal and the results not binding on any voter In the United States. It declared further that the Democratic and Republican parties are In the corrupt hands of bosses and asserted that the people want their greatest champion, Theodore Roosevelt. Albert J. Beveridge was indorsed for the governorship. Addresses favoring the adoption of the resolutions and urging the organization of the party for the purpose of putting out a county ticket were made by Messrs. Hall, C. W.
Clendenning, W. J. Hungate. W. R.
Beirtley and M. R. Montgomery.
TOO MUCH GOSSIP
Why Can't People Look for the Good Instead of Hunting for the Evil and Seemingly Being Delighted When They Think They've Found It.
BY ESTHER GRltFFIN WHITE. Gossip! There's a certain isort of friendly and harmless gossip that is part of the coin of social intercourse and to which no one objects. In which e very-one from the king to the cook indulges. Its the type that makes books of reminiscences and momoirs popular with the public. And is detrimental tomo one. Then there is the other sort. The malicious, deadly,' hellish. That which blasts reputations, blackens lives, smears innocence with the dirt of the gutter and takes no account of else but Ub own.devilish utterance. The appalling thing in human nature is the sediment of slime at the bottom. The foul substance which Jies inert but which stirred up with the stick of gossip clouds the clear water on the social surface and obscures everything save its own foulness. The dark abyss into which are sucked the young and fair, the good and innocent. No-one is saved from its terrible and insatiate maw. It is a Moloch into which are fed every condition, creed, kind, age, sex. It is a remorseless Juggernaut riding down the good and bad, the evil and divine, the indifferent, the halfand half anybody, everybody. It shows no mercy. Every living entity, every reputation is grist for its horrible mill. And who are those who turn the handle? Are they the so-called bad? Or the frequenters of bar-rooms, the curb-stone loafers, the elite of the cigar-store social centers or the saloon habitues? Are these alone turning the handle with such deadly result and Satanic merriment? By no means. For in the drawing-room, the parlor, on the veranda, and over the backfence are being served some of the nastiest dishes of gossip in the menu. How delighted everybody seems when a "good man goes wrong," as the saying goes. Whether he really has gone wrong or not, whether he has been done a cruel injustice or the reverse howev
er, or whatever, or whenever or where-t
ever with what universal and fiendish glee is he jumped upon by the elect and the sanctified. You will hear people imploring their God tearfully at the midweek prayermeeting to remove all sin from their hearts, to look charitably upon their human foibles, and, on the front steps of the church, stop and regale each other with the vilest tales of those of their own social and religious ilk. You will hear the best women in the town calmly tearing the reputation of one of their own sex to small bits and casting the latter forth to be blown whither the sociaF wind listeth. The strange and peculiar phase of gossip of this description, however, is that the gossiper never stops to think or reflect or consider what other gossipers may be saying of him or her. People who whisper and snicker in corners about other people seldom
think that somebody else may be saying the same things about them. And yet they're doing it. Purposely misconstruing every innocent action, misinterpreting the most natural behavior, putting an evil construction on the simplest and most harmless human procedure. But, they say, surely there must be some fire where there is so much smoke. This is one of those old saws which is honored in the breach. For never was there one more grossly mis-applied. Half the time it means absolutely nothing the other half nothing at all. Gossip, like a certain sort of insect, reproduces itself. It is created whole out of Us own ilth and multiplies endlessly. What can be said, however, of a state of social intercourse where thie is possible. For churches and schools and colleges and art museums and symphony concerts and missionaries and Christian Endeavor societies and associations for the boosting of culture, organizations for the spiritual uplift and all supposedly civilizing agencies which unite to push the soul on its upward way are as naught topple like a house of cards when the damning word is spoken. What can be thought of those excellent people who condemn on "they say" evidence. Who hand it on. Who say they really don't believe it and then proceed to plat out all its hideous details gleaned from the alley fence? Why is it that people are ulways so ready to believe the worst of their fellows ?
And not always ready, but glad. You know yourself you take certain satisfaction in hearing of the defection
of your dearest friend.
And are not averse to discussing it with your other dearest friend. Why can't people believe the good instead of the evil? But the good, if it is attributed, is always attributed with a proviso oh, yes, I admit he's good but! I know
i she's kind only!
Never a whole-hearted mead of praise. Always a complete, utter and entire damnation. Circumstantial evidence has sent
L'many an innocent man to the gallows.
Circumstantial gossip has thrown many a white life into the social offing. Bcil it down, nail your informer to the board, jam him right up against the wall and you'll find that it is almost invariably based on "they say." It's like nothing more than a bullfight where the spectators howl and scream and yell when the matador
sticks the tormented animal and the blood spurts into the arena. Like the blood-curdling yowls of the heathen when the Christians were thrown to the lions in a far away day. For this is what gossip does. It takes an innocent young life and hurls it into the whirlpool of its own vileness where to struggle and fight for existence. Any man or any woman who assists at this game is fit for nothing but the guillotine and slow torture by fire. A man who casts an unjust aspersion upon another man is a craven and a coward. But any man who says the damning word of an innocent young woman is the lowest thing God or the devil ever made. As for good women who delight in the evil tale of one of their own sex and who pass it on but, on reflection these women aren't good. They think they are. But they're not. They are a double distilled million times worse than she of whom they tell it. Women have a hard enough time in the world without being kicked along by other women. And still the latter are whispering and snickering and pointing the finger and delightedly giggling, unaware of the fact, as said before, that other women are doing the same thing about them. The whole mess of gossip is the one plague-spot on the social body. Eliminate gossip of this description and the world would be regenerated in a day. For nothing was ever truer than the saying that "there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." Nor that which says in effect "let him who is without sin throw the first stone." "Go and sin no more," said Christ. "Got caught, didn't you!" sneer his followers. But when it assails the innocent,
then those who project it are candidates for nothing but the pit where they should sizzle eternally over a 6low fire fed by their own base, degenerate and satanic villainy.
Cases In Point. Rivers Brooks, that's the second time I've heard you use the phrase "aching void." I wish you would tell me how a void can ache. Brooks Well, not to speak of fallow tooth, don't you sometimes have a headache? London Telegraph.
In th Mountains. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir.
Punishment For Whom? Boss Barber Yhat? You hare cut the gentleman four times? Well. Just for punishment you must shave him all over again right away! Fliegende Blatter.
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