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THE RICHMOND PAI LADIUM AND ; SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1012-

FIRST PROGRESSIVE

STATE IS The Report of the Resolutions Committee, Made This Afternoon, Declares for Number of Reforms. (Continued from Page One) ter of Madison. Alternate delegates are Harold Hobbs, Carl Payne, Dr. Warren Calvin, William T. Adams, E. F. Warfel and Edgar Baldwin. The liquor plank adopted reads as follows: We hold that the liquor traffic is a moral question and that ts solution rests wholly in the moral and religious altitude of the people themselves; that the moral and religious attitude, of the people of Indiana can and will be honestly expressed on the liquor question, only when it is wholly divorced from politics. As a permanent solution we agree to enact the Initiative and referendum through which method a vote of the whole people honestly expressed without bias or prejudice or party politics may be had. In the meantime, we favor county local option as a temporary relief. ENTHUSIASM UNEQUALED. Indianapolis, Aug. 1. Four thousand Indiana Progressives met in Tomlinson Hall at 10:30 this morning in the first state convention of the new party. For enthusiasm no convention in the history of political parties in this state has ever equaled it. Time and again when the band, stationed in the balcony, in the rear of the hall, struck up a patriotic air, the delegates and the spectators in the gallery made the hall ring with their cheers. Every one of the ninety-two counties of the state was represented by a full delegation. The convention consisted of 1,441 delegates, slightly more than the number that attended tha Republican state convention last March, which road-rollered Taft dele-gates-at-large into the Chicago convention. That former-Senator A. J. Beveridge will be nominated for governor is am assured fact, and there is a strong sentiment favoring Frederick K. Landis, former congressman from the Eleventh Indiana district for lieutenant governor; Clifford Jackman of Wabash, for secretary of state, and Harvey E. Cushman of Daviess county, for state auditor. For other offices competition is open to several candidates. . Recommends Option Plank. After an all-night session the platform framers decided to recommend a plank calling for the re-establishment of the county option law. . The credentials committee announced before the opening of the convention hat there were ' no contests to report. Horace G. Stillwell, " of Anderson, was elected permanent chairman, and Harvey B. Stout, Jr., of Indianapolis, was chosen permanent secretary. Following the reading of the call by State Chairman Lee, which set the convention wild with enthusiasm, Temporary Chairman Frederick K. Landis, began his key note speech, after being accorded a remarkable ovation. The address of Frederick K. Landis was interspersed with epigrams for which Landis is noted. Mr. Landis described the Chicago convention as a place where "force was the guest of fraud." "We hated goebelism before Kentucky drove it out," the speaker 6aid. "And we will not let it live in Indiana. "The battle is against reactionary and the battle will be won. "Government cannot stop industrial evolution. "We are going to take the government from Wall street back to Washington." Landis, in the course of his remarks brought on a storm of cheers, which lasted fully ten minutes when he mentioned tho name of Mr. Beveridge, referring to him as the prince of Progressives. Principles of Party. Landis then began to lift the principles for which the Progressive party stands. He said the party would regulate trusts by legislation and not by law suits, mentioning in this con nection, that it has taken the administration nearly as long to make the astonishing discovery that the Standard Oil company is a trust as it did for Lincoln to put down the rebellion. "We are going to take the government of this state down to the fireside by the Initiative, referendum and recall," he said. "Privilege has de stroyed the substance of representa-1 tive government but has kept its form. "If the legislature passes bad bills we are going to veto them at the ballot box. "We are going to let the people recall dishonest officials. We are going to let them initiate good legislation, "We are going to have the referendum on all public franchises. We are going to majce J he corporations buy franchises instead of buying public officers. We are going to have a primary law which will extend from the court house to the Whit house." He advocated tb commission form of government and woman's suffrage. . Then Mr. Landis created the sensation of the forenoon by stating "Until the establishment of the initiative and referendum we favor the county option unit." A battery cf camera flashlights went off at this minute and the crowd cheered itself hoarse. The platform as drafted will contain the county local option plank as a temporary measure until the Initiative

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and referendum are adopted. Rudolph G. Leeds of Richmond, who made tha fight against the plank, stated this morning he had found himself in the minority and would not continue the fight in the convention. One of the spectacular incidents during Landis' reference to woman suffrage an Indianapolis News boy entered the convention hall and began giving away papers.

BASEBALL RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Won Lost Pet. New York 67 24 .736 Chicago 57 34 .626 Pittsburg 52 37 .584 Philadelphia 45 43 .489 Cincinnati 45 49 .479 St. Louis 41 54 .432 Brooklyn 35 59 .372 Boston 25 65 .278

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 7; Cincinnati, 0. St.-Louis, 4-0; Philadelphia, 2-6. Chicago, 11; Brooklyn, 4. Pittsburg, 7; Boston, 6 (19 innings.) GAMES TODAY. Chicago at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at Boston. Cincinnati at New York (2 games.) St. Louis at Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEAGUE-

Won Lost Pet. Boston 67 30 .691 Washington 60 37 .619 Philadelphia 55 41 .573 Chicago 48 46 .511 Detroit 48 50 .490 Cleveland 45 52 .464 New York 31 61 .337 St. Louis '. 28 65 .301

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Detroit, 4; Washington, 1. New York, 12; Chicago, 3. Boston, 4; St. Louis, 1. GAMES TODAY. Washington at Detroit. Philadelphia at Cleveland. New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won l ost Pet. Minneapolis 69 Columbus . 68 Toledo 67 Kansas City 53 St. Paul 49 Milwaukee 47 Louisville 42 Indianapolis 40 39 40 40 55 62 60 65 73 .639 .630 .626 .491 .441 .439 .393 .354 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Indianapolis, 7-2; St. Paul, 6-7 (first game 11 innings; second game called in seventh.) Minneapolis, 3-0; Toledo, 0-2. Louisville, 4-5; Kansas City, 3-1 (first game 10 innings.) Columbus, 4; Milwaukee, 2. GAMES TODAY. St. Paul at Indianapolis. Minneapolis at Toledo. Kansas City at Louisville. Milwaukee at Columbus. MOTORCYCLE NOTES Following are gome things which motorcyclists should not forget: That oil is cheaper than repairs. That a wrench in time saves nine. Try all nuts and screws occasionally. That motorcycles will not run unless there is gasoline in the tank and the battery plug is in place. "That loose, dirty or broken electrical connections are responsible for three-fourths of the misflrings and stoppages. Don't "tear things apart" until you have thoroughly tested every connection. That blowing into the tank will frequently correct carburetter or feed troubles. That "dead" batteries can be revived by being saturated with warm water or vinegar. That riding with mufflers open is a practice that makes enemies for motorcycling and leads to accidents and law suits. That dirty mufflers are frequent causes of unsuspected losses of power and other troubles. That necessity is the mother of Invention. When in trouble, think. That all motorcycle contests, except closed amateur club contests, must be sanctioned by the F. A. M., and all contestants must be members and have a fully paid up membership card. Don't participate if they are not. That it pays to observe not only the rules but the courtesies of the road. One of the most common ailments that hard working people are afflicted with is lame back. Apply Chamberlain's liniment twice a day and massage the parts thoroughly at each application, and you will get quick relief. For sale, by all dealers. AMERICAN JOCKEY MAKES GOOD ABROAD (National News Association) GOODWOOD, Eng., Aug. 1. Danny Maher, the American jockey, csptured another race here today whei he piloted Day Comet in first in the Prince of Wales stakes. Doris with Woottoon up was second, and Horibeata, ridden by Foy, third. , CHAUFFEUR FINED Edward Hintine, a chauffeur, was fined and costs in police court this morning for driving his car across a street, interrupting a funeral procession, July 30. He stated he did not know the nature of the procession.

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LAPP LECTURES TO LIBRARYSTUDENTS Says that Library Should Keep Index of All City Ordinances. John A. Lapp, Librarian of the Legislative Reference Department of the Indiana State Library, lectured before the Library school at Earlham college on Municipal reference work of a small public library yesterday. "The public today expects library efficiency and efficiency is interpreted to mean practical use," said Mr. Lapp. "It is not the "business of the Public library to preserve books but to collect tnd prepare them for the use of the community which supports the library. It is the function of the library to meet the needs of every individual, every society and organization working for public well-fare. One of its greatest obligations and one, which if fulfilled will render efficient service to the whole community, is supplying municipal officers and civic organizations with material which relates to municipal problems of vital interest. "It is the business of the librarian to call the attention of these people to the books and pamphlets in the library on municipal subjects. If a city is studying the sewerage question, the librarian should get the best information on the subject and notify the city officers that such information is in the library. The same thing should be done with all questions relating to public health food inspections, tenement house regulations, health inspections and any other municipal questions. It is the business of the librarian to be in touch with the work of the public schools and to know the teachers personally. It also is his business to know each city official, and to find out from him in a diplomatic way what things the library can do to help him in his work. The librarian should understand the work of every department of city governmenL For the legal phase of city government the library can do little more than keep an index of all the city ordinances, and all state laws relatlilt) W Ml U&A&WA ISM. -( VS V U AM UJ v. . - i building up a collection of books relating to civic topics, municipal and state proceedings and reports, publications of such societies as the National Municipal League, Association of Municipal Improvements and League of American Municipalities, any public library can meet the need of its city officers and civic organizations with a very little expenditure of money. If the local library can not furnish such information the librarian should write to the Legislative Reference Department of the Indiana State Library for help. This Department will give advice on ony municipal question and will send from its large collection any needed material." WILL H0LDA PICNIC Prohibitionists to Gather at Jackson's Park. The Prohibitionists of Wayne County will hold their annual picnic at Jackson park, Friday, August 2. Dr. W. H. Hickman, Prohibition candidate for governor, is expected to be present, as will also, State Chairman F. W. Lough. The Clarions, a musical organization of Indianapolis, wili iuiuisu lae music All Prohibitionists, as well as others are very cordially invited to attend. Births. To Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Pinnlck, 211 South Fourteenth street, boy.

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BURNS SCORES AGAIN

IN NEW YORK SCANDAL Expects to "Get" All the Police Grafters.- Worked Six Months on Case. (National News Association") NEW YORK, Aug. 1 For months before Herman Rosenthal was shot down in the heart of New York's White Light district detectives employed by millionaires of this city had been tracing police corruption. Their campaign is still going on and Dis trict Atty. Whitman will soon spring a trap that will catch high officials who have benefited from the blackmail levied upon gamblers and other lawbreakers. This was today's most sensational development in the police scandal and hunt for the murderers of Rosenthal. The men who plotted the death of Rosenthal knew nothing of the detectives on their trial. They thought that by removing Rosenthal before he betrayed their operations they would escape prosecution. Shortly after Rosenthal was killed it was announced that Detective W. J. Burns had been engaged to track the gamblers slayers. As a matter of fact it was learned today Burns and his men had been at work for six months in an investigation of the alliance between police and gamblers. They secured the necessary evidence but the confessions of Jack Rose, Louis Webber and Harry Vallon have strengthened the hand of the district attorney. One of the connecting links in the evidence is to be forged through the testimony of Samuel Sehapps, the suspect who yesterday notified Mr. Whitman that he would surrender today. Schepps is alleged to have been the paymaster of the murder crew that assassinated Rosenthal. According to Jack Rose, $1,000 was turned over to Schepps to pay the assassins. There is not a detail of the crime with which Schepps is not perfectly familiar with and preparations were made at the district attorney's office for a long and interesting session with him. As was the case with each of the other men now in . . prison saving only the policeman, . oi. . Becker, Schepps" coming can be charged to the activity of the police. His attorney arranged for the man to come in and join the "squeal" chorus. Reports that Commissioner Waldo will resign grew persistent today. He refused to comment on this, saying only that he welcomes any investigation of the department. THREE MORE ARE HELD. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. l.-r-Tbree Italians are being held here today on suspicion that they may be able to throw some light on the killing of James Varella, a New York cafe proprietor whose death was said to have been his reward for "squealing" onDago Frank Ciroclci. The men who gave the names of Coffura Costino, of New York; Gustano Parise of New York, and John Bellanista of Philadelphia, were arrested upon the arrival of the New York limited "last night. The men by their actions on the train ld the conductor to suspect them and he telegraphed ahead to have officers at the station. The men are well supplied with money and tell conflicting stories. AL WIGGS ARRESTED Al Wiggs, very drunk, and who was t wag arrested tnia after noon by Officer Lawler. He was charged with public intoxication. SUITS FILED The following suits were filed with the county clerk this morning: Mira L. Christian vs. J. H. Christman, suit in replevin. Romey Furniture Co. vs. H. J. Klerean, replevin for the possession of personal p-ropsrty.

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On Our Celebrated System Reveals Many Marvels in Tactical Operations and Shows You Can Ride Any Place in More Time than It Takes to Walk.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. I've just had a ride on our temper amental street-cars, said bal. Indeed," murmured the cynic po litely. 'And feel better." 'Better?" "Yes," returned Sal. "why not?" "Thou wert ever enigmatic, my Sal." cried the cynic idly blowing cigarette rings into the ambient atmosphere. I object to being called your Sal, expostulated Sal. "I'm not your Sal don't want to be or anybody else s. Nevertheless you're mine," grinned the cynic. Besides I heard you were married. continued Sal. "What! ! !" exclaimed the cynic. "Of course not I Just said that for fun. However what's a wife or two In the offing nowadays." "I fear you are confusing me with Nat Goodwin." Interpolated the cynic. "I'm not an actor I'm a " "Cynic," finished Sal. "Yes if you insist and not so bad at that." "Oh, no," replied Sal, "you do well enough for a man. Men can't help being the way they are born that way created for the express -purpose of be ing that way. All the same I despise a man who goes craay over any set of petticoats that swirls round the corner Notwithstanding Mr. Bernard Shaw women are far more fastidious than men. Just any man won't do " "Maybe not for you. Sal but for most of 'em," again grinned the cynic "I don't believe it," cried Sal. "Any man for any woman," explained the cynic. "You see very few people are fastidious, either men or women Its a mere matter of propinquity. Half of the marriages are made because two people are accidentally thrown into each other's society or have always lived in the same town or " "You destroy every illusion," cried Sal. "I don't think its that way at all its Fate." "Pooh," said the cynic. "You've been reading Susan Marr Spaulding's poem. You've got romantic, silly notions in your head. Now the only reason you like me" "'The only reason!'" quoted Sal. "By that you imply there is a reason. Maybe I don't like you at ; all who knows?" "As you well say quien sabe?" "Here we are," said Sal, "talking on j the man and woman question again. I intended to stop it Well, why don't you?" The sublimated nerve of that ques tion!" said Sal. "Besides I told you I find men amusing I despise them but they do well enough to pass away the time with" "On the street-cars?" "Well we got back to it at last," said Sal. "For It is the truth that if you're feeling rather melancholy and abused and generally flabbergasted and will board one of our palatial cars you forget everything the horrid men you thought were nice the crop of duns percolating through the post office the the " "Oh go on, Sal," said the cynic. "Why get on the street-cars and you will find plenty to amuse you of one sort or another. "In instance you may take a car to. say Easthaven. I did the other day. But first I had to wait for about an hour on the corner of Eighth and Main. "The passing show at that metropol itan congested center is of more or less interest to the curbstone student of human nature but, after a time, as street cars pass merrily on their way to Fairview, didder round the belt. wabble out toward Glen Park and ca. reen toward Beallvlew the contempla tion of the interurban type of counte nance palls. "And you wonder idly If your car may or may not happen along tomorrow. "At one hour and twenty minutes after the beginning you see It sliding up Main street at the rate of one hun dred miles an hour. The lone passen ger or two tacking about like a boat crossing the Irish Channel In a violent storm." 'Your figures of speech are not without picturesqueness," Interpolated the cynic. 'Well, anyway, said Sal, "you get on your car after this prolonged inter val and are acrobatically towed to ward your destination which is, say. along the highway now In process of construction by the County Commis sioners at the rate of one hundred thousand dollars to the cubic foot and which it is reliably said will be com pleted In 1931. "Pshaw, Sal," puffed the cynic, "it only cost the County $a5,600. You shouldn't speak in this extravagant fashion. Its misleading." "Well all I know is that if the worn en had charge of the thing It would have been finished long ago even if it had cost the same," replied Sal. "How ever that Is of no consequence. We are still on the street car." "Why I thought you got off." "Oh, yes, so I did got off. Well time passed along. You may have been playing golf with a tryo who still could wipe up the golf links with you on his first try-out, or again, you may have been calling on Marguerite and passing the intervening spaces In pleasant abuse of all your dearest friends, or "Who was the tryo?" asked the cynic removing his cigarette. "I trust, my dear, that you are not falling into " "Certainly not," replied SaL "I don't know Nat Goodwin. Please don't inter rupt. I'm trying to be entertaining " "Why I thought" "Well, I am. You wait until a car goes up the track. Ton decide that you won't take it since its a olosed car. Why, In the name of all we reverence d othey run closed cars in the summer time? And they always pursue me. No matter when or where Its a doe-

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ed car for me. I decide, then, to wait' until the next open one comes. To my j Intense surprise one chases M'sieu the closed rar down the track, and at til an. ' other open chariot follows within my bewildered vision. "Good!" I exclaim, "I .will wait for the first open car. and seat myself 1 complacently by the wayside or on the grassy lee "as the case may be." Comes along closed car. Passed up by me. Comes toboganning down the ' hill the open chaise for municipal transportation. I arise gracefully, sig nal the conductor discreetly, straight en my hat and prepare to swing ath letically aboard but I dont have a chance. The car glides swiftly past the while I am given the merry ha! ha! by a bunch of degenerate roadmakers " Good heavens, Sal, your 'langwidge' is ferocious a school teacher shouldn't say "bunch' " "After an interminable time another open car comes along and obligingly stops. "The start toward town is made. "We reach the car-barns. "There we slow up. The conductor alights and leisurely proceeds a centimeter or two to the south. There he deploys with other attaches, more or less grimy, of the greatest street-car system this side of Centerville. They make merry. Engage in joshing matches and the exchange of strange and barbaric epigrams. "In the meantime the motorman disports himself in the offing by the roadside and consumes the contents of a tin lunch-pail "You gare amiably at the scenery. But hist! 1st not an interurban whistle In the distance? So thinks the motorman for be leaps to the parapet, turns on the current or whatever it may be that propels our cars in their vague courses and off we careen toward ' the switch. There we spend another pleasant Interval gazing toward the court-house roof which Is really not so far away as you might imagine. "Finally we switch back and get us hence another square. There we slide gracefully Into the discard and seemingly for a prolonged sojourn. The motorman exchanges light bandinage with infantile citizens on the corner and shys stones at the sparrows. Here we sit the while we are joined by two interurbans which are evidently wait ing for some momentous event. The motormen of these haughty vehicles of rural traffic gaze anxiously from the watch-tower while the passengers loll out of the .windows and stare rudely at the occupants of the lowly street cars. 'In the meantime the latter become jocose. One man asks where the diner is while another suggests laying In the winter coal. Another still remarks that the night draws nigh and that we may as well have family prayers. 'Wild sounds are heard in the direc tion of the main street bridge and, be fore you can count nine, three cars chase each other with unseemly pro pinquity toward the setting sun. The Interurbans draw and fill and fnally reach the main rail thoroughfare and we, in turn, are landed on that portion of the track that projects us toward the seething marts of commerce. "When we reach home we find Ellen calmly eating supper. "She had walked to town and beat us half an hour. "'We'?" Inquired the cynic, "who's we?" "I speak, as It were editorially," said SaL "Amiable as thy Intent was, tn'dear," said the cynic reaching for his hat. "It FKXIGHEA Sperlr Electric Fixtures Direct rrom maker to yosi RARE VALUES Craighead Co. tlO Main SU fr fr HUCKLEBERRIES .-fr fr For Canning "fr fr At EGGEMEYER'S 4- Two Stores .j. FUNK & MILLER

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didnt succeed. I do not find you amusing today." I dont give the celebrated diag tf

! you donV replied SaL "Thla ia my off, i day when I perfectly Bate tke stgtt t' "Dont say It dont yomll regret It!" cried the cynic making off. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Warren W. Glfford to Jno. B. Do. gan, July 10. 1911. l. Ft. lot 411 Elita beth Starr's add. Richmond. Cora Clark, to Wm. F. Ella XL Schooley. July 27. 1$12. $1. Pt- lot S8. C. W. Starrs' add. Richmond. CamL McCain to Emma Harvey Macy. May 25. 1912. $130. Lot 165 Ben ton Heights. BOSTON PEOPLE LOOK FOR $40,000,000 CROOK (National New AumU(Iod) BOSTON. Aug. 1. The Boston and Providence people who put $100,000 in promoter John R. Hod son's company, organized to Improve Boston harbor to the extent of $40,000,000 sow think they have been swindled. They would like to have Hod son to return from London or wherever else he may be and explain where the mooey went The company was called the Port of Boston Docks and Warehouse company. Lawyer Edwin Ulmer. formerly cleric of the concern, who has been retained to look for the interests of the Investors, says: "Criminal action will be instituted against Hodson." When last heard from the company had been sold out to a London corporation. 4 KILLED IN FIGHT ON STEAMER AT DANCE (National News Association) MEMPHIS, Aug. 1. The coroner today is Investigating the deaths of three men and a woman killed In a fight on the excursion steamer Pattona last night at Helena. Ark. The dead: Jerry McNalL Wm. Moore, Fred Butts and Minnie Smith. Six are said to have been wounded. ine rations leri Aiempnis on an excursion for Helena. The fight occurred during a dance given on the boat. BUY YOUR Shingles and Siding Of THE MILLER KEMPER CO, Phone 3247 Jsj sls) slj s)s) sJsi sis) Jsi slj SJ Os) 4s) (sW s)Jtf HUCKLEBERRIES fr . For Canning . At EGGEMEYER'S fr Two Stores -fr t Hadley's Grocery t t for Baked Ham (cooked t t done), and Fresh Potato t t Chips. t OLIVER VISIBLE TYPEWRITER for Sale Cheap. XWTecV sondltlon and does splendid writing. Could ship on approval and trial. Write to Charles W. RIckart. Aasedale. Kass. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS The Foster Construction Co, have opened a factory for the manufacture of Cement Blocks. Copings. Porch Col umns. Caps Sills, etc, at Tte Old If m Works. They have a complete outfit of nod ern machinery and are using nothing but washed and graded materials la all their work. If you are a contractor It win pay you to use the best materials obtainable. If you are going to built it will pay you to insist that your contractor use the Foster Constrnctlon Co.'s products. Would be pleased to have call at Factory and f . Mil - . Res. 2529 or Factory 340. FUNK & MILLER