Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 232, 3 August 1912 — Page 1

HCHMONB FA ,ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM .VOL. XXXVII. NO. 232. RICH3IOXD, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 3, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

OF CONTESTS IS HELD TODAY TThe Elimination of Southern Political Negro on Slate of the Progressive National Committee. SAYS IT WILL BE A BIG CONVENTION Delegations Are Arriving From a Large Number of States. Parker Mentioned for Vice-presidency. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 3 Elimination of Southern political negro from the new Progressive party was on the slate for j this afternoon. The elimination was expected to begin when the provisional national committee assembled at the Congress Hotel to hear delegate contests from three southern states. The contestants in most cases are negroes. Officially it was said that "regularity" was to be the tesC by which the delegates would find their way into their seats. The action of the committee, however, haB already been forecasted Jn the case of South Carolina, the only state that will not be represented in the national contention that meets Monday. In South Carolina a lot of negrq delegates were named without the authority of the Progressive manager. They have been repudiated by the national committee. The absence of the South Carolina delegation will not be missed in the national convention of the new party. Far fro mit. The national committee already has more delegates than it knows what to do with. The really big task that confronted it before its meeting today was making up the temporary roll 1 of the convention. The call provides that' there shall be 534 delegates. As a matter of fact the committee will have to give seats to approximately 1200 delegates possibly more. The Anal count is not in yet. Double Delegation. '-a Many states have elected dewfele deJ-4 cgations. Some have 1 elected three times the number provided for in the call. Connecticut enthusiastic over the Idea of the Bull Moose party, entitled I to seven delegates as the call was sent out, elected forty nine. They will be seated of course, and will be allowed one seventh of a vote each, which would make the work of the tellers pretty hard, provided there happened to be a hot fight for a nomination. Then there are the alternates to dispose of. There are not quite as many alternates as there are delegates, but there are more than the call asked for, and they too will be given chairs , on the convention floor. This unexpected demand for seats from the delegates has made the work of the arrangement committee difficult. It has been necessary to add to this space from time to time. And this has been done in the face of an unprecedented demand for Beats from spectators. The committee in charge is nearly s badly swamped as was the Republican national committee at the recent convention. Senator Dixon, chairman of the national committee, going over details today before the committee session, cast an eye over the voluminous roll, and listening to the wail of the arrangements committee that demanded Snore seats, smiled. "We are going to have one of the biggest national conventions that was ever held," he said. Final arrangements had to be gone fover and approved. The list of temporary officers, already prepared and announced, was to be submitted to the committeemen for formal approval. Parker Mentioned. Col. John M. Parker of New Orleans, -ho has been mentioned both as a vice-presidential possibility and permanent chairman, has arrived In Chicago. Col. Parker announced today that he would not accept a vice presidental nomination, were it tendered to him. He said he hoped to see the new party a "white men's" party and hoped that It would stand for deep waterways. He was ready to go on the floor of the convention, he said, and t fight for both issues. It is pretty generally believed among the delegates and leaders so far assembled that the negro question la the south will be solved by the method frequently suggested in Republican national conventions. A rule will be adopted basing the representation at the convention on the vote cast for the party. This, it is pointed out, would effectually end negro domination because the negro vote in the Isouth is negligible. DELEGATES ARRIVE. CHICAGO, Aug. 3. The provisional Rational committee of the Progressive party went Into session at noon tot-ay to consider delegate contests from s Mississippi. Georgia, Florida, Texas and Virginia. Delegates from these tales went before the committee assembled in the Congress hotel shortly after noon and the work of hearing Jie contests was taken up at once. During the day, delegates to the national convention which is to open r Costfi-ued on Pace KlChtJ

HEARING

TROUBLES OF PLATT FAMILY AIRED TODAY

Causes of Street Fight Between Piatt and Vincent Yesterday Afternoon Were Heard by Mayor. VINCENT WAS WITH MRS. HARVEY PLATT Mayor Orders Piatt to Remain Away from His Wife. The Case Is Taken Under Advisement. Accompanied into police court by his three small children Harvey Piatt, charged with assault and battery on morning and with his voice trembling Eugene Vincent, faced the mayor this with emotion explained his assault on Vincent yesterday afternoon. "He seduced my wife, and tried to ruin the reputation of my children, I saw him and my wife standing on the corner laughing and talking together, and I couldn't control myself any longer. I rushed up and hit him. I guess I'm guilty." No testimony was offered. Mrs. Piatt appeared in court, with a bruised eye, where Mrs. Vincent had "planted" a "fast one" the first of last week, but took no notice of her husband or of their three children. She sat on the chair in the witness row, and glanced out of the window when her husband tried to attract her attention, y Mayor Gives Advice. "You stay away from the woman and the man, and don't have anything to do with them" ordered the mayor, to Piatt, and then continued, stating he would take the case under advisement. Piatt was allowed to leave, the mayor stating that if a fine were assessed, he would be notified. The fight at Sixth and Main streets yesterday afternoon was also responsible for the arrest of Mrs. Piatt and Eugene Vincent- for assault and battery on Plitt.' Both pleade J norguRTTf and their cases were continued until next Wednesday - morning. They were released on bond of $25 each. Story of Fight. Piatt stated he saw the couple standing at the corner when he rushed up and struck Vincent, seized him, throwing the man over a brickpile. Piatt's wife then turned on her husband and scratched his face with her finger nails, inflicting several gashes and cuts. The arrival of Officer Vogelsong stopped the affray. Vincent claims Piatt tried to bite off his left small finger. He says Mrs. Piatt did not interfere in the fight, and that he did not strike Piatt until Piatt had started the fight. Vincent's face still bears marks of his wife's treatment, when It is said she gave him a beating on North Eighth Btreet recently. SLASHES HIS WIFE THEN KILLS SELF Columbus, Ind., Man, Be lieved Insane, Creates a Panic. (National News Association') COLUMBUS. Ind., Aug. 3. A large crowd at the Chautauqua ground here was thrown into a panic this forenoon when Ernest Miller, aged 28, son-in-law of former Judge Marshall Hacker, attempted to kill his wfe by stabbing her with a knife, while they were in a tent. " Miller afterward hanged himself in the county jail when he was left alone in the woman's department. He was found dead by the sheriff. Miller used his shirt and belt with which to com mit suicide. Mrs. Miller's condition was consid ered too critical to permit of her re moval from the grounds. She is expected to die at any moment. Miller stabbed her over the heart and then slashed her wrists and arms and was still brandishing the knife when' Miss Merle Anderson of Elizabethtown, hearing the woman scream, rushed in and dragged him Miller away from bis wife. Miller then attacked Miss Anderson but a large crowd of men rushed in, therw him to the ground, and bound him hand and foot with a rope.! In overpowering and disarming Miller several of the men were injured but none seriously. A few weeks ago a lunacy commission was held on Miller but his condition later improved and he was not i committed to the asylum. When taken to the jail, Miller stated that he thought his wife did not love him any more, and he wanted her to die first THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair and continued cool tonight and Sunday. '

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MRS. DAISY ILIFF IN ACCIDENT Knocked to Street by a Bicycle Rider. w Joseph Iliff, former owner of the W11 Hotelwasjrcry seriously, injured yesterday morning when he was knocked down by an unknown bicycle rider. Mr. Iliff was knocked to the street and it was necessary to call an ambulance to remove him to his home. He was badly bruised about the head and legs. The accident occurred at Ninth and Main streets. His condition today isvery much improved. INTEREST IS REVIVED iln New Castle -Richmond Proposed Line. Interest is revived in the long pro posed traction line between Richmond . and New Castle. It is said that surveyors will commence in a few days j to map out a right-of-way from New i PoctlA nopflllal vi H hi Pannartvqnl. u V - . tti. l, V. 11 -. J 1 T uuia railroad through Ashland Mill ill TX . . V Hagerstown and. Greensfork to Rich - . mond. The survey is to be made under the j direction of the Honey Bee line which has several routes under consideration. IS First Overcoat .of. Season Seen. on Streets. Is The , tret overcoat worn on the streets this season was seen last evening. The man wearing the "top-j coat" also wore a straw : hat and despite the odd combination he appeared to be complacent and apparently did not notice the curious glances shot ' at him as he passed pedestrians on the street. The straw hat season is rapidly vanishing. The lowest temperature for the twenty-four hours ending last evening, as registered at the local weather station was 65. CHANGE OF VENUE IN THREE CASES The case of Ella Vincent vs. Eugene Vincent for divorce will be tried in the rnAl. : . - t venue. The Central Hotel Co. for a retail liquor license will be tried in the Fayette circuit court on' a change of venue. - The case of James Wharton for a re-

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toil liquor license in Cambridge City j charged his wife, drugged and shot field. There is no Republican aspirwill be heard in the Fayette court on ; him, intending to kill him to get ant

a change of venue.

THE WANT AD COLUMNS . reach thousands. They will carry your message and will BRING TO YOU RESULTS

Her Not Guilty

GRACE AND HER HUSBAND, EUGENE GRACE.

MRS. DAISY GRACE FOUNDJOT GUILTY She Was Charged with Having Attempted to Kill Her Husband. (National News Association) ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 3. Mrs. Daisy Opte Grace was declared not guilty of trying to kill her husband by a jury here at 5 o'clock last evening. Mrs. Grace, wealthy and well known in her ' former home in Philadelphia and here, was on the verge of collapse when the twelve men who had decided her fate filed into the courtroom. When the verdict was announced she simply bowed her head. A few minutes after she had been freed she was handed a telegram saying her blind son was very ill in Philadelphia and she left for his bedside late tonight. Immediately after the verdict was given women struggled frantically to reach the place where Mrs. Grace sat, only to be forced back by officers. The jurymen remained in their places even after they had been d is-. i . . . ... . . . n V. n n. rt A n I T Mlmti.n filrmons. n n 1 uai 6 u - imt umuic cmijocu, auu Ithen Mrs. Grace arose and was assist- ! . . . . i ed to the jury box. For the first time i . . j . sue suuweu a sigii ui auuuiiuuu, as sii lently she grasped the hand of each of the twelve men. Mrs. Grace was escorted from the courtroom immediately afterward. Counsel for Mrs. Grace charged that lawyers for the state had wilfully withheld evidence in their prosecution, when arguing for her acquittal. They accused state attorneys of executing a "theatrical plot" when they brought Grace, wounded, into court, and said it was aimed to cause Mrs. Grace to collapse. "The state refused to introduce this power of attorney by which she gave her all to Grace," explaimed Moore, waiving a document in the direction of the state's lawyers. "From the very first, since the oth of March, it has been the intention of these lawyers representing the state and Grace not to bring out the truth. And they have persevered in this before the jury." Referring to the medicine with which, the prosecution contended. Mrs. Grace drugged her husband before she shot him, the attorney for the defense said: 'They have tried - to convey the idea that she planned to drug Grace with this medicine, which Grace, who was at their beck and call, knew he : bought himself, and which they knew ' . . . . . . ....... he bought." We had to introduce the

evidence that he bought. It-". itucky's new law for. making nominaGrace was found, in bed at his home ' tions is being held today. In the fourth here the morning of March 5 last, shot district an Interesting fight is on for in .the side. The bullet lodged against the Democratic nomination for conthe spinal cord and since he has been gress to succeed Senator-elect OIlie

Inaralvzed from his waist down. He

$25,000 insurance. , in Louisville the strange spectacle Mrs. Grace said Grace shot himself Is presented of a primary being held in a scuffle with her. over possession though there is not a single contest of a revolver after he had threatened for a nomination in either party. Desto kill her. fpite this 226 polling places will be Mrs. Grace at first maintained she open all day and the election officers

knew nothing of the shooting. Yesterday she was placed on the witness stand and told the story of the scuffle, adding that Grace had threatened to kill her several times.

of the Charge

ROBBED ON STREET Arnett Alleges Men Took $35 from Him. tt-k- ww on Ttorrr Kttie police characters who have been In. police court several times, are -now wanted by the police for the robbery of B. H. Arnett, of Lynn, Ind., on Ft Wayne avenue last night at 10 o'clock. Arnett reporte'd the matter to the j police this morning but neither of the j two wanted men have been apprehend ed. The men crowded him on Ft. Wayne avenue, Arnett alleges, and took from his pocket a purse containing $35. T Both Suits Brought on Abandonment Charge. Divorce Day was celebrated as usual by Judge Fox in the Wayne circuit court this morning. Delia Catey was freed from the bonds of matrimony from George Catey. The charge was abandonment. Arthur Nuss was granted a divorce from Ethel Nuss, on the grounds of abandonment. no ASSIST Former Local Man Member of Committee. (Palladium Special) INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 3. Fred B. Johnson, a prominent member of the Indiana Democratic club, has been selected secretary of the general arrangements committee for the exercises attendant on the notification of Governor Marshall of his selection by the Democrats as their vice presidential candidate. Robert E. Springsteen is chairman of the committee. Mr. Johnson is an Indianapolis attorney and a former newspaper man of Richmond. He will have charge of the entire publicity work of the notification day program. KENTUCKY HOLDING STATE-WIDE PRIMARY LOU1SVILLE, Ky Aug. 3. The first state-wide primary under KenJamm with fmir rw-mivrat. tn th will go through all the forms of a primary at an expense of several thousand dollars because the primary law failed to provide . for declaring nomination when there is bo contest.

GRUNTS

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ATTENDANCE AT REPUBLICAN WARD MEETINGS VERY SMALL

SAYS PHONE RATE INCREASE IS JUST Telephone Official Says that the Committee Will Find It So. The pending investigation of the City Council Telephone committee, will undoubtedly develop just reasons why the Richmond Home Telephone! company has the power to increase the rates, according to a statement made by Supt. Wm Bailey. It is purely a business proposition on the part of the telephone company said Mr. Bailey, and is merely the carrying out of the contract which was made with the city several years ago when it accept ed the franchise which was turned down by the Bell Telephone company. At the present time Richmond has cheaper phone service than the small town of Greensfork and also as cheap in proporltion as that offered by the Indianapolis. Cincinnati and Chicago companies. In Greensfork the rate is $12 per year. The Greensfork company has 300 subscribers. In Richmond Ave years ago the cost of the single line phone was $18 per year. At this time there were 2200 phones. At the present time, the rate since the increase is $21 and there are 3500 phones, the superintendent said. This makes the rate six mills per annum for each subscriber, for the cost of each call. In Indianapolis, there are 15,000 and the rate is $48. This makes a rate of three mills per annum for each call. The rate here since the increase Is $21 for straight line and the party lines varying as to the number of each line. The increase amounts to twentylive cents a month. With this increase the subscribers may call 3499 other phones. The contract with the city provided an increase in rates when the company secured three thousand subscribers. The agreement first was that the company accept the franchise turned down by the Bell company. "The Home Telephone company put m unuergrouna cunuuus ana a new automatic exchange costing $275,000." said Mr. Bailey, "The committee from the council met with the officers of the telephone company last week. The committee stated they had been informed that certain subscribers were being permitted to use their phones at the old rate. The party making such statement is in error. "The average cost of installing the phone and connecting it with the station is $125, while in smaller places the cost is only 35 or less. When there are on an average fourteen calls per day from each phone, or some 50,000 during the day the expenses of keeping men with training to keep phones in repair, the battery, consumption, and other wear of machinery, the cost of the up-keep of such plant rapidly multiplies. Five or six years ago the city desired to do away with the overhead wires. The city made a proposition to the Bell company which was rejected. ; They then made up the same proposi tion, we accepted. We have went to the expense of $275,000 In making Richmond one of the most complete and up-to-date exchanges in this part of the country. The company has carried out its part of the contract to the letter, and we now have above the required number of phones, and have raised our rates. "Since the increase in rates we have lost about seventy-five subscribers, but many of these have asked to have their phones replaced and in addition we had received a number of new subscribers." The council committee has asked for a list or subscribers and the investigation will probably be ended within the next two weeks, when a complete report will be filed' with council by Mat Von Pein, charman of this com mittee. HIPSKIND TO BUY A STONE CRUSHER John HIpskind, of the firm of Hipskind and So as, contractors, has purchased several acres of farm land

south of the city and will install a big; toted and at 8 o'clock Albert Oler.v rock crushing plant estimated to costiPfttlPth Wlipd ,M(,., look th ftr.

about $10,000. HIpskind bas the contract for macadamizing and grading the Liberty pike for a considerable distance and will secure the crushed rock for use on the road by crushing the rock at his own plant. He will install a forty horsepower motor to operate his plant, using a "clam shell" derrick to load the stone, and placing a line of tracks about the farm to load his cars on. FOX IS TO DECIDE A DAMAGE CASE Judge Fox will leave next Tuesday for Winchester where he will hold court Wednesday in the Randolph cir-; en it court. The case of Daniel P. 1 Jackson vs. the Interstate Automobile company will be tried on a change of : venue from Delaware county. Jack-; son was employed by the Interstate as j a painter and while performing his , duties was run over by a test car, ser- i iously injuring him. it Is alleged. .

TOTAL NUMBER AT MEETINGS DID NOT EXCEED A HUNDRED

There Was No Meeting in the Eighth Ward, and Only Four Republican Voters at Second Ward Meeting. DELEGATES CHOSEN TO 2 CONVENTIONS Old Guard Leaders Are Busily Engaged Today Giving Various Reasons for the Slight Attendance. Republican meetings In every ward in the city, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate to the state and district conventions, were scheduled for last evening, but no meeting was held In the eighth ward and in the second there was such a small number in attendance, four to 1 be exact, that no delegates nor alter nates were chosen. In the spring when ward meetings were held for the purpose of electing delegates and alternates to the state and district conventions which named delegates to the national convention, the total attendance was between 1,000 and 1,500. Last night the total attendance did not exceed 100, It It reached that number. Some of the local Old Guard leadera are busily engaged today explaining that the slight attendance at the ward meetings last night was due to the fact that the bulk of the Republican voters had "previous engagements." Flrat Want. At the First ward meeting there were thirteen present, three of them being negroes. The chairman oftb meeting was Clark Thomas. The following convention delegatea and tlternatea were chosen: State Clark Thomas. - delegate; Louis Knopf, alternate. District Simpson Oxendlne. delegate; H. G. Draper, alternate. Second Ward. At the Second ward meeting it developed that there are at least four residents that still claim to be Republicans. They are Councilman Jesse Evans. Ward Chairman George Bishop and Robert Davis and Robert White. All four attended the meeting. Mr. White did not tarry long, but the remaining three waited for three-quar ters of an hour for the "crowd" to show up. bnt the "crowd" never came. The meeting then adjourned without any election. Mr. ' Bishop stated be would confer with County Chairman Will Robbins. regarding the appointment of delegates and alternates from the Second ward. Third Ward. At the Third ward meeting Edgar Norris presided as chairman. A few days ago be sought to be elected by the Wayne county Progressive mass meeting as a delegate from his ward to the state Progressive convention He was unsuccessful, bat be aceotav panied the Wayne county Progressiva delegation to Indiana polia i" with th.m at that rniiTmittai - -

The following delegates and alter-' nates were elected by the twelve men who attended the meeting: State George Catea and Frank Cor- -rell, delegates; Lewis Iliff and Frank Cronin, alternate. District S. T. Henning and John s Pelts, delegates; 1. 1. Drnry and John f. L. Rupe, alternates. Fourth Warrf. " It was a disgruntled "body" of old line Republicans which met at the lower floor of the K. of P. temple at " the call of the Republican county chairman, to elect delegates and alternates to the state and district Republican conventions, - There were tea present. The meeting waa achednled to be called at 7:30 but those present . , at that time decided to wait until t o'clock in anticipation that more r would strar In. But they were disao- 1

The delegates chosen for the st-t convention were Walter Jobnaon axui Albert Oler. with E. H. Davenport azdl William E. Eikenberry as alternate. The delegates to the district conveotion are Roy Babylon and J. L. Y.'Achins, with George Zuttenneister t-d Joseph Edwards, as alternates. Following the disposal of the tr Jness specified in the call. Mr. Oler ai- ; ed if any one had anything to cy. about the political situation. Deaul silence. A reporter waa sitting la the room. Mr. Davenport glanced at kiss (Continued on Page Six) When you take your vacation let the PallaoV ium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 25.