Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 233, 5 August 1912 — Page 1

HONB faixadium: AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 233. RICHMOND, IND., 3IONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 5, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. IS POETS FAMILY NOW SPLIT BY POLITICS PROGRESS! CONVENTION ON Named for Lieutenant Governor

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9 TOWNSHIPS &nd Draft Is Being Used by Old Guard to Secure Delegates to the State G. O. P; Convention. COUNTY CHAIRMAN PLANS TO RETIRE Secretary Brooks and Other Central Committeemen to Follow the Example that Robbins Will Set. The Republican county central committee was making desperate efforts today to 111 up the wide gaps In the county delegation to the state convention, which meets tomorrow at Indianapolis. In two wards of the city no delegates were elected Friday night and 9 townships failed to hold meetings Saturday afternoon, consequently the central committee has been placed In a very embarrassing situation. The committee decided today to fill the vacancies in Wayne county's standpat battalion to the state convention by exercising thej draft as there has been no response to the call for volunteers, "'v'.' ' Only three of the former 500 Wayne township Republicans gathered at the court house Saturday afternoon to attend the township meeting, consequently no'meeting was held. County Chairman Robbins today appointed Abner Bond to represent Clay township, which did not hold a meeting. ' : Apparently Center township is as destitute of Republicans as Clay, for no one called at the place of meeting Saturday afternoon Pretest By Gause. It appears that the four or five Republicans who attended the fifth ward meeting Friday night did I. V. Gause a grave Injustice in appointing him a delegate to the district convention. "I was not present at the meeting and I will not serve as a delegate. I am a Bull Mooser.' I am for Roosevelt and Beverldge," stated Mr. Gause today. Next Saturday will be an eventful date Jn the history of the Wayne county Republican party. The county central committee will hold a meeting then and the general disruption of the political organization which for nearly a century has ruled supreme in this county, will begin. It is expected that between thirty and forty per cent, maybe fifty per cent, of the members of the committee will resign, including county chairman Will Robbins and secretary Howard Brooks, both enthusiastic Progressives. Local members of the Old Guard are desperate over the outlook and as yet ' have made no plans to meet the emergency. County Chairman Will Robbins, who is serving his last week in the Republican ranks, learned this afternoon that "Wayne, Clay and Center were not the only townships where no meetings i were held Saturday afternoon. It de veloped that the joint New Garden and Webster meeting, the joint Dalton and Perry meeting, the Franklin meeting and the Harrison meeting were net held. "1 have estimated that the former Republican vote in the townships which did not hold meetings Saturday totaled 2,500," stated Mr. Robbins. Delegate Elected. The following delegates and alternates were elected in the townships which held meetings: Washington Twp. State Oliver Dallace, delegate; Charles Hale, alternate. District Frank Connelly, delegate; Samuel Willetts, alternate. Jackson Twp. State J. E. Gray, S. F. Crull, delegates; William Ogborn, Charles Hiatt, delegates. District Dr. W. B. Harris, Felix Johnson, delegates; Luther Young, Harry Morris, alternates. Green Twp. State W. E. Brown, delegate; T. S. Reynolds, alternate. District W. E. Hollingsworth, delegate; W. M. Sunary, alternate. Boston-Abington. State J. P. Pyle, delegate; John 'Stevens, alternate. District J. I. Helms, delegate; A. 31. Parks, alternate. Jefferson Twp. State Ed Porter, delegate; David 111, alternate. District Will Porter, delegate; Elis Hoover, alternate. MAY ESCAPE TRIAL . Herbert Wickett and Harry King, charged with robbery of a Lynn. Ind., young man last week, may not be tried unless other witnesses the state is seeking can be secured. The case against the men is not conceded very (promising at present.

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FBEDKKICK TO TEST WEIGHTS AND THE MEASURES Marketmaster Taylor Ordered to Indianapolis for This Purpose. A remedy for the complaint of ice consumers of this city who declare they are not getting full weight, is offered by city marketmaster and sealer of weights and measures, John Taylor, is" for the consumers to, "require the ice men to weigh all ice before delivering it. "I keep a close eye on the scales, and . whenever I see a wagon standing idle I make a test of the scales, and I can say that their scales are all right," stated Taylor this morning. "The trouble seems to be that the ice men do not use their scales. They guess at the amount, and that is what you pay for," Taylor added. At the meeting of the board of works Taylor was instructed to make a trip to Indianapolis this week and to take all the weights and measures belonging to the city to test them by the state standards at the state house. The expense of the trip, which will be small, will be taken from the market miscellaneous fund. While at Indiananolis Tavlor will make an attempt to secure a set of ! standard wet measures. At present the city has no such equipment for the sealer of weights and measures, and this morning Mayor Zimmerman stated that the city would buy the set of measures if they could be purchased with the money now on hand. "The people made a howl about the measures and weights, and we'll get the measures so they can be protected. They want protection, so they will have to pay for it." STEAM ROLLER IS CRIPPLED BY CAR Street Car Dashes into Big Machine and Escapes Without Damage. The Terre Haute and Eastern Traction company demonstrated Saturday afternoon that no road roller tactics go, putting one big roller out of commission while very little damage was done the city street car which meted out the punishment for obstructing its right of way. The small city car which makes its regular journey to Easthaven avenue at 2:15 p. m., was approaching Earlham College, when the big road roller driven by Charles cManus for the J. F. Cronin contracting firm ran across the track in front of the car. There was a crash and a few splinters flew. When the debris was cleared it was found that the running , board of the car was slightly damaged, and a casting holding the front wheel of the roller broken. Superintendent Gordon withheld the name of the motorman. Passengers on the car jumped before the collision. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your vacation address to No. 2566.

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POLICE WILL STOP SALES TO Stirred to Action by Drunken Youths. One Saloonist Being Watched. Efforts to stop the sale of liquor to minors in this city is to be. undertaken by the police, following the appearance in police court recently of a number of boys, ranging in agefrpm",15 to 20 years, to whom liqoor has been sold illegally. The police are closely watching one establishment mentioned by young Edward Underhill, aged 15, as the place where, Saturday night, he bought a pint of whiskey. He drank a good quantity of the whiskey, and went to the Athletic park to see the Pain celebration. The firewater caused him to see more fireworks than were sent up. Reeling and staggering, he passed the door keeper without tendering a ticket, and the attention of Officer Vogelsong, on duty at the grounds, was called to the lad. Vogelsong arrested Underhill, and before the patrol had arrived, the lad had been so sickened y tne liquor, that he fell to the ground. It was necessary to carry him into the patrol. This morning in police court the boy admitted his guilt, and said he was fifteen years old. On a previous occasion in court he gave his age as 17, to escape the reform school. He was promised 140 days in jail if he was 16 years old, or the reform school if he is under 16. He will be sent to jail if the law can hold him on this score, but if not he will be held for the juvenile court. Underhill stated that he had purchased the whiskey at a Main street saloon, that he had not been asked his age and that he did not volunteer his age, merely asking for a pint of whiskey, getting it, and paying for it. The police may draw up an affidavit charging the proprietor with violating the laws regulating the sale of liquor to minors. Underhill has been in much trouble and is regarded by the authorities as incorrigible. He ran away from home twice some months ago. He was al8 arrested for jumping on a moving train, and was given a fine. This morning the boy admitted in police court that he did not know how old he was, but his father, John Underhill, of Sheridan street, produced a family record showing the boy to be fifteen years old. LAKE PLANS ARRIVE Engineer Mueller's Work Is Complete and Artistic. A water color perspective of the concrete dam which is to be built by the Richmond Park and Lake Co. was presented to the organization Saturday by John Mueller of New Castle, the consulting-engineer. It ia an exceptionally fine print and is the work of Engineer Mueller. It shows the dam. the concrete- bridge and the lake and surrounding land with Its natural decorations. - The plans and specifications for the j new dam have been completed and the 1 company will be ready to receive bids a few days. - " " ...

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It Will Be Presented to Roosevelt for His Approval and to Embody Any of His Recommendations. A FIRM STOND ON RECALL Qy iSTION Tariff Commission Provided and Labor Questions Are Dealt with in an Intelligent Manner. (National New Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 5. The tentative draft of the national Progressive platform has been completed. It now awaits the approval of Co. Roosevelt and any suggestions he has to make will be incorporated. Members of the platform committee unofficially selected, but who will doubtless be on the regular committee, said today, . that the platform would undoubtedly be regarded as ex tremely radical and would provoke a ! great deal of discussion throughout j .v I It will demand that the light of publicity be thrown upon scales of wages and other labor matters;" that -all incidents and diseases arising from employment shall be reported to the proper national and state officials; that workmen's compensation laws, both state and national, shall be enacted; that commissions, both state and na tional be created for the purpose of fixing the minimum pay in the various industries in order that the wage worker may live, educate his children and enable him to save something against old age. In addition the new party will stand firmly for old-age pension. The platform will come out squarely for the recall of judicial decisions, as advocated by Colonel Roosevelt in his Columbusl'Bpeech, last spring. It will not directly indorse the Initiative, referendum and recall, but will inferentlally approve these principles for state ubo, if deemed advisable. It will advocate woman's suffrage. So far as the tariff is concerned, it will adopt the view taken by Colonel Roosevelt in favor of a revision of the tariff which will assure the diversion of a part of th protection to the pay envelope of the wage earner. It will provide for a tariff commission and scientific revision, schedule by sche'dule. Reform of the currency, enforcement of wise conservation, including the employment of the Panama canal force upon the Mississippi river, in order to make the national government responsible for the control of this great waterway, and federal regulation of corporations engaged in inter-state commerce, also will be provided for in the platform. The draft of the platform is shorter than the documents of the Republican and Democratic conventions. It has been purposely made brief, the object being to present each plank in terBe but clear language, so every sentence shall annunciate a principle. A WEATHER RECORO HAS BEENHUNG UP At Daybreak Today the Mercury at Weather Bureau Fell to 42 Degrees. . Once .before the records of the local weather bureau show, the month of August started in to set a low temperature mark. This distinction was shared by August in th year of 1910, when the minimum temperature was 41 degrees. But just to show that 1912 is a year of unusual phenomena, climatical as well as political, the first four days of this month ending yesterday, scored a minimum Average of 46 degrees while the maximum was 70 degrees. Today was the coldest day of the summer. At day break this morning 42 degrees were registered. This is the coldest V temperature that has been recorded any summer since 1905. Records in 1S95 and 1886 show that the temperature was down this low, while the maximum temperature has varied. The minimum temperatures for August in 1905 was 51 degrees; 1906 was 48 degrees; 1907 was 46 degrees; 1908 and 1919 was 47 degrees; 1910 was 41 degrees and last year 46 degrees. People are still rubbing their eyes when they look at the calendar. The odor of the moth balls is abroad in the land, and other sights and smells suggestive of the fall are encountered on every hand. Even a straw hat seems strangely out of place when, the man under it is buttoning his coat and wishing that he had on his heavy underwear. -These cool nights certainly do effect the morning call sheets" remarked the night clerk at one of the hotels. "During the hot months we had calls as early as 4 o clock but now they

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JOAQUIN MILLER. OAKLAND, Aug. 5. The family of Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, has been broken into three political factions over the respective merits of the 1912 presidential candidates. Mil ler, lifelong Jacksonian, has registered as a Democrat and does not hes itate to declare he will vote for every name appearing under the black star, Mrs. Miller is a Republican of the Taft school while Miss Juanita. their daughter, has proclaimed herself an ardent admirer of Colonel Roosevelt. THE ADDRESS OF ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE BEFORE THE PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 4. SHANK LOOKS LIKE THE G. 0, P, But ThereAre a Dozen Dark 3 Horses in 4he Gubernatorial Race. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Aug, 5. A dozen names are under discussion for the head of the ticket to be nominated by the Indiana Republicans in State convention here tomorrow. As the Republican candidates must meet the opposition of the Progressives as well as the Democrats at the November election the party leaders are endeavoring to bring about the nomination of the strongest men they can find. Winfield T. Durbin of Anderson, who was governor from 1901 to 1905; Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis, who came into national prominence through his crusade to reduce the high cost of living; Addison C. Harris, of Indianapolis, former United States minister to Austria-Hungary; Col. George R. Lockwood, editor of the Marion Chronicle; Judge David W. Henry of Terre Haute, President W. ,W. Parsons of the Indiana Normal School, Charles A. Carlisle, a prominent business man of South Bend; James W. Emison, president of Vincennes University, Walter Olds of Ft. Wayne and L. C. Embree of Princeton are among those who are under consideration for the nomination for governor. For lieutenant-governor Sidney K. Ganiard, of Lagrange, is regarded as the leading candidate, although there are several others in the field. For the other places on the State ticket there is a general disposition to give the nominations to the men who were ! the nominees two years ago. A RIOTING CHARGE, AGAINST THREE MEN John Jumbo. John Dudac and Andy Smith, all Hungarians living on North Seventeenth street, were each fined SI and costs this morning on the charge of rioting.' Dudac, proprietor of the boarding house, stated that Jumbo whacked him over the head with a beer bottle, and Jumbo alleges he re ceived a similar blow in the ribs. Smith showed a black eye but was non committal as far as the court could understand. The men engaged in a free for all street fight at Seventeenth and North H street yesterday morning at 11:50 and were all arrested by Officer Lawler. SAYS PENDER ACTED r TJKE A CAVE MAN Clarence Pender, 206 South Eighth street was arrested Saturday night at the traction station, after, it Is alleged he had insulted Miss Margaret Lauder of New Paris. O. Miss Lauder alleges Pender seized her by the arm, and tried the "knock "em down and drag 'em out" methods of the cave man to force his attentions on her. Pender denies all guilt and pled not guilty to the charge when arraigned in police court this morning. His case wu continued until Wedneedav morninjr H

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CROWDS WENT WILD WHEN THE COLONEL STEPS FROM TRAIN The Ex-president Was Accorded the Greatest Reception Any Man Ever Received in Windy City. BULL MOOSE SONG SUNG BY HUNDREDS Streets from Station to Con gress Hotel Were Lined by Thousands of Wildly Enthusiastic People. (National News Association) CHICAGO. Aug. 5. The demonstra tion of enthusiasm that marked the ar rival in Chicago today of Col. Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest ever seen here. "This Is bully" cried the colonel as he was greeted by cheering thousands at the La Salle street sta tion. As he stepped from hib train he ' was met by a reception committee of one hundred. The former president was accompanied by his wife and secretary. After the greeting the colonel was escorted to an auto waiting in front of the station for his trip to the hotel. The route was lined with people an hour before his train was due. The station was jammed with enthusiasm and the reception committee in high hats and long black coats were forced to fight a passageway through the station. Two bands outside played two different tunes at the sam time, but the crowd didn't mind that. It yelled and cheered and shouted until the music was scarcely audible. "Great day for great deeds," shouted the colonel, as Timothy Woodruff of New York grasped him by the hand. Other members of the reception committee tried to clamber aboard Roosevelt's car but were unceremoniously hustled off. "Speech, speech," yelled the crowd in the station and the suffragettes led by Miss Breyer of New York, and Mrs. Mary Wilmarth of Illinois, waved red handkerchiefs to which the colonel re sponded by waving his hat and shouting "I am with you." More cries for a speech came and then a deafening cheer, "We want Teddy" arose. "I am glad to be with you again." shouted Roosevelt. The dense crowd in the station made it difficult for the committee to pilot the party to automobiles. Mrs. Roose velt was taken in charge by a commit tee of women. When the colonel reached his automobile the crowd would not permit it to move until he responded with a brief speech. Speech by Rootevelt. Standing on the rear seat of his auto Col. Roosevelt said: "My friends, it is a great pleasure for me to visit Chicago again and this time at the birth of a new party and not at the death of an old party, and. friends, let our opposition make no mistake in the fight about to be made, the fight that will be by the people for themselves and for their own interests. Before November comes the' ticket nominated at Chicago six weeks ago will no longer be a factor in the contest The common people will not stand for the theft ! and fraud perpetrated by the old party here in Chicago. The day of the boss, of crooked politicians behind the boss and people who are owned by the boss and crooked financiers has passed forever. "The channels of information have been choked to prevent the people from finding out the facts, but the people will really find out what are the facts and will decide accordingly." Streets Are Thronged.. All work and business waa suspended along the streets the Colonel traveled The sidewalks were packed with wildly cheering people and every window overlooking the streets waa crowded with spectators anxious to give the former president a shout of welcome. The triumphal procession to the hotel was featured by the singing of "I want to be a Bull Moose and with the Bull Moose stand," from thousands of throats. At the Congress hotel the scenes of enthusiasm that marked the Colonel's reception at the station were repeated. A monster throng had waited outside the hotel and most of the delegates to the convention were on hand. The hotel corridor were thronged with hundreds of women waving bandannas. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer to- - aifiht.

S COLISEUM CROWDED TO WITNESS BIRTH OF PEOPLE'S. PARTY1 Senator Dixon Has Difficulty in Checking Cheers oP Delegates So He Can Open the Convention. - BEVERIDGE SOUNDS KEYNOTE OF PARTY Indiana Progressive Delivers . Brilliant Address. Women Play a Prominent Part in Proceedings. CHICAGO. Aug. 5. R. G. Leeds, of Richmond, was elected national committeeman over Horace C. Stilwell of Anderson by the Indiana progressive delegation today. Indiana will be represented on the resolutions committee by William Dudley Foulke. of Richmond, on the credentials committee by Mr. Wilson of Hammond, and on the rules committee by J. H. Campbell of Bloomington. D. N. Foster, of Ft. Wayne was elected vice chairman, and E. A. Willis sergeant-at-arms. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 5. The Progressive party was formally launched as a national political organisation at 12:47 o'clock this afternoon when the na tional convention was called to order by Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana. The delay of 47 minutes In opening the proceedings was due to an ex tended conference which the Progressive leaders held with Col. Roosevelt at his hotel. . - . , - Amid the usual delay while clerks shouted orders to clear the aisles Senator Dixon stood waiting his chance to say the word that would set the convention machinery In motion. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said. -the convention will now come to order. Twenty-eight days sgo in the city of New York it was decided there would be a new political alignment la the U. S. Then and there a call was issued for a convention . to take up the subject and try to accomplish an alignment. In the past twenty-eight days the nation has seen an evolution in its democracy; a new alignment In political parties. Now in four weeks the nation has seen a political convention of a new party sending the largest number of delegates ever seen at a political convention in this country. It has passed the academic discussion point and before the sun sets this evening a new milestone will have been erected in the political history of this coun try a new party will have been formed that will know no north, no south, no east no west, no sectional lines of any kind." While Dixon was speaking some one shouted "hurrah for Teddy" and for some minutes the delegates indulged in a shouting bee. Finally quiet was restored and Sen. Dixon Introduced O. K. Davis, who read the call for the convention. The reading of the call twice occasioned cheers, once when it announced that it believed In the rights of the people to rule, snd again when the words were shouted, "thou shalt not steal." Gov. Johnson of.California and Ben Linday of Colorado were both loudly cheered. Dixon was given an ovation. Senator Dixon called on the Rer. Dornblaser ' of Chicago to pronounce the invocation. The delegates and visitors arose while the prayer was offered. To Ask T. R. to Talk. At the conclusion of Bereridge's speech the convention is slated to take unusual action. A resolution Inviting the man who is to be presidential nominee to address the convention before his nomination is to be presented. The resolution will ask Colonel Roosevelt to address the convention at tomorrow's session and a committee to notify him of the fact and to bring him to the session tomorrow will be named. Following the passage of this resolution, the "four great committees" of the convention are to be named. The organization of the new convention is "to follow the precendent of other party gatherings. There will be a committee on permanent organization, a committee on credentials, a committee on rules and a committee on resolutions. The credentials committee will, as a matter of coarse, make the temporary roll permanent. The rules committee, however, will probably introduce some innovstions in convention management. The committee on permanent organization will have a little real work to do, as the Question of permanent chairman, which has yet cot been determined, will be np to Its members. A plan to make the temporary organization permanent has been suggested. Another

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