Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 257, 2 September 1912 — Page 1

FA .ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 237. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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WAS PRESENT CLOSING BAY Chautauqua Audiences Yesterday Were Record Breakers and the Programs Were High Class. SEASON TICKETS TO 1913 ASSEMBLY SOLD lAnnouncement That Next Chautauqua Would Be Held at the Glen Was Cheered Loudly. BY E8THER GRIFFIN WHITE. A brilliant day and bigger crowds than for the corresponding day last year marked the close of the Chautauqua yesterday. Announcements from the platform that the Chautauqua would be held in the Glen again next year have elicited not only great applause but a rapid sale of season tickets. . Over five hundred season tickets were reported subscribed for last night at the official headquarters and many more will be taken within the next few days. It is expected that the sale of season tickets for next) year will exceed that of any previous year, as that of 1912 ran ahead of any other bo far. The Board of Directors held a meeting to attend to a number of minor matters, but nothing was done relative to the program, although it was announced that the Chautauqua might cover a longer period than ten days hereafter with shorter programs. It has been found that the almost continuous programs throughout each day were wearisome to sit out from the standpoint of physical endurance, and It was therefore thought some readjustment might be made to meet this condition. Almost live thousand people were on the grounds yesterday, both Sundays at this year's Chautauqua having exceeded In gate receipts those of the . previous year. Yesterday's attendance was only a few below the mark of! jBryan day last year. One of the interesting appearances 'yesterday was that of the Light Inspection Company band, from New Castle, which has for its director the former saxaphone soloist of Sousa's band, Jean Moermans, and which gave a program in the afternoon. Runge's orchestra which has been giving fine programs throughout the entire Chautauqua, and which is made up of the leading musicians of the city, who have largely contributed to the artistic success of the Richmond Symphony orchestra, was made the subject of special complimentary mention from the platform last evening. Its programs have met with enthusiastic receptions and its inclusion in this year's Chautauqua entertainments was & fortunate one. ' Sunday's Sessions. Madame Mountford, the well known lecturer whose birth-place was Jerusalem and who traces her ancestry 'back to early Judean tlmeB and who jls also a member of a distinguished Russian family, on her paternal side, lield two large audiences yesterday with a sermon in the morning on "The Thief on the Cross and the Ten Talents," her address being an eloquent plea for the recognition of individual 'religious responsibility. - In the evening Madame Mountford idelighted her immense audience with jan address on the present customs of jthe rural population of Palestine showing how these were practically unchanged from those of Biblical times. ' Her detailed description of the habtits and implements of the shepherds (showing, in illustration, the rod, staff, 8crip and reed, or small musical instrument was of absorbing interest iand her exposition of their symbolizaftlon in Christ's teachings illuminating, j Madame Mountford is a remarkable i character who comes to this country ;every two years for a lecture tour, land who has distinguished herself in this field both in this country and iabroad. : She last evening wore a handsome idecoration conferred on her by Queen (Victoria and which is the famous -Golden Maltese Cross. I Glenn Applauded. "I am an old-fashioned man and I ,come to you with an old-fashioned (message," said Governor Glenn of North Carolina, who was the Chautauqua headliner yesterday afternoon, and j -whose address on "Our Country's Need jOf Sterling Men and Women," was aptplauded with every manifestation of j intense approval on the part of the audience. " I Governor Glenn's address was an arraignment of those industrial conditions which vitiated the life of the women and youth, of the nation and (which were a menace to future generations. That as long as child labor was permitted and the inclusion of women in pursuits which sapped their vitality and made them incapable of performing those functions as wives and mothers for which they were designed by nature, so long would our national integrity have a serious blot on its escutcheon", stated the speaker. ! Governor Glenn paid his respects to (Continued on Last Page). "

Henry Rogers Finds a Wife Through Palladium-He Had 50 Applications

Henry Rogers, living in Happy Hollow, put into effect a somewhat unique method of selecting a life mate, following the insertion of a small want ad in the Palladium, stating that he desired to obtain a wife. On the following day Rogers received fifty answers to the ad. Confused by the number of wouldbe brides, Rogers decided not to open the letters until he had worked out a method of securing a mate with the least possible effort. To visit each woman would require too much time. Consequently Rogers sat down, lighted his pipe and thought the matter over. He finally arrived at the decision to close his eyes, shuffle the letters together and to pull one from Richmond Loves An Indianapolis newspaper prints the following story about the turtle industry of Richmond. Richmond has been termed by some one as the "original" turtle soup town of the country, and it might be interesting to know that the present season in Richmond has seen the consumption of more than ten tons of "mud turtles," taken from the smaller streams of Indiana and adjoining states. Before frost comes and the lovers of turtle soup have their fill until next spring, the total consumption will have reached more than thirteen tons. There is one Richmond man who traffics in mud turtles, and he supplies nine-tenths of the saloons and chop houses with this soup material. Tom Castle, of East Germantown, is the prince of turtle catchers, and with his little "crew" begins his work early in the spring, traversing stream after stream in eastern Indiana and making weekly shipments to the Richmond dealer. As the season advances Castle's crew gets farther and farther away from Richmond and just now his catches are in Illinois. Wherever Castle may be, however, his weekly shipments average up pretty well throughcut the season, and apparently there is no such thing as a poor catch. Unlike the sportsmen who are con NEGRO LEAPS FROM 4TH STORY WINDOW Breaks Both Ankles Trying to Escape From Raid on the Devinney Place. Crazed with fear, Lewis Washington, colored, stranger, jumped from the fourth floor of the Devinney pool rooms on Ft. Wayne avenue yesterday 'morning breaking both ankles and se verely wrenching his back. When the house was raided Sunday by Officers Vogelsong and Lawler, Washington slipped into a closet unnoticed, then jumped from the window, and was not found until an hour later. He had crawled into the basement of the building and there concealed himself. He was finally discovered by the police and taken to the hospital. Mental vis ions of prison, bars, handcuffs and stone piles conquered physical pain in Washington's case and he bore his sufferings without a groan until found by the police. Yesterday morning at 10:45 Officers Vogelsong and Lawler crept up the back steps to the pool room on the fourth floor, and peeping through a small hole in the door they saw eight colored men about an ice chest. Devinney and Washington were taking bottled beer from the chest, handing it to the men gathered about, and receiving something in exchange. Then the police went through the door and collared the entire bunch. At first it appeared as if a fight would result for the men refused to go with the officers. During the excitement Washington made his escape into a closet from which he made his leap. The remaining men were inally lined up and placed in jail. They are Bob Devinney, Ed. Anderson, Charlie Parks, Ross Smith, James Reynolds, William Anderson and Dan Schools. They will be tried Tuesday morning in police court. Charges against Devinney and Washington have been placed for selling liquor without a license. It is not known if the other men will be prosecuted. ASSUMES PASTORATE AT INDIANAPOLIS The Rev. Willard O. Trueblood, a graduate of Earlham college with the class of 1903, well known in Richmond, yesterday assumed charge of the First Friends' church at Indianapolis. He was introduced to his congregation by the Rev. Morton C. Pearson, former pastor, who retired from the pastorate to become connected with Earlham college. After leaving Earlham college, the Rev. Mr. Trueblood was In educational work for five years, later serving charges at Poughkeepsie, X. Y and at Toronto, Canada. IPTHE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair and eon,tined warm.

the pile, the author of which he would ask to become his wife. He placed his idea into effect with the result that Sarah Arvin, was the lucky w man. HeH called upon her, stated his proposition and they were married, and, as Rogers declares, they are as "happy as can be." The ad which Rogers inserted in the Palladium is appended: WANTED To make the acquaintance of a middle aged lady who wishes to marry. I am a widower of 60 years with no family. The lady must be a good housekeeper but it is not necessary for her to have money. The object is to make a home. Address "Marriage," care Palladium.

Us Turtle Soup tent to await ideal conditions in trying for a catch of bass or other game fish, the turtle hunter finds that one season is as good as another, for the mud turtle is seldom lured by bait and book, and the professional hunter relies on nothing save his supreme nerve in delving into the soft, beds of ttreams or beneath a moss covered bank with his hands. One hundred pounds a day is not out of the ordinary for Castle and his men and frequently the day will net double this number. Dozens of Richmond saloons and restaurants dispense turtle soup throughout the spring and summer and fall, patrons buying it by the bowl or calling with buckets for "family" supplies. Fried turtle is declared by the turtle experts to be a dish de luxe and they say that the tenderest fried chicken is outclassed in comparison. Just how Richmond became the center of the turtle belt is not explained, but it is a fact that for more than thirty years numerous saloons and restaurants have featured turtle soup and the consumption has been on the increase year after year, until now the professional hunter can not conlne their energies to one locality, but coer hundreds of miles in a season to supply Richmond alone, for none of Castle's catch goes to other places. RODE SHOCK GIVEN CAMPERS AT PARK coys in ine wnue vuy Have a 'Wild Time Last Night of Chautauqua. After lying dormant for a period of ten days and nights several groups of boys who have been camping at the Chautauqua, came to life during last night and made things merry and also noisy about the west side of the grounds. Fussy old people became nervous at the queer sounds that issued from the darkness and those who gathered sufficient nerve to leave their couches and peep through the tent flaps, received a shock when they saw a line of white forms parading through the streets. - Clad only in pajamas and shoes a dozen or more of the youngsters visited numerous tents of friends and acclaimed their presence in no uncertain terms. Earlier In the night a great hub-bub was' created at one tent where three young men were slumbering soundly and whose belongings were scattered ruthlessly about by the visitors who had called without invitation and whose welcome was not manifested by the line of talk handed out by the unwilling hosts. The special policemen quieted things down, but somebody who had grave fears, telephoned police headquarters that there were big doings going on in the Chautauqua village and Park Policeman Hollard was hustled out of bed and ordered to make his presence known. There was no occasion for dealing severely with the youngsters who were having simply a "nice time" in mussing up tents, and Hollarn handled the situation so well that the boys went to the couches, only to break out anew later in the night when campers generally were not properly clad to make their way to the telephone booth and appeal for issistance. Here and there a camper was found this morning who had a severe complaint to make but most of them let their memories carry them back to the days when they also were youths on pleasure bent. T A Police Here Join in Manhunt After a Negro. A negro, name unknown, who early yesterday morning shot and killed another negro in a crap game in Cincinnati, passed through this city yesterday morning on a C. & O. freight train. The local police were not notified of the escape of the negro unUI he had left Richmond but being informed that the man had been thrown from the train north of the city, they hurried out after him in an auto. The country north and west of the city was scoured but without success. As the party was about to return from the man hunt, woman living north of the city informed the police she had seen the man on the train, and that he had not been thrown off as the police were first in-

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He Shoots Into Connecticut First Then Turns His Head Westward and Goes Clear to Pacific. BRIDGEPORT GIVES HIM BIG GREETING Threatens to Fight Any Progressive Candidate Who Does Not Live up to the Party Pledge. (National News Association) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 2. Col. Roosevelt today sounded a warning to Progressive party candidates that they must live up to their pledges in the coming campaign. In a four minute speech at Stanford he said, "If any of our candidates when elected fail to live up to any promise he makes I will take the stump against him. We stand for applied honesty of principle. We are going to keep faith with the people." When a member of his audience jeered this statement, "I don't wonder that you jeer. The old parties have a way of making promises and not keeping them. It won't be that way with us." Then Col. Roosevelt got a tremendous ovation. BEGINS LONG TRIP. NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Professing complete confidence in the outcome of the fight which he is waging, Col. Roosevelt left here today on his 11,000 mile tour which will take him clear to the Pacllc coast and back to New York and into about 35 states. Traveling in a special car to which was attached another carload of newspaper reporters, the Colonel got under way on his long continental swing at 8:03 o'clock. At that hour he left for Hartford, Conn., his first stopping place over the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. .- " From Hartford the colonel's itinerary carries him to Springfield, Mass., whence he departs for the west. Col. Roosevelt was accompanied by his nephew, George Roosevelt, the only member of his personal party. Dodges a Big Crowd. The colonel motored in from Oyster Bay early in the morning. Anticipating a crowd at the Grand Central station, the Progressive candidate took a devious course to his car, passing through the baggage room and a side entrance. Only a few of those who had gathered got a glimpse of him as he hurried down the platform. Colonel Roosevelt will be away from New York for thirty days, during which time he will carry the banner of the national Progressive party in whirlwind fashion through the western states. Up and down the Pacific coast during the absence, the colonel will be in close touch with headquarters with his party in New York and Chicago. At St. Louis, his first stopping place after leaving Springfield, Mass., he will be joined by Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, who fought so valiantly for the colonel at the national Republican convention at Chicago. From time to time also, the colonel's entourage will be made up of local Progressive leaders who will ride with the colonel through their states. At St. Louis when the colonel arrives there at 3 o'clock, the city will be filled with visitors from all parts of Missouri. This is right in line with the Progressive leader's policy of addressing his pleas to the working people and "tillers of the soil." Another state fair will be on at St. Paul when the colonel reaches there Thursday, after making stops at Keokuk, Mount Lion, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Des Moines and possibly a few other points. Leaving St. Paul,, the colonel will head straight for the Pacific coast. NEGRO AND WHITE MAN HAVE BATTLE John Sanders, colored, was fined $1 and costs for assault and battery on George De Boyce, white, of Fourteenth and North F streets, and the latter was fined the same amount for drunk in police court this morning. Both were arrested Saturday evening by Officer Bundy after a fight. Sanders asked DeBoyce for a match. Then the argument started, which lead to an invitation to Sght it out in an alley. Sanders said he saw the other man whip out a knife, and that he picked up some rocks. He threw them at DeBoyce who was standing in front of his house. At this point Bundy arrested both men. DeBoyce said he could not understand how he was charged with being drunk as he had only drank about a half pint of whiskey. " FELL FROM CUPALO ' George Feaselman. 720 South Thirteenth street, yesterday morning fell from the top of the cnpalo at the M. Rumely company's foundry, dislocating his right shoulder. He was engaged in making repairs when he felL

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TO RICHMOND Three Conventions Are to Be Held by the New Party in This City on Tuesday Forenoon. LANDIS TO SPEAK IN THE AFTERNOON Every County in the District Will Send Full Delegation to the Congressional Convention. PROGRESSIVE CONVENTIONS Congressional convention at Coliseum, 10 a. m. Joint Representative convention at Court House, 10 a. m. Representative convention. Court House, 10 a. m. Frederick W. Landis speaks at Coliseum, 1:30 p. m. Three Progressive conventions in Richmond Tuesday will select respectively a congressional nominee, a candidate for state representative and a joint state representative. The congressional convention will bring to the city delegates from all the counties in the Sixth district. Reports from the county seats show that full delegations will be on hand. Frederick W. Landis, Progressive candidate for lieutenant governor, will speak at the Coliseum at 1:30 o'clock and will set forth the principles for which the party is fighting. It is believed that the county and joint county conventions, scheduled to meet at the Court house at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, will adjourn after organization to meet after the district convention has adjourned. Three' In The Field. The district convention, which will nominate a congressional candidate, meets at 10 o'clock at the Coliseum. William Greenstreet, of Henry county, and T. C. Bryson, of Fayette, are candidates whose names, it is believed, will be presented to the convention. Until a late hour this afternoon, Bryson had not announced whether he would permit the Fayette delegation to present his name to the convenUon. He was endorsed as candidate by the Fayette Progressives at the meeting in which delegates to the district convention were selected. Wayne county has no candidate to propose. Union county may present the name of Orion L. Stivers. It is expected that W. K. Mason will announce his acceptance of the Progressive principles and that he will be nominated as joint representative to the legislature. John W. Judkins, of Cambridge City, Al. Ford of Richmond, and Merton Grills of Hagerstown, are candidates for nomination as state representative from Wayne county. The Richmond City band has been secured for the day. HENRY COUNTY READY. (Palladium Special) NEW CASTLE, Ind.. Sept. 2. "The woods are full of Progressives," is the slogan which the Henry county delegates will sound when they attend the congressional convention at Richmond Tuesday. Henry county Bull Moosers selected a full delegation at a convention this afternoon and will present the name of William Greenstreet as candidate for representative from the Sixth district before the Richmond convention. WILL BOOST BRYSON. (Palladium Special) Connersville, Ind., Sept. 2. Tom Bryson, endorsed by the Fayette county Progressives as candidate for congressman from the Sixth district, today had not decided whether he would let the Fayette delegation present his name before the congressional convention at Richmond Tuesday. Fayette county Bull Moosers favor his nomination, and the question is squarely before Bryson whether his name is presented tomorrow. Fayette is strongly for Roosevelt nd there is little opposition to the national Progressive ticket. There is a division regarding the county and state tickets, but it is believed that sentiment will swing unanimously towards the Progressive party as the campaign waxes warmer. A full Fayette delegation will go to Richmond Tuesday. SHELBY LINES UP. SHELBYVTLLE, Ind., Sept. 2. A full delegation from Shelby county will attend the Progressive district convention at Richmond. Shelby has no candidate to propose for representative. The Progressive sentiment is ttrong and the county will go for Roosevelt and the Progressive state ticket. A FULL DELEGATION. (Palladium Special) BROOK YILLE, Ind," Sept 2. Franklin county will be represented by

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E IS FIRED ON THE COLONEL Governor Wilson in Labor Day Speech at Buffalo Attacks the Tariff Policy of Roosevelt. MINIMUM WAGE IS ALSO HIS TARGET He Declares This Feature Will Be a Weapon in the Hands of the Employer Against Labor. (National News AssociaUonl BUFFALO. Sept. 2 Gov. Wilson turned his biggest guns on Col. Roose velt today, in a speech which he deliv-t-red to an enthusiastic labor day throng of many thousands at Braun's rark. The democratic candidate for the presidency was frequently cheered and hearty greetings he received. Analyzing the Progressive platform the governor said: "There is a very singular feature about the platform of the new Progressive party. It has two sides and two tones. It seeks warm sympathy v.ith practically every project or social I betterment to which men and women I of broad sympathies are now turning I v.ith generous purpose, and on that side it is refreshing to read. It may be interpreted in the light of some interesting thing Col. Roosevelt has recently said. Mr. Roosevelt declares his devoted adherence to the principle of protection. Only those duties which are manifestly too high even to serve the interests of those who are directly protected aught, in his view, be low ered. He declares he is not "troubled by the fact that a very large amount of money Is taken out of the pocket of the general taxpayers and put into the pocket of particular classes of protected manufacturers, but that his concern is that so little of this money gets into the pockets of the employe. I have searched his program thoroughly for an indication of what he expects to do in order to see- to it that a larger proportion of this 'prise money gets into the pay envelope and I have found only one suggestion. "There is a plank In the platform which seeks to establish a minimum or living wage, for women workers and I suppose that we may assume that the principle is not in the long run meant to be confined in his application to women only. Perhaps we are justified in assuming that the Progressive party looks forward to the general establishment by law of a minimum wage. "It is very likely, I take for granted, that if a minimum wage were established by law the majority of employers would take occasion to bring their wage scale as nearly as might be to the level of that minimum, and it would be very awkward for the working man to resist that process successfully because it would be dangerous to strike against the authority of the federal government. "Moreover, most of his employers, at any rate practically all of the most powerful of his employers, would be wards and proteges of that very government which is the master of us all, for no part of this program can be discussed intelligently without remembering that monopoly, as handled by it, is not to be prevented but accepted. It is to be accepted and regulated. All attempts to resist it is to be given up. It is to be accepted as inevitable. The government Is to set up a commission whose duty will be not to check or defeat it, but merely to regulate it under rules which it is itself to train and develope that the chief employers will have this tremendous authority behind them. TOOK EXAMINATION AT Principal I. E. Neff Takes Step Required to Secure a New License. Principal Isaac E. Neff of the Richmond high school, whose license to teach in the Wayne county schools was declared null and void last week by the county and state school authorities, Saturday took the state examination at Indianapolis. The only reply President Neff would assign as reason for taking the examination in Marion county was, "I was in Indianapolis on business and took the examination there." Under the ruling of the state and county school authorities. Principal S Neff cannot teach in the Richmond schools until he has successfully passed the state examination. The exemption license under which he has held office here for two years, upon an investigation of the school authorities, was held ;s to have been issued irregularly, and the only recourse open to the principal was to qualify as teacher by taking tha state examination.

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A" Brands Penrose Unfit to Hold Peace in Senate and Denies the Charges Made Against Him. PRODUCES LETTERS TO SUPPORT CLAIM Famous Harriman Control versy Reviewed at Length By Roosevelt Lie Given to Archbold. (National News AvoHatlon) NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Denying therein every allegation of John D. Archbold and Senator Boies Penrose that he sought, or was cognisant of contributions by the Standard Oil Company to his campaign of 1904; branding Pentose as unlit to bold a beat in the United States Senate, and reviewing in detail his part in all mat. tors connected with the controversy raised by the accusations of Penrose and Archbold. Colonel Roosevelt last night made public his letter to Senator Clapp, chairman of the committee Ineetigatlng campaign contributions. The letter, which bears the date of August 28th. was written after the Senate committee declined to have the Colonel appear before it last Monday, ks he requested. The statements of Archbold and Pen rose. Mr. Roosevelt brands as "injurious gossip at third hand instead of merely at second hand. Was Direct Charge. "The charge against Mr. Penrose," he declares, "was in direct charge. This charge was not merely that he took $25,000 from the Standard Oil Company, but that at or about the time of taking it. while a member of the committee of the Senate which was formed to investigate industrial affairs in the United States, be was in constant communication with Mr. Archbold on the subject, and that he submitted to Mr. Archbold for his approval in advance a copy of the report of the commission. "If these statements are true. he continues, "of course. Mr. Penrose Is unfit to represent the people in the United States Senate, and the testimony against him is direct." In the next sentence he takes a veiled slap at the Senate committee for not taking up the charge against Penrose, as follows: "Apparently, however, the committee is investigating not this charge against Mr. Penrose, which was sustained by direct evidence, but Mr. Penrose's countercharge which was sustained by no evidence at all and only by the repetition of second-hand gossip." Called Falsehood. The Archbold statement that with his consent of knowledge Cornelias Bliss, then treasurer of the Republican National Committee, asked the Standard Oil Company for $100,000. Roosevelt avers is "an unqualified falsehood." Supporting his defense, the Colonel includes In his letter copies of his letters to Mr. Cortelyou. his -campaign manager, in 1904; ordering him not to accept any money from the Standard Oil; also a telegram to Mr. Cortelyou . asking him If his desires had been complied with. In reply Cortelyou told him. the Colonel says, that no contribution bad been received from Standard Oil or would be received. The Colonel recalls the candidacy. In opposition to Cortelyou, of Senator Penrose, for chairman of the Republican National Committee In 1904. and his selection of Cortelyou. He says: "I was not willing to have any men whom I did not know personally and ia whose probity I did not have entire confidence as bead of the committee." In connection with bis relation with Penrose, the Colonel asserts he spoke of contributions to the Pennsylvania Senator but once and then when he refused to retain one of Penrose's henchmen, a certain' Bunn. employed in the Philadelphia postofflce. after the latter" had been recommended for removal by the Civil Service Commission for collecting political contributions from fellow employes. A copy of this letter to Penrose is included. The Colonel takes up the allusion before the Senate committee to the charges of Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's opponent for the Presidency la 104, that the Republican National Committee had blackmailed corporations into making campaign contributions and promised immunity if the contributions were made. Colonel Roosevelt' reproduces his reply to these charges in a statement dated November 4, 1904. In which he described them as "false", and "monstrous." In this statement is a sentence of pertinent interest In view of the nature of the recent fight between Roosevelt and Taft for the regular Republican nomination: VI cannot understand how any honorable man, a candidate for the highest office In the gift of the people, can take refuge not merely in personalities, but in such base and on worthy personalities." The Harriman Incident. Colonel Roosevelt reviews at great

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