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B PA AJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 260. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVEXING. SEPTEMBER 5, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENT
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IS TO HEAD OHIO TICKET Prominent Progressive Nominated at the State Convention Held at Columbus This Morning. JOHNSON DELIVERS A GREAT ADDRESS tTh e Vice Presidential Nomi nee was Enthusiastically Greeted J. L. Tabor for Lieutenant-Governor. (National Newt Association) COLUMBUS, 0., Sept 6. Arthur L. tOarford, of Elyria, O., a manufacturer, jwas today nominated for governor by (the state Progressive convention. In his address accepting the nomination Mr. Garford termed it the greatest honor ever tendered a man by lany party in Ohio. Garford is the man who stated he had been offered the Republican nomination for governor 'when Judge Dillon withdrew from the trace, but refused it. He declared there twaa room for only two political parities in this country and the party of resistance. A platform was adopted which ratified the Progressive national declarations and declared for many social and ilndusrial reforms. ! Governor Hiram Johnson of California, made a rousing address, setting 'forth the principles of the Progressive iparty. Johnson was enthusiastically j greeted and spoke with great eloquence. He was listened to with the 'closest attention and evoked great applause. . Address By Johnson. , ; "This is the party of men unafraid. !w met in Chicago three weeks ago and it was the dawn of a new era in (political action and at last, my friends, ;we lire going to .fight something else 'fhn a.-h am jftttl: said Governor Johnson. "At last we have a party I which regards , as its greatest asset its men, women and children. We are the only party that boldly makes its stand for social and industrial justice. We stand for a protected tariff, but a tariff that will get into the pockets of , the working men. We believe in a revision downward of the tariff as it now exists that we may equalize the prices of commodities here as well as .abroad.", . . .Reports of the various committees i were Dresented and adopted with a irush. Twenty-one district presidential (elections were nominated by acclama(tlon, among them being Sherman T. Hubbard, John A. Thomas and George C. Crider, all of whom previously re- ' signed as electors from the Republican ticket. L. J. Tabor of Belmont county, was nominated for lieutenant governor. Jumps Old Party. John J. Sullivan, Republican nomihiee for secretary of state, made a speech renouncing the nomination and declaring he was no longer a candi date of the Republican party. Sullivan was then nominated by ac clamation for secretary of state on the , Progressive ticket. Other nomlmations were: L State Auditor C. L. Allen, Marion. State Treasurer Wm. Kirtley, Jr., 'Defiance. . Attorney General Robert Nevin, .Montgomery county. TURNS DOWII OFFER Prof. Lebo Will Not Accept Supervisorship of Music. The Richmond school board has ibeen Informed that Professor Will H. Lebe, of Hamilton, Ohio, whom the t board offered the position of superivifcor of music at an increase of $500 i above his salary at Hamilton, has rejected the proposal. ! The board at a meeting last evenjing took steps to secure a supervisor before the opening of the school term in a few weeks. JThe board members !say they believe that a successor will be here when the session opens. CHINA IS UNABLE TO SECURE LOANS iNational News Association TIENTSIN. Sept. 5. A dispatch ffrora Pekin today states that Lu Chonx iHslang. the Chinese premier, has ten jdered his resignation to President I Yuan Shi Kaln because of the internal developments affecting China and in ability of the government to negotiate a foreign loan to reorganize the coun- . (try. , :: Premier Lu was reoenUy granted a leave of absence which expires tomor(XOwV It la believed there that the resignajtlon will not be accepted, although franc Sbao YI, who ranks much highjer as a statesman, will be allowed to retire as premier.
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DEMOCRATS CHANGE CONVENTION DATE CountyMeeting Will Be Held in This City Sept. 19 Instead of Sept. 12. The Democratic county convention, which was to meet in Richmond September 12, has been postponed to September 19. The postponement follows the statement of workers in New Garden township that the original date would conflict with the home coming celebration scheduled to take place in Fountain City on September 12. The meeting will be held in the K. of P. hall and a full county slate will be nominated. The following precincts in Wayne township have elected delegates to the convention: No. 1 Wallace Reynolds and E. Wil sonNo. 3 H. Puthoff and E. Wyatt No. 8 J. H. Waltermann and H. Farwig. No. 9 Henry Nelle and Joseph Nelle. . No. 7 Dr. Buche and-WB. Dye. ' No. 11 W. K. Young and Dr. B. Schillinger. ,No. 14 D. H. Kuth and Charles Marlatt. No. 19 Orla McKee and J. HartCorn. No. 24 Will Hatfield and J. Aiken. No. 28 Richard Study and AT Kemper. . . ... f No. 34 John Kenney and C. McDonald. " No. 35 Max Reid and J. Ryan. Jefferson township has selected the following: No. 1, John Hahn and C. Stewart; No. 2, A. Benson and W. Hayes; No. 3, Will Starn and John Bunnell. WAR FUND IS SMALL Says Vice Finance Chairman of the Democrats. (National News Association) CHICAGO. Sept. 5. That the Democratic campaign fund was very small was the admission made by Charles R. Crane, vice chairman of the Democratic finance committee. - Although the total is small, Crane asserted the leaders were satisfied with the way the money is coming in. "We are content," he Bald. We are trying to see how much can be accomplished In this campaign with a small amount of money." It was reported about headquarters here that the campaign fund has not yet reached $100,000. This, politicians say. is a very small amount on wbich to begin the work of the campaign. RUNNING LINE SOUTH Surveying crews under the direction of C. R- Culberson today began to survey a line down the Elkhorn to Boston for the proposed Richmond and East-
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Controversy
BORDER SITUATION
BECOMES MENACING American Town in New Mexico Is Threatened by the Rebel Forces. (National News Association) NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 6. The Mexican border situation became most menacing today when officials of this town received an ultimatum from the Mexican rebels that if fed eral Mexican troops are transported over American soil into Sonora from Chilhuahua, the town of Nogales would be laid in ashes. The message intimates that other border towns will share a like fate. The rebels threaten to cross the line and wreck Nogales and then fire it. They declare that they will not permit-the United States to aid the Mexican . federals and in addition to looting and -killing Americans in Mexico, they intend transferring their activities to the border. A SECOND ASSAULT. ELPASO, Tex., Sept. 5. Repulsed in their first attack on Nacozari, Sonora, -.the rebels made a second assault upon the town during the night and fighting is still going on there, according to reports received early today. An insurgent army of 700 men under General Rojas has the town under siege. The army of defense Is made up of a handful of Mexican federals, a few rurales and a number of volunteers. Among the volunteers are many Americans who are employed by the Nacozari copper company which has large Interests there. The officials of the company, fearing destruction of their property "If the town fell armed their American employes as guards. Nacozari lies 50 miles 'south of the international line. "A report from Douglas, Ariz., states that a sealed baggage car containing 50,000 round3 of ammunition left there under federal escort for Nacozari, consigned to the Nacozari copper company. It was preceded by a work train bearing soldiers who are repairing the railroad line. A. R. Dickson, who has just arrived from Douglas, says that fears are felt there that the town would fall into . the insurgents hands before the ammunition could arrive. Repairs are going on upon th railroad line between Cananea and Naco, following the evacuation of rebels from that quarter. REASONS ARE GIVEN That the abolition of the profit sharing plan will result in better rates for the city and will not be needed in protecting the city against exorbitant rates, were the two reasons why the city authorities eliminated this pro vision from the proposed water works contract It is thought to be only question of time until a public utilities commission with power to regulate rates wiu be created in Indiana. K m - rer the water rates are too high, the com mission wU nave power, to .lower
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OF PROFITS IS This Feature of Water Con tract Proposal Eliminated For Purpose of Getting Cheap Rates. FREE WATER ALSO GIVEN KNOCKOUT One Other Slight Change Made in the Proposal Will Now Be-Advertised to Sesure Bids. With three changes, including the abandonment of the profit-sharing plan, the water works proposal contract was approved by the board of works and the city council at the meeting last evening. The two bodies, sitting in. executive session, decided against free water ex cept for flushing the streets, for fountains, and for flushing sewers. Schools, hospitals and city institutions must pay for their water. The profit-sharing plan was stricken out after a short discussion. "Now if we don't get bids which will call for cheap rates, I don't know what the water works companies expect," said the mayor this morning. This morning City Attorney Gardner was asked why the profit-sharing feature of the proposal was abandoned. ''The city officials thought if this was given up a cheaper water rate could be secured." After the council had approved of the proposition as submitted, the board of works went into executive session and ordered City Attorney Gardner to draw up the proposal as finally agreed upon, and as soon , as this can be accomplished, the board will ratify the ' agreement, and order the proposal contract advertised for bids. The third change was In the matter of fire pressure. The original provis ion was for 110 pounds pressure at Eighth and Main streets within ten minutes after a call by the fire chief. Fire Chief Miller asked that the limit be reduced to five minutes, and the compromise time of seven minutes was agreed upon. The question of whether the water works company holds under its pres ent contract, a perpetual franchise, was not discussed, it being accepted as a matter of course, that In event the Richmond City Water Works com pany secures the contract it will waive all right to any claims made under the old contract. Supt. H. A. Dill of the Richmond City Water Works company this morn ing stated the action of council and the board in striking out free water and the profit-sharing plan, would, without doubt, have an effect on the bids. "All we want is good wholesome pure water, and we want it cheap, said the mayor this morning in dis cussing -the elimination of the profit sharing plan. INTO N0RTH DAKOTA Ex-President Roosevelt Is to Carry the War. (National News Association) FORGO. N. D - Sept. 5. Colonel Roosevelt is to carry his campaign in to North Dakota tomorrow. His programme calls for set speeches in this city and Jamestown, with a number of short addresses at train-stops. The Roosevelt visit has aroused much in terest among the politicians of all par ties here, and there is a great amount of speculation on the results it may have in the coming election. The po litical situation in North Dakota at the present time is probably different from that presented in any other state. In the Republican primaries last spring Roosevelt was badly beaten by LaFollette. The delegates to the national convention at Chicago voted for La Follette from start to finish. It is said that many of the Progressive leaders here are still inclined to look upon Roosevelt as having been responsible for the elimination of the Wisconsin senator from the presidential race. Lately the Democrats have undertaken an organized campaign to tarn the anti-Taft votes from Roosevelt to Wil son. Whether the Roosevelt visit win be able to stem the tide of this move ment remains to be seen. STATE Generally fair and oontlMed j - warm 1 j LOCAL f warm Friday. Fair and continued warm to-
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(National News Association) . CRISFIELD, Md.. Sept. 5. With the record of having saved eightythree people from drowning. Captain William H. Celton has died here at the age of sixty-nine. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5. Lucy Goodewhite, a grand niece of the great chief justice Marshall, has been nominated by the Cocialists here for superior court judge. BONN. Germany, Sept. 5. Baron Pasquier, a nobleman who has taken up aviation, started today to fly to London by way of Dover. The distance 1b about 350 miles. He left here at- 7 o'clock. NORRISTOWN, Pa.. Sept. 5. Declaring that he had never kissed a woman in his life, John J. Gallagher has gone to jail here rather than kiss and- make up with his wife. WEST ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 5. In working to perfect a disk in a phonograph, Thomas A. Edison has slept but twenty-two hours in six days. SAN RAFAEL, Cal., Sept. 5. Stopping to frizz her hair, which made her late at the election n'ls here, Mrs. Mary S harrow lost the job as one of the election clerks. RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 5. With nothing under his white linen coat but an undershirt, John Armstrong Chaloner addressed a gathering here on the national mass meeting club, which he has organized. REPUBLICANS ARE TO HAVyUAJORITY Of Sixty-three on a Joint Bal lot in the Legislature of Vermont. (National News Association) WHITE RIVER. JT., Vt.. Sept. 5. Re publican leaders today declared that their estimates of a republican ma jority of 63 on the Joint ballot in the legislature, made necessary by their failure to secure a: majority at the state election for Fletcher for governor, will not be changed by addition al returns. It will be several days before the exact makeup of the legislature will be known as a number of small towns where there was no election for the member of the legislature Tuesday were still balloting early today through the inability of the voters to agree on a candidate. In Montpelier the situation is so tangled the representative fight has been held over for ten days. The line up of the legislature will be practical ly : Senate, Republicans 26 ; Fusion, 4; House: Republicans 167; Demo crats, 46; Progressives, 24. Republican majority on Joint ballot 63. The - total vote of the state for all five gubernatorial . candidates was as follows: Allan M. Fletcher, Rep. 26,239; Harland B. Howe. Dem., 20,450; Rev. 800; 443; Frazer Metzger, Progressive, 15,Clement Smith, Prohibition, 1,Fred W. Suiter, Soc., 1,161. BUDGET FOR BRIDGES County Council Passes Fav orably on New Bridges. Th county council passed appropri ations for the following bridges: Horace Miller bridge, one-half mile north east of Fountain City, $2,650; CenterviUe- bridge, in Centerville, $1,600; Rummel bridge, northwest of Cambridge City, $4,350; Watts bridge, Washington township, $520; Burroughs bridge, Dalton township, $1.$50; Veal bridge, Perry township, $1,500; Davis bridge. Perry township. $2,050; John Locke bridge, on boundary line of Dalton and Jefferson town ships. $2,400; Girder bridge, Abington township, $950; Clevenger bridge. Washington township, $5,300. The amount appropriated for the re pairing of bridges was $4,065. Bridges for which appropriations were asked but refused were the John Eliason bridge; Frank Davis bridge, William Mitchell bridge; A. A. Smith bridge, Mendenhall bridge and Pres sell bridge. USES COAL SHOVEL Beats His Nephew and Is Fined $15 for the Offense. MILTON. IndL, Sept- 5. Sam Grit flth, of this place, was fined $15 and costs in the court of Justice of the Peace Joseph Dal ley at Cambridge City on the charge of beating Carl Benningen the young son of Win Bensinger, with a coal shoveL The child is a nephew of Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Benninger, parents of the child, have separated. Benninger
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SILENT UPON LATEST Withholds Comment on G. O. P. Order to Force Progressive Candidates Off the G. O. P. Ticket. BUGGIE IS OUSTED FROM ELECTORSHIP Chairman Comstock Says ? Vacancies in Republican Central Committee Have Now Been Filled. The Republican state committee in session at Indianapolis Wednesday, by resolution determined that county chairmen of the Republican organiza tion be instructed to go over their county committees with the purpose of removing all Progressives. The same policy, according to the understanding of workers, is to be ex tended to the Progressives who may now hold places as candidates on county Republican tickets. Paul Come toe a, cnalnnan of the Wayne county Republican central committee, who attended a meeting of county chairmen at Indianapolis yesterday, said today he had not been In formed of the resolutions of the state committee and that the county chair man in their meeting did not take up the matter. To Have Full Ticket. "The Republicans will be represent ed by a full county ticket this fall," said Mr. Comstock. "A slate will be nominated in the near future." When asked what the attitude of the party would be towards candidates on the county ticket who say they are at heart Progressives, but believe they are duty bound to stay on the Republican ticket which nominated them. Chairman Comstock said that the county central committee would have to, consider J&atw- He said that he could do nothing without the consent of the central committee. It is believed that the old party leaders are awaiting the decision cf the candidates elected last spring. These nominees were given the alternative of remaining on the Republican ticket or of coming out publicly for Roosevelt and Beverldge by the Pro gressive county convention last Tues day . The candidates have unUl next Tuesday to decide. Chairman Comstock stated that the vacancies on the Republican Central committee, caused by the resignation of one-half the committeemen who Joined the Progressive movement, had been filled. He refused to give the personnel of the newly organized county committee, adding that the names of new committeemen would be made public "in the course of time." Freeman in Command. The newly organized committee will determine in what manner the vacan cies on the county ticket caused by the defection of the Progressive candidates will be filled. It was reported today that Perry J. Freeman, a federal office holder, would take personal charge of the Re publican campaign in this county. The removal of Fred S. Buggle, of Shelbyville, nominee for elector from the Sixth district, by the Republican state committee yesterday, is looked upon by the republican organization men as essential to the carrying out of a consistent policy of purging the ticket of progressives. Buggie some time ago asserted publicly that he will vote for Roosevelt and Beverldge and will support the Progressive ticket. George B. Lockwood, of Delaware county, said after the meeting of the state committee: The issues involved are larger than any man's desire to get a county of fice. "It is perfectly clear that the man who holds a place on the republican county ticket must be a republican and must be for Taft and Durbln. Such a candidate can not play with the Progressives and remain on the Republican ticket. That is out of the question. Such a man can not look after his own candidacy to the exclusion of the candidacies of other men on the Republican ticket. "No party organization can be held together In that way. It seems to me that if Progressives are on Republican tickets they would hurry to get off those tickets if they feel they can not do fall work as Republicans for the whole ticket. It seems to me that Progressives who are In the Republican county organizations ought to get out and Join the Progressive party." DOCTOR COX HAS RECOVERED HEALTH Dr. N. S. Cox. who wm operated on recently at the Reid Memorial hosmtaL for appendicitis has folly recovered and will be at his office Monday. The many friends of Dr. Cox are glad to learn of his recovery. He has been IU,for six weeks.
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TO "HOLD TIGHT" Will Reller the Only One So Far to Announce He Will Retire From the Republican Ticket. N. JOHNSON ELECTS STANDfAT TICKET. Parsons and Pierce to Announce Their Decisions Later Horton Says He Will Not Change. It became apparent from political developments today that both the Republicans and Progressives will be forced to hold county conventions to select nominees for full county tickets. Will Reller, candidate for prosecuting attorney, is the only Republican nominee who thus far has come out publicly and severed his connections ' with the old party. Coronor R. J. Pierce, candidate for re-election. B. F. Parsons, Republican nominee for re corder, and W. K. Mason, nominee for Joint representative, have postponed a . ' public announcement of their attitude until next week. Nimrod Johnson. G. O. P. candidate for treasurer, announced publicly today he will remain on that ticket. Homer Farlow, present county com- - missioner from the eastern district, and candidate for re-election on the Republican ticket, could not be reach ed today, but it is expected that he will not Join the Progressive cauae. ' Are To 8tand Pat. The other county office candidates. " in statements filed today with Progressive County Chairman Robblna. or in interviews, indicated that they would not leave the old party. They base their stand on party af filiations, although some of them admit that deep In their hearts they are Progressives. Almost all of them ar- . gue that ihe Republican, party placed them in nomination last sprinc and , that they feel duty bound to stay with the party that honored them. Sheriff Al Steen, candidate for re election, H. II. Horton. candidate for county surveyor, Joseph Groves, nom inee for commissioner from the western district, and Nimrod Johnson, candidate for county treasurer, have declared that they will remain on the'' Republican ticket. It is not known what atUtnde the ' Republican county leaders will take , towards the candidates who remain., and who declare they are in sympathy with the Progressive cause. The Republican state central committee yesterday Instructed county leaders to " purge the lists of men who have Progressive tendencies. It ls doubted by many whether the -Republicans will welcome these candi- " dates with dpen arms. It Is said that ' unless the candidates now on the Re-' publican ticket espouse the Republican cause and openly declare themselves for Taft they will be replaced by other candidates who are staunch Republicans. Steen's Position. Sberirf Al Steen wlU give a statement to the Progressive county chairman in a few days. He said today: I have been honored by the Republicans who elected me sheriff and lastspring nominated me again. I feel duty bound to stay by the party which : elevated me to position. - Down in my heart I am a Progressive." Horton For G. O. P. H. H. Horton. county , surveyor, elected to that office by the Republi-, cans and nominated for the position by that party last spring will stay on the Republican ticket. In a statement' given Progressive County Chairman Robblns today Mr. Horton said that he believed It his duty to remain on the ticket of the party which elected him surveyor and which honored him with the nomination last spring. Farlow Is Away. Homer Farlow, commissioner froa the eastern district, and candidate for the position on the Republican ticket could not be reached today. He Is in Indianapolis. Although be has not Issued a statement, he has Informed Progressive and Republican friends that be will remain on the Republican ticket. It Is believed that he has not changed his decision in the last few days. (Continued on Page Six) REGISTER FRIDAY. Next Friday is registration day and if you have not registered do so then. You cannot vote unless you have registered. - You do not want to be denied a vote in r November because you have not taken the time to register
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