Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 302, 24 October 1912 — Page 1

EICHMONB PALLADIUM t 1 i ' ' - AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOI. XXXVII. NO. 302. RICII3IOND, IXD., THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 21, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS." A BIG RALLY WAS HELD BY SOCIALISTS BLOWING OP OF BRIDGES IOLD COURT Montenegrins Move on this Turk Stronghold BULGARIANS AT HOSPITAL 4 ; rani . 4wVSv t

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(Tenets of the Party Explained by R. Van Voorhis, and the Rev. H. L. Haywood, Wednesday night.

fASSAIL THE PRESS FOR INDIFFERENCE Rev. Haywood Says that Under Socialism, Ministers Could Preach Real Truth From the Pulpit. R. F. Van Voorhis, Socialist candljdate for congress, and the Rev. H. L. ' Haywood, pastor of the Universalist 'church, styling himself a "revolution ary Socialist," addressed a comparatively large audience at the Coliseum last evening. ' Both speakers addressed themselves : to a presentation of the tenets of Socialism and neither indulged in at- ' tacks on the other political parties and their leaders. "Van Voorhis and ! I have received all the political lam- ' basting we need," said the Rev. Mr. .Haywood in explanation. , The only feature of the evening happened when the Rev. Mr. Haywood ! said that a number of preachers of this city had told him they could not express their honest convictions for fear of offending rich members of their congregations. The Rev. A. J. Feeger, pastor of St. John's Lutheran 'church, interrupted here to say, "Such 1 preachers are damnable hypocrites 'and have no right in the pulpit." The Rev. Haywood continued: "I do not say that the individual is a hy pocrite but that the system is wrong. Under Socialism the church for the first time in its history will have the I right to preach as Christ wants the truth proclaimed. If we concentrate .the remedy on the root, we will be able to do what is right. Assails Newspapers. Van Voorhis and the Rev. Haywood took occasion to preface their addresses with the statement that the press of the city was blinded to the growth iof Socialism and does not. give it ade1 quate space in its news columns. ) Referring to the actio.n of the clerk jof the house of representatives in an nouncing that Van Voorhis had not observed the federal statute regarding political candidates, the Socialist candidate explained why it was that he did not notify the clerk of his camjpaign expenses fifteen days before the 'nomination. "It is impossible for a socialist candidate to notify the clerk fifteen days .before his nomination," asserted Van Voorhis. "We do not know that we are nominated until the nomination has been placed in our hands, for the Socialists hold no primaries. I did not know that the party had nominated me juntil I received the notification, and (how could I- have sent a statement to !the clerk fifteen days before that time?" Reads Letter From Clerk. ; Van Voorhis then quoted from a let;ter which he had received from the Jclerk of th.3 house as follows: "You jmay have not. complied with the letter of the law, but you have with the spiriit of the law." "Why was the impression scattered "broadcast that I had violated the fedjeral statutes? To hurt our cause, to jlnjure me. The letter which I have revived from the clerk of the house is 'sufficient exoneration." The Rev. Mr. Haywood began his address by saying that ten years ago you could have put all the Socialists in Richmond in a hall bed room, and now the party is meeting in the Coliseum. "I wonder how much space the newspapers will give this meeting? They ican look at a big thing and still not pee it. The papers will look at this big jcrowd of 'reds' and Socialists and then say tomorrow the crowd was .email. What is Socialism? "Socialism In the wide sense is the jorganized effort of all society for the good of all society. It is the application of democracy to industrial conditions. Tt says that the principles of democ"racy should be applied to industry, for it is just as bad to have a political tyirant as an industrial despot." "In the narrow sens and the one ("which is tlio slogan of Socialism, it is (democratic management of socially operated industries. It asserts that each individual has the right to a portion of the earth. In the final analysis everything comes from the land, therefore, all should share in the ownership of land. "Socialism advocates the collective ownership of industries by the city, state government, with the people to ,control and manage them. It insists 'that not the business of the individual, fbut the socially operated industries be jowned by the government." , Economic Determinism. k Economic determinism, he explaind, is that man is largely determined y the way he makes his living, the number of hours he works, the envirjonment and the wages he receives. He maintained that the moral condition bf a factory girl is not determined so lanuch by the moral Influences that are brought to bear on her as the number (Continued cn Page lght)

Witnesses for the Government 'Tell of Vandalism Perpetrated in Various Parts of the Country.

GOVERNMENT MAKES VERY STRONG CASE Testimony of Shipments of Supposed Dynamite and Nitroglycerine Was Also Introduced Today. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24. That George O'Donnell, now supposed to be dead and formerly a member of the Denver Ironworkers' Union, who served a prison term for blowing up a bridge at Sommerset, Mass., in 1908, was paid for the job from the Ironworkers' International dynamiting fund ws tne assertion of District Attorney Miller in federal court here today. This alleged fact was brought out during the testimony of Policeman W. H. Medley, of Sommerset, Mass., who told of the dynamiting of a bridge at Fall River, Mass., April 26, 1908, being constructed by the American Bridge company, and the bridge at Sommerset, being erected by the Phoenix Bridge company. O'Donnell's prison term has expired and he has been reported dead, but it is understood that he is still living under an assumed name. J. G. Garver, of Trenton, N. J., timekeeper of the American Bridge Co., told how a bridge being constructed by his company at Pelham Bay was was dumped into the bay the night of Feb. 3, 1908, when the guy clamps were removed. James T. Lane, bridge superintendent, testified that dynamite wrecked the Dennison harbor viaduct at Cleveland, O., in 1910, while he was night watchman on that job. A" dozen express company employes testified as to shipments supposed to be dynamite and nitroglycerine out of j Indianapolis by the McNamaras and j McManigal to points throughout the ) country. OLD SOLDIERS TO BE HOTO GUESTS At the Landis Meeting Friday Night. Partial List of Vice Presidents. The following is a partial list of vice presidents for the Fred Landis meeting at the Coliseum Friday night at 7:45. Seats for old soldiers and their wives will be reserved on the stage: Rev. Henry Luring, Arthur T. King, Wm. B. Watson, Tarrey T. Wilson, Oliver Wilson, Harry G." Winsett, Robert A. Benton, E. C. Dickinson, William H. Cook, E. H. Harris, John R. Hawekotte, S. H. Jones, Folger P. Wilson, J. H. Bennett, Frank I. Reed, Warren Lacey, Lamar Monarch, George J. Knollenberg, Jesse A Bailey, Patrick Taylor, Andrew Wilson, Harry Jay, E. G. King, Thomas Murry, Charles Atkins, Charles Teeter, Rev. L. H. Bunyan, Fred Straus, Elmer E. Jesks, Elmer L. Ford, Frank Schissler, A. Clark Ketch, O. E. Dickinson, Charles Hilbert, E. J. Hiatt, Scott Webb, Watson P. O'Neal, Dr. J. M. Wampler, George C. Wilcoxen, Jeff. Wilson, Ledger P. Wine, Cash Beall, Demas S. Coe, Wm. F. Kluter, Dr. D. W. Stevenson, C. W. Genn, John R. Jordan, Martin Hoggatt, Dr. T. Henry Davis, Walter McConaha, Dr. W. G. Huffman, Dr. R. A. Chattin, George H. Knollenberg, Adam H. Bartel, Mark Porterfield, William Burton, George Ross, John Crowe, Alonzo P. Kepler, John Teeter, Frank Teeter, Walter B. Garver, Dr. Charles S. Bond, Dr. M. F. Johnston, Dr. S. Edgar Bond, Rev. McFarlaine, Alfred Bavis, Alpheus E. Kutter, C. H. Heitbrink, Wilfield Smelser, George Brehm, Dr. J. M. Thurston. Amiedeo D. Laura, Gus Castelluccio, Frank Castelluccio, Mike Enore, Chany Pietrantusio, Lee Ault, Dr. A. O. Martin, George Calloway, Jacob Hutchinson, Alfred Halderman, H. J. Day, Dr. N. F. Canaday, Samuel Doeshler, James Carpenter, Charles Thornburg, Clarence Fouts. T. S. Walker, Milton Franklin, W. T. Davis, Dr. E. H. Thurston, Will Williams, J. N. Stover, E. L. Castator, Jerome Day, Henry Roush, John M. Replogle, Henry Teetor, John M. Werking, H. W. Keazy, Benj. Jewett, Ula Boyd, Tross Morgan, Lloyd Williams, Fred Petty, Joseph Winslow. THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight heavy frost tonight. and Friday; LOCAL Fair tonight and Friday; slightly warmer tonight.

His Assailant Still Ignorant that the Bullet She Fired Had a Fatal Effect on Thompson.

IS ON THE VERGE OF NERVOUS COLLAPSE Prosecutor Has a Statement From Thompson and Police Secure a Confession from the Woman. Confined in her cell at the Home for Friendless Women, Mrs. Mary Moore, who shot William Thompson at the Marshallette hotel late Tuesday afternoon, because, it is said, the man insulted her daughter, is unaware that Thompson died at 12:30 o'clock this morning at the Reid Memorial hospital where he was taken immediately after he was shot. It is not known when or by whom the news that the bullet had deadly effect, will be broken to the woman. Mrs. Moore is in a serious condition at the county institution. Since Tuesday afternoon, when she was taken to the home, she has been on the verge of nervous prostration. Her physical condition has weakened constantly. A charge of murder in the first degree confronts the woman and she is to be held at the jail home without bail. Mrs. Mary Thomas, matron of the home, has been ordered by Sheriff Steen to allow no one but the county physician to see the woman. A Palladium representative today was given permission by the chief of police to interview the woman, but the sheriff countermanded the chief's order. Chief Gormon declared he could see no reason why the woman could not be interviewed, inasmuch as her confession is now in the hands of the police. Mother To Claim Body. The mother of the murdered man is expected to arrive from Beaver Dam, Va., late this afternoon to take charge of the body. Prosecuting Attorney, Allen secured a statement from Thompson, but on account of Thompson's condition it was impossible to obtain an absolutely coherent story. Thompson in his statement, according to the prosecutor, said that he had been in Richmond since July 29. He said that he was sitting on lounge with Miss Delia Hunt, daughter of Mrs. Moore. "I was kidding her about a boy named Arnold," Thompson said in .his statement to the prosecutor. The girl in a statement to Prosecutor Allen, said that Arnold had started to go upstairs when she held him by the sleeve saying, "No, don't go." When Arnold left them, Thompson is alleged to have said, "What did you want him to stay here for? I'm your beau." "She then kicked me two or three times with her feet," Thompson said in his statement. "And I smacked her when she called me a vile name. Her mother and I had always been good friends till yesterday." Following the quarrel between the two at the hotel the girl went to police headquarters and notified Police Chief Gormon of the occurrence. Mr. Gormon told the girl to file an affidavit and Thompson would be arrested. The girl then went to her mother's home and related her story of their quarrel, saying Thompson had treated her cruelly. The mother went to the hotel and in an angry mood asked Thompson if he struck her daughter. He said he did not. She then pulled the gun, it is said, and I fired two bullets into his body, one entering his shoulder and the other passing through the abdomen. It was the second bullet which caused the man's death. Mrs. Moore then walked to police headquarters where she handed the j pistol to Patrol Driver Wenger and made a confession. "I shot a fellow," she simply said as she handed the gun to Wenger. Later she admitted shooting Thompson to Supt. Gormon. OEFENSE FAVORED BY INSTRUCTIONS Given the Jury in the Becker Case by Justice Goff This Morning. j (National News Association) j NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Justice Goff i instructed the jury in the trial of po lice lieutenant Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal today that only two verdicts were possible, murder in the first or second degree or acquittal. He thus eliminated any possibility of a manslaughter verdict. He told the jury that the story told by Jack Rose must be the basis of their deliberation; if they accepted his story they would convict Becker and if they rejected it they would acquit him. This ruling was regarded as favora ble to their cause by attorneys for the 1 defense.

Scutari, the strongest fortress in Northern Albania, and a Turkish Gibraltar. (Copyright by the International News Service.)

ACCIDENTS CAUSED . BY A jHlCAGO FOG Trains and Street Car Collide and Several People Were Injured. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Oct. 24 Seven persons were injured, one fatally today, when a Pennsylvania suburban train crashed through a street car at One-Hun-dren-and-Sixth street and Avenue C. The accident was the result of a heavy fog which engulfed Chicago this fore noon and caused a number of other minor accidents in which railroad trains, teams, street cars and elevated trains figured. Many persons were injured. Those first summoned after the collision between the railroad train and the street car found two men unconscious and reported them dead. They were afterwards revived. One of them will die. A collision between the heavy passenger trains on the Illinois Central occurred at Seventieth 6treet. A number of persons were injured but none seriously. A Michigan Central train from Detroit, was struck by a Big Four train from Cincinnati, in the yards south of the Illinois Central station. The rear car of the Detroit train was split open. Four persons were hurt when a Fortieth, avenue car collided with -an ice wagon at West Indiana street. Two northbound South Side elevated trains collided in the fog at Vernon avenue and 63rd street. All of the persons injured were residents of this city. UNDERBILL RESIGNS HIS MAGE JOB Residents Asked Difference Between "Stench" and "Odor", by Board." How they arrived at the distinction between the stomach of a garbage wagon and the odor of a duck pond was the question propounded to wom en from the West side called to testify on the work of John Underhill, official garbage collector in West Richmond, before the board of public works today. Residents claimed Underhill lett his wagon near his house and the stench from the vehicle was unbearable. Underhill asserted that the offensive odor did not arise from his wagon, but from a duck pen belonging to William Knlerim. He alleged that garbage was thrown into this pen until is was five inches high. West side residents were divided in their opinion on the faithfulness with which Underhill did his work. President Kennepohl of the board of works told Underhill that if he had treated the people courteously complaints would not have been registered against him and his work. No charges against his personal character were made. Underhill has been hauling the collected garbage to places other than the crematory, and was also accused of slighting his work and loafing. He was ordered by the board today to leave his wagon at the crematory and not bring it to the neighorhood where it was offensive. "I can"t do that," said Underhill. "unless I work fifteen hours per day. I don't think this ought to be asked of me. I am too heavy to walk to the crematory. I will appeal to the circuit court." When asked what he intended to do he said the only thing left for him to do was to resign. He saidhe mayor had not treated Mm fairly, by the decision. IS SEARCHED ONLY AFTER A STRUGGLE William Manville was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to thirty days In the county jail for public intoxication in police court this morning. Manville resisted arrest and would not let himself be searched by the police until knocked down and forced into submission. He has been a continual source of trouble to the police. Mayor I sentence of $100 and costs and SO days for his next offense.

DO yOU ATTEND A SUNDAY SCHOOL? City Sunday School Assoc'n Will Soon Know If You Are a Member.

A canvass of the city will be made by the members of the City Sunday School association and the Richmond Ministerial association for the purpose of ascertaining how many persons in the city attend Sunday school, their preference if they do not attend and what church they would attendy' The object of the canvass is to getmore persons to attend church more regularly and to get those who are not in touch with the church interested in church work., J The complete list will be made the last week in November and then turned over to the Ministerial association, and the names will be distributed to the churches where the people have signified their preferences. A meeting of the city Sunday school association was held at the English Lutheran church Tuesday and the following officers were elected: Judge Boggs, president; Rev. T. J. Graham, vice president; Mrs. S. C. Bevington, secretary, and Charles E. Newman, treasurer. JOHNSON BRAZENLY D E F ENDSACT 1 0 N S Tells Colored Club that He Has the Right to Pick His Own Mate. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Jack Johnson, negro champion pugilist, never showed less respect for an opponent in the ring than he did today for the law of the land. In an address before members of the Appommatox club, an organization composed of members of his own race, Johnson quoted the Bible in a brazen attempt to justify his actions. "I am not a slave," said Johnson. "I have the right to say who my mate shall be. I have eyes and I have a heart, and when they fail to tell me who I shall have for mine I want to be put in a lunatic asylum. "So long as I do not interfere with another man's wife, I shall claim the right to select the woman of my own choice. Nobody else can do that for me. That is where the whole trou- j ble lies." When asked by the club members if ! he had anything to say in regard to J the charges which have been made ; against him, he said: "Yes. I would; like to do that. First, I want to say J that nothing is ever said of the white j man who waylays the little colored j girl when she goes to market with her cotton. Nobody has anything to say about that. But when the negro does something that is not nearly so serious, there is a great hue and cry. Denies the Statement. "I want to say that I never made that statement attributed to me to the effect that I could get any white woman I wanted. I can lay my hand upon the Bible and swear that I never made such a statement. "My father was a Christian and my mother is a Christian, and I know what it means when I swear by the Bible. I want to say that I never said any-' thing of the sort about any woman of . any color." j The pugilist showed his contempt ; for the negro minister who denounced J him. from the pulpit a week ago. ; "I have been no hypocrite." he said. "I have told the truth about my affairs, and I know that my character will bear inspection, probably a little more favorably than that of the man who denounced me when, if he had been sincere, he would have called on me and tried to save me." The brewery which own's Johnson's license announced today that it would take it away from him October 31. The effect will be to put the champion out of business in Chicago and several friends said they expected Johnson would leave the city as the result. The attack against Johnson by his brother before the grand jury Wednesday wounded the champion deeply and he has been morose and sullen. He keeps close to his apartments, going out 4ut once a day. That is in the evening when he takes a ride 4a his automobile accompanied by a strong armed guard.

NIGHT SCHOOL TO TRAINJF0RE1GNERS

School Board Wants Local Foreigners to Learn the English Language. The desire of foreigners to learn the English language will be gratified by the Richmond school board. Frequent requests from foreign born men and boys to increase their knowledge of the language accelerated the disposition of the board to act favorably on a resoluUon authorizing the establishment of a night school to run twenty weeks beginning next month. Classes will be so arranged that foreigners with schooling of various degrees in English will be accommodated. The board hopes that many foreigni ers will avail themselves of the opportunity. Other branches will also be taught to help persons who wish to school themselves in studies which they had no opportunity to learn after they quit 1 school. Many shop boyB and men are expected to take courses this year. The two medical examiners of the schools, Drs. J. E. King and A. L. Bramkamp reported that there was no danger of an epidemic of typhoid fever. There are seven cases in the city, but quarantine restrictions used at once prevented the spread of the malady. The doctors will compel children who hare been exposed or affected to remain at home ten days after the official quarantine has been lifted. The board was gratified with the report of the medical examiners. The work has been proceeding satisfactorily and tangible results have been noted by the teachers. HARRY STARR WILL TESTIFY Tl Clapp Investigating Committee Did Not Hold Any Session Today. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Oct. "A.- -The Clapp committee investigating campaign funds met today and immediately recessed until tomorrow. No witnesses were present. A hhcs. has cccurred over the summoning of ex relator Albert J. Beveridge. He desires to testify on Saturday, but thus far the committee has refused to hold sessions on that day, and is is not expected that Mr. Beveridge's wiohe3 In the maer will be respected. H. B. Pettit, form speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, and Harry C. Starr, who was a member of the Republican national committee in 1904, will be called tomorrow. A TRAIN IS WRECKED C. & O. Freight Runs Into a Siding. A westbound freight train hauling a heavy load of coal cars ran into a siding near the south side C. & O. station Wednesday afternoon and smashed into a switch engine which has just entered the siding. The impact tore the tender of the switch engine from its coupling and hurled it against the bumper at the end of the siding. The front of the freight engine was damaged considerably. Nobody was injured. Traffic was tied up for several hours. The switch crew failed to close the switch after the engln took the siding.

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Tomorrow Night Fred Landis. Coliseum 7:45

Strongest Outpost of the Turkish Stronghold Falls After a Desperate and t Bloody Battle.

AEROPLANE FLIES OVER ADRIANOPLE! Guns of Turkish Defenders Could Not Bring Down the! Aerial Scout. Montene grins Near Scutari. (Xatlons.1 News Association) SOFIA. Oct. 24. Kirk KUlesseh. tbW outpost of the fortifications of Adrian nople, has been captured by the Bulgarian army after a terrific five dayj battle with heavy loss of life on both the Turkish and Bulgarian sides. This! news was received here this afternoon! in a dispatch from the commander oQ the Bulgarian army at the front. The capture of Adrianople is the next object of the Bulgarians. Telegrams from the front stated that this day's fighting was Inaugurated by; an artillery duel which began before daybreak. The soldiers who had slept upon their arms were soon In moUon.. Both lines of battle are between 40 and 50 miles long extending In a semli circle through the Moritsa valley from.' Kirk KUlesseh on the Northeast to th outer works of the Turks on the wesL; The casualties have been very heavy and come of the dead who fell' four days ago were still lying anbur led. The methods of the Bulgarian generals under King Ferdin d In carrying the Turkish strong h- is north of Adrianople indicated tt - the Bulgars would attempt to drt' the Turks into the citadel with a tz nd assault all along the line.Every telegram today was expected to bring word of a gen eral bayonet advance by the Bulgar ians upon the second Turkish base of operations. , Heavy Bulgarian guns were brought up and King Ferdinand tried to thrown shells Into the city but the distance was too great. The bloodiest fighting was around Kirk KUlesseh for the city of Forty churches) where the defense has been as brilliant as the reported attacks. Bulgarian aeroplanes have been assembled at the front and daily reconoissances are being made by Bulgarian aviators. One airman ascended 1.000 feet and made a rought draft of the Turkish works in the outskirts of Adrianople. The Turks directed a steady fire at the machine but it was out of range. Minor fighting is reported at a nunv; ber of scattered points east and west' of Adralnople. A Constantinople dis-, patch states that the Bulgarian force stationed at Marasa was routed by Turks and fled leaving thousands of dead upon the battlefield. 1 GREEK8 ARE VICTORIOUS. ATHENS. Oct 24. All the. Turks have been driven from the Greek frontiers. The Turkish army is In full retreat across the Kambunla mountains followed by the victorious Greek army under Crown Prince Constantino which 1 is cutting off the strgglers. The Turk-) ish lines broken by. the, route are directed toward Salonika. Greek mountaineers are forming volunteer bands and are attacking the fleeing Turks in every quarter. At Servidje two Turkish battalions were entirely wiped out. The Greeks captured a great quantity of stores and artillery. The Ottoman soldiers arc making a final stand in Kumutsado Pass. The outposts of each army kept op an all night fire and at dawn the general engagement was resumed. Seventy Christians, including a bishop of the Greek Catholic church were murdered by the Turks before they evacuated Servidje. This Information was received today In a telegram from Gen. Danglis at the front. CLOSING ON SCUTARI. GETTINJE, Oct. . 24. The last mountain barrier between the Montt negrin army and Scutari fell today when the Montenegrins captured Chlrika mountain, driving off the Turks and capturing several mountain How. iUers. The fall of Scutari is now believed to be imminent. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES The Council of Associated Charities will meet Friday afternoon at two o'clock in the rooms of the Associated Charities, 21 South Fifth street. It is earnestly urged that all charitable organizations of the city have a representative at this meeting.

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