Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 307, 30 October 1912 — Page 6

;HE RICHMOND PALLA.OIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1912.

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A BUSINESS RECORD

OF C. H. Martin Reads State Report Showing Interesting Acts of Durbin. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 30. Before an enthusiastic Progressive audience at the Lawrence theater in Lawrence last night Clarence R. Martin flayed the Indiana bipartisan machine and riddled the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor by comparisons with Senator Beveridge. He analyzed Governor Durbin's campaign argument for a "business administration' and declared that, gauged by Durbin's past performances, the "business" referred to is Big Business and political trickery. "The kind of business administration that Mr. Durbin desires to give this state," declared Mr. Martin, "can best be prophesied by the kind of business administration he has been giving to the surety company of which until recently he was president. A mere opinion from me concerning his acts as president of that company might be regarded as unfair by. some in this audience who may be his supporters. For that reason I will read you the records and let you judge for yourselves." Reads From Report. Mr. Martin read from the report of Leon S. Senior and John E. Watson, examiners for the New York insurance department, and Herman F. Kleibacker, examiner for the Michigan insurance department, which was made Jan. 26.1912, to William H. Hotchkiss, superintendent of insur ance, state of New York; Calvin A. Palmer, commissioner of insurance, made Jan. 26, 1912, to William H. O Brlen, auditor and ex-ornclo commissioner of insurance of the state of Indiana. This report, he announced, in on file In the state auditor's office. Quoting from the report, Mr. Martin read: , "As indicated in this report, the financial statements rendered to the state and Federal authorities yearly and quarterly did not In the last three years reflect the true condition of tho company. Not only has the company underestimated its liabilities for losses incurred and computed its unearned premiums on a wrong method, but in addition there to it has carried out certain transactions at the end of each period when it was required to submit sworn statements to supervising authorities." Contribution to Surplus. "According to entries made on the company's books the stockholders contributed the sum of $50,000 to the surplus of the corporation on March 31, 1911, the date of the quarterly report to the United States Treasury department. Such book entries also show that the contribution was returned on May 29, 1911. On March 31, 1911, thirteen directors of , the company, including Winfield T. Durbin, issued promisory notes in the total sum of $50,000 made payable to the Federal Union Surety company and were indorsed by the surety company and discounted by the Indiana National bank. "The bank on March 31, 1911, issued a certificate of deposit to the Federal Union Surety company for the proceeds of the said notes. This certificate was credited by the company on its books as a contribution to the surplus and the amount of such contribution, included in the sworn report to the United States Treasury department. On May 18, the notes were surrendered and taken up and the company paid the sum of $166.67 interest to the Indiana National bank for the loan. Declares s'tates Losers. "Not only were these frauds perpetrated on the United States Treasury department but upon the insurance departments of the various states in which the company did business. "Durbin, as his record shows, merged his surety company with an automobile insurance company and issued to the new stockholders stock worth '

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only three-fifths as much as their old stock. The courts held this merger illegal and void and compelled him to pay back. "Durbin, as his record shows, allowed his company to write fictitious bonds just before the times for his reports and compute the reserves thereon at 50 per cent thereby creating a fictitious increase in tha surplus of his company. The examiners eay this fictitious surplus was used for the purpose of quarterly reports to the United States Treasury department. In August, 1911, the United States Treasury department caused an examination to be made of the affairs of the Federal Union Surety company and as a result of such examination revoked the company's license as surety on government bonds." Contract Awarded to Self. "Durbin, as this record shows, gave himself a contract to complete a paving contract in Terre Haute on which the principal had defaulted and the company was surety. He paid himself $37,500 and then in his annual statement to state and federal authorities on Dec. 1, 1908, treated it as the company's absolute assets, afterward sending the money back to his bank in Anderson to be credited to his own account. "Yet this man dares to go forth among the people of the state of Indiana and deliver speeches, written, no doubt, by Col. W. W. Huffman, seeking to foist upon you and this state the same kind of business administration as he did upon the surety company and seeking to blacken the spotless name of the man who fourteen years ago took and forever has kept his pledge, the people only are my masters and to the people I will fbe true."

DEMOCRATS BOUGHT CARNATIONS

And Gave Them to Their Wives. At Least that's What They Told .the Progressive Women, Who, However, Would Watch 'Em on Election Day.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. i One thing the Progressive women found out the other day. When selling carnations and stamps for the Progressive campaign funds in the entrances to two of tho picture theatres. That was, that the Republicans are regular "sore-heads." And that there are a lot of nice Democrats in town. Several Democrats bought carnations to give to their wives. So they said. And why should any Progressive doubt 'em? However there wyere several Republicans high in the local councils who were amiable enough. Two of 'em purchased carnations. What was the latter's final destination is problematical. The point was, they bought them. One of these stately officials said. however, that the Progressives were wasting time. He seemed to have inside and complacent information with regard to the "local situation." Felt very sure that Progressives would be found bringing up the voting rear in this environ. Doubted, indeed, if a baker's dozen would be cast. One Progressive woman "opined" that, mayhap, if the Progressives were found to be piling up votes that the Republican and Democratic election officers would throw their too super fluity into the discard.

Nay. nay, said the Republican virtu-1"

ousty. In fact repudiated the suggestion vehemently. Too vehemently. So vehemently, in fact, that one Progressive was heard to murmur "my lord thou doth protest too much." "How," said an unsophisticated female, "are the Progressives going to tell when the Dems and the Republicans have entire charge of the returns? How're the Progressives going to know what they do?" The Republican official smiled loftily. "There has never been a contested election in Wayne County," he said. "This cry of fraud is ridiculous," he went on. "Its merely a campaign excitement." "All the same you could falsify the returns, couldn't you?" asked the inquisitive female. "Oh, they might be," said the official carelessly," but they won't. Its preposterous to talk about it." "I don't see why," went on the obnoxious one, "it's been done before. Why not again." "But not in Wayne County!" oracu larly cried the official. "Well, anyway, you say they could do it," said the woman, "and It seems easy enough unless you have voting machines." "Well we don't have voting machines in this county," said the official "and there'll be no fraud." The woman sniffed. Don't you believe me?" asked the official. "No, I don't!" cried the woman. "I wouldn't trust you old Republicans a city block. I might the Democrats but not you." "That's no way to talk," said the official, "when you know we're for you." "For who?" "Why, you," grinned the Republican. "Not for you, personally or individually, but for the sex." "Pooh!" said the woman. "You're affection is too sudden to be true. You never were for us 'til the Progressives took us up. Then you were all hollerIn' how you loved us. And its a fact that we aren't half bad at collecting money." "No, you're good when it comes to that," said the official looking at his two carnations. "If you are unscrupulous." "How dare you!" cried the woman. "Money's money isn't it?" "Yes. Rut. I shouldn't think vnu'd wantmy money, let us say," grin ned the official. "A dime's a dime," murmured the woman. "And a nickel's a nicked." "There's nothing more amusing than this 'tainted money' hullabaloo," Bhe continued. "If money's given for a good cause what's the difference where it comes from. For when it is turned into an agency for good, however reprehensible its source, the latter is nullified. "What's the difference between a rich man and a poor man contributing to a campaign fund? Just because a man is rich is no sign why he can't be as patriotic as if he were poor. "Poverty's no virtue. "In fact poverty, in and of itself, is a crime. "Poverty shouldn't exist. RICHMOND, IND.

"Its a quantity taken no account of by nature. "And should not have been created by man. "Poverty is a hindrance and a deterrent. "An iron shackle binding men and women. Grinding them to powder and crushing them to pulp. "You hear men saying sometimes "'Yes, I'm a poor man!' As though it were something to be proud of. But

it's bravado! "Nobody really thinks it's nice to be poor. "And there's nothing to be proud about. "The truth is that nobody ought to be poor. The Socialists are all right on that. But their manner of regulating distribution doesn't appeal to the popular fancy . "There should be a limitation on fortune, for one thing. After a man had accumulated so much he should not be permitted to pile up millions on millions. "He should stand aside and give the other fellow a chance. "It's that famous equality of opportunity that people want. "But fortunes will never be equalized until you equalize the financial talents of your fortune-makers. "And this you can't do. "It never will be done unless a new race is bred. "But to return a rich man may be as disinterested in contributing tn I thousand dollars to a campaign fund Pr man is in contributing ten "It's not the amount. It's the spirit in which it is contributed. "The women found that there were a lot of persons glad to contribute five and ten cents to the Progressive campaign fund. One man stated that the women had offered him the first opportunity. That nobody has asked him. ; Presumably because they thought he !had no superfluity out of which to j give. But that he wanted to give some- ! thing. And so he gave them twentyfive cents. "This was just as acceptable as twenty-five million dollars." "What're you trying to do preach a sermon?" asked the Republican official. "Oh, I thought you had gone long ago," said the woman. "All the same," she said, "if I was a voter I'd keep tab on you on election day." "On me!" exclaimed the official. "Why on me?" "Oh, I didn't mean you personally and individually " grinned the woman, "but the Republican and Democrat I election officers." "How would you do it?" asked the official curiously. "Well, I'd do it," said the woman. NOTICE OPEN MEETING All Painters and Paper-hangers are Invited to be present Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at "Union Hall, South Sixth. You will hear something for your own benefit. advertisement 30-2t BOWLING NOTES The Bonesetters took three straight games from the Starr Pianos at the City alleys last evening. The third game was won with 901 pins. High scores were frequent in the contest, ! Markley rolling 235; Harold 230, Eickenberry 201; Mayer 209 and Zeyen 214. By winning the contest the Bonesetters stepped into fourth place. Markley secured high average with 189 but was followed closely by Zeyen with 188. The score: Bonesetters. Markley 138 235 193 Bond 182 162 136 Eikenberry 167 146 201 Harold 146 171 230 Sprouse 112 149 141 Total 744 863 901 Starr Pianos. Denny 118 Kirk 125 Blind 157 Zeyen 170 Mayer 170 Total 740 168 126 155 214 154 121 1 134 159 j 181 j 209 817 804 TEAM STANDING. W. L. Pet. Keystones 5 1 .833 Giants 5 1 .833 Reliance Five 4 2 .667 Lichtenfels Sox 3 3 .500 j Bonesetters 4 5 .444 Starr Piano 3 6 .333 i Travelers 2 4 .333 Slims 1 5 .167 is.

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY Veteran Kills Wife and Then Turns Gun on Self.

(Palladium Special.) NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 30. Thomas Barrett, age sixty-three, a florist, employed by the Heller Brothers Company, in a fit of jealous rage, Monday night shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Mary Barrett, aged forty, and j committed suicide. The Barretts had been married four months. The crime was committed at the home of Litten Lyons, Barrett's son-in-law, with whom he lived. He and his wife had been separated for two weeks, and she was living at the home of another son, Ross Lyons. When Barrett returned from his work he sent his granddaughter for his wife. As the woman was about to enter the house, Barrett appeared at the door and shot her. Barrett then placed the revolver to his right temple and fired. He fell dead across the body of his wife. His suicide was witnessed by several neighbors and his grandchildren, who heard the first shot. Domestic troubles caused the tragedy. Barrett was a veteran of the civil war and served in the Forty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry. COURT NEWS The Van Camp Hardware and Iron company, of Indianapolis, has filed suit in the Wayne circuit court against Grant Stanley. The complaint is on account, the demand being $400. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant purchaser goods to the amount of $381.40 and has refused to pay for the same. Suit on promissory note was filed today by Benjamin G. Price and Charles Potter, partners, doing business under the firm name of the Benjamin G. Price company, versus Harry D. Jones, complaint on note and to foreclose mortgage. The demand is $160. According to the complaint the note was issued by the defendant, August 31, 1911 for $131.50. A chattel mortgage was given as security. During the first five months of the present year there were 85,000 motor vehicles registered in the state of New York, of which number 76,164 are pleasure cars and 7,320 commercial vehicles, the remaider being dealers' cars, or exempt from taxation. i

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FOR GEORGIA. Mr. Kern Slifer, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Slifer at their home In North Eighth street, returned to Atlanta, Georgia, today. GUESTS HERE. Mr. and Mrs. Miller McVay of Sidney, Ohio, are the guests of their son. i Mr. Will McVay, 227 North Mntn street. DANCE TONIGHT. This evening the members of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will give a dancing party in the Pythian Tem- j pie. The affair will be in the nature j of a Hallowe'en party. An orchestra will furnish the dance music. TO ANDERSON. Mr. Charles Rau has returned to j Anderson, Indiana, after spending the week-end here with kinspeople and friends. 2.JLM.iJ TO CINCINNATI. Mr. Otto Heins has gone to Cincinnati, Ohio, on a business trip. OUT OF TOWN GUESTS. The out of town guests at the Meeks-Wigmore wedding this evening which will be celebrated at six o'clock in the St. Paul's Episcopal church are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meeks. Mr. William Meeks, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Cartwright, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cartwright, of Columbus, Ohio, Miss Mae Kuhn. of Hamilton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCarthy, of Toledo, O., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, of Clifton, W. Va., and Miss Anna Price, of Nelsonville, Ind. TO GREENS BURG. Mrs. John Dougan, Mrs. Herbert Weed and Mrs. Thomas J. Graham have gone to Greensburg to attend a synod meeting. A NEW GARAGE A new building of concrete, brick and Iron construction is to be erected on the south side of Main street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, and will be used as a garage by the Ford Motor Car agency and the McKee Taxlcab service. The garage will be equipped with the latest features. The Miller-Kemper company has accepted the contract for the building. Offering prizes to its motormen for the most effective operation of cars by an English company has resulted in a saving of 25 per cent, of the current tt fl Tin fr

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PRESENT REPORT ON SOUTH SIDE SEWER

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