Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 310, 2 November 1912 — Page 1
EICHMOmFA UM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TOLi XXXVII. NO. 310. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 191! SINGLE, COPY 2 CENTS.
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BULGARIANS NEAR GATES OF CAPITAL
Last Line of Forts Protecting Constantinople Reached After Another Bulgarian Victory. GRAND ASSAULT ON DEFENSES PLANNED Turkish Veterans in Reserve Making Dogged Resistance but Are Being Driven into the City. (National News Association) SOPHIA, (5:00 p. m.). Nov. 2. After terrific fighting in which thousands fell on both sides the Bulgarian array today reached the last line of Turkish forts defending Constantinople at Bhatalja, which is only twelve miles from' Constantinople, and the forts there are the main defensive works of the city. When they fall the Bulgarians will enter the city. The Bulgarian battle line is 18 miles broad, being confined by the narrowness of the peninsula. It is believed here that a grand assault will be made upon the works after a severe bombardment. Four hundred thousand Bulgarians and Turks are engaged in a life and 'death struggle between Adrianople and the Besphorus with Constantino- . pie as the prize. Dispatches from military headquarters state that the Turks are being driven back before the steady advance of the Bulgarians, but that the fight Is continuous for the trained Turkish soldiers who have been held in reserve are now bearing the brunt of the Bulgar onslaught and stubbornly contesting every inch of the ground. 1 Wounded soldiers returned from the front, tell graphic stories of the battle south of Adrianople.. ' The most of the reliefs, they declared, proved treacherous cowards and fled before the Bulgarian artillery ire without waiting for an attack by infantry or artillery: In their retreat southeasterward the Turks are pillaging the country, leaving it a desolate waste behind.' Villages are burned, crops destroyed and property looted. The populace is starving, it is 'said. After the defeat of Lite Burgas thousands of the relief acted with such cowardice that the Turkish officers fired into the ranks of their own men, killing many. If it had not been for the experienced veterans the whole Turkish army would have been annihilated. A Turkish column retreating from 'Eskl Baba massacred 200 old men, women and children. All the young and active men had gone to the front and the women and old men could offer no resistance. When the Bulgarians came upon the town it was in ashes. Mutilation of the bodies showed that all had been tortured. HE DIED IN OFFICE JW. Compton Has a Hemorrhage in Doctor's Office, William Compton, 1027 South Eighth street, died this afternoon in the of fice of S. C. Markley on South Sev-1 enth street from a hemorrhage of the lungs. Compton had been afflicted j with tuberculosis for over a year and was forced to give up his position on the C. & O. railroad three months ago. He has been confined to his home, but was feeling better today and decided to visit his physician. His blood pressure was increased by his unaccustomed walk and before he reached the office he was seized with a violent fit of coughing which resulted in the bursting of a blood vessel. He had the hemorrhage fifteen minutes before his death and was unconscious the last ten minutes of his life. He was i beyond medical assistance when Dr. Markley found him in his office. He is survived by a wife and three children, a father and mother.
GIERLUF JENSEN Progressive Candidate for Congress "will make the closing address of the campaign at the Coliseum a Tonight He will sum up the issues of the campaign and instruct first voters.
IJensen at the Coliseum . Tonight
The last Progressive rally in Wayne county in the present campaign will take place this evening when Gierluf Jensen, Progressive candidate for congressman from the Sixth district will deliver an address at the Coliseum. It is expected that Jensen will have one of the largest crowds which he has addressed during the entire campaign. This will be the second appearance of Jensen at the Coliseum. The first was on the evening of the Beveridge meeting, at which time the gubernatorial candidate declared that Jensen was a man who would place the "old Sixth district where it ought to be." Jensen covered Wayne county a few weeks ago, speaking at all of the local factories at noon hours and at the towns and villages throughout the county at night. He was enthusiastically received at all of his Wayne county meetings. The Richmond City band will give a short program prior to the opening of the meeting tonight
L TO SEE HIS CHILD An Aged Veteran Passed . Through City on Way to Pennsylvania Town. Stooped with the infirmities o-144 age, but with a pride which characterizes the people of the South, George Van Etan, aged 71, a Civil war veteran, 1 passed through this city last evening, on his tedious walk from Elk Falls, Chautauqua County,. Kansas, to Port Carbon, Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, to be reunited with an invalid daughter. Loath to accept alms or charity. Van Etan, who has no means at all, declares that he will walk to Port Carbon or die in the attempt. The story told by Van Etan to a reJ porter is one which excites sympathy. ;His daughter, he says, is an invalid and was divorced from her husband some years ago. She, without means asks her father to come to her aid, and 'for some time he debated as to whether he should attempt to make the Journey afoot or not. Finally he decided to make the attempt and despite the fact that the grizzled veteran is enfeebled with age he is as; cheerful as can be under the circumstances. He declares that since more than onehalf of his journey has been covered he has little doubt but that he will reach his destination. "I avoid the cities as much as possible, but sometimes I am forced to enter them in order to look at maps and get my bearings," he said in a rich Southern accent I am forced to stop sometimes and do what little work I can so that I will not go hungry. At night I. sleep in barns." Van Etan was told that if he made application at the Salvation Army headquarters here that he would un-. doubtedly be helped. The reporter noticed that the "top" overcoat which he was wearing was almost threadbare. "No thanks, the Army is all right and doing great work, I guess, but I do not care to ask for help," he said. "Well it's getting late and I wish to walk four or five miles tonight. How far is the next town?" He was told that it was little more than four miles, and with a "Goodnight," the old man picked up his small satchel ami disappeared east on North A street
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3 4 It 5 i. OUT 111 THE GOLD ON A FROSTY NIGHT Young Republican Attorneys Given the Cold Shoulder at Boston Last Night. "Big Republican -Rally, Boston. Fridayevening. Hon. Ralph-Husson and Hon. Denver Harlan, of Richmond, will talk. Come. Everybody Invited." The above words printed in bold face type on large placards, posted in conspicuous places throughout Boston township failed to induce even one man, woman or child to enter the hall at Boston last evening where the "big" rally was to be held. The two prominent young attorneys of this city, appointed by the Republican county central committeeo make the trip to the little town eight miles south of Richmond, and which is conceded to be an anti-Taft stronghold, were honored when they were detailed to instruct the people of Boston just how they were to vote on next Tuesday. The ardor with which they learned their speeches was replaced with deep gloom when they arrived in Boston, proceeded to the hall and' entered to find every seat vacant, the hall unlighted and the room unheated. They returned to Richmond sick at heart for nobody turned out to hear them. WANT INFORMATION Saloon keepers inquired at the city building today to learn if they could open their saloons on election day be fore the polls are opened. The law requires that saloons must be kept closed until the balloting is over, which is at 6 o'clock. The police department was unable to answer the inquiry of the applicants. HOLD ROBBER HERE Kentucky Officer Takes Ramsey to Mt. Sterling. Woodson McCord, chief of Police of Winchester, Ky., arrived here today to get Bunk Ramsey, alias Henry Shenall, held at the county jail. Ramsey is wanted in Mount Sterling,. Ky., for robbing a dry cleaning establishment of goods valued at $200. He broke into the establishment on September 8, 1911. The police. had no evidence against him," though they suspected him. , Before . the , police could arrest him Ramsey left the state going to Middletown and Hamilton, Ohio, and then to Richmond. He worked for a contractor in West Richmond, and has been here since early in the summer. . He was suspected by Chief L A. Gormon, who wrote to the sheriff at Mt Sterling. Ramsey Vas arrested in this city for public intoxication, and had in his possession a dirk and a revolver. He was sent to the county jail on October 25. He said he was not wanted in Kentucky and would go there without requisition papers. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair and cold tonight and Sunday.
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OF BURNS TO BE IN STATE Trained Sleuths of Famous Detective to Guarantee a Fair Election to Indiana . Voters.MANY DETECTIVES SENT INTO STATE Also Discovered 'Today that Burns Agency Has Been Unraveling the Registration Frauds. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Nov. 2. It became known today that the William J. Burns Detective agency has had operatives working in this state for some time unearthing registration frauds and had made some startling discoveries. It was also announced at Progressive headquarters that the Burns agency had been retained to investigate the methods employed at the polls over the state on election day, so as to guarantee that the election will be conducted fairly. Roy Burns, son of the famous detective, who sent the McNainaras to prison, exposed the grafters in the Ohio legislature and the Detroit city council and brought to justice Abe Reuf, the notorious boss of San. Francisco, will be in charge of the three hundred operatives in this state to defeat any attempt by the gangsters to "steal" the election. FILL VACANCIES The board of county commissioners met today to fill vacancies which have occurred on the election boards since appointments were first made. A few inspectors were not permitted to serve because of relationship to some of the candidates. The - places were fined. ; - -s -. j County Auditor Bowman' was kept busy today In" distributing supplies to election Inspector.' ' HE MISSED HIS COIN Placed It Under Pillow and Forgot It Next Morning. The habit of placing his money under the pillow of his bed when he retired at night, cultivated in boyhood, probably was the cause of the loss of $115 by E. L. Miller, Df Dayton, Ohio. Miller was in Hagerstown, Wednesday night and staid at a hotel. When he retired that evening he placed his wallet containing $115 under the pillow of the bed. On the next morning in his hurry to catch a train. Miller forgot to remove the purse from the bed. When he arrived at the ticket office to purchase a ticket, he discovered that he had forgotten his pocketbook: He returned to the hotel and the purse was missing from the bed. Sheriff Steen ha3 been, notified of the matter. HENWOODJS HOME Farmer Returns After Four Weeks' Disappearance. i t;- ,. , (Palladium Special) CENTEP.VILLE, IndV Nov. 2. The parents of John Henwood,' a farmer living near Connersville, who mysteriously disappeared a month ago, were agreeably surprised last night to, receive a message that their son bad returned to his family. Henwood was unable to give an account of his wanderings. The first two weeks are a blank. He is a nervous wreck. HE STICKS TO STORY Whalen Still Maintains He Acted in Self-Defense. Samuel Whalen, accused of the murder of Arthur Saunders on September 7. still maintains that he killed Saunders in self-defense. Whalen said that the only mistake he has made was when he left the city instead of giving himself up to the police. "I was a stranger in the city and. wm confused and scared at the time said Whalen. I thought I was doing the best thing at that time, but realize my mistake now." . - Whalen's reputation in Kentucky is good and he never was arrested upon a criminal charge before. He ia very popular with the employes of M. Rumely & Company, where he was employed previous to the murder.
GO TO COLISEUM ELECTION NIGHT Election night returns will be received at the Coliseum and the Palladium, which has aeeurd the hail for that night, invites everybody to be its guest. A special leased wire will tell the results of the battle of ballots throughout the union while special telephones have been installed to secure the results of the voting all over this county. For the benefit of those people who remain, at home election night the Palladium has arranged with the Home Telephone company to supply such people with news. TO GET INFORMATION OF THE ELECTION RESULTS BY TELEPHONE CALL NUMBER 2400. DO NOT CALL THE PALLADIUM OFFICE. ITS PHONES WILL. BE IN CONTINUOUS USE COLLECTING CITY AND COUNTY RESULTS. EITHER CALL NO. 2400 OR GO TO THE COLISEUM. AT THE LATTER PLACE THE RESULTS WILL BE READ AS FAST AS THEY ARE RECEIVED o IR THE PALLADIUM'S LEASED WIRE OR BY ITS TELEPHONES.
NINETEEN YEARS III LOCAL PASTORATE Rev. Huber Celebrates His Coming to RichmondChurch Anniversary. The sixtieth anniversary of the founding of St. Paul's Lutheran church will begin Sunday morning with a special service of the Sunday school. At 10:30 o'clock the pastor will present a historic outline of the church and of the nineteen years of his pastorate. In the evening the various superintendents of the Sunday school will speak on their experiences. The Monday evening service will be devoted to the organizations in the church. Tuesday evening will be marked by a social gathering. The Rev. E. G. Howard, pastor of the First English Lutheran, and the Rev. C. R. Isley, pastor of the Second English Lutheran will convey the greetings of their congregation. Older members of the congregation will present stories of the past. A survey of the pastoral acUvity of the Rev. C. Huber, shows that he has worked faithfully in the past nineteen years. He delivered, 2,756 sermons, attended 951 Sunday school meetings,2,r 589 catechetical classea, 880 teachers' meetings, 776 young peoples meeUngs, and made 15,151 pastoral visits. ) (He received into the congregation by confirmation and letters 450 members, baptized 361 persons, solemnized 169 marriages, held 433 funeral serI vices. The benevolences for the last nineteen years were distributed as follows: General synod treasury $304; synodical treasury $1068.65; home missions $6761; foreign mission $4039; chnrch extension $4652.71; board of education $3788.20; ministerial education $3079.90; mission society $6990.78; pastors' fund $844.70; orphans' home $1878.36; deaconess fund $1713.58; home for aged $504.50; Tabitha home $153; external obligations $26,851.86; local expenses $74,483.36. The pastoral report for the last year reports the following: Churches 1; prayer meetings 2; catechumens 31; funerals 18; certificates 5; infant baptisms 8; confirmed 14; certificates 1; restorations 4; communicants 560; baptized members 887; value of property $35,000; regular expenses of church $2836.31, of Sunday school $499.39; Sunday schools 1; teachers 55; scholars 622; support of school $499.39; for benevolences $691.77; Toung Peoples' societies 1, members 25, for local expenses $3.56; benevolences $63.75; general synod $20; syn-, odical treasury $52; home -missions $454; foreign missions $250; church extension $271; board of education $140; ministerial education $213. 'Women's mission society, $157.11; Toung Peoples' band $211.97; Junior and childrens $60; Pastors' fund $60; orphans' home $261; deaconess home $60; home for aged $30; Tabitha home $30; external objects $2791.20; total benevolences $5,062; grand total $8397.98. TOO MANY BOTTLES Wife Objected and Now She Is Suing for Divorce. An unquenchable thirst for strong drink on the part of the defendant, according to the allegations of the plaintiff, resulted in the filing of a petition for divorce in the Wayne circuit court today by Grace A. Taylor versus EaH Taylor. The plaintiff also asks the custody of their child and alimony in the amount of $500, and $260 per yeM for maintenance of the child. Time and time again the couple separated, the plaintiff averred, because of the fact that the defendant drank excessively. She stated that she worked two daya during one of the periods of their separation and secured $1.50 for her labor, which the defendant demanded of her and with which he purchased liquor. Every night he took from one to four bottles of beer to his bed she said, and one night he had 108 bottles of beer in the house, bat because of her objection they arose at 3 o'clock in the morning and threw the bottled beer out of the window. . They were married May S9, 1911 and Separated October If, 1911.
WILSON RAKED FORE AND AFT 'BY ROOSEVELT TODAY IN HIS FINAL CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
Pointedly Sets Forth the Fact that While Wilson Has Been Governor of New Jersey, He Has Failed, Although Having Power, to Control Trusts Organized Under Laws of that State.
ATTACKS THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF PROGRAM
The Colonel Proves that Wilson Stands for State Rather Than National, Control of Monopoly. Refused to Aid Legislation which Would Better Control the Trusts in New Jersey.
(National News Association) NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Col. Roosevelt today fired his final big gun at Gov. Woodrow Wilson. In a long statement issued here the Progressive presidential nominee bitterly as sailed Governor' Wilson's attitude on the trust question and accused the New Jersey candidate of failing to act while he had the opportunity to amend the New Jersey trust laws. Swinging from his attack upon Gov. Wilson the colonel attacked both the Democrats and Republicans for their tariff program and made a final appeal to people of all classes to support the Progressive ticket at the polls next Tuesday. The heaviest part of the assault fell upon Gov. Wilson. After pointing out that the governor had the New Jersey legislature with him, the colonel said: "He (Gov. Wilson) has had ample opportunity and he has himself declared it was his duty to proceed against the trukts by legislative act." The colonel quoted from speeches by Gov. Wilson to show that the latter stood by state control rather than national control of monopolies, but declared theProgresslve chief, Gov. Wilson never tried to get through the legislature of New Jersey legislation to solve the problem of monopolistic control. - .. j Even after members of the legislature at Trenton endeavored to secure the necessary legislation, declared Col. Roosevelt, Gov, Wilson declined to give the legislature a lead and declined to lift a finger in their aid. Asks Four Questions. The colonel then propounded four questions to Gov. Wilson. These were: 1. Is it not a tact that the laws of a state under which a corporation is organized prescribe its power?. 2. Are not all the powers of the Standard OH and similar monopolies conferred by the lawa of New Jersey? 3. Could not these powers have been curtailed by amendments? 4. Why haa not Mr. Wilson recommended such amendments? The colonel denied -that the trnsta were supporting the Progressive ticket. He declared that the Standard Oil and other huge corporations are bitter in their opposition to the Progressive ticket. All trusts, he charged, axe working for the parties, either for the Democratic ticket or the Republican ticket. Attacka Taft Policy. According to the writer President Taft's trust solution is about as bad as Gov. Wilson's. Col. Roosevelt then outlined the Progressive platform for corporation control, saying that the Progressive platform calls for a commission similar to the interstate commerce commission with wide powers vested in it for regulation of "Big Business." That, he says, "will keep the eggs from being scrambled." . As to the tariff the Progressive leader charges that "It is the purpose of both old parties to cling to the old vicious methods. "We," he says, "purpose to reduce excessive duties while maintaining the principle of protection." Statement In Full. Col. Roosevelt's statement in - full follows: "In view of Mr. Wilson's insistence upon the importance of the trust problem, in his speech at Madison Square Garden. I desire to call attention to Mr. Wilson's record on the trust question as governor of New Jersey, and to his present attitude. "Mr. Wilson has explicitly stated that the problem of the trusts ia primarily a problem for the states. On July 6th last, for instance, he said: 'It is the government of the states and not the federal government which must determine the ultimate basis and character of the government' and in his interview with Mr. Needham, in the OUTLOOK (V-98. 1911) 'It is the states which incorporate the great business undertakings that threaten to bulk larger than the states themselves. The big corporations owe their license to the inadequacy of state laws or their non-enforcement. Calls It Inaccurate. "Now this statement is not accurate as regards most of the states. But it la substantially accurate aa regards New Jersey, for almost all the big trnsta against which' there is complaint are organized and now bold their charters in New Jersey-. This is true of the Standard Oil. the Tobacco trust, the Steel trust, the Beef trust, and practically every other trust of importance. When running for governor. Mr. Wilson recognized this fact. In a apeeca on Oct. S, 1910, he said.-
'The rest of the country is going for' ward while New Jersey haa stood stilL Do you scrutinize any of the corpora ; lions which you create in such num-' bers? Not at all. Corporations authorised to exist by the state of New ' Jersey are. because of the authority of New Jersey, selling stocks and bonds which are of no value, and' are robbing the people.' "In his first message to the legislature. January 17, 1911, Gov. Wilson renewed with emphasis his promise to deal with the New Jersey trusts. He described them aa having 'slipped out of the control of the very law that gave them leave to be, and can make and" unmake them at pleasure' and declared 'we have set ourselves to control them soberly, but effectively, and to bring them within the law. This is a great obligation as well as a great opportunity of an imperative obligation from which we cannot escape if we would. No man who wishea to enjoy the public confidence dares hold back' and if he is wise he will not resort to subterfuge. He Had Opportunity. ' "There was ample opportunity for Governor Wilson to act either by securing legislative acUon or proceeding against the trusts without the intervention cf he legislature. Section IV. of the New Jersey corporation act provides: The charter of every corporation or any supplement thereto or any
amendment thereof shall be subject to , altera Uon. suspension or repeal in the discretion of . the ' legiala-" tlon and the legislature may, at pleasure dissolve any corporation.' Chapter 257 of the laws of 1905 provides: 'Any person or persons who being officers, directors, managers or employes of any corporation Incor-' porated under the laws of this state shall wilfully use, operate or control said corporation for the furtherance or promotion of any fraudulent or unlawful object shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. "The supreme court of the United States haa solemnly declared that the Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts have been guilty of fraudulent and unlawful conduct' which this New Jersey statute declares to be a misdemeanor. Mr. Wilson has been governor for St months. He now says that he wishes to proceed against the directors and managers of these trusts Individually. He has, and for 22 months as gover-. nor of New Jersey, had ample opportunity and and every possible means for thus proceeding against them and for over a year, has had the decision of the supreme court as warranty for such procedure, but be baa never lift ed his finger to take It. 'A "Docile" Legislature. "He has bad the amplest opportunity . and be himself declared that it waa his duty to proceed against these trusts by legislative act. The legislature of New Jersey of 1911 stood one bouse Republican and the other bouse Democratic. That of 1912 was Republican in both branches but Mr. Wilson in speeches at Trenton on May 5 last and in Camden on May IS last explicitly stated that the legislature was 'docile and that 'the legislature moved forward with zest,' that various reforms which he' advocated 'passed the legislature with , refreshing ease though one house was Democratic and the other Republican. Yet from these 'docile legislative, bodies which moved forward with .'zest' and which be praises for moving with such "refreshing and 'surprising ease,' he never by so much as a word endeavored to get the legislation about the trusts which be bad stated was necessary. Tet members of both parties, when Mr. Wilson failed to give them a lead, themselves endeavored to secure the necessary trust legislation. - i 1 ne Republican senator, Mr. colfgate introduced a' bill, number 165, to i investigate the New Jersey trust laws; the Democratic assemblyman, Mr. Donnelly introduced several bills, among them No. 163 entitled "The New Jersey anti-trust bill, after Mr. Wilson had declined to give the legislature a lead in this matter and when the members of the legislature gave him a lead he still declined to lift a finger in their aid. And naturally, in view of this attitude of passive opposition on bis part the legislature failed to act. Head Waiter's Advice. Through Senator Beveridge and on the suggestion of one of the private citizens of the country. Mr. Healy, a head - waiter In one of our hotels. I asked Mr. Wilson certain question as follows: "First Is it not a fact that the laws
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