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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

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R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

indicate in the slightest degree that Mr. Harrison nrrrpTO nr if oti lip has any qualifications whatever in dealing with iULrLu I U ill I U I IllU

such a difficult problem, whether in the light of one policy concerning Philippine independence or

itllUtllCl . J. llC J.CH.U, 11 lb IS it IctCL, tllttb iJ.clJlUei Quezon, the Filipino delegate to Congress, recommended Mr. Harrison's appointment is of no relevance except as it indicates that to the mixture

of American partisan politics with Philippine af

MACHINES EXPLAINED

n Richmond. 10 centa a week. By Mall, in advance f;rs rr,prp ia nHrteH tVip irto-rpHiVnr nf FiVininn

plural Routes, In advance one year, $2.00; alx month, J1.25; one month 25 centa.

Entered at the Poat Office at Richmond. Indiana. as Sac and ClaM Mall Matter.

1 The Lesson the Wreck Teaches The wreck of the Pennsylvania New York-St. Louis Flyer near this city Tuesday sounded the "leath knell of wood cars. One man may forfeit lis life as a result of this accident, but who jcnows how many thousands of lives will be saved by the object lesson the wreck furnishes of the serviceableness of the powerful, life-conserving steel coaches which composed the ill fated train. Just a week ago one section of a New York, New Haven and Hartford express train collided With another section of the train, both of which were made up of wood coaches. The result was that twenty-one people, nearly all passengers, Were killed. j Railroad men who inspected the wreck of the Pennsylvania Flyer unanimously agree that had t been made up of wood coaches the loss of life jwould have been much greater than in the New Haven wreck. Laws may be passed eventually compelling Jail railroads to use steel passenger coaches, but public opinion in America is already demanding puch action by the railroads. The Pennsylvania by its wise, progressive policy of transporting its patrons with the greatest degree of safety possible has been a great factor in accomplishing this Reform. It should also be said to the credit of the Pennsylvania railroad that the wreck at Wiley's Station Tuesday was of the unavoidable class, and the remarkable record of the IrdianapolisColumbus division hot a passenger killed in a half century still stands forth boldly and untarnished in the history of American railroads, filled with so many grewsome tragedies, the majority due to carelessness and inefficiency.

party politics."

BEAUTY

i- thing of beauty is a Joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of Bweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, we are wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth. Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darken'd ways Made for our searching; yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms; And such, too, is the grandeus of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read; An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring onto us from the heaven's brink. Keats in "Endymlon."

Butts Commission Shows Apparatus Lacks Mechanical Efficiency.

BOSSES FOR DEVICE

Palladium Reviews Expert Testimony Before Com

mittee in Chicagb.

The follow! is the first of a series of artic.as dealing with the results of the .icial investigation into the voting machine scandal in Cook County, Illinois. This series will bring the results of the Illinois investigation before the citizens of 'W ayne county as they stand to date. The final results will be published when the Illinois investigating committee makes its final report. The Editor.

TOM MARSHALL, REVIVALIST

j A New Colonial Policy I One of the tnost disappointing appointments I made by President Wilson has been that of Francis Burton Harrison as governor-general of the ; Philippine Islands. Without taking into consideration the fact that Mr. Harrison has a record as a Tammany henchman his appointment as executive of our great Pacific dependency is objectionable because he has had no experience in the work he is how to engage in.

Under the Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft ad

ministrations our Philippine policy was to have the affairs of the islands administered by men best equipped for such service. Their political ; affiliations were not taken into consideration in

their appointments. This policy, which has given the Philippines excellent government, good schools, practical independence and improved living conditions, is now to be terminated to reward a man and an organization he represents for political services rendered, the nature of which being best known to the President of the United States. "What is the record of the man whom President Wilson has selected to succeed Cameron Forbes ?" inquires the Outlook. "In the first place, he has had not the slight- : est experience in the administration of dependi ehcies, not the slightest experience with those delicate and difficult problems that arise in personal relations between a dependent people and their governing authorities; He has indeed had, so far as we can find out, no administrative experience whatever. He has been a member of J Tammany Hall ever since he has been in public life, and during his terms as a member of Con- ; gress he has been not only a strong Democratic partisan, but a faithful member of the group of j Tammany Congressmen. He voted along with , other Tammany men to sustain the Cannon regime and the Cannon methods. We have heard no adequate, no even plausible, explanation for

his appointment except one. Mr. Harrison is a c member of the Ways and Means Committee in Congress. The Chairman of this Committee has succeeded to the former powers of the Speaker, i and is an almost autocratic party leader. The present Chairman of that Committee, Mr. Underwood, may possibly go into the Senate. If the selection of his successor as Chairman were made by seniority, Mr. Harrison would be chosen. The leaders of the party, so the explanation runs, want, not Mr. Harrison, but another member of ! the Committee to succeed, and the easy thing is I to get Mr. Harrison to step out by asking him to step up. "We are far from saying that this is the true ; explanation of Mr. Harrison's appointment, but of all the explanations we have heard it is the only one that even approaches the plausible.

That questions regarding the policy of Philippine

independence have entered into this selection we cannot seriously believe. Mr. Harrison has had no special qualification for coming to any conclusion regarding such a policy,' .or .of adapting and modifying administrative methods in accordance with such a policy. We describe, for instance, elsewhere the report recently issued concerning slaVerr in the Philippines. There is nothinz to

Grand Rapids, Mich., Press. Thomas R. Marshall, vice president of the United States and chief citizen of that realm known as official obscurity, has at last found a way to get into the limelight and to make himself useful as well. For a long time Tom has chafed under the Washington custom which makes the vice president a mere figurehead on the ship of state, and has tried various methods of obviating this difficulty. He has cracked jokes for the newspapers, played poor golf and tried to break the banquet records, but all to no avail. He has remained nothing but a vice president. Now he is a revivalist. He has accepted an invitation to act as chief revivalist at an bid-fashioned revival meeting at Glen Falls, Va. It is the vice president's purpose to out-Sunday Billy Sunday and to out-Torrey Brother Torrey and place himself permanently on the map. Many persons blame Secretary Bryan when he forsakes his office and takes to the Chautauqua circuit. They think that his duties should keep him close to the telegraph ticker in Washington. But no such criticism will be attached to Vice President Marshall. If the world should come to an end, or if all of the nations of the earth should declare war on America, there would be nothing for the vice president to do in Washington. He might just as well be running a revival meeting down in Virginia, or, so far as that is concerned, in Alaska or Zanzibar. No complication of events could possibly require the quick decision of the Vice president. The vice president Is as far removed from diplomatic difficulties as the south pole is removed from the north. The public will be glad to see Mr. Marshall on the revival platform. He is a forceful speaker, a conscientious man and an upright thinker. The energies of an able man like Marshall should not go to waste by being con

fined to the negative duties of the vice presidency.

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election in Chicago, the gray wolves among the henchmen of Hinky Dink i and Bath-house John were easily able ! to fix up things in their own precinct ; by manipulating the group voting. j Shows Crooked Device. j Nothing more surprised the tnvestl-; gators than a little device exhibited ! by Mr. Olson which he made in twenty minutes. It was a slug of metal and was slipped into one of the slots in '

such a way as to throw the counters ' off. The simplicity and cheapness of this suggested vast possibilities of its ' use. But the most clever of all devices j shown by the experts was the little paper sticker' which had been used often in Chicago. This was made of white paper to correspond with the tapes and had on it one figure printed . in the same style and color as the fig- j ures in the machine counters. Simply t

i by pasting this sticker over a figure j

in the counter reel the count could be j

thrown off as much as desired. Where a given candidate, to illustrate, had received 190 votes in a precinct a "0" pasted over the "1" showed the results up as "90," thus robbing that candidate of one hundred votes. These stickers may be purchased at $1 per barrel. Check Up Voter. It always has embarrassed the manufacturers to explain why, if their machines were as reliable as represented, they were so enthusiastically indorsed by Tammany Hall and such politicians as Hinky Dink. The revelations made by the experts clearly showed the reason for this. An inspector, properly coached by his po

litical boss, can make a copy of the way the reels stand at the beginning ; of the day. A confederate can then be stationed so as to keep tab on the

names of the voters as they file in to cast their ballots and the exact order in which they vote. At the end of the day the inspector can make another copy of the reels and thus get a record of the voting of the day and the order in which it was ca6t. Then, by comparing his list of names and the reels he. is able to tell just how each man had voted. If voter No. 3 had been John Jones he needs only to refer to vote No. 3 to see how John Jones had cast his ballot. In this way the seorecy of the

nature. A gambler falls in love with an admirable young lady and proposes but is refused on account of his reputation fjr gambling. He. in order to win her. promises to reform. He seeks honest employment, bat his past record prevent his securing a position. His wife becomes ill and sae gives up her wedding ring, and wltL this money makes his "Last Crooks! Deal."

i "The Adopted Brother and Ston Kditor Palladium: tne women." two strandard make The discussion over the voting ma-' of films, are also included in the prochines brings to mind this thought ( gram, concerning the functions of the ballot j "

as well as the correct counting of it. j

FORUMOFTHEPEOPLE Articles Contributed Jor This Column Must Xot Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of AU Contributors Must Be Known to tne Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received.

A Little Brother of the Rich. A Little Brother of the Rich" Is

Early in the summer a special grand jury in Illinois was instructed to go into the election frauds which had stirred up the city of Chicago. It had come out that voting machines and the contract entered into between the city of Chicago and the Empire Voting Machine company had played a part in those fraiids. Therefore, in giving Instructions to the special grand jury. Judge Cooper advised that it unearth the facts about the manner in whl the city election commissioners had purchased one thousand machines from the Empire company for $942,500. To carry on this investigation the Butts committee was appointed and former Governor Charles Deneen was secured as legal adviser. This committee has succeeded in unearthing valuable data bearing on

the entire question of voting machines, j ballot is destroyed, the boss can keep

their feasibility, economy and reliability. These facts have been gathered from all parts of the country and have been analyzed with the utmost care. The committee Itself engaged three mechanical experts of high

a line on the way men are voting In a given precinct and can thus keep every voter in his toils. It also was made plain to the committee how an inspector could keep

tab on the progress of the voting so

rrovins to be one of the best tta.rit

pression, what s the use, tney no a,. , ,. . , . ' jthat the Francia Sayles Players has they please anyway? j presented for several weeks, in tact. And we are forced to admit that ; it is as good as any ever seen In this in ti fnrnlnr CUV bV R Stock COHlMnT and SlftO -

remark. But let s investigate and as-, e(-ua' to nr of the high price ati tractions seen here. certain the reason. ; The r,aV u by Jos.ph Mejin PrttIT. In conversation with a friend the ; on fu of rMho8 ag food above remarks were made. comedy, and the stage settings are I said, my friend, yon are right. ' beautiful don t vote for legislation, we vote for ; ..A Luu Brother of th n,eh- m legislators. Let s see-the worker ere- be the ofrodllg for tnp balance of the ates all wealth. Therefore the non- weok wMh anoth(,r matinee Saturday.

tion possess the wealth. He must se-! cure laws to suit his purpose to the j New Members of the Stock company, end that he may rob the wealth ere- Next Monday night when the Frattator. He. therefore, must deal direct- icis Sajles Players offer 'Wldfie', ai ly with the legislators, who have the! the Murray, there will be three sew unrestricted right to enact laws in the j members of the company, interest either of the common good j Hal Worth, who is the new juvenile or the privilege seeking capitalist. man. comes from one of the big etock When the legislator is elected to of-. organiiations In Kansas Citr. and will fic e he serves under a Tixed salary, j no doubt rrpve to be a Tery popular and no matter how efficient he may J addition to the company, be, he will receive the sanyt salary. I Ed Clark Lilly, an excellent actor. But the ever present lust for dollars !wlll be seen for the first time In Richinspires the legislator or public serv- mond. Mr. Lilly has been connected ant to accept the graft, and bribe of j with some, of the best stock's In the the privilege seeker and the electorate middle states. Miss Bernice Cooper, a of the commonwealth. Privileged to charming and clever little actress, will

do as he pleases, with power to ignore the will of the people, and the people have no recourse. Let the public "wise up" on this question. Let them awake to a realization that they

have no direct connection with legisla-

also make her Urst appearance Richmond. In this play.

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Officer 666.

One of the most pronounced comedy

tion of any kind, and therefore can t i Res of last season In Sew York expect legislative enactment in their iclty a8. ??.c" 666' ..,ch w,1A be

interest.

Socialism proposes the Initiative,

referendum and recall, not of Judges ! only, but of all public servants. This would give the people the right to ;

B Anl. m of laughter, which. It Is said, eclipsed accordance with the will of the ma- ,, . . - . , . ,,a ,.. , aI1 other comedy offerings during the

to initiate by petition any law, or to felod of Tm, S ?' enact any law or repeal, or amend any , f"?" JhJ . l. T

presented at the Gennett theater, Mon

day, September 15. This comedy by Augustln MacHiigh, is in three acts and was first produced at the Gaiety theatre, New York, where It ran the

entires season to a continual fusllade

standing and left no stone unturned to ; as to be able to keep his chief posted f

as to results. Such information often is very valuable to a boss because he may, by extraordinary efforts, avoid a

A POOR DOG TRAY

secure the whole truth about the vot

Ing devices. Tests Machine. The committee had on hand one of the tested and certified Empire machines which had been in regular use in the city elections of 1912. In ail the demonstrations made by the experts this was used. Furthermore, machine experts representing the Empire company, were on hand and carefully watched the proceedings, giving assurance to the committee members that this machine was strictly O. K. The first expert to testify was W L. Abbott. Asked if he considered it possible for politicians to manipulate the machines in their own interests he replied in an emphatic affirmative and said It would be an easy matter. The election inspectors, he pointed out, have access at all times to the machine itself and are in possession of its keys. Therefore they are able to change the counters, to "fix" the reels and to arrange matters to suit themselves generally. . Abbott cited cases in which this had been done it? Chicago. He also pointed out that a voting machine is not to be classed with adding machines and cash registers and similar mechanisms on the score of reliability, . Points Out Difference. While these machines have forms of regular and constant manipulation, the voting machine is changed each time it is used, and it is seldom used. This means that the users of it arie never as thoroughly familiar with its working as the users of a cash register would be. He said the voting machine is unreliable when used to regis-

Waterloo. Hundreds testified that it was very easy to tell when a man had voted a straight ticket by listening from without to the clicking of the machine.. The upshot of all the investigations carried on by the Butts committee was to show that the use of voting machines throws the destiny of political candidates into the hands of the election inspector who is appointed by the party in power. Having access to the machine he can manipulate It, change it and "fix" it in a hundred different ways.

Crawfordsvllle, Ind., Journal. Gov. Ralston in another of those numerous examples of dog Tray in bad company. The governor Is a good man personally, clean In his private life, a church man, sincere no doubt in his declaration for things righteous. As a private citizen he has always been respected by the best citizens of his home community and as governor re would not wink at wrong doing unless it was so mixed up in politics that he could quiet his conscience with the argument that the welfare of the state is so wrapped up In the Democratic party and so dependent on the continued success of the Democratic Dartv that it would not

be right to attack even the w-rong in that party for fearjte,and co"nt tes-

of weakening it. The governor being in bad company, that of Taggart, naturally many things of this kind come up and so while we may not expect any outrageous scandals to develop at least with the governor's knowledge, the state administration will lack independence and vigor. A sample of the Ralston policy is found in recent events. Race track gambling is suppressed in Porter county even though the militia had to be called out, but gambling in

urange county at the notorious French Lick resorts goes i enable the voter to cast a plural bal

merrily on the year round with no restriction and in! lot. "When you consider," they said, Terre Haute conditions are just as bad. Crawford Fair-! "that the election inspector is apbanks, the Democratic brewer, holds forth at Terre Haute j Plnted the election commissioners Governor Ralston spent his summer vacation with Tag- yOU Ree at.he 13 a r8enta- . tie of the party in power. The very gart at the seaside. Fairbanks is a part of the Taggart fact that he aone has acce88 to the machine. It is through honest, clean, well intentioned I machine shows, on the face of it, men like Ralston that the political machines do their i where the chief danger in the use of

most Insidious work. voting machines lies." The experts

showed that in five minutes an unscrupulous inspector could completely reverse the decision of the voters at the polls. The inspector has another opportunity to control the count, the experts said, when he reads off the counters in the morning before the opening of the

George O. Olson and C. L. DePuy,

the other experts, pointed out ways in which clever politicians could control an election through the use of simple and inexpensive devices applied to the machine. Frauds Possible. They . showed the committee how easily it is for the inspector to pull out a pawl holding the reels and thus

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START JW DEPOT Plans Approved by the Service Commission.

COLLEGE CORNER, O.. Sept. 11. Plans for the new depot filed by the C. H. & D. railroad recently with the Indiana state public service comriission, have been approved and It is stated construction will Te started Boon so that the building can be used by January 1. 1914, according to the order of the commission. The building Is to cost $8,000. Already an Improvement has been made in the men's waiting room with a sanitary drinking fountain.

law. This would give the people supreme legislative, executive and judicial powers, where such powers are needed Jo prevent some officials from selling out to some privilege seeking interests. When the local option issue was

lous story of "Officer 666" results In

rapid fire farce comedy situations, full of bewildering action, and to the accompaniment of howls af side-splitting laughter. The plot, while of course farcical. Is reasonable and consistent, leaving the minds of the audience en- , I -111. a-A ... M V A 4

before the people of Ohio, I had the i ,,ii.,vfi . ... ' .v. v. I the delightful absurdities of its many

opportunity to participate In that battle which resuited in the people securing the desired end. If this issue would have been submitted to the legislators of Ohio, every salooniet and every brewer in the state would have had their lobbyists, and bribe offerings at Columbus to battle in their Interest, just as is the case in franchise grants and contract awards. Of course the church would have lobbied, too. .

The dealer in Christian literature,

humorous situations.

Palace. In today's program the Palace presents another ot those massive war spectacles, "The, Iron Master," a spleiv did subject in two parts, and etaged during the Civil .war. The story Is built around the master of a big steel plant, whose daughter loves a northern lawyer then practicing . In the south. The. picture is one that will

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Wednesday, Sept 10. Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master Mason degree. Light refreshments. Friday, Sept. 12. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Stated meeting.

A PERSISTENT FAULT. Florida Times-Union. The present congress is a good one in every respect

but one it seems to be the property of the Shipbuilding ! Plls or in tne evening when the votTnls ling is concluded: by an intentional

misreading at such times he can swing the election to suit himself. Inspector a Power. Further than this, because his keys

give him access to the internal parts of the mechanism he is able so to set ! some of the intricate mechanisms that

BRYAN'S TROUBLES. Springfield Republican. The attacks on Secretary Bryan are intensifying again. Yet the country is at war with neither Japan nor Mexico. We also enjoy peace witti honor.

BUT SOME DO. Louisville Courier-Journal. It's hard to enthuse over the success of a man who has simply taken advantage of other men's f. -

they won't register truly. The voter, of course, cannot see this because the parts are hidden by the case of the machine. Just to prove this no idle theory, the experts opened up a machine and demonstrated in a variety of ways the ease with which one having access to the internal mechanism could fix things up to suit himself. Again, the experts revealed how a crooked inspector could chanee the

complexion of an election by misread- i ing the count of the 'grouped" and i "irregular" tickets. Whenever, for i instance, women are able to vote for j . j members of the school board and the! says Jonn; , . . l.. i

, j. . , . , , ., unci must iuuinjuci.il) ue partition-! P;,Jkftelle-., ,To? tn?e- alas 4to te!....Thf.k.of theifd." it is wholly at the mercy of the number of people who pay good monev to see the j jaspec,tor who jsin, charge of the tome team lose. ' . ! counters. Several times in the ii2

GOOD ADVICE. Baltimore American. Don't complain of your party's nominees if yen take no part in the primary that selects them.

PALACE TODAY KAY-BEE "The Iron Master" Civil War Drama In Two Reels "The Turkish Bath" Majestic Comedy FRIDAY: "The Glow Worm"

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photo-fans. The bill includes a Ma

jestic comely, . "The Turkish Bath," Friday the three reel Reliance feature, "The Glow Worm." will be shown.

who opposed the saloon, would have I more than P!eae the most critical

been there with their bid for privilege. But by referring the question to the people, through the medium of the initiative and referendum, the people possessed absolute power, and simultaneously eliminated graft and bribery, demonstrating the practicability of direct political action as advocated, by the Socialist party. In conclusion, 1 would say: The voters in. 1908 were promised the full dinner pail well they got the promises, but not the full dinner pall. Why? Because they voted for candidate i only and not for the full dinner pail. Yours truly, J. W. Putterbaugh, 113 Williams street.

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At th Murray. Week of Sept. 8. "A Little Brother of the Rich."

At the Gennett Sept. 15. "Officer 666."

Murrette. "The Last Crooked Deal." one ofi the pictures shown at the Murrette to- j day, contains a story of more than or-;

dinary interest and is true to human ?

MURRETTE TODAV iv "The Adopted Brother" Blogrsph

"Stone the Women Essanay

The Last Crooked Deal' LUBIN

Coming Soon: "Beasts of the Jungle"

the Losing game. Chicago Record-Herald. "Holidays too often lead to extravagance,"

rvi u R re a y ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles' Players In a Satirical Comedy ia Four Acts, "A Little Brother of the Rich" By Joseph Medill Patterson PRICES: Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 10c and 2Cc Evening at 8:15, 10c, 20 and 30c Next WeekY "Wildfire"

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