Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 305, 31 October 1913 — Page 1

2 RICHMOOT) PAJXADIUM AND SUN-TELEORAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 305 RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. 31, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS Politicians Keenly Watch Rival Campaigns -s. -5- - rr of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts TEMPERANCE LEAGUE FIGHTS UHIOH WITH BREWERY INTERESTS WHITE HOUSE READY TO OUST GEN. HUERTA SAYS RQBB1NS WILL CARRY ALL WARDS Progressive Candidate, He President Takes Up Question of Recognizing Constitutionalists. Candidates for City and Gubernatorial Offices B. Edgar Nicholson, Secretary of Anti-Saloon League Denies Coalition. Predicts, Will Lead Nearest Opponent by 800. HUERTA IS OBDURATE

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foes of Saloon Persist in War on Both Brewers and Distillers. ."The proposed plan of uniting the Anti-Saloon League with the brewery Interests to wage war against the distilleries which is assigned to William H. Anderson, the Baltimore attorney and prominent in Anti-Saloon League affairs. In news despatches would not be acceptable to the League, and on the other hand I firmly believe that Mr. Anderson never had a plan like that in mind," said S. Edgar Nicholson, general secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, in an interview this morn ing after reading copies of the statements of Mr. Anderson. "Mr. Anderson is too practical a tnan to think that such a scheme would receive the support of the temperance people of the nation," continued the secretary. "I have just received a lengthy communication from him today and he mentions nothing of the matter. It is my opinion that the words of the Baltimore attorney have been misconstrued by some correspondents. "It is quite probable that Mr. Anderson has been interviewed by newspaper men in connection with a resolution recently introduced by Senator Works, of California, proposing an amendment to the Federal constitution prohibiting the manufacture of whiskey and that he has been misquoted. League Opposes Move. "I am safe in saying that a plan of that nature would not receive the support of a single member of the AntiSaloon League. "It is quite true that the brewery and distilling interests have been united in all the campaigns, as they realize that if they are separated they might be put out of existence by the aggressiveness of the temperance wojr k,.mnd it 'is no, becaus-4bat either one is willing to suffer for the others sins that they have united and classed so. "There may have been occasions where the Anti-Saloon workers have waged war merely on the distillers, but that was only in places where the brewers and distillers were widely separated. 1 think that the writer of the Philadelphia despatch must have had that specific campaign in mind. That, however, is not the general plan of the League. Intimation False. "In general I think that even an intimation that the Anti-Saloon League would unite with the brewers to oust the distillers is false and that one might as well understand that such a move will not be made by the national forces." Owing to pressing business matters, Mr. Nicholson is not expected to attend the convention of the Anti-Saloon League at Columbus, Monday, November 10, although on Friday of the same week he will attend a conference Df workers which will be held following the close of the convention. Before returning to Richmond about a year ago Mr. Nicholson was assistant general manager of the Anti-Saloon League and general secretary with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Upon leaving the United States capital he resigned both offices but he was retained as secretary. The conference November 14, according to Mr. Nicholson, is to devise a plan whereby all temperance organizations of the United States may be united in the stamping out of the liquor evil. CHILD SUFFOCATES IN MOWS ARMS Robert Carl Settle's Death Not Caused By Intentional Violence. Falling asleep with her two-weeks-bid baby in her arms at 10 o'clock on the night of October 18, Mrs. Charles C. Settle awoke three hours later to find the child, Robert Carl Settle, dead. Death was caused by suffocation, according to the verdict of Coroner Peirce, which was filed today. The death of the child was not caused by Intentional violence, the coroner said. When Mrs. Settle awoke the child had not changed position, but had its head thrown back and its mouth open. Its face was mottled with spots and its lips were discolored. t WEATHER FORECAST 6TATE Fair tonight and Saturday. TEMPERATURE. Noon .' 40 YESTERDAY Maximum 44 Minimum 34 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Fair weather is expected to continue tonight and Saturday. Ten degrees below freezing probably tonight in this Vicinity. Above forecast is made because of an extensive "high" now prevailing over the United States east of Jhe Rocky Mountain

Work of Japanese Attache "Adds to Diplomatic Puzzle in Mexico.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Strong evidence that President Wilson is planning immediate and forceful action against General Huerta, the Mexican dictator, was given today when he took up the question of recognizing the Mexican constitutionalists. He had a long conference at the White House with acting secretary of state Moore regarding the situation. It is understood that the recognition of the belligerency of General Carranza was tentatively approved. It is said that one of the vital features of the president's new policy toward Mexico will be the support of the Constitutionalists cause by the United States government in the same vigorous fashion that former Secretary of State Knox encouraged the antiZelaya movement in Nicaragua. HUERTA HOLDS TO POST. Mexican President Will Refuse to Resign Executive Chair. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31. "General Huerta -will reject any demand by President Wilson that he resign his post as president of Mexico. General Huerta is the legal president of Mexico." This declaration of Huerta's stand was made today by a Mexican official following the receipt of dispatches from Washington saying that the American administration was going to serve a formal demand upon Huerta to retire. ' JAPANESE OPEN NEGOTIATIONS Attache in- Close Touch With President Huerta for Two Weeks. VERA CRUZ, Oct. 31. Reports that Japanese officials have been conducting secret negotiations with General Huerta at Mexica City are being sirculated here, today. This phase of the situation, which is. puzzling, thedijjlor mats of the world, came to light when it was learned that a man representing himself to be the military attache of the Japanese legation at Washington, sailed from here on the Ward liner Esperanza. It is said that he has been in Mexica City for several weeks. Great interest attaches to a conference which is to be held here by Spe cial Envoy Lind and the German minister to Mexico. It is understood that Rear Admiral Fletcher, commander of the United States squadron, and the commanders of the German warships Bremen and Hertha, will participate together with Captain W. A. Burnside, the American military attache at Mexico City. Germany Will Help. It is believed that if aggressive action in Mexico by an outside agency becomes imperative, the United States and Germany will co-operate and take the initiative. This, it Is pointed out, would relieve the United States government of any suspicion that intervention was intended for territorial aggrandi zement. The French ambassador has been invited here for a conference with Mr. Lind, and it is entirely possible that that government will decide to join with the United States and Germany. Herman Arostigui, a follower of Felix Diaz, was arrested during the night and taken to the federal prison under heavy guard. Senor Arostigui, who is a native of Guatemala, has long been the follower of the fortunes of Diaz, and at the time of the Diaz uprising here a year ago this montn, Orostigui was made censor of cables. ITALY SENDS WARSHIPS. European Powers Dispatch Vessels to Trouble Zone. ROME, Oct. 31 Italy today followed the lead of the other big European powers that are sending warships to Mexico. The cruiser Francesco Ferrucio sailed from Spezia today and will go direct to Mexican waters. It is understood that there has been an exchange of messages by the European powers as to the necessity of establishing an international fleet to insure protection for foreigners in Mexieo. They have decided that such action is absolutely necessary in view of conditions there, and the sending of warships by all nations is the result of a carefully considered plan. BAILEY NOT AFTER OFFICE, HE STATES Not Applicant to Be Police Chief and W Ollld Not Hold Such Office. The following statement from Jesse A. Bailey, former superintendent of police, was received by the Palladium today: "To the Voters of Richmond: "It has been persistently rumored that I will be an applicant for superintendent of police after the present election. This is erroneous. I am not now and will not be an applicant for this position. "My present business associations are such that I cannot afford to give them up for this position. "Jesse A. Bailey."

Seat in New York Assembly to Fight Tammany.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31. Three local elections to take place next Tuesday in different parts of the country, have, ; for various reasons, become of national interest and importance. Chief of j these in interest is probably the elec- ! tions in New York city, where the peo- j pie will ballot for a mayor, and minor officials, and where William Sulzer, j impeached governor of New York j state, is running for assemblyman in order to return to the capital, where ; but recently a Tammanyized legisla- j ture perpetrated upon him the ven- : geance of a Tammany boss. The is-i sue is Tammany Hall, an issue of na- . tional importance and interest. , In Jersey City and Massachusetts, where gubernatorial elections are to be held, national interest has become aroused because of the belief, which President Wilson evidently shares, that the new tariff and currency bill are to be endorsed or disapproved of. President Wilson feels special interest in New Jersey, for in that state the Democratic candidate, with the stamp of approval of President Wilson, is running for the job recently vacated by Wilson. The president is said to feel that if Governor James F. Fielder, who succeeded to the governorship when Mr. Wilson resigned, is not elected it will amount to a slap in the presidential face from Mr. Wilson's own neighbor New Jersey Fight. Ex-Governor E. C. Stokes is the Republican candidate for governor in New Jersey. Former United States Colby has made a strong fight on Progressive party principles. He is a young man, and a personal and a much admired friend of Colonel Roosevelt. Unlike in Massachusetts, where national issues are being avoided so far as possible, although they persist in cropping up, the campaign in New Jersey has been conducted wholly along national lines. In Massachusetts the aid of the national committees was declined by the Democratic and Progressives candidates. In New Jersey men of national prominenc have stumped for all three parties. Governor Eugene N. Foss, who has irfways "iJeea iinB8Jiant-ift- hi noli-J tics, and' who'' has at one time or another been allied with both the Democrats and Republicans, is running independently for the governorship in Massachusetts. There are three other candidates in the field. They are David Walsh, Democrat; Augustus P. Gardner, Republican, and Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive. Walsh and Bird have fought their fight so far as ls Possioie on siaie issues, uaiuun accepted tne services oi me nauonc committee, however, and Hadley, of Missouri, Senators Borah and Cum mins, and other prominent, progressive Republicans stumped the state for him. Puzzles His Opponents. When Foss decided at the last minute to run independently, a situation arose similar to that which for a time confronted the citizens of New York when the late Mayor Gaynor made up his mind to become an independent candidate for mayor of that city. Foss has all of his opponents puzzled. Leaders of Foss' opposition feel that Foss is strong throughout the state, but they don't seem able to exactly judge his strength. Walsh, who the Democratic national leaders tried to impress with the belief that his defeat would amount to a repudiation of the Wilson policies, hasn't been able to see the situation in that light. He is said to have informed the national committee that national issues don't figure in the campaign in any way. There is some reason to doubt this, despite the fact that with the exception of Gardner, all the candidates have campaigned in a strictly local sense. It is undoubtedly a fact that the new tariff and the cur EXERTION IN STOVE CAUSES DEATH Coroner Files Verdict on Death of Aged Cambridge City Resident. Exertion from moving a stove caused the death of Oscar B. Fisher, 73, of Cambridge City, according to the verdict of Coroner Pierce, filed today. Mr. Fisher had been in poor health I for some time and had been unable to work. On October 6, he and his wife i were moving a stove, when Mr. Fisher I suddenly sat down in a chair and said: j 'sttr He aPParentl died at j Mrs. Fisher called in several neigh bors and a physician. It was found that death was directly caused by an acute attack of valvular disease of the heart. MORRIS NEAR DEATH

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CHICAGO, Oct. 31. Henry R Morris j riously. member of the English nobility, and j graduate of Oxford U diversity, wasl DIAZ PREFERS AMERICA. near death today after being dragged GALVESTON. Tex.. Oct. 31. Genfrom Lake Michigan. He was delirious j eral Diaz will take refuge in the Unifrom illness and it was believed he ted States instead of Cuba, fearing he wandered into the water after escap- j would be assassinated in the latter ing from his bed at the home of a j country. The steamer Alabama will friend. j bring him to this port.

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GOV FIELDER rency bill have been regarded with coMicrable disfayor in many parts OI Aiassacuuseilb; anu. nuuvimg -iuid, Walsh has preferred to avoid them as campaign subjects. ' Depend on Irish Vote. State managers, while not openly admitting it, rely to a considerable extent upon the Catholic and Irish vote to elect Walsh, who is very strong in Boston and the metropolitan district, where the Irish population is large. Democratic leaders look to Walsh to carry Boston and all of the large cities by a considerable majority. They argue that Bird's vote will cut into the regular Republican ballot to a considerable extent, thereby further assuring the election of Walsh. The Republicans and Progressives, however, assert that Foss, until recently, a Democrat, will detract from the Democratic vote. Tammany Hall, as usual, is the issue in New York city, although the Tammany candidate has calmly ignored that fact, making "extravagance in city government" a subject for his campaign oratory. John Purroy Mitchell, Collector of the Port of New York is the candidate of the Fusionistsi consisting of the progressive Democrats, Republicans, Progressive and Independent Leaguers. Mr. Mitchell is a very young man. He has had a rather sudden and brilliant career in politics. At the mayorality election four years ago he was elected to the presidency of the Board of Aldermen, from which he recently resigned to accept the appointment of President Wilson to the Collectorrship of the port, one of the best Federal plums in New York - V, A . ... . -

Fellow Workmen Are Loyal to Chas. Sehi

Five factories, the Pennsylvania freight house and a cigar store in the north end of the city were polled today in the straw vote on the city election, to be held next Tuesday. The poll of the National Automatic Tool works, where Charles Sehi, the Socialist mayoralty candidate, is employed, showed that twenty-one of the twenty-nine men who voted there will support his candidacy. By today's ballots Robbins and Farwig still hold first and second places, respectively, in the contest, with Sehi third and Zimmerman bringing up the rear. The vote follows. '. Farwig. Zim. Sehi. Robbins. Yesterday's totals f 274 174 200 325 Pennsylvania freight house 45 22 8 23 F. & N. Lawn Mower company...;,... 4 4 9 22 Seidel Bugey company 9 4 9 3 Dille & McGuire company 38 19 18 8 Miller-Kemper company 3 4 3 4 Golden's cigar store 15 7 7 34 National Automatic Tool Works 3 3 21 2 Grand totals 291 237 275 421

TRAIN HITS CAR CHICAGO, Oct. 31. The Rev. Theodore Clifton, secretary of the Congregational Education Society, probably was fatally injured today when a Wabash railroad passenger train crashed Into a street car at a grade crossing. A dozen others were injured, four se-

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CIt5 which President Wilson, much to the dismay of . Tammany, gare to a man who during hi whol political life, had opposed Tammany. McCall is Popular. Edward E. McCall, chairman of the Public Service commission and until recently a Supreme Court Justice, is the Tammany candidate. McCall is a man of good record and reputation, of pleasing personality and forceful character. The only thing anyone can find against him is his association with Tammany Hall. McCall doesn't deny that he is a Tammany candidate nor does he deny his friendship with Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall. McCall has, however, denied most vehemently that he has ever been intimately associated with Murphy, or that he acted as Murphy's agent in the efforts made by the "boss" to hound ex-governor Sulzer to do the will of the organization. The entry of Sulzer into New York City campaign has .had a startling effect. His attacks upon McCall, Murphy and Tammany have stirred things up and made the campaign an extremely bitter one, at the same time affording the people of New York the astounding spectacle of an impeached governor battling for election to the very legislature that a short time ago had impeached him and removed him from office. Ever since Sulzer injected himself into the situation Tammany leaders have been going about. with sad faces. The smiles they bore when Sulzer was impeached and the triumphant grins and smiles of satisfaction when he was removed, have vanished. They tell each other that "the boys at AlENGINEER KILLED WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Engine driver J. W. Gladden was killed and Fireman J. T. Burch had his arm broken when a switch engine on the Pennsylvania railroad jumped the track when passing over a trestle, near Anacostia oday. FEDERALS FALL BACK. MONTERAY. Mei, Oct. 31. Con stitutionalists are steadily driving the federal defenders into the city's cen ter. Steady fighting has been raging for five days. The government's supply of ammunition is almost exhausted.

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bany" certainly made a mistake when they did not disqualify Sulzer from again adding office as well aa to re move aim from the govern orsntp. Sulzer la Strong. Sulzer ls a candidate for the assem bly from the Sixth Assembly District of New York, which is the heart of the East Side, where Sulzer has al ways been strongest. And Sulzer is stronger there than he ever was before. The overwhelming demand for his resignation effectually silenced the Progresive Party state leaders, who very much objected to Sulzer's nomination. As it was. they were forced to sit in the convention hall while a howling mob nominated the beaming Sulzer for the assembly, and while 5,000 men, -who could not get into the hall, screamed themselves hoarse with enthusiasm outside. When the Progressive leader of the Assembly district was told by the state leaders that Sulzer must not be nominated, the assembly, district, who knew his district, retorted grimly that "Sulzer would be nominated or there will be a murder in ' the Sixth District." In the same district, Aaron J. Levy, majority leader of the Assembly, and the man, who acting for Tammany Hall, brought about Sulzer'a Impeachment, and who prosecuted the case before the Impeachment Court, is a candidate for Municipal court justice. Progressives assert that the Sulzer votes will bury Levy so deep he will never be able to crawl forth into the light of politics again. Al Smith, Speaker of the Assembly, is also a candidate for re-election from an East Side district. Smith, according to Sulzer's friends, stands no more chance of election than does Levy. SHERIFF OPENS FIRE ON FLEEINGJUNTERS Bayer and Deputy Arrest Two Colored Men For Trespassing. To frighten four colored men who were hunting on the farm of Clem Carr. four miles east of thp citr. wfth-i out the owner's permission. Sheriff Bayer fired into the air when they re-., fused to halt at his command. In stead of stopping the men ran faster, nn and dnvn rnvinon and ntw fallen

logs like fleeing deer, according to I rthi,tect ndthl8 wie ; I? , , , death early today in their home at the sheriff, ilham Anderson. Wil- j wilmette. a fashionable suburb. 'Their liam Boyle and Boone Royler ran so'toe,, were recovered after the blaze fast that the sheriff and his deputy, , waa extinguished. The fire started Clarence Mote were unable to catch . BOOn after Mr. and Mrs. Steven, rethem They overtook Cal Burden and tarned home at mfdniKht. The posiplaced him under arrest. ; H f)f . h. urim indicated that Ste-

Anderson was arrested on Fort Wayne avenue later in the evening. William and Boone Royler have not been seen since yesterday afternoon, when they vanished as fleeing specks on the horizon with the officers in pursuit. Given $10 Fines. ..Burden and Anderson were Ined $10 each in police court today. The fines will be tarned over to the state fish and game commissioner as cart ! of the fund with which he carries on the work of the office The hunters carried licenses, but Mr. Carr ordered them to leave the farm, and when they refused, he notified the sheriff.

CLEAN FIGHT WAGED

F a r w i g and Zimmerman Make Replies to S. E. Nicholson on Law Enforcement. That the Progressive ticket will be elected by a decisive plurality and that Will J. Robbins. the Progressive may oralty candidate, will carry every ward in the city was the prediction made today by city chairman Howard Brooks. His statement concerning the out come of the city election next Tuesday follows: "The campaign in behalf of the Progressive candidate for mayor Will J. Robbins. and all others on the Pro gressive ticket, has been conducted along clean lines. No Abuse Resorted To. "No old time methods of personal abuse have been resorted to, and I feel sure that there can be no word of criticism offered by those who stand for honest politics and fair elections. We intend to have a perfect organization for election day. with the hope of getting out every Robbins vote. Nothing, however, will be countenanced that is not entirely legal, and we expect to see that the other parties do the same. As to the result of this campaign I am absolutely confident that the Progressive ticket will be elected, and that Will J. Robbins, for mayor, will not only lead by a most decisive plurality, but that he will carry every , ward in he city. Not only will Robbins poll practically the full strength of his own party, but he will get the votes of many Republicans and Democrats who are anxious to eee a change in the administration of the affairs of Richmond and who are determined to do their part to bring such a change about. Bases Prediction on Facta. "I might say that my prediction Is not based on anything but what 1 regard as facts. In .the first place the Progressives have been the only party to take a poll, both Republicans and Democrats for some reason failing to attend to this important feature of the campaign work. Our poll carefully taken, in most Instances, and it shows,' a majority of Robbins voters In every ward and' in almost every precinct. Allowing -for errors of any sort that : may have slipped in, and allowing liberally, too, the deductions made still indicate that beyond doubt Robbins' will have at least eight hundred more votes than his nearest opponent. "As to second place, from what I , can learn, Zimmerman and Farwig are running a very close race." i That he is in favor of equal, just' and impartial law enforcement Is declared by Dr. W. W. Zimmerman. Republican mayoralty candidate, in his reply to a letter from S. E. Nicholson (Continued on Page Three) ATTENTION TO SICK ' EXHAUSTS HURSE; Mrs. Aidah Hall Asks Relief At William Bilderback Home. Worn out by two weeks' constant attention to the sick members of the William Bilderback family, Mrs. Aldah Hale, who has been furnishing her services gratis since the family became unable to care for Itself ia seeking fiome one to relieve her of her task. Mrs. Hale went to the assistance of the distressed family upon reading of its condttion in the Palladium and has remained at the home since. She has not received one dollar for her services and does not expect any remuneration. "I would like to remain with them until hey are able to care for themselves." she said today, "but I have reached the limits of physical endurance, and must turn the work over to some one else, if a volunteer can be found. "I dislike very much to leave the baby, as I have grown to love him very much since I have been carina for him. I don't know if he will get well or not. He is still delirious, but the doctor thinks that he may recover if he has careful nursing." MAN AND WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH CHICAGO, Oct. 31. Clasped in each I others arms G. S. Stevens, a wealthy vens had fallen while carrying his wife. SUPPLIES FOR ELECTION HERE Supplies for the city election next Tuesday have been received by City Clerk Bescher and he announced today that precinct election inspectors would have to call at his office for these supplies not later than tomorrow, under the provisions of the state law.

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