Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 6, 17 November 1913 — Page 1

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H AND SUN-TELEGRAM Vol. xxxix. no. 6 RICHMOND, IND MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 17, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS E E New York Caterer Decorating Wedding Cake For White House Bride UNION LABOR SEEKS ON POLITICAL LINES, TEMPERANCE PLAN (Precinct Committeemen Unit Is Method Adopted At Today's Meeting. ANOTHER RUDE JOLT TO ORGANIZE EVERY CRAFT IN RICHMOND; T. H. Flj-nn, General Organizer of A. F. L. Names Leaders in Movement. Board of Works Checks Mayor's Cluster Light Project. MEMBERS FIGHT STEP

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Prominent Friend to Appoint Nominating: Committee in Near Future. To organize temperance workers on political party lines even to the precinct committeeman unit is the method which will be used by the antisaloon people in Wayne county. Fifty! (prominent anti-Baloon workers of the county met today at the First PresDyterian church and decided to adopt 'this plan of organization. Timothy Nicholson, woo presided at the meeting, was authorized to appoint a committee of five, of wnlca he was to be a member and chairman, which would act as a nominating committee. The nominating committee will slate n executive committee of seven members, and the latter committee with a committee from each of the precincts will constitute the Wayne county cen- ' tral committee. With this method of procedure the leaders of the temperance movement expect to complete a thorough organization, The nominating committee will be announced at a later date. Wayne county is only one of the Hinety-two counties to start a movement for a thorough organization. LineB are being laid for a fight to place a state-wide prohibition clause In the platform of the proposed new Indiana constitution. The voters of the state will be given an opportunity to decide whether or not a constitutional tconTention will be called at the next election in November, 1914. Should the constitutional convention be called, which is expected by the temperance forces, then a strong effort to include the state-wide clause will be made. Wants Strong Organization. According to the rules governing the selection of delegates to the state constitutional convention, they will not be selected by political parties, but by petition from citizens, and in turn voted upon by the people. With this order of affairs the temperance forces expect to make headway In the fight fbrthe elimination of the liquor traf-; tic.. To make the proper selection of favorable citizens to act as delegates who will be interested in the temperance work will take a close and strong organization, speakers at today's meeting declared. The Rev. Madison Swadener, D.D., cf Indianapolis, associate state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, who is engaged in organizing county units in the state preparatory to the constitutional Ight, spoke regarding the work. "In the selection of delegates to the ! constitutional convention, shall the brewery interests dominate?" he asked. "If they do, then temperance progress In Indiana will be delayed fifty years or more. The last stand for temperance within the next few years lies in the fight for delegates to the convention. If the temperance forces secure the controlling vote of the convention, then nothing short of a statewide clause will be placed in the revised state constitution. Brewers Lose Ground. "The brewers and distillers are putting up a strong fight to get control of the delegates, and will be laying lines from now until the fall of the gavel, starting the machinery working. One brewer told me that although the liquor interests were putting up a bold front, they were playing a losing game every day. "The conservation congress, which met a few months ago in Indianapolis, did a great work for the temperance interests. The deviating of the program from discussion of resources to that of human life, gave the reading public an insight to the effect of liquor on human life. "A committee of one hundred antisaloon workers, appointed at the Columbus convention, will go before both houses of congress Peeerater 10 and present the proposed amendment, which is a temperance measure. President Wilson, Secretary of State Bryan all government heads will be visited and their sentiment secured. A future session of the United States Congress will be the standing grounds for the temperance cause. Plan Another Meeting. Elections within the last two years have proved the fact that the liquor interests are losing their hold on the political regimes. Now is the time for the temperance forces to step in and wrest what power the liquor men hold away from them. For the last quarter of a century the brewers and distillers have made candidates, framed policies and passed laws, but with their being shorn of political prestige they may be overthrown and the political control will be restored to the people of the nation." This morning's meeting was attended by business men. farmers, ministers and professional men, and included five women. Another similar meeting will be held in the near future. TO ASSIST HOLINESS. Temperance Speakers to Aid Alabama Man. S. P. McNaught. secretary of the Staje Anti-Saloon league gave a very hopeful address on the present status of the crusade for saloon extermination at the Reid Memorial church. He cited a number of factors that show the movement is bound to so forward rapidly within the next few years. With a close organization of the temperance forces of the country, he said, would come a united front to the enemy which has not been the case In previous years. He spoke of the fight that Hobson Is making in Alabama for election to the United States senate against Oscar Underwood, w;ho is backed by the Continued on Last Page)

Commercial Club Leaders Insist Action Be Deferred Until Later.

Mayor Zimmerman's sudden, postelection determination to provide the Main street business district with a cluster lighting system without further loss of time was given a set back this morning when Charles Jordan and E. M. Haas, representing the Commercial club, appeared before the board of public works and pointed out that this project could not be put through in a hurry because the merchants would first have to be canvassed to see if they were willing to subscribe to a fund for the purchase of the neecssary ornamental posts. It also was pointed out to the board that it was important to determine whether the majority of merchants favored the establishment of a cluster lighting system or a luminous arc lighting system. The discussion was brought to a close by the board's adoption of a resolution, offered by Mayor Zimmerman, that the board go on record as being in favor of some ornamental poBt lighting system, which could be established in any section of the city where the residents Avere willing to subscribe to a fund for the purchase of posts. Doc Explains His Stand. Mayor Zimmerman informed the Commercial Club committee that when the project of providing cluster lights for the Main street district first came up, two years ago, he was opposed to it because the municipal plant at that time was not prepared to furnish the current, but now that the plant's capacity had been enlarged he was ready to given his consent to such a plan. Superintendent Johnson of the municipal plant remarked that now he had no objections to offer to supply current to a cluster lighting system for the city, after the "first of the year, for at that time the city would begin to pay for all the current it used for public lighting. Two years ago he went on record against such a scheme, for the principal reason that the administration made no provision for the paying of its lighting bills and he was opposed to giving away any more current than he was absolutely required to do. Favors Luminous System. Johnson still believes the luminous arc lighting system Is much better than the cluster light system, because he says, it provides a splendid Illumination and does not use as much current, consequently it would be less expensive to the city. However, if the merchants desire the cluster lighting he will have no complaint to offer. Mr. Haas, speaking for the Commercial club, said the board of works plan to take Immediate action on the cluster lighting system found the club unprepared to take any action on the matter. He said two years ago, a committee of the Young Men's Business Club, since incorported into the Commercial club, canvassed the merchants on two blocks of Main street, but since that time he said there had been business changes on that street, that the prices of ornamental posts had probably changed and other conditions had arisen to make imperative the re-opening of the question before the Main street business interests, through the Commercial Club, were prepared to submit any plan of action to the board. SHOOTS TWO HOLES IN SALOON FLOOR Saloon Inmate Fires to Frighten Away Intoxicated Negro. Two holes in the floor f the Miller saloon, on Main between Fourth and Fifth streets, and a badly frightened negro were the effects of a shooting affray at S o'clock Saturday" evening. Elijah White pleaded guilty to firing the shots with the intention of scaring "Snooks" Murray, who it is alleged, was in an intoxicated condition and trying to start trouble with his flow of profane language. "Snooks" had been ordered from the saloon, but was coming back. Bystanders noticed that White had taken the revolver which lays back of the bar, and was waiting for the colored man. In the attempt to take the gun from White the two shots were fired. WThite was given the minimum fine of 51 and costs. Mayor Zimmerman gave "Snooks" somt judicial advice. The mayor told him. he would be the cause of some man being sent to the penitentiary for shooting him sometime, that he was a disgrace to the community, and an habitual drunkard, as shown by the police records. WOODS TO ADDRESS Y. M. C. A. DIRECTORS Dr. X). S. Wood, of Indianapolis, defeated candidate for mayor on the Citizens' ticket in the recent election, will address the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. at their meeting tonight in the association building. Dr. Wood comes here as a representative of the state board of the Young Men's Christian association, to arouse interest in the Y. M. C. A. state convention to be held December 5. 6 and 7 in Ft Wayne. At th meeting tonight the directors will select two delegates to represent the Richmond association at the stats oenrenXkKv

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MME. BLANCHE LE RALEC AND ASSISTANTS DECORATING CAKE. The wedding cake being baked for Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the president, who will be married to Francis B. Sayre on November 25, is believed to be the largest of its kind ever constructed In this country. Mme. Blanche Le Ralec. the pet caterer of New York society, assisted by her daughter and M. Magnolon, the "confiseur artistic," is baking the gigantic masterpiece of p6try. The cake is arranged In two layers, twenty-eight inches in height, weighing 130 pounds, and Is three feet In circumference. In addition to the cake itself, one thousand pounds of a similar make are being baked for distribution among the guests. The cake is being baked in Ave sections, eighteen different ingredients being used in its composition.

SEYFRIED ASSAILS CHILD LABOR EVIL Condemns Liberalism and Socialism in Address At St. Andrew's. SPEAKS IN GERMAN Believes Christian Program Is Solution of Social Troubles. A strong lecture on "Christian Social Reform" was given by Henry Seyfried, an Indianapolis attorney, at St. Andrew's Catholic church yesterday. Mr. Seyfried condemned Liberalism and Socialism, and offered the Christian program as the best of the three schools of .economics. In order -that older members of the church could grasp his thoughts more easily, he spoke for some time la German and finished with a lecture in English. Mr. Seyfried declared that capital is entitled to a fair-profit only, and all above a fair return is usuary. He dwelt largely on the relations of capital and labor. Child labor was considered by the speaker who said that legislatures of the past should be commenced for the control which has already been placed on child labor. He said the first to take a stand which gave world wide influence to the movement was Pope Leo, who, tnty-five years ago, . issued a document -which was circulated over the world, condemning child labor and asking that it be abolished or regulated so that less harm should be done by it. Mr. Seyfried declared that members of the Catholic church should work hand in hand with other denomina-, tions in the regulation of labor by women, and that all Christian reform workers should join to influence the j members of the legislature to enact j laws controlling, it. rte asked for a movement for shorter working hoursyf better working conditions for the worn en and children and men as well and for fair compensation for the services of the laborers. BUY LAUNDRY. Grant Fry and John Smyser have purchased the West Side Sanitary Laundry, located on Richmond avenue. The business was formerly conducted by Theodore McClellan and is one of the oldest established laundries in the city. ARE YOU LUCKY? Turn to the Want Ad page and see if you are the kicky one to obtain two free tickets to the show, "For Her Sake," given at the Murray tonight. In each issue of The Palladium for an indefinite time will be published a iAtne nd Mre. taken promiscuously from the city directory. If you are not the lucky one tonight you probably will be tomorrow night. Watch the Want Ad columns, where hundreds of bargains are offered daily. Thousands of people read them. If you have a house to rent, a stove to sell, or an article around the house for which yon have no further use, the thing to do is to advertise it. The Wants Ads will bring you a buyer. READ THE WANT ADS IT PAYS

Huerta to Stand Pat; Forces America to Act

Minister of Interior Aldape Forced Frdnf Cabinet By Dictator O'Shaughnessy Persona Non Grata At Mexican Court Washington Hesitates in Recognizing Constitutionalists. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17 Reports reached the American embassy today that Gen. Blanquet, minister of war, has decided to oust Gen. Huerta and Install a provisional president of his own choosing. Attaches of the national palace are .showing great excitement over anticipated developments but refuse to tell what they are. "General Huerta will fight it out to the end. Negotiations with the United States which aim to oust him from office, are at an end. In fact, diplomatic relations have practically been broken off." This ominous statement was made by an official of the Mexican government to the International News service today. He said: "Charge d'Affairs O'Shaughnessy can approach no member of the cabinet freely. When Envoy Lind was here only Minister of the Interior Aldape showed any cordiality to O'Shaughnessy. It was through Aldape's efforts that negotiations were renewed and now that Aldape has been forced ont O'Shaughnessy is in a peculiar position. Distasteful to Huerta. "He is persona non grata to Huerta because he is the official representative of the United States and Senor Moheno,. minister of foretgn affairs, is a creature of Huerta. O'Shatighnessy's personal property has been packed up and he is ready to leave for Vera Cruz at a moment's notice. Friends of Senor Aldape declared today that he would be lucky Tf he got out of Mexico without being killed Probably because he feared for his own life if he spoke otherwise. Aldape praised the dictator when he left "I am on -cordial terms .with Gen. Huerta whom I regard as a patriot and a strong man," said the ex-minister of the Interior. I expect the Senate to affirm my appointment as minister to France within ten days." Denies His Dismissal. Aldape denied that, he had been " vou.ul, un-auji: h8dCw irl- v r? w Aldape left for era Cruz on his way to France he carried with him an autographed photo of Gen. Huerta. Aldape called at the National palace to say farewell to the SPEAKS ON HIGHER CALLING OF WOMEN A large attendance marked the Women's day exercises at St. Paul's Lutheran church yesterday morning. The Sunday school services were . . 1 -1 charge of the Rev. C. Huber and Mrs. Harlow Lindley. of Earlham college. The lesson was on the death of Meses. Mrs. Lindley addressed the members of the adult department of the Sunday school on "The Higher Calling of Women." She spoke of the great good which had been accomplished by the women of the past, despite many disadvantages under which they had worked. She said there should be a higher consecration to the work of God on the pad at wojjaes.

dictator and the latter, after cordially embracing him, gave him the photograph which bore the following Inscription! "To , Manuel Aldape. the beot member of my cabinet and the ablest civilian to govern Mexico,. There was a touch of irony in. this for it is .felt in many quarters that Huerta brought about the virtual expulsion of Aldape because he feared the latter had designs upon the president's chair. That the dictator Is making some sort of appeal to the powers was inadvertently revealed by Foreign Minister Moheno. When asked for some expression on the departure of Aldape. he said: "I cannot talk now I am very busy on a memorandum of the international situation which Gen. Huerta requested."

BARBARITY HURTS REBEL CAUSE Washington Hesitates in Recognizing Constitutionalist Party. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. The barbarity of Mexican rebels at Jaurez in executing sixty-five federal officers and soldiers without a trial has injured the cause of the Constitutionalists. These actions show that the followers of Carranza are no less blood thirsty than those of Huerta and will delay recognition of their belligerency. It was authoritatively stated today that official Washington now looks to President Wilson to make a drastic move within the next few days which will change materially the Mexican situation. Reports were current that Charge O'Shaughnessy will be ordered to leave the Mexico City today or tomorrow. . . South American nations have joined the United States In trying to force

Huerta to resign the presidency. Pres-Jthe list of third-class cities next year, ident Wilson told callers today that and by the re-establishment of the polthe situation still is hopeful. J icy of paying the municipal light plant

Charge O'Shaughnessy has not yet tor public lighting.- The problem is been given his passports by the Mexi- made all the more difficult because the can government and has not been or- revenue of the city will be no greater dered to leave Mexico, It was learned j than u ha8 been thl J"eartoday. ' L'Bht t0 Coct 12.000. . I Superintendent Johnson, of the rnuSOLDIERS AND OFFICERS KILLED i nlclpal PIant estimates that the minl- ! mum amount the city will have to pay

Villa's Rebel Troops Slay Federals at Jaurez. oixrjr-Tive

EL PASO. Nov. K.-Sixty-nve f ed-; ljr tne c,ty w,th current at aclual !LCerharlrrf,evnihAVe iSS! Tn tber taw m of additional executed by General ilia s rebel r , , . , . trooos in JaurM since that cltv waa 1 exDense Js th Pa ro,! budget troops in Jaurez since mat city waa.for npxt appropriates for an incaptured Saturday morning, according , . alaH;r th m,witv nt

to refugees who crossed the interna iiuu.il uiiufe iuiu iui vnj ranj nu. PDe nf US Sad : "MPt ,1 WV literally assassination of hopeless vie - tims by brigands under the Carranza standard. Bodies of all the men shot. even those killed by regularly detail - ed military squads, were robbed."

j WEATHER FORECAST j SSSLSSA ZZ7ZZ I 7T. '. '. ! . ! serving on the board, and the board STATE Probably local rain tonight or presiient js pald $1,200. Tuesday. Warmer tonight. Unset-j When Richmond enters the third-t,ed- ! class list the board will be constituted I differently. Neither the mayor nor the

- . 4 i nuun rt I YESTERDAY. Maximum 4a Minimum 37 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Partly cloudy and continued unset tled weather is expected tonight and i Tuesday. SUMMARY. High pressure over the Southwest " and low pressure over Southern San - ada is the reason for the above fore - cut.

HEW MAYOR DEFERS NAMING APPOINTEES

Robbins Will Not Shake Plum Tree Until Late " This Month. : 7 FACES HEAVY TASK Municipal Expenses Increase in 1914 While Taxes Remain Same. Mayor-elect W. J. Robbins Is still at work on the list of appointees to city offices, and he said today that he was not ready to make any anoouaoements as to his appointments. "I will make public the entire list of my appointments at one time," he said today. It probably will be some time late this month or the first of next month before I will be ready to make this announcement." Rumor has it that a few of the most efficient members of the present administration are to be retained, but this report neither has been denied nor affirmed by the mayor-elect. Mr. Robbins will assume office the first of the year with a thorough understanding of the fact that he has one of the biggest problems to solve which has confronted any mayor in the history of the city. This task the new administration must shoulder is to meet additional municipal expenses, incurred prima rily by reason of Richmond entering be $12 000 and it maT two or ; three thousand more. It Is planned to city officers, and in addition there will b three new additions to the nr roll ! SLt yetrD two ba?d of work. L em- , bers each to rece,Te $1J!00 p anmun, ; and a buiTdinK ininector ta receire ' bulIdlDS inspector, to receive , 'The board of works as now consti- ( tut(vl ron.IstK nt the 'mavnr th it ! engineer and a commissioner of pubcuftium vz uirujci B J L luai r - I . doqt, so ii win oe necessary ror Mr. ! Robbins to appoint three board mem- ! bers. two Progressives and one Democrat. K. OF P. TO CONFER RANK TUESDAY Second and third ranks will be conferred on candidate by Coeur de Lion i loS- K- f Tuesday evening. The ntpilisMK vnrlr will V - tnllrA hir a Emoker to which al, memlM?r8 of the j order are Invited. The meeting will be called at 7 o'clock.

MEET TUESDAY NIGHT

Higher Scale, Shorter Hours Held Out to Non-Union Men. Unionization of all the crafts tm Richmond was given its initial impetus yesterday morning at Central Labor Union hall, when T. H. Klynn. of ; Pittsburg, geueral organizer for the : American Federation of Labor, launched a campaign which, will have for its aim the organization of all mon-un1on laboring men of Richmond, and the strengthening of present labor organisations. Mr. Flynn will address a meeting J of the Trades Council tomorrow night. following which a call will be issued for a mass meeting of all the laboring men In the city, both orgmnlxed and unorganised. At this meeting Mr. Flynn will make a general appeal for the unorganized laborer of the city to come into the fold and enjoy the shorter hours, hither wage scale and better working conditions hich unionism holds out as an Inducement to the man who toils. Organizers to Htlp. The general plan for the oampaign In Richmond has not yet been decided upon, the methods of prooedure differing in various localities, according to local conditions. National organizations which are not represented by locals in Richmond, will be asked to send orgaalsers ber to assist in the work. Mr. Flynn arrived In the city Friday evening, traveling under Instructions from Samuel W. Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, who who has direct supervision of the sixty general organisers of the federation. The call for the meeting was issued by the local Trades' Council, which will co-operate with Mr. Flynn. A special committee composed of a representative of the fifteen labor organization in the city, of which Lucius Harrison, of the Typographical Union, la chairman, was selected to have general charge of the arrangements. Following the meeting yesterday morning the committee held a meeting and selected a number of sub-committees to carry en the different details la preparing for the campaign. . Declare Wanu Low. ' Mr. Flynn said today that the wages of unorganized "laborers in Richmond re unusually low, when compared with the money paid to unorganised labor in other cities. In many cases running forty-five per cent lower than wages commended elsewhere by nonunion workmen. "I was told of a case yesterday, h said. "Where a grandson Is working on the same Job held previously by his father, and before him by his grandfather. Tne grandson's wages are. Ave per cent lower than those paid his grandfather for doing Identically the same kind of work. Of course this is an exceptional case. The wages paid mechanics in Richmond are almost fifty per cent lowtr than they should be. while the plumbers of this city are only paid half what they are paid In Indianapolis. Th street car men to this city are receiving considerably less than they are In Indianapolis, although the lines sr owned by the same company." To Stay Here Six Week. Organizer Flynn thinks that his work here will require his presence tm the city for at least six weeks. Should h be called elsewhere before the work is completed, the national organisation will send some one else to take hla place. "Things look exceedingly good all over the country for a sTrengtbentBg of unionism. said Mr. Flynn In discussing general labor conditions. "Indications are for the return of the great days of 191. when . unionism, grew and flourished over n:ght la places where it had never before been, heard of. Last year over half a million laboring men were taken into labor organizations In the United States alone." Visited Her Before. Mr. Flynn has been In Richmond a number of times before. He vit last seen here six years ago. whea he was campaigning the state wltn William Jennings Bryan in behalf of Thomas R. Marshall, candidate for governor against James K. Watson, who was in the bad graces of the American Federation of Labor and organized labor in general. Mr. Flynn is a bollermaker by trade, but for the. last nineteen years has been identified with the work of the federation. The unionization of the c:ty will not mean labor difficulties, according to Mr. Flynn. The American Federation of Labor always insists that new organizations shall wait at least a yar before they aok for an increase in thetr wage scale. In this length of time they are in shape to present their demands and secure a fovorable adjustment without difficulty. "The number of strikes over tn country is steadily growing less each, year." explained Mr. Flynn. "In very rare instances is an old labor organization called out on strike. Most of the differences between them and their employers are adjusted satisfactorily, without the men being thrown out ol work. Most of the strikes are engineered by non-union bodies of laborers." ATTACKS WOMAN When Mrs. Laura Wallace, colored, living on North Fourteenth street, opened the door in answer to urgent rappings between 1 and 2 o'clock Friday night. Charles Ryle entered and at tacked ber. Mrs. Wallace screamed and fought until Ryle was frightened away. In circuit court Ryle will be charged with assault and battery a Intent to commit an assault. Mrs. Wallace, who h&3 been married, hat been divorced from her husband and ha beea living alone for some time.