Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 115, 25 March 1914 — Page 1

i puuiii is inuieu in aiieno. L J I : RICHMONi AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 115 RICHMOND, IND WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTdk .

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TELLS WHY CITIZENS VOTED WET ON OPTION ISSUE Insists Election Showed the Worst Tactics Used in Richmond in 20 Years to Influence Voters. ASSAILS PRACTICE USED AT POLLS Believes Effort Made to Incite Race War by Importation of Workers Among Colored People. J. Bennett Gordon, publicity manager of the liberal element, today commented on the election in the following statement: "Richmond's situation is exactly like that of the old colored 'mammy that Hooker Washington tells about. "As he was riding along the road in Georgia one day he met an old colored lady w ith a basket on her head. " 'Good morning, Aunt Hannah,' said Mr. Washington. 'Where are you going this morning?' "Lawd bless you, Mistah Washington,' replied Aunt Hannah, Tse done been where I'se goin"." Richmond Satisfied. "And so Richmond has been where it is going and it was perfectly satisfied when it compared its condition with other cities to remain just where it is. "It is well for Richmond that it is so. "The result proves the people of this city want the best possible regulation of the sale of liquor, so long as it is going to be sold. I have no doubt if a proposition were submitted tomorrow to the same voters to still further regulate the sale of liquor by abolishing screens, limiting all entrances to a saloon to one door, making, the windows plain so that the view inside might be unobstructed, taking out the tables and chairs so that no loafing could be done I have no doubt If some such law as exists in Iowa, for example, were put up to the people tomorrow that the peofile .would" vote ' 101 ii ten io one. Solution of Problem. "Prohibition of the sale of liquor and prohibition of its being used is fiction. The only way to stop that is to stop its being made. Until that time conies the solution of the liquor traffic is its regulation. The more publicity given to its sale, the less evil will result from it. "There never has been a campaign in Richmond, to my knowledge covering twenty years, that more disreputable tactics were used by those who pretended to be 'good citizens.' Let me give two examples. "Several months ago several saloon proprietors in certain districts of this (Continued From Page Eight) ATTACK ON TORREON RENEWEDJSY VILLA More Than Twenty Thousand Men Grapple in Battle to Death at One of Federal Strongholds. EL VER.TEL, Mexico, March 25. More than twenty thousand soldiers grappled in a battle to the death at Torreon today. After a cessation in his attack from 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon until dawn today. General Villa, commander-in-chief of the constitutional forces, renewed bis attack upon the federal army of General Velasco. Villa sent about 11,000 men into the combat, holding in reserve more than 1,000, mostly cavalry. Opposing him were 8,000 federals. The federal army originally consisted of more than 9,000 men, but prisoners taken by Villa, and sent on here aclared that 1,200 government soldiers had been killed and wounded in the fighting of Monday and Tuesday. The rebel loss, according to constitutionalist officers, is estimated at 700. The total losses on both sides as based upon these estimates is 1,900. the heaviest that has marked any battle in the present war. The renewal of the battle was announced in a message from General Villa at his temporary headquarters near Gomez Palacio. In this he said: "The army of Mexican liberty is marching to victory. We are renewing the attack on Torreon. Everything is well. The artillery Is doing great service and our triumph is assured." A report had been circulated here during the night that the federals had made a sortie from Torreon and had captured Gomez Palacio, but as Villa's message said nothing of fighting at Ihe latter point, the report is now discredited. Villa was compelled to half his main attack on Torreon over night to give his soldiers an opportunity for rest. They had been worn out by the twoflay battle that culminated in the cap ture of Gomes Palacio and the retreat if the defending federals across the Natas river. Hundreds of constitutionalist soldier dropped at their stations when a halt was called in the fighting and slept all night like logs.

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FIRST Sixth Precinct Seventh Precinct 7 Eighth Precinct Ninth Precinct SECOND Tenth Precinct Eleventh Precinct Twelfth Precinct Thirteenth Precinct THIRD Fourteenth Precinct Fifteenth Precinct Sixteenth Precinct Seventeenth Precinct FOURTH Eighteenth Precinct Nineteenth Precinct Twentieth Precinct Twenty-first Precinct Twenty-second Precinct FIFTH Twenty-third Precinct Twenty-fourth Precinct Twenty-fifth Precinct Twenty-sixth Precinct Twenty-seventh Precinct SIXTH Twenty-eighth Precinct Twenty-ninth Precinct Thirtieth Precinct SEVENTH Thirty-first Precinct Thirty-second Precinct Thirty-third Precinct EIGHTH Thirty-fourth Precinct Thirty-fifth Precinct Totals FIRST WARD. . Precinct No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 , rry. , 36 53 . 31 31 611. 192 211 177 177 No. 9 Wet majority SECOND WARD. Precinct. No. 10 Dry. 21 Wet. 127 106 95 109 No. 11 57 No. 12 20 N. 13 49 Wet majority, 280. THIRD WARD. Precinct. Dry. No. 14 84 No. 15 49 No. 16 51 No. 17 74 Wet majority, 179. FOURTH WARD. Precinct. Dry. No. 18 48 No. 19 88 No. 20 33 No. 21 "3 No. 22 45 Wet majority. 393. Wet. 88 104 138 107 Wet. 70 89 142 167 217 LAPORTE MARSHAL TO ARREST Believes Mrs. Belle Gunness to Be Homesteading in the Canadian Northwest. CHICAGO, March 25. With a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Belle Gunness, of "murder farm" fame, Marshal Clinton Cochrane of Laporte, Ind., passed through Chicago today for the Canadian northwest. The woman who is supposed to have been burned to death when her farm hCHi.se near Laporte was destroyed, is rJp1fted . to be living near Neville, anaMarshal Cochrane,- Deputy Prosecutor Worden of Laporte, and many other Indiana officials, believe the report. "I believe I shall come back to Laport with Mrs. Gunness in custody," said Cochrane on his arrival here. "I can not tell all I know about the case, but I can say that Mr., Gunness or the woman who is supposed to be the murderess is hoirtesteading in Saskatchawan. She has "been recognized by a man who used to know her well in Norway. The Canadian northwest mounted police are keeping a close watch upon her until I arrive." STUDENTS INJURE HIGH SCHOOL BOY CHAMPAIGN. 111., March 2.r. Stewart Bassett. a high school boy, is iu a serious condition today following injuries inflicted by supposed high school boys. Bassett gave a party last night in a local hall. He forgot to invite some of. the high school boys and they got drunk and descended on the party. The guests fled down a fire escape, but Bassett stood his ground and sustained several skull wounds. He was taken to a sanitarium at Columbus, Ind.

Returns by Precincts in 1909

WOMAN

YES NO (Dry) (Wet)

WARD 70 74 40 32 150 199 196 194 WARD 40 122 62 124 29 94 42 119 WARD ..... 84 104 64 119 53 124 . 60 103 WARD 53 87 94 125 34 156 96 160 110 250 WARD 103 90 134 140 93 260 164 113 221 172 WARD 119 79 178 82 121 143 WARD 161 138 184 110 122 151 WARD 78 115 76 109 2787 4128 J FIFTH WARD. T Preclnef. - No 23 No. 24 No. 25 No. 26 No. 27 63 98 84 131 121 S4 119 193 115 157 Wet majority, 171. SIXTH WARD. Precinct. Dry. No. 28 88 No. 29 127 No. 30 64 Wet majority, 74. SEVENTH WARD. Wet. 97 104 152 Precinct. No. 31 . Dry. 90 Wet. 90 9S 133 No. 32 110 No. 33 93 Wet majority, 17. EIGHTH WARD. Precinct. Dry. No. 34 63 No. 35 53 Wet majority, 139. Total wet majority, 1,869. Wet. 124 131 TO GIVE FAREWELL FOR BEALL T T South Side Association Ar ranges Smoker in of Secretary. Honor The Bouth Side Improvement association's biggest jollification meeting, the farewell to Cassius C. Beall, is the city's chief attraction for tonight. Several hundred members of the association and citizens of Richmond will be present and a number will make speeches. Judge Fox, Henry U. Johnson, Wilfred Jessup and Perry Freeman are among the speakers announced for tonight. The toastmaster will call on several members of the, association for responses. Mr. Beall has been a member of the organization for twenty years and has been secretary for four years. He will leave this week for Binghamton, N. Y., where he has purchased a farm. I WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Unsettled tonight and Thursday. Probably rain. Colder Thursday and in west portion tonight. TEMPERATURE. 56 Noon Yesterday. Maximum 64 Minimum 30 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST t Ocasional rain this afternoon and tonight. Thursday colder. Probably rain or snow.': High south wind shotting westerly with a March gale. SUMMARY Storm of great, size, over 2,000 miles wide is now moving tovvrd the Great Ijakes and will cause stormy- weather for the next: 24 or 36 hours.

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ANTECEDENTS OF REVIVALIST HONEYWELL Replies to Evangelist's Attack and Wants to Know About His Early Work and Career. ASSAILS METHODS OF SPREADING WORD Editor Begs Citizens to Forget Hatred and 111 Feeling and Unite in Boosting Richmond. Replying to an attack made on him Monday night by I. E. Honeywell, evangelist, in which he was described as a "whiskey writer, an idiot, an imbecile, an ass, all of which is gross flattery," J. Bennett Gordon today answered as follows: Editor' Palladium: Who is this man Honeywell? Who vouches for him? Where did he come from? What was his business before he found there was easy money in the practice of peddling vulgarity and abuse under the guise of religion? I would not lower my self-respect to adopt the methods u'sed by this person, who, after he had poured out a mess of venom and cheap abuse, took counsel of his cowardly conscience and fled from the city under police protection. Truth and Godly religion don't slink away from the field of duty like a dirty cur. Who is this man Honeywell? Asks for Antecedents. What has he done for the city? He came into this town with the same methods as the faro player, the threecard monte shark, advertising his wares like a barker at a side show. What had he to recommend him? Billy Sunday was a ball player. What was Honeywell? After he opened up, he did what? Preach Christianity? Preach Christian charity and love and faith and human brotherhood? He did not. He preached or yelled malice, hatred. suspicion, back-biting. He. denounced the school teachers, the theatres, the ..... .k- t.'i ,1 ife-,?:fiL4 i ' . " ... hrniieli nf the T.iithArnns the Cathn i: , ,j h .ii , nrC.. i i .. the teachings of Christ? No, in order to attract attention to himself and (Continued on Page Three.) COL, SEELY RESIGNS WAR SECRETARYSHIP IN BRITISHCABI!1ET Interference in Mobilization of Troops to Crush Ulster Volunteers Assigned As Reason. LONDON", March 25. Premier Asquith's cabinet was shaken today by the resignation of Colonel John Edward Bernard Seely, secretary of war. The resignation was officially announced this evening. ,The head of the war department gave up his post because of interference with his plan for mobilizing the army to crush the Ulster volunteers, organized to fight home rule the resignation. News of Seely's resignation came ! while the house of commons was holding the stormiest session that has marked the progress of legislation since' the home rule bill was intro duced. Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty and one of the chief advo cates of an aggressive poplicy against the people of Ulster, was made the target for an attack by the Unionists shortly after the house of commons confened. He was bombarded with questions as to his attitude of the government toward Ulster, and replied calmly until asked whether he had hopes that the precautions taken to guard the government stores in Ulster would cause fighting. Repudiates Allegation. Leaping to his feet, the head of the British navy shouted: "Perhaps I may be allowed to repudiate that hellish Insinuation." A prolonged upfoar followed, the Unionists demanding that Churchill withdraw the ; expression "hellish insinuation." and the Liberals shouting, "Ncu no, he's right." Speaker Lowther finally rules that Churchill would have to withdraw the expression, and he complied amid a deafening din of shrieks and biases. , When the confusion was over the Churchill incident had been quieted. Colonel Seely was questioned by nieinberu of the opposition as to the proceedings in Ulster. Defends - King George. Colonel " Seely made a flat denial that King George had taken any Initiative "in the dispute involving the refusal of Ulster officers to march against their countrymen. He elabo rated details of . correspondence relating to the Ulster matter which the government had made public earlier in tho day, and then made the formal iCoutihued on PagB Three' -

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QUAKER MINISTER - ' BLAMES FOREIGNERS FOR "WET" VICTORY The Rev. T. Kenworthy Tells -Palladium Eagles Lodge Held Men in Line For the Wets. ' ? ' Among the many causes assigned for the big wet majority in yesterday's local option election, by the Rev. Truman Kenworthy, pastor of the East Main Street Friends' church and dry leader, was the alleged fact that Richmond's population is made up, to a large extent, of persons who have been reared to drink. In explaining this the Rev. Mr. Kenworthy said while these persons are by no means drunkards, yet they like liquor and consequently used their ballots in assisting the wet ele ment to victor-. The minister also said that during the last five years a large number of foreigners have taken up their residence here and that these men did a great deal towards turning the tide for the wets. Drys Call Wet Bluff. Asked his opinion whether there wa3 any illegal voting the pastor said he believed there was very little. He said that an attempt was made to vote men who were not legally qualified, but that this bluff was called by dry workers. "The educational campaign, of course, did some good, but it did not seem to change the sentiment much. Many voters believed the story that business would be injured If the city went dry. Some lodges, the Eagles being one, I believe, held their men in line for the wets. Then there are a great many people in Richmond who like their liquor I don't mean by this that they are drunkards. I was at the Twenty-fifth precinct most of the day and that was where the in terest centered. I don't think there was much illegal voting. The wets tried to bluff some persons in as early as 7 o'clock, but we called their bluff. All I know is that Richmond is wet. A number of shop people and a large number of foreigners were on the wet side." Herbert S. Weed I really don't know whether the educational campaign brought any results or not. I have not doped it out yet how to account for the big wet majority. . People Are Cowards. I nerpen i-eijon Herbert Pettijohn The people of whu go-moral I MMiyin a at JnH nn an1 rln t n a Ti trnr -uui6c iu w thing. I believe that there was too much of that Felf-satisfied spirit of the people. However, I do not think that the educational campaign did a lot of pood. T)r. J. M. Thurston I always humbly bow to the will of the majority, but I don't have to go to hell with them. There are too few men in Richmond and too many mice. I have jnore respect for theman who worked for the wets than the church men who voted wet. In the Civil war I always had more respect for the men who were 6hooting at us than the northern men who sympathized with the southerners. It's the same thing in this fight. Rev. E. G. Howard I cannot account for the big wet majority. Causes for it are yet to be determined. Rev. Conrad Huber I have no statement to make. Mrs. Robert Randall The W. C. T. U.'s are going to keep to keep right in the battle. We are going to work for an amendment to the national con stitution now pending. Under all cir - cumstanc.es, I believe Richmond will go dry in two years from now. Sees Victory Ahead. Timothy Nicholson We are loyal, and being republican we can only cheerfully accept, the ruling of the (Continued on Page Six)

S. Edgar Nicholson Charges Wetsl

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S. Edgar Nicholson, secretary of the National Anti-Saloon !

league, leader in the dry campaign here, today issued the follow - ino- statpmpnt on the wpt victorv ing btaiemeiu on tne wei Victory.

"The only comment that need be made upon the election is

that Richmond is wet. At a conservative estimate not fewer than

500 votes were influenced bv monev or liauor. and it is our iudcr -

. , , . xi"' nvrt j t . i ; other Italian, who was arrested about ment that not fewer than 300 more voted who in no real sense are; 5.30 o'clock yesterday arternoon. on citizens of Richmond. Eliminating these, Richmond is still wet by j Ul ground that he had not been a , 1 t , j , resident the required time, was conat least five hundred. j tinued untiI neKt Tuesday morning. At"I am not sorry the fight was made. The demand for it wastorne' Henry u. Johnson, who win in the air, and had the election not been called, hundreds of people i gr for PicciviU- wiU b ut of tb would have said that there was an opportunity to vote Richmond J Charles Way. a laborer at the iioo,W nnrl the rnnH npnnlo ran awnv frnm H.itv i?lr..DrS11 P-P". wh mlxd

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"I have been in losing battles before and have lived to see them grow into a lasting victory. If Richmond is satisfied to pay the price of this saloon victory, the drys can stand it as long as their opponents can. "Meanwhile the no-license forces of Richmond should enter at once upon a campaign of education to rescue this problem from the maze of misrepresentation, ignorance and prejudice which is keeping this city in the wet column." Dwiggins Opinion. I. C. Dwiggins, organization manager, said, "The results were hardly more than expected-with the organization. If the drys had had about twenty or thirty days in which to perfect the organization instead of ten days, then the majority would have been cut to a minimum. In some precincts the drys made a gain while in others the drys lost a few votes. Of course there might have been omc illegal voting for in some places the total vote cast was larger than the votes of the poll bobics."

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Prosecutor Roller of Election Law Grand Jury Called DRYS CHARGE

Wets Sweep City in Most Hotly Contested Election Held for1" Twenty Years.- Dry Challengers Question Voters -Who' Have Lived in Precincts for Many Years, Causing Confusion and Trouble. Dry Leaders Have Little to Say) About Cause of Their Defeat.

A grand jury to investigate the alleged violations of election laws, was asked for by Prosecuting Attorney Reller in circuit court today, and Judge Fox announced that he will call the jury during the April term of court, which starts April 1 and continues until October 1. The judge and the prosecuting attorney both agreed that it would be unfair to call the iurr at once be-. cause of the excitement which' will still be prevalent over the election rn. covoroi nooii Th inrv nrahablv ! will be called late In April or in May. j In a statement issued today. S. Ed-1 nr Ki-hninTi lonHpr nf th drv. di-1 rectly charges the wets with buying ; votes He said: "At a conservative estimates not fewer than 600 votes I were influenced bv money or liquor, j and it is our Judgment that not fewer j than 300 were voted who in no real j sense are citizens of Richmond." ( It is expected that Nicholson will j be compelled to go before the grand jury to substantiate the allegation. J ui . ai ci 1 wets Win Fignt. j Efforts of the temperance forces to ! add Richmond to the list of dry Indi-! ana cities, extending over a period of j three months, involving the expend!I ture of several thousand dollars, and

receiving tne active support or tne ; more voters were challenged yesterstate and national anti-saloon organi-:ay than at any other two elections

zations, met with failure at the polls i ever held in this city. Apparently yesterday when, by a majority of 1.339 "; the dry organization was thoroughly the citizens of Richmond declared in ; impressed with certain pre-election favor of regulated sales of liquor j stories that hundreds of floaters" through the medium of the licensed i were to be imported by the wets, saloon In preference to "blind tigers" The campaign of the drys to drive' and whiskey drug stores. i the saloons out of Richmond was the The wet majority yesterday was am0st elaborate ever attempted to to" crushingblow JJdygoXthe' .5da"j' .1anhi''Z?? i fxCUalgp wa ' " said today, and prove1! a decided sur- j helical crusade, conducted in a bnildprise even to the most sanguine of ' jng erected at a cost of 5,01A. At th the leaders of the wet campaign. I'p J conclusion of this crusade the evan-

uuui uay or iwo upioip me ciei lion, dry workers really believed they had i succeeded In their efforts of changing the necessary 900 votes and that ihe city would go dry by a small major-1 ity, from 200 to 30. See the Verdict. But when they saw the wet vote i storming the polls early yesterday morning, when they saw the liberal faction's field organization working . like a well oiled machine, they realHowever, they were unwilling to admu. even laie in tne anernoon, mai: j the wet majority would be in excess ' of 500. and they found many ardent ! wet workers to substantiate this bei lief. Benjamin G. Price, campaign man- ; ager for the wets, felt confident of j victory last Saturday, but was never ! prepared to claim such a substantial majority as registered at the polls. Yesterday when the battle, or ballots was at full tide. Mr. Price expressed

the opinion that the policy of the drytion. was dismissed today. In the

workers of indiscriminately eballeng-! ing hundreds of voters, many of whom j had been residents Tor years of the , precincts in which they voted, was; making many wet votes, and Mr. ; Price's opinion was apparently well! taken. This wholesale challenging policy was suggested by 1. C. Minton Votes by Money -

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to ; Lay Charges Violations Before by Judge Fox VOTE BUYING of Indianapolis, attorney for the Indi-j ana Anti-Saloon league. j Challenge Only One. j Only one voter was challenged byi the wets, in the Fifteenth precinct, j and he made no attempt to vote iaj defiance of the protest. - ! The field organization of the drys. i while numerous and composed of en-j thusiastic temperance men. was im-! perfect and Ineffective. 1 ne lormat ion of this organization was assigned to I. C. Dwiggins. who conducted th campaign for the Muncie drys recently. nwiggms" greatest mistake, so oryi leaders asserted today, was me mmsigning of workers to polls in pre-j cincts in whicb they did not reside. A) number of Earlhara college lads r; drafted for this work. As a result of 1 the unfamiliarity of the majority oZ the dry workers with voters, rostlr blunders were made. Quite a number mn ho bad gone to the polls with j intention of voting dry became indignant when challenged by the 6ry and vled wet. The poll books ; Qf the drys ror the moBt were In.. complete and the tactics of the dry' workers was to challenge all voters WDo did not appear on their books, Floaters Were Absent. it 8 safe to make the assertion that : Continued on Page Six. iMOlAST" OF ILLEGAL VOTING j Rpllpj and Dry Attornev Jessup Ask Dismissal of the Charge Against Lonigi Luddio. Upon motion of Prosecutor Reller the affidavit against Lonigi L.uddio. the first Italian to be arrested on charges of illegal voting at yesterday's elecstatement of the prosecutor to Mayor Kobbins in police court this morning, Reller said that he had investigated the case and found that Luddio had not violated the law.. Luddio was charge.! with vot-inic after sorn- worker allep. il in he a '-in', w et man. had paid the fee for Luddio lo get his naturalization papers som days ago. The prosecutor stated that the affiant. Harrison Iaconia, was under the Impression that Attorney Fred White instructed him that Luddto couldn't vote if pome one else furnished the money for the naturalization fee. . Reller said that the law put the re sponsibility upon the one furnishing he fee and not the receiver. Attorirey Wilfred Jessup. or the drys. sub'stantiated Prosecutor Reller' statements. saying that after investigation ' t was found that there were not - I grounds for Luddio's arrest. Postpone Hearing. ! The case of Carmine Picciviiie. an , .Man new scnell. a bartender, in a fight at the "bloody- twenty-fifth pre-. cinct, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery upon the recommendation of Prosecutor Reller and request of Attorney Wilfred Jessup. the minimum fine of SI and costs was given Way. Through his attorney. Way made arrangements to pay the fine. Matthew Scbell. the other participant in the fistic encapade. pleaded not guilty to the charge of provoke. I lis case w as set for trial Friday niornh.g. Wayn. who will appear against Schell. told Mayor RoLbius that one of hU witnesses, whose name he could not recall, could not be found at this time, but that he would have him at the court session Friday morning. Dry Attorney Jessup said that - he regarded the cases against Way and Schell as merely election contest?, which are hound to happen. It la said . that- Way apc-l"Ped to Scbe'l when the two -were taken to " police bMKaV Siuarteja.