Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 190, 20 June 1914 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1911

The Richmond Palladium AND SUN-TELEGRAM. Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Masonic Building. Ninth and North A Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

Works case by the state Public Service Commission. Not only was the Richmond case a precedent (it was the first of its kind adjusted by the Commission) but the Commission took a position absolutely new, in many ways, in the history of rate regulation. In determining the valuation of a plant for rate making purposes, other Commissions have endeavored to arrive at the possible selling price

10 cents a week. By Mail, in advance . A, , , . . , . .

. I J L Lilt; UlitUL III IIIC k-UWCUl. inaiivci in wtucx lu

in tne nature 01 ine case

la Richmond,

nn tr. nil- nix months. 12.B0: one

Ru-ai Routes, in advance one year, $2.00; six months, I fix this as the value

$1.25; one month 26 cents.

own attorneys believed would have a log to stand on in court. All they wanted to do was spring a "framed up" case in which their main and only witness was " for sale" to the highest bidder, in order "to answer Bennett Gordon's argument" just before election and influence votes. Their answer is yet delayed. When will they make it? Yours very respectfully, J. Bennett Gordon. Sioux City, Iowa. June 17, 1914.

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, ond Class Mail Mtter.

i Sec-

Editor of The Palladium, Richmond. Ind.:

such a valuation includes many fictitious ingre- Dear Sir

,. , , . n. , , -4. i7-i,, ele regarding Governor fatterson, writdients. But m the Richmond City Water Works ; ten bp j B,rnnen Gordon appeared, m case the Indiana Commission endeavored to j your paper, inasmuch as Governor . . ., , j. e i Patterson is to appear on our local ascertain the exact amount Of money invested: ; Chautauqua platform on the Fourth of in tViia arlrlorl nnnrppifltinn frhip to inrrpasp ! July, the writer, as secretary of our

of value of real estate, etc.) and from this total was subtracted depreciation (due to wear and tear of equipment, etc.) The result was $750,000. This included $25,000 as 'going value" which,

While Sun Burns miWr I W I1 Mexico Perturbs

Washington Diplomats

article were true. The enclosed letter is in reply to the writer's letter of in-

The Water Rates Case History was made as well as rates by the decision handed down in the Richmond C itv Water

Inasmuch as Mr. Gordon's article

presented only one side of Governor Patterson's life, and probably was ex-

the term is understood, but the ingredient of val

ue represented by wise management. This

seems a far more eauitable method of valuation : aggerated, and inasmuch as his article

, , A. , , . . . . . if unanswered, migh cause our local than that used by other Commissions. Chautauqua Association a financial It is also to be noted that for the first time j loss- th,e writer respectfully asks you to publish the enclosed letter from so far as can be ascertained, the Commission j Mr. Wilson, president of the National took into consideration the value on which thelj

company has Deen assessed lor taxation as a

A New Use for Senators A certain Walter G. Newman, once a seaman, more lately a self-styled Baron, but most lately n..nlni-l into tVio PrpeirJpnt of the Gold Hill

, . , , , ... . ,,r tUv. ! according to the opinion expressed by the Com

L'onsoiiaaiea wimpaiiy, u i uusc menu wi . . , , , . OQO n, quiry regarding the matter, and is self-

RWpltnn Williams. Comptroller of the Treasury, i "uaniv"' y explanatory

Thereby hangs a tale. Using the good offices of this friendship as a means of entrance, Mr. Newman succeeded in interesting divers and sundry Congressmen and other high officials in his gold mine scheme. So indulgent were they of his rosy plans, Senators Chilton and Overman permitted the promoter the use of their official stationery with the result that Gold Hill stock made balloon ascensions from Wall Street curbs. That the ascensions were not without mishap is suggested by the recognized authority on gold mines, The Copper Hand Book. In describing a preceding venture in the Gold Hill mine it says. "This was a notorious promotion that caught many Wall Street operators." At the beginning of his administration, President Wilson declared it was the intent of his party to hold the government up close to the people. Perhaps Senators Overman and Chilton understood this to mean that they were to hold up the people close by the government.

BY SIDNEY ESPEY. WASHINGTON', June 20. Uke an irascible old school master who assigns heavy tasks to his pupils just as they hear the bell ringing for dismissal from their desks, the Mexican situation has called the diplomatic

, ; corps in Washington back to affairs

A few days since an arti- or state just as its members were

preparing to embark upon tnose summer junkets which makes the labors of the rest of the year more endurable. The capital city of Washington in the days prior to the country-wide fever for more legislation on a number of thinng. was a sleepy place, as a rule, by the time June rolled around. The great houses which range the avenues and streets of Washington mansions of senators and representatives

i local Chautauqua Association, sent a j copy of Mr. Gordon's article to the ; National Lincoln Chautauqua System,

under whose auspices our local Chautauqua will be given, asking whether

or not the statements in Mr. Gordon's : in congress, embassies, legations and

CA.MBRinGK CITV CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION. By Lawrence II. Bertseh, Secy.

Mr. h. II. Bertseh, Cambridge City, Ind.: Dear Sir Permit me to thank you for your enclosure, a copy of the Richmond Palladium of June 16, containing an attack on Governor Patterson by J. Bennett Gordon, 'of Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. Patterson is a member of one of the most prominent families of the

south.

years ana upon nis deatn, he was sue

ceeded in congress by his son. Mr. Malcolm Patterson went from congress to the governor's chair, and was elected two or three time governor of Ten

uis

such like and the town houses of

those wealthier people who delight to reside here when affairs are astir all used to be closed up tightly when the torrid season approached. The call to seaside and mountainside was heeded, and corridors of stale buildings used to be deserted by

all save clerks as had no vacations comine to them, and a few over-

conscientious officials. Shutters barricaded the windows of the mansions, and on their doors was a little inscription informing callers that the house was closed until a date in the autumn. Stick to Jobs. But all that is past, perspiring and railing at fate and foreign offices, trusts and insistent reformers, con-

i gress and diplomats nowadays are

cheated out of their holidays to a great

extent.

Senor Riano, the Spanish ambassador is among the leading victims of this fate. The Mexican situation has proved a disturbing factor in bis affairs. The senor and his family had taken a cottage in Newport in which to while away the hot months. But along came this Mexican situation which has a particular claim on the Spanish mission here, and the Newport cottage plans seem to have gone by the board. Affairs of state and foreign matters generally demand that the Spanish ambassador stay in Washington.

MEXICAN CONGRESS ENDORSES HUERTA VERA CRUZ, June 20. The Mexican congress was convened in extraordinary session at Mexico City today. It passed a vote of confidence in the Huerta administration and refused to

acept General Huerta's resignation as president. This information was received here today in a dispatch from the capital. From New York to Sidney by the Cape of Good Hope the distant is 13.395 miles. By the Suez canal it is 13.828 miles. By the straits of Magellan. 12.159 miles, and by the Panama canal 9.814 miles.

legitimate factor in fixing the valuation for rate making purposes. In his carefully worked out brief, City Attorney Bond had asked that no meter rent be allowed. The Commission decided that two dollars a year should be charged, not for meter rent, but as a minimum rate. Many families will use so little water as to make the installation of the service an actual loss Ho the company. This minimum rate protects it against such losses. Everything considered, the Commission has been exceedingly fair, both to the people and to the company. The latter's stockholders are guaranteed a reasonable return on their investment: the former will receive their service at

iuwci iciLtrs. 11 vwu.u cciii umi "" , friends were charged with the assass-! one case is concerned, the Commission has justi- 1 ination of Senator Carmack. Governor . , I Patterson"" was a heavy drinker. His

tied its existence.

part of the liquor element. The Chautauqua is a broad platform. Its purpose is to save men and to help communities. We know that Governor Patterson can do this for he is now a meek and lowly follower of the Nazarene. As such it is our business to defend him, for all the powers of hell will be hurled against him by the liquor forces as he is traveling along his way trying to spread patriotism and righteousness throughout his country. 1 Possibly the gentleman who wrote that article did not understand this. If he had, he would not have written as he did, for the matter is too serious for trifling. "Let him who is without Qin r-nfit thp firt tnnp" at thiw rrmrsi-

His father was in congress for j goclls nlan wno has foum1 himself

and now loves God and country as never 'before. As to plate matter, we have referred it to the American Press Association, nnri thpv claim the nlnte-mutter has

nessee. His home was always in ! kQ ci,;..r.i ic .. , it

Memphis, a pro-liquor city. Mr. Pat- j 800rl) ,et Ut! know and we win again torson was an ardent advocate of the investigate and see what is wrong, liquor element. That means in his NVith ne8t ishes for vour succes,

state, that he was a local optionist. He vetoed the state prohibition bill. His

$85,000 MISSING FROM EASTERN BANK PITTSBURG, Pa., June 20 Eightyfive thousand dollars is missing from one of the Colonial Trust company's safe deposit vaults. Burns detectives, who have kept the details of the robbery secret since June 8, today admitted that they were stumped. The clerical force has been under severe scrutinv but thus far without results.

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i dry officials at Mr. Nicholson's headj quarters? Why was not only this forj eigner, but other foreigners who were ; legal voters, denied the right to vote ; by dry officials? Why were men who ! had been living in Richmond for years, i but known to he wet. challenged by the j score and forced to go to trouble and ! expense to swear their votes in? Why i were dry election officials instructed ! not to accept even affidavits of respon

sible and well known residents of this city? Why were men harassed at the polls hv rtiese drv officials until many

j of them left in disgust without voting? Why was it that in the same precinct ' where the Italian above mentioned was j challenged, every man in line was chalI lenged in the evening .just as the

Who's Who-as a reformer." but who ! snl ruKn ('ame anu merl " in realitv is an official in the National "ereby intimidated into leaving withA nt i Saloon League. 1 am somewhat i m" voting? Why was a member of sururised that Prosecutor K.-IW com-I the fire department, a resident of this

plains first, because Mr. Nicholson j

an affidavit? Is that

to make such

corruption'.' : Coming down to the issue of natur-1 alizing foreigners, it might, prove a ier-j

ine m ill iu llin-nuhaii- inr- ouiuui. . , , ,,, ,u,.i, T.

a prominent dry leader in this respect, ; .. wqc . , . .

would be to the governor.

However, like Saul, Governor Patter

son felt the sting of the liquor serpent and he saw his boy stagger home drunk. Some of the things mentioned in

that article I never heard before although 1 am a newspaper man and have been in politics for years, and

Nature Never Intended Woman to be Sickly

ANENT GRAND JURY CALL. Editor Palladium: With more tnan passing interest I lead the passage-at-arms between Prosecutor Reller and S. Edgar Nicholson, who is listed in this vear's

won't "put up'" the evidence of corruption at the recent local option election which he claims to have in monumental quantities, and second, because Mr. Nicholson "seemingly takes pleasure in the Christian task of maligning" the office and the person of the prosecutor. Prosecutor Keller has not been very observant if he does not know by this time that making wholly untrue assertions regarding alleged crime and cor

ruption, absolutely false statements) about the "proof" of such assertions; whic h he pretends to have, and libel- i ous slander about those who do not accept his views on temperance is the , stock in trade of the average Anti-Sa-i loon official, and of Mr. Nicholson in particular. ; Mr. Nicholson says he wants a grand ,jur investigation of the last local op- '. tion election, but Mr. Nicholson's actions to the contrary speak so loudly, ihat one cannot hear what he says for the noise. The long career of thai Anti-Saloon League official has taught him how to dodge grand jury sessions while appearing to welcome them, and bow to retreat gracefully while he is sounding the tom-toms for a general advance. He is very like William Randolph Hearst, who finds he can make more capital and yell louder by claiming to have been cheated out of an election, than he could by acknowledg- i ing he was defeated by ini honest vote : of all the people. It always appeals to the uplift spirit of such Anti-Saloon League politicians to denounce all their fellow citizens and neighbors as rooks, liars and thugs rather than to admit that they themselves may be in error. If Mr. Nicholson should be granted a grand .jury investigation it would increase the number of hitherto respectable citizens of Wayne county who had succumbed to the corrupting influence of the liquor interests and become an object of Mr. Nicholson's abuse and libel As it is. only Prosecutor Reller and Judge Fox are the objects of Nicholson's tirade. I'.ut in event a grand jury were called and, they could find no proof of corruption, they would be added to the list of undersirable in Nicholson's category. And if they returned indictments and no one were convicted, then the whole machinery of Wayne county's court would be published to the world by Nicholson as being corrupt and venal. Nicholson is bound to wage a campaign of abuse and slander against the morals and the personnel of the community to which he bas so lately come, no matter what happens, so it is up to the prosecutor and the judge as to whether they wish to bear the brunt of it. or prefer to distribute it. Of course, there are many things a grand jurv might investigate with profit to the community. The prosecutor refers to one of them in his pub-t lie letter, in which he says that if he' did his duty he should prosecute the dry election officials who refused to let Carmine Piccirlllo vote, despite the fact he furnished conclusive roof that he was a legal voter. This is the voter Mr. Weed had arrested unlawfully and illegally, and Weed afterwards expressed regret that he made that ' mistake." The election dry official, when asked why he had violated the law, said he had not been given the proper instructions at Mr. Nicholson's headquarters, which lets Mr. Nicholson in. What were the instructions given

city ever since his birth, challenged by a dry official? Why did S. Edgar Nicholson himself go to the Second ward and while there question the right of a tnan to vote whom he had never seen before, and who had been a legal voter in that precinct for over a generation? Why was it when protest was made to the dry officials against their unwarranted, illegal and corrupt practices, after they had been publishing ads for days insisting upon an honest election, that they replied they had been "instructed" to do as they were doing upon the ground Ihat "anything was fair to beat the liquor interests." It might be interesting to hale some of these men before a grand jury and in

quire who it was that gave these in- j , stnietions in "corrupt practices." Why was it. if the drys really want- ' ed to keep only illegal voters from vot-. ing, that they sent us poll book holders and challengers men who were ; strangers to the precinct where they i worked? How could such men know ; the voters of precincts where they had never worked in their life? j Why was it that the dry officials ! challenged men simply because "these men are not on our books?" Who made j up a special set of poll books for the ! drys with the names of wets left off so j that they might be conveniently chal- ; lenger and. if possible, harassed into ' not. voting? ! I'pon the question of corruption, it might be interesting to know why it , was that known election "grafters" and "crooks" who were refused their price by the wet organization were 1 found working in the dry organization. What "sweet persuasion" was used by the dry organization to secure their services and to what uses were they put? Why was it that professional election leeches known to every man who has had anything to do with local ' politics as being so venal they wouldn't put out a fire in their own house un- : less they were slipped a piece of boodle, were so ardently dry on election day and so gloriously drunk the day after0 It would be difficult to prove these men were boodled by citing the actual passage of the money, but it would be very embarrassing for the ; drys to have to produce the man who ! was responsible for their conversion. : If the drys had anybody within their . organization who secured the support j of these men to their cause by the sim- ! ; pie process of logic and appeal to rea- ' son, it. is too bad that man was not

put in charge of their publicity instead of the anonymous Citizens' Committee. It might also throw a ray of light upon the methods of S. Edgar Nicholson to summon his son, Vincent Nicholson, before a grand jury, to explain what the blind boy, whom the drys got to swear to a false affidavit regarding his being given drinks by a dead salon keeper, meant, hen learning the newspapers wouldn't handle this affidavit, he asked Vincent Nicholson. "Well, don't I get my money now for making this affidavit?" Who was in the business of paying this boy

a leader who himself had been indict

ed by a Wayne county grand jury and j had hard work to escape the clutches '. of the law. i Of course, we didn't see any of these things in S. Edgar Nicholson's letter. ; Maybe they constitute a goodly part , of the voluminous evidence he has concoaled on or about his premises, which ;

he won't disclose to the prosecutor, or the judge, or anybody, but which he hopes to make his text for the two years in his endeavor to call another local option election in Richmond. That is all S. Edgar Nicholson wants something to yell about. That is all he wanted just prior to the local option election when he and his publicity coworkers asserted through their ads that they had proof in hand that Richmond's saloon keepers were connected with houses of prostitution, operated wine rooms, were owned by breweries, sold liquor to minors and committed

other violations. Th" cit i?.ens of Rich- j pulpits from the Atlantic to the

mond evidently didn't believe Nichol

son then, because when called upon to produce his proof and given a week in which to do it, he failed. Now, the let-j ter of Prosecutor Reller giving all the' "proof" submitted to him before the; election gives the direct lie to the! claims made by the drys before election. They had nothing upon which to I base a case; nothing which even their

; son saw a light: the Spirit, of God ' touched him, and be was stricken from his sin. Out of the awful condition of : sin be called to God and through the : saving faith in Jesus Christ, was saved. , I This man was healed, cleansed, and f 'is now clothed in his right mind. This! I happened several months ago.. Accotn- j j panied by his pastor in Memphis, who j absolutely voucnes for the genuineness j of his conversion ano sincerity of pur-; pose, he addressed five thousand peo- i ; pie at the Anti-saloon convention in t ; Columbus, Ohio, last November. Last Uecember at Washington, he address-'

f'd the temperance forces from the : steps of the nation's capitol. He admits the thing:, stated above, but only as a man from bis heart can speak to

'say that tie is now trying to redeem; ; the lost time and his misguided ac-1

tions. hince then he has tilled manv

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