Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 294, 21 October 1914 — Page 1

RICHMOWB UM 'OL. XXXIX. NO. 294 S:"rtAndi.sou7n-Teleeram RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1914, SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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MONEY TO AID Club Federation Asks Societies to Leave Lunches Off Programs and Use Money for Relief. Place mite boxes Organizations Hope to Raise Neat Sum for Wives and Children Robbed of Family's Head. Elimination of refreshments at (meetings of literary clubs and donation of the money thus expended to alleviate the suffering of the women and children in the European countries tow at war, was one of the suggestions at the executive board meeting of the Richmond Women's Federation of Clubs yesterday. Pursuant to an appeal of the National D. A. It. for funds to help the war refugees, the Women's Federation, Working in conjunction with the local chapter of the D. A. R., hopes to loosen the purse strings of Richmond citizens and to send a substantial offering to help the defenseless in warworn countries. To Use Mite Boxes. To obtain funds without interfering with the program of the Central Charity bureau, the Federation will place tnite boxes in stores and small shops. A placard will announce the reason for the appeal. Mrs. E. F. Hiatt was fcamed chairman of the committee to Jilace the boxes and Mrs. George Chrisftnan was made treasurer. Citizens are urged to drop small change in the boxes. The Federation emphasizes that the money is intended for the foreign Red Cross society, tut will not be diverted for the care of the wounded and dying on the battlefield. The money Is intended for the wives and children, widows and orphans of the soldiers engaged In the titanic struggle. "The ones behind" are to receive Christmas cheer from the donation whlch the Federation is asking. The Federation hopes to be able to fend the first contribution so it will reach Its European destination In time to be used on Christmas day. The fcoxes will be in the stores all winter. Ban on Luncheons. The suggestion that refreshments be eliminated at meetings of clubs will be carried to all literary clubs of the city, and it Is confidently expected that luncheons will be "poor form" so long rs the mite boxes with the Red Cross appeal mutely proclaim that thousands of women and children are hungry in iar off lands. The Federation Is addressing the Suggestion to all card clubs to follow the example of the literary organizations. There are scores of card clubs that meet weekly, and leaders of the movement believe the co-operation of these clubs, with the attending remittance of the estimated cost of the emitted refreshments will swell appreciably the relief money raised in Richmond. BIBLE CLASSES WIN HONOR ROLL PLACE Richmond "Y" Finishes Fourth in Diplomas Given to Students of Scripture. 1 That the Richmond Y. M. C. A. Boys' department has been the recipient of Jiigh honors in the efficiency recognition rolls of the International Bible Study Examinations will be shown in pi report to be read at the annual boys' (banquet at the "Y" tonight. The report shows that Richmond is peventh in the United States among tossoolations having the highest proportion of members winning Bible tudy certificates, with a percentage of 8.5. In the Ail-American Roll, Richmond is fourth among ten associations winning 107, the largest number tof Bible study examination certificates. Of the ten North American Associations winning the largest numfber of certificates in Bible study examinations, Richmond is sixth. The program at the banquet this evening is as follows: Invocation, Rev. E. G. Howard; address, E. A. ;Mead, Dayton; presentation of diplojmas, F. O. Plokell; announcements of classes, J. J. Somervllle; short talks, Mr. Learner and the Rev. Mr. Cutter; presentation of medals, A. M. Roach. The Weather FOR INDIANA Unsettled tonight and Thursdays Temperature. i Yssterdsy. (Maximum 75 pflalmom 48 W. E. MOORF8 FORECAST. LOCAL- Fair tonight. Thursday unsettled. Continued mild. r GENERAL. CONDITIONS Pair reather prevails over most of the Jnited States, except in the northwest, lere rain Is setting in. warm weathr exists out of the Mississippi and is ? acted to continue tor the next 36

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George Bakhemetoff, Russian ambassador to the United States, who declares that so deep is the prejudice in this country against Russia and the Russians, that Americans can not properly understand in the present war. Russia. Russia, e Bays, ngnts to shield a weaker state from a powerful aggressor. Patriots. Chauvinists of the other beligerants, he says, have uniKenuy mresned out for Americans all that can be said for thir tive countries, while Russia alone sianas undetended. LULL IN BATTLE MARKS STATUS AT m FRONT Both Paris and Berlin See No Change in General Situation in Franco-Belgian Arena. BY LEASED WIRE. BERLIN by wireless via Sayville, N. Y., Oct. 21 There is no change of Importance in the positions of the troops in the Franco-Belgian theater of hostilities, it was officially announced by the war office today. The imperial government states that formal protest has been sent to France and to neutral nations against alleged violations of the rules of the Geneva convention by French. It is charged that both non-combatants and soldiers in the French army were guilty of acts of cruelty against the Germans. REPULSE ATTACKS. PARIS, Oct. 21.- Attacks by Germans on the allies along the FrancoBelgian front are in campaign with violence, have all been repulsed, according to the official French statement issued here this afternoon. The fierceness of the German attacks is attributed to the arrival of troops who have reinforced their forces in the effort to reach the French coast ports. OPEN DEPOSIT BOX Arrangements were made with the Dickinson Trust company and the Second National bank to open the deposit boxes of the late Thomas J. Study after banking hours today in the presence of Mrs. Study and her son Richard, the administrators of the estate, the attorneys, bankers and the county treasurer. It is said that Mr. Study did not have as much in the deposit boxes as many persons believed. Real estate and personal loans represented a large part of his estate. Those who will open the boxes expected to work until 5 o'clock taking the inventory and collecting the securities and other papers in the boxesSMITH RECOVERS FROM LONG FALL Robert Smith, the young man who drove the automobile wrecked on the Main street bridge Saturday night, was able today to take a short walk at the hospital, although he fell fiftyfive feet into the river valley when hurled over the hood of the machine. When he has fully recovered from his injuries, an affidavit charging him with exceeding the speed limit last Saturday night may be filed against him. BROTHERHOOD ELECTS At a special meeting of the Earlham Heights Brotherhood held at the church last night, the following officers were elected: George W. Sheppard, president; W. D. Richardson, vice president; Warren A. Austin, secretary and treasurer. Plans for the fall and winter were discussed, and the next meeting was set for Monday, November 2.

RUSSELL WINS INSTANT FAVOR IN HOME CITY

Candidate for Representative Appeals Strongly to Voters of Richmond With Masterful Address. Councilman Praises Beveridge and Discusses National Issues of the Campaign Without Personal Attacks. Elbert Russell, the young Richmond educator who entered politics because he believed there was a demand for young men to take more interest in the affairs of government and was then by a large vote elected a member of the Richmond city council, made his first public appearance in his home city last night as the Progressive candidate for representative in congress fro mthe sixth district. He spoke at the coliseum preceding the address delivered by Mr. Beveridge and was given a splendid welcome by the crowd. They soon realized, after he had been talking a few minutes, why the Democratic district leaders have been sending S. O. S. calls to Washington for Representative Finly H. Gray to get back home and on the job without further waste of time. He made a direct and instantaneous appeal to the immense audience and he was vigorously applauded throughout bis address. Mr. Russell has much personal magnetism and is an eloquent speaker. As is his custom he ignored personalities completely but dealt with public questions in a masterful manner, showing that he has been a keen student of the questions discussed by him. Mr. Russell lauded Mr. Beveridge and urged his election to the United States senate. He said the spirit of independent citizenship, which was one of the glories of this state, would express itself on November 3 and would give back to the national government the services of one of America's greatest statesmen and thinkers, Albert J. Beveridge. SOUTH SIDE STARTS BEALLVIEW STATION Work begun this afternoon on the waiting station for the South Eighth street car line between South M and N streets, under direction of a committee of the South Side Improvement Association. This committee consisting of B. A. Kennepohl, Fred Hackman and Hans Koll, appeared before the county commissioners Saturday and petitioned for a waiting station in Beallview. The petition was granted. The association last night decided to have the structure erected at once. The building will be of concrete blocks with a cement floor. Late War (Top). A shell from one erian armored motor auto with

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BEVERIDGE ASKS VOTERS TO END REIGN OF BOSS Progressive Nominee for the Senate Speaks to Large Crowds at Fountain City and Lynn. FOUNTAIN CITY, Oct. 21. Albert J. Beveridge, Progressive candidate for United States senator, spoke here this morning at 9 o'clock before the high school to 300 people. - He urged the voters to end the days of boss mis-rule by electing the Progressives who have promised to pass those boss destroying measures, the initiative, referendum and recall. He also urged the voters to vote for the Progressives and permanent and steady, prosperity by taking the tariff out of partisan politics and no longer submit to unhealthy business "boomB" under Republican robber tariffs and consequent business "depressions" under Democratic unjust and low tariffs. VOTERS PACK LYNN. Five Hundred Enthusiasts Greet A. J. Beveridge. LYNN. Ind.. Oct. 21. Five hundred voters packed the principal corner of Lynn this morning at ten o'clock to hear Albert J. Beveridge expound the Progressive doctrines and denounce the boss rule of the two old parties. The crowd enthusiastically applauded his demands for the overthrow of the rotten boss system through the enactment of the initiative, referendum and recall, all measures advocated by the Progressives, as well as assuring permanent and steady prosperity rather than the ups and downs the country has suffered from under a permanent, non-partisan tariff commission. The crowd laughed with Senator Beveridge at the claims of snow white purity now claimed by the Severin hotel ring of standpat politicians who control the Republican party in this state. "Why only this morning," stated the senator, "I read that taht angle of political and party purity, Jim Watson, was to be put on the stump in Indiana in a last attempt to stem the tide that is steadily overwhelming the old standpat machine."

MATROyUITS HOWIE Mrs. Surface Retires From Smith Institution. At a social given mher honor yesterday by the board of women managers, Mrs. Sarah Surface, matron of the Margaret Smith Home for Aged Women at Seventeenth and Main streets announced her resignation. Mrs. Jethro Dennis of this city has appointed to succeed her. Mrs. Surface is regarded by the board as one of the most efficient matrons the home has had. She would have completed her seventh year fn February. She Is well liked by the women in the home of which there are twelve. She gave her cause of retirement as ill-health. Mrs. Dennis will assume charge November 1.

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Wife of , Morris Walker's Slayer Tried to End Life With Blade Before Police Arrived. Mrs. Brown Professes Forgetf ulness When Questioned of Details Before Husband Killed Intruder. A safety razor prevented the 'Morris Walker murder from being a double tragedy. Mrs. Brown, wife of the murderer, Joseph Brown, is alive today probably only because her husband uses a safety razor to shave. After the shooting she was seen by her husband hacking at her throat with the protected blade. She inflicted one long gash when Brown prevented her from removing the blade and finishing the story. Mrs. Brown will exhibit a lapse of memory when she is brought before the grand jury to tell her story of the shooting, she said today. However, Bhe believes her husband "was perfectly justified if he thought Morris tried to molest me." Memory Turns Blank. "Some things are a complete blank to me," Mrs. Brown continued, not entirely self-composed. "I did not know the Mr. Brown or Morris were in the room. I was standing before the mirror taking off my corset when I heard a shot and saw Mr. Brown rush at Morris." Mrs. Brown is occupying a clean white cell supplied with magazines by the matron of the Home for Friendless Women. Mrs. Thomas, the matron, frequently sits with her in order to divert her thoughts and prevent her from becoming hysterical. She Is the only woman in the jail who is not either insane or an epileptic, and can not find companionship. "I don't know what I would do If Mrs. Thomas did not stay with me," Mrs. Brown said. "She's been such a dear to me." Will Defend Honor. Mrs. Brown now has a settled story of the affair which she will tell on the witness stand. She says she will protect her honor, because she had done nothing wrong and there was no evil in her mind. She did not comment on her husband's possible fate. "Before God, I believe he rushed at Morris first," Mrs. Brown said. Mrs. Brown did not say anything of the reflections which have been cast against her because of her previous meeting with Walker, but she admitted he was a frequent visitor and that she treated him well, because he was a relative of the family. "Mr. Brown wasn't expected home until Tuesday," Mrs. Brown said, "but there was nothing in that connected with Morris being in the flat. I met Morris on Ninth street and he asked me if the children had gone to the Halloween party, and said he wanted (Continued on Last Page.)

RECORD CROWD CHEERS BEVERIDGE FOR BATTLE WITH PARTY MACHINES Sympathetic Hearers From All Parts of County Give Greatest Ovation to Candidate For U. S. Senate GIVES PERMANENT PROSPERITY CALL

Progressive Nominee Urges of Elbert Russell as One of

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Thirty years ago, during the Blaine campaign, Albert J. Beveridge poke in Wayne county for the first time, and since that time he has been a frequent visitor to Richmond, and always a popular one, but never did he receive such an enthusiastic greeting as last night when he spoke at the Coliseum as the Progressive candidate for United State senator. The big building, which can accommodate about three thousand people was packed from the rear end of the stage to the galleries, and at twenty minutes to eight It was necessary for the doorkeeper to refuse admission to a large number of disappointed people. GREAT CROWD ATTENDS. With a thoroughly sympathetic and interested crowd to speak to, typical of the audiences which have been greeting him all over Indiana during his remarkable fight for the people to overthrow the corrupt macines of the two old parties, Mr. Beveridge was at his best and hundreds of people in the audience left at the conclusion of the address declaring it to have been the best they ever listened to.

With consummate skill Mr. Beveridge dissected the misrepresentative government that gang rule has inflicted on the American people through their tolerance, and his ringing call to the colors to battle for the restoration of popular government, and the establishment of permanent prosperity by the removal of the tariff from politics, brought forth such demonstrations as are seldom witnessed in this city. Enthusiastic men and women made the Coliseum ring with applause when the master orator called them to their countries service. People from every section of the county attended the meeting, and there were also delegations from neighboring counties. One of - -the most interested members of the big crowd was Mrs. Beveridge, who came to Richmond from Indianapolis with her friend, Mrs. Eli Lilly. They occupied a box. Many Veterans Attend. About two hundred veterans of the civil war were seated on the stage, and when Mr. Beveridge remarked that they were again responding to their country's call with the same spirit they showed in '61 they were given an ovation. Interest was added to the meeting by the singing of a large delegation of Earlham students, who are first voters, and their enthusiastic cheering for Beveridge and Elbert Russell, Progressive candidate for Representative in congress from tne sixtn district. j Many members of the Women's Franj chise League attended the meeting and distributed posters urging the voters to vote for the calling of a consti tutional convention. Russell Makes a Hit. Mr. Beveridge. popular as he Is, was farm from being the whole attraction. He divided honors of the evening with Mr. Russell, who delivered his first political address of the campaign in his home city, and he was given a tumultous greeting. Mr. Russell is an eloquent and convincing speaker, and he made a most favorable impression on his audience. Senator Beveridge took occasion to most fervently urge the election of Mr. Russell. He described him as a type of the young man in politics which the country stands most directly in need of. He said in all his public career he had never met a man any better equipped for the position he aspires to, and he has never met more than six or eight who were his equals in qualifications for a congressman. "If you don't don't me to represent you in the senate, or if your can not vote for other candidates on the Progressive ticket, for God's sake, men, send this brilliant, able man to represent you in the house of representa tives," concluded Mr. Beveridge in his tribute to Russell. "Redeem the honor of the Old Burnt district. At one time this district was represented by men who were the greatest in the councils of the nations. Lately you have been sending only professional job-hunters Gray and other persons!" Tells of Nation's Needs. In his address Mr. Beveridge frankly told of the nation's ills and told of the remedies offered by the Progressive party, demanded by the people, and ignored by the two old parties. What the American people needed and wanted, he said, were: Permanent prosperity. Tariff reform by the removal of the tariff from politics. Less Partisanship and more business-like methods in the selection of public servants. "Friends. I haven't got as much of a voice as I had at the beginning of this campaign, but I ve got more votes, began Mr. Beveridge after he had been introduced by the chairman of the meeting, Gus Hoelscher, candidate for representative from Wayne county. "We are going to win this fight You can figure it out on a piece of paper. We got most of the better Republicans two years ago, and this year we are going to get the bulk of the best Democratic vote and most of what is left of the better element in the Republican party. Possibly we will win by 100,000 plurality. We can't get less than 50,000 plurality. Lauds Old Soldiers. He then praised the old soldiers who were sitting close to him. "They have been most conspicuous In every audi-J

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For Job in State ence I have addressed. Why? Because they are responding to their country's call to duty once more. They are fighting once more for the preservation of the popular government for the principles of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. "You Democrats can not vote for the principles of Jefferson by voting for the Crawford Fairbanks-Tom Taggart machine! You Republicans can not vote for the principles of Lincoln if you support the gang which still controls your party in this state and nation." Mr. Beveridge then spoke on the question he is so deeply interested in the freedom of the child slaves who toil their lives away for certain unscrupulous American business interests. He said the greatest war of all ages was now raging in Europe, but. he added, the dead on any battlefield there, no matter how sanguinary the conflict, did not equal the number of children killed in this country every year by the industries whose slaves they are. Pleads for Child Slaves. "Even Russia has stopped this slaughter of children, but we permit the evil to exist," shouted the speaker, "and I want to tell you that these corporations who grind out the lives of little ones are among the heaviest conj tributors to the campaign funds of the j two old parties. That is the reason why this damning shame is tolerated. I uui now long are you, ir. orKingman, going to stand for it? ' "When you go to the polls polls and vote the socalled Republican ticket and the so-called Democratic ticket you are voting for the continuance of the slaughter of these children. If you vote for Russell and for me, you will be ! voting to stamp out this terrible evil. j I vowed eight years ago that I would never rest until these child slaves ! have been freed, and I will never i cease my fight in their behalf until the end of their bondage has been written into the statutes of the land." Mr. Beveridge then turned his attention to the fight now raging for the restoration of popular and representative government. To obtain it, he said, political machines and party bosses must be exterminated, and he said the method of their extermination was provided by the Progressive party in the initiative, referendum and recall. "This has restored the government" to the people in ten American states, he said, 'and has been in successful operation in one of the best governed nations of the world Switzerland. Wherever the initiative, referendum and recall have been used not a bad! law has been passed, political machines have been destroyed, bosses, have ceased to exist and corrupt lob-, bylsts have been driven out of the leg-; islative halls." Favors Votes for Women. Referring to "votes for women," MrN Beveridge bluntly stated he had been ini favor of granting women suffrage since , he was a young man, and that it was. advocated by his father and mother j before him. "A friend of mine recently remarked to me that he wasi 'afraid of petticoat government," and I told him that any man afraid of thiai kind of government stood in dire need of it." said Mr. Beveridge. and the big crowd laughed heartily. It was his discussion of the tariff! quests that the crowd took the most! interest in. After explaining the social and gov-, ernmental reforms written Into th Progressive platform, which has been, translated into every tongue and declared by every student the world over' to be one of the greatest documents; for the safeguarding of human rights ( ever written. Mr. Beveridge said that Itj scientifically provided for a perma-j nent and healthy Industrial prosperity.! What the Tariff Means. "Why is ours the only government; where there never is a steady, healthy, business condition? he asked. "Why is ours the only country wnere workmen can be suddenly thrown out. of employment? "If the United State was populated, as densely as Germany or Franoe we would have a billion people. Bat we. have only 100,009,000. 8o with onr com-: paratlvely small number sad onr great Continue o Last JPaga.)

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