Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 298, 26 October 1914 — Page 1

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TO Governor Dismisses Alleged Irregularities by Saying "They Have Happened in Legislatures Since 1867. GRAY DEFENDS WORK Challenges Comparison of Deeds With Campaign Pledges Judge Duncan Praises Administration. A crowd which filled over a third of the seating capacity of the coliseum Saturday night, heard a discussion of the campaign issues from a Democratic standpoint, by Governor Ralston. Congressman Gray and Chair man Duncan of the Indiana Public Utilities commission. Governor Ralston was in very poor voice because of his strenuous speak ing campaign and It was necessary lor him to cancel his meetings at Win .Chester and Union. City, which had seen arranged for Saturday afternoon. He came to Richmond against the ad"Vise of his physician. His voice was o huskr that at times it was diffl oult for the orowd to hear him and some people were inconsiderate enough to leave the building while the chief executive of the state was apoaklng. Qrav Defends Congress. Mr. Gray was the first speaker and be defended the record of the Demo cratic congress and the national ad' ministration. Judge Duncan, who fol lowed him, told of the achievements of the Democratic state aammistra tlon, while Governor Ralston, who spoke briefly, dwelt upon general is sues. It was expected that the governor "would make some reply to the direct : charges of Earl Crawford of this coun ty in reference to the actions of Speaker Cook of the 1913 house of repre sentatives, but this matter was dis missed briefly by the governor who said. "Irregularities have happened in every legislature since 1867." He also declared that the last Republican leg islature had reported a bill as passed which h id never been formally enact ed into a law, which assertion was in reply to the cLarge that the Democrats had been gu.Uy of such action. He said the hue and cry raised over bills alleged to have been illegally passed by the 1913 assembly was unneces sary as they were unconstitutional, hence Ineffective. Charces Panic to Tariff. One assertion made by the gover nor amused those members of his audience who have heard addresses by P. J. Lynch, the Republican can didate for congressman. The governor declared that there had never been a panic in this country except under a high protective system. Mr. Lynch has been informing the voters that there never has been a panic in this country except under a low tariff or free trade Democratic policy. Mr. Gray in opening the meeting, following his introduction by Frank Mason, chairman of the meeting and Democratic candidate for judge of the Wayne circuit court, declared that when he was first elected he gave a written list of principles he would stand for, which was printed in The Palladium, December 17, 1910. He said he had never violated one of these promises. "If I have ever done anything 1 should not do let the. public know about It," he said. He also asserted that, when he voted against Cannonism he was praised by the two Richmond newspapers, which at that lime, he said, had no -candidate of their own. He said he had voted with his party for a downward revision of the tariff, which the Republicans voted against (Continued on Page Eight.) TAKEN JUERMANS List Includes 27 Generals, 5,401 . Officers, Including Many French Leaders. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. BERLIN, Via Amsterdam, Oct. 26. Up' to October 21 the German armies in the eastern and westetn theatres of war had taken 296,869 prisoners of war it was announced today. These included 5,401 officers, of whom 27 were generals. In addition to those enumerated. many more prisoners are on their way to detention camps, and their numbers have not yet been officially compiled. German military men predict that by the end of this month there will be more than 325,000 prisoners of war interned in Germany. List of Prisoners. The prisoners taken up to October 21 are classified in the report aa follows : French Officers, 2,472; privates, 146,897. Russian Officers 2,164; privates, 104,624. Belgian Officers, 647; privates, 31,378. English Officers, 218; privates, 8,669. Of the twenty-seven generals in German fortresses eighteen are Russians, six French and three Belgians. The Vo8sische Zettung states that the Russians have sent eighty thousand reinforcements to Lemberg, and that they are fortifying the city. It is evident that the Russian general staff will make an effort to hold Lemberg at all costs. Most of the Russians had een withdrawn from Lemberg.

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TUCKER CONCEDES ODDS IN ELECTION TO PROFJUSSELL Political Writer Predicts Close Race in District Between Lynch and Progressive Candidate. PROGRESSIVE DATES. Monday Night G. H. Hoelscher, Jacksonburg. Tuesday Noon G. H. Hoelscher, Dille & McGuire factory. Tuesday Night G. H. Hoelscher, Boston. Wednesday Noon Elbert Russell, at Wayne Works. Wednesday Night Hoelscher, Chester and Webster. Thursday Noon Russell, at North Twelfth and E street; Hoelscher at Starr Piano company. Thursday Night Earl Crawford and Hoelscher, Centerville. Friday Night Russell, North Fourteenth and E streets. Saturday Night Crawford and Hoelscher, Cambridge City. . . Robert G. Tucker, Indianapolis political correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer, a strong Democratic paper, in his article appearing in the Sunday issue of that paper, frankly admits there is an excellent chance for the election of Elbert Russell, Progressive candidate for representative in congress from the Sixth district. He positively asserts that the fight in the Sixth district is between Russell and the Republican candidate, P. J. Lynch. He sees no chance for Gray, the Democratic candidate for re-election for a third term, being returned to congress. Russell Has Chance. Tucker's observations are based on first-hand knowledge of political affairs in the state and from information he has received from the state political leaders of all three parties. Referring to the situation in the Sixth district. Tucker says: "In the Sixth district Elbert Russell, the Progressive nominee, is a factor. At Richmond many voters are of the opinion that Russell stands a good chance of being elected to congress. "Beveridge had a tremendous meeting at Richmond, indicating that his party is as strong there as it was two years ago. However, there are reports indicating that it is not as strong In other counties in the Sixth. Russell's strength, while it may be sufficient to land him in front, may prove the undoing of the plans of P. J. Lynch, the Republican nominee. Lynch has made a fine race, and some of the Republicans figure him to win, but the odd are the other way."

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Vote No and Kill Big Subsidy Purtelle Seeks From Township One week from tomorrow the voters of Wayne and Boston townships will have an opportunity to vote on the question of giving Eugene V. Purtelle $110,000.00 for building about 1 miles of traction line through these townships. It has been estimated by experts that the road through Wayne township will cost about $65,000, if these figures are correct and there is every reason to believe that they are, the township will be giving Purtelle $45t000.00 as a present in addition to the cost of the traction line. If you do not want to give this money away vote NO at the coming election. Every man, woman and child in the township will be assessed his or her share of the cost whether a taxpayer or not.

BURY M'CLELLAND IN OLDJjRJHPU.CE Sisters Bring Body of Former Resident to Richmond for Interment. Frank McClelland of Washington, a member of a once prominent family here,' died at his home Saturday night. Ills body has been shipped to this city for burial. The widow, a former Richmond woman and the two sisters accompany the body. The sisters are Mrs. Mary Boardman and Mrs. Ella Clayton, the former being remembered by old residents as the "Goddess of Liberty" seated on an arch built across Fort Wayne avenue in honor of Abraham Lincoln when his body was shipped through Richmond. She is now in the treasury department at Washington. ; The funeral of Mr. McClelland will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2:20 o'clock at the St. Paul's Episcopal church. THISTLEWAITE QUITS JOB AT EASTHAVEN John Thistlethwaite, who was connected with the administration of Easthaven insane asylum for twentytwo and one-half years, haa resigned and is replaced by Bradford Harrison. Mr. Thistlethwaite suffered slightly from rheumatism. He said, however, that his reason for bis resigning was the need for a change of surroundings. He has not gone into other business. Mr. Thistlethwaite was mayor of Richmond and has been an active Democratic worker. His son, Mark Thistlethwaite," is . secretary to Vice-president Marshall and held the same relation to Marshall when ha ws governor of inaiana.

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City Below WEATHER OUTLOOK FROSTS First Snow Falls in Northern MichiganCool Wave Covers West. j Frost is due in Richmond tonight. ;?The weather man has spoken. With a Budden drop in temperature Saturday, which continued Sunday and today,; he can see no other prospect, especially since clouds which covered the sky earlier in the day scattered late in the afternoon. ; FIRST SNOW FLIES. CHICAGO, Oct. 26. A snow squall whirled into' Chicago from the north at noon today.- Fully an inch of snow fell in half an hour, but It all melted on the comparatively warm pavements. The temperature, under a stiff north wind, fell to 43 degrees. Frost is predicted for tonight. The storm was reported as extending for several miles west and south from here. During the morning it snowed heavily in Milwaukee and other Wisconsin points. Northern Michigan was visited by the first snow storm of the year this morning, the temperature dropping trom 70 to SO degrees in less than twelve hours. YOUNG HUSBAND DEAD BY LEASED WIRE GARY, Ind., Oct. 26. Because he couldn't wait a minute until a fast train went by, Michael Yurich, who was married a month ago, was run down and killed at the Broadway

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BEGINS PROBE NTO MURDER After Two Days Body Will Disband Until After Election to Continue Other Law Infractions. TO VISIT BUILDINGS Investigators Will Inspect ' County Property and Al- . leged Election Frauds in Local Option Election. The grand jury which met today to take up the Brown murder case probably will adjourn tomorrow night until after election when a session of some length will be held. By law, one grand jury must investigate the public buildings of the county each year, including the county JaU, infirmary, women's jail and other places which the jury decides on. It Is said, however, that the present Jury will investigate several alleged violations of the law which the previous grand juries failed to take up. The last grand jury was called in January to return an indictment against Donald Nestor for the murder of Richard Cook. This Jury gave no external evidence of having accomplished anything else. Indicts Two Murderers. The same condition existed in the October session of the grand jury in 1913 when indictments were returned against two murderers, one of them Seth Lucas who has never been tried, but is now confined in the Michigan City criminal Insane ward. This Jury investigated one or two small affairs but failed to accomplish anything except the murder indictments. The Jury's business of today and tomorrow is confined strictly to the Brown case as Judge Fox asked that the jury be as brief as possible in disposing of it and that it adjourn until the election is over. The jury can adjourn and meet at any time and any number of tunes until January 1, when the October term of court' ends. Jury Te Probe Frauds. While there has been nothing official said regarding what business the jury may take up in the future, it is body may find rront lor investigation in the charges of the dry campaigners against the wets for alleged election frauds last March. This gained credence from the fact that Judge Fox at the time said that the matter should be allowed to settle before coming to a grand jury in order to discriminate between gossip and facts and between frauds and fancied injuries. No officials have committed themselves on the matter since, however. Other matters which the jury may investigate are kept secret to prevent any "fixing" of witnesses whom the grand jury may need. ViCTIMJ THEFT Robbers Enter Miss Gilbert's Room in Chicago and Steal $1,000. Friends of Miss Helen Gilbert, who lives with her mother at the Westcott hotel, have been informed that during her recent visit with her aunt, Mrs. Worden, at a hotel in Chicago, she was the victim of a daring robbery. A thief gained entrance to her room by climbing onto a porch and then entering a window. When he had about completed his raid Miss Gilbert entered the room and saw the man atand - ing near a window. She coolly asked what was giong on and the man promptly climbed through the window, carrying his loot with him in a suitcase, dropped off the porch and disappeared. Upon investigation Miss Gilbert ascertained that the thief had taken gowns and jewelry valued at over $1,000. The Chicago police have been unable to locate the thief. Miss Gilbert is now visiting friends in Des Moines. TO ATTEND SERVICES r , a i-iv - -r-v Members of the Eden lodge, D. of

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at 7 o'clock to attend the services for Mrs. Eva Gates, 312 Southwest Third street. The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair; cooler tonight with heavy frost; Tuesday fair and cool. TEMPERATURE. Noon 49 Yesterday. Maximum 59 Minimum 41 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Local Fair and continued cool to-' night and Tuesday. Heavy frost tonight General Conditions Today's cloudy weather is due to a storm crossing the Great Lakes. It will be followed by fair weather. Cold weather prevails over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains with no immediate prospect of any warm weather. Unusually hot weather prevails in lower California.

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DI8TRICT. For Congressman. Gray 19,987 Risk 11,242 Jensen 10,797 Brown 1,378 Van Vorhls 2,129 WAYNE COUNTY. For President. Wilson 3,806 Taft 1,851 Chafin 229 Roosevelt 4.457 Debs 1,032 For Governor. Ralston , Durbin . . . Hickman Beveridge Reynolds , 3,397 1,606 207 4,554 940 For Congress. Gray 4,083 Risk , 1,788 Jensen 4,207 Van Vorhls 1,006 For Prosecutor. Allen 3,397 Freeman 2.259 Reller 4,361 For Representative. Krone 3,778 Reynolds 2,034 Judkins 3,995 Peele - 995 For Joint Representative. Crawford 3,683 MaBon 1,932 Clifford 4,068 Buckley 987 For Treasurer. Geisler 3.324 Johnson 2.745 Cbamness 3.906 Ellis 941 For Sherfff. Drischel : 3,402 Steen 2,666 Bayer 3,939 Holiday 927 For Recorder. Kelly 3,693 Pelts 1.960 Parsons 4.182 Richie 978 For Coroner. Busche 3,497 Smelser 2,214 Pierce 4,121 Parkins 978 For Surveyor. Threewitts 3,281 Horton 2,285 Peacock ...... 4,083 Ford 981 For Commissioner. Bertsch 3.498 Groves ........ 2,259 "Doddridge "i . . r v i m i . 4,060 Franzmann 983 (Boren 3,440 'Anderson 4,119 Shennon 975 RUSSELL APPLIES LINCOLN'S APPEAL TO POTS FIGHT Progressive Candidate for Congress Calls on Hesitating Voters to Stand Together for Victory. BY ELBERT RUSSELL "Our cause, then must be entrusted to and conducted by ita own undoubted friends those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for results. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through. 1 u""er i v 7 ,. Did we brave all then to falter now now when that same enemy is wavering, dissered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsel may accelerate or mistakes delay it; but sooner or later victory ia sure to come." The above paragraph from Lincoln's Springfield speech in 1858, fits so exactly the present situation In the Progressive party that it is only necessary to change "Republican" to "Progressive" and "thirteen hundred thousand'' to "four millions" to make it i cau lint; can c v- w & a wiu est a vcov.ii aaa l1., . T,.,Arra cling to an organization that has long since forsaken Lincoln's principles is not to follow Lincoln today. In 1S58 as in 1914, old party leaders professed a tardy interest in measures they had discussed and asked the voters to trust them to lead the new movement. Lincoln's reply is as good today as in 1858. "Our cause must be entrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends." To the suggestion that the Progressives go back to the old parties now, Lincoln's reply is spirited: "Did we brave all them only to falter now?" To wavering Republicans in 1858 and to wavering Progressives now Lincoln has but one word: "The result is not doubtful. If we stand firm, we shall not fall. Wise counsel may accelerate or mistakes delay It, but sooner or later the victory is sure to come." The true followers of Lincoln are not to be found in the dead shell of an organization he once led, but which has long since lost his spirit; nor are they the leaders who delight to honor him and his contemporaries with their lips, while with their hands they deny the principles of liberty and national power and government by the people, for which he braved calumny and forook the party of big youth.

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GAIN ON YSER TAKING CITIES Heavy Artillery, Moved Across River, Furiously Shell Defensive Works From Menin to Nieuport. EXPEDITION CHECKED Hidden Batteries of Big: Howitzers Carry on Fighting in District East of Meuse River. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. PARIS, Oct. 26. Following up the advantage they gained by breaking through the Belgian lines along the Yser in northwestern Belgium, and forcing a passage of that stream between Dixmude and Nieuport, the Germans has concentrated a series of vigorous attacks there, and the trenches of the Belgians have been under continuous artillery fire since Saturday morning. This was the first decided step gained by the Germans since they took the offensive against the allies in the northern sphere of operations. After tremendous difficulties the invaders succeeded in getting heavy artillery to the new front, and the bombardment of the defensive works from Nenin, on the border, to Nieuport on the North Sea. has been carried with the utmost violence. Fleet Sheila Position. Day and night fighting is going on around Lille and Arras, and farther north the Franco-British fleet is shelling the coast at every point where the Germans are within range of the naval guns. Along the western section of the center the French and British have been making severe counter attacks to divert the attention of the Germans to the extreme north. Northwest of Solssons the British gained a slight advantage. The German trenches were in such a condition from long occupancy that they could not be used by the English. In the district east of the Meuse, betwen Etaln and Toul the infantry has been used to hold the intrenched front during the past week, while the actual fighting has been carried on by hidden batteries of nowttsers. Check .Expedition. Considering the operations over. the entire western theatre of hostilities, the success seems about evenly divided in this great conflict, which haa been raging since September 12. A week ago the French war office claimed that the English Channel expedition had been decidedly checked; now the Germans claim that the northern flank movement of the allies' left wing haa been checked in its operations. The damage being inflicted by the war in northeastern France and northwestern Belgium is incalculable. Osten, Westend, Nieuport and other cities on the coast have been severely damaged by artillery fire. Nieuport and Westend are reported to be on fire. FRIENDLESS HOME TO SERVE DINNER FOR RURAL GIVERS! Matron and Beard of Managers Hope to Induce Many to Remember Institution Tuesday. All preparations to entertain country : folks who bring donations to the Home ! for Friendless Women have been completed by the matron, Mrs. Aurelia Thomas, and members of the ladies beard of trustees who are hoping for bright weather tomorrow to encourage outsiders to come in. The donations from citizens of Richmond will be larger this year if it is possible for the trustees to make them larger, as the annual donation day has ' been well advertised, and many persons have been asked to help in some way. Donations from this source have not been encouraging in previous years. Those who come from the country will be served a free dinner tomorrow at the home. Visitors will be permitted to inspect the home building and the jail, which are always kept in condition for inspection at any time. A few donations were received today by Mrs. Thomas. As is customary with the home's annual donation day, many givers are unknown persons, who are secretly grateful for some help or kindness of the institution. RALSTON TESTIFIES BEFOREJM PROBE Governor Tells Grand Jury What He Knows About Alleged Bill Juggling. INDIANAPOLIS. Oct 26. Governor Ralston was a witness before the Marion county grand jury today, when it resumed investigation of the bill joggling in the last legislature. The governor arrived at the grand jury rooms some time before it went into session, and was the first witness of the day. The jury's final report ia not expected oatu after election.