Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 302, 30 October 1914 — Page 1

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THE AIXABHJM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 302 ?jg!&1Sif?rT'lTmm RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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ENRAGED ESCORT SLAYS RELATIVE FOR EJECTING WOMAN FROM HIS HOME

J. GREEN FILLS ULYSSES CLARK WITHJIRD SHOT Telephone Employe Dies Three Hours Later at Hospital Fleeing Slayer Runs Into Patrolman's Arms. GREEN RENTS GUN Returns to Apartment After Deceased Ordered Mrs. Laura Barnard to LeaveSwears Vengeance. Ulysses Clark, aged 45, teamster for me Kicnmona Home Teiepnone com- j pany, was shot in the stomach with a charge of bird Bhot from a shotgun, fired at him by his brother-in-law, James Green, about 7:30 last night. He died three hours later at Reld hospital. The shooting occurred at the Clark flat, over &YZ South Tenth street while Clark was standing on the back porch. Green attempted to escape but was apprehended while running south along the alley which borders the Clark home. He almost ran into the arms of Officer Welrhake, who had been attracted to the Bcene by the two discharges of the shotgun, which Green was carrying when captured I shot him all right," Green exclaim-

ed exultantly when arrested. Wier-1 ship, the grand total of public subeihake says. Green Is about 40 years $ies aSked by Eugene V. Purtelle for

lce foundry. He has been married ; twice but, it Is understood, is not liv lng with his second wife. He has been boarding with the Clarks. Green says he killed Clark in self defense. Mrs. Clark Denies Story. He says his brother-in-law attacked

him with his knife and that he was j is signed by thirty-four residents. Abcompelled to shoot him. This asser- Abner Bond heads the list, followed

tion is denied by Mrs. Clark. She says that Green once attempted to get into the flat, after his ejectment, to attack her husband with a knife, and then came back a second time with a shotgun and that her husband was ordering him away from the place when Green flredon him. 1 . . T Shortly hf-rf the crime was committed, vlll R. Hall, 224 South Ninth street, who had been employed with Green at the Reliance foundry, met him at the corner of Eighth and Main streets. Green was carrying a shotgun. "Where are you going?" Hall asked him. "I'm going to shoot a man," Green replied, Hall says. Hall paid he did not talk as though he was joking, so Hall said to him: "You are not going to do anything like that. It would get you in the penitentiary." Hall said that Green answered him: "Come along with me and I'll show you I am going to shoot a man." Green then walked away. Hall said he reported the matter to the traffic officer who remarked, "Oh, I expect he was joking with you." Has Good Word for Green. "I don't believe Green intended to kill Clark," Hall said today. "I think he merely wanted to cripple him up a little. I worked with Green some time and he always appeared to be a nice, cheerful, quiet sort of a fellow, and he would give a friend his last nickle." This was the second murder in Richmond within ten days tfme. On the night of October 19 Joseph H. Brown Bhot and killed Morris Walker, whom he found at his home in company with Mrs. Brown while she was in the act of disrobing. The grand jury refused to indict Brown and he was released last Wednesday. The trouble last night started over a woman, Mrs. Laura Barnard, wife of Austin Barnard, a painter, 300 South Ninth street, who Green brought to the apartments with him, early in the evening while the Clarks were at the supper table. Mrs. Clark says that both Green and the woman were intoxicated and her husband ordered them to leave, which they refused to do. Clark Ejects Woman. According to the information secured by Prosecutor Heller, Clark forcibly ejected Mrs. Barnard, sending her down the back stairway leading Into the yard. This action, it is said, greatly Incensed Green, who is said to have turned to his brother-in-law exclaiming, "You I'll get you before midnight," then left the flat. Mrs. Clark says her brother later returned to the flat carrying a knife in his hand and attempted to get in the back door. Failing to do this he left a second time and about 7:30 o'clock returned once more, this time with a shotgun. It has been learned by the police that Green rented this shotgun from a Main street hardware company shortly after 7 o'clock, which evidence the prosecution will use to prove their contention that Green's crime was premeditated, and to refute his plea of self defense. Hears Green Coming. After Green had left the flat the second time Mrs. Clark, very uneasy, took a seat close to the back door, so she heard him as soon as he began to ascend the back stairway with the shotgun. Mrs. Clark opened the back door and pleaded with her brother to go away. He replied to her angrily, it Is said, and continued climbing the stairs. Clark then came to the door, the authorities are informed, and demanded that Green depart instantly. Green by thiB time was half way up the stairway. "If you- move another step I'll shoot you," Green yelled at his brother-in-law, it is said. Mrs. Clark then apprehensive that a tragedy was to be enacted placed her XPoail&utd on Last Page.),

PURTELLE ADDS ONE MORE PLEA FOR COUNTY AID Subsidies Asked by Traction Promoter in Three Coun

ties Reach Grand Total of $440,000. ASKS CLAY TO HELP Latest Petition Promises Construction of Road to Connect Richmond With New Castle. PURTELLE SUBSIDIES. TTnion ronntv 125.000 Jennings township, Fayette county 75,000 Connersvllle township, Fayettecounty 85,000 Boston township, Wayne county 10,000 Wayne township, Wayne county 100,000 Franklin township, Wayne county 10,000 New Garden township, Wayne county 20,000; Clay township, Wayne County 15,000 J 1 Total $440,000 1 With the addition of another petitlon asking 15.000 from Clay townhis faction plans has reached 440.000. The new plan is a road to New Castle, running northwest from Richmond, taking in Greensfork, Hagerstown and other towns along the Pennsylvania railroad. The Clay township petition by William Roller, Dr. Neff, G. M. Smith, W. L. Hatfield, John Martindale, Dr. Crump and others. The last three petitions filed, those from Franklin, New Garden and Clay townships do not ask for elections, but ask that appropriations be made from the township treasuries on the same terms as the Wayne and Boston township petitions. The county commissioners were asked to grant this right. These petitions will be acted on together. It is said another is forthcoming from Jefferson township. The action of the commissioners will be delayed until this petition is filed. POLICE MEDIATE IN HORSE TRADE An alleged crooked horse deal brought John Beach into police court today on the affidavit of Will Rich, a liveryman. It was said the horse Beach sold Rich was not ordinarily as lively and energetic as it was on inspection before the sale and that this unusual condition was brought on by some previous treatment by the formerowner. The police did not hold Beach but attempted to effect a settlement of the difficulty. SONS OF PRESIDENT FIGHT WITH ARMY Claude Casimir-Perier, one of the many sons of former presidents of France who are now in the field with the French armies fighting against Germany. Among the other soldiersons of ex-presidents are Marquis de McMahon, Duke of Maghenta, who is a brigadier at Belfort; Count de McMahon, who is a colonel; Major Sadi Carmot, who is on duty in a fort near Montmorency; Paul Loubet, who is a lieutenant of infantry garrisoned at Verdun, and Andre Fallleres, who is attached to the ministry of war,

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Attempt to Expel Churchill as Head of British Admiralty

WINSTON CHURCHILL. The Morning Post of London Is leading an attack that is being made by his enemies on Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, with a view, it appears, to drive him from the ministry. The futile attempt to relieve Antwerp and the subsequent interning of two thousand marines and naval reserves in Holland is being made the basis of the attack. It is declared that Mr. Churchill made a costly blunder in sending so small a force and that he acted contrary to the wishes of Lord Kitchener and Sir John French. It is declared that he went beyond his constitutional powers and that his order resulted in disaster.

PERMANENT PROSPERITY FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE

Albert J. Beveridge, Progressive Candidate for United States Senate, Outlines Steps in Saturday Evening Post to Make Prosperity Normal Decries Efforts of Politicians to Settle Momentous Problem Sees Tariff Solution in Nonpartisan Commission, as Advocated by Progressives.

"Permanent Prosperity" is the subject of an article in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, by Albert J. Beveridge. In part it follows: Why do we not have permanent prosperity in this country? There is every natural reason why we should have it, and not one natural j reason why we should not have it. j Every day we hear of the great ma- j terial prosperity ine present worm-war will bring us. With the factories of other nations shut down, our own manufacturers will have our market quite to themselves. With the fields of other nations trodden down by the feet of millions of soldiers, and with no one to gather even this year's harvest except women, children and graybeards, the American farmer not only must feed our own nation but also must soon furnish food to a world in arms. And when the cannon cease to thunder it will be long before the mills of rival countries can start up; long before foreign manufacturers can reor- I ; ganize their shattered industrial for- j ices; long before they can even begin :

to recapture their foreign trade; long clear understanding of . the whole subbefore any financial, industrial and ject there are two causes that should :

commercial readjustment can be brought about that will make them distributing factors in this new bloodnourished prosperity so sure to be ours. Dubious Advice. Thus runs the tale we are told; and, though we are adjured to lament this . tragedy of the nations and to pray for its ending, nevertheless we are advised to make the most of the situation and to fill our pockets while we can, and as full as we can. Not one word, however, do we hear about taking steps to make our prosperity normal; not a syllable about making that normal prosperity permanent. Yet these are the two really big questions of a purely material nature we ought to settle and must settle. These questions were with us before the war began and will be with us after the war ends. Indeed, they have been with us for a great many years, and we have deliberately turned our faces from them. Instead of taking them up and settling them according to the best economic thought of our own and other countries, we have let partisan politics and partisan politicians handle our business laws as though such statues were mere pawns in the political game. In every campaign we have listened to the bally-hoo men of political parties trying to outcry one another in get-prosperous-quick promises. We have had such bad luck because of this that, at last, we were beginning to get down to hard, sound thinking on the subject of our business laws, which so greatly help or hurt healthy and steady prosperity. , Natural Resources. Without any foreign war, and purely from our natural advantages, handled In a common-sense manner, we ought to have a much greater pros-

perlty in the United States than we ever have had. We are much richer In fertile fields, in lumber-producing forests, in all kinds of minerals, and, indeed, in all the sources of natural wealth, than all the countries of Europe put together.

Compared with their crowded populations, the United States is very thiny peopled. We should have more than a billion people in this country j ; if our population were as dense as i that of most of the nations now at ; war; but we have fewer than one hun- ; dred million. What, then, is the matter? The mat- : ter chiefly Is the senseless, ignorant j and unbusinesslike way our business laws are made and changed. Fifty j years from now the economic histori ian of the prenent period will find it , hard to explain why we allowed parj tison politicians to make our business laws more pawns in the game of parI tisan politics. Yet that is just what we have dona and are doing. There are several interesting reasons tor tn,s curious national phenomenon, an j analysis of which the limits of this I article forbid; but, for the sake of a be mentioned: First, the partisan habit of mind : that discourages indeed prevents I any real thinking on any subject with : which political parties are supposed ; to deal. We see this in the familiar ' partisan expression: "1 always have voted the Democratic ticket and al ways shall!" Or: "The Republican party is good enough for me!" Or: "Stand by the party of Jefferson!" Or: "Rally to the party of Abraham Lincoln!" and other such meaningless catchwords and phrases. Bosses Rule. Thus the few men who control the party machinery and really decide what shall be done under the party name can count on millions of voters supporting anything they do not because it is right or wrong, wise or foolish, but merely because the party does it. . The second reason is our passion for sudden change and quick results. We want relief from an unjust law; and there are enough of us who break away from the party which passed that law to give the other party power to repeal it and quickly pass a new law even more harmful. Whereupon, again to get relief, we swing back to the party that passed the first unjust law without considering for a moment that ' the methods by which both laws were passed were the very same methods, and were thoroughly unsound without considering that we shall soon again swing back to the present depressed conditions of the country. Take the tariff, for example. Five years ago we allowed a group of politicians who then 'and now control the Republican party to jam through Con gress a tartir law tnat was extortionate generally, and prohibitive In parts,

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RUSSIANS LOUD IN ENTHUSIASM FOR TURK WAR Crowds in Petrograd Parade and Cheer Envoys of Allied Nations in Wild Demonstrations.

DENOUNCE SULTAN Czar's Subjects Claim Turkish Ruler Sold Out to Germans, Who Need Help in Europe. BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY, Staff Correspondent Representing the International News Service. PETROGRAD, Oct. 30. Announce ment by the press that Turkey had begun war on Russia caused a tremen dous sensation here. It resulted in an enthusiastic outburst that lasted throughout the night. Thousands of Russians paraded through the streets to the embassies of the allied powers and cheered for the envoys, who ap-j peared on the balconies and made speeches to the crowds. The crowds made a demonstration before the English embassy early to day, but a heavy guard Mas stationed about the building, and no violence was attempted. Surprise Turkish Charge. Farrat Effendi Bey, the Turkish Charge-De-Affaires in Petrograd, was dining, when news was taken to him that Turkish warships had attacked Russian ports. He was apparently greatly surprised by the information, and declared that he would not credit it until officially confirmed. The Novoe Vyrema makes this comment on the Turkish charge's surprise today: "He was apparently unconscious of events. Down to the last moment he and his government had assured Russia that Turkey's intentions were peaceful. "Apparently the Turks have finally sold out to the Germans, who see that the only way of relieving the deadly pressure of the victorious . Russian arms in East Prussia and Galicia, is to secure the active assistance of the Ottoman Empire." REPUBLICANS PLAN T0RGHL1GHTPARADE TO END CAMPAIGN Senator Burton and Pat Lynch to Speak at Coliseum Following Old-Time Procession. Closing of the speaking campaign in Wayne county by the Republicans, at the Coliseum tonight, promises to be a picturesque affair. Every effort has been put forth to make this rally a success and it is expected a large crowd will be at the Coliseum to hear P. J. Lynch, candidate for representative in congress, and Senator Burton of Ohio, speak. Preceding the meeting there will be an old time political torchlight parade, which will leave the court house at 7 o'clock and traverse the principal ' streets of the central business section. In this parade there will be the Richmond and New Castle bands and drum corps from this city, Straughns, New Lisbon and Spiceland. There will also be delegations of marchers from Richmond, various parts of the county, New Castle, Connersville, Rushville, Liberty, Shelby ville, Brook ville, Winchester. Eaton, O., and Greenville, O. The marshal of the parade will be Captain Paul Comstock of this city. Henley to Come. The meeting will open at the Coliseum at 8 o'clock, Mr. Lynch being the first speaker. Fifty vice presidents . of the meeting have been appointed. L. W. Henley, secretary of the Republican state committee, will arrive at 4:55 p. m. from Indianapolis, and he may be accompanied by State Chairman Will Hayes. The first out of town delegation to arrive will be the one from New Castle, reaching here at 6:20 on special cars attached to the regular Pennsylvania train. This delegation will be met by a reception committee and a band. Senator Btirton arrived in Richmond this morning at 8:30 o"clock and this noon was taken for an automobile ride about the city. This afternoon he rested at his rooms at a hotel, being slightly fatigued by his long trip from Cleveland and the work of addressing four meetings in Ohio yesterday. The Weather Fr Indiana Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday fair. Yesterday. Noon 56 Temperature. Maximum 51 Minimum 36 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. Local Fair tonight and Saturday; warmer Saturday. General Conditions Clear weather now prevails over the United States east of the Rocky mountains, except for unsettled weather over the New England states. A storm is forming west of the Rocky mountains. Sum mer weather prevails between the Mississippi and the Rocky mountains, due to low barometric pressure in southwestern, Canada,

LYNCH, WATSON'S TOOL, RECONSTRUCTS MACHINE OF G. 0. P. IN DISTRICT

CRAWFORD HITS RULE OF BOSSES IN 010' PARTIES Former Democrat Tells Centerville Voters Blind Partisanship Lays Curse on Nation's Politics. REPLIES TO RALSTON Predicts Overwhelming Revolt Against Previous Misrule and Turning to Progressive Leaders. Saturday Meeting. Crawford and Hoelscber, Cambridge City, 7:30 p. m. The trail of corruption in the last Democratic-controlled legislature was followed by a large and interested audience of Centerville voters last night, being personally conducted on their trip by Earl Crawford, who as a Democratic representative from Wayne and Fayette counties, sat in that body. Gus Hoelscher, Progressive candidate for joint representative, also addressed the meeting, which was presided over by Thomas Jessup. Hoelscher promised to be as free, independent and conscientious in his representation of the people of Wayne and Fayette counties as Crawford had been, and he said he could promise no more than this. He spoke briefly on the tariff, answering the charge that tariff commission would be unconstitutional by proposing to amend the constitution. He said that when it was proposed to have the people directly elect United States senators the same argument was advanced but the constitution was amended and next Tuesday the people will select the next senator at the polls. Partisanship Curses Nation. In opening his address Crawfbrd said that blind partisanship was the curse of the nation and that in the future he would affiliate with no political party but would vote for his own and his family's Interests, casting his ballots for the men be" believed best qualified for the positions they aspired to. The importance of such action had been impressed upon him violently, he said, during his experience as a member of the 1913 legislature. Referring to the attack made upon him by Governor Ralston because of his frank criticisms of and charges against Homer L. Cook, speaker of the last house and now Democratic candidate for secretary of state, Crawford dryly remarked, "I come to you as a member of the honorable order of Scurilous Hounds and Consummate Scoundrels. I have even been accused of being a horse thief. All of this because I stood for common honesty." Gangsters Fight Primary. Crawford said one thing very badly needed in this state, and refused by the last legislature, was a state-wide primary law. Last spring, he said, the Wilson and Bryan Democratic league forced their party to incorporate a primary plank in the 1914 platform, but the gangsters when they took this action entered into an agreement to do everything in their power to prevent the accomplishment of this reform. "I addressed letters to the Democratic legislative candidates who are seeking to represent this county in the legislature next year, asking them, amongi other important things, how they sfood in regard to the question (Continued on Last Page.) TITANIC SURVIVORS ENTER MARRIAGE Robert W. Daniel, president of the famous banking house of that name in Philadelphia and New York, has admitted that since Aug. 18, he has been married to Mrs. Eloiae Hughes Smith, both survivors of the Titanic disaster

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IN BACKGROUND, FORMER "WHIP" DIRECTS WES Sincere Leaders Made New Castle Man District Chairman Because of Desire to Eliminate Bosses.

PAT BALKS COMSTOCK Republicans Become Aware of Old Machine's Operation When Convention Rejects Wayne County Man. The striking feature of the congressional campaign now being waged in the Sixth district has been the reconstruction of the old Watson machine, demolished four years ago. But the same machine is now in operation again and running very smoothly, which at the time the work of rebuilding it began, last spring, appeared to be an impossibility, even in the opinion of many astute Republican leaders. The owner of the reconstructed machine is still James E. Watson t Rushville, but he no longer acts as his own chauffeur. He has turned this work over to Patrick Joseph Lynch of New Casile, Republican candidate for congress, G. O. P. chairman of the Sixth district and Watson's self-appointed handy man. who will hold his proxy in congress. If elected. How the scraps of the old Watson machine were picked up and used for the construction of the one now in operation is the story of how Jim Watson cleverly replied to the confident assertions of his enemies that he was "politically dead.". It is an Interesting tale. Watson Begins His Work. Watson realized after his crushing defeat in the last gubernatorial campaign that his career as a public official was ended. However, it did not in the slightest degree diminish his ambition to continue as a factor in politics, so while he was being pronounced politically dead he was quietly at work restoring his fallen political fortunes. He played a prominent part in the wrecking of the Republican party in Chicago in 1912, and was again pronounced "politically dead." But he wasn't. He and his few fellow reactionary bosses, having saved the Re- ! publican party from falling into the I hands of the progressive rank and ! file of the party by means of the Chi- ; cago "hold-up," Watson set to work '. reconstructing the party fences in hi8 j own district. He conducted this work ; secretly, and the few sincere Repubi licans who were at work trying to j revive their party under new leadership and with new aims and principles, j so that it would be quickly responsive i to the demands of the people for a new order of things, were ignorant that their purposes were being crossed by the old boss. In their innocense and ignorance they fondly believed that their party was to be born again without the birthmark of Watsonism : and all that it stands for. I Movement Strong Here. ! In Wayne county particularly it was ! the desire of leading Republicans that ' the new Republican party of the district be one that Progressives could ! return to with confidence that in the future it would represent the will of j the people, as it once did, instead of j the will of the political bosses and the I special interests. It was hard work these men attempted, trying to infuse life into an almost dead party, but they worked hard, and last spring, with the congressional convention only a few days off, they believed their aims were about to be accomplished. They had selected Patrick J. Lynch as district chairman, a young roan who had jm pressed them by his hustling qualities and by his apparent keen desire to place in the field a Republican party free from the taint of affiliation with corrupt business interests and bessism. At that time they did not know that Lynch was the tool Watson was using to reconstruct the Republican party for his own special use and convenience. Launch Comstock Boom. These anti-Watson Republicans had selected a man of irreproachable character and with a distinguished record as a public official. Judge D. W. Cornstock of Richmond, to be the Republican candidate for congress. He promised to be the standard bearer of the new party, providing it was not necessary for him to make a contest for the nomination. P. J. Lynch, who had been casually spoken of for this nomination by some of the Anti-Watson faction, and who in reality was at that time the man selected by Watson as chauffeur for his reconstructed machine, when told of Judge Comstock's decision blandly and with much Irish oratory announced his support of the Comstock candidacy and said he would at once get out in the district and see to it that there would he no opposition to the Judge. . . Lynch got out in the district, all right, but in the rapacity as booster for himself. Delegate after delegate he met personally, and to each one he set Torth bis own qualifications as a candidate for congressman, not forgetting frequently to refer to his "pleasing personality. Lynch. In this . little tour about the district, sped first to the home of Captain Jack Gowdjr, who dwells on his fat acres in Rush county, and is Watson's political chief of Staff. Lynch told Gowdy the news of the Comstock candidacy, and asked Continued on Pact Threeji