Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 304, 2 November 1914 — Page 8

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aiHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, NOV. 2, 1914

COLUMBUS BLAZE TAKES WE LIVES John Taborn, Discharged Convict, Listed Among Men Found Dead. BY LEASED WIRE. I COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 2. Three men lost their lives just before midnight last night in a blaze which partially destroyed the Volunteers of America Industrial Home, at No. 148 South Front street. Eighteen other transient lodgers, scantily clad, made their way to safety by the one fire escape. The origin of the fire is unknown. Among the dead is John Taborn who gained national notoriety a year ago when he was discharged" from the pen after serving 42 years for murder, then returned to the prison and sought place in the world for him. Since then he has been cared for by Walter Collins, local head of the Volunteers of America.

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The warning of the post office against sending tinsel cards exposed, is again found necessary by the increasing accumulation of such cards. Few are sent without envelopes but where transparent envelopes are used, many senders make the mistake of stamping the post card instead of the envelope. Under a ruling made more than a year ago by the department at Washington, tinsel post cards must be in an envelope with the stamp on the outside of the envelope. Whether sealed or unsealed, a twocent stamp must be used. As cards which are not properly sent, cannot be delivered and returned to the sender, they are a loss and the sender is not informed that their mail cannot be forwarded. Every holiday brings an accumulation of 300 to 1,000 tinsel post cards improperly mailed. A tinsel post card means any card with tinsel on it in any amount.

FREEMAN EXPRESSES OPINION ON CONTEST

Explains How He Entered Bi-Partisan Fight Made on Reller For Alleged Retention of Fees Claims Persons Affected Hired Him to Take Up Cases Says Neither He Nor Father Issues in Campaign.

Gath Freeman has submitted the following statement: "Mr. Reller: "Your allegation that I have 'prostitutod the state department of public accounting' for personal and political einin would be ludicrous if it were not for the fact that one's sympathy goes out to an individual who would venture such a ridiculous assertion. I had nothing whatever to do -with this "probe" nor with the publicity of your offenses through the columns of the papiT until called upon by a newspaper representative after the article oncoming investigations by state authorities was reported in the Item. My only connection with the Jackson Township affairs was in the cases against. Lee Mines, whom I informed, after you refused to return the fees of ?lu to him, that I would not bring suit for their recovery until after the election. Is not that treating you fairly, Mr. Reller? His Interpretation. "I have said nothing unkind or unfair to you, Mr. Reller, unless calling attention to your official record in accepting fees which you admit you were not entitled to and which you were compelled to pay back, be unkind and unfair. If holding up your official record to public view be 'dirty politics,' it is because your record is dirty. "My father had nothing whatever to do with this business. And your statements and those of the Palladium concerning his connection with this matter are false, and your resorting to references like "bi-partisan combination" are not only silly, but they evi

dence the fact that you have no legitimate explanation of the irregularities i in your official conduct. "Your defense of your action in accepting t ho fees in the Hagerstown j and Abington cases, which you were j ( ( tiipclh (l to pay back, is puerile and absurd, for your only excuse is that von were ignorant of the law pertain- , irm to the collection of fees for the ; prosecutor in Justice of the Peace : courts. You, as a lawyer, know that i miif-rance of the law is not a defense, ' and yet we have the anomalous spec- ! tilde of the state's prosecutor for this c: utity pleading ignorance to cover up his own nefarious actions and to i! rouse ttie sympathy of an intelligent i-lccf-rare. Denies Statement. "So far as the Stinson case is con- ' it!C(. your statement that you 'volui.tatily wrote him a check for the i' mount and delivered it to him' is as ridiculous as it is false, for you did net pay l:ack this r fee until after you l:ad been compelled to refund fees in ether cases. This same Robert Stin-;-on was the man with whom you '' mproniised" for one fee when he was fined in two separate cases and who objected and refused to pay your tecs for the reason that you were not present and had nothing to do with the i rials '' his w as in December, 1913. Later the same question arose in a number of cases. Will you now say that you had no knowledge of the illegality of these fees and the fees in ' similar cases until demand for their return was made in August last? "With respect to the collection and 1 receipt by you of the illegal fees in the 1 lagei stow ti and Abington cases, you adroitly replied, when called upon to affirm or deny the truth of this report, that you returned the fees when their return was demanded. Hut what about the culprit who acts in a similar manner when caught' with the goods on him? Would you refuse to prosecute him because ho bad returned the loot? If your returning these lees when demand was made be sufficient to excuse you for your reprehensible acceptance of them, would not similar conduct on the part of the culprit be a sufficient defense for him? No. Mr. Reller, you will have to seek some other cover, for that is too thin to conceal your guilty transactions. Describes Action. "Your statement that 1 was in league with Mr. Allen to spcure his election to the office of prosecutor is as untrue as your statement that I expected to be his deputy in case of his election, neither of which statements has any foundation in fact. Stich statements are only scuttlefish practices designed to obscure the charges against your official conduct so that you might escape the criticism which you deserve. My employment in these matters by the parties from whom you had collected these Illegal fees was not for the purpose of electing Mr. Allen, but for the purpose of recovering the money to which they were entitled under the law. Both Mr. Allen and Mr. Harlan are honest and capable men, and the people of this county want an honest man in this office who will conduct its affairs in a business-like manner, regardless of political faith. "You are mistaken when you say that I have a hatred for you, for I have only a contempt, which has been ac

centuated since I learned that you were willing to prostitute your office of public trust for the sake of money. "There is no 'mud slinging' in the charges against you for they all pertained to your official conduct and nothing else. No Issue Personally. "I am not an issue in this campaign, neither is my father; but your official acts are in issue and the people have a right to know the truth. Would any other candidate think it was 'mud slinging' to have his admitted official record exposed? I do not understand that the term applies to a discussion of the public acts of an official who is asking the people to indorse his administration. "Stripping your defense of irrelevant assertions and personal references, the only argument advanced by you in your defense is that you were ignorant of the law which I concede. But in these cases there is no excuse for your ignorance, for the law is so simple and plain that any layman could understand it. The phrase "technical violation" with which you have attempted to belittle your culpability is often resorted to by men who are caught in their illegal practices. "Your statement that I "combed the entire county hunting these cases" is absolutely false. The only inspection that I made of records of courts of Justices of the Peace was at Dublin after I had bet :i employed by Lee Hines and that was concerning him only. It might be well to look further. "Signed. Gath P. Freeman."

RELLER SAYS FREEMAN GAOGHT IN OWN TRAP

Progressive Candidate Proves Political Trick of Allen , and Freeman To Discredit His Candidacy Allen Asks Reporter of Afternoon Paper to Further Political Trick Freeman and Allen Furnish Material for Attack.

Will Reller has made the appended ; reply to the attack of Mr. Freeman: j Mr. Freeman: "Caught in your own political trap, which you and Joshua Allen had set for me, publicly repudiated by Denver C. Harlan and other leaders of your own party, and condemned by both the Palladium and the Item, you now try to shift the responsibility for the charges made against me from your own shoulders to that of a "newspaper representative." But you're mired in your own mud, Mr. Freeman. You can't even crawl out. I have the proof. I had it before I issued my statement last week, and I can back up every word I have heretofore said by records and reputable citizens. "I can prove by the reporters on the Evening Item that you and Joshua xllen gave them the stories that appeared in print reflecting on me. Allen started the ball rolling, right in Democrat headquarters, and you kept it going in your own office and by visiting the Item office. You know that the Item would not print the story on Friday night of last week without revealing the authorship. Y'ou tried to keep in the background, and make the Item your tool, for you said you did not want to be quoted or connected with it. You knew that the cat would be out of the bag if your name was connected with the story, and therefore sought to conceal your identity. Such is the same underhanded tactics used by the writers of anonymous letters. Shows Connection. "You wanted to be carefully secluded in the story behind 'it is said', and 'it is stated' and 'a lawyer asserts, etc., etc., but the Item wouldn't publish the story that way, and be made your cat's paw. You and Allen had to stand in the story itself as being responsible for it, and that's answer enough to the whole disreputable attack. You can twist and squirm all you please, deny your connection and explain your action, but you are publicly branded. "Now you would have the public believe that you did not bring a suit for Lee Hines against me before election, because you wanted to treat me fairly. It would take a magnifying glass to find your fairness toward me. You never brought a suit against me lor Hines because you never had an action against me. Last August you demanded fees from me for Hines, and I plainly told you I wouldn't pay them, because I had never collected or received them. It was just about this time, if you remember, that you drove to Dublin in your auto, and while looking at Justice Evans' records told Benj. Hatfield, my deputy, who . prosecuted Hines, that you were not after him (Hatfield) but me. Combs County Records. "You ask me concerning Robert Stinson. I know of no such man, and never had any dealings with him. You may refer to Richard Stinson. Richard Stinson is the farmer in Abing

ton township to whom you wrote a letter soliciting his business when you were 'combing the county' for cases against me. The same Richard Stinson is the man who turned you down. "You say you didn't comb the county looking for cases against me; if so will you please explain how all these cases got into your hands. It is rather singular that all these cases came to you cases in other lines don't have that faculty. You solicited the business and you know it. In cities they call that 'chasing an ambulance.' You and Allen were behind the whole scheme. It was carefully worked up, and sprung just before the election with the idea of defeating me, and electing Allen. Electing Allen. "Now you also try to deny that you were in league with Allen, and you deny that you hoped to profit by his election. You double crossed Denver C. Harlan, the Republican nominee for prosecutor, while I have positive proof that you said you would vote for Allen, and I have equally positive proof that you were working for his election. If you have any

doubt as to what I know concerning this, go to the F. & N. lawn mower factory or the Sanitary Barber shop, and inquire there. There is where one of your lieutenants got In his work. Cites Various Moves. "In connection with your claim that you had nothing to do with the 'probe' in Jackson township, will you kindly explain why Roy Fraunberg, a Democrat wheel horse in Cambridge City, sent for your client, Lee Hines, to come to his saloon on Friday, October 23, in order to see about getting his fees back, why Hines came to your office on Monday, October 26, and why he made another trip from Cambridge here with Fraunberg. Isn't all this just a little significant, occurring as it did, just before the examiners arrived in Cambridge? "In conclusion permit me to say that I have no feeling of malice or anger toward you, not even contempt, and again I repeat that my deputies, Messrs. Feemster and Hatfield were legally appointed, and that in conducting my office I have done nothing dishonest, criminal, crooked or unfair. You and Allen have been hit by the recoil of your own mud,, and I feel confident that the intelligent voters of Wayne county will not be misled by you and him. Will W. Reller."

ST, PAULS PLANS MEMBERJAKS Seven Committees to Ask Help to Meet Church Obligations. To impress . each member of the parish with the necessity for him to bear his proportionate part of the church 'expenses, seven four-men committee from St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church will make a house-to-house canvass of the membership next Sunday afternoon. , The plan for the canvass was explained to the congregation yesterday morning by John L. Rupe, senior warden, as it had been worked out at a meeting of the men the previous week. Before Sunday cards from the financial committee, explaining the exact status will be mailed to the members. The church hopes in this way to make the members realize the need of each person doing his part. When this has been accomplished, said the Rev. James Lightbourn, pastor, there will be no trouble about meeting the church's obligations."

JEFFERSON DIES AT EATON HOME

KATON, O.. Nov. 2. Unable longer to withstand the weight of years and incident infirmities, William H. Jefferson, one of Preble county's bestknown men, died Sunday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. George H. Lehman, Maple and Decatur streets. His condition during the last two weeks had been critical.

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INTER OHIO WOMAN WHO ENDED LIFE

EATON, O., Nov. 2. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Concord church, southwest of Eaton, for Mies Mattle Benham, 42, who took her life about noon Saturday when she uncovered the cistern and leaped into the water at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Benham, near West Florence. Members of the family were absent at the time and the body was not discovered until two hours later. Coroner Silver was called. While no cause has been officially attributed, it is believed she was led to take her life by poor health.

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(1ICH0LS0II ACTIVE ON 86TH BIRTHDAY

Timothy Nicholson, one of the oldest active business men of Richmond, celebrated bis eighty-sixth birthday today. Born November 2, 1828, in Perquimans county, North Carolina, Timothy Nicholson was reared in a community of Friends, and when eighteen years of age, became a student in the Friends' school in Providence, R. I. Later he served two years as the

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College. From the time of his coming to Richmond, in 1861, he has been most active in business activities of the city, and in the advancement of the Friends' church. He has been a trus

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NAME INSPECTORS

" In the appointments of election Inspectors, Edward Souer replaces Jas. Bailey in Precinct 12 and James M. Knodle replaces Walter Doan in Precinct 23. This completes the appointments and represents the sum of the commissioners' business Saturday.

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