Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 305, 3 November 1914 — Page 1

BIG PALLADIUM 'A VOL. XXXIX. NO. 305 Srteain9sou7n-Teleirram RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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CITY MAY WORK JOBLESS PEOPLE TO FIXSTREETS Councilman White Proposes Temporary Loan to Provide for Repairs and Give Men Aid.

POLICE SAVE WATER To Receive Keys of Fountains So They May Shut Off How at Night Funds Transferred. The cry of the city's jobless for work was echoed in the city council chamber last night when Councilman White of the Second ward advocated that the city negotiate a temporary loan for the purpose of building and repairing streets and other municipal Improvements. "God knows the men need the work, and that the city needs its streets improved," exclaimed Mr. White. No comment was made on Mr. White's suggestion by the councilmen and other city officials present, but it is known that for two weeks some plan to provide municipal employment for men out of work has been under consideration by city officials. At the present time the officials are not prepared to discuss this matter. Follows Charity Report. Mr. White was prompted to call this matter to the attention of council because of the report made yesterday by Charity Secretary Melpolder that 1,180 men formerly employed in local factories were now idle. The ordinance committee last night reported an ordinance providing for a $5 monthly increase for all members of the fire department except the chief. The committee had been instructed to prepare an ordinance which would provide a $5 a month increase for fire captain only, they now receiving the same salary as their subordinates, so the ordinance which was drafted did not meet with council's favor, and it was returned to the committee. Council does not believe the city can afford to increase the salaries of all members of the fire department. Next year's budget contains an appropriation for increasing the company captains' salaries. An ordinance providing that all sidewalks must be kept clean and retaining walls be erected alongside elevated walks if there is danger of dirt sliding down upon them, passed its second reading. Plan to Save Water. . Walterman suggested that keys to water fountains be given to police officers, so they could be shut off each night at a certain hour and turned on again before the night officers went off duty. He thought the plan wiuld save the city considerable on its water bills. Steet Commissioner Knollenberg nays he has the keys and can turn them over at any time. A resolution by Steinbrink that the city clerk prepare for each councilman a copy of an ordinance before it be brought up for second reading was defeated, because the other councilmen took pity on the city clerk. When an ordinance was introduced to transfer money held in a reserve fund pending a decision as to whether the city should pay for the police flashlight signal system the first three months it was used, so that this money could be used for other purposes, it was remembered that the council committee which had been appointed nine months ago to investigate the payment of this bill had never made a report. It was decided to take no action on the transfer ordinance until the committee reported, and it was instructed to hand in its report at the next meeting. Register Complaints. An ordinance appropriating an additional $2,000 of the city plant's funds to its building and equipment account was passed under suspension of rules. The following compaints were received Carter and Howells called attention to the bad condition of North Twelfth street north of the railroad, and requested temporary relief; also to needs of crosswalks at North Twelfth and J I streets: also to bad condition of sewer at North Twelfth and II streets. Steinbrink called attention to the bad condition of South E street and requested that it be picked and rolled. Waltermann again called attention to South Sixth street, south of E street, and requested the same to be scarified for the winter. Walterman again called attention continually washing onto South Fifth street at the railroad bridge; also to paper blowing around on the street at this point. Wilkins called attention to mud washing onto sidewalks at the viaduct of P., C, C. & St. L. Railway company on Sheridan street and North West. Second street; also to had condition of Sheridan street at first alley north and south of state street, caused by the sewers in the alleys. Williams, called attention to the bad condition of North Tenth street, caused by cross ditches of the Gas company. INTER Friends Attend Funeral of Business Man. Six of his closest friends and business associates served as pall bearers, and bore the body of George H. Mashmeyer to his last resting place this afternoon. The men who served were O. V. Porter, Horace Iredell, John Dagler, Jr., Harry Holmes, Thomas Butler and Richard Granger. The funeral was held from the home at 109 South Fourteenth street at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Howard of the First English Lutheran church had charge of the service. The body was interred at the Lutheran

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TODAY'S VOTE TESTS WILSON'S POPULARITY Thirty-four United States Senators, 435 Members of House, Several Governors of States and Many Minor Officials Are Being Elected Democratic Majority in Lower House Is Expected to Be Reduced.

Thirty-four United States senators, 435 members of the house of representatives, several governors of states and many minor officials are being elected today. The nation-wide election today test: 1. Whether the popularity of President Wilson is the reliable issue which the Democrats have assumed it to be. 2. Whether the Democratic administration can profit by the tariff, currency, anti-trust and trade commission laws. 3. Whether the Republicans can show that the change in the tariff has been a great factor in necessitating special war revenue, and has made the bad situation created by the European war worse. 4. Whether tfte Democrats will retain their present overwhelming majority in the house of representatives. 5. Whether the recent constitutional amendment enacting the direct vote for United States senators is a success. These are the outstanding features of national interest. Prohibition is a great issue in several states, and some prohibition candidates may be elected to Congress. Election Features. The elections today, however, are remarkable for the way national and even international issues are dominating state issues. The Democrats everywhere have made their campaign on the record of President Wilson and the achievements of his administration. And, relying on these, the candidates in many RURAL DISTRICTS REPORT HALF OF BALLOTS POLLED Farmers Visit Polls Shortly After Daybreak Eager to Mark Preference and Get Back Home. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Nov. 3. At noon about fifty per cent of the vote had been cast and it is believed that the total registration will be equalled here by the votes. Most of the men of the city are at work as there is no ex- , citement. The election has been peaceful and quiet. Persons from outside districts returned to their homes when they finished voting. HEAVY VOTE POLLED. FOUNTAIN CITY, Nov. 3. The town is filled with farmers who came early this morning to vote and stood at the polls waiting their turns. More than sixty per cent voted by noon. The tone of the election seems to be ticket scratching. The vote in the north precinct is unusually heavy, and a good vote has been cast at the south precinct polls. There has been no excitement or fighting. VOTERS ARRIVE EARLY. CENTER VI LLE, Nov. 3. Farmers were here by daylight and after voting returned to their homes. Poll book holders said that of the fifty per cent that had voted up to noon, the Republican and Democratic vote had been heavy. The election is a quiet one. MEN STAND IN LINE. HAGERSTOWN, Nov. 3. There has seldom been less than twenty men in line at the various voting places as the scratching' of tickets and the large amount of paper to handle delays the voting. VOTE IN EARLY. WHITEWATER, Nov. 3. Sixty per cent of Franklin township's votes had been cast shortly after noon today in a quiet manner. CIRCULARS ASK TRACTION MONEY In a final desperate effort to persuade the voters of Wayne township , to grant the $100,000 subsidy asked by I Eugene B. Purtelle for the Richmondi Hamilton traction line, circulars prom ising work tor the unemployed were circulated among the citizens at the polls today. Unusual activity was noted on the part of John Fitzgibbons, Purtelle's hired agent, who visited the various voting places during the day. Voters generally are expressing belief in the defeat of the subsidy petition.

Palladium Election Returns

Election returns will be flashed by a stereopticon in front of the Palladium office tonight and bulletins will be read at the Gennett between acts. If you do not come down town and want the returns, call 1121 and 2566, the Palladium telephones. The Telephone company announces that it will not give out information, but will co-operate with the Palladium in its service. Besides the regular bulletin stations, the following clubs will receive Palladium election returns : Elks, Druids, Entre Nous,

Knights of Columbus and Eagles.

states have made a Wilson endorsement their chief claim to popular recognition. The Democratic orators have declared that the European war created a grave crisis, and that patriotic Americans should uphold the president and his administration in this critical time by electing Democrats everywhere. The Republicans in meeting this issue of Wilson have attempted to prove that the Democratic administration has been extravagant, that the new tariff is a disappointment, that the Democratic administration has produced hard times before the outbreak of the

great war, and that if the Republicans had been in power the war would not have made it necessary to lay new taxes as has been the case. Little National Venom. There has been little venom In the discussion of national issues; first, because the public has not read the political news as enthusiastically as usual, on account of the prominence of war news; and second, because the Republicans, have carefully avoided making personal attacks on the president. Although most Republican leaders admit that the Democrats have an extremely strong issue in the personality and record of the president, their majority of 145 in the house of representa- ! tives is quite certain to decrease by j this election. Estimates of their new i majority by fairly unprejudiced can vassers indicate it can not be less than nine, and probably will be between thirty-five and forty-five. This will give the administration control, but undoubtedly not such easy control as has been the case this year. IN BIG NUMBERS INDIANA VOTERS RUSHJO POLLS Indianapolis Registers Large Early Vote, While OutState Cities Record Big Rush to Booths. FRAUDS AT HAMMOND BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 3 Fine weather throughout central Indiana today lent its influence towards a large vote being registered at the polls. In Indianapolis, there was a remarkably brisk early vote, especially in the usually strong Democratic precincts. In some of the north side precincts, formerly known as Republican district, but which were carried by the Democrats at the last election, owing to the Progressive movement, the early vote was disappointing to all watchers. Watch Voting Places. The election boards are made up of Democrats and Progressives, but the other parties have their full quotas of watchers. All parties carried their campaign to the last ditch. One paper which supported Wilson fought the Democrats bitterly and its effect is expected to be seen at the polls. There were several arrests for alleged illegal voting during the forenoon, those taken in being mostly negroes. The Progressives attempted to obtain a court order against the city Democratic administration restraining them from using city autos in election work. After a conference it was decided that none of these automobiles would be allowed to carry voters. Voters Out Early. Returns from county seats throughout Indiana showed that the election was generally proceeding quietly and that many voters were lined up when the polls opened at 6 o'clock. Hugh Th Miller, Republican candidate for United States senator was among the first to vote at Columbus. Senator B. F. Shively, Democrat, for re-election voted at his home point in South Bend; Albert J. Beveridge, Progressive for senator, was on hand at an early hour in Indianapolis. Lafayette reported that Tippecanoe county probably would cast every vote registered. Balloting Lively. After a light early shower at Fort Wayne voting proceeded in lively fashion. Terre Haute said "A vote a minute" was the record there. The presence of women boosting the "Yes ' movement for a constitutional convention was a feature in nearly all the cities. At Winchester bets of 5 to 1 were made that Beveridge would be third in the senatorial race. , At Indianapolis (Continued on Page Three)

FORMER WORKER AT GAAR-SCOTT FIRM TAKES ACID C. K. Barnes Ends Life in Room After Long Period of Despondency and Poor Health.

SERVED 25 YEARS Deceased Lost Position, Like Many Others, When Rumely Corporation Took Over Plant in Richmond. C. K. Barnes, aged 63, living at 104 Fort Wayne avenue, committed suicide in his bedroom this morning after having enjoyed a hearty breakfast. His body was found by his wife. Barnes was employed for nearly twenty-five years at the Gaar-Scott factory, being a day watchman and chauffeur, but following acquisition of the plant by the Rumely corporation he, like many j of the other older employes, lost his position, and for over two years he has had very little work. Mrs. Barnes conducts a boarding house. Mrs. Barnes said this morning that her husband had been despondent frequently of late, brooding because he had no work and because she was compelled to work so hard. He had not been in robust health for several months. One Child Survives. About eight years ago the only daughter, Miss Ethel, died suddenly in California, shortly after leaving Richmond. Jesse Barnes, who has been a musician with a theatrical company, returned home last Saturday. He is the only surviving child. Mrs. Barnes said that she went to the bedroom this morning and found her husband stretched upon the bed. She had gone there to get some money to pay a deliveryman. She asked Mr. Barnes if he was ill and he told her he was not feeling very good. A little later she returned and at once detected the odor of carbolic acid. Going to her husband's side she saw he was dead. Mrs. Barnes was in a very hysterical condition when the coroner arrived. Broods Over Misfortunes. Charles A. Marlatt, a member of the board of public works and for years associated with Mr. Barnes at the Gaar-Scott factory, said today that ho met Barnes one evening about a week ago and he appeared to be brooding over the fact that the factory where he had spent so many years of his life was closed and that "he" had no work to do. "Charley, I've about made up my mind that it's time for me to shuffle off. The old factory's shut down, the old boys are out of jobs and the town don't seem like it used to," Barnes said to Marlatt. Barnes did not intimate to his wife and son that he contemplated his rash act, and he left no farewell message to them. He took considerable quantity of the acid. No arrangements for the funeral have been made. TERRE HAUTE ROWDIES BEAT VOTE CLERKS BY LEASED WIRE. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., 'ov. 3. An appeal to the United States v'thorities may become necessary before night to curb alleged irregularities in the elections here. "Rowdies" are out in force in the west end. Elmer Colver, a Democratic inspector in the Sixth ward, was arrested on an order from Judge Cox of the superior court, charged with violation of the "clean election" restraining order. A bartender was substituted as inspector. Willis Horsier, Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney, is in jail, after being beaten up by a gang when he tried to prevent a man voting illegally. His assailant was not arrested. Progressives on the election board were not seated and the Democrats are in control. William House, Progressive clerk, was arrested, charged with tampering with voting machines. PREDICT VICTORY. Logansport Expects Democrats to Win on County Ticket. T.nnANSPORT. Ind.. Nov. 3. A clear sky and warm weather brought the voters to tne pons eariy touay. n. is freely predicted that the majority of the Democratic ticket will be elected. The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair in south; show ers in north portion Wednesday fair. tonight; TEMPERATURE. Noon 69 Yesterday. Maximum 64 Minimum 35 W. E. MOORE'S REPORT. Local Fair tonight and Wednesday. Brisk winds mostly from West and Southwest. General Conditions Fair weather continues over the most of the United States except on the Pacific coast where a storm of great energy continues. Heavy rains and high winds reaching a velocity of 4.4 mUM an bonr on Fuctt Sound,

IN REPLY TO AN ADROIT, INCOMPLETE RETRACTION

(EDITORIAL.) To Frank S. Dodd, of the Item, and the Public Generally: In your statement "accepting" my "denial" of the infamous charge made against me by you in Saturday's Item regarding my having knowledge of or directing the publishing or distribution of the pamphlet that libeled the Roman Catholic church and certain political candidates of that faith, I wish to emphatically state you have been neither fair nor unequivocable. You have been adroit. In your Saturday editorial you gave the gist of Messrs. White's and Lee's

conyersation with me as they professed to remember it. Monday night, although the word "conversation" occurs several times, at no place do you give the gist of the conversation as Mr. Robbins remembered it. Mr. Robbins as well as Mr. Poundstone, a Palladium reporter, remember that conversation in substance the same as I do, so I will proceed to give the gist of it as I remember it. Then you and the public in general and the Catholics of this community in particular, may judge whether or not I have been guilty in even the slightest degree of disrespect towards the Catholic faith, let alone of having threatened to use the feeling against that faith that exists in certain quarters, to blast the chances of a candidate belonging to that church and to a political party other than the one to which I owe allegiance. Ten days or two weeks ago Messrs. Byram Robbins, Frederick White and Clifford Lee called at the Palladium office to arrage about advertising for the Republican party in the campaign just ending. Mr. Lee was introduced to me by one or the other of the first two gentlemen named, and one of the trio asked me if the Republicans could obtain advertising space in the Palladium. Following my reply that they most certainly could, Mr. Lee asked me if we would run news articles bearing on the campaign from the Republican viewpoint and prepared by him. I replied that a newspaper such as the Palladium, with plenty of reporters, would prefer to prepare its own news articles. He then asked me if these articles could be run as prepared and paid for as advertising. I told him they could be if they were gotten up in advertising form. Otherwise, no, as the news columns of the Palladium were not for sale. At this point I turned Mr. Lee over to one of the Palladium's advertising men. Following this, Mr. Robbins, Mr. White and Mr. Poundstone, who had joined us, and I, discussed the campaign and the congressional candidates. Though I am not perfectly clear on this point, I believe I remember we were unanimous in predicting the defeat of one Finly Gray, the Democratic candidate for congress. I do remember we were not agreed as to whether Russell or Lynch would administer the defeat. In substance, Messrs. Robbins and White claimed the victory for Lynch and the Republican party, because, they said, Lynch was a cracking good campaigner and the Progressives were "coming back" and Russell was having disappointingly small attendances at his meetings over the district and had not amounted to much of a force in the local city council, of which he is a member. After telling these gentlemen what I considered Russell's strong points and how admirably they fit in with the strong points in the Progressive doctrine, I took up the weak points in Lynch's candidacy as I saw them and discussed them in the same impartial spirit in which Messrs. Robbins and 'White had discussed the weak points they claimed to find in Russell's candidacy. I pointed out the farce-comedy that has been going on known as "The Republican Party Has Purged Itself of the Old Gang and Is Now Sweet and Pure," staged and managed in this state by that splendid aggregation of uplifters, Messrs. Watson, Hemenway, Kealing and Fairbanks. I reminded them of the manner in which Lynch got his nomination at the expense of the understanding between him and Judge Comstock, with the sly figure of Jim. Watson for a background of political purity. I told them this fact would hurt Lynch in Wayne county. .Further I told thjem that the anti-Catholic sentiment in this community probably would be used against Lynch and that it would hurt him politically. I attributed this to the anti-Catholics, of whom there are supposed to be about

fifteen hundred in this city and county,

tion of around that number for the Menace, an anti-Catholic weekly. I did not say "we" or "the Progressives," but "they," meaning the Anti-Catholics, in the above-mentioned instance, and when I further ventured the prediction that so bitter was the feeling in those circles that this campaign would probably see just such tactics used here as I understood had already been used in Marion county against the Democratic candidates of Catholic faith on that party's county ticket; both predictions that unfortunately were borne out by the vicious anonymous pamphlet that was circulated in this community last week. This is all that was said on that subject. Nowhere in thi3 gist of our conversation, as I remember it, and as I have faithfully reported it above as I remember It, do you find any attack by me on Mr. Lynch's faith or any threat to use the fact that he belongs to the Catholic faith against Lim in the late campaign. I simply stated facts that anyone in complete touch with local conditions knew were so and ventured a prediction of possibilities here based on what had already occurred in Marion county as a result of the same bitter feeling existing there that existed here, on the part of one portion of the people against another portion of the people. If anyone after reading what I have said still has any doubts as to the propriety of my statements let those doubts be referred to either Father Roell or Father Cronin, both of whom I know to be broad-minded and intelligent men in whose hands I feel I can safely trust the responsibility for deciding such doubts according to the facts presented. So much for tha conversation, then, Mr. Dodd, and the various recollections of it. Now for the real meat of the matter between you and me, the specific charge you made against me and which you ought to be man enough and frank and honest enough, in justice to this community and to me, to squarely and plainly retract, instead of adroitly side-stepping by being "happy to accept Mr. Leeds' denial." In Saturday's Item, after referring to the pamphlet attacking the Roman Catholic church and certain candidates on account of their being of that faith, as well as giving the gist of the above-mentioned conversation as remembered by Messrs. White and Lee, the editorial, entitled "Vicious Politics," after naming me personally and declaring me "one of the leaders of the Progressive party locally, if not THE leader " contained this false and highly libelous accusation: "THIS REPREHENSIBLE ATTACK, THEREFORE, UNDOUBTEDLY WAS MADE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE, IF NOT AT THE DIRECTION OF THIS LOCAL BULL MOOSE LEADER." I could not "turn the other cheek" to such a slap as that and retain my own self-respect or the respect of the people of this community. Nor, by the same token, do I believe you can afford not to make the retraction I justly ask you to, unless you have full and conclusive proof of the truth of the charge. You would not otherwise either be able to do so and retain your selfspect or the respect of the fair-minded citizens of Richmond and Wayne county. And as to your being able to prove that that charge is true I know you cannot do so. Both Messrs. White and Lee, your informants of one side of that conversation, have declared that nothing they said could have warranted you in making such a charge. Whom else, then, have you that will back up that charge with facts? The man who distributed the anonymous pamphlet? You "adroitly" -my word say in your "A STATEMENT OF FACTS" of Monday, "and the Item trusts its readers will appreciate its position and that Mr. Leeds and the public generally will join in a concentrated and determined effort to bring to proper justice the offenders who have contributed to this unfortunate misunderstanding." Before you ever wrote that, "Mr. Leeds" and his organization as well as his good friends were at work trying to ferret out the ones really responsible for "this unfortunate misunderstanding." Acting on the same information that Albert Morel, one of the candidates attacked in the anonymous pamphlet, gave Willard Jessup, a reporter in your employ, Saturday morning hours before the editorial, "Vicious Politics," appeared, and In plenty ef time for you to have inquired more fully into the truth of the false and libelous charge you were preparing my friends, after your attack on me, approached Fred Huckery and secured from him the admission that he personally had distributed the pamphlet. Monday morning this same Fred Huckery came to my office and voluntarily and of his own free will, signed a statement containing answers to questions, that completely exonerated me, as far as his personal knowledge

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ORDERLY CROWD CASTS MAJORITY OF VOTES EARLY Reports at Noon Indicate Sixty-five Per Cent of Ballots Polled at City Precincts.

MANY VOTE STRAIGHT Citizens in Strong Progressive Districts Mark Choice Quickly Others Indicate Much Scratching. At noon today it was estimated from reports received from political workers of the various parties that at least sixty-five per cent of the registered vote in Richmond was in and workers at Progressive, Republican and Democratic headquarters would not be much surprised if over 95 per cent of the vote had been polled by 5 o'clock this afternoon. In several precincts It was reported that the vote was being polled rapidly, indicating that the voters were voting straight for the most part. As the majority of these precincts have been strongly Progressive in the past, the reports received from them were very encouraging to the committeemen at Progressive headquarters. In a large number of precincts the voting was slow, and it was a frequent sight to see rows of men lined up waiting their turn to enter the polling places. They waited patiently for the most part, and nearly all of them kept their places until their turn came, which was a big factor in the polling of such a large vote by noon. Indicates Scratching. In those precincts where the Totera were as a rule taking their time in marking their ballots poll workers for the various parties agreed that this indicated considerable scratching. It is believed that most of the scratching is on the county ballot. Apparently the average Richmond voter is not holding strictly to party lines in making his selections for county and township officers. Reports from various parts of the county indicate that the vote is coming In almost as rapidly as it is in Richmond, and that the voters are not wasting much time in the preparation of their ballots. There reports are more gratifying to the Progressive workers than to the Democrats and Republicans, for the county outside of Richmond was strongly Progressive two years ago. The election up to noon today was being conducted as cleanly as it was expeditiously in Richmond. There was no trouble at any of the polls up to that hour, and very few men who had failed to qualify themselves at the registration attempted to cast their votes. Price More Confident. Progressive County Chairman J. C. Price was confident today of a complete victory for his party. Republicans, while hoping for a victory all along the line privately admit that they will be satisfied if two or three of their candidates for county offices are elected. They really believe that H. C. Fox will be re-elected for judge. The Democrats, while claiming everything, will be satisfied if two or three of their county candidates are elected. The Socialists, who cast a vote of 940 two years ago, are confident that today over 1,000 votes will be cast tor their candidates. At the various polling places in Wayne township reports were that the $100,000 Purtelle traction subsidy proposal would be defeated by a large majority. Reports from Boston township where a $10,000 subsidy proposal for the same line is being voted on. Indicate its defeat there. Indications in Richmond are that the state centennial memorial will be lost in Richmond, but the vote on the constitutional convention proposal probably will be close, with the indication that the majority of the total votes cast will favor the calling of this convention. This proposal is much more favored In the precincts outside tho city. , PENROSE FIGHTS HARD TO RETAIN SENATE PLACE BY LEASED WIRE. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 3. The pleasant weather this morning brought out many early voters in an election in which one or the hardest fought campalngs in which the state of Pennsylvania has figured. Today's election in Pennsylvania is for a United States senator, governor, legislative and other state offices. Of the three candidates for United States senator. Mr. Penrose. Republican: A. Mitchell Palmer. Democrat, and Gifford Pinehot, Washington party, with Penrose appearing to have the best cances of winning. The Republican leaders predict a majority ot 200 for him. Palmer was barked by President Wiland the Democratic ad v.ini st ration. PAY $40,000 TAXES More than ?40.000 was paid into the office of the county treasurer yesterday. Today the office is closed for the remainder of the week. Notwithstanding the flow of money which passed through the windows on the last day for fall tax paying, there will be an unusual number of small delinquencies, chiefly of workingmen who have been thrown out of work. These taxes are small and do not have much effect on the total