Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 264, 22 September 1916 — Page 1

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DEMOCRACY Of DISTRICT INVADES CITY TO HEAR VICE-PRESIDENT SPEAK

Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall will be escorted to Richmond this evening by the famous Indianapolis Democratic organization known as the Rooster Club. About three hundred members of the Rooster Club will make the trip to Richmond with the vice-president on special traction cars, arriving here between 7 and 7:30 this evening. The Rooster Club members will have a brass band. Mr. Marshall will speak at the Coliseum at 8 o'clock and it is expected an Immense crowd will be assembled to hear his address. This will be the only address made by the vice-president in the Sixth District and, consequently, Richmond will be the Mecca of the Democracy this evening.

Parade Precedes Speaking Preceding the meeting there will be a street parade, to be participated in by the various county delegations. Democrats in the western end of Wayne county will come to Richmond on special traction cars and will be accompanied by the Cambridge City band and a drum corps. Word was also received' today that a large delegation of Henry county Democrats, headed by Walter Chambers of New Castle, district chairman, will 'arrive early this evening and will be accompanied by a band. Rep. Finly H. Gray will head a large Fayette county delegation and Mr. Gray will deliver the preliminary address at the Coliseum. W. O. Lewis, chairman of Wayne county, will be Continued On Page Fourteen.

BRITISH 6AIN ONE MILE TO SOUTH OF ANCRE

LONDON, Sept. 22. Continuing their offensive in the Somme region south of Ancre the British troops ad vanced along a front of. about a mile and captured two lines of German trenches, the war office announced today. The British line, it was announced, now runR directly north. South of Arras the British in a night TEUTON ARMY ON EAST LINE WITHOUT FOOD LONDON, Sept 32. Field Marshal Mackensen's Teutonic army battling the Russian Roumanian forces in the Dobrudja region is in desperate straits according to dispatches received here today. Retreating before the fierce attacks of the foe, Mackensen's men are declared to be without food and ammunition. MACHINE GUNS MOW GERMANS DOWN IN ROWS PARIS, Sept. 22. Continuing their attacks in an effort to check the allies offensive in the Somme region the Germans launched several counter-attacks against the French positions at Prifz farm and Rancourt. All were unsuccessful. Wave after wave of Teuton troops were hurled against the French positions only to be mowed down by fire of the French guns, the war office announced today. WILSON ACCEPTS CHANCE TO SPEAK ON HIGHWAY DAY INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 22. A mighty rally to the cause of good roads will be held here on Centennial Highway day, October 12, with President Wilson as the leading figure. Governor Ralston announced that Vance McCormick. Democratic national chairman, had telegraphed him that President Wilson had accepted his invitation to speak here on the afternoon of that day. . Governor Ralston ' understood that the President's speech in the afternoon would be non-political, but he hoped he could be prevailed upon to address a Democratic audience in the evening. f Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United State Weather Bureau Overcast tonight and Saturday. Cooler tonight. Temperature Today Noon 72 Yesterday Maximum u Minimum 50

RICHMOND FILES APPEAL FROM NEW GAS RATE

The City of Richmond filed an appeal in the circuit court yesterday afternoon from the Public Service Commission's ruling in setting new gas rates for this city. The complaint iled by City Attorney Bond says that the ruling is unreasonable, unjust and unlawful. attack entered some enemy trenches and inflicted losses on the Germans, besides capturing some prisoners. VILLA'S ACTION WILL NOT KEEP MEN IN MEXICO NEW LONDON,. Conn., Sept. 22. Francisco Villa's increasing activities in Chihauhau will not delay the withdrawal of General Pershing's expedition from Mexico. This statement was made . by one of the members of the American commission meeting with the Mexianc representatives sent by General Carranza to effect a permanent agreement with the United States. DOUBTS IF COUNTY CAN BEAR EXTRA LEVEL SPAN COST In his report to J. L. Harrington, Kansas City bridge expert who will advise the type of bridge best suited for Main street, on a number of laws which would affect the erection of a level bridge, Gus Hoelscher, county attorney will state that there is a question whether the law will permit the county to bear the added expenses of a level bridge. "The law provides that the county can bear the cost of approaches needed to make the bridge accessible," Mr. Hoelscher said today. "A bridge of the present length is accessible. The question of whether the county could bear the expense of an extension of the bridge from this point would be hard to settle. If it were decided that the added length were not necessary; the city would have to bear the expense of its erection." VOTE ON CALL FOR GENERAL LABOR STRIKE NEW YORK, Sept 22. The situation growing out of the strike of carmen here reached its most critical point today. With the threat of Mayor Mitchel to call out the state militia still ringing in their ears, union leaders continued their plans for calling a general sympathetic strike. Voting on this proposition will start at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Plans for calling the general strike immediately if such a vote is taken have been made. The Central Labor Conference has been empowered to send out the strike order. WILL TEACH SCHOOL EATON. O., Sept. 22. Miss Minnie Walls has gone to Knox, fnd., to accept a position as teacher in the public schools.

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r SHIVELEY SPEAKS WHILE WINCHESTER WAITS FOR HUGHES Charles E. Shiveley was drafted into service at . Winchester to entertain until the arrival of Mr. Hughes the big crowd which had assembled to welcome the presidential candidate. Mr. Shiveley tried to beg out and have Mr. Foulke act as his substitute, but Mr. Foulke vetoed that plan and the Richmond attorney was dragged away to the speaking stand. He made a rattling good impromptu address and registered a big hit with his audience.

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S1 1,000 OBTAINED TODAY

BRINGS FOND "Twenty thousand dollars for Tuesday." With this slogan, sixty enthusiastic workerB in the $100,000 industrial fund campaign left today's luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. determined to add that much toward the big fund at the next gathering of the committee Tuesday noon. The committees secured a total of $11,770 in this morning's canvass, surpassing the record of yesterday. The increased reports . of the committees as the figures were placed on the black boards brought forth; great applause. The grand total has already reached $53,420, and this amount has been subscribed by less than 350 individuals and firms. The eighteen committees will not work as a unit again before Tuesday PROGRESSIVES MEET FOULKE ON SPECIAL When Mr. Hughes boarded the Hughes special at Winchester he probably thought he had, by mistake, joined forces with a Bull Moose touring party. One of the first men to greet him was Raymond Robbins, who was chairman of the Progressive national convention in Chicago, last June. Then Medill McCormick, who was one of the big national leaders of the Progressive party, sauntered in and welcomed Mr. Foulke. Mr. McCormick last week nominated as a Republican candidate for congressman-at-large in the Illinois primary elections. "Jimmy Garfield may join us in a day or two; we want all the Progressives we can get," said A. T. Hirt -

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Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall

MEETING AT VAN WERT CENSURED BY FRIENDS

For the first time in the present session of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, delegates threatened to overthrow recommendations made by committees today. Tradition won, and the actions of the committees were adopted after the most general expression of opinion yet given this year. By one recommendation, Truman C. TO $53,4 morning, but many of the committees will be out informally and several of the public utility corporations are exContinued On Page Nine. VOICE WORRIES HUGHES OH TRIP THROUGH NORTH ENROUTE WITH HUGHES, MUNCIE,- Ind., Sept. 22. Charles Evans Hughes' voice is on the verge of a breakdown. Following his brief address today at New Castle and Anderson, Ind., his physician, Dr. L. D. Anderson, made an examination and advised . Governor Hughes that his throat should be subjected to the least possible strain for the next week. A hurried consultation between Mr. Hughes and his advisorswas held and it was finally decided to keep all the thirteen engagemeu in Indiana today but to cut down the speaking as much as possible. The arrival of Governor Hughes in Anderson was the signal for the barkings of "Whispering Dick" a superannuated cannon, which has been in every campaign from Garfield down. Eight hundred people greeted the special. . - Mr. Hughes voice was . too husky to permit him speaking more than a few words at Anderson. Robbins followed the line of campaigning Mr. Hughes has set up in his Indiana tour with one notable exception. Where Mr. Hughes spoke of a "reunited party," Robbins described it as "the reunited parties."

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Kenworthy, superintendent of Indiana Yearly meeting, loses his vote in the evangelistic, pastoral and church extension committee and becomes an ex-officio member. His place as a voting member will be filled by the nominations committee. . Express . Disapproval. The other recommendation, made by the trustees of the yearly meeting, provided that the property of Van Wert particular' meeting" be taken In trust by Indiana yearly meeting. General disapproval of the action of Van Wert quarterly meeting in laying out the monthly meeting was expressed in warm terms.' Timothy Nicholson and Joseph A. Goddard led in the objections to the recommendation of the nominating committee by which the yearly meeting superintendent will no longer belong as a voting member, to the com- ' mittee, which hires him, the evangecommittee. Robert Tetlow, chairman of the nominations committee, took the floor in defense of the recommendation, citing the fact that presidents of Friends colleges cannot vote in the body which employes them., Stand by Committee. Others arose in numbers to speak for or against the recommendation. Continued On Page Nine. FINDS BUD BOY; CORONER BELIEVES GAS FUMES MUSE The body of Christian Blue, aged 20, a freshman at Earlham college, whose home was at Lebanon, Ind., was found sitting upright in a bathtub about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence. of James Fry, 111 South Seventh street, where he was boarding. Coroner Morrow believes that death was due to gas poisoning. The gas burner was shut off when the body was found by the young man's roommate but there was a peculiar gas odor in the room. The water had been shut off after the tub had been about half filled. It is believed Blue ; had been dead two hours before his friend discovered the body. ' '-. : Young Blue was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Blue of Lebanon. The body was shipped to Lebanon this forenoon. Blue had been ambitious to become a public speaker and at the college was known as a gifted orator.

HUGHES DRAWS CHEERS WITH VIGOROUS ATTACK ON ADAMSON MEASURE

It was an immense and enthusiastic audience which heard Charles Evans Hughes, Republican presidential nominee, at the coliseum, last night, set forth, earnestly and forcibly, the broad, well-balanced principles he intends to apply to the administration of the affairs of the federal government in the event of his election to the highest office within the gift of the American people. Governor Hughes' Richmond address terminated a day of arduous campaigning through Indiana but he faced the great crowd which packed the coliseum with vigorous enthusiasm which was highly infectious. Throughout his address Mr. Hughes was repeatedly interrupted with rounds of applause, which was particularly demonstrative when, near the conclusion of his address, he censured President Wilson and congress for the enactment of the so-called "Eight-Hour Law' drafted and passed, he declared, under duress at the sacrifice of the principle of arbitration, a principle which had always been, he asserted, labor's greatest weapon.

TEXT OF SPEECH Text of the address which Charles Evans Hughes, Republican nominee for the presidency, delivered at the Coliseum last night will be found on page 2 of this issue. PARADE ADDS OLD TIME LIFE TO m RALLY Red fire and martial music, factors of the G. O. P. parade which preceeded the big Republican rally at the Coliseum last night, went a good way toward reviving memories of the "old days" when torch-light parades, drum corps and red fire were considered more essential than the presence of the evening's speaker. It was a typical Republican turnout participated in by representative Hughes supporting organizations from all over the Sixth district. Every city within the Sixth sector lent its co-operation. Moves East on Main. Starting from Fourth and Main streets the avalanches of music, red fire and noise headed by parade marshals Omer Whelan and H. J. Hanes, moved east on Main street. Perhaps twenty thousand persons lined the main thoroughfares of the city as the Continued On Page Fourteen. MRS. HUGHES LIKES TO HEAR HUSBAND TALK Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, despite her reputation for being a "thoroughly domestic woman" proved herself i to be a good politician last night and only the fact that Indiana is not on the woman suffrage lists keeps her husband from the assurance of the votes of Richmond society women j who sat with the candidate's wife in the box at the Coliseum. Mrs. Paul Comstock and Mrs. James Carr, who met Mrs. Hughes with a machine, took her to the Coliseum and then back to the station where they waited with her and her husband for a half hour for the Hughes' private car, found her "a most charming woman who will make an admirable first lady of the land'." Likes to Hear Husband "Mrs. Hughes is a great politician," said Charles W. Farnham of New York, who is conducting the tour. "She is a fine hand shaker and is naturally pleasant. She is with her husband constantly. This is my ifth presidential candidate's tour and I have never seen a more loving couple on a tour or off. She likes to hear every word he says and never leaves him." When a request was made for an interview, Mrs. Hughes replied that' her husband, not she, is the candi date. DR. MORROW FALLS OFF HUGHES PLATFORM Dr. Roy D. Morrow, county coroner, was quite painfully hurt last night in the crush of people seeking to get out of the Coliseum following the Hughes meeting. He was able to attend to his practice today, however. Dr. Morrow was shoved off the platform and alighted so violently that hiB spine was injured. He was unable to move for several minutes.

Defines View of Law. Governor Hughes regards the Adamson "Eight-Hour Law" one of the vital issues of the campaign and he selected this important railroad center a the place for defining at much length his views on this question and the crowd indicated that it completely approved of the position he has assumed on this issue. "It is a mere subterfuge, a pretense to call it an eight hour bill. It was nothing but a mandatory increase of wages for a certain number of men," said the Republican leader and the crowd sent up a great cheer. Governor Hughes' voice was somewhat husky but It carried clearly. One of his most interested auditors was Mrs. Hughes, who sat in the lower box on the south side of the hall. The big crowd's enthusiastic reception of her husband greatly pleased her. and Continued on Page Fourteen. COMSTOCK SAYS COUNTY OWES SOLDIERS DEBT

Judge D. W. Comstock In his Intro, ductory speech at the Hughes meeting in the Coliseum last night, pledged himself to look after the best Interests of the old soldiers and sailors if he Is elected to Congress this fall, as a representative from the sixth district. "I have it not In my heart to forget the services that the old soldiers have rendered to this nation," he said. Judge Comstock acted as chairman of the meeting introducing the Republican nominee. Announce Great Rally. "It has been announced that this meeting would be an old time Republican rally. The large audience which has gathered in answer to this announcement is to me another fulfillment of the pledge of reunion. It may be taken as a promise of success In the fall campaign," Mr. Comstock said. "I notice that many are present tonight who wear the little bronze button, an emblem which brings more and more respect as the years pass. This button speaks of voluntary serv ice and an honorable discharge from the United States army. "Some people have the opinion that after a man has served his country in the capacity that these old soldiers have that they should be spared the Continued On Page Fourteen. I R. TO TALK IN PINCHES FOR PARTY'S CAUSE NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Stepping to the bat, wielding, a new "big stick". Colonel Theodore Roosevelt expects to knock out nothing more than home runs for the Republican party from now on to November 7. The sage Oyster Bay man will be the chief "plnce hitter" for the G. O. P. He is not going to take a regular place in the line-up, but will wield his trusty stick where weak batters are opposing the enemy. The Colonel already has one circuit smash to his credit delivered in Maine. His next appearance at the plate will be at Battle Creek, Mich., on September 30. BASSETT DRAWS FINE George Bassett, a photographer, was fined $5 and costs In city court this morning on a charge of assault and battery on Nick George, , a taxicab driver. It was charged that Bassett went after George with a beer bottle when the latter refused to loi him fifty cents.