Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 307, 6 November 1917 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, NOV. 6, 1917.

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EYES OF WORLD ON NEW YORK CITY ELECTION

NEW YORK, Nov. 6. New York is holding its quadrennial mayoralty

election today. Fair weather that usb

ered in the day led to predictions by the various campaign managers that

a record breaking vote would be polled. Of the 696,809 voters who registered, it was expected that at least

675,000 would cast their ballots.

Many close political obesrvers be

lieve that the result may hinge upon

the vote of soldiers and sailors now stationed in training camps on this

side and overseas. The sojdier-sailor

voter has been estimated at about 50,000, and it will be about a month before it is known how these men

voted. . Bitter Campaign At the close of a campaign almost unparalleled for Its bitterness and many sensational charges and counter charges, campaign managers of the four parties issued statements claiming victory. The Fusion party predicted that Mayor John Purroy Mitchell would be re-elected by a plurality of at least 50,000; Tammany Hall claimed that County Judge John F. Hylan, democrat, would be elected by 70,000 plurality; ex-state senator William M. Bennett, the republican nominee, who defeated Mayor Mitchell at the primaries, asserted he would get 275,000 votes, and Morris Hillquit, the wealthy candidate of the sovialist party, was certain that he would roll 230,000 votes. Mayor Mitchell, in his final word to the voters, said: "Today we prove our right to keep the American flag over City Hall. Hylan shall not tear it down. Hillquit shall not stain it with surrender."

Judge Hylan reiterated his charges that Mayor Mitchell's backers tried to "steal" the primary and charged that "they are planning to make another attempt in the election booths." Morris Hillquit, who announced that "he would not buy Liberty bonds, claimed that the issues were a "humanized city government; the preservation of democratic institutions and an early, rational and durable world .peace."

Another Flag in Cause

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Byram Robbins Re-Affirms

Statement That Bavis Bungled

To The Editor of the Palladium:

Mr. Alfred Bavis has crawled forth

In print today and pronounced as

false some of the statements I made

in a talk at a Republican meeting last Friday in reference to the purchase by the city of the electric plant of the Light, Heat and Power company. It is no doubt in strict keeping with the

principles of this gentleman, ana tbe superior righteousness of the "Citizens " ticket that he printed his ar

ticle on election day, when the oppor

tunity for fair debate had passed. As his campaign manager, Will Kelley, so

consistently says, ? "It is easy to pass the lie at the eleventh hour."

All I said in my speech I stand py

and reaffirm without qualification.

It is common knowledge that Mr.

Bavis, William A. Bond and others caused the introduction before Council

of a resolution calling for the pur

chase of the electric light plant. It

was quickly introduced and quickly passed at an executive session of the council. The public press reported at

the time that council evidently was

unaware of the purpose for which the

executive session was to be held. Members of the mayor's advisory committee who recommended its passage were quoted in one of the newspapers shortly thereafter as saying that they were informed by the Board of Public Works, of which Bavis was, and is a member, that the purpose of the resolution' was merely to give the city an option to buy the plant, and that city still had 120 days within whlcn to determine whether or not it really wished to buy. " I said in my talk that that was not true, and that as a matter of fact the statutes of the state provided that after such a purchase was actually determined upon the Public Service Commission fixed the , valuation, the city should then have not to exceed 120 days within :which to pay for the plant

Shortly afterwards a meeting of business men and city officials was held in the Commercial Club rooms for

the purpose of discussing, the advisa

bility of buying the plant. Discussion

of the subject then ensued. Thereupon Wilfred Jessup, attorney for the Light, Heat and Power Company, and

Mr. Olney, Its New York representative, stated that it was too late to discuss that question, as the legal effect of the city's resolution In connection with the company's option to purchase previously extended, was to bind the city to the purchase, and that the city had therefore in effect- already contracted to buy; and further that the city could not retreat unless the company also consented to retreat, and further that, the company would not release the city unless the city would release the Municipal Plant to the company. All this Is familiar local history. It was reported as striking the citizens like a "bombshell." Many attorneys, some of whom were attorneys for the company and some of whom were not, gave It aa their opinion at the time and afterwards, that the city was bound to purchase. One of the members of the Public Service Commis

sion gave it as his opinion, on the day-

following that public discussion, that

the city was bound. The city attorney

denied it, and Mr. Bavis said it was a "colossal bluff" on the part of the company. It was not afterwards, to mv knowledge, decided by any court

that the city was not legally bound.

The city did not at any time squareIv raise the Question in any court. In

my opinion it did not dare raise it. In

stead it proceeded with its program of Dnrchase before the Public Service

commission, and many of its officials,

among them Mr. Bavis, sought to con

vince the citizens that the purchase was in reality a good thing. The mayor of the city was quoted in one of the local newspapers shortly after the public discussion in the Commercial club rooms, as saying that whether the city was bound or not the purchase was a good thing anwhow. I stated In my talk the other evening and state now that on a business matter of such importance to the city.

involving as it did an expenditure of

over $212,000 of the public moneys, there should have been no conjecture nor doubt, but the city should Erst have been sure both of the facts and law and certain of the effects of its acts before proceeding. BYRAM C. ROBBINS.

SEXTON IS ACCUSED

James -Stout, 61 years old, was arrested Tuesday morning by Sheriff Carr and placed in the county jail, charged with a statutory offense against his nine year old niece, Mary Lybarger.

Asy woman wbo fails this xrcck. to sign the. Food Administration pledge is contributing her tbttn to making btmgricr the already hungry womCa and cMUrea of Franco and Bd-

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CANVASSERS FOR ROTARY PICKED

The Executive committee for the campaign to start Friday by the Rotary club in its drive to raise money for War relief work was named at a luncheon of the club Tuesday at the Westcott hotel. The committee is composed of the board of directors and is as follows: William Bockhoff, general chairman; Edwin Wilson, secretary; Frank Braffptt, treasurer; William Romey, commander of the following captains: Omar G. Murray, Raymond Nicholson, Hill, C. E. Thomason and William Rindt; Joseph H. Mills, commander of the following captains; Henry Goldfinger, John Thompson, Paul Price, Percy Sprague and Rev. J. J. Rae.

Thi3 interesting study shows a French maiden adding the flag of the United States to the line of battleflags of the allies, while Sammy watches on.

Cincinnati Orchestra to Arrive in Richmond Wednesday at Noon

partment ot as many worthy students of music.

Tho Cincinnati Symphony orchestra, which will open the musical season with a popular concert at the Coliseum Wednesday night, will arrive in Richmond at 12:30 Wednesday noon. There will be more than 80 musicians in the party, including Dr. Ernst Kunwald, the conductor, and Emil Heermann, the soloist. The concert, which will begin at 8:15, will be of a popular nature and the famous Cincinnati players will be greeted with a large audionce. To Be Community Affair . The opening of the season will be a brilliant affair but it will bo none-the-less a community affair. The audioniin will ho rcmroaPTitJi H up nf tho rrm-

o(p.invinr iti,nri fniv nf thP fitv anH William Allen Dimmock, age twen-

country ' ty-two, of Limington Village, Me., who A large delegation from New Paris pas received his appointment as postwill attend to pay honor to Emil Heer-1 master, is believed to be the youngest

mann, their fellow-townsman, who will be violin soloist. v - A prominent Richmond man Monday bought ten tickets for the sym-' phony concert to be distributed through the public schools music de-

DR. CHURCHELL IS

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Pr. E. R. Churchell was made chairman of the Wayne County Council of Defense Tuesday by Judge Henry C. Fox. The appointment was made upon the resignation of Walter G. Butler.

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By signing the Food Administration pledge this week yon will Z rip to shorten the war.

Indian Princes Win Honors

LONDON, Nov. 5. Two of the best known ruling princes of India who have been distinguished for their servicts for Britain in the present war are the Maharaja of Bikaner and the' Jam Sahib Nawanager. I The Maharaja of Bikaner organized !

and maintained at his own expense the Bikaner camel corps, with which he served in China during the Boxer rebellion of 1901, taking part in the relief of the Peking legation. Later he served with the corps in Egypt. The Maharaja was born in 1880, succeeded to the throne of Bikaner at the age of seven and was invested with full ruling power in 1S9S. He had visited England several times previous to the present war and was present at the coronation of King Edward VII and of King George. He also sat in the Imperial war cabinet held in March of 1917, as one of the representatives of India. His Highness the Maharaja served early in the war In France on General French's staff, rendering valuable service and being mentioned several times for distinguished bravery. He is an honorary L. L. D. of Cambridge and has been awarded the gold medal of the Kaiser-i-Hind for his public services In India. The Jam Sahib Nawanager, better and more simply known as "Ranji," has recently been honored by King

George with the Order of the Star of,

India because of his loyalty to tne British crown In bringing to France a force of 1.000 infantrymen and two squadrons of lancers, as well as 200 additional horses and fifteen motors. Upon being deprived of his status as heir to the Maharaja of Nawanager "Ranji" maintained himself for some while In England, where he was being educated, as an instructor in Sanscrit and Indian history at Cambridge and he aluo became famous as a cricketer, winning the amateur championship of Knuland. When the throne of NawanAgfT was suddenly vacated he returned to bfcom one of the great vassal sovtrlgns of India and came into the poseelon of a number of palaees and of ?roat wealth, Durlsg the present war the Maharaja has not only given generously of his . wealth, btu has shown individual valor Li the service.

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