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T HOMO FA H A vi II a ATNJD SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 220. RICHMOND, INP.f TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. ENEMY OF HAttLY MADE LEADER OF REPUBLICANS Under Guidance of John Ed wards of Lawrence Coun ty, County Local Option Will Go Through. SENATE VOTES ON COUNTY OPTION THIS AFTERNOON House Awaits Action of Sen ate Before" Proceeding with Important Legislation Hunt Leads Delegation. OPTIONISTS IN A RIOT. MINISTERS AND OTHERS GATH ERED IN HOUSE CHAMBER AT NOON HOUR GROW ANGRY WHEN SPEECHES ARE MADE. CAPITOL POLICE INTERFERE Throw Instigators of the Melee Out Of Capitol and Others Are Ordered To Leave Charges and Counter charges Made. Indianapolis, Sept. 22. John Ed wards of Lawrence county, known as an Anti-Hanly man, was to;ay put in charge of the local option tight in the lower house of the Indiana state legis lature at the suggestion of the state republican committee. Edwards has been antagonistic to most of Governor Hanly's measures in this and other sessions and his selection is signifi cant of the effort being made by the etate committee to pass the local op tion bill. He is one of the strongest men in the house, probably the best fitted for floor leader of any among the republicans. Gus Condo who as chairman of the ways itnd means com mittee, is nominal floor leader, is now in effect deposed. He is expected to vcte against the bill and of course could not be expected to lead a fight for it. With Edwards in charge, re publicans feel certain of the bills pas sage. A conference of house republicans this morning resulted in an agree ment to keep the two local option bills introduced in the house in coinmi! tee, 'until the bill from the senate comes over, Final action by the sen ale on the bill was expected this af ternoon. In keeping with that program, the house session was a fifteen minute af fair, lasting long enough only for the members to adopt the report of the mileage committee, giving them their money for transportation. Old Wayne There. "Old Wayne for county local op tion," badges were pretty much in evi dence among the local option advo cates about' corridors today. On the way over from Richmond. C. B. Hunt, was selected as chairman of the dele gation. The senate received large number of petitions and memorials favoring 3ocal county option this morning and ndjourned until two o'clock this after noon. After adjournment republican Senators went into conference on the county option bill with the idea of passing it this afternoon. Congressman Watson visited the house this morning, circulating among members after adjournment and later had an animated conversation with House Leader Edwards. Rlbboners in Riot. White ribboners precipitated in a fimall riot In the house chamber at r.oon today with the result that about Me hundred of them were driven out lu the capitol police. Intemperate language o.i the part of pome of the lo ral option lobbyists ws? the cause. One member of the Muncie delega-J (Continued on Page Two.) Shall Richmond Respect Pioneers Judgment in Naming National Road Shall a section of that road running through the heart of Richmond which was authorized by congress in the early part of the last century through the indomitable persistence of Henry Clay be changed from its present "high fa lutin' " title, "National Avenue" to the original name, given It by our pioneer ancestors, "The National Road?" This question was sprung on council last evening when Councilman McMa han presented an ordinance authoriz ing the changing of the name of Na tional Avenue to National Road. Mr. McMahan wanted the ordinance passed under suspension of the rules, but there was opposition to this. Various city dads, their faces seamed with wor ry over affairs of state, wondered if it was best to take hasty action on the matter. Would the public approve of this change of name? "Its only lot sentimental reasons DOCTORS SEEK GRANT'S OFFICE Several Physicians Want Job As County Health Officer. Inquiries have been made by local physicians and their intentions to ap ply for appointment as county health officer announced, as the result of the tragic death of Dr. George H. Grant. The county commissioners have' been called to meet Thursday and at this time the successor will be chosen. It is expected five or six physicians Will ask for the appointment. The office of county phvsician is highly important. His jurisdiction is the entire county and unincorporated towns. Owing to weather and other prevailing conditions there is fear that disease might become an epi demic and consequently the commis sioners will hasten matters as much as possible. TO FINISH HOSPITAL Stands Willing to Fulfill Can celled Contract With the State of Indiana. - HANLY THREATENS HIM. SAYS GOVERNOR TOLD HIM HE MUST "GET OUT" OR MILITIA WOULD BE USED APPEARS BE FORE LEGISLATORS. Indianapolis, Sept. 22. E. M. Camp field, the former Richmond contrac tor, from whom the state commission building the Southeastern hospital for the Insane, took away the contract for that work, helped make la&t evening interesting for the members of the ways and means committee of the house, and the finance committee of the senate, sitting in joint session. He told how Governor Hanly had threat ened to use the state militia to keep him off the premises of., the new in stitution at Madison and then sub mitted to being called a liar, in vari ous sorts of language by various per sons. The committees had under consider ation the administration's bill appro priating $151,000 for the completion of the work on the new hospital and rati fying the contract entered into with Pulse and Porter, of Grcensburg. to do it. Campfield. by his attorneys, form er attorney-general W. A. Ketcham, and E. E. Gates, had asked to appear and state his side of the case. He ob jected to the ratification of the con tract, saying the commission and the governor acted illegally in breaking the contract with him, and that he should yet be allowed to complete it. He told that he had been ousted al most without notice, his machinery, equipment, horses, private papers siez ed and himself forced to depart. At torney Ketcham added that the gover nor had told him that if he didn't get out, the state militia would see that he did get out. His property and mate rial is now on the ground, he said, go ing to ruin. He stands ready to com plete the work exactly per contract and specifications, he said, and, if requir ed, to give further bond. He went in to detail to complain of the treatment accorded him by the commission, with regard to supplies and materials. General Ketcham declared that the purpose of the commission and the governor in introducing the present bill is to legalize a contract with Pulse and Porter that is illegal. "I know the Governor's legal attainments and his disposition," said Ketcham. "This bill simply seeks to legalize an illegal contract made as the result of breaking illegally a contract with Mr. Campfield." "If they have a just claim," said C. V. McAdams, appearing as attorney for the commission, "they can bring suit in Superior Court in this county and recover damages. "Now, gentlemen," continued McAd- (Continued on -Page Two.) that the people who live on National avenue want the name changed," stat ed Mr. McMahan. "The West Side Improvement association approves of this action." But sentimental reasons for legisla tive action it is declared appeals but slightly to our care-burdened city pa pas, and, as one of the statesmen put it, "avenue sounds better to me than just common road." The matter of fact Ideas of today, it was afterwards said, had probably blinded him to that picture of yesterday, showing sturdy pioneers with pick and shovel and rifles close by on the ground building that artery of commerce, known the country over as the "National Road." through Maryland hill and mountain country and the level, fertile fields of Ohio and Indiana, then as now "the promised land." But what's In a name, asks the Rich mond city countf . . .. ROOSEVELT SCORES FORAKER; PRAISES TAFT FOR STAND Says Ohio Senator Has Always Been Enemy to Reforms And Policies Inaugurated by Administration. URGENT APPEAL FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. His Defeat Would Bring Grati tude to That Class of Men Who Have Backed Foraker And Haskell. Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Sept. 22 Presi dent Roosevelt in a formal statement takes a hand in the Hearst-Foraker controversy. He sees in the expose by W. R. Hearst nothing that can re flect in any way on the political affil iations of W. H. Taft, but, on the con trary, he finds in the record of the nominee and his stand In regard to Senator Foraker and those involved with Foraker additional reason for the election of Taft. President Roosevelt bluntly denoun ces Senator Foraker as having been an enemy to the reforms and policies inaugurated by the administration dur ing the last seven years. Points Out Taft's Foes. The president formally makes an other appeal for the support of Taft, and declares that his defeat would bring "lasting satisfaction to but lorfe set of men namely, to those men who, as shown in the correspondence published by Mr, Hearst, were behind Mr. Foraker. the opponent of Mr. Taft, in the opposite party." The president's statement embodies a letter written by Mr. Taft to a friend in Ohio on July 20, 1307, in which the present republican candi date for the presidency refuses to ac quiesce in the plan of the, Ohio state central committee to indorse Mr. Taft for the presidency and Mr. Foraker for 're-election to the senate in a sin gle resolution. Law Defiers Scored. .The president points out that Mr. Taft's attitude has always been direct ly opposed to that charged . against Senator Foraker by Mr. Hearst re garding the moneyed Interests. The president cites the Brownsville affair as a case where the agitation was a phase of the effort "by the represen tatives of certain law-defying corpor ations to bring discredit upon the ad ministration." It was, he says, in large part, "not a genuine agitation on behalf of colored men at all." Roosevelt's Statement. President Roosevelt's statement Is as follows: In view of Mr. Hearst's disclosures about Senator Foraker I make public the following letter written by Mr. Taft on July 20, 1907, to a friend in Ohio, prominent in Ohio politics, who wrote him before the meeting of the state central committee asking wheth er he would object to the committee passing a resolution indorsing Mr. Taft for president and Mr. Foraker for senator, in the interest of har mony. A copy of this letter was sub mitted to me at the time, but after the original had been sent it was not in tended for publication, but it was un derstood that if necessary it should be published. I personally know the strongest pressure by various party leaders was brought on Mr. Taft at that time to consent to the proposed arrangement and he was informed by leading men from other states that if he would con sent to this arrangement all opposi tion on the part of Mr. Foraker and on the part of some of Mr. Forakers influential friends in the senate and elsewhere would cease and that Mr. Taft's nomination for the presidency would be assured. But Mr. Taft declined for one mom ent to consider any possible advant age to himself where what he regard ed as a great principle was at stake. His attitude on this question, as well as on countless questions, convinced me that of all men in this Union he was the man pre-eminently fit, In point of uprightness and character and fearless and aggressive honesty and of fitness for championing the rights of the people as a whole, to be president. Leader Against Reforms. Senator Foraker has been a leader among those members of congress of both parties who have resolutely op posed the great policies of internal re form for which the administration has made itself responsible. His attitude has been that of certain other public men, notably (as shown in this same correspondence published by Mr. Hearst,) Governor Haskell of Oklaho ma. , There Is a striking difference In one respect, however, in the present posi tions, of Governor Haskell and Senator Foraker. ...... Governor Haskell stands high In the councils of Mr. Bryan and Is the treas urer of his national campaign commit tee. Senator Foraker represents only the forces which in embittered fashion fought the nomination of Mr. Taft and which were definitely deprived of (Continued on Page Flr4 CASE DISMISSED; : WITNESS MISSING . . Florence Haler, Who Charged Muth With Assault, Gone. Florence Haler, prosecuting witness in the case of the State vs. Charles Muth, charged with nssault and bat tery, skipped out and this morning the prosecutor moved to dismiss the charge in city court. Haler appeared at police headquarters yesterday morning with red eyelids, and appar ently restraining the tears by a hard tffort He swore cut the affidavit, said he would get even and left. He was In the city last evening after dark, but this mornins could not be found. PASTOR FLEES ' WITH AFFENITV 1 Rev. Wm. Ritchie Disappears From Charlottesville, Ind., Home. IS ALSO AN EMBEZZLER. CHURCH FUNDS TAKEN ANGRY FARMERS PROVIDE FOR WIFE AND CHILD SERVANT GIRL STAYS NEAR HIM. Greenfield. Ind., Sept 22. When members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Charlottesville went to church .Sunday evening they were in formed by the trustees that there would be no service. Wonderment spread over the faces of the worship ers. Constant inquiry disclosed last night the charge that the pastor, Rev. Wil liam Ritchie, aged 37 years, had left home last Friday, and that a servant girl. Miss Bertha Williamson, aged 20, of Carmel, Ind., also lefttown at the same time. Ritchie has a wife and two-year-old child. The farmers' wives in the neighbor hood rushed to the aid of Mrs. Ritchie, who is prostrated, and her child, while the men denounced the pastor in angry words. "We formerly lived in Carmel, Ind., where my husband had a charge," Mrs. Ritchie said, "and Miss Williamson was one of the members of the Sunday school class. "We moved here about one year ago. I was not aware of the attachment of my husband for the girl until she came here to visit us a few months ago. The girl prolonged her visit and was given employment on a farm near us. She often called on us. but I did not even dream that my husband would leave his calling and his family for a girl half as old as he is." Dr. Joseph L. Allen, coroner of Han cock county, who is president of the board of trustees of the Charlottes ville M. E. church, declares that Ritch ie has embezzled nearly $1,000, part of which belongs to the church. Dr. Allen said that Ritchie borrowed large sums from other members of the church board and gave notes, on wlrich they say, they can not now collect. Mrs. Ritchie has received a letter from her husband in which he stated that Miss Williamson was his affinity and that he and she had left for parts unknown. "Do not try to reach us," he said in the letter. The letter was sent from Indianapo lis. The church board will ask the authorities to locate the missing min ister. POSTMASTERS MEET HERE OCTOBER 6 Final Arrangements for Sixth District Meeting. Final arrangements are being made by Postmaster Spekenhier for the an nual meeting of the postmasters of the Sixth distrist that is to be held In Richmond on October the first day of the fall festival. There will proba bly be about one hundred officials here and every effort Is being made to make it one of the most successful meetings that has ever been held by the district James H. Jones of New Castle, Is the chairman of the pro gram committee. It is hoped to se cure a number of the officials from Washington for speeches. William T. Fletcher, postofflce Inspector, of Cincinnati, will also be asked to attend the meeting and speak. THE WEATHER PROPHET. Washington, D. C, Sept 22. Ind iana and Ohio Fair - Tuesday night and Wednesday; light to fresh south to sovthwMt winds. INSURANCE WARTO BE WAGED AGAINST OLD LINt COMPANIES Those Operating Under Dean Schedule, Face Critical Sit uation, So Far as Rich mond Is Concerned. PRESENT RATES ARE DECRIED AS UNJUST. Mutual Companies Will Be Asked to Enter Local Field, If Present Rates Are Not Discontinued. There is every reason to believe old line fire insurance companies are to be given the rebuff by Richmond bus iness men and manufacturers, who own large plants. The reason is ob vious. The old line companies have issued a statement to the effect no re lief from the prevailing high rates may be expected. The assertion is made the conditions of local factories and buildings is such that the present rates are not excessive. But the local owners of these large plants claim the assertions of the old line companies are erroneous. As there is no longer hope for a reduction of the rates, the business men will in vite a representative of the various mutual companies to come to the city and deliver an address depicting the advantages that may be derived by In suring with his companies. This means but one thing if the mu tual companies can place before local business men a proposition regarded as fair in which rates lower than those of the old line companies are offered, the insurance now carried with the old line companies will be withdrawn and placed with the mutual. When the mutual companies realize the cost of insurance for 42 plants in this city amounts to almost $32,000 annaaltos it: is expected they will be glad to send a representative here to explain their lines of Insurance. Claim Unfairness. The business men. represented by the Commercial club, hold this city has been treated unfairly and discrim inated against. They have sought re lief from the old line companies. The New York Journal of Commerce is au thority for the statement appearing as a news dispatch that no relief will be granted and agents are urged to stand by the so-called Dean schedule of rates. Rather than pay the rates that are regarded as exorbitant, the business men will withdraw from these old line companies and insure with mutual companies, following upon an investi gation and assurance the latter com panies are first class. The rates of fered by the mutual companies in some instances will be less than one-half of those now being charged by the old rtne concerns. The question of fire insurance has been before the Commercial club for some months. Circular letters were sent to the heaviest insured plants in the city., and 42 answers were receiv ed. These sowed the increased cost of insurance brought by the recent rat ing is $8,273.51, or 3 per cent. Local agents were asked to meet with the club and they took up the matter with their respective compan ies, but found relief to be Impossible. A committee of the Commercial club issued the following statement today: "The insurance committee of the Commercial club held a meeting last nigtt for the purpose of considering a statement published in the Western Underwriter, the official organ of the old line fire insurance companies, and also a statement published under a Richmond date line in the New York Journal of Commerce. This was pub lished in a Richmond paper and was read and freely commented upon by our citizens and not in any friendly language toward the companies pro mulgating the report. The committee declares that the statement is unfair, reflects seriously against the city's good .name and that the exceedingly low per cent of fire losses as publish ed by the companies themselves, do not bear it out. "The article states that, after going into the case thoroughly and employ ing an inspector to examine some of the plants applying the schedule, it was found that the schedules were applied with the best of judgment and that the increases resulting are entire ly due to the condition of the plants. It is reported these plants are. as a rule, in very bad condition and where there has been any attempt to make Improvements they have been done In a very shoddy manner." And then proceeds to instruct its agents to col lect new rates, advancing any lines that may have been written at lower figures. "If this statement is true." why did Mr. Sellers who made the rates and applied the schedule, when he address ed the club in June, tell us that Rich mond was so near perfect In fire pro tection, that Bhe ranked probably third of the cities in the state in this respect and that with some improve ments made by our water works- sys- .(Continued on. Page Two.) Excerpts from the Controllers Report If the city intends to meet its ex penses for next year and the extraor dinary expenses Incurred this year and not provided for In the 1908 budget through tax levy, it will be necessary to raise the tax rate to $1.25, the limit prescribed by law. providing the $6,000 apropriation for4 the hospital is provided for. The controller recommends that the tax rate for next year remain the same as this year, $1.05, and that coun cil authorize the issue of $20,000, or $25,000 city bonds, the amount depend ing on the hospital appropriation. This recommendation made because of the number of men out of employ ment and because local business in terests still feel the effects of the pan ic of 1907. Controller reports the approximate deficit for this year totals to $55,600. This includes deficit in taxes on ac count of lower appraisement, a sub way and two sewers In West Rich mond, the hospital appropriation, the North Tenth street and the South First street storm sewers. None of these items were provided for in the budget for this year. The controller points out that there was a deficit of $3,000 in taxes owing to the fact that the appraisement of property was more than a. quarter of a million dollars less this year than last year. . It is pointed out in the report that the city's receipts will be approxi mately $9,000' more this year than last year, thus reducing the approximate deficiency to $46,600. This deficiency must be cared for next year in addi tion to the 1909 budget, amounting to $201,500. which does not include a Reld Memorial hospital appropriation. BETTER PROTECTION AGAINSTBAD MILK City Council Takes First Step Towards New Condi tions. SALARY INCREASE VOTED. POSITION . OF INSPECTOR WltL PAY NOT MORE THAN $1,200 PER YEAR, THE EXACT AMOUNT NOT YET BEING KNOWN. A resolution was introduced by Coun cilman Bartel at the city council meeting favoring the increase In the salary of the dairy inspector from $120 per annum to a sum "not to exceed $l,2O0. By the adoption -of this reso lution council does not go on record as favoring an annual salary of $1,200 for a dairy inspector. If the phrase "not to exceed" had not been incorpo rated into the resolution it is doubtful If it would have passed. City Health Officer. Dr. C. S. Bond, was very anxious to get the sentiment of council on the proposition, so that, in the event council favored the plan of employing a competent milk inspec tor, he could arrange to secure an ex pert while in Washington, where he in tends to go shortly. Council's action last night did not give the health offi cer much satisfaction. Councilman Burdsall stated that the people in the Eighth ward were oppos ed to the plan of having a municipal milk expert. Councilman Wettig stated that in his opinion $1,20 was too large a salary. Councilman Von Pein stated that probably the majority of the people in the south end were opposed to the pure milk plan, but he thought it was a good one and would support It, risking the displeasure of his constituents. Councilman Deuker stated that the plan of having a raunicinaljure milk expert had never been properly laid before council, and he thought this ac tion should be taken. City Attodney Study then stated that it was planned to introduce a milk inspection ordin ance which would require all dairy men operating in this city to secure licenses. These licenses would give (he milk Inspector the authority to inspect all dairies selling In this city. He stated that the present salary (Continued on Page Two.) Holds Copy of Constitution of First Labor Organization in Richmond The copy of the constitution and by laws of the house carpenters' and join ers' society, which probably was the- first union labor organization in this city, and section of the country, now among the prized archives of the Mor-risson-Reeves library is not the only one owned locally. John W. Poulke 118 North Fifth street has a copy of the same document neatly bound in leather. The date la 1835 and In ev ery way except Its Improved condi tion this little book is similar to that at the library. The booklet originally was the pos session of John Hughes the grandfath er of Mrs. Foluke. The volume con EXPENSES OF CITY RICHMOND CREATE L DEFICIT Necessary for Council to Make Special Appropriation of $46,600, Besides That of $201,500. ' TAX RATE WILL SOAR TO HIGHEST LIMIT. If Rate Is Not Increased to $1.25, It Will Be Necessary To Authorize BondJssue of Near $25,000. Shall the already well tax-laden citi zen of Richmond, have Ms city tax rate increased from $1.05 to $1.25, the limit prescribed by law; or to mee' the city's big deficit for this year and the heavy expenses for nexL, year, shall a $25,000 bond issue be floated? This is a question which now con fronts the city council and which ev ery taxpayer in the city is interested In. City Controller Webster Parry last evening, submitted to council his 1909 budget, together with a statement in which he points out the financial con dition of the city to be in a most un satisfactory state, and in which he recommends that council authorize the floating of a $20,000 or a $25,000 bond issue, which, he states, could be paid out of the city's sinking fund in five or six years and still leave the city's bonded debt $50,000 below the legal limit The controller further points out in his communication that unless coun cil authorizes the floating of this bond issue, it will be necessary to raise the tax rate from $1.05 to $1.20. providing no Reid Memorial hospital appropria tion is made, but if such an appropria tion is made it would be necessary to raise the tax rate to $1.25. the limit prescribed by law. - As ha3 been the policy of the Schil linger administration since it has ben in power, no hospital appropriation is provided for in the budget However, council has always appropriated $6,000 annually for this institution and it is cuite probable it will make a similar appropriation for next year. Deficit $46,600. Cutting down his estimates on ap propriations for next year as low as possible, Controller Parry still finds that it w'ill be necessary for council to appropriate $201,500 to meet the city's expenses and it will also be nec essary to make an appropriation to meet the deficit for this year, which is approximately $46,600. Afte- council had heard the control ler's report and the 1909 budget, the matter was referred to the finance committee. The demand of the local business men for improved fire protection facil ities is ignored in the budget for the reason that the controller believes the city cannot afford next year to meet such an expense. The controller, however, does provide, for a milk in spector at a salary of $1,200 per an num. This is in accordance with the popular demand that steps be taken to insure pure milk for local consump tion. In hi? budget the controller "asks the following appropriations for the vari ous branches of the city government: Munic. Light and Power plant $ 43.O0O Engineering department . . . . 3.450 Markets l.OttO Department of finance 10.KM Department of law 1.500 Board of Public Works 27.i50 Buildings and grounds 1,S(X Parks 5,7oo Streets, alleys, sewers 30,OX Fire department . . 35.75o Crematory 5,250 Health and charities 3.200 Department of police "17.7QO City court 1,400 Grand total $201,500 Under the head of Board of Public works an appropriation of $23,400 ,is made for street lighting. Under the head, of Streets. Alleys, and Sewers an appropriation of $5,000 is made as the city's share of such Improvements to be made next year. Of the $45,000 ap propriation for the municipal plant (Continued on Page Eight) tains information of particular inter est to the members of this secret la bor union, the first of Its kind' in the middle west It Is a ocpy of the same union rules as those which governed the same organization at Cincinnati. Mr. Foulke Is a collector of relics and curiosities. His borne is a verti able storehouse of such things. t He has a small hand bellows that was the property of Dr. Warner, the man who rave the ground upon which now is located the city hall.' H has every copy of the Richmond Palladium since 1833. The venerable man Is Interest ed greatly in' his antique possessions and prizes them greatly. - UNUSUA i i