The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-20
ADMISSION OF WEAKNESS
Indiana Democratic Leaders Recognize
Their Sore PLIGHT.

ihSh Sofe TH9nt.
Indianapolis, Aug. 20.-The frantic
efforts being made by the Democratic
leaders in this state to secure the
promise of Judge Parker that he will
come to Indiana during the car,paign
is regarded by the Republican mana
gers here as good evidence that their
opponents are far from satisfied with
the sitautlon in the state and that the
men who are besieging Parker so hard
appreciate the trouble which is in
store for them before the great politi-
cal battle of 1904 is over. If the DEM
ocratic leaders had any idea that they
really would carry the state. it is ar.
gued, they would not be making such
desperate efforts to bring Parker SO
far away from home that he might say
a few words to men who were already
stirred up to the point of electing him.
The plan to bring Parker here is re-
garded as one of the by-playc of Chair
man Taggart. Taggart, it is supposed,
understands that Indiana must go
Democratic if human efforts can save
it, that he may justify his own selec-
ton as national chairman. The chair
man himself is supposed to be back of
the endeavor to get Parker out to In
diana. 1t is part of the scheme of
the Democrats to spare no efforts to
make a good showing in the state. To
the Republican managers all the eff
forts of the leaders who have visited
Esopus on the mission to extract the
unwilling promise from Parker are
but an admission of their weakness in
the state, and they care little what
Parkers answer to the "unterrified
Democracy" may be.
Indianapolis is still suffering from
the depradations of burglars, and the
fact that the extra efforts being
made to apprehend the criminals have
met with little success, has led to the
conclusion that gang of skilled
crooks is to blame for the outrages
against the law. The police depart
ment has been worked overtime for
months in the attempt to put an end
to the housebreaking. The men who
are on day watch have been called on
to patrol exposed sections at night as
well, and have been sent out in citi-
zens' clothes in the hope that they can
drop onto some of the evildoers. Sew
eral thieves have been captured and
they have been sent to serve Jail or
warehouses; sentences, but notwith-
standing these arrests there is hardly
night but that the robbers have en-
tered several houses. From four to
eight robberies have been reported
nj of O q
have been small, and it is supposed
this accounts for the activity of the
burglars, as they evidently intend to
continue their work until they have
amassed enough to make it pay them
to move to another locality.
A case new in the criminal history
of this city was tried in police court
here yesterday. Citizens living near a
carpet cleaning factory" caused the
arrest of John Norris for making so
much dust that life in the neighbor-
hood became burden. A pneumatic
device for cleaning carpets was used
by Norris, and in drawing the dirt and
dust out of the rugs and carpets
brought there to be cleaned, layers of
the dirt collected in the old building
used for the purpose. The firm decid-
ed to move and Norris was called on
to clean out He opened the windows
and turned on the air, with the result
that dirt was blown out of the aper-
lures with disastrous results to the
neighbors. They claimed their houses
were covered with dirt and that the
duof cptorod their homes and ruinod
their goods. Norris was arrested for
maintaining a nuisance. In court he
showed that he was only the employee