The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-23

influence over the negroes. He is plan
ming to exert this influence and, back
ed by the money he hopes to control as
national chairman, he has counted on
winning them to his side. Now that
the Democratic takers, however, have
started a campaign against colored
men, it is not likely that Taggart will
be able to do much with them if he
ever had chance, and Republicans
are quietly laughing at the way his
plans have been upset ty men of his
own party.
indianapolis just now is entertaining
two former citizens who have been
away for years and who have won fair
names for themselves in faraway
lands. The two stranger citizens are
Lee Nixon and Robert A. Mansfield.
Mr.. Nixon formerly was city clerk of
indianapolis. He left here five years
ago and has since then been assistant
postmaster at San Juan, Porto Rico,
under Walter Lands, postmaster at
that point, who is also a native Indiana
citizen. In the five years that Mr..
oils there have been many changes
made, and he took great delight on
his arrival here in noting these alter
atoms, all for the citys good. Robert
A. Mansfield is even better known
than is Mr.. Nixon. He is the present
United States consul to Valparaiso,
Chilli, and has held other important pO-
sitiOns in the government service.
There is hardly a better known man
in Indiana than Bob Mansfield, and
within an hour after his arrival here
yesterday he was renewing acquain-
tances on every hand. While Mr..
Mansfield is not native of this city.
he has spent so much of his life here
at various times that he feels almost
as If it were his home. He has a sixty
day leave of absence from duty, and
when it was granted he lost no time
in heading this way, arriving only yes
terday.
indianapolis people who CHANGED to
be at the union station Sunday morn
ing saw a sight which made them in
quire if after all members of the hui
man race are really more fortunate
than all dumb brutes. The sight that
called forth the comment was that of
five carloads of blooded horses which
were being shipped to the st. Louis
exposition with much more pains hav-
ing been taken to see that they should
be comfortable than has been noted
about any of the regular or special
trains carrying people through to the
great show. The cars in which the
animals travelled were arranged with
every convenience imaginable. Each
noble animal had a thickly padded cell
for it's own use. Food that had been
prepared with the greatest care was
carried in each car for the horses to
eat In fact, the animal cars were
much more carefully constructed than
most of the passenger cars that go
through the city, and employees at the
station who remember some of the ex-
cursion trains that have gone through
could not help asking themselves the
question if indeed their lot is far ahead
Of that OF animals as they are wont to
imagine.
The state board of charities proposes
to make one recommendation to the
coming legislature which it is believed
will secure careful attention from the
lawmakers. This is to present a bill
making wife desertion a felony. The
statistics of the state which the board
has compiled show an alarming in
crease in the number of deserted
wives. The fact that most of these I'M
fortunate women are left with children
on their hands to support makes the
matter all the more alarming. One
remedy proposed to put an end to the
practice many men have dropped into
of deserving their wives is to make
the penalty for doing SO severe enough
to make a recreant husband think
twice before he deserts. The matter
will be thoroughly discussed at the
meeting - the board to be held in
Terre Ha - in November and a bill
drafted aF<sg what is then decided to
be the les fines.
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