The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
BiIIheimer, MattingIy and
Brown, Riddle Democratic
Bark in Enthusiastic Meet
ing Last Night.
RESPECTS ARE PAID TO
JOHNSON AND WILLIAMS
Brown Numerically Attacks
Richmond Man Who Called
Watson a Demagogue-
Watson Defended by All.

Three republican guns were trained
upon the democrats at the coliseum
last evening, and the defenses of the
opposition were riddled by shot and
shell. ]. c. Billheimer. auditor of
state, Ezra Mattingly, leader of the
temperance forces in the state senate,
and Robert Brown, former clerk OF
the supreme court, directed the guns.
So skillful were the shots from this
battery that John Sharp Williams will
have to be recalled to provide rein
forcement and furnish new line of
defense to be attacked. Each of the
speakers and Charles Z. Shiveley, who
acted as chairman, took occasion to
rip the speeches of Mr.. Williams and
Henry U. Johnson made in the same
hall the evening before. One speak
er asked by what right Williams came
into Indiana and preached the rule of
the people. when he halls from such
a state as Mississippi. where the peo-
pie know not the spelling nor the
meaning of the word rule.
In opening the meeting. Mr.. Shive-
ley made the first reference to the
speech of John Sharp Williams. His
remarks were pointed and he lacerat-
ed the efforts of the southern senator
with skill and adroitness, so that
when the operation was complete d
there was scarcely any of the fruit
left for the others except the peeling
and the core.
John, G. Billheimer, a native of
Wayne county. and auditor of state,
took occasion to show how much bet
ter this office has been conducted un-
der republican administrations than
under that of the last democrat. He
showed that the business of the office
| has increased in amount five times
and even then the past year four
| times as much money was collected
the last year as during any year OF
the term of the last democrat a man
named Henderson. He showed how
the duties of the auditor have in
| creased in importance as well as in
number. He pronounced the charges
of Thomas Marshall, the democratic
candidate for governor in regard TO
the affair of the office of auditor OF
state with being absolute faIsities
In closing his remarks. the speaker
said the one great question before the
people of Indiana today is Watson or
Marshall, which? He said Marshall
was unheard of before the democratic
convention and even not then until
| Thomas Taggart brought him forth
Wayne is the home county of Oliver
P. Morton, the great war governor. I"
sad the speaker, "and | want to tell
you there never was a man more ira
| duced or DETAINED than Morton, ex.
cept James E Watson. Before he be.
came candidate for governor, no one
ever heard it said he was an enemy
of labor. If Watson is opposed to la
Dor then the republican iparty must
be-
The superiority of the equipment oil
Mr.. Watson as a candidate to that oi
Marshall was spoken of. The claim
of Marshall that the ditch law Is an
example of unjust republican Iegisla
| ton was taken up. 1t was shown that
| Marshall has used as examples for the
unfairness of this law a case in Whit
ney county, his own county, and thai
a ditch costing $4,000 was built. The
| speaker said Marshall does not tel
he was the attorney who prepared the
papers in this case and out of the to
tai cost he received 5000 for his OWL
personal fee.
Watson or Marshall?
Ezra Mattingly, the temperance
| leader of the state senate, opened his