Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15
PURITY IN RICHMOND.
Reform Campaign Undertaken
by Citizens Committee.
FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
Discord in State. Democratic Ma
chine Is Evident
TRAILING STAMP ROBBERS
Post Office Inspectors on Trail Of
Missing Stamps and Colleague
of Condemned Men.
cial Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
i RICHMOND, Va. May IA. 1910.
Ministers and business men of the city
have taken the initiative in movement
for the publication of the city.
The first meeting. held several days ago
was attended by about one hundred repre-
sentative men of all denominations. En-
forcement of city ordinances is at this
time insisted upon.
| A negro woman and white woman.
charged with identical offenses, were re.
Gently tried in the courts. Both were
found guilty, the negro woman was fined
and jailed for her crime and the white
woman fined.
| The chief of police. on the stand, has
admitted the existence of places main
tanned in violation of law. Attention was
called to the fact that the chief had taken
an oath to enforce the laws. The man
who called attention to these unlawful
places was punished in court-fined, jailed
and made to give bond for his good be-
havior'' for period of year.
| Former Mayor Mccarthy presided at
tie first meeting of the reformers. A
committee of fifteen has been authorized
to see. that the laws of the city are OBJ
served and no preference given.
Machine. Is Jolting.
The democratic machine shows evil
dences of wear. Within the ranks of the
faithful all is not harmony
More than year ago, when the guber-
material campaign began to open, the
presence of certain persons" in the
camp Of the machine candidate was
not regarded with favor by many who
the inner circles. Then the nominations
were made and the machine" MANAGED
to triumph. Those who had been infiu-
entail began to demand that they be rec
| ognized.
| Following this came the selection of a
man to be named in case OF the death OF
Senator Daniel, and he was critically III
at the time. There are two men In the
state who were more or less disappointed
| The general assembly was in session,
and the local option outfit made forced
| fight to have enacted a statewide pro-
hibition bill, by which the people of the
state would be given the right to vote
dry. The fight was bitter. Late allies
of the machine" were sent away in dis
may-routed and discounted
| Then Speaker Byrd was named as special
state counsel by Gov. Mann. Men who
had enjoyed fine pickings by appearing
backed by their friends, began to say
| things. This has created q row. that is
good second to any one Of the others.
| Taken all together. it looks as though
| some Of the parts of the machine" will
| have to be repaired before another jour-
ney can be made.
Income Tax Advocates.
Last winter. when the general assembly
| was in session here, the senate APPROX
ed the amendment to the federal Con-
stitution empowering Congress to levy
dnE collect the income tax. The bill
went to the house. where Speaker Byrd
| left the chair and made the fight of his
| life in opposition. He baked the meas
sure
The senate was almost unit for the
| bill. The speaker refused to bulge. Now
word is passed along the line to keep
lookout for the, next general assem-
bly, and to prepare for another fight
when that body convenes..
Speaker Byrd does not hesitate to say
that he will get in the contest and do
his utmost to defeat the measure when
1t shall again appear This, together
with the de-: Of the Anti-Saloon League
and its advice to elect members to the
legislature who are for the proposition
to vote the state dry, leaves no room
to doubt that gay times are in prospect
when the time comes to name new men,
bers OF the legislature.
Hunting the Third Man.
United States post office inspectors are
Oh the trail of the third robber and
the remainder of the missing stamps
stolen from the Richmond post Office.
some weeks ago. and for which Eddie
Fay and Dick Harris are now wearing
stripes in Atlanta.
The report here is that the inspectors
have the third man and the trunk under
surveillance, and that, the moment he
tries to Jump or to dispose of the
| stamps he will be nabbed. There is also
the view that there is in Richmond an
other "snd' to the robbery. and the sus-
pect here Is being shadowed.
Fay and Harris have written here and
Office knew nothing of their visit and
came near giving them trouble On one
Or two occa sions.
Richmond Notes.
The SEVENTEEN annual commencement
Of the Medical College of Virginia will
take place Wednesday night at the
Academy of Music. The graduating
| classes embrace medicine and surgery.
dentistry and pharmacy.
DR.. Lyon G. Taylor of William and
Mary College will make the annual ad
| dress to the graduating class. This cere-
mony will be followed by a reception and
banquet AT inc Masonic Temple.
| The city has a large force engaged in
restoring the ola John Marshall house
putting on a new roof, repairing the
woodwork. replacing the loose bricks
and painting the building. The interior
| will be put In thorough repair. The city
school board will occupy the property as
| administration quarters for the city
schools.
The new Country Club. saved from fire
| a month ago. in gratitude sent to the
F'iremen's Association a check for $50 In
gold. The commissioners declined to let
the association receive II.
Earle New. aged twelve years. died this
| week of hoOkworm. He had been ill for
some weeks. The funeral took place
Friday, more than a score of his former
playmates walking In front of the casket
| rs 1t entered the church. and followed
the hearse to the cemetery. This is the
first death in Richmond from this cause.
Edward Jones. colored, Of Buckingham
county. convicted of numbering the
Wright brothers and robbing their bodies
and burning their home. has beeen grant
ed new trial by Judge b. T. Gordon.
Two white men, accomplices OF Jones.
have been tried and convicted.
a committee from the city council
Monday night will proceed with the in
vestiEation of charges recently made
against Councilmen Gilbert X. Pollock
and George E. Wise, said to have acted
as counsel for dairymen In matters pend
ng before the council. The men deny