The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-01

, SpIlt IN tne party, TdtHeT OlllHOuS pc-
ginning for SO young an organization.
! Speaking of politics and elections
recalls an incident of the last Novem-
Der elections in New Jersey, funny
enough to supply the plot for a farce
comedy. For fifteen years Arthur n.
Roe, a staunch prohibitionist of New
ton, n. j., ran for office regularly and
IeligiOusly, considering it his bounded
duty to sacrifice himself in the cause
of prohibition, and for fifteen years
consecutively Arthur n. Roe was con-
sistently defeated with all the rest Of
the Prohibition ticket. In the course
OF time it became a habit with him to
have his name placed upon the ticket,
to go stamping. and to awaken the
morning after election invariably as
an also ran" II mattered little for
which office he was mentioned as can
didatc upon the ballots, the result was
always the same.
When he awOke on November s,
however. and found that by some trick
of fortune he had actually been
'IcttSd '" as StuLIISu a. III 81 iSIi
his surprise turned to joy. for it was
surely an honor that he was the first
and only prohibition candidate ever
elected for any office In his county.
but his JOY quickly vanished when he
discovered that he had been elected
Coroner. So long as there was no
danger of his election he had cared
but little whether he was running for
Governor or Coroner, but now. when
he was confronted with the fat ac-
compli of his election, the situation
was quite different Coroner? Never!
He had not looked upon corpse for
forty years and had no desire to do so,
even professionally, SO late in life. He
positively declined to accept the posi-
ton and has never qualified.
Adam, the Candyman, to the
many thousands who travel down and
up Broadway. past ST Paul's church
yard every day familiar figure. has
given up his little candy stand at that
corner and retired from business. For
fort four years Adam. whose family
name Is Schmalner, conducted his bus
mess on that corner, selling cheap
candy. chewing gum and other deli
cacies to clerks, stenographers and
messenger boys. Rain or shine he
attended to his little stand from six
o'clock in the morning until seven at
night and many penny did he take
in in in the forty-four years Of his com
mercial career He was never given
to extravaganza and his wife was even
more saving than he. They raised
two children, both Of whom are mar
ried and-not in the candy business.
In the many years of his business ac-
tivity Adam saved quite a handsome
fortune. which enables him and his
wife to retire from work and live in
comfort for the rest of their days.
Among the arrivals in this port who
are detained at Ellis Island at present
are man and boy of eighteen, who
arrived here from foreign ports, and
claimed admission as American citi-
zens. Neither was able to prove his
citizenship and they will probably be
sent back to the port whence they had
come One came from England, the
other from Jamaica and the British au
thorities deported them as undesirable
citizens. Should they be refused adj
mission to the United States they may
have to spend the rest of their lives
travelling back and forth between in
hospitable ports at the expense of the
respective steamer companies.