The Union County Journal from Marysville, Ohio • 1

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39. MARVSVILLE. OHIO, OCTOBER 12, 1920 Price, $2.00 Per VaisJi tUnl 10 LYCEUM COURSE OF STARTLING I JURY VOTES FOR ACQUITTAL OF ATTORNEY JOHN WILLIS A THROUGH CLEVELAND PREACHER TYPHOID TAKES LAD. Marvin Haunch, the eleven-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Kauscb, died at the Rausch home on South Plum street Monday afternoon at two o'clock utter an lllnesH of several weeks with typhoid fever. He hud been delirious for several days prior to his death. He is survived by his parents and a brother and sister, Floyd and Arinda. The funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock in St. John's Lutheran church in the Settlement and the interment will be in the church cemetery.

Rev. H. C. Kuechle will deliver the funeral sermon. The arrangements are in charge of the H.

W. Morey Company. n- PASTOR IS TO LEAVE. Rev. D.

P. Ebert, who has neon the popular pastor of Trinity Lutheran church for the past fourteen years, has accepted a call to St. Peter's Lutheran church at Trenton, in Butler county. Rev. Ebert asked his church for a peaceful dismissal and this was granted by the church members.

Rev. Ebert will preach his farewell sermon In, Marysville next Sunday morning. He will assume charge of the Trenton church immediately. Rev. Ebert has been most successful in the local church and his friends here are by no means confined to the membership of The case was not far advanced Thursday afternoon when it was realized that the state did not have much of a case.

By Saturday morning the opinion was generally expressed by attorneys and others that the case could not result otherwise than in acquittal. It was very evident that the money had been given to Attorney Willis to pay the fine and costs providing he could get Tanner out of probation. The defense presented about fifteen letters from and to John Tanner and other written documents, all of which had this provision in black and white. In addition practically all of the Tanners admitted, although reluctantly, that the money was given for the purpose of getting out on parole. Not being able to get Tanner out on parole, Attorney Willis finally applied the $83.10 on a note he held against John Tanner for legal services, amounting to $200.

At first the state contended that the Tanners did not understand what they meant by the word probation, but Saturday they ad his church. His church members will to lose him as pastor and the People of Marysville generally will re- rpt to iosft ui pitlren JAMES KLINE DEAD. James D. Kline, aged sixty-seven years, died Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the borne of his daughter, Mrs. T.

J. Alexander, four miles west of Raymond. He had been in failing health for a lorn; time and was con fined to his bed for several weeks. He was born January 1. 1853, in Holmes county but had lived in Union county the greater part of his life.

He leaves a widow, a son and two daughters, two brothers and other relatives. The funeral services were held at two o'clock at the Bethlehem church near Richwood and the intevmpnt was in the Bethlehem cemetery in charge of W. E. Winter of Raymond. i MARYSVILLE GUN CLUB.

The Marysville Gun Club will hold their regular practice shoot at the fair grounds range Thursday. October 14, beginning at one o'clock mEyery-1 body welcome. BURGLARS ROB HOUSE. While Mr. and Mrs.

Everett Robinson were away from home last week someone entered the house and stole two diamond rings and clothing to the total value of about $500. The robbery was not discovered until Mr. and Mrs. Robinson had returned Sunday from Richwoo where Mr. Robinson had been working on a plastering contract.

The guitar was introduced into Europe by the Spaniards, who copied it from the Moors. 10 II strikers but he went further than that, he used the armed forces of Cleveland to force the steel mills to close. The statement of Rev. Dan to the effect that Davis put the "lid" on in Cleveland resolutely and fearlessly is not borne out by the statements of the Cleveland newspapers, by the crime records, nor by investigating committees. The Cleveland Automo-ble club made such an investigation and its finding is most startling.

At the request of Cleveland people, the legislature of Ohio, at a cost of $70,000, made such an investigation. They found no lid resolutely put on by Harry L. Davis. The Rev. Dan may state opinions but facts are facts, especially when matters of official record.

Here is an additional matter that should enlist the serious consideration of the churchmen who are to gather in Rev. Davies' church Thursday to AAnBlrlnM mrtt A oti nana nntllnn TTr 'miJ1 yoyo ouu 111 lauiut I VUUiVM liiccuiisjpi tin new) 11 luuuo and countrymen. It's another slander, Stop, look and listen, brethren. The theatrical interests of the state have made a deal with Harry Davis to legalize the opening of the theatres on Sundays. All the theatre people are tooth and toe-nail for Davis.

The governor has great influence with the legislature and if Davis is elected, brethren, the churches shall have more competition on Sundays and right at the time when we are going to shoo the 16,000 back into their pews. The Rev. Dan Bradley, we are sure, will send us information that thisisn't so, but it is so. Not that this paper is opposed to motion pictures on Sundays, but as a matter for the consideration of the Rev. Dan Bradley' and the Rev.

J. L. Davies, this information is given. We again print for the edification of the reader, what Rev. H.

W. Simpson of Columbus had to say in an address delivered recently in Columbus. Notice how: dry.Harry Davis was on this occasion: "The facts heretofore given all relate to the public career of Mr. Davis and his handling of governmental af fairs in the City of Cleveland, and it might be said that there is nothing in this statement which involves him in any personal way, but I want to go even further and show to you from facts which I have verified, and which you may verify if you choose, that the kind of government given by Mr. Davis in Cleveland with respect to vice and crime conditions is but the kind to be naturally expected from the record of some of his own personal acts and associations.

"The Ohio State Journal, published at Columbus, Ohio, and a Republican newspaper, on April 13, 1918, con tained the following news article: "SAYS HE'S CLEVELAND MAYOR; COP FREES HIM "A man who said he was Harry L. Davis, mayor of Cleveland, experienced a narrow escape from arrest in Columbus early yesterday morning while he and three companions visited the Oriental restaurant, a Chinese chop suey emporium, 30 North High street. "Because rules governing the operation of restaurants prohibit the drinking of intoxicating liquors, the man was asked when he drew a quart bottle of whisky from his pocket and attempted to indulge in it, to abstain. He is said to have become abusive and Patrolman Floyd Smith was sum-, moned. "As Smith was summoning a patrol from a telephone, the man for his release, making "known his alleged identity.

His companions vouched tor it and the officer reprimanded and released the offender. "I want to say that my personal In vestigation of this matter establishes definitely the Identity of the man taken into custody by the police In a chop suey Joint in Columbus at an early morning hour with a quart bottle of whisky as Hsrry L. Davis." DEMOCRATS WILL WEDNESDAY EVENING VOTERS ASKED TO MEET WITH COMMITTEES SPEAKERS COMING. There will be a meeting in the common pleas court room Wednesday evening, October 13, of the voters of the Democratic party, together with the members of all committees and ClUbS. There will be two speakers present, these being Paul F.

Dye, Democratic candidate for congress, and a speaker from the state headquarters in Colura bus. The meeting will be called at seven o'clock and a full attendance is asked as business of importance will be considered. TANK CATCHES FIRE. The fire department was called to the T. ft O.

C. railway tracks Tuesday morning by reason of a fire which caught in the tank of the crushed stone loader. The blaze was extin gulshed by the use of the chemicals. HUL ORATION OF HON. T.

L. HOGAN WAS REMARKABLE HELD AUDIENCE SPELLBOUND One of Greatest Legal Battles County's History Ended Saturday. In John H. Willis, prominent attorney, indicted on a charge of accepting 83.10 from John Tanner, father of William "Skimmer" Tanner, to pay the latter's fine and court costs, and then appropriating the money to his oWn use, was acquitted by the jury Saturday evening of the charge. The trial was one of the most remarkable in many respects of any ever held in the Union county courts.

4 The prosecutor was assisted in the' case by Attorneys Jesse L. Cameron and Clarence A. Hoopes. Mr. Willis TIMOTHY L.

HOGAN, Former Attorney General of Ohio. was represented by former Attorney General Timothy S. Hogan of Columbus, Hon. Charles C. Crabbe, author of the Crabbe law enforcement measure, whose home is in London, and Attorney Nate L.

Moffitt of Marysville. The state's attorneys made tremendous efforts to win the case and the defense fought with confidence from the beginning. DAVIS OHIO PAPER fact that Davis represents the same Cox represented in his palmy days on he bossed the party and dictated most best traditions of the party will not that his record as mayor of Cleveland that elected him there, and re-elected and those elements know no party Republican circles that 'Harry Davis any consequence in Ohio. the thousand voted in the Cleveland they were and what their purpose was and women cannot afford to hesitate. be no compromise; when definite, final has come to Ohio Republicans.

PROMISES TO BE THE BEST EVER OFFERED TO MARYSVILLE PEOPLE. This year's Lyceum course of five superb attractions. promises to be the best ever offered in Marysville and will be worthy of the time and atten tion of all interested in community development, refinement and culture. It's for all: city and country folks, men and women, boys and girls, young and old; all may receive some inspirations for the higher and nobler In life. Elsie Baker, one of America's few really great contraltos and a Victor artist, cannot fail to pleaBe.

Oct. 21. Who has not heard of Luther Bur-bank, the plant wizard? The human race owes him a debt of gratitude that only the coming centuries can repay. Hear Henry Adrian, "The Burbank Man," November 22. Everybody enjoys a good male quartet.

The Dunbar Male Quartet will also astonish you with some of the most marvelous musical effects ever, produced on a peal of bells. Twenty-eight hundred concerts and 490,009 miles of travel in America and Enrope is a good record. December t. You ought to hear Dr. Rom pel's message on permanent patriotism, community co-operation, industrial responsibility.

An International Rotary Club and chamber of commerce speaker. January 10. The Lombard Entertainers in their costumed sketches, character songs, impersonations, whistling boIos and pianologues are unusually successful Lyceum entertainers. February 8. Only by arranging for a course as this are we able to bring such high grade talent to our community, at such low rates.

We need them, we want them, we can have them if we co-opera teto bring them. Be ready for the canvassers on and after Wednesday, October 13, 1920. Think of it! The best of its kind for 44 cents an attraction. You cannot af ford to miss it. Season tickets: Adults nior $1.10.

Single admisisons 75c. and 35c. War tax included. ju- -O r-r WRONG DATE GIVEN. Attetntion is called to he Public Sale advertisement of Harrison E.

Robinson in this Issue. The same was printed last week with the date given as Thursday, October 12, whereas the correct date is Thursday, October 14. The correct date is given in this issue, BODY OF ASA WALKE ARRIVES IN PLAIN CITY The body of Asa Walke, Company soldier who lost his life in the Ar-gonne during the great war, arrived in Columbus Tuesday morning. The services and burial will be held at Plain City Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. Postage stamps are sold in nearly all the cigar shops in Prance.

ney Jesse L. Cameron, who presented the state's case as convincingly as possible under the circumstances. The state's attorneys knew at that time that they bad the losing side, but never was a stronger effort made to change the current of a trial than was made by Mr. Cameron. The first address for the defense was given by Attorney Crabbe of London, It had been arranged for him to take a half hour, thus giving Mr.

Hogan the principal address. In an ordinary trial his plea to the jury would have ranked very high, and in deed, it should in this. He is one of the most successful attorneys in the state. At present he represents Madison county in the legislature, where his ability has made him a leading figure. He is one of the attorneys for the Anti-Saloon League and his practice is As a whole the trial was one of those unusual court battles you sometimes read about in fiction but seldom see in reality.

Judge William J. Wright of Lebanon, Warren county, presided in the case. His rulings were fair and impartial, but throughout the trial was an atmosphere that the accused should have an opportunity to prove his innocence, that he was in fact innocent until proven guilty. In this case Judge Wright fulfilled in the very highest sense the traditions of the judiciary. The verdict of the jurv was evident ly the verdict of the people here.

Some there are, no doubt, who regret that the state didn't have a better case, but none but express satisfaction with tne jury's verdict; The Jury's action removed one of the main charges against Mr. Willis. in me disbarment proceedings and the immediate cause of the bringing of these proceedings, and Just what effect it will have on the hearing of mis case set ror November 29, before Judge Wright, cannot now be told. imprisonment and disbarment are very great penalties, not to be im posed ror less than very great offenses. Don Carmean was foreman of the Jury.

The men who served oa the Jury are: C. O. Shearer, J. H. Bushman, E.

J. Cowgill, Cone Howard, O. V. Park, Harry Clevenger, G. W.

Harpla, C. B. Lincoln, William Vanderau, H. L. 1 Herriott usi, uon carmean.

mi "HARRY DAVIS 13 DRY" MOST OF THE TIME. HOW HE MAINTAIKEO PEACE The Journal Directs Attention Davis' New Deal to Open Movies on Sundays. to Coming right on the eve of the assembling of the ministers of the Protestant churches, who are to meet in the Rev. J. L.

Davies church, the Congregational, Thursday, to ascertain why there are 16,000 people in Union county who are not interested in churches; comes a letter from the Rev. Dan Bradley of Cleveland to the Rev. John L. Davies of Marysvtlle, which might well enlsit the thoughtful attention of those coming to consider the formulation of an interdenominational religious program to convert the 16,000 who are not interested in churches. Reports have been circulated with persistency that Harry L.

Davis, mayor of Cleveland and Republican candidate tor governor, is wet. He has been accused of being a Bolshevist, of running a "wide-open" town, of leniency toward criminal classes, and "slandered" in other ways. Here was a Republican candidate about, whom these things were said, not whispered about, but openly stated by ministers; newspapers and investigating, committees. Here was something that needed inquiry. So our good friend Rev.

Davies wrote to his good friend, the Rev. Dan Bradley of Cleveland, to know what was what. And back comes the Rev. Dan's reply. The Rev.

Dan's reply was circulated around town Saturday as an open refutation of the "slanders" about Harry Davis' being wet, etc. Not only that, but the statement was verbally passed with the letter that Davis Democratic opponent, Vic Donahey, is a Catholic and therefore should not hold any office. Just what difference it makes as to whether a man is a Catholic, we don't get; but for the information of some it might be stated that Vic Donahey is a Methodist as are all his family. And then the letter was published under glaring headlines, "Truth About Harry L. Davis." The Rev.

Dan, who 'says his relations with Mayor Davis have given him an inside view of his character, and that he goes in and out of his office as a personal friend, says what do you think He says Davis la dry "dry as you and The Rev. Dan may be a Jokester. One local Republican who recently declared that Davis is a Bolshevist, says he knows for a fact that Davis is dry most of the time. But using the term in the political sense rather than in the convivial meaning, Harry Day 1b is the wettest man who ever ran for governor. We are sure that if the Rev.

Dap were to publish bis letter in a Cleveland paper, the populace would think he was referring to some other Harry Davis. We are sure the Rev, Dan would not publish his letter in any Cleveland paper. But for fear he doesn't we are going to see that it has some circulation in certain quarters like Cincinnati, Put in-Bay, and certain other quarters where the people have been deceived into thinking that Harry is wet, politically speaking. In these places Harry has been grossly slandered. They, too, must be undeceived.

But it will do no good to try to en lighten them in Cleveland. The Rev. Dan also assures us that Harry Davis Was all right during the steel strike. Over in Pennsylvania the officers of the law arrested the strik ers. broke up their meetings and clubbed them into upon the grounds that if they were permit ted to hold meetings the peace of the state would be endangered.

But in Cleveland, up in Cleveland, Harry Davis had a different idea. Harry called out the police reserves and when a man tried to work in the steel mills his policemen drove him away, drove him out of town, by doing which the Rev. Dan assures us Harry Davis maintained the peace of the city. In deed, Davis continued thus to preserve the peace of the city until the, United States officers arrived and drove the police away and permitted the men to work in the mills, whereupon tne peace of the community was not seemingly disturbed. This paper re gards the action of the government in Pennsylvania and in Gary, Indiana, in breaking up the lawful meetings of the strikers, whether by city, state or federal officers, as a dastardly outrage against the laws of the United States.

The action of Mayor Davis was no less a violation of the law, although done from tjie opposite side. That he did It to preserve the peace will not be accepted by any. He did it to get votes. There was not the slightest chance of any infraction of the peace from the strikers. The one thing they were trying to do and did do, despite every dirty effort of the steel trust and the officers to embroil them in trouble, was to preserve the peace.

They should have won the strike and would have won the strike had the newspapers told the truth and printed the news. Davis should, not be censured for mere sympathy with the steel BOASTFULLY. SAYS The Coshocton Tribune and Times-Age, an independent Republican newspaper, In a leading editorial warns the best element of the Republican party in the state against Harry L. Davis, the party'a candidate for governor. mitted me oetenaants defense wasH correct but attempted to obtain a conviction upon the grounds that Willis could have, secured Tanner's release on May 3, 1919, by paying the fine and costs at that time.

His term did not expire until June 19, but he had earned many days off by reason of outside work and good behavior. The state contended that Willis could have paid the fine and costs and have taken his receipt to the Columbus workhouse and secured Tanner's release at that time and. then Tanner could have slipped home to Richwood and might have been there for some time before the prosecutor and sheriff learned of it and again placed him under arrest for an indictment charging rape. Tanner had first been sentenced to six months in the Columbus workhouse on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a Marion girl and after this and while still serving his sentence he was indicted for rape against the same girl, the two charges being for the same crime. The prosecuting attorney had already stated in court that he had objected at that time to the giving of Tanner of any time off for good behavior and further had stated that he had been at the workhouse to see that Tanner was not given liberty outside of the workhouse as had been done.

The jury evidently did not believe that Attorney Willis could have secured Tanner liberty in this method. It was shown that Mr. Willis had made several efforts to get Tanner released through the court officials without success. The address of former Attorney General Timothy S. Hogan of Colum bus was probably the most remarkable oration ever delivered in the local court.

Regardless of prejudices for or against, those who did not bear this address missed a plea such as they will probably never again have an opportunity of hearing. A man of commanding presence and voice, his, talk to the Jury was Impressive beyond description. He talked for an hour and during the entire time absolute silence prevailed. The old saying that the dropping of a pin could have been heard, was literally true. The faces of the unusually large court audience were tense and even visibly pale.

The writer of this report has heard Mr before both in public addresses and in court trials and in fact has heard most of the country's great orators during the past twenty-five years, and we are confident we are not exaggerating in stating that the address of Mr. Hogan before this Jury was the greatest piece of oratory we have ever listened to. Not only did those in the audience hear one Of the supreme efforts of a lifetime, but In all probability, never again in the ordinary lifetime will such a mass of eloquence be presented to a local jury. As a document of analytical argument and reasoning it was not superior to that of Mr. Crabbe, who had preceded him.

In fact, he made no attempt to follow a consecutive line of thought, but selecting here and there just a few central thoughts, he weaved around each such a mass of eloquence and convic tion that after the trial these were the points that stood out pre-eminent in the minds of the listeners and this to pur mind is great argument. Not by voice alone, not by diction added, but by gesture, expression and presence also, he weaved his magic spell. The pay an attorney gets was not the inspiration of this oration. It was con viction, conviction that wittingly or unwittingly a great wrong was being attempted, conviction that intentionally or unintentionally an unusual effort engaging the best legal talent of Union county was being made to send an innocent man to the penitentiary, conviction that caused him to stand there as the champion of right against error, that ite had on his side the right, the jury, And the audience. It was a great one of the high lights in the lifetime 'of each person in the audience, the memory of which will never be effaced.

Forty years from now this oration will be recalled by many in the audience, con versationally. At his conclusion, the court ordered a recess of five minutes, probably for the purpose of re storing normalcy. The concluding address was made by Attorney Hoones. for the state. It was the most difficult position possible, in following such a re markable address.

The argument was opened by Attor The paper calls attention to the elements, in the party that George B. "murderer's row" in Cincinnati, when of the nominations, The Tribune and Times-Age says be conserved by the election of Davis; is an open book, and that the elements him, abound in every city in the state lines." "The boast is already heard in the will carry Hamilton county by a George B. Cox majority of Republicans of a certain type are also boasting that Davis got 8,000 Democratic votes in the Cleveland primary. The same class of Republicans are claiming that Davis will sweep every city of "If it is true that Democrats by primary for the sole purpose of nominating Davis for governor, is there any question as to the class of Democrats in supporting a Republican mayoralty candidate? If it is true that 'Davis will sweep every large city in can there be any question in the minds of Republicans of the better class what elements in these cities are going to vote for Davis and what their purpose Is In electing him? "The question today for right Republicans to answer is," says the Tribune and Times-Age, "shall an ambition that was denied to the notorious boss, George B. Cox, a quarter of a centuryago now be gratified in one who exhibits the same moral disqualifications and typifies the same methods in public life that the notorious Cincinnati boss did?" The paper points out that for every victory the party won with George B.

Cox as its guide and sponsor it has since suffered a humiliating defeat. The lesson, It says, is that "it pays to be clean in our political affairs the same as it does In our private affairs." 4 Referring to the entrance of women into politics, the paper asks, "Will this vast army of Republican women declare with their ballots that Davis represents their views of private morality and public decency Did the Davis mayorality terms in Cleveland represent In a public way what these wives and mothers desire in their homes for their' sons and daughters? "The plain fact is that the underworld is backing Davis boastfully, confidently, defiantly. Is there a gambler's vote in Ohio? Davis will get it. Is there a law-defying vote in Ohio? It will march in the Davis column. Will the scarlet woman of Ohio express a preference for governor of the state this fall? Davis will be their choice "There are times when men There are times when there can stands must be taken.

Such a time is a time to put loVe of principle above love of party; to put into practice with onr.votets the theories we hold about the sanctity of the home, Obedience to constituted authority and all the oner homely civic Tiroes upon which our state was founded and which have made it what it Is today.".