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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 1879. Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a year. Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher^ Muncie, Indiana, February 1, 1924.

THE REDEEMER VINDICATED. Muncie Klan N o. 4 Friday night by a unanimous vote, passed a resolution endorsing Jesus Christ, the resolution appearing in full the next day in a local newspaper. The question of the divinity of the Redeemer had been previously submitted to a committee consisting of Rev. Walter Gibson, Deacon Court Asher and Elder Willie Moy, the Chinese goblin, who reported unanimously in favor of the fundamentalists. When the resolution was presented one kluxer introduced an amendment to the effect that Jesus was not a Jew, but a native born, white Protestant American. The resolution went through unanimously but the contaminated, hireling, Papist press refused to print that part of it. Copies of the resolution were sent to the theological gentlemen in New York who have lately been staging a wordy conflict between faith and science. Its perusal will no doubt be a great aid in settling the argument. Having vindicated the Savior of mankind Muncie Klan No. 4 now has the decks cleared for Teapot Dome, the League of Nations and the Mexican revolution. Seriously speaking when one thinks of the dirty gang that murdered Daniel and Richards in Louisiana, and its offshoot, Muncie Klan No. 4, which staged the parade last June, constituting themselves spokesmen for the Messiah, the impiety of the thing makes the blood run cold. Muncie Klan No. 4 has lost every member possessed of a shred of respectability or religion. Bob Steenbarger, a member of the local klan, and now one of the principal klan organizers in Michigan, personally told the editor ©f the Post-Democrat that he is an infidel and that he does not believe in the divinity of Jesus, yet he is one of the high moguls of this hypocritical gang which covers its crimes by a cloak of pretended piety. • * « * TOUGH ON THE HOME BOYS. The painters of Muncie have more or less reason to complain of the letting of the contract for the painting of the new sheriff’s residence to New Castle contractors. It is asserted that the contract was let without the formality of asking for competitive bids as the law contemplates. The workmen who did the painting live in New Castle and went back and forth each day on the interurban. There are about one hundred painters unemployed in Muncie this time and they are naturally incensed that the contract w^ent to out-of-town people. It seems that the commissioners, or whoever it was that authorized the work, evaded the law which requires requests for bids where the amount is over one hundred dollars, by hiring

SCOVILLE’S “MASONIC” MEETING. o Scoville, the klux evangelist, put over a klan meeting Tuesday night at the tabernacle under the misleading protense of holding a special service in behalf of Masonry. While the meeting was in progress a motley gang of kluxers belonging to Muncie Klan No. 4, led by a brass band, marched into the tabernacle and sat 4own. ^ It is said that the proprietors of klux gambling houses, otherwise known as pool and card rooms, where cai;ds are played for checks and money, complained that the games were deserted while Scoville’s great “Masonic” meeting was in progress. The Masonic lodges of Muncie ought to feel proud of the sort of cattle who respond when some four-flusher like Scoville invites Masons to attend a religious service in a body. The announcement was made that the meeting was for Masons. No organized body of Masons attended the meeting, but an organized body of klansmen, many of whom could not get into the Masons on a bet, responded to the invitation. Apparently Scoville regards Masonry and Kluxism as being synonymous terms. It is true that there are some Masons who have sunken low enough to join the klan. Bootleggers and moral lepers of the I Cooper Props class also find their/way into this law 1 breaking gang, but many of this class have not sunken low enough to join, notwithstanding the fact that booze hounds and moral degenerates are generally regarded as preferred candidates. The majority of the Masons disown the klan, but that does not prevent Scoville and other klan nromoters from publicly branding Masonry as the father of the Ku Klux Klan. The Masons of Muncie should resent this attempt on the part of Scoville to link their honorable order with this contemptible organization. The klux keepers of gambling houses should also appeal to the brother to make these special klan services few and far between. It’s too hard on business.

the work done two rooms at a time, at the rate of forty-i seven dollars a room. By using this subterfuge a contract amounting to several hundred dollars was divided into ninety-four dollar contracts, each coming within the one hundred dollars limit for private lettings. It is needless to say that this artifice would not stand fire in the office of the state board of accounts, but the boys in Delaware county can get away with anything short of murder and apparently make the voters like it.

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THE CADLE TABERNACLE. The editor of the Post-Democrat, accompanied by an Indianapolis newspaper man visited the Cable tabernacle, on East Ohio street, Indianapolis, last Friday night, but both were denied admission, the ku klux klan having rented the tabernacle for the night for the purpose of holding a political meeting. The Cadle tabernacle has been exempted from taxation as an exclusive place of religious service. A big ku klux stiff stood at the door with bis ear hanging out and as the hundred percenters filed in they whispered the password to the klucker sentinel. There were six policemen standing by to keep order. That was the first prayer meeting we ever tried to break into where a guardsman stood at the door to receive a password and where an army of police stood by to keep order. Indianapolis tax officials should get busy and see to it that the Cadle tabernacle goes on the tax duplicate, instanter. By renting it out for klux meetings it becomes a money-making, and not a religious undertaking.

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Archie isn’t fooling anybody. His disclaimer comes too late. Snitching on a pal is the last thing one would expect from a Roosevelt. The Teapot Dome is the rock destined to wreck many illustrious names.

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t • -i , -i ♦ . an d witness a repetition' of the Ca-

. the democrats of the eighth congressional district! hin farce. Nothing that looks like a enjoyed an enthusiastic banquet at tbe Roberts Hotel whitewash can be pat over unde

Tuesday night. Its success reflects great credit on District Chairman J^mes Fleming of Portland, one of the live wires of Indiana democracy. The banqueters enthusiastically .endorsed Dale J. Crittenberger, of Anderson, for governor and rendered a great ovation to John Adair, who is prominently mentioned for congress. Eighth district democracy is militant and enthusiastic and will win if the leaders recognize the absolute necessity of throwing the boots into the klan. If this important issue is side-stepped the democrats will get their usual licking. The Post-Dem-ocrat still stapds pat on the proposition that no democrat is above suspicion who refuses to come out in the open as

an enemy of the klan.

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It took E. Y. Clarke a long time to find out that the Ku Klux Klan is “one hundred per cent un-American.” The r^t of us knew it long before it had dawned upon Clarke, who lost confidence in the klan only when he was cut out of the graft.

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It is now time for Cooper Props ie flivver sheik, to take another trip to Indianapolis as ress agent for the Ministerial Association and the ku klux klan.

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The next legislature should disband, disarm and demobohze the army of “horSethief detectives” who are operating ostensibly as peace officers, but are in reality merely a bunch of ku klux bandits, who prowl around at night seeking victims who do not belong to the klan.

States district attorney, AND A MEMBER OF THE MUNCIE KLAN OF WHICH CAHILL WAS SUPREME BOSS. Dayton Abott, a federa investigator, secured the evidence here and although a long list of witnesses were submitted, Ryman failed to call essential witnesses, usin^ only three whose testimony was vague, and the defendant was discharged through lack of evidence. Later it was admitted in the district attorney’s office that Ryman had not properly conducted the case and he was summarily discharged from the federal service, in disgrace. In this Connection it is important to know that the district attorney’s office had been distinctly warned against permitting Ryman to conduct the prosecution of the Cahill case, and in spite of a promise to the contrary he was placed in charge of it, and the miscarriage of justice followed. In a blaze of indignation at this apparent act of a federal official to shield a fellow klansman, Judge Anderson not only ordered the summary discharge of Ryman, but also caused the removal of Deputy United States Marshal Stafford Perdieu, because of the judge's belief that Perdieu also belonged to the Muncie klan. It is known that powerful influences have been at work for a year to prevent the investigation which now seems to be under way. Citizens here who are demanding a square deal have not been dismayed by obstacles nor will they sit quietly

Parents of Jersey City Child End Eight-Year Hunt.

FEDERAL PROBE

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special Star writer. These articles were written for the double barreled purpose of discrediting the editor of the Post-Democrat In the ey;s of the supreme court, where his at-

tions and diatribes must seem ex-

crutiatingly funny to them.

As I recall the conscientious work of these men, I do not remember that they talked to a single preacher in Muncie. I don’t suppose that good old John Dragoo knew they were in town nor did .they honor the commercial club with a visit

torneys had gone for relief after he , or spend any time talking things ■was committed to the penal farm | over with the city council. They did for contempt, and of slam whanging j not even v i sit police headquarters

or bother around the sheriff’s office. These men were busy talking to

the district attorney’s office info dropping an investigation which

might put a gang of cheap political i men and women in walks of life to tricksters behind the bars at Atlan-1 ministerail association,

over

tected and those who attempt to interfere with the processes of the federal court will do so at their

peril.

The veiy forces which moved heaven and earth to procure a federal investigation which ultimately resulted in the prosecution and conviction of democrats, are now joining hands with notorious law breakers to prevent an investigation of republican officials. At that time, it will be recalled, there was no demand upon the part of the ministerial association, the commercial club or the city’s important republican financial gentlemen to stop the probe in the interest of harmony and to save the city’s reputation. Instead of this they entered the chase like a pack of blood hounds and the cry went up in the self righteous Star and from the outraged pulpit that the city be purged, and cleansed and purified. These things are matters of history. They

cannot be denied.

If there was any honesty in that movement, let these individuals and organizations make it manifest by being honest now with themselves and with the community. If public officials here have been wrongfully charged they will be exonerated. If guilty they deserve the same punishment that was visited upon others. Muncie is (getting tired of these one sided man hunts.

COUNCILMAN AND POLICEMAN

ta or Leavenworth.

Apparently it never seemed to oc-

John W. Dragoo and the commercial club are total strangers. Their

cur to some of the well meaning ' business was to find things out and dupes of the frightened klan offi- ! re P° rt to headquarters. They had no

cials that no honest man ought to fear, to have his acts investigated. Instead of arousing suspicion in the minds of Brother John Dragoo and

interest in falsely representing conditions here.They were under orders to FIND OUT AND REPORT. They did as they were directed

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spector visited his sanitary grocery, recently, and ordered a clean up. Dr. Yingling, chiropractor, one of the hit 'em and crack 'em school who does carpenter work on the spinal column for a dollar a crack, is an enthusiastic night shirt brother and Wilson Spence, city policeman, disgraces his uniform by hob-

nobbing with the goblins.

Frank Phoenis and Francis drover, tin plate workers, are included in Elwood’s list of one hunderd per cent Americans. The latter is said to have a record which does not square with his pretensions. Art Shell, also a tinplate worker, resid-

the ministerial association, the j and now - after a loil S interval, it ing at South K and 19th streets, pleas of the investigated that the i a PP ear3 that a federal grand jury is has his name on the roster of the

investigation stop brought hearty, about check up on the evidence klan.

commiseration and the good men ^ secure d by these men. In the light j The possession of an Irish name stepped to the front and worked al- i w h a t Bert Morgan said here in a > and Catholic birth does not always

most as fast as if they themselves P^Jic address, and things he is alwere the ones under fire. I Ie S ed to have said privately, it will And then came the recent “law i wel * to watch his course during enforcement” meeting in the Metho- i the com mg federal probe into Mundist church, presided over by Bert cie conditions. He knows what these Morgan, federal prohibition officer, officers discovered here, and knowWho, in a public address, said inves- what he does, and then saying tigation of complaints against local that complaints against public offiofficials had proved all such com- cials here are groundless, and are plaints to be “groundless” and that merely the idle vaporings of vengein every instance they had been tul law breakers, inspire a suspicion made by law breakers who wanted to that will only be relieved by a full “get even.” j and free grand jury investigation I have often wondered what those covering a period of time sufficient two quiet and efficient men, officers the submission of all obtainable

Browning and Wills, think about the evidence,

numerous grandstand plays that I People here have not forgotten

Four of the klansmen regulators who pulled off this grandstand play are County Commissioner Charles Poindexter, C- A. E. Rinker, the klansman hardware man, John Boofcout, bailiff of the superior court *nd Democratic candidate for the nomination for sheriff and Walter Kemp, the noble chieftan of the so-called

Greeley, Pa.—The markings on a pair of child’s shoes made it nearly certain that the small skull and other, bones found in underbrush not far from Greeley were the remains of Jimmy Glass, the four-year-old boy

whose disappearance on May 12, 1915, detective association, caused a worldwide .search. j Under Klan Orders. Charles L. Glass of Jersey City,! The horsethief detective

father of the boy, wasned the clay from the shoes and found the maker’s

name cut on the bottom of the shoa! erates under commissions as constaunder the Instep. The boy had worn i operates under comniisions as conu pair of nearly-new shoes of this J stable granted by the county commis

assooia-

of klansmen,

make when he disappeared. The only other relics of clothing that were found were rusty metal buttons and

buckles from the overalls.

How he came to his death is not known, but it is thought that he had died of fright, exhaustion and hunger after losing his way and wandering through a thick maze of scrub oak, maple and other underbrush. His body was less than 100 feet from a wood road and about a mile from the main road. It was found there by 1 Otto Winkler, who was hunting deer. The bones were all found in a small space between the skull and the shoes, indicating that the body had been undisturbed since his death. The only wild animal that might have attacked

sioners. They are in reality agents of the ku klux klan invested with constabulary powers through favorable action of ku klux county com-

missioners.

It was not contemplated by tbe framers of the old horsethief detective association, which operated acj lively at a time when there really j were horses to steal, that any body ! of men should be armed and sent forth in the night to perform the duties of regularly elected and ap-

pointed officers.

The horsethief detective association in Madison county is becoming more arrogant each day. Backed by the

him is the bear. It is years since

bears have been seen near Greeley, j * m P er!a * wizard this lawless band is but they are sometimes reported only ! trying^to institute a reign of terrora few miles from here. j ism. It is not so much a question of Whole World Combed for Him. (legality of slot machines, as the right The boy and his parents had been ■ 0 £ any arme( j band of self styled ofat the Faust farm, Greeley, about a ficers f0 use sled hamn]er3 on mile from the place where the body I , , . x . was found. Miss Glass left j imml e ert y whose legal status was being de-

playing outside the house when she cided in court.

went to the village to mail a letter. He was gone when she returned. Fi’om that day until now no trace

of him was found.

The search was carried on first in the village, then among neighboring villages, then all over the United States and finally abroad. The boy’s picture and description went all over the world. Positive identifications were made again and again and the parents experienced many times an agony of suspense followed by the

These half crazed zealots, led by a county commissioner who ought to know better, used their sledge hammers on inanimate metal after deeid ing in their own minds the destruction of the machines was justifiable.

May Murder Next!

With the Mer Rouge case in mind, what is to hinder these fellows from sentencing men, instead of metal and using their sledge hammers to knock out the brains of those who interfere

disappointment of discovering that ( t

the identified child was not theirs af- i wd ^ their plans?

t er alp | A bunch of these fellows attended

Death From Exhaustion. | the trial of the editor of the Post-

Dr. J. H. Ross gave the certificate | Democrat in the city court Monday, of death, which he wrote was due to ; They had been active in urging their

“exposure and exhaustion, being lost ' in the woods and having wandered

have been made here to smother the farcical trial of Bill Cahill, Mun-

the investigation started here by

them.

In the light of the hundreds of conversations which these men held

cie klan organizer, before the United States commissioner at Indianapolis. Cahill was chargied with impersonating a federal officer. There

mean that the owner of the name is loyal to his faith and tradition. Jim Kennedy, South Anderson street, Irish, and a Catholic by birth, has deserted the faith of big fathers and belongs to the rotten, criminal bunch who hate Catholics, declare priests to he profligates and nuns

prostitutes.

The klan is weakening rapidly in Elwood, owing to dishonesty of klan officials and the exposure of* klan criminality in all sections of the United States. Local klansmen are now wrangling over the money. The boobs who put up the tenspots are lost sight of by the klegals and organizers, who have a nice little organization of their own, designed to separate klan suckers from their money. The loot is split in plain view of the victims and some of

them are getting wise.

Next week the Post-Democrat will

from home.” Capt. Joseph Rooney, who has "raveled a total of 48,000 miles to look at scores of boys erroneously thought to be Jimmy Glass, said that there was no doubt that the search was now at an end. “I am still convinced,” he said, “that the story told by Edward Faust, the boarding-house keeper, and Fred Lucky, a boy, is true, and that is that they saw two men and a woman in an automobile carry the boy away after wrapping him in a robe. I believe that he must have died, either from exhaustion or from fright, and that they then took him to this place in the woods and planted the body there.” Mother's Mind at Peace. Coroner J. H. Ludwig said that no inquest was necessary and gave the father and mother permission to take the relics away. They were placed in a square box and carried by Captain Rooney of Jersey City. On arriving at Jersey City, Mr. and Mrs. Glass were escorted to their home. “We had hoped until the very last," said Mr. Glass, “that the boy would be found alive. Since that was impossible, we are glad that the search is finally at an end.” The mother showed five large boxes of letters which had come to her from every state in the country ahd many parts of the world. Most of the let* tens were written by persons confident that they could lead the parents to the missing child. At times the family was trying to follow seven or eight of these false trails at once. Some of the letters were written with such detail and positiveness that the relatives of the boy had their hopes ' raised to the highest point. Years of 1 crushing disappointment had not taken | away their capacity to be tortured in | this way, and plausible reports had : within the last year caused the mother and father to go through all this emoi tional stress again. 1 “My mind is at peace, now,” said the mother, pointing at the heaps of letters. “We had hoped so that we would have him again. Since that could not be, it Is a consolation to have the body.”

klansman brother, Stratton, to push the case. Their meddlesome attitude is repugnant to all freedom loving citizens of Anderson, and the feeling is strong that Cossack rule must come to an end. The law provides for the policing of cities and counties. There Is no place on earth for an organization which assumes the functions of the pob're, takes or}* tbe defies of the judge tnd exe.” les its own sentence. Next week we are going to try to produce some inside history of the klan and its leaders. Last week we made a mistake. The “grip" Is given with the left hand, instead of the right hand, and in twisting the wrist, the one being tested must show % sligght resistance. The Post-Democrat sale increases in Anderson each Saturday. Don’t miss a copy and urge all your friends to buy. o-— Wine and Beer for the Dead. The early Egyptians deemed it a duty to provide wine for the comfort of their dead. This was not, how-over, offered in liquid form. The wine !'<■ ty was the usual medium in which wane was provided, while barley was provided to secure the deceased his modi-

cum of beer

Koreans on Increase. Seoul.—The total population of Korea as registered at the end of last year amounted to 17,626,761, according to announcement just made. * Of these 17,208,139 were Koreans, 386,493 Japahess and 32,129 foreigners. Compared with the census of twelve years ago, these figures show an Increase of 4,313,744. Of the total population, men number 9,088,684 and women

SUMNER DENNEY

with various Muncie ijidivMualsj| were plenty of witnesses to prove concerning the things they came the charge, but the prosecution was

here to find out about, all these reso- Placed in the hands of Wilbur Ry- * publish another list of Elwood delutions, pronouncements, fulmdnaf' man, then third assistant United fenders of pure womanhood.

(Continued from Page One) Wednesday afternoon while Special Judge Vannatta, of Marion, was considering the question of the legality of these machines, six members of the horsethief association armed with sledge hammers, locked themselves up in the commissioners’ cout room and sashed the slot machines, throwing the demolished fragments out of the window.

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