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THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

VOL. 2. NUMBER 26

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922

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RELEASE OF Mi (ML BY MITED COMMISSIONER WAS A FUCE OF FIRST WALIR

Republican.Machine on Orders from Washing-

ton Saved the Hide of their Ku Klux

Brother in Distress

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Bill Ryman, Klansman and Deputy U.S. District Attorney Assigned to “Prosecute” the Boss Kotop

Through the influence of men high in the ranks of the Republican national organization, the precious hide of Bill Cahill, organizer of the local Ku Klux klan, was saved in his trial before the United States Commissioner when he was brought to preliminary trial on the 6th, charged with impersonating a federal officer. Cahill was guilty of the charge and there were plenty of witnesses secured by the department of justice to prove the fact, but the so called trial was a farce, pure and simple, and unless Judge Anderson steps on the gas and brings, the conspirators to book for their outrageous frame up to free this impudent interloper, decent people of Muncie may well question the honor and integrity of the federal agents of justice located at Indianapolis. Wilbur Ryman, of Muncie, deputy United States district attorney, and a charter member of the. Muncie Ku Klux klan, was assigned by his chief, United States District Attorney Elliot, to “prosecute”'Cahill. Ryman introduced but three witnesses, and 'although many others had been subpoenad to testify,'they were

not called upon by Ryman.

and the department of justice.’* The

oames of several klansmen who were present at the meeting when this demand was made and wShen Cahill boasted of fooling the people

here by showing a badge and calling himself a federal officer wereTlurned

in to the federal 'authorities, so there could have been no possible

way in which the district aattorney

could have misunderstood Ryman’?.

connection with this illegal band of

outlaws and bulldozers.

Notwithstanding this, Elliott assigned Ryman to try the case. Just think of thrjt awful legal battle! Ryman on one side for the government, and George Cromer on the

other for the defense!

If Elliott knows anything ’ at all, outside of a slavish tendency to consider his office the football of politics instead of a medium for brir ing criminals to justice, he knows that every member of the sweet scented' bunch of anarchists known Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,

The three witnesses were the ones who were held up by CAbll ilast May, and who charged that he displayed a big badge 1 , telling them that he was a federal officer. No atteryvot-was made by Rymar\ ro get at the real truth of Cahills activities here. If he had called the other witnesses he could easily have proved that Cahill had posed as a federal officer in the presence of many other people besides the three men who were placed on the staind. The government had the names of a number of the members of the Klan who heard Cahlil say* at a Klan meeting, that he was fooling the people here in Muncie by passing himself off as a federal officer It is declared that Ryman himself was present at the meeting and heard Cahill make the statement. The action of United States District Attorney Elliott, an appointee of Senator New, in assigning one Ku Kluxer to prosecute the chief of the band of Ku Klux outlaws to which Ryman himself belongs, can only be characterized as the most impudent and outrageous perversion and prostitution of a high office that has come to the notice of the people of Muncie for many years. Elliott had been amply advised of ithe fact that Ryman belonged to the Klan. A man, high in office in Muncie, who, through a misconception of the ideals of the organi zation, became a member, went personally to the federal officers at Indianapolis and advised them of the fact that Ryman was a member.

Demand Resignations

This man, whose word is absolutely unimpeachable, was present at the meeting or the klan and heard Ryman, Benadum iand Cahill demand, in the name of the invisible Empire” that Captain John Moles, Detectives Jerry Curran and Albert Rees and Patrolman William Sims be instantly removed from

the Muncie police force.

This information wa3 placed dn the hands of the district attorney

to protect any brother charged with any crime,

is sworn klansman

excepted. y Any one who heard the gospel of the klan expounded Sunday at McCulloch. park by an itinerant bum brought in here to help start civil war, was informed that klans ship takes precedence over all other obligations. Any one who has seen the local klan impudently take possession of public parks, pack juries, railroad women to the penitentiary, and prosecute victims through the courts, with the aid of a klansman prosecutor,, sheriff and city judge, aided by a bunch of klansmen Policemen, havie had it thoroughly demonstrated to them that with a klansman, the “Kotop” law is the law of the land, and that all other laws may go to hell as far as they are concerned. Protecting Brother Klansmen Cahill was charged with impersonating a federal officer. Through his oath as a klansman, Ryman was obliged to protect' him. If he had

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Living on Jew Money The Post-Democrat knows of one business man in Muncie who belongs to the “Invisible Empire,” who professes to be a good friend of the editor of the Post-Democrat, when in the presence of the latter, but who defames him abominably as soon as his back is turned. This fellow had his own reason for joining. He hates the Jew. He has no reason, really, for being antagonistic to the sons and daughters of Judea, for he is now living in ease on the rathe£ large fortune, amassed by a Jew, but which, through a fortuitous circumstance, came into his possession a few years ago. This fellow, living in ease on Jewish money, and at the same time becoming a member of a Jew-baiting society which only had its counterpart in Russia under the czarist regime, is now presumably strong for la^ and order, notwithstanding the fact that he is said to have illegally sold enough booze in his time to fill the swimming pool on East Washington street. His motives, in joining the Klux, like those of the majority of the members, will not b-^ar analysis. However, the white robe and the Mother goose cap which hides their forms and faces, cover their shortcomings as well, in the sight of all good klansmen.

been charged with rape or malicious murder it would still have been within his right as v klansman to decide whether the rape was v rape or ordinary debauchery and whether the malicious murder was malicious murder or simply just a case of commonplace homieuw, ordered by > the imperial wizard, with no malice whatever on the part of the assas- 1 sin. | Investigation fails to reveal that Ryman was ever called before, since his appointment by .Senator New, to prosecute in any case either before the United States commissioner or in the federal court. His duties are said to lie wholly in the narcotics division of the district attorney’s ' office and are said to be purely of a clerical-legal nature. Does it not appear strange that in the only ease to which, he , was ever asigned by his chief, that the defendant happened to be the organizer of -the Ku Klux Klan to which Ryman belongs? It appears stran'ger when one is aware jthat the United States district attorney knew that Ryman is a klucker, and presumably ...knew the . sort of an oath tire kluclcers / take, considering Jhe fact that the oath is a matter of congressional record from the direct testimony of the “Imnerial Wizard,” William Joseph Simons, himzard,” William Joseph Simmons,

himself.

The people of Muncie have faith in Judge Anderjari, but they are . .i ,.i . • farce that was pulled off under his very nose. No one balives that Judge Anderson will countenance this rotten deal. It should be investigated by the next fsderal grand jury. ' Accompanying Cahill and his attorneys to Indianapolis on the 6th was a large delegation of klansmen. They imnudently swarmed the federal building. It is a wonder that they did not wear their silly peaked caps and dirty nightgowns, inasmuch as they were there in sufficient numbers to feel safe and cocky.

STRIKERS, AND THE REMEDY ■ The railroad strike and the miners’ strike are now stirring things up in the country at a lively rate. The striking workmen, most of whom voted for Harding in 1920, upon discovery that the Harding normalcy they voted for meant cutting their wages intWo, all quit work in disgust. They voted for it, and they got it, exactly in th eneck, just where the Harding administration planned to land, after inducing the suckers to hand them the club. After eight years of the most prosperous times they ever had in their lives, the toil- 1 ers voted to impoverish themselves. They know it now, but their handiwork, and his crew, are safely entrenched at Washington, all set to turn the regular army loose on the strikers, l,f they happen to look cross-eyed at some hired labor buster. Harding is vainly calling upon his “best minds” in the extremity that assails him. The big money interests that elected him know of but one way to settle a strike. Bullets, bayonets and machine guns constitute practically the sole argument of these short sight-\ de advisers. The strikes could both be stopped within twenty four hours if Harding would apply a remedy that would meet with the approval of ninety five per cent of the people. The government should take possession of the railroads and coal mines, pay for them on a basis of actual valuation, operate t hem as government utilities the same as the postoffice department is conducted and mine and railroad strikes would end forever. This will not be done, however, by the Harding administration. The billions of wealth which art represented by the gang that put Harding over, will not permit the question to be settled hat way. - - Rather than see these great public neces sities go directly into the hands of the people, where they belong, they are perfectly w illing that blood flow in endless streams. * It is strange that these short sighted captains of industry and finance cannot read the handwriting on the wall. It is notorious that the average financier does not read history. A persusal of the history of men s ince the world begun ought to teach these foolish people that the tide of popular opini on may be stemmed up to a certain point, and then the dam bursts. Uunless the administration changes froont and gives the pedple what they want, the dam will purely burst. If the captains of industry and finance were endowed with undftrsUinr 1 and would only read up a little o n history, modern, medieval and ancient, they might avert the calamity.

Another Carpet Bagger Allowed to Blow Off His Bazoo From Band Stand at McCulloch

Park.

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Knew All About Ryman The editor of the Post-Democrat had a telephone conversation an hour before the trial with Mr. Osborn, the head of the department of justice ait Indianapolis. In justice to this department, we believe that it did every thing possible to prevent the abominable miscarriage of justice. In this conversation, advised Mr. Osborn that the investigator sent here several weeks ago had secured evidence tbit Ryman belonged to the klan, to wffiich he replied that the district attorney understood all about the situation. Dayfcon Abbott, tfor eight years chief of police at Fort Wayne, now an investigator in the department of justice, is the man who secured the evidence against Cahill. Working with loyal police officers, and with the publisher of the Post-Dem-ocrat, he secured evidence of such a nature that he went immediately to Indianapolis. Cc|isidering the case urgent he did not wait for the federal grand jury to act, but filed an affidavit before the United States commissioner and the arrept followed. The commissioner does not have He has the power, however, to discharge a defendant* if, in his judgement, the evidence is insufficient. If there seems to be any evidence tending to show the guilt of the accused, it is his duty to bind him over to the federal grand jury. Mr. Abbott, a trained detective made a careful and painstaking investigation here. He Stecured, the statements of many people who could have testified concerning the guilt of Cahill and at the conclusion of his investigation had no_ doubt in his own mind in the matter. The evidence secured by Mr. Abbott was ample and the department of / justice acted promptly. The arrest followed immediately, and then it was that the gang began to act. Save Me G. O, P. Gang The word was sent to Washington that nine tenths bf the republican candidates fdr office belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. It is pitiful, Macedonian squawk for help from on high. “If Cahill is bobbed the good old bi-partisan machine will go on the rocks,” was the burden of the demand for immediate assistance. The machinery of the Muncie Ku Klux Klan is controlled by the bipartisan gang that has kept Judge Anderson’s court from getting rusty for several years and whose present and past activities will most likely ! get the entire gang there again before the string is played out. It is the same gang that nominated Van Ogle, Prosecutor Benadum’s understudy, for prosecuting attorney and

vainly tried to carry Delaware county for Harry New r , the ardent defender and supporter of that grand and glorious near-conviclt, Senator Newberry. It is the same gang that inspired the malicious and murderous assault last March on the editor of the Post-Democrat and (his. young son, and it is the same gang that is now attempting to secure political supremacy here in order that law, order and common decency may be relegated to the background and the rule of the lawless become su-

preme.

Cahill A Willing Tool Cahill has been the willing tool of this bunch of gangsters. In his testimony before the United States Commissioner he admitted that he was a deputy sheriff, appointed by Sheriff Harry Hoffman, who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Pos'4-Democrat has the knowledge that Twenty one members of the klan have been appointed deputy

sheriff.

What chance have those who do not belong to this outlaw organization to get a square deal, when 'sworn officers of the law place these men, sworn to take orders from the sworn to protect klansmen charged with any crime except rape and malicious murder, dn a position which gives them the lawful right to carry guns and clubs and make ar-

rests ?

What explanation now can Sheriff Hoffman and Prosiecutor Benar dum make concerning their part in placing this man Cahill, whom they knew to be. a deputy sheriff, on a j jury in a trial in which a man they jury in a trig! in which a man they sought to destroy had his libepfy at stake ? Are the people of Muncie going to stand for this outrageous attack upon their liberties and possibly their lives ? It is time that this criminal organization be broken up. Men who call themselves decent and lawabiding havfe a strange sense of the fitness of things if they continue to belong to an organization which sanctions the packing of juries and tampering with the processes of the federal courts.

SAY N. Y. C. CLERKS VOTE FOR STRIKE Cincinnati, 6., July 13—While no positive, statement would be made here at the Brothei’hood of Railway Clerks, as to whether strike sanction had been given clerks on the New Y r ork Central Lines, it was said that clerks on a number of lines had voted to strike and had been given strike sanction by the officers of the brotherhood. Names of lines affected were withheld by the offcials here. Members of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad federation today declared that only three freight trains in three days have passed over the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge, the main railroad bridge across the Ohio river at Cincinnati.

HELLO THERE, KOTOP! When one good member of the “invisible Empire” meets one of whom he is not certain he asks: “Say, can you tell me where I can find the Kotop tire store ? If the one to whom the question is addressed looks blank and answers in the negative, it is evident that he is not a member. If he belongs to the knights of the shirt tail parade he will reply: “No, hut I know where the Topok tire store is.” This is the universal hailing sign of the good brothers of the sheet and peaked cap, although it is sometimes varied by asking for Charley Kotop or Doc. Kotop. Not being a brother Kotop, Klan No. 4 cannot sentence us to death for revealing what might be regarded as a rather intimate secret, namely the publication of the universal hailing sign of the membership of the Ku Klux klan.

WHITE MASKED FOLLOWERS

OF TY-BO-TIM

By Willard Behind -a mask they hide their face. A long white gown their form does grace; With peaked cap that is long and

slim,

They bow to the will of Ty-Bo-Tim. This white gowned bunch are sure a

joke,

And in their wheel we’ll put a spoke; For their monkey business we will not stand, For we don’t need masked men in this land.

ARE LIKELY TO GIVE GERMANS MORATORIUM ' '

Will Probably Cover Cash Payments For Rest of Year

REPARATIONS BODY TO MAKE DECISION

Understood Allies See No Other Solution of Problem.

Only a coward will hide his face, Or a criminal bent on some disgrace; All honest men their face will show, At all time where e’er they go. Upon all masks they place a ban, And have no use for the Ku Klux

Klan;

With their patriotism veneered so

thin,

And led by a faker like Ty-Bo-Tim.

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Every day this week, beginning with Sunday, has been field day with the merry Ku Klux klan. Sunday , afternoon an itinerant windbag, who I ! styled himself “Dr. Fowler,” spoke j in behalf of the Ku Klux klan from ; the grand stand at McCulloch park. During the week a so-called ex-nun has been speaking at Campbell’s

Auditorium.

A crowd was drawn through a misleading advertisement which announced that the “Doctor” was to expose the klan. The fellow made a rebel speech-' praising Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee to the skies and as an afterj thought throwing qjne very email, i wilted bouquet in the general di- | rection of George Washington and 1 Abraham Lincoln. He extolled the klan, which, he | declared was simply a continuation j of the klan that started in the south | several years after the war. i In this field he lied. The klan of j I86S was organized for the sole purj pose of combatting negro dominai tion in the south and in opposition to the carpet bagger or “scalawag,” those republican adventurers who went south to wrest political domination from the native southerner. The original Ku Klux klan did not oppvov tho--Jw,v the Uiuiojic zr£ cnL of the articles of its constitution was the expression of undying hostility to the republican party, the Union League and Jhe republican congress which had disfranchised southern whites who had been active in the prosecution of the war. Under the guise of “one hundred percent Americanism” this blatherskite was permitted to make a rebel sneech and to ridicule negro, Catholic and Jewish citizens and white Protestant Gentiles who rebel at the thought of the sheet, mask, tar bucket and midnight gun. The inverted logic of those who applauded the drivel of the blatant bum, is hard to understand. The fellow, who claims to be a South Carolinian, praised 'the south for repelling the porthern carpet bagger in 1868, and then had the gall to stand on the ground owned by all the citizens of Muncie, Protestant, Catholic, Jew and Negro alike, and speaking as a southern rebel carpetbagger, abused all who refused to agree with his silly clap trap.

Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, and ho will bless thee in the Jand which Jehovah, thy God giveth thee—Deuteronomy, XX VIII.

PARIS DINERS PICK' FRUIT FROM TREES PARIS, July 13.—If NewYork is the place for freak dinners of a rather arid ingenuity and magnifience, it certainly is in Paris that are born the prettiest inventions connected -with dining. The latest is the complete fruit tree, sufficiently dwarfed to be placed upon the table with its fruit hanging from the branches. One would imagine that this would be a toy for millionaires, but you can get a plum tree of this kind for the equivalent of $2.50. Whether the fruit so grown is really worth eating* is another matter*.

LONDON, July 13—Premier Poincare, of France, will probably be invited to London immediately for dis- | cussions with Prime Minster Lloyd j George on the reparations questions I as affected by present conditions in j Germany, according* to official circles j here.

PARIS, July—The French government is apposed to an immr.Jiate meeting of allied powers to discuss the reparations situation and it will only consent to such a meeting as a final step. This was made plain in official circles today after a conference between President DuBois'of the commission and Premier Poincare.

PARIS, July 13—A moratorium on Germany’ cauh payments for the remainder of.this year was thought in circles close to the reparations commission to be quite pi*obable as a result of a conference this forenoon between Dr. Fischer, chairman of the German war debts commission, and all the members of the commission. Roland W. Boyden, the United States representative with the commission, took part in the conference.

DIED IN THE SHELL

We have been informed that the proposed new democratic newspaper, which was to have been started for the extremely meritorious purpose qf putting the Post-Demo-crat out of business, has tamely expired in the shell. The project was conceived with vast enthusiasm on the part of its two or three sponsors, but when it came to putting up real money, the realization came that there wasn’t such a demand for a new democratic newspaper, after all. The real democrats of Muncie, and Delaware county, who are solidly behind the Post-Democrat, made no secret of the fact that they were utterly opposed o the starting of another democratic newspaper, whose aim was to start a ruckus within the party. The Democrats of Delaware county are now united and in fighting trim. The republicans are disorganized and rent asunder by fractional strife. Democrats recognize that this is no time for democrats to begin fighting each other. Ev^ry democrat and republican in Delaware coymty should subscribe for the Post-Democrat. The campaign will soon open and we will have some matters to discuss which will open the eyes of the voters.