Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 13 April 1923 — Page 1

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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923

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Gases Against Post-Democrat Will be Tried by Judge Victor Simmons--Indianapolis Star Conspiracy Failed

Judge Victor Simmons, of the GEORGE CHRISTENSEN Blackford circuit court, has been se-J locted as the trial judge in the two ( cases against the editor of the Post- j Democrat. He has assumed juris-1 diction and will later hear motions | for a change of venue from Dela- j

ware county.

We are charged in the latest indictment with libel, based Upon our published statement accusing George .tleeger with being a “grocer and one hundred percent draft dodger.” Upon looking up the record of this young • man we find that his regular business, up until the time, at least, that the world went dry. was that of saloon keeper and bar tender. He and his father ran a saloon out on Willard street for many years and a part of George’s regular business was to deliver “Wooden Shoe’’ beer by the case, at night, to a se-

lect list of customers.

The boys who patronized the Roeger saloon out on Wilhi’d street say they all rather liked George, who was a liberal, easy going sort of a young fellow who gave them a big glass of beer with little foam on it. j The contempt cases against the [ Post-Democrat have both been ap-1 pealed to the supreme court, where ! thev will be heard- in due time. We are now making a thorough investigation of the outrageous at- : tempt that was made to influence I and prejudice the supreme court at j

the very moment that our attorneys Photo shows George Christensen were petitioning the higher tribunal 0 f N eW York, a Pullman car inspecfor our release from the penal farm, 1 tor f or t h e New York Central Ry., Tt is known that at the time the displaying his remarkable muscle petition was filed a committee, all of con trol by writing simultaneously whom are known, went to Indianap- v/ : th both hands and both feet. While obs and attempted to induce Indian- attending school he was forced by apohs newspapers to publish untrue his teacher to write with his right and defamatory articles which would hand . As he was naturally lefttend to discredit the Post-Democrat handed, George’s left hand was tied and its editor. • behind his back for a whole year The Indianapolis News refused to t o break him of the habit. At the dirty its hands but the Star sent one en( j of t h a t time he found that he of its staff employes to Muncie and v;as perfectly ambidextrous,

on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday, to the will of the electors than the nine supreme judges of the United States, who are appointed for life. The court of final resort is the supreme" court of "the 'United States, and when one mentions the supreme court it means the federal tribunal. As to the criticism bestowed, no judge or no supreme court that are un the level can find fault with honest criticism. It is only the small minded dishonest jurist that loses his head and seeks to throttle free speech and free press. The conspirators who sought to keep us in prison at the penal farm, by the publication of false, malicious and line-

Washington News

March 25, 26, 27, first page stories were carried in the Indianapolis and Muncie Star, the evident purpose of which was to impede, harass and hinder a federal iny^sjJgabion ,11 urn. under ’jvay in Muncie and to prejudice the minds of the supreme court judges against the defendant editor by misrepresentations and garbled utterances of the most vicious and

uncalled for type.

The minds who inspired the vicious underhand a- tt-em p t to influence jiidges by false newspaper attacks, took one paragraph from a PostDemocrat editorial commenting on the supreme court and the question

of the right to declare laws uncon-,, „ ,

rtitutional. and the single paragraph j kus y arns > fsl1 down miserably,

of the editorial was included in that ! part of the Star write up of Muncie ■ Which discussed the Podt-Democrat

and its editor.

This editorial could not have been selected by chance as an exhibit or sample of the writings of the editor of this newspaper. It was selected by Muncie conspirators and dUlibersitely published in the Indianapolis Star because it was a comment on the supreme court and it was hoped that it would incense the judges of the. supreme court of the state of Indiana and cause them to rule adversely in our petition for release from the vile prison pen at Putnam-

ville.

In the first place, the editorial concerning the courts did no* refer to the state supreme court, and the conspirators knew 'it, but (selected only a portion of the editorial, knowing that if published in its entirety, it would not serve the purpose. The state supreme courts and^ the federal supreme court are entirely different boddes, Uie members of

Washington, D. C. April 12—American Army Air Service declares flight of six planes to Porto Rico demonstrates that this island) possession is ideal base for air fleet to check enemy with designs on Pana-

ma Canal.

Brig. Gen. Fries of Chemical Warfare Service assaitedl by Women’s Peace League for calling its pledge “treason” and by Council for Prevention of War for charging it with

communism.

Shipping Board announces it will not sell ships on unrestricted routes for less than world market prices. The Alien Property Custodian’s office has begun preliminaries to the return of alien property trusts of $10,000 and under, under the recent authorization tof Congress. Appli-

state supreme courts are elected by j cation blanks are being mailed to

the people and are more responsive, all those interested.

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A Sample of Inconsistency Two republican township trustees have refused to pay the Post-Democrat for running their annual reports last January, and it looks as if we will have to sue them and make them settle. They refuse settlement because, as they saw, the PostDemocrat is not a newspaper of “general circulation,” which is one of the requirements. In the citation for contempt, which led to the fining of the editor of the Post-Democrat one thousand dollars and the imposition of six months imprisonment, the declaration was made that the Post-Democrat was a newspaper of general circulation, and that it was widely circulated and read in Muncie and Delaware county. Thus, you see, for the purpose of making the contempt case stick, the Post-Democrat was judicially recognized as a newspaper of general circulation, but for the purpose of evading the payment of a just debt due this newspaper, its enemies switch over t; the other side of the fence and declare that it is not a newspaper of general circulation. Judge Dearth and Van Ogle were right in designating the Post-Democrat as a newspaper that is widely read in Delaware county and the official recognition of the fact, from the bench, ought to carry weight. It is hard, however, to suit people who refuse to be suited. We have tried to reason with some of these hardshell, one horse township officials, but our patience is practically exhausted. Most of them are sensible, but two or three of them will have to be “shown”, and we will show them if we have to go to the supreme court to do it.

THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE

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The daily newspapers these days are full of a,ccosunts qf the ku klux klan being repudiated in this or that locality by the thinking men and women of The country. Every newspaper of standing in the United States has declared itself emphatically against the invisible empire. p • - Every statesman of America, every magazine of standing apd every public man whose ideas are above the common place and who has the welfare of his country at heart, has repudiated and opposed this grotesque thing. We are now being regaled daily by newspaper accounts of some sort of a wrangle over money and power which is being engaged in among the emperors, wizards, kleagles and goblins of the klan. ' It seems that one set of goblins has gone to court to wrest control from another gang of klan sheiks, and each side is freely calling the other side ft bunch of land pirates and boss thieves. i / , v ^ / - • Sifted down to the final analysis, it appears that these head bimboes of the celestial order are scrapping over the money that was taken away from a million or so suckers who paid ten dollars apiece for the privi.ege of putting his head in a sack and wearing a night shirt in public. We gather that a Texas longhorn named Evans has been chosen Weary Wizard of the Rickety Klackety Klan. William Joseph Simmons bears the rather un-American title of “Emperor for Life.” Edward Young Clarke, who spoke in McCulloch park last August and whose handbag, containing five hundred dollars in currency, a quart of “Old Irish” whisky and an automatic revolver, was picked up by a small boy while the speech was in progress, seems to have dropped out of the klan. He is now a fugitive from justice, warrants being out for his arrest for alleged violation of the Mann act and for some other irregularity. Clarke was the wise financila head of the klan, and since his departure for parts unknown the lesser lights now in control have settled down to a dog and cat fight over the loot. The suckers who gave up the ten have been forgotten in the disgusting struggle for ill-gotten gains. Clarke was smart enough to keep the lesser lights from exposing the rottenness of the inside workings of the klan. In order to keep down all trouble he simply took the lion’s share of the swag himself and bluffed the others into silence. The gang in control now are not possessed of sufficient diplomacy to keep the klan’s dirty linen from being exposed to the public. One of the questions involved is whether or not an emperor for life is boss or an imperial wizard. Simmons gave up the wizard job to become emperor and is now squawking loud and long because the wizard annexed the royal exchequer. It is a matter of slight importance :o the general public which side wins—the emperor or the wizard. About the only poi it of difference between the two is that which might be described as the difference between dirt and mud. No matter which side wins, the suckers, who put up the money which they are wrangling over like a dog over a bone, w ll be asked to keep on being suckers. Evans calls Simmons a thief and Simmons calls Evans a thief, but both are one hundred per cent Americans, according to acccepted klan standards. Eventually decent klansmen will withdraw from this ridiculous organization in sufficient numbers to cause its final disruption. There are now evidences of disintegration in sight, but it will probably have to ruA its course, like the small pox. yellow fevex and - the Huiciuay investment craze. ' When suckers bite they hate to acknowledge their error. That is human nature. But the last straw finally breaks the camel’s back, so, sooner or later the klan will go fiooey. The state republican organization has done a wise thing in putting the official Indiana sign on the klan, through its state chairman, Lawrence Lyons. The democratic organization should be prompt in following the example of Mr. Lyons. The trouble with the klan is that it has been allowed to become powerful in Indiana politics. Politicians have bent to the will of the goblins and wizards until the klan has swelled up like a boiled prune and has decreed itself greater than any political party. Both parties should firmly and with neatness and dispatch, proceed to boot the klan out of Indiana politics. Governor McCray has had the courage and strength of character to repudiate the klan and from now on the republican county organization that has the gall to make itself an adjunct of the klan will find itself entirely out of harmony with its party. Without political protection the klan will not last as long as a snowflake in Hades. Men who believe in party rule, rather than klan rule, are now taking the klan seriously enough to kick it out of politics.

I Effort Being Made To Start Fake Democratic Newspaper Inspired By Republican Machine

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Serious Charges in Federal Court Made Wednesday by Defendants In Nuisance Abatement Gases

ADMINISTRATION—PROMPTED BY MANLY’S MEStSAGE— PROBES SUGAR RISE

There was plenty of entertainment Wednesday in Judge Anderson’s Court when the nuisance abatement cases brought by Prosecutor Ogle received their airing. Judge- Anderson allowed everybody to talk and “a good time was had by all.” The federal judge ordered all the places closed an>dl they banmot be reopened unless a bond of five hundred dollars is given. Some of the defendants talked freely and the judge allowed them to speak unreservedly. Arthur Logan, for instance, wanted to know why the cases against Bob Graves, Hugh Berry, Jim Bayliss and Jim Rice, which were filed and dismissed in the circuit court, were not carried to the federal court as his own and the others were. “I’m sure I don’t know,” was the reply of Judge Anderson. “I, know,” interposed John Cox, one of the defendants, “it is because county and city officials drank white mule out of a granite kettle at one of the four places the night before election. Cox also volunteered the statement that Prosecutor Ogle, in company with a prostitute^ became intoxicated 1 in a redlight immoral joint and handed the landlady five dollars to purchase a quart of white mule for the regalement of the assembled roysterei*s. Prosecutor Ogle became somewhat peeved when Arthur Logan asked about the four places which had been left out in the federal court action, and declared that that was “ail PostDemocrat talk.” Mr. Ogle rather under-stated the facts when he made this statement on oath before Judge Anderson. The

four cases mentioned, were filed in the Delaware circuit court, along with those tried at Indianapolis Wednesday, by former Prosecutor Clarence E. Benadum, shortly before

he retired from office.

The court records show this. They show that the Prosecutor and Chief of Police wanted the four places closed under the nuisance law. The records also show that 'they were dismissed by Prcteecutor Ogle and the fact is outstanding that he did not refile them in the federal court as he did the cases against John Cox, Arthur Logan and the others, and there is nothing in local history to sustain the theory that the four places mentioned have become any less of a nuisance than they were at the time the prosecutor and chief of police declared them to be nuisances

which ought to be abated.

Thus, the casual dismissal of this matter from the mind 1 of Prosecutor Ogle on the theory that it is met> “Post-Democrat talk.” is not borne out by the actual court records in the case, upon which the Post-Dem-ocrat based its charge that some Muncie law violators are being protected and others prosecuted. And by the way, the Post-Demo-crat believes it speaks for all fair minded citizens of Delaware county,

Photo portrait of Basil M. Manly, director of the People’s Legislative Service, who in a telegram sent to President Harding in Florida, charged criminal conspiracy to rob the American people of hundreds of millions of dollars thru manipulation of the sugar market. In six weeks prices have been advanced from 7c

when it insists that there should ‘be | to 10c—costing the consumers

a general clean up, which includes not cgily the law breaking enemies

of the local administration, but their

protected friends as well.

Serious charges were made at Indianapolis Wednesday, which cannot be lightly disregarded or glossed

$15,000,000 so far—and a price of 20c is expected unless the price boosting

is checked.

No important matters affecting the American-Canadian boundry waters were before tbie International

over by the endorsement of a cleri-| Joint Commission at its semi-annual cal body whose members know Jess ■ meeting but there was unusual inof actual redlight conditions in Mun- terest in the gathering because of cie than they do of the Irish rebell- indication that ex-Senator Obadiah ion or the Einstein theory of rela- Gardner of Maine was preparing to

tivity. resign as chairman.

Bob Parkinson this week sent out ; willing to sell out in advance, and circular letters to Delaware county j promise never to tramp on their democrats soliciting them for a cDol- j little tootsy wootsies, all in return lar a head for subscription to a pro- ! for a little measly legal advertising, posed new “democratic” newspaper, | that’s their business, not ours, nor which Bob allows he is going to start of any real democrat in the county.

here if enough dollars come in mail to justify the experiment. He says in his circular letter that it is to be “just a clean, sensible newspaper, truly representative of

If the Post-Democrat were in businesis solely for money, we would probably doi like Bob, and fawn at the feet of every two by four republican city, county and township

the democratic party, one that does statesman who has a nickel’s worth not engage in religious discussions.”! of advertising to give out. but, “But in order for a democratic ! strange as it may seem to Bob, the weekly newspaper to exist in Dela- i editor of this paper refuses to play ware county at this time ” opines I at a r/publican feast and sit Bob, “it must have the city and ! vp on his hind legs and “speak” for>

county legal advertising, and in

der to get that advertising, the newspaper must have circulation. “Now this legal advertising,” remarks Bob in a burst of confidlential enthusiasm, “so necessary to the existence of any weekly newspaper in Muncie, can be secured by this weekly newspaper which I am proposing when it can j^aow enough circulation to justify city and county authorities to place their legal ad-

vertising in it.”

It happens that the “city and county authorities” who have promised Bob all this legal advertising, are all republicans, consequently one must needs infer that the republican organization is back of the move to start a “democratic” newspaper. which cannot exist, according to Bob’s own statement, without the legal advertising patronage at the disposal of republican officials. At present the Post-Democrat is the on'ly /democratic newspaper in Delaware county, and the law provides that all legal advertising must run in two newspapers representing the two narties casting the highest vote at the last general election. Because it has openly and fearIcsslv attacked the rotten kuklux republican organization here, “the city and county authorities” want to put it out of business and have promised

newspaper,” which is to avoid “religious discussions” and is to be truly “renresentative of the democratic party” that it will say nothin*? at which the kuklux klan or its little brothers, the republican organiza-

tion, might take offense.

Considering the fact that the heading of Bob’s circular letter declares that his proposed! republican-kuklux-

democralic newspaper is and authorized by the

county democratic central committee,” the subject matter of the letter. which confesses that its exist-

denends upon republican legal

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Bob has been flirting for some time with this idea of starting a democratic newspaper 'that is satisfaictory to the republican machine. We hope that he will have nerve enough to try it this time. We want to take a real crack at some of the birds Lack of the scheme.

Says Chemistry Is Cure-all for Love Sickness

Kansas ‘U’ Professor Comes to Rescue of Smitten Swains

New Haven, CoPn., April 12— When a young man, or for that matter, an elderly chap, looks into a fair lady’s eyes, and feels a funny sensation which he believes is soulful emotion, he is wrong. What he’s experiencing is chemical reaction. This definition of chemical reac-

to .subsidize Bob’s “clean^ sensible t’ons being th,e real primary and v-, -rr^a - ,"v* ^ riTfirvso■fo cjr»nvr»o tilt’ thneo

advertising handouts, rather 'g'ives Bob’s little game away, and discloses where the real demand for Bob’s sensible democratic newspaper

comes from.

It may be that there will be a democrat here and there who will

uTtimate source of all* those “divine emotions” was made by Dr. Joseph S. Hughes, professor of chemistily at the Kansas Agricultural college

in an address Saturday.

Any emotion in face, said Dr. Hughes, such as hate, Jove, jealousy, etc., are simply caused by certain

secretions in the glands.

w Experiments carried on by Dr. endorsed j jq U gh e s tend to verify this, he said. Delaware Chemical compounds are also being

experimented with which can change

a person’s nature.

“By injecting a chemical compound to counteract the Igland (secretions and chemical formations formed by certain glands, I can change your whole nature,” said Dr. Hughes.

In other wordfe, in the future, when a young lad is helplessly prone to cast moon-calf eyes on a young

fall for this silly and transparent Uss, and one wants to help him refake. If they dtq. that is their look- ■ gain his equillibrium—why, _ just out. If the republican gang wants a send him to a chemist, and inject

democratic newspaper here that is a compound.

HOW KLAN GOODS PAY THE FREIGHT

Wichita Investigator Tells How Big Profits on Nighties Finance Local Klan

“GOOD WORKS” —GOOD AD

Major Prifit. However, Goes to Atlanta Organization Founded by Clarke, the Adventurer

Wichita, Kas., April L3—Ku Klux Klansmen in Wichita already have paid into the local and national treasury of the Klan $18,450, says

the WJchita Beacon.

The Wichita Klan’s recent and socalled generous gift of $4,200, of the total Klan gift of $8,100 to Wesley Hospital, is only about 20 per cent

of the money which Wichita men 1 years in working the organization up

ufacturing the robe said to be only SI.05. The total profit on each robe, including hood and mask, is $4.55, when the outfit is sold to a member at $6.50. Therefore, the total profit up to this time on the robes worn by Wichita Klansmen is $3,731. The Wichita Klan gave only $4,200 as its part of the $8,100 hospital gift, or only $460 more than the profit on

the robes alone.

Kash Goes to Big Ku Kus Growth of the Ku Klux Klan in

recent years dates from the time its organization promotion was taken over by Edward Young Clarke and Mrs. Tyler. (Mrs. Tyler is now Mrs. Someone Else, whose name is not known to the writer.) Simmons, the originator of the Klan, had spent

already have paid into the Klan cof-

fers.

There ai’e 820 Klansmen in Wichita, according to the most reliable information. although some of the 1

to a membership of five or six thousand. The membership now, under the new regime, is estimated to be

at least a million.

Young and Mrs. Tyler have become

members of the Klan are claiming rich out of the promotion end of the the local Klan has 3.000 members. Klan. One of the nrincipial eontribThe membership of the local organ- uting factors to their resources is ization, now known as the Sphynx believed to be the factory for makClub, was said to be 744 until the ing Klan robes at Atlanta. This last initiation, about two weeks ago. 1 grew from a couple of sewing mawhen 76 candidates Were initiated. ( chines to a large factory. Mr. Young This made the total membership 820. ' and Mrs. Tyler deny being interestRegular Money Mill I ed in this industry, but many be-

Receipts by the Wichita Klan of iieve they are.

money from Wichita Klansmen are

said to be as follows:

Initiation fee of $10, or a total of

$8,200.

Robes at $6.50, or a total of $5,330. Dues of $6 or a total of $4,020. Grand total receipts from the Wichita membership $18,450. Profit on the Klansmen’,s robes alone would pay nearly all of the “generous” gift which the Wichita Klan made to the hospital. A muslin robe, hood and mask are sold to a member for $6.50. The local Klan gets the robes from the Klan regalia factory at $2.50 each. Cost of man-

Watch Profits Pile Up!

Mr. Young and Mrs. Tyler put their own money into the promotion Work of the Klan. They worked upder a contract which paid them a percentage of the money received in the promotion work. At one time they were living on credit. Then things picked up and since then* the organization work has 'been practically running itself. As it was a business affair, Young and Mrs. Tyler did not always select canvassers with the greatest care as to their morality. But the organizers did

bring in the money.