Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 August 1923 — Page 1
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
VOL. 3. NO- 30-
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
COLORED GAMBLER LIQUORS UP EXCURSIONISTS
CHIROPRACTOR LADY AT MARION CUTS ! LOOSE AT KLUCKERINO MEETING WITH s TYPICAL 100 PER CENT. LINE OF Bini;
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L 4 ! A representative of the Post, who happened to be in Marion i on the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 2, was granted the privilege , of attending a typical kluckerino meeting. i Thet speaker was introduced as Ethel Joy and on inquiry we discovered that she resides at 220 West Third street, Marion, and that she is the female member of Joy & Joy, chiropractors, whose sign appears at the above address. i The remarks made by this hundred percent Queen of the Golden Mask were taken verbatim in short hand and they are herewith given without “crossing a ‘t’ or dotting an ‘i,’ as our old friend Woodrow Wilson would say it. 1 For one who expects Catholics and foreigners to have the kinks taken out of their spinal column at so much per kink in the kiropraktikal establishment of Joy & Joy, the lady was rather free in her ungrammatical criticisms. You will observe, dear reader, that the Joyful one was almost as clear as mud and her lack of even a speaking acquaintance with Harvey’s grammar should not be held against her, for she was speaking to’ an audience, which on the whole couldn’t tell the difference between a participle and a parsnip if they saw them coming down the road
together.
We herewith cut loose with the load on Ethel’s chest which!
was unloosed upon a helpless audience, not for what it is worth; j but as a fair sample of the kind of stuff that is fed to kluxoma-1
niacs and of the kind of people who do the feeding: “This organization represents the| TIIIJ Dir 1 RFAPf FQ Protestant people and the church of j * KtAuLtj
our country. -It is for the purpose of! AT MAR ION IN RAH uniting the church, the protestant! ni 1TimUUA1 DilU |
people. We have people who don’t be-!
long to church, who are just neutral, ^ J£ u I£l ux Leaders In Marion j they don’t "belong to any church. The j :
United States is a protestant nation. • America is a Protestant nation. Our , flag of course, represents our country,
we of course, think it is the most! i.. beautiful flag it’s never been trampled # # on no place in a single war it’s al- DlSSHUSllCd KlftllSniCn
wavs been upheld, naturally we feel free to say the American flag is the flag we revere more than any flag, f Some ask what the fiery cross means.; it means the red lights on the cross is the emblem of the blood of Jesus, the emblem of Christ, when he made j the sacrifice on the cross himself, people say put the flag before the ; cross, but the cross of Jesus Christ; is above anything and everything, i and the flag of course comes along after that, because we feel it has giv- | en us liberty. We have been in war and in trouble and it has flown above any and all nations where we had any war or dealings, the American flag has always been a victorious
County Profit At Ex-
pense of Suckers.
To Start Newspaper Marion Dailies, Non-Com-
mittal, Sitting On
the Fence.
(By Staff Correspondent)
Marion, Ind., Aug. 10.—Ex-Senator Alfred Hogston has bought himself a brand new, shiny automobile and a mild war has broken out here among the klansmen, who declare that the head klansters of the type of Hogston, Probation Officer; Bill Leapley, ex-city garbage master; G. Raymond Booth, Township Trustee; Tip Boxell and Rev. Fisher, organizer for the
, . . women’s department, are filling their tey are the people brought over from p 0c ^ e ^ g a j. expense of the rank
and file of the klan suckers. i Members are in arrears several thousand dollars and the beagles and kleagles are working night and day in an effort to induce the backsliders to come across. The klan bosses all need new automobiles and unless the suckers produce, they will have to walk. It is said by one of the back-; sliders, that three hundred members, disgusted with the rapacity of their money-mad leaders, have quit the organization, cold turkey. They are tired of giving up to the money grabbers, who split the money with the Atlanta Emperor and turn into the local klan treasury all the money that
sticks to the beil rope.
! It has been learned that the First National Bank is custodian of the sad
wanted to, and we wouldn’t want re mnant of the klan fund. George j ,, it isn’t ours, that is the reason we c 0 i e j S president of this bank and is, in’t have them in our organization, n0 f. on jy j- 0 |, e a member, but the j “It is a Protestant organization, custodian of what Willis Dean left! he foreigner would want to run our w hen he departed from Marion, leavnuntry, they want to take possession no forwarding address. I the country, government and fac- ^ report is circulated here that ‘ iries in the south, and they would klansmen are trying to sell stock for ike possession of our factories here a proposed new paper to be started tid our industries, they don’t in any here. It is said by those who are dis-
“In this organization we don’t take ny foreign people, we don’t accept ews, the foreign people of any elelent, some people call them wops,
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other country, they are here and re have to take care of them while hey are here, but there is a place or these people, and they must not hink they can come over here and L ave a hand in our government, the imerican people are capable of takug care of our affairs in the United States, and they’re running their chools, churches and government without the aid of any foreigner or Catholic. I don’t hesitate to say this ifternoon, that, we don t take any iew, or any people who have colored flood about them, anybody who has a jolored father, husband or mother, hey have their organizations and hat is all right, we want them to iave their organizations, but we wouldn’t go in their organization if
Marriage a Joke to the Klan
■ —yThat the Muncie Ku Klux Klan regards the sacred institution of marriage as a joke, to be taken as lightly as a ride on a merry-go-round or a jazz dance at Mills Lake, is evidenced by advertising matter displayed in the window of the Banner Cigar Store, on the south side of the public square, a Ku Klux joint where gambling is carried on day and night under the protection of Muncie’s Ku Klux police and Ku Klux sheriff. In the window of this well known headquarters of one hundred percent Americanism, the Christian religion of our Lord Jesus Christ and the protection of pure womanhood, a gaudy, twocolored bill announces that the klan will meet at the fair ground on the night of Saturday, August 25, and that the main attraction will be the public wedding of fifty klan couples! In order to induce as many fools as possible to take advantage of this great opportunity to be hooked up for better or for worse, the announcement is made that a prize will be offered to the visiting klan that can induce the greatest number of couples to put themselves on exhibition. The rules of the game are not published, but the supposition is that the exhibits will all be masked and then shuffled like dominoes, and paired off, after which either the Rev. Court Asher or the Rev. J. Walter Gibson will shoot the ceremony. At a given signal a large fiery cross will then be lit up, the masks will be removed and the idiots will have a chance i;o see what they drew in the klan marriage lottery. To the distorted klan mind the idea of making a mockery of marriage is no doubt perfectly natural and is in perfect consonance with the klan idea of the “projection of pure womanhood. ,, To be married in the underbrush, swathed in a sheet, the bride's face hidden behind a yellow mask and the groom with a pillow case over his head and the ceremony to be performed by some unidentified, masked clown who mfi At turn out to be a bootlegger instead of a preacher, may be tb klansman’s idea, of marriage, bukliO “alien” would consider himseii or herself 'really maF ried under such grotesque stage settings. This new manifestation of what it takes to be a one hundred per cent. American has caused considerable comment in Muncie and the people here would like to see the color of the preacher’s hair who expects to take part in this hideous travesty on the sacred ordinance of marriage. The Post-Democrat interviewed Frank Claypool, secretary of the fair board and several members of the board, and they were unanimous in declaring that the klan in advertising the fair ground as its marriage show ground was acting wholly without the permission of the board. Mr. Claypool stated that the klan had not even asked for permission to use the fair grounds, adding that “business men ought not to act that way,’ but neglecting to state whether or not the outrageous performance would be allowed on the fair grounds. The bills advertising the klan marriage vaudeville announce that a parade will be held. The klan seems to forget that the PostDemocrat made an announcement, immediately following the parade which was held on the night of June 2, that there would be no more klan parades in Muncie. We are surprised that Muncie Klan No. 4 should be so forgetful. The hundreds of people who were insulted and assaulted that night have not forgotten and the appearance of another bunch of masked outlaws on the street will merely be the signal for an unmasking bee. The police this time will be powerless to protect the masked thugs. The Post-Democrat calls on all decent citizens to be on deck on the night of Saturday, August 25, to perform the duty of the police, who take orders from the invisible empire and are therefore enemies, instead of defenders of law
and order.
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According To Story of Williams Sims, Discharged Colored Policeman, Bob Graves, Police Pet> Sold Ocean of Booze To Louisville Excursionists.
According to the story of William Sims, colored, a former policeman who was fired by the ku klux board of safety because of his race, Bob Graves, colored, and a pet of the klan sheriff and chief of police, supplied colored excursionists with, liquor Sunday, who made the trip to Louisville, Ky., on the L. E. W. Mr. Sims states that there were about five hundred colored persons on the train. Shortly after leaving Muncie, says Sims, the protected gambler began selling large quantities of gin to the excursionists. The liquor was in small bottles, holding probably four ounces, and the price paid, said he, was a dollar a bottle. He states that Graves sold probably two hundred bottles of the liquor to his fellow excursionists and that many of them became intoxicated.
SPEEDERS ARE NOW THE EASY MARKS Hootch Hunt Ends With Court Decision and New
Offensive Starts. Prosecutor Ogle
Needs the Money Loss of Revenue from Liquor Fines Made Up By
We hear" a great deal about tbe noble effort of
Several days ago a committee called on Sheriff Hoffman, according to Mr. Sims, and requested that he appoint several deputy sheriffs, of their race, to keep order on the train and prevent the sale of liquor and, othefl violations of the law. The sheriff agreed to deputize several of the colored men, it is said, but just before the train left he declared that he 'would not do so, stating that they would not have police authority, any way, after the train passed the borders of Delaware county. Bob Graves, the colored man whom Sims and others charges with the indiscriminate sale of liquor on the train, is a close political friend of Sheriff Hoffman and Chief of Police Benbow. was a’ ~ nrotected gam-
otreet,
sue. .4.,—nan, Prosecutor j Ogle, Jury Commissioner John Hampthese daj s j ton an( j o^gj. prominent Ku Klux the police : members of the republican machine,
Ku Klux Morons Police Indiana State Reaping TYhirlwind From Klan’s . now beginning to hear of the outra- *ing to his deserts. Instead, after
people, because they thing mony is what * * * they are really for loney, money is the only thought, .nd money is what we are working or, money is the only thought in
ray have any respect for our Ameri- satisfied with the two local papers,
that Ed Modlin, of Thirty Eighth street, is to be the editor of the proposed new Man-controlled newspa-
per.
| The two daily newspapers here, get
heir minds, and it is superior to any- their advertising support largely hing and everything else in their from Jew merchants and naturally ninds. They come here as aliens, this is a sore spot with the klan. Altay as aliens and leave as aliens, though the two dailies could not exist 7hey stay here from three to five without the support of the Jews, the ears and go back to the old country Catholics and the Negroes, they have vealthy people, and when they go remained neutral, hut it is said that
Revival Of Old “Horse Thief” Law.
department, the city court
public prosecutor to speeding in Muncie.
Capturing motorists who happen to be driving beyond a certain rate of speed seems to have become an ob-
and the j participated in big liquor parties put a stop to 1 durill g the last days of the campaign
of 1922.
The law abiding colored citizens of Muncie, who went on the excursion, and who were refused police protection on the trip, are complaining bit-
session with the police. Cops, mount-1 terljr at , he manner ln whlch they ed on motorcycles are sent out daily iWere trealed They declare , hat the and the hunting is very poor when a sllglltest wish ot Bob Grave3i a no . half dozen yictims are not captured, ; torlous , aw violator , goes farther
i with the sheriff and the chief of police
than the desires of all the rest of the colored population of Muncie.
i Billy Sims, the colored ex-police-
fifteen dollars each. One of our local mail; who SU p plies this information.
red handed.
One morning this week, eleven of these “speed demons” were lined up in the city court and separated from
newspapers declares that a great les-
was fired because of his color, and be-
son is being taught and that automo- cause of his actiylty , ast tall , n secIr _ bile drivers are learning to curb their lllg evidecoe (or feiJeral offloers who
speed because of this police activity. Considering the fact that the number of alleged violations seems to he increasing daily, there are grounds for doubting the assertion. One important feature of this great campaign is not to he overlooked and that is that Prosecutor Ogle gets a five dollar fee out of each conviction. There are thousands of automobiles in Muncie, this is the open season and the hunting is fine. At the rate the city court is grinding, Muncie automohilists are contributing about one hundred and fifty dollars a week to the income of Prosecutor Ogle. When the supreme court declared that the mere possession of liquor
was not a crime, Ogle’s
source of revenue was shut off. The
were investigating alleged official misconduct in Muncie.
Reader Wants Treas. Raids To Be Stopped
Editor Post-Democrat:
I admire your attitude in public affairs. I want to put you next to - something else that must be stopped. Judge Murray is expecting to appoiht a riding bailiff at his next term of court for Harry Hoffman for the six weeks term and then Judge Dearth
principal appoint one for the five weeks that
he is gone and keep that up the
(Tolerance.)
ges worked by these zealous advo- ’ bringing him to Indianapolis, * they cates of the Fiery Cross. J'hustled him back to Muncie, where he In this article we will tell of one be tried by a Kluxer jury, and, of the most extraordinary develop- course, freed, as the Klux oath re-
quires.
How all this came about—how the
ments—of how these rube Kluxer “po-
ilice” recently arrested one of their ...
Oh. ot the moot singular develop-^ members for tbe moat flagrant Kluxers came to be hoist by their ments—and not the least alarming—. Juncl 0 t blackmail, worked. In defiance °'" 1 P etl » r d, how they scrambled to of the Ku Klux craze in Indiana is of the United States statutes, in the ' e e ru , o w t e uxers came
the attempt of members of the organ- name of the Ku Klux Klan.
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, Jo get the police power which led
, . . . , ^ them into the trap of arresting one
ization to seize actual police power The prisoner in this case demanded .
r, -c. a * an. , , . ■ . , , . ^ _ (of their own Klansmen for one of the and thus to enforce their special that he he given the protection prom- ' A M , ideas of social order. To a consider-! ised in the secret work of the order, i 68 ° ense ® m e ca ®^ ory 0 ® able extent this seizure of the police jand the Kluxer police declined to ' &a wrongs 3 a 8 a aS 3
power actually has been accomplish- turn over their prisoner to the Feded, with the result that the public is eral government to be tried accord-!
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prosecutor received a twenty-five dollar fee for every violation of the liquor law and the police were kept busy invading private homes and searching men suspected of having a half pint of white mule on their hip. Before the supreme court rnade; that disastrous decision, -speeders ’ were allowed to speed. There was , plenty of bigger game in sight, so why trifle with offinders who would only contribute five dollars to our ! needy prosecutor? But now that the game laws protect the hip pocket boys, the hootch hunt has been abandoned and by working overtime the' police are able to bring enough automobilist victims into the city court, to make up the deficit occasioned by the sudden obliteration of liquor revenue. Those who read the daily accounts of the morning sessions in the court
whole year and that way give to Harry Hoffman a riding bailiff which is not needed at all. That will pay $6.00 to $7.00 per day and more taxes to pay. T Anow what I am talking about. Harry Hoffman is making a big thing out of the Sheriff’s office and he still wants more. I have no use for any of them. I am a progressive Republican and want to see things go right but the way some of them are doing I am off of them. The two judges are in on this deal and I think it ought to be stopped. READER. o COAL LOADING BECOBDS TUMBLE AGAIN
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Coal-loading records were broken in July by the Chesapeake and Ohio, the total reaching 3,317,100 tons. The previous record was in June, 1922, when loadings totaled 8,300,660.