Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 January 1924 — Page 2

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FRIDAY. JANUARY It, 1924.

make a clean breast of it. Then indeed it will not be ne-

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT t ^ D t

rk ! cessary to request the President s aid. A righteous na-

A Democratic weekly newspaper representing tne uem- ^• on anc j f a i r _ m i n( j e( | people, when presented with the j _ o '%-%t Til A r* i •n 11 I 11 i rm i i • j i j •

facts, will then do the rest. The destructu torous organization will be swift and sure.

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mocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the

Eighth Congressional District. The

only Democratic newspaper

in Delaware County.

court house and the Woolworth j It seems strange that the men who building. have charge of a great religious and It was through these lying door- welfare work like the Y. M C A

The destruction of the trai-

manufacturer, was frequently oh- direct the affairs of an institution of

77"^ " 1 ^ . served coming and going. Nobody that sort and to help mold the minds Billy William S requisition for 1,265 barrels OI nsh but klansmen were allowed in that of the bovs and young men who

in that

., y 1Q91 at f° r fhe county infirmary lends color to the threat made thieving joint, but brazenly banking S e m ble there. th E tffi d a t M COnd In^i^aunde^th^Act of March ^ the Muncie kluckers that they expect to send all the ^ w th d e en f ° 0 r f^embeJ hip "^iie St se'i t ]s ’

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iff under former sheriff Black. Bill Sullivan was a defeated candidate last j ear. Sheriff Art Daniels, a klansman, hopes to get the republican nomination next spring without opposition.

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 11, 1924.

. - , j? mattresses to Jews, and klansmen

When Mayor Quick insisted upon the appointment oi hate Jews and p art 0 f t heir creed is Jack Collins to a police job, the Star defamed him for to destroy them, socially, politically tm Unnn prostituting his office by discharging a personal political and financially. lee * > 'obligation. When Billy Williams annexed the postoffice ■ . job, the morning luminary solemnly asserted that the job! Vho M^three of the ‘came to him naturally because of his services in behalf largest re3taurant3 in Anderson, has of the republican party.” To be perfectly consistent, the evidently decided that the kian is Star should now insist upon the reassembling the grand here to stay, one day, two or three jury and demand the immediate indictment of Congress- weeks a s°’ the Post-Democrat inman Vestal and President Coolidge for paying a political vestlgat01 ' saw a kluck s ales man io-

debt instead of selecting a postmaster for Muhcie solely ^

because of ms especial qualifications for the place. Some- t o sen patrons of the restaurant body ought to be impeached for this. We don’t know who, smaii mux crosses, the pagan embut it ought to be done, anyway. j blem of the un-American order,.

One Anderson , man says Witt is

so serious-

consecutive Fridays

After Both Parties

The apparent efforts of the

White Mule A Specialty

, has been learned that the Stratj ton Electric Company, on Main \ street, makes the electrically lightklux- j ed crosses which are used ia the

ers to control both parties in Madi- fool klan ceremonials here son county, have caused citizens B. Stratton, head

THE CLARKE LETTER

(Tolerance)

Edward Young Clarke, the Imperial Giant of the Ku Klux Klan, has impudently appealed to the President for the suppression of the Atlanta order on the ground that, as constituted and directed, it is a menace to the United

States

Fvprv man in the Klan, high or low, from the begin-! The various offensives launched against Mayor Quick niag to the present time has taken the identical Klan oath, | by Fizz Harrold, of the Star, whose daddy failed to land “‘“f t ^

and that oath is treason to the United States. . the job of street commissioner, seem. to have fizzled out fish Tere not ser7ed t0 the patrons

Why has Mr. Clarke waited these two years, during completely. Fizz s fizzle went ping instead of kerbang. of the hashery. most of the time of which he has bee nthe potent factor in i The mayor is stronger now with the people of Muncie than the Klan to bring this information to the President, and j at any time during his administration, and all because of why didn’t he bring it to the Attorney General with all his; the unfair, hypocritical attempts to ruin him and drive

facts—the official constituted under our government to him from office,

suppress treason and lawlessness against the constitution ? Does it not seem reasonable to believe that Clark’s action has been largely animated by the fact that his enemies within the Klan have shoved him to the hazardous and

outer slippery edge of the organization where he hangs , , J ^ . r - —

broken, shorn of power, separated from the neb emolu-1 ^Tw Sin *n i*?? 0 . t . he ^ wis ? a f e feedm ? a poison- uiew m . inen movt;u LU muuui „, ments and graft with which he was once favored as lead- ( P a _wi ^ate its benefactors. Being yellow, and went to work for the Rochester ing spirit in the order? Deprived of this flow of golden j ana .cowardly, the Star has abandoned tlje attack, which clothing company, a jew firm. He cdipckles his heart filled with malignity and envy of those j h as found unpopular, but its recent conduct will not soon was fired for Competency and his

who brought about his down fall, is it not easier to believe ] ^ forgotten

against those who have been

In attacking Mayor Quick and declaring in advance fW he was to be indicted and impeached, the Star launcb ed forth as the true spokesman of the Muncie klux

klowns.

Readers of the Star should bear this in mind. James Whippo -

The Whippos Once More

Last week we mentijonetl Willie and Reardon Whippo, father and son as being klansmen and diasemminators of the Fiery Cross, official

klan publication.

Willie was the foster son of

Willie inherited

here to sit up and take notice. Sam Heavlin, Hogan Andrews and Bill ‘ Sullivan, democrats and kluxers, are all preparing to enter the race for nomination for sheriff next spring, but the voters will see to it that no klux names shall appear on the democratic ballot and republicans who respect their party will do like-

wise.

Sam Heavlin was a former member of the board of works under Hick Mellett and was stationary engineer at the brewery when the raid was made that resulted in federal arrests and convictions. Sam kept the wheels turning that produced the juicy German beer which kept the bibulous folk of Hamilton, Ohio, in a hilarious mood. Hogan

J^WS, Catholics and foreign born who are kefioing the Star about twelve tll0USand dollar * from

his foster father, which he promptly blew in. He then moved to Muncie

gathering in the graft for two"years, graft which he must INSURGENTS BREAK

feel—and rightfully so—should go to him as having been the sole, baleful originator of the vile propaganda which has torn good fellowship into tatters in this great nation? Yes, E. Y. Clarke is the author of all the infamies of the Ku Klux Klan. Simmons, the founder, went to the South to re-engender animosities against the Negro, who

SENATE DEADLOCK: ELECT CAROUNAN

| two ballots taken during the day the j insurgents supported Comzens.

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Early organization of the interstate commerce committee is looked for and pressure immediately will he brought for the approval of hills

for

wife sued for and obtained a divorce, charging, this grest protector of womanhood with being lazy, cruel and inhuman and that be fail-

ed to provide for her.

The divorced wife married to Cleve Kegerreis, a Muneie kluxer, living on South High street, in that city. Three weeks ago she followed

had made such extraordinary records on European battle

Aided By Farmer-Labor

!Wasluu.gtou, Jan. 11.—A Democrat Allison D. Smith, of South Carolina, was elected yesterday by the senate as chairman of its interstate commerce committee, one of the ranking committees of the new Republican

congress.

Four insurgent Republican and the sives.

room, publicly indorsed Mr. Smith, tor the chairmanship last month, declaring that his election would be a

“clear-cut victory for the

progres-

two Farmer-Labor senators threw

ANDERSON PEOPLE

(Continued from Page One.)

since December 10, but also giving the country convincing manifestation '

that their control of the balance of i ^ken the job cf civilizing Anderson, the Muncie Jews

power in the senate is as complete as l eac bing men and women respect for

is that of the Republican insurgents j * aw an d claiming

in the house.

On the thirty-second and final ballot of the deadlock. Albert B. Cum mins, of Iowa, who had the indorsement of the Republican organization for re-election received only 29 votes as against 39 for Smith and 6 for Senator Couzens, Republican, Michian, who had been the third choice of the insurgents. Smith received only one vote more than the necessary jority of the 74 senators voting. With the deadlock broken, organization of the Sixty-eighth congress is complete except for an expected fight over the office of senate president pro tern. The situation as to this matter somewhat oflbscure last night.

a monop y on

virtue and one hundred percent na-

tional spirit.

white bigotry of the South as the parent Klan had done in j

the 70’s. But Clarke saw more. He looked at the situa- DEFEAT CUMMINS, IA.

tion coldly and calculatingly with financial gain in view. He saw how animosity could be spread to other races and religions and he entered into contract with Simmons and became the propagandist against Catholic, Jew and Foreign-born to make money, and no man in the history of America, except Cotton Mather, has ever disseminated ruch venomous and religious hatred and wild falsehoods, as were broadcasted by E, Y. Clarke while high in office

in the Klan.

It didn’t move his conscience when Father Coyle was

foully shot in Birmingham nor when Daniel and Rich- ; their support to smith, th^s not only ards were frightfully tortured and smashed into a pulp breaking a deadlock which has existed

by a tractor in Lousiana. Neither did he complain to authorities when homes were burned, women scourged, men flogged, raids made through most of the states of the South and some of the states of the North. Though he appealed to Protestants, yet, with the exception of Father Coyle, the murders, floggings, outrages have been committed in nearly every instance against Protestants. Why did Clarke fail to speak and join with Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana, Gov. Allen of Kansas, Senator Leroy Percy of Mississippi in their ringing protests against the Klan outrages and why did he not confer with Gov. Walton of Oklahoma who was impeached because he accused the Klan of the identical things that

Clarke says the members are guilty of ?

Let him appeal as he will and endeavor to escape responsibility as he may, yet before all the world Edward Young Clarke stands indicted as an arrant hypocrite and a criminal at heart. If this man is in truth sincere and really desires to destroy the foul thing he has built, he need not to appeal to the president of the United States to accomplish that end. We will show him the way. Let him announce the names of the leading spirits of the Klan now working behind the scenes, governors, senators,

members of congress, high officials of one kind or another, P ased from tho chairmanship"o7 the h , „, „ men whom he personally inducted into the order and of i committee which handles railroad leg- and^anted The Iq 0 ! f ?° 1 t d T ,^°^ le whose identity Clarke is thoroughly acquainted from insurs i 6dt8 havo indica t ed w e peop e " 4f

the records now on file in Atlanta. That act alone will destroy the Klan. Or let him send such names to us accompanied by verification and TOLERANCE will gladly print them. Or, let him appear before U. S. Judge Anderson in the anti-Klan proceedings now pending in Indianapolis and tell Judge Anderson what he knows and thus give to that Federal court and other Federal courts the inside information that proved of such great value to the Federal judges of the ’70’s, who, armed with the facts, sent 1,250 members of the Klux organization of that

day to prison.

Yes, E. Y. Clarke is the master culprit of Klanism. But he now seeks to exculpate himself for the treason in which he has been indulging for two years by claiming deterioration in the order since his departure from it as active leader. But this plea will not hold. He built it. The Ku Klux Klan is the child of his malignant, unprincipled brain. He will not be permitted to desert his offspring. So, once more, we say to him, let him proclaim his big confederates in his society to treason. Yes, let him appear in the Federal court at Indianapolis and

Frank

of the concern,

and his son Harold, are both ardent members of the local hate-em-all

club.

Recently Harold pleaded guilty in circuit court to a charge of owning and operating a moonshine still, a fact which has in no way disqualified him as a klansman in good standing. Liquor law violators in Anderson find it very conrenient to carry a klan membership card when their law and order brethren, the boss thief association, goes oat on the rampage to catch the accursed bootleggers who do not belong to

the klan.

Next week the Post-Democrat will go deeper into the klan question here and will discuss the doings ef these little jokers in Anderson, Bl-

Andrews was a former deputy sher- , WOO( j and Alexandria.

amending, if not repealing, the trans- the exampl e o f ker second spouse portation act. It would appear that and 3 olned the Wuxerinos. Whether a majority of the committee is favor- sk ' e hooked up with the Mary Benaable to the repeal of the so-called dum contingent or the Daisy Doodle rate-making section of that act and Barr fairies, is not disclosed at this

i perhaps some other changes, but Uine.

! whether a straight Appeal- measure Willie’s second son Ralph, or, as j ; can be voted out seems doubtful. he is better known in Muncie, Dick, Chairman Smith was one of those is the assistant physical director at j who fought tho transportation act the Muncie Y. M. C. A. Dick is a full i both in the committee and on the fledged Koo Koo like the rest of the floor of the senate and it was because Whippos. He Is married and his wife

of his position on the measure that belongs to the klan. Senator LaFolletto, from his sick- — -

Strong On Divorces

In order to keep up with his illustrious KooKoo sire, Dick figured in the divorce courts a year and a half ago, when his first wile got rid of him by court decree and went out west some place where she got another protector of pure womanhood,

who suited her better.

When Willie Whippo was fired by

he returned to

was

Senator Cummins is without the indorsement of the Republican party conference for this place, as party leaders have held an election to be unnecessary. With the Iowa senator de-

BUNCH OF SUCKERS

When the klan organized in Anderson, the usual plan of fraud, trickery and deceit was carried out. Instead of sailing under its true colors the klan maintained headquarters on the fifth floor of the Farmers ma- j Trust building and operated under the title “Southern Indiana Land

and Investment Co.”

The organization breeds liars from top to bottom. The promoters of the klan prefer to lie when it would be easier to tell the truth. Everybody in Anderson knew that the “Southern Indiana Land and Investment Company” was merely a cheap alibi for the klan, but "the promoters and apparently the members who joined, prided themselves on

Anderson and got a job as night clerk at the Y. M. C. A. but was fired from that job and is now simply a professional ku kluxer. One would think the directors of the Muncie Y. M. C. A. would follow the example of the Anderson Y. M. C. A.

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they would support him for re-election as president pro tern, but there have been rumblings of some opposition from the Republican organization. j On the ballot which elected Sena- j tor Smith, one Democrat, Bruce, of Maryland, voted for Senator Cummins as he had done since early in the deadlock when the insurgents threw their strength to the South Carolinan and failed to elect him by a margin of one vote, since that time the insurgents have supported in turn, Sen. La Follette of Wisconsin, their recognized leader; Senator Howell of Nebraska, and Senator Couzens. The Republicans voting for Smith today we're Brookhart, Iowa; Frazier and Ladd, North Dakota and La Follette. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, another of the insurgent bloc, continued to vote for Couzens as did Senators Gooding, Idaho; Capper, Kansas;

Howell, Jones, Washington and Nor-(with his tenspot the average “orfceck, South Dakota. On the other ganizer” would agree to throw in the

to know it.

The klan had a suite of five rooms with the fake title, in gilt letters, on the doors opening into the corridor. The word was sent out and suckers came in flocks to be trimmed and sent away hundred percent Americans at ten debars a head. Some of the suckers thought they were buying land, and that their klan membership certificates was a deed to forty acres of Southern Indiana land. The klan grafters were ready to tell them anything to get the ten.

Tried To Record Them

It is said that many of them, thinking they possessed ’ deeds to real estate, went to the county recorder and tried to get membership certificates recorded. It is nothing in the life of a klan organizer to agree to give the sucker his money’s worth, itather than let him escape

GET IN THIS FIGHT

Every Catholic, Jew, Negro and foreign born citizen in Delaware county who values his liberty and God-given right to enjoy the fruits of democracy and freedom from oppression, should contribute to the Post-Democrat defense fund. Every native born, white Protestant citizen who believes in law and order, and who abhors the thought of the control of courts, juries and public officials in general by a secret, criminal oligarchy, should help finance this great fight. As stated before, it is not charity we are seeking, it is aid in the cause of liberty. These ar e more than mere lawsuits. There is more involved than the comparative trivial question as to whether or not the editor of this paper shall spend many weary months in penal servitude and be compelled to pay out thousands of dollars in fines. The right of free speech is challenged. The question of fair procedure in the courts is involved- The venom of the klan is now centered upon the editor of this newspaper. If these bigots suceed in ruinng and imprisoning their intended victim, they will have demolished a rampart which now stands like a rock in their path. A big fund is required for the defense and the offensive. The response has been literal. Do not delay in your respons to this appeal.