Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 7 March 1924 — Page 2
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1924.
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
A Democratic weekiy newspaper representing the Dem-
1 methods which were gentlemanly and highly ethical, as compared to the crude process of separation used by the Ku Klux Klan.
mocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The
only Democratic newspaper
in Delaware County.
Michigan City should he fcttmd of this Koo Koo Konvention. Marion
Long before the Boilings debacle, the Post-Democrat dared to and Herrin, Illinois, are proud of 'find fault with the Bollings method of selling blue sky to easy the national publicity given these marks, and loud were the denunciations not only from the rascals cities- The klan has been the cause 'who got the money, but from the suckers themselves, who now this, and has had the county dubwished they had heeded our advice. bed the un-enviable name of “Bloody
And there is the mythical “Drake estate,” which has cost Williamson.” if Michigan City will matter Taniiarv 15 1921 at Muncie suckers close to two hundred thousands dollars. Tijne give this tawless organization of Entered as Second c >^f.and again we have exposed this miserable swindle, yet the suck- bums enough leeway, she may expect the postomce at Muncie, Indiana, u de €r are s ^j] putting up money with the expectation of getting back tIle same treatment. Ono Kian con3, 1879. a thousand dollars for every dollar “invested,” and the chances ven tion destroys more community
are that the suckers will at their next regular meeting roundly s P irit than a11 the Civic Clubs can denounce the Post-Democrat for what we are saying right here, gather together in years. In this connection it might be mentioned that the Drake In our next issue you have estate suckers some time ago made up a jackpot and employed some names of Kiansmen that have Congressman Albert Vestal, who is an Anderson lawyer, to go to never been punished, furthermore, London and secure data concerning the Drake estate fable. The, 7011 sha11 have their P ast history, and eighth district congressman actually accepted the commission and if ifc endui ' es the li -?ht of day they during a congress vacation took a fine trip over the water at thei are entitled t0 P ass on our m0Tals * expense of those who had been defrauded. We never heard what 1 Whether or no we are go5ng 10 t<311
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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, March 7,1924.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
The one hundred . thousand dollars belonging to Delaware his report was, but it must have been favorable, for the dupes the trutl1, county suckers which was divided up among the klan grafters, were immediately encouraged to put up some more money. |
including “Kleagle” Norcrftss, who is now attempting to get in, to come back to the hundred thousand dollars takenIpppil |FMir i |LIT AI? TOP his mitt on a new deal, is money worse than thrown away. The f rom the pockets of klan dupes in Delaware county. With that!! Will fiLnluill Ui lilEi
Muncie klan has absolutely nothing to show for it. much money the klan could have bought a flag and a bible for! i/AA A M WHO The few dollars spent at Christmas time to make an ostenta- every little red school house in Indiana and Judge Dearth could I |Cy|| tious show of klan generosity was extracted from the pockets of have made presentation speeches, world without end. And after individual kiansmen, and the few measly twenty dollars dona- buying and presenting these emblems of Christianity and patriot-!QPr||TCPYAIIMr f lDl
tions that were made to mush headed preachers came from the ism for all the school houses in the state there would have been vial/ Il/UliU Uli\L
same source. The big grafters were not “putting anything out.” enough left over to contribute a thousand dollars each to every ;
The easy marks who were keeping these fellows in luxury v, r ere preacher in Delaware county, depended upon to put up whenever they were ordered to do so. I —- - -
All the producing members now have to show for their 1 , ail £ hert y threatens to tell tales out of school if the
expenditures and their spree of emotional insanity is the feeling y^Vpvv, that comes the morning after the night before. They have been 1 told by Benadum, who got his in Ohio, by ex-Preacher Gibson late
on pressing him. This might be a hint for Martin
Isn t it strange that in practically every Cctse here where the defendant is charged with some unusual or abominable crime, it turns out that he is a klansman in good standing? George Biown, of North Dix street, a klansman, will go on trial in a week or so on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of his own children’s horn ^ been taken out of his hailds and placed in the
Two more liquor law violators dodged the law again in City Judge Lance Coon’s court Tuesday by the “common carrier” route. When Prosecutor Van Ogle finds a good think he sticks to it, in spite of public sentiment. The common -o ■» ' ~ ka.kjkA&'C lo tk, cneap conspiracy, entered into by the city judge, the prosecutor and police court lawyers, for the purpose of extracting money from defendants who are willing to pay without making a fight m court, the reward to the defendant being a suspended sentence. Bootleggers all agree that they have things so fixed in Muncie
that the danger of imprisonment is slight.
mMSKarasi they swore to obey m all things are not worthy o. re. pe t ^ ex-comrades, he has a right to be sore all over. It was not the confidence and that the principles these men assumed to espouse c ] es i re 0 f Watson et al to effect the removal of Daugherty for were counterfeited for the purpose of deceiving those who joined ny of hig alleged misdeed but becauge the rock _ ribbed t the klan It must be bitterly disappointing to those who really of Mark H anna and Bill Hays will never be able to withstand the believed the klan meant something, to be told now by their local exposures of the coming Daugherty investigation. They wanted leaders that they have been bunkoed and defrauded by those they Daugherty to quit in a nice> gen tl e manly manner, but since trusted and swore to obey, on.pam of aishonoi. and death. !Daugherty seems to be doomed for a plunge to the bottom of the But it is only the privates in the ranks—the producers of the deep and briny sea he seems determined that when the old ship money which was taken by greedy grafters, who have been made , sinks, she shall go down with all hands. These be weary days for to suffer. Back of all in Muncie is a greedy gang of money hun-; the old guard at Washington and there’sgoing to be a house
gry mercenaries and a co.terie of perpetual seekers for public of-! cleaning what is.
fice who have carried honVe the loaves and fishes while the dupes spent their money and wandered foolishly around at night clad in sheets and pillow cases, fed up on the thought that they were doing something for the little red school house and the country’s
flag.
Judge Dearth owes his election to the Ku Klux klan, of which he was made a member without having to go through the formality of paying a ten dollar initiation fee. The klan grafters are smooth. The kleagles are instructed to rope in judges, sheriffs, prosecutors, mayors and chiefs of police. The klan needs the influence and active support of powerful public officials and headquarters at Atlanta invariably sent out the instruction' to “dead head” all such officials into the klan. Tne kleagles are instructed that by taking in powerful public officials free of charge they will not only have the “law” on their side when it might be needed, but that the fact that such prominent men become members will cause hundreds to come in who will be willing to pay for the privilege. Sheriff Hoffman is another by-product of the Ku Klux Klan, who went in on a free pass, as did Prosecutor Van Ogle and Chief of Police Van Benbow, Police Captains Coons and Jones and several others whose influence and help might be needed by the anglers who fished so profitably in Delaware county and caught paying suckers by the thousands. Mayor Quick, the head of the city administration, was taken into the klan without paying a dime. Those who solicited him to join made it plain that he was to have all the privileges of membership without any expense to himself, because of his importance as a public official, and the assistance he would be in a position to give the klan in its modest ambition to take over the government of the city and county. For this we have the personal word of Mayor Quick, who stayed in the klan about 30 minutes and then got out and roundly denounced it as being a law-breaking, un-American institution with which no well intention^d person should think of affilating. Judge Dearth made his free membership immensely profitable. It got him a job at $4,200 a year. Not satisfied with the salary, he attempted to have it raised to $6,000. He failed in this but by indirection he is getting a large portion of the eighteen hundred increase asked. He lately created in the juvenile department a new position, that of assistant probation officer, and gave the job to his own wife, wffio is drawing four dollars a day and expenses from the county, making a total of $5,400 extracted yearly from the county exchequer by the Dearths. Sheriff Hoffman, who would have been defeated easily but for the assistance of the paying members of the klan, is making more money than any other sheriff in the history of Delaware county. The jail is kept constantly filled with persons against whom trivial charges are filed and his profits from feeding these unfortunates, in addition to his salary and innumerable other fees makes his office immensely^ profitable. In addition to this it is a matter commonly known that Hoffman is secretly in partnership with Claude Hines, a road contractor, who is treated tenderly and considerately by the Klucker county commissioners. Billy Williams, late republican county chairman, is another klansman who cashed in without the ten dollar ante. Billy got the postoffice department on recommendations of Klucker Congressman Albert Vestal, who was recently made a dead head member of the Washington, D. C., klan. By the way there are many congressmen, senators and men high in public life at Washington who belong to this rotten and un-American conspiracy, yet not one of them ever paid a cent to join. It is left to the men who work in the mills and factories and farmers who ought to know better to supplythe cash while the big grafters and the big politicians get the cream and leave the skim milk for the suckers. The man who can least afford to pay are the ones who put up all the money. t Another election is coming on and a flock of kiansmen are out after the federal, state and county offices. It is probably expecting too much, but we sincerely hope that the suckers will get wise this time and will refuse to put these mercenaries in office. We recall sadly how we were scoffed at when the Post-Dem-ocrat, in its v«ry first issue, warned the people of Muncie against “seventy-five-percent-a-month Holaday,” who is now doing four ^years in Leavenworth for stealing about a million dollars by
Typical Member of Order Which Stands For Pro-
tection of Virtue.
Avery Tudor, Mgr. Peru Mercantile
Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Higgins, any old port. Myrtle Howard, treasurer of Kamelia. Harvey Snyder, the Guy without $4.00. Mrs Harvey Snyder, formerly Kamelia. J. E. Dietz, Peru Credit ExchangeMyrtle Massey, South Peru. CONGRE^MANCOOK SUPPORTED BY THE HUNTINGTON KLUX
been picked clean. She says it looks as if ail former Koo Koo organizers will have to go to work Fire Chiefs seem to have a ness for joining the Klan, Huntings' ton’s Fire Chief, Richard Gardner, is a member of the Klan. Do you realize that if a Klansman were to bum : your house, and Gardner knew it he' could not peach on his brother Koo Koo? The only two little crimes that a Koo Koo may charge another Koa Koo with, is rape and malicious murder, Pleasant, eh?
FORT WAYNE
Expects To Get By Again With the Help of Hate Crew. Huntington Fire Chief Is Member
Mrs. Higgins Slated > To Head Kluxerinos
Qualification Is That She Resides In a Catholic Neighborhood.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Peru, Ind., Mar. 6.-—When the city papers of Peru printed the story concernng Jimmie Riley, who seduced a !
(Continued from Page One) “It is a dirty, rotten shame that our lawmakers at Washington continue to sleep on while what if said at every secret meeting of the klan is enough in itself to root up out of their graves such Americans aa George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the real leaders of our na-
tion in days gone by.
___ • I “I. stand ready to prove by three j other kiansmen the things of which Schools of City Are Also the kiansmen ever deny doing, one Badly Shot With Klux j Which is as follows: That on a cerVirilS j tain night a few months ago the • kiansmen were to burn a “fiery | cross” in a certain township in AlHuntington, Ind., March 6.—The | len county, for the purpose of letold sleuth gathers further evidence ; tin £ the people in that township against the Klan in Huntington. It is know that the klan was tkere * A reported that-the few followers of farmer resi ding nearby was instruetSam Cook and his crowd are ranting ed t0 ‘shoot rats’ on a certain moonand snorting because we have the ^ht night, as they came out of his guts to tell the truth about their S raaa ry- The kiansmen went out on connections and endorsements of the a mo °nlight night to burn the fiery old hate club. Let them rant and cross and j ust as the niatch was be-
snort. We intend to inform the voters right up till the day of election. What P. T. Barnum said ibout fooling the people isn’t applicable in Cook’s gang at this time. They fooled
. , the people last election, but it will be seventeen year old g,rl, they neg-[ vitaIIy different
lected to state that Riley was a Knight of the Ku Klux Klan, whose
at the polls in
November, 1924.
, And a word to the Legion men of
greatest attribute is the protection t-,- * • . ^ .
1 i the 11th District at this time is op-
Of course, ~ ’
PETIE POUCH, ELWOOD KLANSMAN, CHARGED WITH RUINING GIRL WILL SOON GO TO TRIAL AT ANDERSON o — : (Staff Correspondent) .had been ruined. Hi s trial will take Elwood, Ind., March 6.—Prominent \ place in Anderson in the near future, in the list of Elwood kiansmen this j Following are the names of a few
of the boys who gave up ten and got
a bad taste in their mouths:
William Brice, straw boss at plate
glass factory.
Vern Willits, Lewis Mochall, Clarence Beck, Russell Erigel, Gilbert Balser, Ollie Fox and Bill Addington, all of the McBeth-Evans glass fac-
tory.
Floyd Jeffries, Charles Hershey and Charles Goetz, of the tinplate. Mrs. Goetz is a member of the Kame-
lia.
Garl Avery, yard boss at the Sel-
week appears the name of Chester Fouch, better known here by the
nickname “Petie.”
Petie i s a typical klanman. Like other hoot owls of the klan, h e goes big at night. He joined the klan because of its “protection of pure womanhood feature, but like all the rest of them he is not expected to live up to the oath. Kiansmen may commit all the crimes in the world against female virtue. The tar bucket and lash are only for “aliens” who I ar e charged with crimes against
women.
This particular Petie is charged with being the father of twin babies, born to a young girl in a nearby town. The twins died and thi s sneak refused to aid the girl after her life
lers.
Curtis Hobbs. John Roth, carpenter. Ernest Reichart, grocer, South E. Street. Jim Brillhart, barber. John Tharp, farmer.
24th and
Hooded Hoodlums of Michigan City are To Hold Klonklave
Koo Koo Convention Will
Give City a Backset That Will Last Some Time.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Michigan City, Ind., March 6.—The lawless element of Michigan City are making great preparations for the Klonklave of Hooded Hoodlums, commonly known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The members who are In the State prison will not be given liberty to attend the convention At least, this is one form of
constituted authority that twill be adheied to by the goofy guardians of
other people’s business.
As was predicted in previous issues of this paper, the high pitch organizers of the Klan would run out of American horn suckers, and would rtsort to other methods of obtaining
money in some manner.
Our investigator has discovered the means by which these Knights of Korruption are acquiring easy money They have founded a subsidiary organisation, called the Royal Riders of the Red Robe, in which foreign born are desirable and eligible. This subsidiary hate clufc is a bastard brother of the Klan. Don’t think this a nightmare or a bogy, for it is the truth and nothing but the truth. These Koo Koo boys are great
for getting the dough.
of pure womanhood. Of course, in this case, Riley has not violated any of the Klan virtues, as this old hate club never mentions about besmirching the virginal chastity of an inno-
cent young girl.
Riley is a paid up member of Peru Klan No. 83, the same Klavern To which Avery Tudor belongs. Tudor is manager of the Peru Mercantile Company. Oh, yes. we have mentioned Tudor’s name before, however, wo have never seen it in this c mi ection. Riley and Tudor are devoted members of the Peru Klavern. When this Knight Riley, without douMie. or sword, or ev m a horse f.onj the Wabash Valley Ilorsethief Association, carried away the innocent joung girl, he employed a brother l-.iansman to aid him in his hellish purpose. We mean o - e of the Brittons from Britton’s Ku Klux
Garage.
Mrs. Ed Higgins, Sr., is slated to be e.ected the next president of the women Koo Koo’s of Miami county. Of course, the Kluxerinos don’t refer to this office as president, but some meaningless name that no one but a tongue tied and hare lip could pronounce- However, suca silly rot is appealing to these short thumbs with little space between the eyes. The thing that enters most vitally into electing Mrs. Higgins president of the hate club, is that this Kluxerino resides in a Catholic neighbordood, where she will be able to learn to the minutest detail what the Pope is doing daily, and all about the big French 75’s guns that are placed in the basements of the various Catholic churches. Some of these ffiiot Koo Koo’s believe such fairy tales. Of course, with such mentalities we need never worry for pushers of dung
carts for our city streets.
The Howard fa,mly is “hell” for obtaining jobs where the filthy lucre is to be had- Myrtle Howard is the treasurer of the local Kluxerinos. If our readers will recall, in one former issue, we published the name of Myrtle’s husband, Herbert Howard, of the Central Roan Company, who ^
was the first secretary of the local sood business
Protestant in
portune. Seekinig information relative to Congressman Cook’ attitude toward the Adjusted Compensation; in several letters of inquiry he has been so evasive that we believe he is against the hill that woTlid reinburse the ex-service men. Cook believes that he writes a diplomatic answer to all inquiries, however, anyone with the least spark of intelligence can read between the lines. In one of our former issues, we ifiSue a iTiistaiie rciuurc to the occupation of a Huntington citizen. We are taking this opportunity to rectify same. We stated that Charles Rainey was a Ku Klux Klansman, carpenter and ex-gambler. Rainey not only belongs to the organization that would nullify the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments but also violates the eighteenth amendment at every available oppor-
tunity.
It was this goof who led the motly crew of vagrants—without their dunce caps and* cheese cloth nig;hties —that stormed the City Hall, the night the anti-mask ordinance was voted on. Rainey is the type that is worrying his 5 3-4 brain to almost nervous exhaustion about our school system and the protection of
womenhood.
ing applied the farmer began ‘shooting rats’ and the kiansmen rushed back to klan headquarters and informed the Cyclops that some Catholic had shot at them because they had burned a cross on his farm. “Now this farmer nearly lost hia life because two flabby mouthed lobsters wanted to get even. The next night orders were posted in klan headquarters that every man should report promptly at 6:45 p. m. to go In a bunch out to this farm and be prepared to defend themselves In case of a riot. “I was asked to go on this party and many others just like it, but declined because I know where such things would end. Now do you blame me for stepping out of this pot of hate and standing up for the rights ol others? I and a few p** - ers in Fort Wayh§ 7iIve~~Kad to battle against great odds, someone must sacrifice his liberty in order that the people may awaken to the danger. Liberty is threatened as long as tha
klan exists.
I can say that there are three of us fellows in Fort Wayne who are ■willing to die, If necessary, in order that this un-American bunch may be done away with. As God is my judge,
I mean this.
“You, yourself, Mr. Editor, have had your bellyfull of being made the goat of this organization, and yon know what they will do in order to gain their objective, but even then
you do not know all.
“I could give you some facts with proof as to how the klan is underour mining the very nation of which yon, myself and others are a part. That
Klowns.
Harvey Snyder, local Kluxer, is the egg that gave $4.00 to ride a prancing steed in. the first Koo Koo parade. At this time the neighbors were do- j nating food to Snyder’s family, that his poor kids might have proper nourishment to sustain life. Because Snyder’s wife was accused
While cn the subject of schools, in j would startle the people so they our next issue we will give the names ! W0l< ld clean their gun and declare a of members of public school faculties |^ 0l - nt y on the head of every klans-
who are members of the Klan. Fur- , 1,3311 to the nation,
thermore, we will say there are more < ri ' lie Klan is a menace to freedom Koo Koo’s connected with schools in arid a kit tor enemy of organized gorHuntington than any town of its size ernT uent. I was threatened before in Indiana, For further evidence 'tosRfying before the federal grand watch our paper for the next few • lary Harry McNamara, Noble weeks. .Goldman and Harry Skiles in regard When a man is so irresponsible ! to . ' wkat I would g?t if I related cer-
that he is dischaged from the city tain tl3 togs to the wand jury,
police department, with the charge of conduct unbecoming an officer, why in Heaven’s name do a few faint heart Catholics and Jews retain him as night policeman. We find this to be the case relative to John Shoemaker who is a Knight of the Ku Klux Klan. Now is that plain? But thank goodness, the vast majority of
men, who are mostly this instance will not
tolerate this Knight of the Hooded Hoodlums. How any business man belonging to that organization of incomparable patriotism, the Elks, can hand this Koo Koo Shoemaker money for night watching, is more than we
are able to conceive
One of our investigators was relat-
with were
I know what I would get because my friend Walden, who is indicted Policeman Roberts and myself asked by McNamara to take part in the whipping of a certain Greek because he married an Ameri-
can girl.
“Now if they have the guts to even attempt to step on my front porch they- will have rr>e charged with murder instead of hu'*e ; ary.
WALTER ARNOLD. 2136 Curtice Ave.. Ft. Wayne, Ind-’*
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of some irregularity she was thrown t0 the wri t e r that he had seen out of the Kamelia, on the same dateU 118, ^ ac k i n Indianapolis. People in that J- E. Dietz, of the Peru Credit 1 Huntington will recall Mrs. Mack as Exchange, was given the gate by the j tke ® rs1 ' Kamelia organizer to visit
Klan. Charges against him were un- ^
due familiarity with Women Koo
Koos Nice lot, these Kluxers and Kluxerinos, that desire to censor the morals of real people. Some More Peru Kluxers. Jimmie Riley, uncertain address.
this city. Our investigator states that Mrs. Mack has all the appearances of having been sent to Indianapolis C. O. D. The old girl was bemoaning the fact that the good old easy days are gone forever, and that it is harder and harder every day to obtain the money, now that the sucker field? has