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

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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Dem mocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The

only Democratic Newspaper

• In Delaware Co.

! is now owned by Hooks, a Catholic concern. There are a few announced “one hundred percent ,,

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March

3, 1879.

Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a year. Office 733 North Elm Street.

GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, April 11, 1924.

BIG TALK AT LOGANSPORT.

restaurants in Muncie, but they are all of the hash and hamburger variety. The real restaurants, operated on a basis of cleanliness, service and tasty food, are owned by Greeks and those who have no truck with the Ku Klux

Klan.

The banks here are all opposed to the klan but the* chamber of commerce, which is about the most useless piece of furniture in Muncie, is headquarters for klansmen. Ihe klan only flourishes in such sleepy centers. 1 Live business men know better than to mix business with

Telephone 2540 \ the shimmy and dunce cap. It has bankrupted every

I prominent business man in Muncie who has flirted with

the invisible empire.

I i Incidentally the klan “ruined” the Post-Democrat by its opposition and efforts to send the editor to prison by causing its circulation to increase, in one year, from two

thousand to nearly eleven thousand.

KLAN VOTERS WEL DESERT VIC SIMMONS, WHO PI HIS PALS

Somejngenious juggler of everlasting truth at Logansport has started a story that Lowell Neff, a pronounced anti-klansman who has been spoken of as a candidate for mayor next year, has some sort of an evil connection with tiie Post-Democrat, There would be nothing dishonorable about it if he was connected with the Post-Demo-

eral r buthe is not, so that’s that. Klux busybodies have, „ . .. „

2*0116 stilj rillf] SDrPfirl fcRo stouv tllrlt tRp a 1 I s * Dll 1C m Muncie gathering of second growth

a flT e y l mons lnade the P° liticaI blunder of nuts and there were none to follow

Cross and the Post-Democrat are under the same man- h is young- iif e when he threw m with him except a few court satellites ami agement! are getting used to having stories of that, a bunch Of Muncie grafters who ex- political hangers on of the klux-re-kind ^'rculated in cities in various parts of the state'.*i* cted make a Mg financial kin- publican machine.

ing in a new klan, that was ca4cu-‘ t ,, ,

... .. i Les s than ten percent of the Blacklated to mount to glory over the pros- . . , , , . ^ ,

tJ1 . . , for{1 county kluckers fell for the

trate remains of the old, original, ^ ^ , blov..n-in-the bottle “Invlaibte Em- MUnC18 SrM and the ° tb ° r t- • , „ percent is armed with a stuffed club, pire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ’ ... . . . . . . “ ’ ... . , . , . with which they expect to welt Judge lie made the same mistake that;... , ... . , r

„ iur • , Vies candidacy in the coming pri-J

was made by the Muncie gang, who [

thought the entire membership of the'

Delaware county klan would follow In the bright lexicon of klanology, ( their great' leaders to Jericho and Vicky is guilty of the crime of trea- ! back when they said the word. : son to the invisible empire. The pen- [ The Independent Klan of America ally in Oklahoma is instant death, in I is a “flop'’ of the most dismal char- Indiana the swift boot to political acter. Vjc carried a banner to the oblivion- j

Peoria Voters

That is the ingenious antidote administered by kluxers. The Post-Democrat is the only newspaper in the state that has fought the kluxers since the burning of the first fiery cross on Hoosier soil. We have no explanations to offer. There are dozens of cities in Indiana begging us to sell the Post-Democrat on their streets. Our sales in LoganSport are satisfactory, but if we hear of one complaint, from an anti-klux source, based on the adominable Fiery Cross story, we will withdraw instantly from that field. The Walton Enterprise, a small sheet published in Waltpm a tank ^yn near Logansport, by an escaped lunatic from Longcliff named Swihehammer, said in its last issue that the women of Logansport ought to take the editor ofPost-Democrat some place on Broadway and horsewl# ham. Cal does right in turning this job over to the wonig&L If he, or any of his shirt tail brethren care to name the spot on Broadway, and the time of the entertainment, and come themselves with the horsewhips instead of sending the women, we will promise to be at the appointed spot with wh§t it takes to make the gang swallow

their blacksnake whips.

BABY DIED WHILE ELDERS BOASTED.

i Klux Kteu and two candidates whose

~ Tuesday night at the Jackson street Christian church;chief support was believed to come Judge Dearth, Minnie L. Snyder and Wimina VanMatrejfrom the kian element were winners, j of the iuvenile and probation departments of the court | tbree <* e kiaosmen were and Jake Cavanaugh kluck jury commissioner, held a mu- j ^ Th0 ^ !

tual admiration meeting to exploit their own greatness. i warGf and Coarad Culberr ^ r9t war(I> -- V T1 : '7 ~~ :r They told how the juveniles were cared for and while | u f election, won easily over ‘f 1 , ma ' ar

the meeting was in progress the illegitimate chila ot a }ji ari opposition. ^ ward of the juvenile court, born three months ago in an! The kian had a narrow victory in Indianapolis maternity hospital, died practically of neg-Uhe Eighth ward, where John t. lect in a home where ignorance of the care and nutrition; 51 votes ovet ' Ald *

of infants prevailed.

Tiie child, which was undernourished, while suffer-1 Roward h ^ lU)rd 4efeated i nd epend ing witK bronchial pneumonia, was taken out in the cold^c* j. Miner, 1.812 to 1,102.

air Tuesday afternoon to the office of a physician, who | on the* face of unofficial return* j r)|Qrt|>|wxrt#.Q. CfirkH-oo-p states that it was in a dying condition when brought to j OBl y tw 0 kian candidates for assist-i LHSappCaiS, oilOildgG

his office * * * ant su P er ’ r * sor W( ' re elected, Ralph ‘

(Continued from Page One.> election was cast. It was not a real Democratic victory. Republicans by thousands voted to keep the klan from grabbing

offices.

Three candidates for reelection as alderman were backed by the Ku

; George Sauers, but the klan won easily in the Second ward, where

and groans greeted the question. { Capt. C. B. Hopkins of the military intelligence service, was in the audience and her asked where Allison got his information about America. More

hisses followed.

“You’re a great evader,” Oapt Hopkins shouted. “You have had plenty of experience at evading.” Capt. John W. Gorby, past commander of a legion post, leaped on the platform as Allison stepped down and asked the audience to stay for a

patriotic meeting.

“Let us have an > .|can flag,”

he cried.

Howls, jeers, groans and stamping of feet greeted the words “American

ity and drowned out the few legionnaires and their supiiorters. There was some scruffling before the hall

was cleared.

The meeting wag held under the auspices of the Epworth Keague.

J O ; (Sullivan Mayor

Those who spoke so unctiously at the Christian church j * , “ ZLZZ o, ~

In His Accounts

Tuesday night, know the history of that child. They know whom the young mother charges with being the father of the child and that no action was ever taken to cause the married Ku Klux offender the slightest embarrassment.

Rose and Henry ftaldus, the only two

Djeuixxcrati'c candidates

ITtv Interrat ; v nal News P-»rviee''

Sullivan, Ind., April 11.—John

w io appaj - p Douthitt was acting mayor j

ently were defeated in the supervi- (here today while fie j d eramin . sor race. ' ers checked over the financial;

The Post-Democrat suggests at least two immediate' Assessor nan Goggiu, Democratic reporta 0 f Mayor Waiter Wali candidate fm- relection. and D. W. , i

resignations take place in the probation office of the ju-

venile couii:.

BOYCOTT FAILED TO WORK. j

It does beat all how the ku klux chased the Jews, J ^ ’ Catfedics and Negroes out of Muncie. The colored oeo-| (cmitinued From i>*ge one) pie were never more prosperous and numerous in Mun- ] during- m*. war. a aunn at hisses

cie than at present, the Catholic church has grown and ] prospered and the Jews have become more thtw* ever mas- ’*

ters of the mercantile situation here.

; After two years of klan foolishness here, with the ki?n claiming two-thirds of the voting population of Delaware county, it has been clearly demonstrated that thej kiaiTs little old hate factory cannot injure the business! of those against wdiom the boycott is launched. Within the past two years several Jew stores have lo- ! cated in Muncie and all are doing well. Recently, ‘ Greiger’s, one of Muncie’s largest clothing stores, owned and operated by a klansman, passed into the hands of some Anderson Jews named Schuster. The Bath-Paris dry goods store, one of the very few stores of importance here that fell for klan hunk, was sold last week to a Ko-

komo Jew.

It is said that Leonard Paris will be retained by the new proprietor to draw kluck trade. It might be a good idea for the new owners to make him wear his goat pasture shimmy while on duty in the store that he owned before he joined the hate club and drove the better class of trade away from his store. Paris was on deck in the court room when the celebrated Post-E)emocrat libel case was pulled off to appear as a character wfitness for George Roeger, the draft dodger. Ned Griffith also did well fighting Catholics, Jew*s and negroes. He and his family recently left for California, where he has a job with one of the string of Owl drug stores which flourish in the west. Ned had the finest store in Muncie and he and his wife owned considerable real estate. He left here practically broke and his store

ters, elected by the Democrats!

Tobiaa. Democratic candidate for su- in 192 2, whoa© books it is said,! per visor at large, won by overwhelm- show a shor tage of from $5,000:

{ ing margin*. j to $10,000.

I " ———o-— ; Walters has disappeared. He!

'was formally charged today by the city council of illegally col- , lecting fees and with failure to keep a proper record of fees

and fines.

EX-KLANSMAN ASSAULTED JERSEY ORGANIZER HELD.

U. P. Upchurch Accused Also of Striking Woman

With Baby In Her Arms.

(Special to the New York Herald Tribune.)

Camden, N. J., March 30.—U. P. Upchurch, of Atlanta, Ga., Ku Klux Klan organizer for Southern New Jersey, was arrested today on a charge of assaulting Samuel Warfield, former King Kleagle of South Jersey, and his wife in their home at 708 Pow T ell Street, Gloucester City. Mrs. Warfield told the Camden authorities that Upchurch invaded her home with a man named Morse and beat her husband, who was ill in bed, becduse he would not give

up certain papers relating to the Klan.

The men struck her and knocked her down while she had a baby in her arms, Mrs. Warfield said. Upchurch was released on bail pending an investigation

by the Camden County Grand Jury.

The arrest marks the latest development in the Klan w^ar in this part of the state. About seventy per cent of the original Klajnsmen have split and joined a new similar order. Warfield joined with the

insurgents some months ago.

—-New York Herald-Tribune, March 31, 1924.

__ ’ • FRIDA V, APRIL 11, 1924. KOO-KOO SIDE LIGHTS ~ (Continued From Page One) nit-wits get in power, they might contemptuously grant the prescribed classes the privilege of creeping to church or synagogue after a sixteen-hour day making strawless brick for the Imperial Wizard’s palace. Amendment 1 is not the issue. Hiram Johnson will not be supported by Wrigley, of the K. K. gum factory, so it is said. Maybe the Kluck school-marms threaten a boycott unless Wrigley “does right” by the “noble order.” But Johnson w r ill get lots of votes in Indiana from loyal American citizens. vYhat has Ralston ever done to refute the charge that he is the “favorite son” of the Indiana Koo-Koos of the Democratic persuasion for the presidential nomination? Ed Dollings Jacksons’ speech before the Republican women, in the CJaypool Hotel, at Indianapolis, March 27th, fell flat. When Mayor Ora Davis of Terre Haute finally got a chance, he certainly toM them a plenty about the nit-wtis. The w^omen warmed to him at once. As a result, the Kluckerinos, who thought they had the meeting “all sewed up” for Jackson, were glum and crestfallen. Anyway, one knows where Dollings Jackson stands, and the same cannot be said for some of the candidates. These 1 are Jackson’s words in the Cadle Tabernacle: “I believe in a law that will provide that all children over six years of age be made to attend our public schools.” Hon. Samuel Ralston has said in several public addresses: “I believe in the public schools as the place for all the children of the state.” \ Dr. Carieion B. McCulloch has said in substance the same thing. Hon. Edgar Bush, formerly lieutenant-Governor (Rep.) and Mr. Cravens (Dem.) of Jefferson county, now candidates for the gubernatorial nomination, both boosted the so-called “Anti-Ger-man Language Bill” which was rushed through both houses of the legislature in 1919. They were warned that it would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, as, indeed it was (Meyer vs. Nebraska, 252 U. S., 390), yet they went out of their ways to insult a harmless element of our citizenship. It is not statesmanship to support measures which, on their face, strike at fundamental constitutional rights; and maybe, one of these days, the peanut politicians will wake up. On March 31st this year the Koo-Koo Oregon parochialschool law was declared unconstitutional by the Federal District Court sitting in and for the State of Oregon. If appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, the promoters of this iniquitous “law” have a clear foreshadowing of the verdict, in the case Meyer vs. Nebraska, where the Court upheld the right of parents to send their children to what school they pleased. Will the nit-wits follow Jackson and other spellbinders off after an ignus-fatuus? NOW FOR THE PRIMARY BATTLE. The primary lists, with the exception of delegates to the state convention, were closed last Saturday. It is yet too early to analyze the klux or anti-klux standing of all the candidates for the various offices, including precinct committeeman, but before the primary the Post-Democrat hopes to list every candidate and place him where he belongs. For governor, the Republican klansmen will support Ed Jackson. That’s a cinch. Ed Toner of Anderson is not a klansman but the Madison county Republican klansmen are conspiring against him. In Delaware county Jackson may not get the klan support that he expects. ^ Lew Shank and Ora Davis, will divide the anti-klan Republican vote here, but it is expected that Shank will get the bulk of that vote. The colored people here are solid for Shank and many klansmen who were swindled by Ed Dollings Jackson will vote for the Indianapolis mayor. . Dale Crittenberger, who has begn indorsed by the eighth district democracy, is against the klan, but has made no public announcement of the fact. George Durgan, of Lafayette, who publicly announces his opposition to the klan, will receive many votes and as there will likely be no decision in the primary, those opposed to the klan here will endeavor to swing the Delaware county delegation to him in the event that Crittenberger is compelled to retire in the convention. John A. M. Adair, unopposed Democratic candidate for congress, is not a klansman, nor does he sympathize in any manner with the organization. The three candidates battling for the Republican nomination are klansmen. Rev. George Winfrey, of Alexandria, an announced klansHian, is the klan “slate” in the eighth district. Congressman Vestal joined the klan in December to get the klan support but will not get it. Clarence Benadum, the third candidate, is one of the promoters of the “Independent Klan” and as his organization is weak in the district he will have some difficulty in convincing the old klan that he is entitled to support. The big fight in Delaware county is for the Republican nomination for sheriff. John Readle is the Billy Williams “slate” candidate, over the vehement protest of Milt Gwinnup, a member of the “old guard,” who recently paid up back klan dues amounting to eighteen dollars in order to qualify himself as a full pledged klan candidate. A hot fight is on between Van Ogle and Tom Miller for prosecutor. Ogle is a member of the new klan, which tried to disrupt the original Evans klan in Delaware county and failed, and he will find enough klan opposition to defeat him in the primary. The Williams and anti-Williams factions each have a full list of candidates for committeemen in the field and will contest bitterly for organization control, with chances favoring the '“antis” for a sweeping victory. The democrats have no contest on for organization and it is believed that a chairman will be selected who will be against the klan and in accord with the true principles of democracy. As there are no lively contests on in the democratic ranks it is believed that many democrats will participate in the republican contest. Some democratic klansmen will call for republican ballots to vote for Dollings and many anti-klan democrats declare that they will lump into the republican scrap to help swell the vote for Lew Shank.