Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 May 1924 — Page 1
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY. THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
VOLUME 4—NUMBER 14.
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 2,1924.
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THE BILLY WILLIAMS 0RGINIZATI0N TOTTERS
Under Ktuck rule Newark Suffers But Not Silently Even the Misguided Kluxers Who Put It Over Are Tired of Their Fantastic Mayor.
Don’t Take Epsom Salts—Read This! Paul Fattig—west side Kobbler. Dutch Hiebarger—Ohio Electric clerk. Hell-and-Maria Holtzberry—Sweeps out the interurban station at Hebron. Gail Kristman—Flivver mechanic—kan’t keep kool. Andy Mitchell—lawyer—Hoot mon! Fishbaugh Kobbling Parlors—120 percent. Bill Leitz-—says if his name is published again he will start a Dutch uprising. To the cyclone cellar, quick! John Swisher—still is a member of school board- Beans, oystershell, garden rakes, stogies and hair nets. The Right Rev- Jacob Harvey McCartney. Says he preached it for a joke. Who’s the joke on? Rev. Wright talks of going to Hot Springs and having it boiled out of him. Success! Jim Gorman—Koo Kop. Jim is sort of a combination sandwich. Most anybody in^Millersport or Alexandria- Let the people rule! Theodore W. Semmross—Central Fire Department. Chas Harris—Barber at Dick Curry’s. Chas. Harris—Footwear. Gets them after they are rotten. Wat Sewartt—Finally got a jbb. Could not tell if 14 ounces was a pound. Chas. Dewitt—Polesman. (It’s Bad Charley.) Fred Butler—Baker. 10th streetPhilip Bruner—Porter at Fleck & Son. Caressed the flag. V. G. Brillhart—Tearo salesman for Fleck & Sons. Frank Whitehead—Family Barber. Geo. Karicope—B. & C- conductor. Jacob W. Beal—B. & O. carpenter. Eagle Shoe Shop Arcade. Dustheitner Oarage- — Frank Trost—Stage man. Frank Price—Truck driver. Carl Fulk—Deputy Sheriff. Tom Murphy—Assistant Deputy Sheriff. Licking Laundry—Keeps them clean. Llfeley Grovers—Sells 100 1-10 gas and 30 per cent oil. READ ’EM AND WEEP! * Lew Howard—B- 9. Frit/. Howard—B O. * William Snooks—B. O. Earl Davis—B. O. Sam Wise—B. OTute Wells—B. O..
Newark, Ohio, May 1.—The reac-ing to heaven than the sultan of Turtion which began soon after the l key, he called upon the powers of
ir^ Irlnn in nvftr’nnmo c»ll cmnVi
remnent
mayor.
present klan administration went in to power, is becoming a rout. Thosi foolish business people who paid fo the privilege of fleecing a bunch o ignorant kooks are trying to look dignified but signally failing. Insm ance agents, silk stocking peddlers barbers, pool room props, and other types of small business men, are swearing by all the Greek and other Pagan Gods that they never belonged to the klan.. Some are actually sending registered letters to the Post-Democrat stating that they have fought the klan from the beginning and to please nl^t publish their names. Of all the burlesques ever put over on 100 per cent Americanism and pure and undefiled protestantism, the Koo Koo spasm of New-
ark, Ohio, is the funniest.
The mayor, sensing how the wind blowing, is doing his best to make amends. He has withdrawn the name Miss Dening as appointed to the health board. The fire bell is to be
put up again says
the klan to overcome all such monsters and give other people (himself included! a chance to go to hell. To make sure that none ol his hearers should he tempted to carry home all of their money he frequently passed his hat to relieve the assemblage of
all temptation.
It seems almost incomprehensible that a bird of this sort could get a I am going to do my part and want you to do yours. Give my love to the boys and come to see me when you are in Indianapolis. A postscript was added to the (Continued to Page Two)
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Senator Watson Denies Interview
Senator Janies E. Watson, of Indiana, denies positively that he ever, gave any such interview about Governor A1 Smith, of New York, as ap-
tire oeu is to oe 0 ^ m -u . ... peared the Chicago Sunday Tribune
pm up again says the adminiatra-1 In the a]leged lnteryiew tion. Taking it all in all, it begins to wag quoted as say .
look like the ragged and tattered .
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the klan had lost a
On last Saturday night was staged another spectacle which rather strikingly shows the class of humanity which still are real 100 per cent Americans. Some fly-by-night bird ) from nowhere came into town with j
“Only for the existence of religious prejudice in the U. S., for which, thank God, A1 Smith, of New York, would be nominated for president and he would sweep the country.” The interview stoiy was written by Arthur Sears Henning of the Tribune. The clipping was sent from this office to Senator Watson. Thursday the followiing telegram was received from Mr. Watson, who is at Winchester, Ind., at his
mother’s bedside.
a little piano box protestant church mounted on a Ford chassis. He parked the outfit on the principal corner
of the square and for two hours and j p o’Mahony, Editor of the Indiana
a half with a saw like voice and ~ - -•
punctuated by insane gestures he belabored the consciences and soul of anybody who possessed ten dollars more than his outfit was worth. After telling his hearers (composed mostly of the unsoaped of Newark) that, a rich hog had no more chance of go-
OGLE AND HIS RECORD.
Van Ogle, prosecutor, seeking renomination, asks the voters to put him in office for two years more, on his record. He has a lovely recor< , which dates back from the time he used to’bum drinks in Cffi ’ley Shelley’s blind tiger, on through to the time in his drunken career when he left his wife and ran away with another woman, on to the period when he was elected prosecutor by the votes of gamblers, prostitutes and blind tiger operators, in conjunction with the votes of some of our misguided “best people.” There are some who ha* 4; the nerve to kick on Tom Miller and say that if it were only som other lawyer, standing higher in the bar than Miller, they would vote for him. Ye guides! The idea of any one, knowing Van Ogle’s rotten past, who would attempt to present such an argument. In 1916 Ogle deliberately abandoned his wife, leaving a farewell note. He took another woman with him. After a time he returned and sued his wife fo • divorce, making scandalous allegations that not even a half a rr an would think of preferring against his own wife. She came back with a suit for support, in which she charged Ogle with being a drunkard, declaring in the complaint that Ogle had attempted to mak.* Muncie dry by drinking up all the beer and whiskey in sight. She also charged him with selling the household furniture, and even disposing of her wedding presents. She declared that he even sold the dining table, making it necessary for them to eat on a soap box fifteen inches square. Ogle’s wife was a good woman and he did not dare to charge her with the things which his depraved mind would naturally suggest. In his complaint he said she was extravagant and was always buying clothes and things and making him pay for them. He also complained bitterly of the way his wife scolded him, failing to mention, however, that he was merely getting the tongue lashing that was due a good for nothing, drunken bum who spent his time loafiing in bl nd tigers and chasing around with other women. A Nearly a whole papa;# complaint is taken up with the way his wife refused to keep his linen clean, one excerpt from the document winding up as follows: “And if, perchance he (Ogle) undertook to change his linen defendant would fly into a rage and accuse him with having dates and engagements with other women.” Hold, in your mind’s eye, that pitiful spectacle of Van Ogle getting razzed for changing shirts and telling the whole world about it! The divorce trial was set for June 22, 1916. One of the witnesses subpoenaed by Mrs. Ogle to prove her allegations was the Hon. Clarence W. Dearth, present judge of the circuit court, who is now asking the women of Delaware county to vote for the man he was to testify against in 1916. But Clarence didn’t get to testify. Ogle, called to the stand first to testify in his own behalf was allowed to rattle on for, a few minutes when the late Judge Ellis, presiding on the bench, stopped the trial in disgust and found for the defendant. In asking for a new trial, which was denied, the sixth reason assigned was “that the court erred in refusing to and declining to hear further evidence in said cause after the plaintiff had testified in his own defense.” Judge Ellis believed the word of the wife and threw out of court the case of this great protector of womanhood who bore false witness against the woman he had sworn to honor and respect. This is but a small portion of Ogle’s past personal history. It is given here to silence those who want to belittle the past life of Tom Miller, a poor boy who worked in an ironmill—who quit his job, and without education tackled the law business and beat the game and who now has pending in the supreme court more cases than all the lawyers of Muncie combined. Ogle’s record as a public official is thoroughly bad. There is now enough sworn evidence on file in the office of District Attorney Elliott to send him to prison for conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. The anti-saloon league has endorsed Ogle for re-election. We assume that this is in recognition of his valiant effort to make Muncie dry by the simple process of drinking it all himself, as recounted in his wife’s answer to his divorce complaint.
KLAN “GRAND DRAGON” ASKS SUPPORT FOR ED JACKSON
Stevenson, Head of “Political Action” Committee, Issues Official Call to Democrats and Republicans. Shank Bitterly Attacked.
As was -expected, the “political action Kloncilium” of the Ru Klux Klan has come out in. an appeal to all its members in Indiana to sup-
People of Delaware County, Stung to Resentment, Will Make a Clean Sweep At the Polls Tuesday—Machine Leaders Are Sacrificing Everything for Readle and OgleTom Miller Certain of Big Victory. On the eve of the most interesting primary election ever held in Delaware county it appears almost certain that the Billy Williams organization, which has dominated the politics of the county for years, is doomed to disastrous defeat. The machine is sacrificing everything for John Readle for sheriff, Van Ogle for prosecutor and Jackson and Truitt for commissioners. Desperate tactics are being used by Williams and his cohorts to win. The entire office holding clique, including a flock of females holding minor appointive jobs are beating the bushes imploring the voters to return these men to office, regardless of their record of unfitness and wasteful extravagance. Clubs are being swung over the heads of notorious law breakers to compel them to come to the rescue of Prosecutor Ogle and Judge Dearth and a gang of sob sisters are playing the churches with the hypocritical plea that Judge Dearth’s juvenile and probation work will meet with a heavy frost unloss he is sustained the next tw'o years by the impossible Ogle and the understudy of Sheriff Hoffman.
The “new kIan”*of which Ju«is?a Dearth, Harry Hoffman, John Readle, Willis Cole. Van Ogle and the entire office holding mess are members, is backing the Williams slate. But the new klan does not stand well with the original Ku Klux outfit here and a disastrous split has ta&en place. The old klan. openly denouncing the Dearth-Ogle-Hoffman crowd for making, the kian odious in DoiawATM county, will take a part, it- is said, in whaling the Billy Williams machine. George Winfrey, the klucker
port Edward (“Dollings”) Jackson, P reacher from Alexandria- seems eerRepublican secretary of state for tain of carr y in S Delaware county Governor of Indiana against Samuel gainst \ estal and Benadum. All Lewis Shank or “any other Republi- are kluckers. Vestal came incan aspirant.” The daily paper? car to tlie klan late t0 get kIan votes * ried the official circular sent out by Benadum Xiongs to the BemenderD. C. Stephenson, Past-Grand Dragon ferites and Winfrey is one of the old, of “the Klan” from his headquarters blOWU " iri_tiie ' bottle boys, the offices of “the Tri-State Coal ^ ae °^ d ^ an vote solidiy Company,” 302 Kresge building, for Winfrey and many anti-klan votPennsylvania and Washington ers wiil glve th6 Preacher a lift in
; streets, Indianapolis. The letters order t0
; were gotten hold of by anti-Klan in- ; vestigators, and given to the daily
; press.
i The letters, copies of which were being circulated in political circles i today, asserts that Mr. Jackson “has the ‘intestinal fortitude’ to make a real Governor of Indiana. In another letter sent out by Mr. Stephenson, who signs the letters as the “Old Man,” the statement is made that “we have been challenged: in Indiana on the proposition of . whether or not we could put Ed Jackson over for Governor.” In Better Government *T know you axe interested in better government and therefore will do everything you can to see that men best qualified to serve are placed in offices of public trust,” says one let-
ter.
“I am strongly inclined to the opin ion that the Honorable Ed Jackson, secretary of state, has the ‘intestinal fortitude” to make a real Governor for Indiana. If you can conscientiously do so, I am going to ask you to
bend your efforts
with an overwhelming majority in
the coming primaries.
“Of course, we all want to pick a winner, and in this particular case
Catholic:
Have not seen Arthur Sears Henning for four months. Never made such a statement and never gave any such interview to him, or to anybody else anywhere at any time. JAMES E. WATSON. - Indiana' Catholic.
Smith Is Presented For President U. S.
Albany, N. Y., April 16.—Governor Alfred Smith’s name was presented to the nation tooay as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, by the Convention of the Democrats of the state of New York. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt presented the Gov-
eompare.” The resolution made no mention of the League of Nations iscue, but hoped the U. S. would work for better understanding among the nations.
Kamelia Discards Hood Substitutes for Mask
Birmingham, Ala.—The national
ernor’s name and he received a great convention of Kamelia, women’s seovation. The entire convention rose cret order meeting in Claremore, cheering for several minutes. The Okla., voted to abandon the hood, action of the convention yvas unani- Mrs. Sallie Osborne Cooper, of Alamous, every delegate voting for the bama, announced. Governor. He accepted the action of A crown will be used, she said, addthe convention as “an honor beyond ing that “this means no masks.”
Here They Are All Together AH Dressed Up
Washington.—An amendment to the immigration bill, sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan was defeated in the senate last night. The amendment would stop all immigration fo‘r a period of five years. It was introduced by Senator Hefflin, democrat, of Alabama. Hefflin made a fervid speech for his amendment in which he said “the Anglo-Saxon stock ^ust be preserved and protected or the American Republic will be Europeanized in another (Continued to Page Four.:
put Vestal away and make
a monkey out of Billy Williams, v/bo has had notice served on him from Washington that in the event Vestal loses the' county Billy will have his
terbacker taken away from him.
Those opposed to the klan, combining with the anti-Williams forces, have decided to support the follow-
ing candidates:
For governor—Lew Shank. Fon congress—Winfrey. Nominate him now and lick him laterFor prosecuting attorney —Tom
Miller.
For senator—Francis Shaw. For sheriff—Harry McAuley. For treasurer—Ira Wilson.
For commissioners— Web Jordan, Nathan Thornburg and Zenas Pond. Last week the Post-Democrat announced John McCreery as the antiWilliams “slate” for commissioner. We have since discovered that he is on the Billy Williams slate. Zenas Pond, who is running against McCreery openly declares that he is against Williams. McCreery private-
ly makes the same declaration.
j McCreery says if he is on the Wil-
to put him across ,
hams slate he doesn t know why he was put there. He is there, nevertheless. We don’t want to doubt John McCreery’s word, but we sim-
, ply can’t endorse any man who has | we are extremely fortunate in having Bupport o{ the Bnly wlIliamg or _
the most popular Republican candidate who ever sought the gubernatorial nomination in Indiana—a
ganization. We therefore advise antiWilliams men who are opposed to the new-klux-Williams machine to vote
clean, upright, Christian gentleman, f 0 r Pond. McCreery belongs to the and a man whose patriotic devotion Bemenderfer klan. was manifested by offering to back indications are that there will up with his body and his life if nec- £, e a light democratic vote castessary his patriotic cojivictions when . chairman Obe$ Kilgore has hailed he enlisted in the world war. , U p t he democratic party so badly Compelled to Resign | that hundreds of democrats openly “In order to do this he was com-, ti ee i are that they will enter the repelled to resign from the second p U hlican primary and hand Billy Wilhighest office within the franchise of ii am s one of his own bi-partisan the people of Indiana . Write me a j 0 it S- The argument is that a mail letter and tell me what you are do- a r ight to change his politics ing. Pass the word along that whenever he feels like it and that he Jackson will carry Marion county by Can change back again if conditions the biggest majority ever given a ; warrant it. candidate in the Seventh district. The delegates to the state conven-
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