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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper In Delaware Co.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. i

EAN GRAND

Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a year.

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Muncie, Indiana, Friday, May 2,1924.

DR. McCULLOCH FOUR-SQUARE. The answer of Dr. Carleton McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor, to a questionnaire, presented by the South Bend Tribune, inquiring concerning his relationship to the Ku Klux Klan does him great credit as a straightforward, honest, fearless and high-class man. In these days when most of the republican condidates are either resting comfortably under the charge of Klanisrn or are soft pedaling the issue, fearing to tell the truth lest support be withheld, Dr. McCulloch’s manly candor is refreshing. He said, “You then ask me a number of questions as to my relationship with the Ku Klux Klan or any of its subsidiaries, branches, divisions, departments, or affiliations. In this respect, I will give you the same answer I have given innumerable letters on the same subject. I am a member of the Congregational church. I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Ku Klux Klan or any of its branches. The only fraternal society of which I am a member is the Masonic order. I stand four-square on the Constitution of the State of Indiana and that of the United States of America, the principles of which I had the honor of fighting for on the battle front in the late war.” Reports from every precinct in Delaware county indicate a smashing defeat for the Billy Williams machine. Here’s hoping. E. S. Shumaket* sends private advices here that Senator Jim Fitch has wet leanings and in his paper, the American Issue, lists him as dry. Shumaker mav be well meaning enough but Delaware county folks can go to the polls and vote without being instructed from Indianapolis.

Rev. Shumaker of the anti-saloon league, says in his paper, “Ogle should be elected.” We thus find the good brother and Bob Graves in hearty accord. Sam Bemenderfer once told a Muncie man that in the klan the scum would eventually come to the surface. The scum of the Muncie klan came to the surface, was skimmed off and named the Independent Klan of America, with Sam at the head.

has vic-

town, Pa., for participation in the hooded-gang murder }

two weeks ago at Lilly, Pa. One of these is said to have ! x (Continued From Fage one) confessed that he fired the first shot into the crowd of! Iett6ir ul s in g the recipent to “be sure Lilly citizens, for the purpose of intimidating wnom the) in your county „ masked demonstration was staged. All habeas-corpus! in second tetter applications have been denied, and the “patriotic” twenty- j In the &econd letter - Mr - stepnenseven are also held without bail. Judge John A. Evans,; wonaerIul co . oi)el . at!o „ in the tlght in holding the murderers without bail, said that a parade | we have been waging in the striking at night by masked men that terrorizes people is in itself for the bi s program of a militant a violation of the law. Sure! This is not news. But! l: ; e ^ can slm Almighty Gcg where have the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and police of the f Ulded rp ^ ? us far ^ a sloI h inus state of Indiana, and elsewhere, been all this time? It’s waves proudly over the state of Indi . about time that the courts of the country were stepping i an a and heroic Hoosiers are buoyed in to deal with this bunch of thugs. The death total so far, • up by the satisfaction of a faithful at Lilly, Pa., is three, as a^result of the playful caperings dut y honestly done.” of the Klan the night the dirty coward turned off the lights ou K -; ow we have been challeng ' at Lilly so that the ghouls could stage their celebration in ed in Indiana onj the broposit1 ^ the desired darkness ! whether or not we could put e<i ^ , T ' . . . Jackson over for Governor,” continDut at Lamar, Oolo., where the nit-wits have been „ es th e letter, “it matters not whethtearing the corners off certain one dollar bills, series of I er we are Democrats or Republicans, 1917, because they claimed the money had the picture of* in the final analysis we an have the the Pope on it, the Government has now stepped ir and has; same common heart-throb of syminformed the morons that it is a penitentiary c Tense tor"* 1 '''"" +fv ~ nr *

mutilate the currency of the United States! Nc need toi commiserate the ignorance of the Colorado shimmies. We’ve got the same kind right here in Indiana, and it has not yet been discovered that there is anything above their eyebrows. Yeah! They’ve been having things pretty much their own way up to now, haven’t they?’ A nice, lovely, “law-abidin’ ” bunch! Over at North Manchester one day last summer about 1,500 of them gathered at a depot to meet the Pope! It was noised abroad that he had been at Elkhart and was coming to North Manchester! You guessed it: North Manchester has a population of 2,711, and there is no Catholic church there, either.

I HUGH STEWART, BLIND MAN OF ' BALEVILLE, WAS SELECTED AS VICTIM BY PROSECUTOR OGLE

KLUX PUZZLE: CAN YOU FIGURE IT OUT? S’pose there’s a church in a town the Klux is thinkin' of visitin’. They inform the preacher they’re cornin’. The church’s known capacity is about 700. The night the fireworks are pulled, though, the Klux claims to have between 5,000 and 6,000 in the church. It can’t hold more than 700 at the most; but the kloun klexter certifies there’s all of 5,000. How burn the fiery-cross without singeing some bird’s whiskers? All who can answer are invited to take three whacks on the nearest Koo-Koq co-co, in the name of Old Doc Evans, Slippery Simmons, and “Old Man” Stephenson.

MR. ORBISON IN THE SOUTH. According to the Fellowship Forum of March 15th, the official organ of the Klan, published at Washington. D. C., ex-Judge Charles J. Orbison of Indianapolis is, busily engaged trying to stem the tide of disintegration, disruption and revolt that is besetting the hooded order south of Mason and Dixon line. Mr. Orbinson, whom we all know here as ex-Circuit Court Judge, ex-Prohibition Enforcement officer under the Wilson administration, and a leading light of the democracy in Indiana, is now Iliustrious Potentate of Murat Temple of the Shriners. Under the heading “Past master of Indiana Masons, lauds the Ku Klux Klan” the Fellowship Forum displays Orbison’s speech at the Academy of music at Wilmington, N. C. We. quote as follows from the report: “In these later days has come a new organization to tie men together I upon the principles taught by all the great Protestant! fraternities. These fraternities have,sought to inculcate! religious principles in the hearts of men, leaving men in j their individual initiative to carry them out. The Knights I of the Ku Klux Klan seek to mobilize these Protestant! forces and make them a militant, aggressive power in 1 building up American citizenship, in safe-guarding these shores from the population of Europe and eliminating the undesirables from American soil.” We wonder what the manly, intelligent, decent citizens of Indianapolis, who belong to Murat Temple, with its ten thousand members, and most of whom wouldn’t be seen dead in a Klavern, think of the work of their Supreme Potentate and his glowing eulogy of the Ku Klux Klan, which is now repudiated by every self-respecting man, and even by many who mistakenly joined it. THAT NICE “OLD MAN.” “Old Man” Stephenson, the guiding spirit of the klan in Indiana, is a fine specimen of humanity to be handing out to the people of Indiana the “God and Country” stuff about Ed Jackson. Last January this lovely “Old Man” got drunk in the Hotel Deshler, Columbus, Ohio, with two boon companions and the trio created such a disturbance that the police were called and the drunken bums thrown in jail. A lot of liquor was found in the room occupied by these disciples of law and order and promoters of the Jackson candidacy. In their drunken frenzy the “Old Mjin” and his fellow inebriates smashed all. the furniture in their room, insulted a manicurist, and blackjacked a hotel house detective who attempted to break up their drunken party. These are facts which can be substantiated. If any Muncie klansman doubts this, let him investigate and he will discover it to be the God’s truth. The “Old Man” is simply a drunken grafter who seeks to fool even his own klan dupes. JOLTS FOR THE BIRDS OF NIGHT. Twenty-seven Klansmen are now in jail at Johns-

ALL “SEWED UP” FOR JACKSON. The KKxers must have a vast contempt for the people of the State of Indiana, if they think that the libertyloving citizens are going to meekly follow “Cld Man” jtephenson’s directions, as expressed in receit letters found and published in the daily press, and vo,e for Ed Jackson at the primaries regardless of party amiiadons ihese are the orders that have gone out from ftiux headquarters—to put Ed Jackson over at any cost. The cuck u 0S L O l C0 u l - rs f’ a , re alread y lined up, and are planning ahead the big barbecues they are going to hold this sumd mer, m celebrating the “great victory.” but what do tin voters say? No doubt they will prefer to remain American citizens, rather than to exchange a noble republic for an invisible empire ruled over by devils, foul spiritsfand every un-clean and hateful bird. Get down your Bibles and turn to Revelations 18th chapter, verse 2 ^

ffiVISIBLE EMPIRE GOBBLES UP TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN GOOD OLD GRANT CO,

Marion, Ind., May 2.—The klan is making a desperate effort in Grant

Xing Ail the rest are khiokers.

On the republican side, of the var- Claim county to capture the nominees of ‘ ious

both parties, but seems to be paying'

particular attention to the demo-! i eru ’ 18 tne man who de cratic end of the contest. j Serves the votes of those wjro oppose Bert Renbarger, the democratic invisibIe government. Bearss isopen

candidates for congress, Hiram Bearss of Peru, is the man who

klux sheriff is opposed by Everett Kinsey, who is entitled to the votes of all right thinking democrats. Congressman Sam Cook, unopposed, is endorsed by the klan. J. Walter McClelland of Matthews, unopposed for prosecuting attorney, is all wool and a yard wide. The whole world knows he is against the klan and that he isn’t afraid to sa so. Two years ago he came within sixty votes of being elected. John A. Peterson and John M. Wallace, candidates for representatives from Grant county, a'-'e both kluxers, as is W. A. Inman of Hartford City, unopposed for joint repre-

sentative.

Lilian Prickett, unopposed for treasurer, is endorsed by the klan. George R. Fear and Sam M. Van Cleave, candidates for recorder, are both klansmen. Williams Marneyl the only democrat for coroner, has not been re-

in his opposition. The others either belong or are pussy footers. David M. Bell, who is not a klansman, is opposed by two cookoos in bis race for the nomination for representative. That ought to tell the republicans who to vote for. Fred O. Eward, candidate for joint representative, Grant and Blackford, should be nominated to oppose Inman of Blackford County, the democratic nominee, who would insist on wearing his nightie in the state

house if elected.

Harry C. Moore for treasurer. Ja cob C. Campbell for sheriff, Harry Linn for recorder, Dr. W. T. Bailey for coroner, and Clarkson D. Smith for surveyor, are not klanemen and

should be voted for.

For commissioner from the secern: district the man to vote for is John W. Pittenger. In the third, Joseph E Davis, who is not a klansman, is opposed by two of the night riders.

pathetic devotion to our state. We are now called to vindicate that right to so love our state by nominating Ed Jackson in the primary. The bootlegger and the criminal, the political .montbank’ and the shyster have resorted to every resource of treachery, falsehood and double dealing to defeat our program. But God still reigns in Heaven—we can’t fail. “From every section of Indiana there comes gladsome tidings saying Ed Jackson will win overwhelmingly, I know you have fought a good fight; you have kept the faith; and I know you feel like I do—that it matters nor. if- the entire state ticket is elected Democratic; nor does it matter if it is Republican. We are not interested in Ed Jackson because he happens to be a Republican, but because Ne is a Christian gentleman and a good citizen who loves his country and fears his God. In Marion county we are giving him over 15,000 majority. The rural districts will give ni(3 more than two for one. “I want you to attend every meet ing that is- held in your community, see that you get an opportunity to go on the floor and say to the boys -that ours is not a program of politics, but we are fighting to determine our right of existence in the sts(te of Indiana. If our enemies win they would have us send deaf and dumb band:, through the main. thoroughfare playing the “Star Spangled Banner” or their fingers. We propose that no such pussy-footed patriotism slmP disgrace Hoosierdom. I appeal to yor therefore, to awaken the men of you: community to their sense of du+y. “Give my profound love to the

boys.

“Faithfully and sincerely always, all ways. THE OLD MAN. “P. S. Write me at once and tell me what the situation is in yoif county and what you are doing.” Bitterly Attack Shank The “political action committee’' of the Klan is attacking Shank in ■every part of the state systematica’ ly and charging that he “denied Tomlinson hall for a Klan meeting” and that he has “kept Romanists and undesirables at theViead of the Indianaipolis fire and police depart-

ments.

Control Democrats and Re-

publicans.

A man named Umphries at the Indianapolis Klan headquarters, admitted to an investigator. “We have Klan state delegates complete, DemVjcrats and Republicans, in every county in Indiana and we will control both party state conventions.”

The people of Daleville have not yet got done talking about the way Sheriff Hoffman and Prosecutor Ogle selected Hugh Stewart as a victim and prosecuted him after they found an antiquated slot machine, containing fifteen pennies, in his little restaurant. Mr. Stewart has been blind for twenty four years and is one of Daleville’s'most respected citizens. Notwithstanding his affliction he has managed to get along and raise his family in comfort and give his children proper schooling. When he was arrested friends in Daleville and Muncie, plead with Prosecutor Ogle to refrain from pressing the trivial charge against the blind >inan. But Mr. Stewart’s affliction meant nothing to Ogle. Stewart is a democrat and somebody in Daleville had to be rammed after a

Daleville klucker, charged with spiring liquor to boys had been cleared, by a klucker jury that had been worked ^on by Sam Bemenderfer and others. So Ogle took it out on the blind man and he was fined thirty doiiars and # has a thirty d£iy suspended sentence hanging over t his head. Sheriff Hoffman went all the way to Daleville, to catch this poor blind man in a trivial offense, while Bob Graves’s protected crap joint, where thousands of dollars change hands weekly, is allowed to go unmolested. But the blind man is a democrat who -hates the Williams bi-partisan machine while Graves is a negro politician who has promised the gang to deliver colored votes to Ogle and the rest of the gang promoted by the “Independent Klan of America.”

from toting a cheap gat. He holds forth at the pool room at Mound Builder’s Park and has nobody scared but himself. He tells the Keo Koos that he is a descendant of the Hatfield gang of Breathitt County, Ky., and makes it sound redder b} modestly claiming that he worked with “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp, The Blood.” He is a glaring example of a real 100 per cent Buckeye American and proudly claims as his brothers ministers of tire gospel, Christian church people and small town busi ness men. His royal mess has given vent to

another outburst which will beT*^* a at a later date! See’s the handwriting on the wall and back’s out. His spokesman, Red Fulk, a would-be politician from the east side has turned his head in a new direction, not only framing things in the council but still while he is on the job', as Supt. for Davies, a small two by four shirt waist store, his brain works for the Klan while on this job. Davies stands for it and Klucker Fulk does it, but the people of Newark don’t like it. Red fell into the job in good faith and. will fall out of it otherwise.

AND HANDBOOK OF indi-

(1915). there is an account, on pages

ported on as to his klan sentiments. ! Nominate Davis by all means.

George Steffins, the only candidate for surveyor, has passed censorship and is reported O. K.

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i Nelson, Hawkins and Shinbholt, candidates for commissioner from, the second district, are a trio of kluxers. In the second district democrats should vote for William A. Seely, a law abiding American, and against William E, Mason, who belongs to the order which hates itself. Of the Center township candidates for delegates to the state convention vote for George Rauch, Marcus M. Kilgore, Albert N. Doyle and George

The klan secured a strangle hold on Grant county two years ago. The voters now have a chance to break loose. They should avail themselves of the opportunity even if it becomes

UNDE NECK (Continued From Page One) single hearer. He was a b’g rough looking ostrich dressed in a dirty suit of khaki and a Mexican hat, evidently purchased at a Jew Army score. His unbuttoned shirt disclosed a dirty hairy chest, reminding you somewhat of a ten yeai growth o: moss on a rickety beer vat. Both he and his imitation church were bedecked by a quarter’s worth of cheap flags. To put it mildly, he, like potato bugs, cock roaches and hen lice, is but another type of creation in human form that suffering humanity's only panacea is an |poiogy from the creature’s parents for bringing him into the world. The riffraff of the Jewish Church hanged Christ on a cboss. All Arner ican Koo Koos burn him on a cross. There are still two or three of the imported four ilusher thugs and gunmen, who were so much in evidence here last fall. One of these Oklahoma | terrors who hangs out on a side f

necessary for good democrats to lay street off Granville street, peddles

aside their politics for the time being. Shank will get a big vote in Grant county and it is said that many democrats, incensed at the manner in which the klan has gobbled up the party here, will call for republican ballots to vote for Shank and local anti-klux republican candidates.

bead rings to the Koo Koos and ( boasts of his ability to put three bul- j lets through a half dollar in three ' seconds at a distance of fifty feet. If this bird’s gun is as dirty as his ears he couldn’t shoot his way out of a paper cage. Another gink by the name of “Mack” has holes in all his pockets

History Repeats Itself. Do You Remember the “Knights of the Golden” Circle”? c

(By Historian.)

Ask any native Indianian of the older generation who was our Civil War governor. He will straighten up, his chest will expand with pride, he will look you straight in the eye .and say,. “Why sure! n- o'* “ a “. 5 A of war as -S,*, of Liberty,” "Or.’cr of American Knights,” or Knights of

Golden Circle;’

In the “CENTENNIAL HISTORY

ANA," hy George S. Cottman . ^ A H3 and H4 of the noble governor's struggle with those bands ot disloyalist, who stayed at home, while (lie armies were in the fie d and !,Ui Ivemhing they could to defeat the Union. The celebrated reason case,'"Eli parte Milligan," should be consulted tor a more detailed

account-

‘The Knights of the Golden Circle.- were organized at Havana, Cuba, in 1856, the purpose being to establish an empire withim a radius of a line extending slightly beyond St- Louis in the Lmted States and taking in the greater portion of Mexico. The inspiration for th move is known to have come from England which, during the war, shewed'every possible favor to the southern confederacy. Harrison H, Dodd. William A. Bowles, Lambdin P. Milligan, Stephen Horsey, and Andrew Humphreys were leaders in the state of Indiana. ^ P- G Wright, of New York, was Supreme Commander of the ’’invisible empire/’ and one Vallandingham, was “Grand Commander’ m Ohio. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, it is said, had received

instructions at Yallandingham’s academy in Canada.

The “CYCLOPEDIA OF FRATERNITIES.” 2nd edition, page 119, sq , states that the order was anti-Catholic- To quote, “The Knights of the Golden Circle” demanded that “all nunneries, monastries or convents should be publicly opened and that any minister holding a

place under the government must be a Protestant.”

With the original sources before him, Attorney General U. SLesh has given Us his most interesting novel'entitled ‘A KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE,” which he wrote while a resident of Hunt-

ington.

In this work we have a complete picture of the work of the night-crawlers of a former day. They resisted the draft, page 8; and tried to compel people to join, by threats, even imposing upon wo men and children. They .carried arms (pages 10, 11, just as the modern koo-koos do. Sometimes they stole the guns from government arsenals, page 115- What is still more remarkable, the leading characters of the organization belonged to the “Horse Thief Detective Association,” page 15. The mummery of the present Klan was there in all its glory—for instance, “Calhoun” spelled backwards was one of the passwords, page 17. These birds of night met in the woods- They had secret hang-outs or “klaverns,” ^age 94, sq. See

also page 16,

For some time there, actually existed a state of armed rebellion against the government, pages 22, 23- Another startling parallel is the assumption of different names at different times, for ‘‘safety’s sake,” just as the present Klan hides under the cloak of religion. A membership al 50,000 (possibly exaggerated) was claimed in Indiana, and there were klaverns in every county, page 114. Political control was the supreme object. Vallandingham was to become governor of Ohio, and Dodd gqvernor of Indiana. Reminds one of the present plan to put Jackson over, doesn’t it? Arms were sent to the “patriots” camaufiaged and marked as ‘‘school books,” hence the old outfit was strong for “the little red schoolhouse” and took great interest in education! Pages 114, 115. Several draft officers were actually killed, pages 46, 47, 232- 15,000 of the (‘Knights,” planned to invade the United States from Canada, page 131- The administration of justice in civil courts was paralyzed, and President Lincoln and Gov. Morton were compelled to institute military courts and suspend the writ of habeas corpus, pages 135, i.36. (Governor Walton in Oklahoma supplies a parallel.) . The o!d “nighties” also issued “warnings” to ‘‘undesirable characters” to leave the country, and citizens found their anonymous circulars on their doorsteps, page 155. Lincoln was paid the compliment of being assailed as “King Lincoln.” Pages 177, 178. ‘‘The New York Daily News” was the “Protestant” organ, through which the “patriots” published ‘‘the truth” to the world, page 198. Well, what do you think by now?