Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 May 1924 — Page 4
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924.
List of right People
To Vote For 7ues. Allen Co. Primary
Invisible Empire Due for a Stunning Defeat At
the Polls In Fort Wayne Tuesday.
I JUDGE VIC SIMMONS, BLACKBALLED BY RED MEN AT HARTFORD CITY VOTED IN AFTE MEMBERS LEFT
FT. WAYNE NICKEL PLATE KLUXERS. Archiband, J. L., 3920 Holton, t Ave., Switchman. Anderson, Geo. B., 631 Third St., Clerk. Archbald, Forest, 2724 Chestnut St., Brakeman. Albright, Ivan D., 817 W. Main St., Fireman. Baum, Frank H., 623 Fry St., Brakeman. Baker, Ernest C., 821 W. Jefferson St., Brakeman. Brown, Milton O., 1816 High St., Conductor. Barry, Harry O., 827 High St., Brakeman. Baughman, John F., 1827 High St., Engineer. Brown, Murray J. E., 528 Van Buren St., Loc. Fire-
man.
Beard, James J., 624 Cherry St., Brakeman. Brandon, Asa A., 1810 St. Joe Blvd., Brakeman. Bachellor, Roy D., 1015 St. Mary’s Ave., Car Repair. Brittan, Hugh C., 1652 Howell St., Fireman. Claxton, James, 1916 W. Main St., Switchman. Clark, George, 448 W. DeWald St., Baggageman. Crouse, Charles N., N. A. Bdl., Conductor. Caldwell, Leonard, 1318 Lillie St., Brakeman. Crapser, Howard W., 421 Greenwood Ave., Brake-
man.
Cahow, Grocer C., 1419 Boone St., Brakeman. Davenport, Martin G., 401 Cherry St., Machinist. Doty, Emrie M., 1606 High St., Engineer. Evans, Alonzo, 1729 Howell St., Engineer. Ervin, Roy, 1351 Superior St., Brakeman. Griffis, Lyman P., 615 Third St., R. Clerk. Gawthrop, Judd, 1417 Boone St., Fireman. Grummons, Emil L, 1716 Richardson St., Conductor. Gillen, Judson, 331 W. Jefferson St., Capt. Police. Graybill, Durald, 801 Fourth St., Engineer. Geren, Alonzo, Capt. Police. Gummons, Varr M., 1907 Bequette St., Conductor. Hollopeter, Arthur L., 712 Lawton Place. Asst. Ticket
Agent.
Hooser, Donald, ISOO^ High St., Laborer. Forsythe, W. Earl, 516 Greeley St., Frt. Cond. Forney, Robert L., 1509 Boone St., Fireman. Frankart, Charles W., 741 Michel Ave., Loc. Engr. Hopkins, Hubert H., 814 Runyon St., Machinist. Habecker, John S., 815 Huffman St., Conductor. Hood, Geo. T., 1150 W. Main St., Engineer. Horn, Howard, Roanoke, Ind., R. R. 3, Checker.
Homan, Leo. J., Fireman.
Hyre, Wm., 422 Mechanic St., Conductor. Hauser, Orville, 7107 Richardson, Caller. Heckman, Mailin, Home Lunce, Fireman. Itskin, Oliver W., 1324 Main St., R. R. Brakeman. Jenkins, Anson M., 1502 Boone St., Brakeman. Johnson, John, 1002 St. Mary’s, Car Inspec. Jeffers, Geo., 1218 Clay St., Machinist. % Kepler, John H., 1225 Oakland, Conductor. Kernes, James L., 924 W. Main St., Brakeman. Kirback, Ernest P., 2214 Gay St., Inspector.
Hartford City, May 2.—Politics is at a white heat with interest centering in the republican scrap for the
judgeship.
Judge Vic Simmons, who was appointed to the job v by ex-Governor McCray,who was given ten years in Atlanta by Judge ^.nderson, is opJ posed by Attorney Tom Peterson of Montpelier, and Jolin A. Bonham of Hartford City. It is said that those opposed to Simmons are centering on Bonham, who has been a member of the Black-! ford County bar for forty years and j is much better known than the Mont-!
pelier man.
Simmons is a member of the new i Bemenderfer klan at Muncie, which I seceded from the old klan. He is a ! member of the “advisory board” of , the new klan. On of his jury commis- i sioners, William A. Inman, who is : also candidate for joint representative, attended the new klan convention at Muncie, in company with
Simmons.
Inman represented Blackford county as a delegate to the convention, but when noses were counted it v as
and file of the
City Red Men’s lodge, and his name and others were presented and voted on as a class. The vote was taken several times, each test resulting in a blackball. Several were then voted on singly and passed the test. The presiding officer did not present the name of Simmons, announcing that there would be no more votes taken that night. Later, after those opposed to Simmons had left the hall, he was voted in. Members of the order say the transaction was wholly irregular and an appeal will be taken to the grand lodge to have the new fledged member thrown out. It came up In the trial of Governor McCray that he was bribed by the Studebaker bank into signing the bill which divided the Wells-Blackford circuit. McCray borrowed twenty thousand dollars of the bank, the agreement being that the governor should sign the bill which was similar to one he had vetoed two years
before.
Thus, poor little Blackford had Vic Simmons thrust upon them when she needed a judge of her own almost as
found that the rank -— ——. ,
did not badly as a hog needs a powder puff. Gazing at Vic Simmons, the d is g uste f
Blackford county kluckers
follow their peerless leader. It is now { tel ford county members of the old klan, resenting Simmons’s treachery to their great
order, will soak him in the
Tuesday. told that
neck
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citizens of Blackford county feel that McCray gave them more than their share of punishment and tha't Judge Anderson ought to have give£ him a
hundred years instead of ten.
A story is told that Simmons ap-1 All together now! G-o to the polls plied for membership in the Hartford 1 Tuesday and beat Simmons. ELWOOD CORRESPONDENT DIGS UP ANOTHER PAIR 0FREV.DE MILLER’S RIGHT HAND BOWERS OF KLUXDOM
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El wood, Ind., May 2.—Fred Seeley isj again campaigning, this time for the Ku Klux Klan, as his speech in Summittville proved, and he did it this time without a shimmy or hood. Let’s see who Fred is. Four years he ran for mayor and was de-
he wanted to
ago
. feated Two years ago
sheriff and got the razzberry as
that occasion he became
so insulting
* Ft. Wayne, Ind., May 2.—The patriotic citizens of Ft. Wayne and Allen county are preparing to go to the tion
polls Tuesday with a firm purpose of Charley Orbison, former prohibition
be
usual. On
all peeved and became
that one of the boys jolted him in
the jaw.
He started home to get a gun,’ but changed his mind The same old bull. In years gone by Seeley was a police commissioner and during his incumbency and following is the scale of prices paid by law violators for the privilege of unlwful operations: For running roulette wheel, $100 a
month
Stud poker game; $50 per month. Plain poker, $10 per month, Keeping open on Sunday, 5 per
month.
~ — ' Every month a collector went the aie now pinning their hopes to con- rounds and collected the protection trol of the democratic state conven- money from law violators-
After the expiration of his term of
office he went into the saloon busi-
that
now out with a petition asking he be appointed postmaster. Elwood people fear that in the event of h;s appointment people would have to pay for having their mail delivered. Fred went to Oklahoma last fall, and it was reported that while there he was shot by his son. However any number of citizens believe tha.. he was f< ! hg his old pastime and had a of some kind slipped into him. At least he is still walking oa crutches and is still seeking office. Another klansman who nas forgot ten his Catholic fnends and what they did for him in thj past is Austin Brumbaugh, former mayor of Elwood and twice sent to the legislature. He is now out on the klan iekJt for delegate to the state convention. Austin has double erod ed his best friends but this : s his hobby. His own wife couldn’t stand him and left him. We are wondering who else the Rev. DeMiller has for his right hand
bowers.
Watch for the next issue or the Post-Democrat.
said board, on the 29th day of April, 1924, to-wit: I. R. No. 1146-1924, Paving the alley between Walnut Street and High Street from Twelfth Street to Thirteenth Street. I. R. No. 1147-1924, Paving the Alley between Eleventh Street and Twelfth Street* from Gharkey Street to Lake Brie & Western Railway. I. R. No. 1148-1924, For paving the alley between Eleventh Street and Twelfth Street from Liberty Street to Lake Erie & Western Railway. I. R. No. 1149-1924, For paving the alley between Walnut Street and Mulberry Street from Seventh Street ] to Eighth Street. I. R. No. 1150-1924, For paving the alley between Macedonia Avenue and Shipley Street from Willard Street, north to first alley south of Ohio Ave. I. R. No. 1151-1924, For Cement Curb and Gutter on both sides of West Main Street from Calvert Ave., to Talley Avenue. I. R. No. 1152-1924, For Cement Sidewalk on both sides of West Main Street from Calvert Avenue to Talley
Avenue.
All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance--with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie,
Indiana.
The Board of Public Works has fixed the 20th day of May, 1924, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 7:30 o’clock P. M., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said city will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. By MARY E. ANDERSON, Clerk. May 2-9, 1924. o NOTICE OF DETERMINATION TO
REPUBLICAN POSTOFFICE BOSS PICKS OUT DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE There is one democrat running in the primary who should be defeated by an overwhelming vote, and that is Bradley Skinner, candidate for the nomination for commissioner from the third district. The man to vote for is Arthur M. Wingate, a farmer who has the respect of all his neighbors. Skinner lives in Selma and runs some kind of a restaurant and congregating place that bears the euphonious title of “The Blue Goose.” This celebrated democrat belongs to the new klan and is an ardent follower of Billy William’s bipartisan camp. Williams, the republican postmaster of Muncie caused Skinner to file, hoping that he could defeat Wingate. The far sighted political boss had in mind the horrifying certainty of John Truitt’s defeat by Web Jordan and he caused Bradley to file with the idea in view that he and his machine would attempt to elect this so-called democrat next fall in the event that Web Jordan skins Truitt. Delaware county democrats should not be fooled. Cast your votes for Arthur M. Wingate and give Billy and his Blue Goose candidate the merry haw haw. Skinner’s Blue Goose at Selma has become almost as famous as the “Last Chance” that Billy himself used to run up there. Next thing Billy will be picking out a “Red Onion” to present to the befuddled electorate.
HERE’S THE WAY BILLY’S MACHINE IS KEPT ILED.
The work
of Mrs. Ruby Retz, sT ought to show the trend of Billy’s deputy township assessor working - mind, and they ought
under Assessor George Pfetffer, is a fair sample of the Billy Williams style of interlocking politics ami
business.
The husband of Mrs. Retz is in the employ of John Hampton, jury commissioner, and faithful cog in the Williams machine. Besides being deputy assessor, employed at a
to give the
voters some idea of why Billy wants to hang on to the republican organization and still continue to name the
candidates for public office.
The voters of the county are getting somewhat weary of having their taxes raised each year in order to j keep Billy’s growing crop of depend-
sa W ents and political hangers-on in
ary of four dollars a day, Mrs. Retzj beans and there geem8 to be a decid _
has been on the jury panel drawn by ed
driving the intolerant forces of hate enforcement officer for Indiana, is the neS ^’ 0 P e j’ a *“ ls Special
were fixed up for dope bunks being placed in the
basement for their accommondation
out of politics. I real choice of the kluxers for goverThe Post-Democrat has made a nor. The fact that he was dismissed I 1131-1018 caneful investigation of conditions from the service for distributing con- fien ^ 9 ’
here and in response to numberless fiscated booze among his friends, cuts . . . , i . „ after the “hop had got in its work, requests presents the names of can j no figure. alter me p , , . . , hp didates of both parties who are entitl-j For congressman, Charles W. Bran-! Having prove is ina i y o ed to the votes of those* who believe 1 stetter is a safe man to tie to on the ! e l ec t e d to any office, is - jc 11 in visible government administered by democratic ticket. He is not a klans-! ■ - --
Do net miss an issue of the PostDemocrat. We will keep you posted on the vital matters of the time. We will prove to you that the Ku Klux Klan stands for anything but law and order and 100 percent Americanism. Next week we will tell you about another holy faced hypocrite who speaks from the pulpit. Don’t miss it.
duly elected public officials, instead man, neither is Theodore A. Redmond, | lgn county ne ver be prostituted | United States- His opponent, Henry of an Atlanta potentate, surrounded * who is confpeting for the nomination, j ^ ^ w purposes of an organization Marlin, has the backing of the local
by the forces of treason and anarchy,
j; In the “box” at the head of this
article appears the names of the men
of both parties who have passed “cen^prship” and are worthy of your
votes. Cut it out and keep in mind the names of these men, who stand for constitutional government. It is a matter of general comjnent
here that 'practically all of the Hiram •Johnson county managers in the ’Twelfth district are klansmen. The
Cyrus E. Gallitin, who also seeks the democratic endorsement for congress-
man, is backed by the klan.
The democrats should by all means nominate Frank R. Dulin for circuit judge and Ira M. Snouffer for prosecutor. These important bffices should be filled by men who do not take their orders from one of the straw bosses
of an imperial wizard.
Frank Dulin is a high class attorney and the democrats of Allen county
candidacy of Hiram, who is not be- j will nominate him by an overwhelmlieved to be favorable to the klan, j ing majority, as they will Ira M. has been somewhat injured by the Snouffer, an overseas- veteran who is unhappy selection of county managers | endorsed by union labor and will he
made by the head of his state orgdni- j backed by the service men of Allen
subjects of an empire set up in defiance of the laws of the United States. Abbott should be elected, and
will be, by a big majority.
The Post-Democrat’s last word to the people of Allen county is that they keep continually on the job until the last vote is counted next , Tuesday. We want to be able next
Congressman Fairfield has no affi- j week to congratulate the decent peoliation with the klan and Edward J pie of that district on a great vicO’Rourke, candidate for Joint senator [ tory over a secret, furtive, double-
is an American citizen who does not
look to Atlanta for guidance.
The one republican candidate for
that gazes through the eyeholes of a silly mask and swaths the carcases of its membership in a dirty bedsheet. Everything is Shank up here with the republicans who have fought shy of the invisible empire. The issue is fairly drawn between Lew Shank, the enemy of the klan and Ed Jack-
son, its pet member.
zation.
For the democratic nomination for governor the klan in Allen county is favorable to the candidacy of Cravens and Batt. Those opposed to the klan are enthusiastic over the brave stand of Durgan and the known anti-klan sentiments of Crittenberger. It is clealy understood here, as elsewhere,
county.
The democratic candidates for representative mentioned above are men who deserve the support of the dem-
ocrats and they will get it.
The three candidates for county
Commissioners named be voted for by every
! joint representative and the five candidates for representative are all klansmen, so their troubles will come in November. For prosecuting Attorney, Paul M. Fuller is the only one of four candidates who is not. a klansr&an, so the republican voters who be-1
aoove should * lieve in law and order, instead of j public spirit-1 anarchy and rebellion, should vote for
dealing element which has no place in the cleanly lives of rational Amer-
icans.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Department of Public Works. Office of the Board. 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ird. NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. In the matter of certain proposed
ed democrat in Allen County.
-p be Fuller. | public improvements in the City of
that the klan hopes to dominate the j republicans of Allen Cbunty will ^ W. S. Roebuck, the only republican! Muncie, State of Indiana,
state convention and their real candi j renominate Sol Wood for circuit
date is Charles J. Orbinson. i judge by a rousing majority. He is Ed Jackson, is, of course, the favor- opposed by Schannen, a kluxer and noed one of the klan in the republican body in Allen county wants a kluxer
gubernatorial contest. Jackson’s wan- on the bench.
ing strength, due to Dollings disclos- Judge Wood has discharged the duures, has jarred many klansmen loose ties of his high office in a fair and
from the Jackson moorings and they impartial manner.
The bench of Al-
most ardent klucker in Allen county.*! The boys will take care of him in the
finals.
j Dayton F. Abbott, republican candidate for the nomination for sheriff,!
has been endorsed by those citizens thorized by the following numbered of Allen county who belong in theimprovement resolutions, adopted by
Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described/ public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana,as au-
ISSUE SCHOOL IMPROVE-
MENT BONDS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the School City of Muncie, Indiana, by resolution duly adopted by its board of school trustees at a regular meeting of said board held on Tuesday .April 22, 1924, has determined to issue and sell One Hundred Thousand Dollars, (100,000.00) par value of school improvement bonds of said
school city, the proceeds from the j B a j rt i )
sale thereof to be used in the purchase of real estate and the construction and equipping of a school building to be used as a gynasium
and for physical training.
Said bonds will be dated July 1, 1924, and will bear interest at the rate of five per cent (5 per cent) per annum, payable semi-annfially on the first day of January and July of eac': year and Five Thousand Dollars $5.000.00) par value of such bonds will mature and he payable on the first, day of July of each year beginning
July 1, 1925.
Within fifteen (15) days after this notice has been given, ten (10) or more tax-payers in said School City who will be affected by the proposed issuance of such bonds, may file a petition in the office of the Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana, setting forth their objections thereto. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 23rd day of April, 1924. School City of Muncie, Indiana. By Frederick F. McClellan,
Edward Tuhey,
George L. Haymond. Board of School Trustees. Silverburg, Bracken & Gray. April 25-May 9.
HERE THEY ARE (Continued from Page One) generation.” The amendment only got fifteen votes, being supported by only one Republican and fourteen Democrats. Those voting for the K. K. K. measure were: Republicans- Jones, of Washington, 1. Democrats .\dams, of Colorado; Dad and Smith, of South Carolina; George and Harris, of Georgia; “Pat” Harrison and Stephens, of Mississip- J pi; Mayfield and Sheppard, of Texas; Caraway, Hefflin. of Alabama; Neely, of West Virginia; Overman, of North Carolina, and Pittman, of Tennessee.
her husband’s employer. George Pfeiffer, township assessor, is a Billy (Williams candidate for committeeman in the third precinct. Mrs. Retz is the Williams slate candidate for committeewoman in the. eighth and is assessing in the twelfth
precinct
Going from house to house in the twelfth precinct for the ostensible purpose of assessing the taxpayers of that district, she is putting in most of her time plugging lor Van Ogle for prosecutor and knocking his op-
ponent, Tom Miller.
Mrs. John Hampton is also on the payroll as a deputy assessor and John himself has been named by Billy Williams as the republican member of the board of election commis-
sioners.
Mrs. Fyrne Baird, the wife of Lee also serving as a deputy
township assessor, is a sister of Billy I Williams and the wife of Lee Baird, j who pulls down $250 a month as ' county superintendent of schools and ; the latter’s father, L. Baird, has the | lucrative position of county attend- j ance officer, while Mr. Baird’s son-1 in-law, Ralph Clark, is deputy sheriif
tendency on the part of the lowly proletariat to do* some mopping up
on Tuesday, May 6.
The anti Williams organizatioa has borrowed an adding machine and after counting up the total number of Billy’s relations drawing salaries from the public and totaling the other political parasites who have access to the public feeding trough thru the royal favor of the boss, they will k^ow whether or not there are enough votes left to outnumber Billy’s machine on primary election day. . ’ ■ ■ ’;' :
under Sheriff Harry Hoffman. The redoubtable Billy himself is
postmaster, his brother Claude, is a 1 rural mail carrier and a flock of Bil- j ly’s relations draw pay for work \
around the county infirmary.
Judge Dearth is not so slow, eith | er, when it comes to seeking the pub- | lie pie counter. His wife is on the | payroll in the probation department j of the juvenile court and his attempt,* to get an eighteen hundred dollar in- | crease in salary is yet fresh in the i minds of the producers, who foot the 1 bills. | r Three of Dearth’s relatives are; on the regular jury panel, drawn by I the klucker jury commissioners, ] John Hampton and Jake Cavanaugh, I both of whom, by the way, along j with Judge Dearth, have Virtuously { severed connection with the old klan ; and have pledged their liver and j
the
lights to Sam Blinkensquirter, head of the dirty dozen. Sheriff Hoffman sees to it that his j | wife draws a monthly -salary as jail matron, Billy’s understudy, .Sherm Shroyer, who was given the infirmary job after Vestal pwt Billy to licking stamps, has caught the infection and his wife draws sixty a month and the new position of “superintendent” of the county infirmary was created* for Joe Sutton after his wife had been named matron of that
institution.
We might fill a column more, showing how Billy’s machine and his relations and his relations’ .relations are financed by the long suffering taxpayers, but these few examples
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. CONGRESSMAN, CHARLES W. BRANSTETTER or THEODORE A. REDMOND. JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT. FRANK R. DULIN. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. IRA M. SNOUFER. JOI^T SENATOR, ALLEN AND NOBLE. OSCAR WILLIAM MILLER. JOINT REPRESENTATIVE, ALLEN AND WHITLEY. JAMES D. PRITT. REPRESENTATIVE ALLEN COUNTY. CHRIST HAHN. HENRY J. YOUNG DEAN J. ZEIGLER. TREASURER. THOMAS J. CONNELLY. CORONER. HARRY G. IRWIN. SURVEYOR. ORIN M. DARLING. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 1st Dist.— THOMAS J. SHEEHAN. 2nd Dist.— CHRIST VONDERAU. 3rd Dist.-—-PAUL J. KINDER. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. CONGRESSMAN. LOUIS W. FAIRFIELD. JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT. SOL J. WOOD. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. PAUL M. FULLER. JOINT SENATOR, ALLEN AND NOBLE. EDWARD O’ROURKE. SHERIFF. DAYTON F. ABBOTT. CORONER. EDGAR N. MENDENHALL. SURVEYOR. A. W. CROSVENOR. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 1st Dist.— ORIN H. LAKE 2nd Dist.— A. J. BAKER. 3rd Dist.— ELI SLUSSMAN.