Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 May 1924 — Page 2

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THE MXJNC1E POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, MAY ^ 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Mnncie, 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.

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 9, 1924.

What profiteth it a man to gain the whole world and

lose his own soul. Billy Williams' Blue Goose democratic death by suffociation.

candidate was skinned a mile by Arthur M. Wingate, who will lick John Truitt to a frizzly frazzle next November.

CALL WILL BE ELECTED. bers would never have done this, but these robbers, braced Edgar J. Call, of Gaston, nominated on the democratic en ® uccess wl ^ weaklings in the K.K.K., fed within ticket for prosecuting attorney, is just the same as elect-; .i 61 ! 1 ^ a se coura g e > which was dissipated as soon as ed. The republicans nominated Van Ogle without looking) e ? s cai ^ ie - . , „ nx i at the man and his disreputable past and present. It was c f the point of the story. Merely that it the scenery with which he was surrounded that elected! ^ that , the

him. That the lawless element in the Redlight supported this hypocritical klucker was utterly ignored by the sob sisters and a bunch of foolish preachers who believed

everything that Judge Dearth and Sister Gill told them., , , . . - . , , . Figuratively speaking Judge Dearth, Mrs. Gill and | Unres ^ ana

Spot. : era or Davis at the Atherton hearing ( every day fCx traffic violations. Fine says he’s a carpenter, but from wba£ Totman was not SO bold, Dllt he chose to hide behind ^ jeen a gambler all hisj> em ailt ^ costs .remit the fine i we can learn he kan’t drive a naii others. Less than a year ago this King Kleagle of the Ku h [ e * He n mi ® 1 1 \ t 1 ^p- ded t i and collect $10.95, costs, of course! stral ^ ht ai i ld does m ^st of his buiui-

^ i. 1 1. 1- also ran the ‘Blue Go-ose at Buckeye | > i ng by talking. How about going to

Klux Klan was m court on charges of stealing $12,000 Lake in the old « dry » days _ a resort, they remit the Whole works if thej church . some Sunday to fin(I out ,

worth of merchandise from an Erie concern. The jury that was notorious in this and| man arrested can show a paid-upj

of twelve found him not guilty, but the jury composed of joining states. I often wonder what working card in the kookoo union, j The truth about the police force the general public knew too well that some unseen power, Rev - p . E - Wright thinks ajbout this.) but at that they must collect a thou- }g coming to a head John Jones> a

1. , 1 7 /y» • i A i sand or so a week. Quite a tidy sum

directed that Olhciai verdict. , „ AfQ W p rp ’ Q onmptiiine policeman, was let out the other dajr

ttti jt • , . 1*1, ,1 it ■Rimer Hawkins of the fire denart-, lf the city gets it. Here s something

When their game of hunt and pick along the public m “ t seems to be enjoying Hfe these funny, too! Each morning the traf- on account of the “sugar scandal.highways about Erie was slow, they sought bigger game. days ' Hawkins qualified for member-;fic officer (mounted, by gosh) is told All Murray got was “hell,” and be They toured to Lyondonville, N. Y., on Jan. 28 last, where ship in the kookoos by being able to Vow many to pinch. When he gets saw them get away with it. Up to ill company with George Prudom of Medina, N. Y., they talk more and sa? less than any Oth-Uhat number, he saves the rest for date they have recovered 700 pounds held up the bank in daylight, robbed the place of $17,000 cr man in the bar room. He must! another day. Wonder if they just and there is still missing 5,70'. and escaped. Crane not satisfied with robbery, would have be acquainted with a, few bar ^ rn^Penn; ^0^ co 0^^!

killed but for Prudom, who restrained Crane from clos- n ^; Z Mmer used - : U mbus..

ing the vault door on half a dozen employes. Had the door t a 0 m be ki ”° d go ° d ° 0 r 0kin n g ei U But! a boob who thinks the Muncie-Postj we just learned that “Red” Fuike been closed none of the six could have hoped to escape beauty and booze can’t trot together. Democrat is a Catholic paper and was a sorehead Saturday—saying* 1 ''' 1 /v * * ‘ ‘ says tkey give it away at the Catho- i that the joint he worked at ws not When caught they did just what would be expected ! Can’t understand why Newark lie church on Sunday morning is in two by four. Of course we take for

of their like. They squealed and squawked. Real rob- should be short of money. They’re the form of a polecat named Lewis grilled its only two by two.

' arresting from 10 to 30 auto drivers M. Clay, 464 Granville street. He

R. O. Osevelt.

Klan and its scum has from the moment of its organization moved in the shadow of crime and lawlessness. Where the Klan entered, there«also entered murder, robbery, rapine and violence of all kinds; where the Klan n-

The people will educate thqmselves before the fall election 1 , VTi in ^ mix . w1 .^ wa ^ r an ^ the principles and a prosecutor will be elected who does not cater to the! i- .. cannot be assimilated into the cnaracter of law breaking element for support. Mr. Call is honest and lu „ * dC i ^^-^inded citizenship. Those who through ■ capable and should have the support of all citizens who A . av *r U AA recor ^ of the Klam hope to see decency prevail in Delaware county. kn0W that WP snPak thA " 1

know that we speak the trutji. When such “patriotism' is aided in its nefarious purposes by state and city officials, as has already happened in some cases, notably in Oklahoma, we can visualize a country of the future that will

BILLY IS TITTERING.

Billy Williams says our headline in last week's issue, : . v “Billy Williams' Organization Totters," reminds him of a monstrosity, never conceived in the minds of its il-

the fellow who was reading a letter in a street car, laugh-1 lustrious founders.

ing part @f the time and crying part of the time. It seem-' —

ed that the letter recounted something awful that had hap-1 MEW M)V A TOICr pened to the brother of the man, and the extent of the Wf WAK.iV U. Lfilifcr calamity could only be determined by deciding whether a! \ (Contmued From Fa se one)

letter in a certain word was an “o" or an “i."

| inch blade hunting knives

to “Windy’’: “Shinny on your own

side. You butt into this and I’ll

knock your Krown off.” So Windy shinnied over on the other side. Har-

mony and honesty? Yes, yes. JUST WAIT TILL THAT BUNCH

Apply^klan head- GETS HOLD OF THAT SUBWAY

and a

First

We’ll not tell the rest of that story but at any rate ^ f , Billy says the “o" in “totters" should be an “i", making it ’ n ver Ube * pis ° s ' read “Billy Williams’ Organization Titter^” lquarter3 , give tw0 anfl one . half (1o „. FUND ollly has some leason to tlttei. Van Ogle was nom- ble raps, spit over right Shoulder and

inated and his two commissioners, Truitt and Jackson say “ooly-kooly-100 per cent bully.” it is reporte T Vn reliable authority went over by an eyebrow by reason of a mess of strong* Mon-sewer Lee, Kalico King and that Mayor S ' and Service Diarm work that would make Billy the Kid and A1 Jennings P uncture P roof tire dispenser, hangs re ctor Tayior are not on the best of look like cheap pikers, but the titter turns to tears when ont at the . Ked star bus depot - ° ut terms. Money to run the city’s afBilly and his crowd think about the defeat of their pet ‘'"'mot* lilir8 is almost non - ,!xi3te " t - BI, ■ , the candidate for sheriff and the 2,704 votes that were cast in Mwer ^ T 7 “ ba,Uy worr, 1, that u, ? y DplawarR Rmintvfnv T Kiansman. have begun scra pp ing with each oth _ Delaware county tor Lew bhank. _ Give us air! er . Tayior wanted to blow his job, . Gur advice to Billy and his machine is to do their tit- The koo koos haven’t got Bin but .. W i ndy .. told him he had to stick tering now, while the tittering is good, for the titter will O’Bannon’s goat yet. Eat ’em alive, He’s sticking, SO far. But I’ll bet turn to tears in November, when the democrats and the Blll! when he a good chance he’ii ram independent republican voters of Delaware county will; “Hew, i Know That Feiier” the harpoon into the windbag,

finish up the job that had such an auspicious beginning Newark, o., May 9.—our friend Tuesday. “Wipdy” has cleaned up Newark in

one respect, at least. He’s cleaned

NO CHANCE. ' lout a lot of good police officers and

Here's our latest ku klux klan story. A member of re P lace<i them with nincompoops, the klan had just been informed by his doctor that he had > 0ne of these nincompoops is Harry

the po-

Nincompoops Murray and Berry were* sent to the warehouse to lay i for the thieves. Sure enough, the cab I was there, and was being loaded with i sugar. When he saw the fellow' who

Lots of people are wondering why Bill O’Bannon’s trial has not come off. You know' Bill, who used to be a Kookoo, but was too honest and too intelligent to stay with the Knights of the Knighties, was arrested for obstructing the sidewalk with a furnace. Well, here’s the low down on it: That furnace had been on the sidewalk for years in front of Bill’s place of business. But when Bill began directing a little constructive criticism at the klucker administration, it was suddenly discovered that the furnace was an obstruction— hence the arrest. Now here’s the real interesting part. Mayor Stevens ased to be a policeman and his beat included the location of Bill’s store. Although policemen are forbidden to accept tips from citizens for special services, Stevens took one from Bill for keeping an eye on the furnare. So when Bil was arrested he mentioned this little fact to the judge and that case was indefinitely postponed.

but few hours to live, and he had better put his house in 1 Muny - wio "' as fireJ trom order. The fellow sent for the kleagle of the klan and ask-. Z ed him to remove his name from the klan records, saying !„ ipSi away for houra at a that it was his desire to go to heaven. The kleagle asked time. Last Saturday night ponce him what difference it would make about removing his j headquarters got a tip that goods name from the klan roll, and the fellow said: “When I were to be removed from Haynes’ knock on the pearly gates, there will be St. Peter, a Catho-1 wareho “f® a “ d take ° 4 awajr in a tax ' lie, to greet me. And on the inside is Jesus Christ, a Jew. lcab ' VT1 "

Now I ask you what chance a klansman would have."

CHARACTERS OF KLANSMEN.

(Lake Shore Visitor—Erie, Pa.)

d- ,, ,r 1 ■, x 1 1 1 x. , was doin £ the oadina Murry exSix months ago the'y weie admitted lea r ers ^ the b’ 1 claimed: “Hen, i know that feiier klux klan of Eiie. Their word was law and as they said he’s an right.” And the feiier got SO the hooded crowd performed. I siway with the sugar and—they

Today these same two men, self-confessed bank rob- baven t’ caught him yet.

bers, are behind prison walls, there to remain for at least Part of the susar was recovered ’ seven years and six months and probably 15 years. AA tbe A ief has "A b t en cau 1 ght w-ir A Jame A R * Totr ? an ’ former business man, a nd . Why doesn . t he go get him? Is it William W. Lrane, toimei insurance agent, both of Erie, because the thief is a kookoo, or Totman and Crane were of that type of “Americans' j whisper—did some one ‘‘stand in” on

that believed “100 per cent Americanism" could be dis-! the loot?

played properly through the secret organization which' Murra y has an uncle - an ex-mem-

has for its avowed principles persecution of Catholics,! b , er °! '“f; blg fami ' y 0 at „‘ he obi ° pen hold on m s job, with bright prospects Jews and Negroes. To belong to that organization, Tot-;". Co ‘ um ,^ “"f .. s " Uey - * rh » tor a better one. B„t after an Btu man and Crane declared, one must be absolutely Ameri- t"! Lrer^dmlnirattan 18 only one ot '' them ll ~ d Catholics ''' can. No taint of foreign blood could course through theitried ...any times to get him, raiding a " ,J a,,Vway he haa sore teet - a " d veins of an embryo member. 'his house, but withont success, of ! bere8 a ot of 600(1 k00k008 W3nt They took a leading part in the Erie chapter. At first I co " r8e M " rray «>• i° b -1 g^oid w P X,. 0ld b«M» doulToke

it was silent, but later the pair became more bold and their j The " Murray t00k one nap t0 ° ma ” y ' down ” connection with the K.K.K. was not to be hidden xhev a "' 1 was “ red ' Then p 01138 e 01 ]

1.1,^ ^ Sutley, and he is doing no bootleg-!

were proud OI the fact. I . » \ e * I The sporting fraternity are anx-

rrvi , . . v—■. m . . ig>ng around here at present. I,

they ruled. As King Kleagle Totman issued ordersi iousiy waiting for Bob whites new

from beneath his white hood in the shadow of the fiery' Shinny ° n Your 0wn side

cross, Crane stood behind him and approved.

Each carried a young arsenal on his person at all IU „ tia _

times and each was possessed of cei tain metallic and pa- know it, you bet, for no woman likes Inducement for Bob to back Steper authority given by the state and county, which per- to go without her own Blaster bon- vena* campaign for mayor. Bob is to mitted them to make arrests. jnet to provide glad rags for another to© allowed to run wide open, and But neither made proper arrest. Their game was to lone ' “ windy ” Stevens . the big King!why shouldn’t he?—he’s the real head use these authorities for their own game Crane time Klucker ’ learned ah 001 it—funny how of the city government in this town. after time, stopped motorists on the road and held “Kelly T he c “ alwlys fi,Kl ° ut tb ! tac ‘ s ilT,'7 “ ,t ‘ e r Ml0Wa ar< ; S'* ^4-ff T A. j i i i xi , . - LVC1X > when money is concernered—and in S pinched for selling moons! Court. In Other WOF dS, he charged the motorist with threatened to do some discipline But while the big fellows roll merrily on. an offense and pioceeded to collect the fine right on the Charley Taylor, gallant old chap, said Bob is the same fellow who told Gov-

I understand that poor old Jim Gorman is to be the next policeman to walk the plank. Of course Bill did a lot of good work (?) at the last election and figured he had a strangle

Monte Carlo to open. What, in New-

Newark, O., May 9.—There’s anoth- ark. Oh, dear, yes. Under protecer shortage of $200 in the local Ka- tion, too. No danger of getting melia Klique. All the members don’t pinched in Bob’s place. That was the

be-

moonshine.

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HOFFMAN, BELLY ROBBER.

Ex-Sheriff Tom Hiatt, defeated for the nomination Tuesday, at least added some pep to the primary campaign by publishing in the Muncie Star a comparison of figures which made Sheriff Hoffman squirm. _ The figures, taken from the records in the county auditor s . office, disclose that the cost of the sheriff's office, in the year 1920, when Mr. Hiatt held the office was $5,900 Last year with Sheriff Hoffman rattling around in the sheriffs office, the taxpayers had to dig up $12,897.38 to pay the expense of the office, more than double the amount required for the year 1J2J, when the cost of living was at its peak. Hoffman published the weak and silly defense that the increased expense for the board of an unusual number of prisoners during the year 1923 caused the difference. In 1920 the cost of boarding prisoners was something like $2,500. Last year it was $8,900, nearly four times as much. H oilman said in his reply that this increase m prisoners was due to his diligence in cleaning up the county of bootleggers, blind tiger operators and thieves, and keeping them in jail after the> were caught. pit- • ■ Everybody knows this is not true. Hoffman feeds his prisoners a few cents' worth of unedible chow a day and gets sixty cents a day board from the taxpayers for doing this. If he received $8,900 last year for boarding prisoners, eight thousand oi it ought to be profit. If any one doubts this let him interview some poor devil who has sat at the festal board at the county jail and gorged himself on sloppy oatmeal “second day" bread and a liquid, sans milk or sugar, which, for politeness sake is called coffee. The editor of the Post-Democrat spent nine days in the county jail, sent there by Klucker Judge Dearth for contempt. There were from forty to forty-five prisoners in jail, on an average, . during that period, and we’ll tell the world that they were a hungry crowd. Each morning a purse was made up by those who were fortunate enough to have money, and groceries were bought, including bologna, condensed milk, sugar, butter and other edibles that would help relieve the pangs of hunger. This food is usually divided in a generous manner by the prisoner purchasers among those without money. Thursday is visiting day ft the jail and friends and relatives of prisoners are permitted*)!! that day to visit the captives and bring them food. If it were not for the purchase made by prisoners themselves and the food brought by friends on visiting days, the jail hunger would be acute, notwithstanding that Delaware county pays Sheriff Hoffman sixty cents a day for feeding the unfortunates about six cents’ worth of grub that a Chinaman wouldn’t eat. Hoffman's cock and bull story, (with the accent on the bull) about filling the jail with desperate criminals, and keeping them there, also makes for merriment. When the writer of these sad lines was on the inside looking out, the majority of the prisoners were of the species designated by our local dailies as “train riders," picked up by a railroad detective and jailed for fifteen days by Sheriff Hoffman’s good friend, City Judge Lance Coons, who believes in keeping up business at the jail, even if it is tough on the taxpayers. The next largest section of prisoners is the plain drunk squad, ground daily through Judge Coons' court, arriving at that haven of justice after filling up on a combination of wood alcohol and muriatic acid, imported and sold by opulent whiskey runners and bootleggers who never see the inside of the jail. Sheriff Hoffman will have to guess again for an alibi to the accusation of Former Sheriff Hiatt. Prisoners who were confined in the jail while Hiatt was sheriff say they were well fed. Mr. Hiatt adopted the thedry that if the county paid him sixty cents a day for feeding prisoners, the prisoners were entitled to that much grub. The salary of the sheriff is three thousand dollars a year, with a number of extra fees which add considerably to this amount. It is not contemplated that the sheriff shall run a boarding house, filled up by complaisant city judges and hard working railroad dicks and the boarders locked up and forced to subsist on next to nothing while the boarding house boss makes a profit of a half dollar a day on each of his boarders. The jail is kept continually filled with prisoners, most of whom are charged with trivial offenses and each of these unfortunates represents a snug profit to Harry Hoffman, who is not entitled to make a cent profit on the board of prisoners. In the transaction the taxpayers are swindled and the stomachs of the prisoners robbed.