Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 May 1924 — Page 1

THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY. THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

VOLUME 4—NUMBER 18.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924.

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GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER “JUST AS EASY”

Licking Co. Grange Slams Klan for Its Dern Foolishness Farmers Tired of Town Jokers of Newark, 0., and Candidates for County Offices Are Now Guessing.

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THE DIGEST “Koo’s Keeping Kompany” R. W. Smith, Druggist—Anything from Pills to Toilet Paper. Harry Singer—Jailbird and wife deserter, mounter at Wherle Co. Edgar Fowder—A tin horn gambler. Wm. Tomlson, Wherle Co., said he was tired working for a Catholic. Wm. Schavaker, checker of cars, Wherle Co. Takes in everything and gets nothing. Chas. VanYorhies, Wherle Co. Poor workers. George Anderson, moulder. You should have finished the job. Lewis Stargel, moulder. Gives the Catholics Hell. Mrs. Glen Houck. A fine bird for a school board. Ray Wheeler, Keeps Kream Klean. Reuben Evans, Keeps Kity Klean. Edward Wareman, Todd Pease, Harry Ruton. Tells B. & 0. how to run. Karry-All Reese, Granville Bus. Roy Berry, mud dabber, works in Newark, lives at New Salem.

•Rev..F>itnk F G«org^ r kkke4-oul of 1L~B. ehureh at Baltimore. Got mixed up with a she kook at Lancaster. Has wife and two children. Windy Swartz, he tells ’em. Henry Ashcraft, Prosecuting Attorney of Licking Co. Still handing out the bull. Sold himself body and soul to the invisible empire. Jesse Groves, County Auditor.

Newark, O., May 30.—“Feller citizens of Licking county, I desire to announce that more than 3,000 of my! personal friends have urged me to run for sheriff, or audi- j tor, or clerk, or probate judge, or, etc., including coroner” —But right here comes the rub. Will the would-be public servant announce himself a klansman or not? Since the county granges are up in the air over some acts of the present klan administration the candidates are i sweating big drops of blood. Another thing that peeves the farmer here is the total absence of 100% Koo Koos when he comes to town. Last fall he could walk into a 1 store, toss up his left hand and the proprietor was so enthusiastlcally and gosh-darnedly 100% American that his patriotism and brotherly love together with 57 or more varieties of faith, hope and charity fairly gushed from his ears, so to speak. Now it is so different. Oh, ye gods, what a change! with a human freak for mayor. Just try and find a busi-! ness man who ever jined the outfit. One bird last week admitted he was tempted to become a real kook but got no further than paying his first dues and kissing the kleagle. o * i He admits now he did not realize koos last Thursday. One of them was

ten dollars worth of advertising from it. In the month of September, 1923, there were exactly thirty-four koo koos in the trust building, now there are only seven who are still loyal to the all-American Ananias Club and four of these are pen pushers or telephone-call-recorders who keep the office desk from getting dusty while the boss plays golf. “This sacred seven” does not include the two old maids .employed in Newark’s leaning tower), who are “knightasses of the kamelia” on general principles. Even they, are wobbling since the mayor, service director and about fifty 100% granddaughters of Jezebel had the free-for-all-fight at the K. P. Kennels on the night of May 10th. False hair, false teeth, glass eyes and purple bloomers are still scatered over East Main Street in front of the K. P. hall and vividly portray to the mind the savage character of the fracas which was waged within. Hail to the Knight-asses of Kamelia!

OBSERVER'S NOTES. The observer overheard a conversation at the corner of Fourth and Church streets between a pair of koo

in for blowing up the office of the Muncie Post-Democrat and the other solemnly pledged himself to horsewhip the Newark: correspondent. The observer modestly approached, gave the signal and inquired the location of the koo koos nest. He was immediately greeted as a long lost brother and with much pomp and ceremony , was escorted to the Fitzsimmons hash trough and had the pleasure of paying for three feeds. It was worth it. The other day the observer saw a pup do the friendly act to Officer Rit-! tenhouse’s new boots and he didn’t, kill him, either. It was a cross be-! tween a sun dog and a hot dog. Some fiery cross! j A pair of Lancaster koo koos were in town last week soliciting funds to build a home on Mt. Pleasant for exmayors and police chiefs. They collected $4.35 at the Kozy Korner Kitchen and immediately invested it in a pint of Weedville hootch. When last, seen they, were at the corner of! Fourth and Main singing, “The devil | is a korker but has nothing on a kook.” The observer had a warning from | some enthusiastic kootie last week in; (Continued T« Page Three.) i

THE FALL OF HOOSIER REPUBLICANISM.

It is almost impossible to present, in adequate language, the awful disaster which has overtaken the republican party in the state of Indiana. The proud standard of the great party of Lincoln has been lowered to the dust. The party is obliterated and while it still preserves the form of party regularity, the substance has vanished. The amazing capture of the republican party in Indiana by the Ku Klux Klan has caused such deep resentment among sane, law abiding republicans that they will go to the polls literally by tens of thousands in November and vote the democrat ticket in order to save the state from humiliating subjection to a treasonable organization whose members are blindly committed to obedience to an absolute monarch. The convention last week was dominated by an obscure adventure named Stephenson. This man, with his following of klansmen delegates, was able to name the state ticket and bend old time party leaders to his will because of the following he commands among these grotesque freaks. By a special dispensation from the “imperial palace” in Atlanta, Georgia, the old republican state committee was allowed to remain in control but if the klan had so desired a klansman chairman could have been named in every district. But, as everybody knows, the state central committee will be a joke in the coming campaign. The real campaign will be conducted from klan headquarters in Indianapolis. A prominent Indianapolis klansman told the publisher of the Post-Democrat this week that the klan of Indiana had a half million dollars on tap to elect Ed Jackson and would raise two million more if necessary. If goes without saying that the immense sum that is to be used to corrupt the electorate of Indian \ to elect, a klan governor, will not pass through the regular rej iblican organization channels. It will be handled and distributed y the thirteen members pf the advisory committee of the Ku Jvh Klan, instead of the thirteen republican district chairmen. The republican state committee and its chairmen are merely a bunch of figureheads. Hiram Wesley Evans, the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and Grand Dragon Stephenson, both of whom attended the convention and boldly and openly took charge of things, will be the real directors of the republican campaign in Indiana and both are Texas democrats! The klan played foxy by permitting several of the minor candidacies to go to anti-klansmen. Having secured the nomination of a klansman governor, lieutenant governor, superintendent of instruction and ninety percent of the legislature, Evans and Stephenson decided not to grab too much. Several klansmen candidates, notably Wilbur Ryman, were sacrificed in order to deceive the general public. The slate Was fixed up by Senator Watson, Imperial Wizard Evans and the two dragons, Stephenson and Bossert. The rank and file of the republican party in Indiana has been shamefully betrayed by Senator Jim Watson and a few leaders who are crawling on their traitorious bellies at the feet of the imperial wizard. Republicans who have the good of their party at heart know that the success of the so-called republican party in Indiana this year will mean the destruction of every tradition the party holds dear. The fourteen men and women who will attend the Cleveland convention as “half-delegates^’ ought to feel proud of themselves. If “Steve” had said the word the convention would have sent fourteen Texas democrats to the republican national convention. If if pleases George Lockwood and the rest of the immortal fourteen to accept the crumbs which fall from the wizard’s table, that is their lookout. Real republicans will go to the polls next fall and save the republican party by voting the democrat ticket.

Gang of K Ian-Protected Negroes Who Shot Up Franklin Hall, Escape With Minor Charges— Protection Afforded Bob Graves Follows Him To Grand Jury Room—Bob Is Kept 1 In Luxury at Delaware County Jail. It has been said around Muncie for the past two years,, that Bob Graves, colored dive keeper, whose crap game and blind tiger has enjoyed continual protection from police, sheriff, prosecutor and the city court, could get away with murder, and now there .are people in Muncie who really believe it. Bob is now being held in jail, the grand jury impanelled to investigate the shooting up of the Franklin Hall dance having indicted him on the awful charge of shooting with intent to kill. Ted White, one of the quintet of gunmen who raided the dance hall and fired a murderous volley of shots from automatic guns, with the result that a fifteen-year-old boy fell dead, shot through the heart, was charged only with carrying concealed weapons and was released on $2,000 bond, which was $3,000 less than the amount of the bonds fixed by Judge Dearth wdien the publisher of the Post-Democrat was charged with contempt of Judge Dearth’s court.

KLASH IN INDIANA

It is apparent that human life is

* considered of very little value to the | political gang that has been protect-

KLAN IS A FAKEi‘:l^ XT and h,s notorioU3

The fact seems to have been lost

If you imagined for a moment,,^ of that a desperate and wholly poor brother boob of a republican. uncalled for murder was committed, voter, that there was any i'eal en-1 the victim being a fifteen year old mity between Bossert and “Old Man” j boy. !i Stephenson, just feast your eyes on j A gang of five murderous outlaws, this, and weep. The only question iaistartirg from the Graves gambling ,—How much money did “the old ! house and bootxeg joint, drove to man” get to quit his insurgency? | Franklin Hall in an automobile, c Indianapolis, Ind>, M&y r 16.—C. D. |, Entering the place one of them, Stephenson, elected. Grand Dragon of [ ‘Hump - ’ Lee, started a muss by draw.the_ Ku_ Klux Klan of Indiana^ at_ aiding | a kipife on a, colored,man whom meeting of insurgents ii4re' last*JlonP 1 1 m? 'tv!t'fr 2 ert , SJJ|JTirg. OT’Thi.ritfrt.' day today announced that he and the! "The evidence goes to show that officers elected will retire Sunday, i Dob Graves then drew a big autoStephenson, known to Klansmen as J matic and cut loose, remarking, the “old man,” said a meeting of the! “What’s the use of using a knife?’’ organization, called by the national Others of the raiding gang opened (Continued to Page Two. j (Continued to Page Four) Whispering John Williams may have to Work f° r Living Former Democrat Will Not Look Good In New Republiklux Party—Joe Dickey Will

Also Be the Goat.

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Logansport Police Shield Names Of Klux Offenders Walter Radcliffe and Bessie Holton, Arrested On Statutory Charge Give Assumed Names.

Logansport, Ind., May 30.—What’s Monday night when a kluxer and ka-

the matter with the Logansport police force? This is the question on the lips of every citizen opposed to the klan in Logansport, sinc/i last

melia were arrested on statutory charges, taken to police headquarters and slated under assumed names There is hardly a citizen in Lo

gansport who does not know Walter Radcliffe and Mrs. Bessie Holton. | (R. J.’s worse half). We know that I both of these lawbreakers belong to j the klan. Is that the reason that ■names were camouflaged? Why did | the police permit them to hide behind ;a screen? The police are not doing ; their duty to allow law breakers to hide their identity. j What isAthis propaganda the klan is broadcasting to secure membership? “That no one but the best citi izens > cap get in the klan.” The 1 above are what they call the best. Ye gods! These are just two of that low tribe and we are airing them, because the klan elected Walter Radcliffe as delegate to the Republican state convention, held in Indianapolis last week; a wonderful character to represent the voters of the Repub(Continued to Page Two)

LOOK ’EM OVER. HERE THEY ARE. Robert Bragdon, druggist, 16th and Cedar. Lewis E. Kimberlin, lawyer, Liberty Life Bldg. Lawrence E. Kuhns, 2821 Fletcher. Jesse Lawler, auctioneer, R. R. 1. William O. Cartwright, coal and feed, 1524 Sherman. Russel Clow, 1520 Morton street. Frank Conklin, 516 Park Avenue. Arthur Call, lawyer, office Phoenix Building. C. G. Buchanan, 765 Meridian Ave., N. Anderson. Busby & Davidson, lawyers, 1111 1-2 Meridian. Rent of Catholic. William W. Vess, 807 Union Ave., Park Place. Walter Scott Green, kluck delegate to Republican convention. Harry Y. Bronnenberg, 1403 Madison Avenue. Cannon Brown, wire drawer, 2425 Cedar. A Few Hundred Percent Grocers. Fred Brown, 1605 Arrow Avenue. Edwin Hooper, 756 Meridian Avenue. Miller Bros., 22 East Eighth street. C. A. Turner, 2102 Noble street. L. E. Poore, 2203 Brown. A. C. Rabourn, Fifteenth street and Madison Ave. O. P. Walser, 2302 Columbia Ave.

Anderson, Ind., May 30.—Next we have the Democratic state convention and it will be the duty of Madison county to keep a clean record on the Klux question. There is no possibility of a democratic victory in these parts without standing “straight up” for freedom of religion and race. The delegates from here,

will have a good working majority for decent Democracy and the opposition won’t be noticed. We are wondering whether John Bad Breath Williams won’t try to get a proxy and go as a Democrat even though he never acts like one. It will be good punishment for him (Continued to Page Three)