Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 May 1924 — Page 2

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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT a Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Miincie, 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.

KLAN VERSUS UNION LABOR.

In Kansas, organized labor is coming to the conclusion that the Ku KIux Klan is its radical enemy and that one of its objects, should it get in power, is the overthrow of conditions established by labor organizations. In To-

Deflbaugh is a member of the Lo- and Tom Dutton have been using the Duener, H. H. Howell, J. A. West antf

gansport Jackass club, and the ku' WO i’ds for a long time. They are the others.

klux klan. Also his wife is a kamelia,rotten bunch right. ! Mrs . Jno . F Robinson, a 100 per

kamelia, seems to have full)

cent

son-in-laws i There was a contest on Saturday,

, May 10, at the meeting of Cass coun-

ty democratic precinct committee-1 c ^ alge ot Catholic mausoleum at

peka it is pointed out that Col. J. S. Doan, a well-known his wife, would do better if he would men between Chas. Ferguson, klan ’I ^ e ke ^^ e g r t y p0 ^ e e ss W an elastic cin-

down science to be taking care of Catholic

and her daughter and

are kooks.

Defibaugh, who was divorced from

Topeka attorney, is attorney for both the klan and the take care of his two h °meiess chn- and Harry uhi anti-kian Kansas Employers’ Association, now called the Associat- ^ preseTt wife" s^w^that theTemocratic 8 party is bodies.

ed Industries and that as head counsel for the Klan made Hospitantv-benevolence - not iri;not the klan party. At the klan re-, D - H - Harrell, who had a prosperthe fight for that organization to retain legal status in their catalogue. I publican meetings the same day,' OUs battery business on

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540

GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, May 30,1924. It is now officially known in Indiana as the Republiklan party.

Is it strange that the old timers have deserted the party that hauled down the American flag and h’isted a night shirt?

Hospitality—benevolence

their catalogue.

Another model kluxer and kluxer- J ames I- Barnes, ex-mayor, was This kamelia says, “We must e l ec ted chairman. Is Barnes a klux? have Protestant teachers in our pub- That’s the question. If he is not let lie schools.” (Get the “our.”) It‘s him sa y so - If he is let him sa y very little taxes she pays. Does she i ^ sympathizer is a thousown any real estate? Then again, ! an( * times worse than the real thing, she just must see that the pope does Come on, Jim, tell us what you are,

not come over here. We do not be- or are n °C

lieve he would notice her if he did. This kamelia is a dumb bell and what little she knows about pedagogics would fit comfortably in a thimble. We have such a public spirited and

Even the “old man” gagged when it came to Wilbur Ryman.

The old man Burbanked the convention by making fourteen grow where only seven grew before. If we get it right Bob intended to kill the man who was shot and not killed, but did not intend to kill the man who was killed. Fair enough. Muncie offers more. Lockwood became a half-delegate to the Coolidge ratification but it took a special dispensation from the imperial palace to get him on.

Since they vote the way the old man tells them to why did he let Jackson get it? Oh, is that it? Going to take Jim’s job in 1926, is he? The Fiery Cross is now the official publication of the republiklan party in Indiana. The fourteen immortals might appropriately be dubbed the fifty per cent, offspring of a one hundred percent, klonvention.

Now is the time in the life of Ed Jackson that a vote is a vote, regardless of “creed, race or color.” The only thing missing at the republican state convention was the presentation of a flag and a Bible and a terr-dollar donation to the kludd.

If the old man tries any of his monkey business around the democrat convention he will need more than the two body guards who trailed after him last week. They claim'there will be four hundred of those what d’ye call ’ems in the democratic convention. Didn’t know there were that many freaks in the party. If the Skippoo Indians should happen to get control of the republiklan party in Indiana Jim Watson would put on a breech clout, paint red and green stripes on his hide, wear a ring in his nos? and eat raw dog. If Germany had licked America Jim Watson would have been in the reichstag by this time, cussing the United States.

Kansas. With Harry Sharp, secretary of the Employers’ Association, he also campaigned the state for the bust* ino. ness men’s organization. The latter organization maintains the biggest and strongest lobby that exists in the Kansas legislature. It has opposed every forward step for labor, including the minimum hour law for women, which

it bitterly fought.

Here is where the ku klux klan comes in. It is a well known fact that wherever the klan enters labor organizations there is bound to be a mixup because of the racial and religious differences in labor’s ranks. There is a large

element of foreign-born among miners and railroad shop- kindYchooi~board, "whoTm noV permen. The entrance of the klan in some of the labor cen- mit catholic children to use our pub- j ters has been marked with dissensions and divisions. In lic sch001 gymnasium, even when i Texas and other states where the klan is strong there has they pay for same ’ and re g ardless ot ' come an open break between the klan and labor. Those who J he f * ct , that these sch00ls are mamhave studied the situation in Kansas do not believe the Burke has opened his heart and the klan and laboi will mix and those interested in labors wel- catholic children win actually be per- • fare point out that in the Employers’ Association’s desire mitted to piay on the city playground, j to disrupt organized labor no more effective way could be and even inha ie a tew cubic feet of j found than the method of introducing a racial and relig- air and s° sh! —j ust think > ma y

ious conflict in its ranks. Labor leaders in Kansas are therefore becoming irritated at the move of the Employers’ Association and are beginning to show fight.

Some time ago, a meeting was held in H. H. Howell’s law office to map out a plan whereby the klan could take over the Morning Press and turn it into a skunk paper. It is un derstood that they almost succeeded. The meeting was attended by L. D.

ous battery business on 6th street* was compelled to sell out and get out on account of his klux leanings. You* can tell them by their looks and their actions. One by one they go and why

shouldn’t they?

Frank Young, koo koo roofing dispenser, is another. A little conversation with him will convince one that he has not more gray matter than the law allows. Earl S. Winegardner, transfer and' storage, also belongs to the feebleminded aggragation. He likes that kamelia stuff, otherwise he sure would not he a member.

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air and gosh!—just think, may be’ they will even be allowed to take a little plunge in the municipal bathing pooh It might be a good idea to mix the drinks—nectar for the gods-) People have been drinking distilled | water 85 percent kluxer proof and they don’t thrive on it. Such gen-

erosity—it staggers us! Logansport Night Hawks.

\ Earl Flora, proprietor of the Peerless Cleaner on Market street, is another of those suave kluxers. He might use some of his cleaner on his

The fourteen half delegates-at-large from Indiana will be the laughing stock of the Cleveland convention. The sergeant-at-arms ought to make every sucker of them wear a nightie and^one of those high sharp hats with a hole to spit through. Real Republicans in Indiana have no\y come to the parting of the ways. No self respecting member of that party will vote for the governor candidate of the furies, titans, goblins and night hawks. If Ed Jackson is elected governor the klux horsethief association will become a part of the military of the state and Russia will be a paradise compared to Hoosierdom God forbid.

KLAN NEEDS HOUSE-CLEANING.

The Ku Klux Klan of East St. Louis started out to enforce the law against bootleggers and moonshiners, and in its first raid caught eight of its own members. Later it developed that the leaders of the movement were securing large sums of money by threatening those suspected of _

violating the law. As a result, Dr. H. F. Killene, exalted reputation so as to brighten up his cyclops of the East St. Louis Klan, Harve A. McCormack, conscience a iittie toward his feiiow a member of “koklan” executive klansman, are under in- man - smoothy Fiory might wen be dictment, charged with extorting money by threats. applied instead of Eari. To add to the troubles of these self-appointed law-en- n ® ome of these sk t unks T "Y ex " forcers a receivership suit has been filed m the circuit using to be written n P in the postcourt ox St. Louis against the Patriot Publishing Co., pub- Democrat, ah right, if you think it lishers of the “Missouri Fiery Cross,” a klan organ, which wort h anything,/come across as we until recently was the “Patriot.” The suit filed by H. C. can use the coin - Hicks, a stockholder, charges that W. B. C. Carleton pres- Ye gods ’ we stin believe that there Ht n t^> ompany ’ a r, d R r c * c - ? raw , ford ’ vice -^ esi - - -- rchJi dent and editor, are guilty of gross misconduct in the man- cannot stomach that rotten system, agement of the business. He alleges tha^ they misappro- goodnight koo koos. w e are up in priated and misused money of the corpi ation for their the air and know not wh at to say, so

personal use, and engaged in a stock-s lling campaign s° odni s ht

when ™otz f“Ti; the T pany to i be fin r nns ?r& rr^r.: Those familiar with current events will recall that hanging by a th«a,i. H ai, we unt is. Same Crawford, who is pastor of the Fourth derstand, is madder than a hornet, Christian church of St. Louis, recently confessed partici- because the powers that be, did not pation in the fraudulent award of a $25,000 farm in a consult him in fixing up the repubslogan contest conducted by the “Patriot” After this lican political k0 ° k0 ° slate - Hal fraud was exposed the paper changed its name to the & ! ways did want t0 . be the who * “Missouri Fiery Cross ” cheese 1 on any proposition or he w#11 Tr< ™ xi ^ 17 i ... not P la y. Sorry Hal, you must be ., . 01 T these and other similar reports that appear hopeless if the stink nest snubbed

t? 1 i , m , . P ress dispatches it is obvious that the klan you -

should begin its house-cleaning campaign at home- that Harry Silberman > th( the klansman should cast the mote out of his own eve be- butcher on Plum street ’ fore he begins a surgical operation on his neighbor’s mg ° Ut that ° old bul1 1

optic.—Republican-Record, Carleton, Mo.

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Local daily says Bob Graves is kept in solitary confinement. Sleeping with Sheriff Hoffman, probably.

VANCOUVER—Police today are investigating reports that a Canadian branch of the Ku Klux Klan is being organized here by a klan officer from the American Middle West. Candidates for membership in the invisible empire are being initiated in a hotel room, according to the report, with great pomp and ceremony. -o Few Fufibied Bison. There are but pure-blooded olson In the world, and 3,527 of these are in the United States, of which %nly one hundred are running wild.

eye to his family.) Bessie Holton has been a clerk in Kluxer Edgerley’s

the one handed

is still handthat he is not

a kluxer, and yet his name is on the membership list and he was a klux candidate for committeeman from the first ward. Foxy, but not smooth,

Harry.

It was amusing to see Ed Hankee

JUDGE KITTINGER TELLS ’EM.

Judge Kittinger, of Anderson, again this week laid the maul on the so-called horse thief detective association, in the course of the trial of a man whose home had been invaded by a band of these Ku Klux outlaws. Madison county’s fearless and popular judge voiced the sentiments of all law abiding citizens of Indiana when he said, from

the bench:

“As I see the law, if members of horse thief detective, be pern organizations are permitted to search private homes and Sunday, make arrests, we might as well abolish the office of sheriff — it ' and the police department, and throw the constitution in the court house cistern. I have looked this matter up and am telling you how I feel about it, so there may be no mis-

understanding.”

It was shown that there are now twelve different “horse thief detective” companies in Madison county with a combined membership of one thousand. The remarks of Judge Kittinger were timely and to the point. It seems outrageous that in the heart of peaceful Indiana an armed band of kluckers should be allowed to run amuck, endangering the lives of citizens and invading the sacred precincts of their homes.

KUSH IN INDIANA (Continued From Page One)

officers here Sunday to “democratize” the Klan in Indiana, would accomplish the things for which he stood, and added that he was urging a large

attendance at the meeting.

Joseph Huffington, of Evansville,

Titan of the first province of the Klan in Indiana, said Stephenson would not be permitted to attend the meeting,

as he had been suspended

from the organization.

Huffington said he was speaking for Walter Bossert, Imperial Representative in charge of the Klan in 21 Northern states, including Indiana. Bossert and Stephenson have clashed

on numerous

Enquirer.

butter store on East Main street. She around the polls on primary day, in is conspicuous for her big mouth and tlie afternoon telling his friends not loose tongue trying to scandalize to vote for him as he was out of the the reputation of an anti-klan girl, running. The facts are, that he nevwho is absolutely innocent of any er w& s in the game from the start, wrong doing. Bess is an oddity in The managers of the koo nest don’t size, one could easily mistake her want you Ed, as they could not trust for a baby elephant, and Ichabod you and it is pretty tough when the Crane of Sleepy Hollow fame has it skunks won’t trust you. You now all over Radcliffe in manner and ap- know where you stand in this compearance. munity, and the standing is very low. Ralcliffe surely played leap frog a Jack Applegate, ex-Democrat, was lot in his time as he was right there elected delegate to the state Republiwith the goods when it came to clear- can convention, over George Graham, ing everything in the house, until he an honorable citizen and life-long lajnded behind the furnace, hoping Republican. Decent republicans need

thereby £o conceal himself from the n °t apply.

police, but they raided the Holton Every single klux candidate on the house and found the model klans- democratic ticket was defeated. It is man and took both to police head- eas y t0 guess who the klux party is. quarters- We have been informed Rev - Wachnitz, manager of the Kathat “Sugar” Jim Barnes bailed them nielia nest at the corner of North 3rd out. You will learn more about Su- and Columbia street, is leaving our gar Barnes as space permits. Now, cit y- The good Christian people of do you citizens still want an organ- bis community are not sorry that he ization which protects vice, domin&- *s gone. May his successor dish out ting the Republican voting power of some real Christian spirit to his paryour country, or are you tioming to ishoners is the hope of the good

the fore and thelp the Post-Demoerat brotherly love folk,

purge your community of this bunch A explanation as to the meanof skunks? Support this paper and in & of tbe si sn on the iron safe on we will have them all hunting a hole ^ be sidewalk in front of the Greasy to hide in. Now is the time—not af- Spoon restaurant on Third street, ter the election, known as Weinand’s Klux Cafe, Ben Well, well, poor Charley got his Short’s favorite place to eat. By the face mussed up in South Bend, for way —what kind of a pull has Weincarrying a concealed weapon and and with the police department to

occasions.—Cincinnati was a guest for a time in the St. Joe “amtain a dangerous obstruction on

county cage. “A coocoo bird in a jail the sidewalk? The safe has a sign cage,” but he was not able to sing. OD same, “Safe place to eat."' When Charley or C. Defibaugh. Pennsy fire- a klux wants to boycott an anti-klux, man, we understand, always was a be say klux. “he is ungun toter, and thought he would pull safe <” and if the party spoken of is a Bill Hart one reeler on a South a klux, the speaker will say, “he is Bend bus driver. But all signs fail ssfc ” That is the explanation of in dry weather, and Charley’s face Weinand’s sign, meaning the klux looked like so much kneaded dough. Pl ace to eat. R. Granger, B. Vinery

LOGANSPORT POLICE

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lican party in Cass county!

Radcliffe is also the grievance man for the B. of I». F. & E. (and a black

POST-DEMOCRAT GROWS. Notwithstanding the determined battle made by its enemies to drive it out of the field, the Jo t-Dem-ocrat is enjoying a phenomenal growth. In March, 1923, when the Ku Klux Klan started its intensive legal battle against the editor of the Post-Democrat, the circulation was something like twenty-five hundred copies weekly. This week we are printing and circulating sixteen thousand copies. We were early “excommunicated” from the democratic party by the klucker democratic county chairman who was kicked out this month, because of our fight against the Ku Klux Klan. That our judgment was correct is now demonstrated by the fact that in Indiana the republican party is the ku klux party. The democratic party is the anti-ku klux party. t The Post-Democrat is now circulated in various cities in Indiana and Ohio. Thousands of copies are sent weekly to the latter state and many cities in both states are requesting representation in its columns. When the editor was slammed in jail and hustled to the penal farm for being held in “contempt” of a klucker judge a little over a year ago, the kluckers held a jubilee meeting and celebrated the “demise” of the Post-Democrat. They misjudged the vitality of the paper and the stamina of its publisher. The expense of litigation has taken every dollar that the publication has made and there are many more legal expenses to be met, but the Post-Democrat is here to stay. It has lived to rout the enemy in Muncie and its influence will be felt all over the state in the coming election. The truth cannot be suppressed by fines and prison sentences imposed by Ku Klux courts. We now have three cases in the supreme court. If tha prison sentences and enormous fines are affirmed, the body of the editor will be captive, but his newspaper will still continue to tell the eternal truth. We face the future fearlessly.

THE OLD MAN VISITS MUNCIE. It might be of interest to klansmen generally to know that D. C. Stephenson, the “Old Man” of the klan, was a Muncie visitor one day last week and was closeted with Sam Bremenderfer and “Cap” Norcross in the bat roost of the “independent” klan in the Anthony block. This is somewhat interesting from the fact that Bemenderfer in an address before his new klan, which was published in full in both of Muncie’s daily newspapers, spoke very unkindly of the dear old man, accusing him specifically of being responsible for the acceptance of Court Asher, a bootlegger, as a klan member and of giving Court a job as a special investigator for the klan at a high weekly salary. This goes to show that there is considerable buncombe about this great split in the Indiana klan. The public should not be deceived by published accounts of these terrific feuds between klan leaders— What Sam said about the old man was merely a grand stand play to fool the boobs who pay the ten. At least the roasting that Bemenderfer gave Stephenson, despite its torridity, does not prevent the two from getting their heads together for the purpose of framing some new deviltry. About the only thing klan leaders really quarrel about is over the question of cutting up the money the suckers give them. The old man, who by the way is not an old man at all, but instead is a young man thirty-three years of age, has been rather successful in the way of getting his and Bemenderfer hopes to go and do likewise. This klan business is strictly mercantile. The stock in trade is blue sky and it is sold through deceptive advertising by bunko artists who use the tactics of the fake oil and mining stock promoter. Sam and the old man are a great pair. Their flimsy pretense gets over with klan boobs but human beings don’t fall for it*