Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 June 1924 — Page 1

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iHE ONLl DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY. THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

VOLUME 4—NUMBER 19.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924.

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ANT1-KLAN CONVENTION NAMES DR. M'CULLOCH

Logansport Pastor Made an Address Klux Didnt Like Rev. Folsom, Delivering'Memorial Day Oration Made Stirring Appeal for Unity

of the People.

KLUX ORGANIZERS DON'T GET VERY FAR WORKING DECATUR

Logansport, Ind., June 6.—The Ku Klux Klan met their Waterloo,;: Decoration Day, in the personage of • the Rev. Folsom of Ft. Wayne. The parade, under charge of Ku j Klux Chas. Chase, left the memorial ; home, with a few world war vets, | just a handful out of the hundreds of j soldiers who fought in the great world war. Then .came the grand old men of the G. A. R. and the Women’s Relief Corps and other war organizations. The Ku Klux Klan has practically broken the American Legion, i Klucker “Bud” £artman was there, 1 heading the soldier body, and he surely acted as though the soldiers couldn’t carry their guns unless he , was on the job, but we will wager, from all reports, that he and the rest of the kluckers present felt as though they were frost bitten after they 1 heard the wonderful oration delivered by the very eloquent and broad-mind-ed minister, the Rev. Folsom of Fort Wayne. He delivered a long and forceful address, and he said in part: “We assemble today, to pay tribute to the boys cf the G. A. R., to the World Wav Vpts end rul soldi pcs who have fought and bled and died for the institutions which our forefathers founded. They fought to make secure the constitution of the United States aad we only know one flag from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf. We know no classes in this United States, but the masses. And the blood which our

soldiers spilled is too precious to have been shed in vain. They have a , right to demand, that that which they j fought for shall be made secure, and | we will keep them secure, if we have to shed our blood to do it.” He pleaded for the brotherhood of man. This minister is sincere in his calling and has the spiritual interests of his flock at heart. Some ministers have X-ray vision and it seems they know just how much change each fellow has in his pocket and you can generally tell as the one \ with the most bones invariably get a long handshake and a slap on the shoulder to boot. So it is refreshing to hear a man talk as the Rev. Folsom did, and despite the fact that he only received the applause of the G. A. R. and the W. R. C. and the anti-Klans. Most of the kluckers were gritting (Continued to Page Two)

Decatur, Ind., June 6.—Decatur and Adams county have proved to be a poor stamping ground for Ku Klux organizers. Several have tried to get in their work among the respectable difltizenshjp of thia| community but the suckers simply won’t

bite.

The first organizer turned out to be a dead beat who left town owing everybody < who trusted him and the latest representative of the traitorous organization, A. C. Helm, of Muncie, is just about as welcome here as a boil on the back of the

neck.

Helm went bankrupt in the drug business at Muncie and has been a failure at everything he has tried including the enterprise in which he is now engaged. .HeJl&si a son in prison in the westdoing a life term for murder. Of course that’s nothing against Helm. It’s his misfortune. It goes to show, though, the family trend. Next to murder, selling memberships in the Klan. is the worst crime imaginable. | Some years ago Helm was in Pennsylvania and the republicans of Muncie paid his fare home to vote. Helm is a republican but after arriving at Muncie the democrats offered better inducements and he voted that ticket and boasted about it afterward. Arrangements are being made to carry Decatur correspondence in the Post-Democrat and Adams county Klansmen who think^ they are fooling their friends and neighbors will be printed in this honor roll.

Smith Permanent World Flier Head

Washington, June 4.—Acting upon the personal request of Maj. Frederick L. Martin, ex-commander of the army around the world flight squadron, Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the army air service today designated Lieut. Lowell H. Smith to be permanently in command of the globe encircling flyers.

DAISY KEPT THE NIGHTY MONEY.

Daisy Doodle’s sued again, By Hi this time, and not by Ben. Perhaps you think that Daisy’s flighty, But she got it all at ten per nighty. A million bucks she got, ’tis said And gave to the wizard nary a red. So the goblins cussed and the dragons swore They’d get the dough or a bucket of gore. So, Charlie Orbison sued Daisy Doodle over in Grant county for forty thousand dollars. The suit was brought on behalf of Old Hi Evans. Whenever one klucker or one kluckerass begins to make a lot of dough the rest of ’em gang on him, or her, as the case may be, and try to get it away from him, or her. Daisy Doodle has been just a little bit too fast for the feebleminded he-kluckers. The old gal just horned in, so to speak, and took the first count on all the money that came in and forgot to render unto Wizard Hiram the things which are Hirams. Daisy didn’t play the game according to the rules as laid down .and provided in Section Eleven, page seven, of the kloran, which expressly stipulates that the imperial wizard is to be the chief floor walker of the-lingerie department of the Ku Klux Klan and that all sucker money must be rung up in the cash register of the imperial nighty peddler. So, for the time being, the benign and august head of this great American order, has suspended his program of making presidents, electing Ed Jackson and erecting fortresses along the seaboard to ward off a threatened submarine assault by the°hellions of Rome, and an endangered republic must wobble along on its own resources while Hiram and Daisy settle the night gown question in court. When Uncle Joe Simmons started the klux ball rolling he made the modest request, or deir 1, “God give us Men,” and he got quite a passel of what might ermed men, for lack of anything else better te eall them.-* c the men and he got'their* ten. Then the supply of the he-suckers began to run short and one day when he was all liquored up he sent a requisition to Heaven for women. The prayer was answered immediately. He got Daisy Doodle Barr and since that time Daisy has been the life of the party. Daisy tied up to the new republican state boss, D. C. Stephenson, and between the two, boob money found an abiding Occasionally Daisy would give the imperial jackass a pleasant smile and plugged nickel, and the “Old Man,” working the porch dimber^f t^ kl^ 8 ^ enVy ali the other stick ups and Daisy and the old man got the dough and they kept it. And now the old man ’ has virtuously withdrawn from the mercenary southern klan with a bundle that would stop a tunnel and Daisy Doodle and her night gown money are on the defensive. Honest to goodness, how would you like to be an ordinary producing, ten-dollar hundred percenter, who contributed to the come-on bankroll that these greedy grafters are fighting for?

Vaunted Klux Vote At Democrat Meet A Roaring Farce

Democratic Forces of State Assemble in Tomlinson Hall and Adopt Platform and Name Ticket Hurling Defiance At the Invisible Empire; Olin Holt’s Name Hissed When Presented— Klan Centers On Joe Cravens But Could Only Gather Up a Handful of Votes.

ANDERSON KAMELIAS IN LIMELIGHT: ARE DANDY BUNCH OF PETTICOAT NUTS

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ANDERSON LADY KOO KOOS.

DR. EMMA CHAPMAN, 1017 Jackson Street, who leads the Kamelias in prayer^ MRS. ROBERT HYATT, 1019 Fletcher St. MARY JORDAN, 629 E. 23d St. Champion man catcher of Indiana Kamelias. MRS. LEVI STINER, 1921 Mulvain Ave. MRS. SALLIE CLOW, 1403 Hone Ave.

time; when she lived on Second St., her house bore a bad reputation. She had two little girls who sang on the streets and begged money, so the court ordered them taken from j her. Mary is a fine example of the | one hundred percenters. 1 Dr. Emma Chapman, the spine | doctor who leads the dear sisters in ; prayers when they meet on Monday evening—if the doctor joined the | Koo koos for business, she is badly I disappointed for they are a spineless

bunch.

Charlie Painter of the Stanley j Painter Coal Co., blossomed out in I last Saturday night parade as a fullj fledged horseman Charlie rode Lou | Stevens horse. Charlie thought riding | a horse was like driving a street car

The Anderson Kamelias are certainly getting in the limelight these days. Mary Jordan, one of the shining stars whom the sister Kamelias are proud of was in the circuit court

last Saturday trying to convince the I St. Ex-bartender, painter, judge that the board of children’s! hanger and ex-poker player

guardians shojiltl turn, over to her two of her children that were taken from her some time ago when it was proven in court that she was not a fit

Anti-Klan Plank In the Republican National Platform

Influential Group Prepares Interesting Tabula-

tions To Influence Cleveland Convention. Indiana Result Causes Dismay To Republicans at the Capital. Jackson Is Regarded As Ku Klux Klan Nominee.

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Washington,—Basing their

ments on the cold hard facts of political expediency, a small but influential group in the Republican party is making a determined drive to bring about adoption of an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank in the Republican platform to he formulated at 4:he Cleveland convention. Members of

so he had a helluva time sticking on. | this group Ijave fallen back on the Mr. Everett Hesikett, 114 West 8th j axiom that “figures don’t lie” and

paper! they have figured out, dispassionateis now- ly, what the Republican party has to

selling paper at Hart’s Drug store, gain or lose by adoption or rejection where most of his Koo koo brothers; of such a plank. Their calculations loaf. Everett used to be the tight- j have convinced them that an antiest poker player in Pendleton. He i Klan plank would he of inestimable

mother to raise them. Mary has quite j was a lover of (3) Kings and still a career having been married seven loves the K’s.

advantage to the Republicans in the ensuing campaign. And now the effort

Leaders of the campaign for anti-Klan plank in the national vention platform, inaugurated some months ago by R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman from Texas, are not oblivious to the fundamental issues of right and wrong involved in the Klan question. They assert they are fully convinced that anti Klan planks should be adopted by both major parties as a matter of simple justice. But for the purpose of bringing the majority of the delegates around to this way of thinking the anti-Klan leaders have resorted to the expedient of talking the language universally understood by politicians. That is, they are emphasizing their contention that an anti-Klan plank would be a valuable campaign asset. Anti-Klan Plank Asset to Party

being made to convert, or convince I For proof of their assertion, resort a majority of the delegates to the has been had to figures compiled by

the United States Bureau of the Census. On the basis of these official

j figures the population of the United

The result of the primalies in In-1 g^gg jj as k een classified as “100 per diana in which Jackson was nominat-1 cent American” and “less than 100

per cent Americans.” according to

Klan standards.

This classification shows that, out of a total population of 105,710,620

Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, of Indianapolis, avowed enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, was nominated for governor Thursday afternoon by an overwhelming majority by a democratic state convention which adopted an anti-klan plank, condemning the organiza-: tion which seeks to control Indiana politically. The vaunted klan strength ^ in the convention proved to be a joke. Olin Holt was deserted by the klan and “invisible empire” centered on Joe Cravens, but he receiv-; ed the votes of only -a fifth-. of the delegates. Hissing | from all over the convention ; hall greeted the name of

Olin Holt.

Delaware county voted solidly for Crittenberger on the first two ballots but switched the entire delegation to McCulloch on the

third ballot.

The candidacy of W.. A. McClellan for judge of the appellate court met a heavy frost in the first ballot. Re*ceiving but 192 votes he withdrew and Livengood was named in the second. In the district meeting Wednesday night Mrs. Mary Gubbins was signally honored by being named delegate to the national convention. The success of Delaware county in securing unusual recognition was due largely to the efforts of County Chairman Ray Andrews. Mrs. Margaret Harrison was also selected to repre(Continued to Page Three)

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. Governor DR. CARLETON B. McCULLOCH, Indianapolis. Lieutenant-Governor LEW O’BANNON, Corydcn. Secretary of State ARTHUR J. HAMRICH, Greencastie. Auditor of State ROBERT BRACKEN, Frankfort. Treasurer of State HARRY L. ARNOLD, Gary. Attorney-General HARRY HARMON, Princeton. Supt. of Public Instruction SAMUEL S. SCOTT, Jeffersonville. Reporter of Supreme Court JOHN W. KERN, Indianapolis. Judge of Appellate Court, 1st Dist. JOHN C. McNUTT, , Martinsville. Judge of Appellate Court, 2nd Dist. VALENTINE E. LIVENGOOD, Covington. Judge of Supreme Court, 1st Dist. GEORGE K. DENTON, Evansville. Judge of Supreme Court, 4th Dist. JOHN T. AiKEN, Fort Wayne. The convention also named eig,ht delegates-at-large to the national convention, each vested with onehaif vote, as follows: Thomas Taggart, French Lk William B. O’Brien, Lawrenceburg; Lew G. Ellingham, Ft. Wayne; Wm. M. Cronin, Terre Haute; Mrs. A. P. Flynn, Logansport; Mrs. A. R. Erskine, South Benjd; ,Mrs. M. B. Leary, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Fred Lauenstein, Evansville.

wisdom of such a course.

The Indiana Result

ed for governor caused consterna-, tion among administration leaders | here and there is fear it may lose the j state to President Coolidge in Novem- j

her. Old Ume Indiana Republicans say j there are 57,300,808 persons who fall that they regard Jackson not as the | short of the Ku Klux standard of perRepublican nominee but as the nom-j fect Aniericanism. In other words, inee of the Klan. It is being advised j more than fifty per cent of the poputhat the Coolidge campaign in ludi’j ] a u on i s outside the Klan barrier, ana be kept entirely apart from the, persons counted in obtaining the to-

tal of those proscribed by the Kl&n

FIRST BALLOT. Crittenberger—232. McCulloch—471. Batt—122. Durgan—143. Cravens—250. Holt—28. Priest—44. Takes 647 to nominate. SECOND BALLOT. Crittenberger—209. McCulloch—565. Durgan—92. Cravens—293. Holt—7. Priest—26. Batt—101. McCulloch gained ninetytwo on half votes. He still lacked 82 of nomination. THIRD BALLOT. McCulloch—892. Cravens—284. Crittenberger—72. Durgan—35. Priest—4. Holt—1.

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ANTI-KU KLUX KLAN PLANK IN DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM

gubernatorial contest.

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Creager Leads Campaign

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The following is that part of a plank adopted at the Democratic state convention aimed directly at the Kn Klax Klan, although the organization is not mention" ed by name. After a preamble declaring .the Democratic party had always stood for equal rights to all, and religious liberty, which the Constitution of the United States expressly guarantees, the plank declares: « * * * n0 religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States, and also; “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude; and also the bill of rights in our state constit/ition which provides; “All men shall be secured in their natural right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own con-

sciences. “No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions or interfere with the rights of conscience. “No preference shall be given by law, to any creed, religious society or mode of worship, and no man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship or to maintain any ministry, against his consent. * * * * * “The laws of our land are ample and our courts have adequate power to fully protect every citizen in the enjoyment of his Godgiven right of justice, equality and liberty. No ORGANIZATION HAS THE RIGHT TO SET ITSELF ABOVE THE LAW AND THE COURTS. “We. deplore all effort, no matter from what source it may spring, which has for its purpose tlie nullification of the supreme law of the land. We condemn all efforts to stir up race and class hatreds and the creation of dissension amongst our people. ”