Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 July 1924 — Page 2

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THE MIJNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

enemy to society, its votaries have the supreme impudence

a re-

A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Dent-] that these men and women are starting mocrats of aiuncm^ Ddawa^e County and the | The klanish m ; nd) wal . pec j anc i narrow, avoids honor- i -t “TSSS SJSS !

' 1 the klan camp. Fighting the klan should not be dignified j

Entered as second class matter January 15, 192JL, at J by the term “religious war.” Exterminating bed bugs and | the postofSce at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March» cock roaches is nearer the mark.

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Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a year.

k THEY CALL US ALIENS.

\ The publisher of the Post-Democrat is a white native

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 j born American Gentile and is a Protestant, but that did GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. I not P rev ent a masked gang of “hundred percent Ameri

. ! cans” from waylaying him and attempting to murder him Muncie, Indiana, Friday, July 11,1924. j one pight two years ago. Neither did it avail him much ' ) when he was tried before a klux judge arid jury for “libeiMcADOO DIDN’T • ing” a klux draft dodger who admitted on the witness The democratic party has never yet, and never will, stand that he was of German blood, that he was a gambler nominate a candidate for the presidency who deliberately and ex-bootlegger and was forced into manual labor for starts out, as McAdoo did, to foreclose the nomination by first time in his life during the war when the “work or the machine method of tying up instructed delegates ail ] fight” order was promulgated. The “alien” was fined five over the country. . hundred dollars and sentenced to six months imprisonIt has been the custom of the republican party to \ ment for stigmatizing this fellow in the Post-Democrat as name its candidates in that manner but democrats are not' a “one hundred percent draft dodger,” when by his own built that way. Coolidge was not the choice of the rank ! admission on the witness stand he was proved to be not and file of the republicans of iVmerica, but as official dis-1 only a draft dodger, but also a persistent law violator and penser of political pie, the “solid south” was his for the; a member of the ku klux klan. And there are still people asking and with that sort of a start nothing could prevent left in Indiana who think the klan question ought to be

his nomination.

In releasing his delegates from their instructions McAdoo was compelled to acknowledge the right of delegates

soft pedaled!

The klan has been spreading the propaganda that the

as individuals to express their personal preferences, but movement in. behalf of Governor Al. Smith was purely a he did not do it until thoroughly convinced that his care- Catholic affair. This angle was deliberately injected in fully constructed and apparently invincible Juggernaut the^campaign.by freebooters who hope to prolong the era had no place in a democratic convention. pf t en dollar initiation fees by waving the flag and invitIn his letter to Chairman Walsh, releasing his dele- ing.a division of the people along religious lines. Governor gates, McAdoo contemptuously branded those wdio oppos- Smith has given the state of New York a wonderfully proed him at wets and reactionaries and characterized his gressive administration and his every official act as govopponents as enemies of the progressive principles ad- ernor has given the lie to the charges hurled at him by

those who fear the pope but are willing to take a chance on an invisible empire builded on graft and lawlessness.

cated by Woodrow Wilson.

It was observed that McAdoo had the solid vote of

Southern Ku Klux states, notably Texas and Georgia. The; "

kluxers wanted McAdoo. If living, Woodrow Wilson cer-' Republicans are privately saying that Helen M tainly would not have expected progress to emanate from Dawes, the profane person who said thank you for a seckluxism. We do not believe that McAdoo belongs to the ond hand nomination for vice-president, should really have klan, but the klan wanted him and evidently expected him been the man to head the ticket, instead of Coolidge. If to “progress” according to klan standards in the event of that’s the ease, how far down the line does Coolidge stand his election. 1 w ih reference to Lowden, who threw the vice-presidential How any man smeared by Doheny’s oil could stand up nomination back in the face of the nominating conven-

and prate about the policies of Woodrow Wilson, is more tion? than the average democrat can comprehend. McAdoo is a big man and has accomplished big things, but his availability as a democratic candidate for president came to an

ties in one state joining issues on the klan—and thatf calls for sober meditation. The action of Sen. Watson must be predicated upon the theory that the Jews, Catholics and Negroes of his party will remain loyal to the party regardless of the insult and the threat. Years ago the Senator’s party in Indiana began a systematic colonization of negroes for political purposes. This policy, actively pursued for more than thirty years, has given Indiana a larger proportionate Negro vote than any other northern state. For a quarter of a century the Republicans there have owed every victory, except in a landslide, to its colored adherents. Without the Negro vote Bryan would have carried the state in 1896. Without it the Democrats would have prevailed in 1900. Without it Wilson would have carried it in 1916. Without that vote the overwhelmingly Republican city of Indianapolis would be overwhelming! yDemocratic. The action of the Republican organization this year in making common cause with the klan will determine whether the race in Indiana is in party bondage and proud of its chains,-—New York World. ^

this is mighty good wood. If anyone j doubts it let him try to put that | wreath back on the monument/ j Mr. Black still was on guard at I night, and the only flowers on the , monument -were placed there by the ! veterans themselves.

Jap Bill Provides Duty On Luxuries Tokio July 10—With a view toward curtailing the importation of luxuries, encouraging thrift and balancing foreign trade, the government introduced in tfie Diet Monday, a bill providing for an ad valorem duty of 100 per cent on 250 articles listed as luxuries,. Among the articles are cameras, films, phonographs and records, precious stones, liquor, woolen textiles, gold, plat num, watches, other jewelry and leather goods. The effect of the proposed heavy duty on American trade with Japan

Vould be comparatively slight, inasmuch as Japan purchases from the United States principally staple articles, such as cotton, machinery and iron ,it was pointed out. The tariff bill would become effective as soon as passed.

Woman Delegate Says LaFoilette Is a Wet New York, July 11.—Senator Carney the only woman member of the Mississippi senate, charged that Senator La Follette', the independent progressive candidate for president, is a friend of the wets, in a speech at a McAdoo rally here, Sunday night. “There is not a woman who has stood for prohibition who would vote for La Follette, because he is a known friend of the liquor traffic,” Mrs. Car^ ney said. She did not elaborate her charge, having brought it in’casually while discussing McAdoo’s position as a dry.

OUTRAGEJY KLAN (Continued from Page One) front of the monument. “This cane,” he declared, “was made from timbers taken from Am dersonville Prison. I was . a prisonei there and I made my escape. I know

Sao Paulo Plot Political Machine

Buenos, Aires, July 11.—The situation in Sao Paulo, second largest city in Brazil, in the hands of insurrectiohary forces which took possession of the government buildings Friday night and Saturday morning, remained vague Monday afternoon. The city ,which is th^ capital of Brazil’s wealthiest state, was still cut off from communication and the censorship in Rio Janeiro had not as yet been lifted. The dispatch which passed the censor last night saying that the insurrection had been suppressed and order restored has not been confirmed from other sources.

There are not enough klansmen left in Muncie any more to start an argument. Unless something is done

abrupt end when it was shown that he had been drawing here to revive the thing the Irish will have to start fightdown huge retainer fees from the bunch of thieves and ing each other, in order to keep their hand in. grafters who corrupted the Harding republican adminis- ^ T ... ~ : ~ . J , tration Waiter Miller, a Muncie Catholic, wts convicted sevIn his relation as attorney for Doheny, who filled Al- eral days ago in the circuit court for making home brew, bert Fall’s hand bag and sent other distinguished citizens. Several days before* in the same court, Garrutt, a klansto.various watering places for their health, McAdoo cer- man, who had been operating an amateur brewery for a tainly must have been aware of his employer s guilt. It year, was acquitted after Garrett told the jury that he seems improbable that a man of his keen discerWnt mad ih b j obstinate . ca g es of measles should not have fathomed the whole dirty mess. But Me- . . . „ .. ^ ^ , Adoo kept on taking Doheny’s money and now he feels 7* ^ n0 sai d, ^ ou never can tell what a jury

that his defeat means the end of democratic progress. , Wld d0 •

THAT “RELIGIOUS WAR.”

There has been considerable talk the last few days about the attempt of certain democrats to “start a religious war.” Klansmen and klan sympathizers are re-

sponsible for most of the talk.

If a religious war has been started in the United States those responsible for it are unscrupulous individu-

The attacks on the Ku Klux Klan by Hearst’s International Magazine ceased with their April issue; no article appearing in May. The series has been favorably commented upon by the press at large,.and in many sections posts of the American Legion are preparing to take up the cudgels for righteousness against this 100 per cent unAmerican hooded order. As we go to press the Pennsylvania gang responsible for the killing at the town of Lilly

als who have no religion—men and women who basely annealing rhe case and endeavoring to snuirm out of capitalized the Cross of Calvary and the flag of their comr-i f ® f !n^ g q

try and bartered their immort-al souls for office and

money.

The conspirators who started the ku klux klan deliberately set out to reap a golden harvest from easy marks who were led to believe that America w T as in danger of papal conquest by force of arms. The klan met in secret places and were privately lectured to by paid disturbers and weird tales were told of munitions of war being stacked in basements of Catholic churches, of plans under way for the Pope to assume the reins of government in 1925 and of an oath taken by members of the Knights of Columbus to flay, murder and de-

stroy Protestants.

Men posing as ex-priests and women falsely proclaiming themselves “ex-nuns” helped fan the flames by fabricarang unbelievable tales which they shouted into the ears

of their deluded and half-crazed followers.

Proclaiming that they were the chosen of the AlmighW and the criterion of American standards, these conscftncleless grafters extended their program of hate until all who refused to come within their dominion were branded as aliens, and unworthy of the benefits and privileges bestowed by the constitution of the United

States.

The “religious war” brought on by this traitorous organisation expanded in its scope and communities were divided inj;o hostile camps. Klansmen were taught to carry deadly weapons and thousands of vieFms of klan venom were assaulted and scourged by masked mobs.

a murder charge.—Cartoons Magazine. TRAP THE PESTS; WHY NOT?

“A ku kluxer,” explained the father of a 5-year-old

lad who is not a Nordic blond, nor a Protestant, ffis a person who comes to your house dressed in a nightie to punish you for doing something which the ku kluxer would like to

do but cannot, or would like to be but is not.” “Why don’t they put ku kluxers in jail?” asked the

child.

“They can’t catch them,” replied the patient father. “Why don’t they set traps for them?” asked the child. —Brown Bull.

WILL THEY TAKE THEIR MEDICINE? The capture of the Republican Party by the Klan in Indiana, and the complacent acceptance of the humiliation by the leaders of the party, are of vital concern, not only in that state, but to every man and woman in New York and

the. Nation.

It is one thing for fanatical individuals to take a stand against religious and racial toleration; it becomes a far more vital thing when a dominant political party openly becomes the instrumentality of such intolerance. When Senator Watson, the Republican leader, meets in conference with the Klan boss and announces his determination to exert all his ingenuity and eloquence to elect an avowed Klansman to the governorship and to turn the government of a great state over to , the domination of an'organization that w T ars on the funda-

Recognizmg the klan as a potent pohtican weapon, | mental principle of Americanism, an entire Nation is fore-

unscrupulous and ambitious demagogues led the hue and warned.

cry. The klan leaders jokted hands with the politicians The day the senator met in war council with the boss ‘ and while hypocritically insisting that the klan was not in of the klan, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate with politics, proceeded systematically to build up political ma-| a plurality in the primary, joined his runner-up who ran chines in every State m which it had gained a foothold. | as an enemy of the Klan, in an acceptance “of the challenge And now, when decent men and women of the na-i to fight for the principles of religious liberty and the eon-1 ion, regardless of methods of worship or racial descent; stitutional guarantees of state and nation.” Thus we have, have courageously taken up the cudgel to destroy this j the startling spectacle of the two dominant national par- ^

The rOld Man” Himself — D. C. Stephenson, boss canvasman for the Ku Klux Klan, field manager for Ed Jackson’s campaign and political bedfellow of Mulhall Jim Watson, third assistant imperial nighthawk of the United States Senate, had an Ohio experience recently which has not been properly explained to his Indiana followers. Stephenson, or, as he is known to the sucker list, “The Old Man,” spent the night of January 6, 1924, in jail, at Columbus, with two klansmen companions, the trio having staged a drunken party at the Hotel Deshler, the leading hostelry of Columbus. The dear Old Man was pickled to the gills when the police got him and though he was locked up for intoxication and violation of the liquor law, he and his two companions were turned loose the following morning and as far as can be learned the cases were never prosecuted. The Columbus daily newspapers the next day carried first page stories, with proper reservations of the affair, but for some reason or other they dried up like a clam and there was never another line printed about the old man and his didoes. Stephenson and his companions took a room at the Deshler and after loading up with bootleg likker, sent for the lady manicurist to come to their room. The Post-Democrat is informed that the three drunken bums attempted to assault the manicurist as soon as she entered the room. N - The girl fought desperately, it is said, and the protectors of female virtue in the struggle broke up nearly all the furniture in the room. A negro porter, hearing the girl’s screams, rushed to her rescue and was severely beaten, after which the police were called and the men arrested and locked up in jail. Several quarts of whiskey found in the room formed the basis of the liquor charge. It is reported that the colored porter, who attempted to rescue a white «woman from the clutches of Stephenson and his fellow' disciples of law and order and pure Americanism, was discharged the next day by the hotel management. It was remarkable that the Columbus klan did not take the colored youth out in the woods and whip him for daring to interfere in the diversions of the anointed. Just what argument was brought to bear on the Columbus authorities to turn the Old Man loose is not known, but it is known that the klan rallied to his defense and sent a representative to Columbus in the person of W. H. N. Stevens, Mayor of Newark, Ohio, who successfully engineered the release of Ed Jackson’s pal. As far as can be learned Judge Robert Marsh, Ed Jackson’s law partner, afld paid counsel for the klan, did not figure in that particular Ohio mess. It will be recalled that Judge Marsh-ap-peared at Springfield, Ohio, in behalf of Worley Cortnef, a Muncie bird, who got in a jam while kleagleizing there for the ku klux klan. Cortner is another defender of pure womanhood who de-* parted from Muncie leaving behind him a record of wine, women and song, and one unpaid bill due a Muncie doctor for treating an abortion case. ^ The doings of the “Old Man” are unimportant in themselves, and are only what might be expected of such a grafting adventurer, but they are rendered important to t|ie people of Indiana by reason of the fact that Stephenson is the leader of the klancontrolled republican party of the state and the chief promoter of Ed Jackson’s candidacy for the office of governor. By the way, the old mgfln had a wife, whom he married in Evansville. The records of the common pleas court, in Akron, Ohio, show that the wife was granted a divorce, following the filing of a complaint which designated the old man as being anything but a gentleman and a protector of pure womanhood. In the fulness of time the Post-Democrat will expose this bird thoroughly, in order that the republicans of Indiana may know what kind of a leader they have annexed and the sort of influences that will surround Ed Jackson in the highly improbable event of his election.