Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 July 1924 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924.
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
/AGE THREE
Zanesville Kokettes Initiate Brothers; Have Hair Pulling Objected To Being Called Chippie-Maybe It Would Be All Right Spelled Khippie. * What Is A Chippie?
“ZANESVILLE’S HONEST TO GOD”' “Kockeycd Knights of Kussedness” Harry Stinger—Gasoline Station, W. Main St. Sings in church. Drums for the Koo Koos. Look out for this bird for we are going to spill the beans. Mrs. A. L. Gille—Ridge Ave. Klucks so much doesn’t have time to do her housework. Who is No. 176 ?? ? Earl Harris, No. 1058. Monkey face Earl. Cal Russel. Painter and paper hanger. Where does he get his paste ? ? ? Earl Kineer—Barber. A poor cut-up. L. L. Bozman—Grocer. For anything stale. Howard Payton—State highway department foreman. Kan’t put stones on the level. Lena McGraff—A she woman Klucker. Neil McGraff—Pott-ery. Fora Howell—Cor. 6th and Main St. Klucks for the Knightie Knights all the time. Kan’t find time to w ait on Kustomers when they kome in. Goorgfc Neal—Paid 10 bucks for a 60c sheet.
Zanesville, July 11.—There is a new disease in Zanesville—KooKooitis. It has assumed very virulent proportions in the past few days, and reached the peak the other
night at a meeting of the she-kookoos.
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An argument started over which bunch of grafters was to get the kale the boobs had donated, when one of Kokettes lost all control over herself and displayed her knowledge of gutter language by shouting: “Oh, shut up! You’re nothing but a chippie anyway!” / Wow! Talk about Dempsey and Firpo! It was worse than the battle of the Marne. The air was filled with shrieks, cuss words, hair, hair nets, hair pins and, —yes, lingerie! Soon the greater part of the Kokettes were engaged in the battle and the SOS for the police was sent outThe police came—a big, husky klucker cop—and he succeeded in queiting the riot. But there were no arrests. Wanf To Know How To Wear Fine Cloliies ? Mrs. Tussing is prepared to tell any ambitious Koquette how to kol lect the kale in order to blossom forth in the dazzling raiment so dear to the hearts of the shimmy shakers. Fine Feathers Make Fine Bairds. Solomon in all l^ts glory was not arrayed like Grace Van Allen these days. She struts the streets like a Fourth of July celebration. As sec-
en face like the juice in an orange. WELL, WELL—LOOK AT THESE! FRANK MAHURD—Elmwood Ave., 99 degree Mason and big dog in Kluxers. DR. WOODWARD—West Main St. —sells fruit for ZanesvZille Fruit Co. Uses company car to attend Koo Koo Konclaves. LON^ BILL CUNNINGHAM—Cuts meat for a Catholic. ARCADE MARKET—managed by a Kook. Most of the clerks. Poor boob! R. H. Fuller Makes Denial. A telegram has been received at the office of the Post-Democrat in Muncie, Ind., signed by R H. Fuller, of Zanesville, in which Mr. Fuller denies that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, his name having appeared in a recent published list of alleged klansmen. The telegram has been referred to our Zanesville investigator, who will make a report and if Mr. Fuller has been misrepresented x we will be glad to exonerate him from the charge. In the course of our work in exposing the klan it is impossible to avoid an occasional mistake, but we seek to be square with everybody and gladly rectify mistakes when we are convinced that they have been made.
‘No Compromise With Reaction,” Declares Davis
retary of the Koquettes, she is close to the kale. Get the money, girls!
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Zanesville boobs in the Marion parade sure knocked a rool at the state meeting held in Marion a few weeks ago. Just as the grafters were about j to start the heavens opened up and the heaviest storm of years approached and drowned the boobs in the parade. The joke of it was that Mackin, a clothier, netted about 100 berries from the Kluckcrs—and Maekin is a mackerel snapper in the clothing business in Marion. (FISH.)
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Nestling Near the Poor House. The Dumbbells are now burning icrosses across from the poor house. We suppose it’s because they will he knocking for admittance pretty soon. A good place for them. Tell Us Clod! Why do you go by the name of Clod McCarthy? When your real name is Clod Wilson. Are the Kops lookin'for you, or have you a record som^ where? We intend looking you and God bless you, when we get something on you. Earl Davis said he did not belong to the Damn Klan and the tobacco juice was churning down his unshav-
THE MIRACULOUS JUG. Are There Six Quarts Iqa Gallon?
Newark, Ohio, July 11, 1924—Thesince 1890. Heretofore his testimony
hearing of Joe Massina in Judge Colliqr’s court last week, resulted in Joe being fined one thousand ckfilars beca»se of his ability to get six full quarts of corn likker from a one gallon jug. The witness for the state was the honorable Granny Albin of no street nowhere. He testified that he procured six quarts of hooch from Massina and identified the gallon jug from which they were poured. The question in this case was not altogether, one of Massina’s guilt. The question is can the testimony of an individual such as Granny Albin be taken in any court? Albin has spent on an average 200 days of every year in the city prison or county jail
has never been taken in his own behalf and we fail to see how it could convict a man on any charge. Massina has a wife and six children and being an Italian, stands in hard lines in a Ku Klux Kourt. To make matters worse Massina gave Fletcher Scott $25 to defend him, not knowing that Scott was a member of the night shirt gang, l&cott double crossed Massina, took his $25 and celebrated his victory by investing four bits in a handful of flags and a tin whistle all of which were used in stageing a shirt-tail war dance around his family fiery cross much to the amusement of the neighbors and passersby.
Nek York, July 10.—John W. Davis, the Democratic presidential nominee, declared in a statement last night: “There can be no compromise with reaction. Liberal principles must and will prevail. This is the mandate of the hour and I shall obey it.” M'r. Davis asserted that not the least of the weighty obligations that had fallen to him was “the duty to put before the country as clearly as my powers permit, the Democratic creed and the Democratic policy as the convention had declared them.” He said he had no doubt that this creed and this policy would receive “the militant 'support of all those who call themselves by the Democratic name.” “I shall hope to rally to their aid,” he continued, “that great body of liberal progressive and independent thought which believes that progress is motion, government is action, which detests privilege in whatsoever form and which does hot wish the American people or their government togrstand still or retreat from the midst of a changing world.” Text of Statement. Mr. Davis’s statement follows: “The history of national conventions may be searched in vain for. one which has excelled this in freedom or frankness of discussion, or whose actions have been more clearly the result of the unfettered wishes of the assembled delegates. The resolution and endurance they have exhibited is but proof of their sense of the solemn desponsibilities to 'the country under which they acted and of the supreme vitality of 'democracy. “I can not but feel deeply sensible of the honor done me by the convention and am even more consciousi of the weighty obligations that have fallen to me by its deliberate and unanimous choice. Not least of these is the duty to put before the country as clearly as my powers permit, the Democratic creed and the Democratic policy as the convention has declared them. “That this creed and this policy will receive the militant support of all those who call themselves by the Democratic name I do not doubt for an instant I shall hope to ran'' to their aid that great body of liberal progressive thought which believes that progress is motion, government is action, which detests privileges in whatever form and which does not wish the American people or their government to stand still or retreat from the midst of a changing world.” “There can be no compromise with reaction Liberal principles must and will prevail. This is the mandate of the hour and .1 shall obey it.” ,
SNIPS FROM ST. LOUISVILLE, OHIO. . Dillon, the P. M. at St. Louisville, Ohio, has two clerks, but they had to join the K. K. to hold their jobs but they are all 100% Americans as people never have to wait on their mail. Service is great. Arthur Oatman joins the K. K. to hold his job, but he is 100% American, as he drives two machines on the same license. Stanley Nethers, another 100% American drives two machines on the same license. Ed Koontz, John Koontz, Bill Jones and Searl Rouse, 100% Americans, are helping the Prohibition cause by drinking all the booze they can get on Saturday nights.
to Davis, leaving Meredith. California was next recognized, while Brennan shouted for recognition, and California changed, sending twenty-one votes to Davis. Davis now had 6fi9 1-2 votes. Brennan finally was recognized and voted fifty-eight for Davis, a net increase in Illinois vote for the West Virginian of thirty-nine. Franklin Roosevelt then got the eye of the chairman and New York sent another fifty-six votes to Davis. Kentucky and Ohio joined the procession of changes, and finally the Old Dominion nailed it down when Carter Glass’s twenty-four votes were changed. Meantime, Taggart, standing on a chair in the center aisle opposite the Indiana standard, had been calling for recognition, and at last Walsh, amid breathless silence, recognized “the gentleman from Indiana.” The motion to make the nomination by acclamation was carried with a roar, and Chairman Walsh then declared Davis the nominee of the* gonvention for the office of President of the United States. HAN CONDEMNED BY SOCIALISTS
Name Is Written Into Resolution Adopted By National Convention.
acompanied by a certified check pay^j able to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent. (2 1-2 per cent) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him ,en such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. BY ORDER ^OF THE BOARD OF
PUBLIC WORKS.
Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Publish on July 4-llth-1924.
COLORED VOTES (Continued From Page One) ommendation to the voters was his membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Updike was a member of the 1 legislature, his opponent being p prominent colored man named Dexter. /The klan forces were active in 1922 in defeating Dexter and insuring the election of Updike. The klan fought Moores just as venomously in the May primary as they did the ne-
gro, Dexter, in 1922.
Merrill Mjoores is a native born Protestant and has served his disliict with honor and distinction for a number of years, but the Klan impudently picked up the unknown Updike, and by its control of a majority of the republican voters was able to put him over by a small margin.
Colored Voters Organize.^,
Unfortunately the colored voters did not turn out well here in the May primary. It is declared that there are between thirty thousand and forty thousand colored voters’ in Indi-
Cleveland, O. July 1( —A resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan by name was referred back to the resolutions committee by the Socialist national convention late yesterday, because it was connected with a declaration on the economic condition
of the negro. ,
The substitute resolution, when
brought in, said:
“We emphatically condemn the Ku _, . ., . j
Klux Klan and every other effort to ana P°^ ls > hut *t is estimated that only deny the workers on racial or relig-, twenty percent of them voted at the ions lines and to affect political pur-: primary. If tk.? v had voted their full poses by secret ®r terroristic meth- 1 strength the klan would have tailed,
ods. i , „ , ,
A substitute was offered along thei™ 6 colored ,ead ' !ra * re now "''■' k same lines, but omitting specific men- danger and every effort will tion of the Klan, the explanation be-1 he made to poll a complete vote in
ingimade that the party was concern- the fall
ed only with economic and not relig-1 The p bst . Dem ocrat correspondent ions issues. A bitter fight broke out! u-, i. ^ a ,, T over the merits of these two resolu-1 W ^ 1 e here had a tala; with Bee Longtions. I wood, president of the Indiana DemKlan Condemned by Name j ocracy League, a colored democratic The resolution condemning the club which the organizers expect to K!a " ^ n “ na r 8 ado,> , ted -„ j make statewide. Mr, Longwood is a Eugene V. Debs was elected nation-! , ' * al chairman of the Socialist party j colore( f attorney and the headqua^America, a new office. Too ill to con- i f ers °f the club is established at tinue his activity with the national 227% East ’Washington street,
executive committee, Debs was given the new place by acclamation after Morris Hillquit, New York, had ex-
“Windy” Stevens, Toadstool Mayor Is The Bis Boss
Decent Members Of Party Sick Unto To Death Of Kluxing But The Only Panacea In Sight
Is The Muncie Post-Democrat.
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THE DIGEST Know Nothing Kuties. Warden Pugh—B. & O. Carpenter—The longer in the B. & O. service the more they lose. Joe Pinkerton—Straw boss at Buckeye Rail Mill. Like to get lit up on white mule and recite ‘‘The Face on the Bar Room Floor.” Arthur Stickle—Night superintendent American Bottle Co. All he knows is to look for sleepers. Geo. llufford—“Better known as Hog Jaw.” Look this man’s cellar over, it’s 100%. Golf Coon—Known as Kooney, hands got sticky at the B. & O. and came to the A.B.C. (got in with the girls? ?) Clarence Fulk—Known as “Dopy”. Got the hook at Weheles. Now at the A.B.C. Co. Grover Clay—Never told the truth in his life. Bryce Peck—Stretched his neck, talked to 100% straw boss, and got back to the A.B.C. Co. Bunda Brown—Known as “Stats”. Every time there is a parade he loses a day’s pay.
NEWARK. OHIO, July 11, 1924.—With all due respect to the seriousness and rottenness of the klan mess in Newark, yet it brings forth a broad grin, when an independent thinking person looks at it politically. The
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klux mayor “Won’t-Help-Newark or elsewhere to address the Rotarians Stevens” is the Republican boss and or is confined to his bed with the pip. uses his power much to the chagrin If the visitor insists on driving to the
Mayor’s home to meet his charming wife, he is hastily detoured to the
of the higher up society gang of Republicans. During the campaign last fall, several of these silk-shirted
country club sons of the G. O. P. gent mounds and s ° lf course ’ Tru9t these
birds to get by even though they
gnash their teeth in secret.
Several local Republicans (with an
ly whispered it about town that for the sake of the party “etc. etc.” it would not do to turn Stevens down.
One of these patriotic birds was con- e >' e on the fature ) ha * e recently told fidential enough with the writer to in- the writer that The Muncie Post-
Out to Whi. | sinuate that the kian) ro tten as it was ^mocrat was wrecking .the local G.
iitvu ca _ ( Mr - Longwood is enthusiastic in his | needed to be encouraged for the sake p - machine. They generally end plained that the general election laws Prophesies of democratic success and 1Republican party, the public little plea by sc ieeziug out a required the election of such an offi- predicts that Kluxer Ed. Jackson will j j^ools and free-masonry! Looking tear or two in memory c£ "the lament-
cer ’ be burie d so deep under an aval-i arn , in a t 0 see that no one A committee was appointed to wait anc h e of votes next f%U that it will ’ near he i eane d forward and whis upon Debs at Elmhurst, 111., and con-;. . was near, ne leaned lorwaru ana wm»
vey to him the affectionate greetings j a 6 a s eam dreds© to get him ont. | p er ed, “You sometimes ore obliged to and may he rest in peace—but .As
ed Harding” and for the sake of Calvin Coolidge. Well, Harding is dead
of the convention. j ' <We ar e organizing every precinct;
Victor Berger, Wisconsin, opposed in Indianapolis and expect to get oat i k i an ) t 0 wipe off a dirty spot, a proposal by Hillquit that the na in the state and effect district and -- - - - -• • •
tional chairman be given an ex-officio j count organizations/ . 8aid Mr . Long _
voice and vote on the national execn-
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committee of seven.
! wood. “The colored voters of Indi-
use a filthy rag (referring to theuisto Coolidge, I sometimes wonder how;
he could aj.tend those cabinet meet-
As he said this the glint in his eyes ings and not get wise. Draw your own
Tvas very gimilar to that seen in the conclusions.
eyes of a seven foot rattlesnake after} Over at Cleveland, the Republicans
I am not afraid of Gene Bebs,” he , ana have been bunkoed for the ^ as ^| being- prodded in the flanks with a promised, on the side, to play 50-50
said. “I brought him into the Socialist j time by the republican party,” he de
party. But you are creating an execu- c ] ared .-
live office for one man and you should j „ The col d f f f . not do lhat, either here or in Congress ! Anecoiorea voters or tne state for any one, no matter who he is.” J were naturally republican and always -— o- ! voted the tioket for principle. We The first United States immigra- helped elect Ed Jackson secretary of tion law was that enacted March 3, state and Jim Watson owes his seat 1.875, which prohibited the immigra- in the senate fo the colored voters of
tion of aliens who had been con-
victed of crimes.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
Department Of Public Works Office Of The Board 212 Wysor Block Muncie, Ind.
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the pubthat the
CW.JSRYAN (Continued from Page One) leader, who has been in supreme command of the anti-McAdoo forces, gave the signal for the big flop when at the conclusion of the roll call, and before the vote could be tabulated, he arose, and in a loud voice attempted to swing the whole fifty-eight votes to Davis. The Illinois vote had been announced nineteen for Davis, nineteen for Underwood and twenty for Glass. The unofficial total of the roll call had given Davis 560 1-2. Chairman Walsh could not see Brennan, but recognized Massachusetts, which added two votes to the Davis total. The Brennan signal, however, was seen across the arena, and in five minutes the whole convention was on chairs and packing the aisles with a dozen state leaders clamoring for recognition. The greatest conclusion prevaflJ ed, while Walsh endeavored to restore order. Iowa Quits Meredith He then recognized Iowa, which BWUDg the entire twenty-six votes
Notice To Contractors
Public:
Notice is hereby given, to lie and to all contractors,
Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana. invites sealed" proposals for the construction, in said City, according to the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans? profiles, drawing and specification therefor 'on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below
described, to-wit:
I. R. No. 1032-1923, For cement sidewalk on both sides of Highland Avenue from Walnut Street to Lake Erie & Western Railway tracks. I. R. No. 1043-1923, For cement sidewalk and curb and gutter on both sides of North Jefferson Street from McCulloch Boulevard to Centennial
Avenue.
I. R. No. 1162-1924, For cement side walk on west side of Talley Avenue from Jackson Street to Gedman Ave-
nue.
I. R. No. 1163-1924, For cement curb and gutter on both sides of Tenth Street from Perkins Avenue to Sampson Avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in anyway affecting said bid, according to' the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219.) All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock
Indiana. We are now rewarded by seeing Watson and Jackson join hansd with the imperial wizard. The men we placed in office seek our political and social destruction and have affiliated with a secret organization which specifically proscribes and d' criminates against men and women c' my race. If my people fail to resent this great wrong they are unworthy of the ctizenship granted them by the fifteenth amendment to the constitw tion of the United States. You can count on Indiana going democratic next fall and the colored voters will do their part.” The officers and directors of the colored democratic club, which received its charter from the secretary of state a few days ago are as fol-
lows:
Ben Longwood, president; George Paxton, vice-president|[ John Brower treasurer; James A. Bryant, secretary; these men, with I. B. Thomas, Effie Grissom and Otis Stanley, comprise the seven directors of the League. Mr. Thomas is general manager of the Gibraltar Life Insurance company and the others are all prominent in colored circles. Colored Paper In Bad. There are two colored newspapers here, the Freeman and the Recorder,
hot pitchfork. At first I hardly knew with the klan and anti-klan. In other whether to choke him to death or cut words they used the same long whishis throat but fortunately my sense kered tactics they have used in dea.1of humor came to the rescue and I ing with the liquor traffic. “They are concluded it would be foolish to break agin it, but they deal in it.” During any former speed records i*n piloting the campaign they will be a Roman this bird to the official hang out of the when in Rome—a klansman when in devil’s chosen few. He was going fast a Koo Koo ward. They are trying to
enough!
Another thing that brings the grin is when * some noted after-dinner speaker visits the Rotary club and asks to meet the mayor of your beautiful prosperous and sun-kissed Buckeye city.” This is exceedingly embarrassing of course and the ' honorable
sidestep the issue but when it comes down to brass tacks they have just as big a boil between them and the chair as have the Democrats. The only difference is the Republicans are having it treated in a private sanitarium and the Democrats are lancing theirs in. a public ward. At the
visitor is promptly informed that the | time this is written they are still tryMayor has been called to Indianapolis mg to pull out the core-
in the hands of a receiver, along with j n tb e shadows at night, their faces the Fiery Cross, another Jackson aid. hidden behind masks and their carBecause of the fact that several cassefj swathed in dirty bed greets. Catholics were nominated for local ^ Their idea of a terrific blunder is offices in the recent primary, Jhe in- j. 0 nominate men and women opposed sidious propaganda is being spread k j an Filling all public offices that the democrats “made a big mis- w jth rotten kluxers with ill smelling take.” Those responsible for this records is their idea of the end of a kind of talk are the fellows who lurk perfect day. , ji
NO. 130.
BANK STATEMENT i O. W. STORER, President. . .5° rt ° f the condition of the Muncie Banking Co., of Mun- * nc ^ ana ’ the close of its business on Jane
RESOURCES.
both of which oppose the election of
Eld Jackson. The Ledger, another L* 0 ® 118 an d discounts $1(JV863.00 colored weekly, is in bad odor, be- Other bonds and securities 11,500.00 cause of its espousal of Jackson’s p ’ urn *t# ire an d fixtures 1,000.00 cause in the May primary. jOue from Banks and Trust Shortly before the primary a big j Co.’s 816.82 edition of the Ledger, said to have j Cash on hand 153.40 been paid for by the Ku Klux Klan, Current expenses 304.42
which boosted Jackson, was distributed free in Indianapolis and other cities of Indiana with large colored population. One prominent Indianapolis colored man told the PostDemocrat- correspondent that the papers wer« hdttled around Indianapolis in an automobile belonging to D. C- Stephenson, the klan grafter
Other Assets 5,70i7.82
Total Resources $30,345.46
LIABILITIES.
-$is,«<>o.od
Capital stock—paid in
Surplus 4,761.34 Undivided profits 295-55 Demand Deposit* 'la.YSS.ST
Total Liabilities $30,345.46
State of Indiana, County of Delaware, ss: ' I, Oliver W. Storer, president of the Muncie Banking Co do solemn!* that the above statement is true ” 0 301
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in the evening of the 15th day of July w b 0 controlled the recerat republican 1924, and each such proposal must be Btate convention. The ledger is now !
♦ o. w. storfr My commission expires Sept. 24 If2T.