Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 July 1924 — Page 4
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924.
UNITED STATES LAW ON SUBJECT OF KUKLUXKLAN IS VERY STRONG
If you know some neighbor who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, it would be wise to send h;m this paper, with this article marked. Hand-bills beaiing the information given herein have been distributed in northern Colorado with no little effect. Many persons do not realize that by conspiring with the Klan in its uglier activities they are running up against a law that has teeth as strong as the Volstead act, and that, if they ever want a government job, they are automatically disqualified/if found guilty. .The act was passed specifically to handle Ku Kluxism, when the order was active before: The United States Government II. vs. The Ku Klux Klan. Section 19 of the Penal Laws of the United States, 7 Fed. 'Stat. Ann.. (2nd Ed.) 484 Set. 19. (Conspiracy to injure, etc., persons in the exercise of civil rights). If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same, or if two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned n<^t more than ten years, and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to»any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the Constitution or laws of the United
States.—(35 Stat. L. 1092.) , (This was originally Sec. 5508 and was found in the Ku Klux Klan Act of May 31, 1871, which was signed by President U. S. Grant, Chapter 116, 16 Statutes at Large, 141. The original act was repealed and this section was re-enacted without any change what-
ever.)
Constitution of the United States
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances. Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the ptate wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its juris- j
to the alley between First Street and
Second Street.
Each bidder is also to file with th£ Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way 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 P. M. of the 22nd day of July, 1924, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable 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 ibe 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, ffi case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
PUBLIC WORKS.
Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Publish on July 11-18-1924.
Clerk.
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
Department of Public Works, Office of the Board. 212 Wysor Block. Muncie, Ind.
diction the equal protection
laws.
Fifteenth Amendment
Section 1. The right of 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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by ap-
propriate legislation.
—Denver Catholic Ptegister. I
To Whom It May Concern:
of the' Notice is hereby given that the asjsessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be sefen at the office of the Board, for the following improve-
! ments, to-wit:
j I. R. No. 1014—1923, Local) sewer in Luick Avenue from Eighth street
to Twelfth street-
I. R. No. 1024—1923, Paving the al-
the 15th day of July, 1924, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person or by representative, and be heard, at 7:30 o’clock, p. mBOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
Mary E. Anderson, (June 27-July4,1924) o
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR FLAYS THE KU KLUX EAN Judge Henry Priest Denounces the Arrayat Class
Against Class.
Judge Henry Priest of St. Louis, m announcing his candidacy for ^the democratic nomination for governor of Missouri, delivered an address, in which he flayed the Klan unmerci-
fully.
Among other things he said:
“But it is said the Ku Klux Klan
the negro, the Jew and
on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the
City of Muncie, Indiana. ,
The Board of Public Works has fixed the 29th day of July, 1924, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 7:30 o’clock P. M. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City fpr the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which m^y have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confinnation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said City will be equal to
or exceed the estimated cost of the \ sur ely a kluxer,
hate
CITY ADVERTISEMENT Department of Public Works h. Office Of The Board 212 Wysor Block, ! T y | Munc'e, Ind.
_________ j ley between Powers and First streets , , .. , ‘ , from Rose street to Pierce street, t.ons below mentioned, and accord-, L R No Cement side. ing to the plans, profiles, drawing and on Boutll slde 0( West EIghUl specification therefor on file in the street from Rochester Avenue to Ba-
| office of said Dpard or eacn of the tavia Avenue.
! public improvements herein below j i r. n 0- 1125—1924, Local sewer j described, towit: ' i u South Jefferson street from 21st
AND j ^ R ‘ N0, 1164 ’ 1924 . Paving the alley street to 19th street-
j between University Avenue and North ; j. r. No. 1126—1924, Local sewer Street from Pauline Avenue to Re- : in South Jefferson street from 17th
serve Street. ! street to 18th street. I. R. No. 1165-1924, For local sewer J j. r. No. 1143—1924, Cement side-
on east side of Macedonia Avenue walk on Thirteenth street from Old from Sixth Street to Eighth Street, j City limits to one square east of El-
I. R. No. 1166-1924, For local sewer liott street. Street And notice is hereby given that on
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
TO THE PUBLIC: '
Notice is hereby, given to the pub-1 lie and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of | Muncie, in the State of Indiana, in-1 vites sealed proposals for the con-1 struction, in said City, according to i
x- • x I Li n Brady Street from Willard the, respective improvement resolu^ 1 ^
the
Catholics. The negroes are not with us by choice—we brought them in slavery. They have been in our midst since the establishment of government. We did not them. We fought a bloody free them and make them
proposed .improvements,
at
as estimated
by the C^ty Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertise on July 11-18-1924.
next year, but running will be as far as he will get. The majority of Logansports citizens are fair minded and know that Logansport fared better before this snake organization crawled in causing discord, breaking friendships, arraying fellow workmen against each other. Nothing will please the capitalists and plundering financiers more than to get labor quarrelling among themselves, and the rest is easy. Union labor will then soon be a thing of tjie past. A house divided against itself will never stand —but after the horse is stolen the soft bi\ained Hoqsier laborer, will lock the barn, and kick himself for being such U boob as to join the klan and bust up organized labor. Go ahead, pay your hard earned money to the grafter, that is good for what ails you, nothing tehches one like ex-
perience.
The Stellar Role.
Hall Rummell, Linden Avenue, is
who fills the stellar
roll for being a dumb bell. We don’t
our educate war to citizens,
in
As a general rule they are, in pure blood, a submissive, loyal and gentle race. I revere the memory of that dear old mammy who nestled me in ’her arms and wiped away my
tears- As a child I hunted
childish
coon them.
DEPRAVED NUTS (Continued From Page one) would advertise in such a paper. “The Spot” on 4th Street is another one who patronizes the filthy sheet. The Rodgers Cut Price Store (Klux Rodger’s Old Stand) is another advertiser Why do they advertise in a Klan paper if they are not kluxers? Folks are known by the company they keep. So these stores need not expect
anti Klan patronage.
Mrs. Snider, works at the Fashion Shop, a Jewish concern. Just stop and think of the unadulterated gall. Gertrude Harrell, Charge’s sweet mamma, is under suspicion of being a Kamelia. She doesn’t act natural when she talks to Anti Klans. Actions speak louder than words. Time will
sjae would wake up,
since Don, her stepson, got such a
know why he objects to colored folks, but then lots of folks fuss with their relatives. Some folks from Logansport tells us that Hal and Wiley Kummell are brothers and that the cutest little colored fellow claims a Home under Wiley’s roof. And some folks say that he resembles his Uncle a great deal. We are told that the colored citizenship of Logansport is a very peaceable and law abiding people, surely the same can not be said of the orgauization which claims UMUper cent Americanism, as their standard. The Kluxers are so mad that a Catholic got the contract for the construction of the city administraftoa building that they are going . to investigate and and see how much money goes into the structure. The contractor happened to be the lowest bidder, and was not trying to whole hog or none the bid. Now we suppose the Jesuits have something to do with it, and may be the pope will live there. The poor kooks, it just keeps them awake nights minding everybody’s business but their own.
and fox and ate possum with
It is said they were easy vi'c- j tel1 - Looks like
tims of •the slave kidnaper because
of their docile and friendly disposi-; set back.
Is it good citizenship to deny ; Kooks, get your partners for the
| Kaudrille. “First your ma and then i your pa, ahd then your girl from
tion. them
The
is our intercessor pardon of our sins.,
in this wide,
i K-
THRESHING IT OUT. (Continued From Page 1.)
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that is one reason why a vast majority of the delegates to the New York convention sought the nomination of a candidate who tells the world that he is against this un-American institution. In Indiana the republican party has been taken over by the klan. In Hoosierdom when you speak of the klan you speak of the republican party. Ed Jackson is primarily the candidate of the klan. His republicanism is merely incidental. If Jackson is elected governor of Indiana it will have to be done by the votes of the labor and agrarian element. The only way Jackson can be elected is by the support of the solid klan vote and through a careless division of those who are opposed to the klan. Jackson, secretary of state, is now a part of the state administration headed by former Governor Warren McCray, now doing time in federal prison for a series of crimes against the commonwealth and the federal government which astounded the world. I The republican state convention, dominated wholly by the ku klux klan, and taking orders from “Old Man” Stephenson and Grand Dragon Bossert, did not make the slightest mention of McCray and his rotten, thieving administration of the highest office in the gift of the people. It is therefore safe to say that the klan of Indiana, or at least its mouthpieces, Watson, Stephenson and Bossert, considering their man Jackson a part of the McCray administration, is willing to elect Jackson and take another chance. Is it possible that the decent, conservative republicans of Indiana will aid in the election of Jackson and thus disgrace the state the second time within one year? With one republican gow ernor in the penitentiary and another sitting in the chair of the executive as the chosen of the imperial wizard, our humiliation will certainly be complete. No matter what happens in NeW York the independent voters of Indiana should not lose sight of the danger within our own state. A man who wants to be governor bad enough to join the ku klux klan to get the job deserves to be beaten by a million votes. Such a man would be more of a menace to the state than Warren McCray. One reason why real republicans will not vote for Jackson is that his election would really man the destruction of the republican party in Indiana. It will merely be a small wart on the ku klux klan.
a habitation amongst us. Praises Jewish Race.
son of God was a Jew and Arkansaw.
with God for the Here they are—Kass Kounty Kau-
There is no race drille Klub.
wide world that has |
furnished more splendid examples of j intellect, science, philanthropy, phil-; osophy and patriotism than the Jews. | They are amongst us. What shall we ; do with them? They are truly Am-1 ericans. I
“And the Catholics: Do they pro-, his old klux sheet and passes it over pose to make a scrap of paper of I the city, and he even stops at those the Constitution? Its very bottomest pope ridden Catholic homes, Jewish, rock is based upon religious freedom, j Negro and the foreign born homes The Catholics have furnished a gal-| too. Gee! Aint he good—for nothing? axy of our greatest patriots The late | Harry Forbes, Manager Ice Corndistinguished Chief Justice White ( pany, located in the Old Routh packwas a Catholic. Are you going to ar- | ing house. This fellow used to hang ray class against class and in an un- around Monroe George as long as he
Mrs. Chas. Rothermel, West Side.
Mrs. Banta # Catherine Covault.
Ruby Ross Mrs. Stewart
Maribah Koons.
Goshaw, kluxer advertiser prjnts
Christian spirit ostracise those who by accident of birth or intellectual belief differ from those distinguished patriots and savants who organized the Ku Klux Klan and pocketed the swag? Don’t be deceived or deluded by those pseudo patriots who are sewing dragons’ teeth in your minds and would rend your citizenship bound by the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so that by such discord we may become an easy prey to the imperialism and
cupidity of other nations.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works
Office Of The Board 212 Wysor Block
Muncie, Ind.
Notice of Improvement Resolution. Notice to Property Owners. In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 8th day of Jul>,
1924, to-wit:
I. R. No. 1167-1924, Paving the alley between Walnut Street and Mulberry Street from Fifth Street to Seventh
Street.
I. R. No. 1168-1924, Paving the alley between Walnut Street and Mulberry Street from Thirteenth Street to Fourteenth Street. I. R. No. 1169-1924, Cement sidewalk on north side of Thirteenth Street from High Street to Franklin Street. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvemnt resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawiiigs, plans, profiles and specifications which are
could get favors and now he has gone klucking with the Routh outfit. We just know the anti Klans will freeze
him out.
“I Want to Be Mayor-” H. Blizzard wants to run for mayor
WHITE SUPREMACY AT REED’S STATION Reed’s Station is a small community in Delaware county, seven miles west of Muncie. Like thousands of country hamlets in Indiana and other states, the peace and harmony which always prevailed has been wholly destroyed by the Ku Klux Klan. The religious activities of Reed Station and vicinity center around the Christian New Light church and the membership of the congregation is rent asunder by the injection of klan venom. On a recent Sunday night a children’s entertainment was given at the church and the music was furnished by the King’s Chapel orchestra. Howard Gammon, a respected colored youth residing in the country near King’s chaped, was a talented member of the orchestra and took part in the musical program at the Reed Station church. When the orchestra started up angry murmurs were heard throughout the' congregation, composed largely of kluxers arid sainted Queens of the Yaller Mask. In a house dedicated to God the spirit' of racial bigotry which would even close the portals Heaven to the proscribed of the klan, was made manifest. The presence of the colored youth wdio was exerting his musical talents in a praise service to the Lord was regarded by these bigots as an insult t otheir haughty Caucasian pride. Since that time the quarrel has raged and the breach is widening at Reed Station. Last Sunday night a similar service was held at Cammack, another klan-infested community. The musical program was rendered by the King’s Chapel orchestra. The colored boy did not take part. “White supremacy” was vindicated, but at what a cost to the lad who wanted to do his humble part for the glorification of the Master. Speaking as a layman, and basing our concluthat the devil will have to add about sevgn stories to ^ns on closeup Ohs' 7 ^rd the opinior hell for the accommodation of Christians who ininsist that Heaven was made for them alone.
Please Do Your Coal Shopping Now
C&O SYSTEM
Prudent consumers are buying their fall and winter coal at this time. Coal is cheap today, because the selling price at the mines, in many cases, is below the cost of production. Some mines have shut down, and this means that any change in coal prices is certain to be upward. Ample transportation facilities are available to move your coal now. Before October, the traffic peak will be reached as the big grain and other agricultural movements get under way. Then the railroads will be taxed to the limit of their carrying capacity. * On the heels of the heavy traffic this fall will come winte r with its storms and blizzards. This, naturally, will slow up transportation. People must have fuel; it must move over the railroads sometime during the year. I strongly advise all consumers to take advantage of the present situation to purchase their coal while the price is low and at a season when the railroads can handle the traffic expeditiously. Co-operation on the part of industries and householders in storing their coal this summer will make available thousands of cars in the season of their greatest demand, and will mean a better satisfied public and more efficient railroad operation. W. J. HARAHAN, President, The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
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