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ANTI-KLAN DEMOCRATIC

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

VOLUME 4—NUMBER 27.

MUNCIE, INDIANA7FRIDAY, JULY 1, '1924.

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DELEWARE COUNTY KLAN IN BAD, POLITICALLY

Another Organization To Catch The Boobs Organized By Josephine Shinn, Mrs. Tussing and Attorney Thompson of Toledo, Who Are Now Collecting the Kale.

“ZANESVILLE’S” “Klassie-Klan Kripples” Paul Axeline—Electrical Kontractor. Likes all the women, mostly the diamond king. Fred Smith—511 Linden Ave. Kould not pay his dues, so they kicked him out. Kassel Grocery—So. Zanesville. Thinks of the K.K.’s so much that he spelled (Clary) Klary so the Irishmen quit. C. W. Edger—So. Zanesville. Gasoline station. Burns a lot of juice and hides behind Old Glory. Devald Bros.—Wholesale Meat, East National Pike. Retail meat market is on West Main 154. Of course, has a stand in the city market, hands out all the old beef and quarter to the 100 per cent koo koos. Chas. Lauck—High balls. A pool room in the Claridon Hotel. Now the Hotel is owned and run by Jews. How do they do it ? ? ? Buck Cunningham—Getting his jack from the National Biscuit Co. His head is as soft as the kakes he sells. Paul Shaw—Coppermill road. Said the Knights of the Flaming Sword was no good. Now Paul is a 100 per cent Koo Koo Nut. “Dutchy” Gille—Grocer, Shaum Ave. Made his ten bucks to join this gang of cut throats, selling sauer kraut to the Irish and his dutch friends.

Zanesville, 0., Aug. 1.—This week I am going to give you a few more extracts from Attorney Thompson’s letter to Mrs. Shinn, about the organization of the Council of Protestant Women. In this letter he convicts himself of grafting and intimates that it would be eminently proper for Mrs. Shinn to do likewise. It must be very gratifying to Mrs. Tussing to be mixed up in such an unsavory mess.

However, one cannot handle pitch

without becoming soiled.

Here are the extracts from Thompson’s letter. Read them carefully: “The way the present organization is being run from Little Rock, Ark., is illegal, as it is in conflict with the

laws of the state of Ohio.”

“You have no doubt become tired of reading letters wherein the writer says that they have no selfish motives whatsoever, and that they are donating their services free and gratis; that they have no axe to grind; i that it is only for love of country and

ANDERSON KLAN ARE TOADYING TO THE DEMOCRATS

Pear Wrath of Voters and Want On Band Wagon; The Kamelias.

Anderson,

Ind., Aug. 1.—The

for the organization as the reason for John Cheep Williams-Hon. WilUs their untiring efforts in its behalf; out bunch would like to be in good and no doubt when you have read this standing again with the democratic

you have known down in your heart party. that that was not the truth; so it is

„ .. ,, .. „ j The Hon. Willis S. is saying that

the case with the writer. ” l

“Some several months ago I com- never > no never, had anything to puted what my time was worth, and I do with the gang, but his actions shall expect the Council of Protestant point to a different conclusion.

Women to pay me that price for my j ! His K. K. K. candidate for county : chairman, Joseph Shyster Dickey, who is also the klan appointee for

til we have made a success of it and shown results.- I feel that he who works hard and accomplishes results, is entitled to greater compensation j

county attorney, was

defeated for

county chairman by something like

a three to one vote.

and consideration than one who does j

not do as much.” ' I It is said that when the two demo“I am sure that you will be well i cratic county commissioners want

pleased with the constitution that I am outlining—that is, if you have confidence in me.' If you have not, then we should cease taking up each other’s time in our endeavor to save

this organization.”

‘‘The. Council of Protestant Women has been incorporated under the laws of Ohio, and I believe, Mrs. Shinn, that you are one of the incorporators. The idea was to go on with this ori ganization using it as a holding organization, until the w’rongs com-

plained of by the national

tion were righted.”

“I understand by phone conversation this-morning, that you did not think the women would take to the charter. This can .be discussed

real legal advice they go to a lawyer instead of the county attorney who i

is paid for it.

WE KLAN AND DIVORCE

Dr. John W. Nicely in one of his last Sunday’s sermons deplored the enormous increase in the number of divorce complaints which are being filed in the local courts. He truthfully declared that the per capita ratio of divorces, based on total population of the county, is greater than that of Nevada, where divorces are made so easy that non-residents may secure them, at Reno, on short notice. Dr. Nicely thinks Delaware county ought to be ashamed of itself and is seeking a reason for such a condition. The Ku Klux Klan has been actively at work in Delaware county for over two years and a half and during that period there were more than double the number of divorce complaints filed than for any similar period prior to the entrance of that disturbing feature in the religious, political, social and business life of the community. The klan has been the direct cause of more divorces than all other agencies combined and if Dr. Nicely and the ministerial association had been as active two years and a half ago in combatting that evil as they are now in bewailing the aftermath, one prolific source of domestic infelicity might have been nipped in the bud. The klan, for advertising purposes, and to keep the preachers quiet while the kleagles got their, declared itself to be a patriotic order, standing for the suppression of crime, the advancement of education and the protection of pure womanhood. Thousands of men joined ant? neglected their wives and children. These was some sort of a klan doings every night and the one hundred percent head of the household had an alibi for an all night absence from home. All these defenders of sweet womanhood had to do, after making a night of it with the wild women was to drag wearily in just-before daylight with his nighty and dunce cap under his arm, a ad and remark to protected female virtue, as embodied by the vife by his buzzum, that he had just got back from a klux meeti? a' at Anderson. Later Daisy.Doodle Barr gov -wfe wblMiflBS(i tlie thing. The women saw their chance to get in and the old home life was displaced by one continuous round of night prowling in klaverns, kaves, woods, pastures and secluded thickets. The men protected pure womanhood and the women, not to be outdone, went bravely to the front as the champions of Howard Snyder, Rev. J. Walter Gibson, E. Y. Clarke, Court Asher and the rest of the modest and shrinking he-virgins of the klan. There could be but one result. These people placed klangraft above the holy ordinance of marriage with the inevitable result. The klan blackens, rots and corrodes everything it touches. Instead of protecting virtue it exposes it to the danger of destruction. Its national and local leaders have been exposed, time and again, in their immorality and crimes against the state. E. Y. Clarke, former imperial wizard, is a convicted white slaver. Elizabeth Tyler kept a bawdy house in Atlanta. “Old Man” Stephenson was arrested in a drunken mixup in a Columbus hotel, after trying to assault a woman manicurist. We could tell of a hundred instances in Muncie where klansmen and klanswomen have figured in the courts, but have mercifully suppressed mention of most of them. Is there any particular reason why Delaware county should not hold the pennant as the prize spot in America for divorces? The community that tolerates the abominable Ku Klux Klan in its midst is cursed of god. Marriage and mummery do not go together. Love of the Lord Jesus Christ and hatred of your fellow man cannot abide in the same breast at the same time. The ministerial association of Muncie has been tried in the balances and found wanting. In a time of great stress there was was one meniber who dared to stand up and show his colors. A heavy load of responsibility rests upon those who cowered in voiceless and craven fear at a time when the enemy could have been driven from the threshhold.

The protestations of Ellis and his political cronies mean nothing, since it is known that a move is on to organize the democrat klux of Madison county for Ed Jackson. Democrats should quit their pussyfooting. Look what happened to Sam Ralston.

Erwin A Klan Fighter With a Real Record

It is reported that the Kamelia i vote will be looked after by a comi mittee of three consisting of the fol-

orgamza-1 . , i lowing named women

j‘‘Monk” Arnold, Sister Ell Castelen ! and Sister Mrs. Pleasant Reed, the | latter being the wife of the favorite | klan bootlegger and ex-prize fighter an , of Anderson.’’ We are rather’pained |

decided at our ipeeting here on S U n-, to include S j ster En in the klan po . |

day.” i

“We want all of the

Georgia Editor Has Long Opposed the Secret Order In His Own State.

jlitical lineup. We have never

Kleagles that; caught her at a meeting, but her

are right here at that time, so that we | conv ersation indicates that she is can outline this proposition and put 'one of the head gazaborinos of the

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Andrew C. Erwin, the Georgia del-

Sister Mrs ; egate ’ vvho was the ob i ect °f a dem-

onstration at the Democratic convention after his appeal for a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan by name in the platform, made the follpwing

statement:

. : *i . I * i • •*> “It is my idea that the Ku Klux Klan constitutes the most , serious menace in America today. We cannot temporize with it and we cannot beat it in secrecy and by intrigue. (Continued to Page Four.)

Johnny Shea Fired from Kansas “U”; He Blames K.K.K.

Lawrence, Kan.,—Politics and the Ku Klux Klan have seeped into the campus of the University of Kansas and have removed one of the institution’s most picturesque figures—John Shea, superintendent of buildings.

Methodist Bishop Scores Ku Klux

Bishop E. L. Waldorf of the Kansas city area of the Methodist church, scored the Ku Klux Klan in a feature sermon, last Sunday, at the Melhodist church camp meeting at Des Plaines,

m.

“Black, white, yellow and brown if they want to live in heaven, must

Shea ,an ardent Catholic, has been |d earn d rs t how td live on earth, discharged. He explained Wednesday:' Bishop Waldorf said. ■- The Ku Klux that “Governor Davis told me h em-1 Klan ,as a fomented of religious strife barrassed him politically,’ and' ^ e ., among Americans# has no place in dared the Ku Klux Klan was behind ; tbis coan try. ... the dismissal I B isb °P Waldorf’s area is composed

of the Texas, Louisiana, Oklahotna

Trying to Make Deal With Candidates To Control Offices Both the Republican and Democrats Have Turned Down Propositions; Billy Williams Machine Is Wobbling. Billy Pierce, democratic candidate for commissioner, opposing John McCreery, the Republiklux candidate, and John Humphreys of Yorktown, democratic candidate for sheriff, have both been approached by emissaries of the klan and solicited to become members of the fast fading outfit. Playing the old game that was tried two years ago, and which led two or three democratic candidates to join, with the expectation of securing klan support, the klan crooks are merely trying to involve the democratic party here in the same kind of a mess that it got into in the last election. Neither John Humphreys the democratic candidate for sheriff, nor Harry McAuley, the republican candidate, are members of the Ku Klux Klan, so the Koo Koos are in bad shape. • • . . . U The Billy William Ku Klux republican machine finds jitself in hard lines. Without a sheriff to help frame up ! juries and pull off other dirty work for the outfit, it will prove hard sledding for the gang no matter which man is elected, so insidious efforts are being made to “soap in” with both of them. John Readle, a deputy in the office of Sheriff Hoffman, and a third degree klansman, was the Williams “slate” in the primary, but he was defeated in the hottest primary ever pulled off in Delaware county. The majority of the republicans here have revolted against the klan and as only a small percentage of the democrats of the county are klansmen, the sheeted brethren are up in the air on the sheriff question. The Billy Williams crowd has declared war against Harry McAuley and threatens to fight him with poison gas unless he makes terms. The proposal has been made to him that the republican machine will support him provided he will permit the klan to name his deputies. McAuley is said to have told the klan emissary to go to hell, or some other seaport. In his primary' campaign McAuley! made an affidavit that he did not belong to the klan and was outspoken in his opposition to the organization. John Humphreys, the democratic candidate has openly declared his opposition to the klan, so there you are. The klan is up against it unless it succeeds in making a private deal with one of the two candidates, which seems to be a very remote possibility. When the campaign gets under way every candidate on both tickets will be required, of course, to make his position clear, from governor down to the minor offices.

Will Governor Remove Ku Klux Mayor?

THE DIGEST “Katching-Kooties-Kamp” Joe VermilUofi—-He’s the Kounty Recorder. Keeps track of the membership ? ? Mrs. Grace Hedrick—225 N. Gay St. Klucking with the women. F. Parmalee—Known as Black and Tan Chief of Eng. Kreus. The only time a smile Komes across . is when Nutty and his gang burn a Kross. Bob Williams—A long bird with the ice business. Harry Bone—Who a think Bone Harry, would spend a $10 spot.. Billy Beal—Fireman B. & O.. A dry detective on one side and split Koo Koo on the other. Arthur Vanatta—Big mouth Koo Koo—Moulder.. Ray Metcalf—100 per cent nu~s. Moulder. . U. S. Johnson—Crippdel in the bean. Works for the B. and O and takes his wife on all shimmy excursions. , George Garlinghouse. , Chap. Boyer. Riley Bakery—All Koo Koo. r , Arcade Market—All Koo Koo.

Chancellor Lindley left for Colora-

do without making known the “cnarg- an< ^ other southwestern states where es ’’against the veteran of the camp- the Klan influence is supposed to be (Continued to Rage Four) tne strongest.

By-R. O. Osevelt. ' ‘ ' * •• Newark, O., Aug. 1.—Windy Stevens’ summary removal of Service Director Charles Taylor has led to disclosures which have prompted Governor Donahey to start (Continued to Page 3 )