Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 31 October 1924 — Page 3
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1924
THE POST-DEMOCRAT.
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Newark Mayor Puts On Show In Columbus In Such Haste To Reach Klan Meeting, Violates AH Speed Regulations, But Saves His Whisky.
burglars who have been operating in Newark for weeks, nor the murderer of Dennis Beatty, who was killed within 200 feet of the police station.
THE DIGEST Klassy—Kolicky—Komeons. Mr. and Mrs. Fiefield, Cedar Street. Sells insurance. Mrs. Browning, Cedar street. Very talkative. Husband a foreigner and can’t belong. Wilbur Gault, grocer and dealer in lemon extract. Lulu Schwartz, sorry she joined. Lawrence Klein, toots horn in Koo parade. Blaine Carr, B. & O. Watch your foot. Earl Rarick, better known as Chick Hunter. Fred Chapman, Rosebud Avenue. Full of gab.
(By R. 0. Osevelt.)
Newark, 0., Oct. 20.—On the night of Monday, Sept. 29, in the city of Columbus, a Studebaker car went roar-
ing down L -st State street at about 50 miles an hour and ! cleveland attorne y s s et 25 P er cent >
at the inte ection of Sbrth.street plowed into the ambu-1 "T
“WINDY” STEVENS BREAKS OUT IN NEW PLACE “Windy” Stevens, our versatile occasional mayor, has taken a new burden upon his overtaxed shoulders. He has promised to teach the Bertillion finger print system to the police department. Just when “Windy” became a master of this science has not been given out. Possibly it was during the war period, when he was supposed to be studying theology, in which case it did not cost him anything, as he has so far failed to pay for his tuition, etc. The main question, however, is, when will he find time to teach? His time is so occupied with klan matters that he has no time to give to his regular duties as mayor. In f?ct, if be were paid for the actual time devoted to his duties as mayor, he would not draw enough to buy gasoline for H. I. Holmes’ car.
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STEVENS' LEGAL VICTORY A
NET LOSS
Mrs. Henry Gartner, acting on the r ''vice of “Windy” Stevens, settled ter case against the B. & O. R. R. for $17,000. Of this amount the
lance of the Egan Undertaking Co.
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-John Sherman
For state Senator-
Edwards.
For Representative—Lucy Cornell. For Sheriff—Fred Vogelmeier.
The Studebaker car was driven by the owner, a public accountant named Currie, of Indianapolis. The passengers were W- H. N. Stevens, K. K. K. mayor of Newark, an dthree oth- p 0 r er Klansmen, all bound for a klucker For meeting at the Seneca Hotel. The son.
baggage consisted of a large quan- For tity of whisky, also destined for the. For Klan meeting, on the third floor of For
the Seneca Hotel.
The Studebaker was going so fast when it hit the ambulance that it
drove the latter car to the curb, tion, but if you broke a rear wheel off, knocked down him, the rebuke
a fire alarm standard and fire plug, enough for him to decide to quit the
then imbedded a tree in the ambu- klan.
lance that that the tree appeared to On the judicial ticket you will find be growing in the center of the am- Eugene Moore as candidate for probulance. bate judge/ He is a klansman. Vote WRen Mr. Ryan, driver of the am- for Harvey Alexander, present probulance learned the identity of the hate judge, who has demonstrated speeders, he at once secured a law- that he-possesses rare qualifications
yer and a photographer, in order that f or the position.
he might have incontroveritible evi- For Common pleasi ju|dge, C. N. dence as to the cause of the crash. Moore has (no opposition. While
eat up half of the award, or $8,500. This leaves $8,500 for Stevens to handle as guardian of the Gartner children. Now here is the other side of the
Clerk of Court—Guy Chilcote.
Treasurer—Wm. Nelson PierRecorder—Carey McMillen. Coroner—S. S. Richards. Commissioner—A. B. Crawford and Rees R. Jones. ’
Henry Ashcraft, candidate for prosecuting attorney, has no opposi
refuse to
may penetrate far
After the photographs were taken, Moore may not be an active klans-! water? .
| picture:
The B. & O. Company offered Mrs. Gartner $150 per month for 19 years, or during the minority of her youngest child. This sum would have amounted in the 19 years to
$32,400.
However, this offer of the company would not allow Stevens to get
vote for a fat fee ’ 80 P ersuadecl Mrs -
1 Gartner to go to court, and settled the case for just half what the company offered, and Mrs. Gartner
got half of that.
Think it over, you folks who are hesitating whether or not to vote
for klansmen.
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NEWARK NOTES
Wonder why Howard Beeney doesn’t use a fiery cross to advertise his fire sale and—who said fire
Mr. Ryan and his lawyer went to ma n, there is little room for doubt the Seneca Hotel to interview Currie that he is in sympathy with them, and Stevens. Currie at the outset qq not vote for him. After the elecblustered a good bit, after the regu- tion, he may decide that (splitting lar style of the kluckers, but when hairs is not profitable, told that photos had been taken of on the state ticket I know that Vic
the scene of the crash, he subsided. Occasional Mayor Cyclops Stevens then told Mr- Ryan he would be responsible for the damage, but as MrRyan is well acquainted with “Windy’s” reputation for mendacity, as •well as for not paying anything he can escape paying, he at .once instruced his attorney to start suit for $2,500 damages, which has been done. Fine business \for the mayor of Newark. Speeding Stevens is the man who appointed H. I. Holmes, who appointr ed Swank, who takes such keen delight in arresting motorists for slight offenses, and in murdering harmless dogs. By the way, an eye-witness of the wreck told me that “Windy” Stevens, the “holier-than-thou,” had personal charge of the booze.
Donahey is not a klansman. | frankly confess that I do not know about
Harry Davis. In any event he has not . „ piven out auy information as to where burglar,es? Are they
‘ afraid they will catch the crooks?
Is the fact that Dennis Beatty was active in his opposition to the klan, any reason why no effort should be made to apprehend his
murderers?
Charley Harris says his job is good until after the election. Why do they send Murray to in-
MURDER, BURGLARY, GAMBLING,
UNPUNISHED.
The city of Newark has been given a surfeit of crime while H. IHolmes has been Safety Director in full charge of the police department. * Burglaries have become so numerous that they attract only passing attention. A common morning greeting is, ‘Were you burgled last night? Gambling and bootlegging is prospering as never before. Murder has reared its ugly head, and apparently no effort is being made to clear up the mystery—or is
it a mystery?
And every day the police gun squad goes merrily on, murdering harmless dogs. Of course the dogs can’t pay $10 for a klan kravenette, but aft that they are better citizens than a lot of klansmen I could name. And H. I. Holmes, candidate for sheriff, is directly responsible for this state of affairs.
he stands.
The rest of the Democratic State ticket is safe. Any good citizen can vote for the men on it. Harry Day, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, is ci edited with being opposed to the klan. Thad Brown, Republican candidate for Secretary of State, is an enthusisstic klansman, as are the rest of the candidates on the Republican State ticket.
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MARTIN MIXLV STILL FUNCTIONING The state examiner who is working on th^ books of 'City Auditor Charles Martin, who is a candidate for clerk of courts, says he doesn't know when he will get through. “Worst set of books I ever saw,” he told me. “It is impossible to make head or tail of them. I wish they would relieve me as I know I have aged ten years in the last few
months.”
If you DON’T want this condition in the office of the clerk of courts, vote for .Guy Chilcote.
USES HANDCUFFS ON BOYS AT FOOTBALL GAME An inspiring sight was witnessed at the football game here between Newark and Coshocton on Oct. 18. Two small boys whose finances, or lack of them, would, not permit them to buy tickets, crashed the
back fence.
• But the “eagle eye” of Sir Knight Wm. Burton, one of H. I. Holmes fearless policemen, saw the des perate deed, and gun in hand, halt ed the urchins. Snapping the hand
th" same condi,Ton 'wIlTTbUmTTThe desperate criminals
county.
Effect Fred Vogelmeier and keep Licking county clean.
SAVE LICKING COUNTY FROM
KLUCKER GRAFTERS
For the benefit of those who did not see last week’s Post-Democrat, I
*m reprinting the good
ticket this week.
For Congress—Wm. Morgan.
the brave Klucker policeman es corted them down past the grand stand, where the spectators, spellbound by the thrilling sight, sat in silent admiration of his vigilance
and courage.
This brave act shows what H. I. Holmes’ police force is capable of
citizenship accomplishing when it really wants
to get somewhere.
But—it' can’t catch any of the
ed by a legally called grand jury of blowing up half of Montpelier. We taxpayers and citizens want to know why you take everything a certain Italian agitator hands out in preference to the word of duly constituted authorities. Answer some of these questions and tell us why instead of trying to discredit your court and local officials you don’t just once throw your influence to the decent and respectable elements of your community and let Montpelier keep her factor-
ies.”
Regardless of politics the best citizenship of Blackford county is working for the success of Emshwiller and | the defeat of Simmons, whose calibre | is shown by the character of the i campaign literature sponsored by
' him.
| The citizens of the county are es- ! pecially indignant at Simmons’ branding honest Montpelier workmen, most I of whom are home owners and life1 long residents of Montpelier, as “a | crowd of hoodlums.” Simmons is playing for the scab / | vote, but what else could be expected i of a fellow who was converted by Greasy King. o
county the name of Hines, only, appears. It is a felony, punishable with imprisonment in state’s piison, for a county officer to participate, either, directly or indirectly, in any county contract where money is involved. Mr. Hoffman is a prudent man, who carefully avoids the embarrassment of making his connection with Mr. j Hines public. Being the sheriff it is j his duty to lock criminals behind the j bars. It is much more pleasant to be | on the outside looking in. He does not ; want the public to know that he is vio lating the law himself, yet it is known I
and can easily be proved, that he has j Ra y Gibbons, the Republican Couna business connection with Mr. Hines | ty 'Chairman, seems to be the only
A Bum s Gathering Of Madison-Co. Politicians
Lucky Ray Gibbons Is Now Sustained State Pap; Carl Morris and Lewis Kimmerling In Michigan City Prison Looking Out; Speckle Neck Chas. Poindexter, The Political Chameleon Slips Up; Interesting Accounts Of Many Others Of The Political Zoo, Who Furnish
Amusement For a Weary Populace.
“MA” FERGUSON TO BAR KLANSMEN FROM ALL OFFICES
Nominee For Governor In Texas, Says She’ll Fight To End K.K.K. Order.
who draws many thousands of dollars from the county treasury each year. This week one well known farmer told the Post-Democrat that the lifting of gravel on his farm was superintended by Hoffman, who made the deal with him and looked after the work. He said he made his contract with Hoffman and Hines. The contract on file in the auditor’s office mentions only the name of Hines.
They Changed the Map
An aeronaut, flying over Delaware county, might well be excused if he made the mistake that he was flitting over the Rockies, instead of peaceful Hoosierdom. Harshman and Hoffman, bent on getting while the getting is
lucky one in the organization. Ray is on the State Payroll at $3,000 per year. He has been spending the last ten weeks in Madison County, trying to perfect an organization for the Dauiels-Morris-Sells-Poindexter-Audredg -Yestal gang. K::/ s pay check ccmes regularly from the State —all the, tax payers have to do is grin and bear it. Of cours Ray’s stipend will stop on the first of January for the simple reason that the people on Nov. 4th, will side track this gang. Charles Sells, who is a brother of Earl Sells, a candidate for Count} Coroner, and also a brother of Clayie, who served as Coroner for four years, is offering to bet from one dollar to a
good, have changed the map of the j thousand dollars that his brother, county. Earl, will be elected. Of course, we Great heaps of gravel stand out in don’t know whether Charles has this bold relief, monuments to the indus- | money, and if he has whether it beuy of these busy little separators. | longs to him or not, but we are quite
sure some people in this town who
Austin, Tex.—No members of the Ku Klux Klan will be appointed to posts at the Texas 'State Capitol, nor will present officehoders in positions
There is now enough gravel standing (n these heaps to repair the roads for many years, and it must be remembered that all this gravel and all J ihese many thousands of dollars spent are for the repair and not the
I construction of new roads.
One of the Hines-Hoffman contracts
was for the lifting
are more or less friendly with Charley in a financial way when he passed through bankruptcy, will be glad | to learn of his prosperity, for they j feel it is possible that a settlement | day with them may be on its way. j While we are on this Sells brothers
of ten thousand j subject we might mention the fact
«n j v. - . . ^ , yards ’of gravel, “more or less,” on > that Earl the above
filled by appointment be permuted to: tlle Aretas Rcese (arl „ on Burllngton Lar1 ’ the : remain if their affihatlon with the Atter Hoffman got the lifter
i secret order are known to her, Mrs.
Is it true that Holmes’ man, Swank, figures on building another apartment house with the money he gets for murdering dogs? Wonder if Bill Toulson still distributes his weekly pay all over his clothes every Saturday night‘c That’s the system he used to use to keep the money from his wife, who kept the wrinkles out of Bill’s belly by daily sessions at the wash tub. o HI HOLMES, JAW BREAKER, BUT WEARS NO MEDALS Safety Director Hi Holmes is not running for sheriff on his Hanover record. Hi lived there some time back and he established a reputation by coming home one night and hitting his wife on the jaw, knocking her over onto a red hot stove, according to statements coming from Hanover. She hears the mark to this day. After winning this great battik Hi lived apart from his wife for some time but after he was given the alternative of living with his legal wife or being separated from the B. & O. payroll, he joined the famil} circle again.
j Miriam A. Ferguson of Temple, Dem1 oc'ratic nominee for Governor, is quot- | ed as saying in a copyrighted article | which appeared in a morning issue of
the Austin American,
j “I’ll not let a single Capitol employe ; whom I know to be a member of the ! Ku Klux Klan remain in office,” the nominee is quoted as saying in an interview obtained from her at her
^ home in Temple.
| Mrs. Ferguson plans to continue ! her campaign against the Ku Klux ; Klan and what she terms as secret d’omination of Texas politics by a i hooded order, according to H^yCapital IT ! city newspaper. She plans-^to have t \ carried into effect, the Austin Amerij can interview states, the plank of her ; campaign platform in which she spei cifically condemns the Ku Klux Klan : and proposes legislation against ; | masking, against masked assembly | and for compulsory registration of 1 membership in secret orders, for pub- j lie inspection, at the County Clerk’s
office in each county.
' Her intentions in regard to klan ( legislation she made known, accord- j ing to the Austin American, by refer- • ring her interviewer to a published copy of her campaign platform. She added that upon her election she • j plans to exert her influence as Gover- ' nor for the adoption -of this legisla-
tion
In England a drug store is called a chSKiist’s strop. The Matterhorn, one of the most difficult climbs in the world, has an average incline of 30 degrees. Nearly one-third of the water power of the United States is in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. SHERIFFHARRY (Continued from Page One)
SUMYDOPE (Continued from Page One) their attempt to belittle the present court by taking changes of judge in order to advance their own falling stock—even in cases where there is no issue to try, The old rotten gang w’ho back everything filthy in the county from automobile thievery to safe cracking cannot dictate the policy of the court. We now have honest juries to convict in criminal trial where there is sufficient evidence. “Our present judge is not a catholic—he is an out and out Protestant and believes that a Protestant minister can perform a legal marriage ceremony and that the children born of that marriage are legitimate and not bastards. “We taxpayers and property holders want to know why you print propaganda for a crowd of hoodlums accus-
ity is declared to be a mixed deposit of hard pan and boulders, intermixed with a much lesser percentage of
gravel of very poor quality.
Frank Whitney is a brother-in-law •of Sherm Shroyer, county poor farm superintendent. Shroyer' is a cousin and a serveling of Postmaster Billie Williams, the fixer of the republican machine. Shroyer is the man who resigned as county commissioner when Congressman Vestal went to Selma, to get a postmaster for Muncie. John W. Truitt was appointed commissioner in Shroyer’s place and Truitt was the prospector who discovered gravel
on the Whitney farm. Enter Harry Hoffman
Question Number Two, seeking light as to the identity of 'Claude
Hines, is easily answered.
Hines is the business partner of Sheriff Harry Hoffman, republican county chairman, who is urging the re-election of Truitt, Jackson and McCreery, who have aided him so mater-
ially in a financial way.
Hoffman and Hines have a number of profitable road contracts in Delaware county and In other counties. In Randolph county the contracts are in the name of the firm. In Delaware
started on the Reese farm, it seems that he couldn’t stop the darned
thing.
Instead of stopping at 10,000 yards they kept the wheels turning until seventeen thousand yards were piled up. The county paid the HoffmanHines combine $11,930 for piling up
this gravel.
A farmer living in that neighborhood told the Post-Democrat, Wednesday, that at the rate the county has been using the Reese gravel for the past year, it will take six or seven years to exhaust those two huge
piles.
L. AncL Why the Whitney? And that brings us to another ques-
tion. The Whitney farm lies very close to the Reese farm. Probably a half mile separates the two gravel quarries. The Reese pit is close to the j Builington pike, where the gravel may be easily hauled away. The ! Whitney joke is in the center of a section of land, almost inaccessible.
Why the necessity of opening a
new pit so close to the huge piles of gravel that had been extracted by the Hoffman-Hines combine? If ,as farmers in that locality say, the Reese gravel will last for years, what was the sense of scraping the barren knob on the Whitney farm and paying Harshman fifty five r hundred dol-
lars for the job?
And why in the name of sense, if the commissioners were on the square, was the Hoffman-Hines outfit allowed to pile up gravel on the Reese farm that will not be used up for six years, paying the contractors sixty nine cents a yard for lifting it, the money being handed to them immediately after the completion of the work? Think these things over before you vote to return McCreery, Truitt and Jackson to office. A Few More Figures Following is a table of gravel road repair expenditures for the past eleven years. Note the steadily rising tide of extravangance beginning with the year 1918, when the Billy Williams machine grabbed control of the reins of county government: 1914 $ 24,752.21 1915 $ 27,133.54 1916 $ 34.157.81 1917 $ 38,766.82 1918 $ 62,844.06 1919 $ 80.861.37 1920 ...... $ 69.585.90 1921 $ 80,719.37 1922 ' $116,794.07 1923 $114,660.75 1924 (3 month yr*- to " 64.158.98 Just th fik o'- it! T n 1 be years 1914, 1915, 191G and 1917, the total road repair experditurop f ho four vears by democratic commissioners amounted to $124,810.38. The expenditures authorized by Truitt. Jackson and McCreery from January 1, 1924 to October 1, 1924, a period of nine months, is forty thousand dollars more than a democratic board of commissioners spent in four years. If the average is kept up the balance of the year the expense this year will be close to $220,000, which is more than one hundred thousand dollars greater than it was last year,
candidate men-
tioned, served four years as County Coroner, shortly after his brother Clayte’s term expired. Some one of the Sells family has been a candidate before the people for the past tv/enty-five years—they are as good as the Morris family along this line. Now Mr. Voter, don’t you think it is about time to sop, look and listen, and get rid of this bunch of political
blood-suckers?
Carl Morrow, the self-constituted boss, and Lewis Kimmerling, the erstwhile candidate for Superior Judge and political associate of Forest Agnew, who is now sojourning in Michigan City, Indiana, inside looking out, knowing that theff- ticket is defeated —* are going up/ancFdown the streets saying that someone in all
s-pki
that someone
probability, will land fn the peniten-
has a good supply of Cuban beer on hand. This is not a new tip to Artie Daniels, our Sheriff, for we are sure he has known this ever since he has been in office, but Poindexter being a brother Klan, slips through, while poor old Justin Shaul, a down and outer, is picked up every few days on information furnished by one, George Poor, who sold Artie’s brother Frank, who is Deputy Sheriff, a stolen car. George Poor frequently drops into the jail residence to call on his good fiiend the Sheriff, and on numerous occasions along with Mode Dudley, Sheriff Daniel’s bootlegger Deputy Sheriff, have spent some pleasant moments with Artie and also have been invited to dine with our good Sheriff. John “Can’t Be Straight to His Friends” Williams has the distress signal, the Fiery Cross, burning on top of a building every night for the past few weeks instead of Friday nights, the regular meeting time. He is imploring the four hundred followers, to which the Klan has dwindled in this county, for help, and some of the poor dupes are still paying in, however, most of them have finally tumbled to the fact that they were played for a bunch of suckers and have dropped out. We do not know who will pay John’s coal bills this win ter for as soon as this election is over the Klan will be a thing of the past in this County. John now has more than he has ever had in his life before— he has a Ford and John used to draw a good salary, but he double crossed every friend he had and now poor John is all but upon his uppers. We are not going to say anything more about Earl Morris, the contix ually running candidate for Count . Treasurer, except to say . that hai the story has not been told. W’e wil now leave him to the tender mercy \ the voters, whom we rare quite su will by their ballots retire Earl k private life. The Reverend John ABdreri seems to have gotten the habit
running for State Senator. We ar
tiary for election fraujL We will give j not S° in S to say anything more abou you one guess whom you think will j John > because everybody else in thi finally get tht ride. Carl and Lew are : Count y is talking about him, and oul fine fellows to talk about anyone; a | haodesty forbids that we should reshort ime ago, Carl was employed by : peat what the most of them are saj
an unfortunate fellow ,who was ar- j ing -
rested on a simple case of assault j Gl u e Hog Caleb Williams is think and battery. Carl wired the young 1 changing his name. He was re man’s friends at Akron, Ohio, for $500 ' cen tly the purchaser of a Mexican as a bond when in this kind of case a I locking bird which turned out to be $25 bond would have been ample. The i a sparrow-hawk, and from now on he young man, whom Carl defended, was ; wil * be known as the Nightingale of
advised by this distinguished attorney, to plead guilty, which he did, and was fined $5 and costs, and the young man said that Carl kept the $500 which was supposed to be for bond, as his fee. The young fellow, of course, had no recourse for Carl is not worth a thin dime. Carl is a handsome fellow in his own eyes and struts around the streets like ready cash, but he still owes some of his office help their salary. Louis, Carl’s compatriot, has been invited into court on several occasions by the Sheriff upon request of the Judge. Lou, like Carl, seems to forget that there is a settlement day. Speckle-neck Charley Poindexter, who is running for his third term, has been a candidate on a Democratic, Bull-Moose and Republican ticket for the past sixteen years. Just as a reminder, we want our friends to remember that Charley slipped off of a little bunch of hay, alighting on his head and sprained his ankles. We do not know whether Charley claims the Cuban President as his personal friend or not, but it is iinderstood on goOfi authority that Charley usually
Fall Creek Township.
James Windy Larmore and hia good close friend Augustus T. Dye, are going in and out of the dry beer saloons and cigar stores talking for their esteemed friend Ed Jackson, and incidently making a few five and ten dollar bets that their friend will be elected. We do not know the name of the betting syndicate who is furnishing Gus and Jim the money for these bets, but their supposed conservatism would hardly permit them to risk
very many bets like this.
NOTES Referring to Lew Kimmerling once more, he seems to fie quite a lucky fellow. He claims that he found on the street some sealed ballots with Uncle Sam’s postage stamps attached thereto. Your Uncle Sam don't believe these kind of stories and we will rot be surprised if Le-vis isn't called upon the carpet to tell the real facts. The ten ($10.00) dollar < ne hundred (100) per cent American brand of Citizen is due for a good beating at the polls on Tuesday next.
and almost twice as much as the democratic commissioners spent for the same purpose during the four year period from 1914 to 1918. The writer was in Portland, Wednesday and called at the auditor’s office to inquire what it cost Jay county this year to repair the roads. The total expense up to October 1, was $62,000, more than a hundred thousand dollars less than the amount squandered in Delaware county, and the two counties are practically the same size and • with about the same road mileage. Helvie the Figurehead Owen Helvie, the highway superintendent, is a mere joke—a willing tool of the Billie Williams machine, who is allowed to fill the job while
such crooks as Kerry Mott and othe.s are getting by with the fine work. Helvie had absolutely ~r> qualification for the job, except th : he is reauy to take orders from tl'e boss and execute them without cu Rion. He was told to make estlmases on the gravel lying in the ground on the Whitney hill and he did so without the quiver of an eyelash. The gang needed the money and Helvie performed the miracle of telling them how much gravel lay concealed in the bowels of the earth. Of course everybody knows that prosecutions should be in order. Edgar Call, the democratic candidate for prosecutor, has promised to look after the job. Elect him and the deni' ocratic candidates for commissioner*.