Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 July 1925 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT. A democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware Co.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3 ,1879.

Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a Year.

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Muncie, Indiana, Wednesday, July 8, 1925.

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET. FOR MAYOR—R. Milton Retherford. FOR CITY CLERK—Fred Kennedy. FOR CITY JUDGE—Ward Marshall. COUNCILMEN-AT-LARGE — Newton Campbell, Harry Brammer, Frank Lang and Chester Gilbert. FIRST WARD COUNCILMAN—Samuel Snell. SECOND WARD COUNCILMAN—William Rench. THIRD WARD COUNCILMAN—E. B. Winder. FOURTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Samuel Hite. FIFTH WARD COUNCILMAN Fraifk Russell SIXTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Leo Fell. SEVENTH WARD COUNCILMAN—James Leitch. EIGHTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Joe Dangler. NINTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Clifford B. Smith.

to their conviction as the fruits of the gang’s virtuous and relentless pursuit of the evil doer. At that they will hardly get back in time to do Hampton any good in the fall election. Graves was Hampton’s' main lieutenant in the “redlight” on primary day. He was caught hauling colored “repeaters” to the polls and arrested for it. The gang hasn’t fooled anybody. It took them three years to find out that Graves and Berry were the most open and notorious bootleggers in Muncie. Their presence in Muncie during the campaign would prove embarrassing to Hampton. With Hugh and Bob in the penitentiary, Hampton, Ogle and Hoffman will be compelled to hold their campaign booze parties elsewhere.

RAPID FIRE. The ku klux klan as a fraternal organization fraternalized several hundred members of the local Carpenters’ union out of their standing in organized labor last week, when the kluxer members of the union, because they could not rule the carpenters, quit the organization. The insurgents formed an association of their own, but will not be able to secure the recognition of the American Federation of Labor, so consequently, because of their allegience to an invisible empire, they must now fight against that which for years they have all fought for—the rights of the working man. Nor does the tragedy stop here. According to reliable information, the Allied Contractors of Denver are lining up with the union in the fight, which means that except in a few cases, the members of the klan organization will not be able to secure work. And these few cases will be all too few to care for the insurgents. Not only that, but they will not be able to get backdnto the union.—Denver Register.

THE DOUBLE DOUBLE. Democratic City Chairman Alfred Davis, recognizing merit where other democrats fail to see it, insists upon forcing political honors and emoluments upon members of the Obadiah Kilgore family. Alfred’s most recent exploit was the appointment of Obie’s wife as one of the two members of the registration board which sits from September 1 to October 1. If Davis starts in this early slapping the real friends of Milt Retherford in the face how can be expect any enthusiastic co-operation on the part of the slapees. It lootfs like Davis is doing everything in his power to alienate enough real democrats to cause the defeat of Retherford and the election of John Hampton. Obe Kilgore, whose wife was thus honored by Davis, i's one of the republican gang that went to New Castle and got a beautiful legal licking when they tried to ruin the Post-Democrat’s standing as a democratic newspaper. He and his wife are both kluxers and the fact that Kilgore joined with the Billy Williams gang in its attempt to destrop the Post-Democrat ought to be enough to condemn Davis for appointing Kilgore’s wife to an important place on the registration board. The two women appointed to the registration positions are Mrs. Kilgore and Miss Dora Meehan, both members of the democratic committee who voted for Davis for chairman and were both for Retherford and opposed to Cliff Cranor in the primary. If Davis is really sincere in his professed determination to unite all elements of the democratic party in Muncie he would have selected one Retherford supporter and one Cranor supporter for the jobs. While all true Democrats are doing all in their power to iron out difficulties occasioned by the pre-primary contest, the man who holds the important position of chair- " man is losing no opportunities to foment a feud within the party which gravely imperils success at the polls next November.

METHODIST PAPER HITS KLAN.

SCORNING CHRIS. We fear that the local Ku Klux Klavern in Richmond, Va., is guilty of bad judgment. This klavern has set out to prevent the city accepting a statute of Christopher Columbus as a gift from the Italian Society. The ground for objecting is that Christopher was a Catholic! w e think the Richmond klavern has taken the wrong \ course. After all, it seems that Columbus did discover America and the erection of a monument to his memory should not be opposed. What the members of the klavern should do is this: They should show their disapproval, not of Columbus, but of a continent that would allow itself to be discovered by a Catholic. They should move away. They should pull out and leave this country flat. They never will be able to reform Richmond completely, anyhow. We are reliably informed that there are a large number of churches in that benighted city erected to the memory of a Jew—Jesus Christ.—Birmingham Post. WEAK KNEED BROTHER. The Ku Klux Klan is holding meetings in this village - all week. We have been in the newspaper game long enough to know that in matters of this kind it is best for us to make no comments on meetings of this kind. Some people approve of these meetings, some do not and some are indifferent. As this organization has a secret membership, there is no way of finding out who belongs to it and who does not, except those who belong to it and do not care who knows it. As is usually the case under these circumstances, people will be suspected of being in the klan who are not and perhaps have not even given it a thought. To avoid local controversy through the medium of the press, this paper does not and will not accept advertising or communications either for or against the klan.—Rib Lake (Wis.) Herald.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1925. ==^■3 '''I' 1 I

Revelations!

Bennett, an Indiana state policeman, who testified in the Court Asher case that he resigned in 1923 as lieutenant of police in the city of Columbus, Ohio, to take a position as investigator for the klan, asserted on the witness stand last Wednesday that he met Asher in national klan headquarters in Columbus on June 30, 1923. One Schrader, who admitted he had been in the employe of D. C. Stephenson, testified that he also met Asher at the same time and place. Schrader swore that at that time he was assistant to the chief of the national klan “investigation” department and that he was also a subordinate of D. C. Stephenson, who had direct charge of the national secret investigation department of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Schrader stated that on that occasion he summoned Asher, along with all other klan secret service men of the middle west to come to Columbus to make arrangements for all the “investigators” to go to Kokomo, to supervise the big klan parade and demonstration which took place there July 4, 1923. Early in June of the same year, the klan held a monster demonstration at the fair grounds in Muncie which was followed by a parade of masked klansmen and klanswomen over the streets of the city. Court Asher was in the parade, part of the time with his mask raised and his features exposed. Unmasked strangers, of rough exterior and thug-like appearance, who were scattered along the line of march, assaulted spectators, knocking their hats off and in several instances, notably that of John O’Neill, inflicting serious injury upon those who refused to remove their hats and humble themselves at the feet of the grand dragon, D. C. Stephenson. Undoubtedly these thugs, who were given protection by Sheriff Hoffman and Chief of Police Van Benbow, were the men employed by the grand dragon as secret investigators. It is also safe to assume that, in preparation of that event, all of the klan’s “secret investigators of the middle west” had been previously called in to national “propagation” headquarters at Columbus and given their instructions. One of these bums, acting no doubt under specific orders, attacked the editor of the PostDemocrat. The assault was witnessed by Policeman Arthur Jones, who is still disgracing the officer’s uniform he is allowed to wear. Jones refused to arrest the man, arresting that we had no business to be in the street on such an occasion and that we should have had enough “respect for the flag” to remove our hats as the procession swept by. Only a block distant, Sheriff Harry Hoffman’s voice was heard above the din, ordering his fellow citizens to remove their hats. One old man refused to obey the command and the sheriff promptly knocked his hat from his head. The late Attorney James Perkins, then in the last stages of the malady which soon after terminated in death, was standing by, accompanied by a young lady, refused to take off his hat when ordered to do so by the sheriff. “Take it off or I’ll knock it off,” Was the immediate threat of the sheriff. Friends induced Mr. Perkins, then a very ill man, to leave, otherwise the sheriff would have assaulted the invalid. Of course Stephenson was “the law” in Indiana. The PostDemocrat has declared all along that the TRUTH would come out. The people of Muncie and Indiana in general are now being regaled by the truth told from the witness stand in courts of justice by the main actors of the infamous reign of lawless terrorism.

“Delicate questions arise in connection with the use of church buildings for any purpose other than than to which they were dedicated,” remarks the Christian Advocate, organ of the Methodist church. “But we should think the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association would have found it easy to decline the request of the ku klux klan for the use of its superb auditorium even for so laudable a purpose as the celebration of Mother’s Day. The newspaper reports of the meeting, which drew a congregation of 8,000, indicate that no pains were spared to make the occasion worthy of its object and to keep it free from offensive propaganda. Yet, when all that has been said, we believe that the Ocean Grove Association, and the Methodist Episcopal church, of which it is at least nominally an agency, was ill-advised in opening its auditorium to this organization. The published invitation to every one To attend in honor of mother, regardless of race, color or creed,’ must have seemed to be brazen effrontery to the Jew, negro and Catholic who read it. The speaker who said, ‘We should all get back to the teachings of our mothers, and if we lived up to those teachings there would be no need of a ku klux klan,’ may have been right, but if the ‘Tri-K Klub of America, the future mothers of the nation’ are to bring up their children to that type of 100 per cent. Americanism for which the ku klux is believed to stand, the America of the next generation will be a nation of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, both religious and racial.”

BOB AND HUGH. Bob Graves and Hugh Berry are now doing time in Michigan City prison. These two colored gamblers and bootleggers were political cronies of Billy Williams, Sheriff Hoffman, Prosecutor Ogle and Candidate Hampton. They expect to be pardoned out of the pen about the time Hampton takes office as mayor the first of the year (maybe) and have been promised the key to the city when they return. Before starting northward they were kindly relieved by Judge Dearth of all other charges pending against them, so they can start in with a clean slate when they return. The gang that has been protecting them is now pointing

Perry Rhoten is another policeman who now recognizes that fixed rule of politics which makes it incumbent to guess right. N

Dr. Botkin is a tough pill for the gang to swallow. Doc has a way of putting things up to them. He can’t be bought, bullied or bluffed. He has one now put up to the commissioners that will hold them for awhile.

“Steve” now realizes that being “the law” in Indiana is not all peaches and cream. But we’ll tell the world he sure did have ’em a going for awhile.

WOMEN OF

(Continued from Page One) every member ask her local minister to make an announcement from his pulpit on the grounds that Mr. Kleist stands for adequate moral instruction in our public schools. “Women, let us show the men what' we can do.” (Signer) I T S U B “Sara B. Bellows, Major Kleagle, “Women of the Ku Klux Klan, "State of Wisconsin.” Ku Klux Klan (Continued from Page One) ible empire. It has a following in Georgia, Texas, and other southern states. The Loyal Orange order is active in Massachusetts. The klan still thrives in, limited regions in Indiana, New Jersey, New York and New England states. Texas has rooted it out effectively. Other southern states are discouraging it. The attitude of Democratic workers is having a detrimental effect on the klan. During the last campaign,

Republican leaders made political capital out of the klan differences in southern states. In North Carolina, where the invisible empire has about 30,000 supporters, an attempt was made to get them to break away from the Democratic party. In Kentucky the Anti-Saloon league and klansmen worked together to defeat Senator Stanley. In Oklahoma, former Gov. Walton, Democrat, was opposed by the klan. In Colorado, Senator Means, Republican, got the klan support, and Senator Adams, Democrat, was defeated. Hurt by Borgium The Borgium controversy over the confederate memorial on Stone mountain has served to further disaffect southern men and women from the klan. The last resort of the klansmen in the southern states is the mountaineer, who likes mystery in his organizations. In coastal and Piedmont regions the order has spent its force and the Republican counties of North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia are trying it out in spots. Persons here who have followed the rise and decline of the klan believe the question of annual fees has

caused the recent breakaway. Thousands of men were willing to bite once, but not twice, and the shower of $10 bills that poured into the hands of Edward Young Clarke, the financial expert of the order, during the earlier years of the invisible empire, has stopped. o Priest Denied Police Aid

Elgin, 111.—Police of this city refused to interfere with a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in front of the home of Rev. H. E. Ouimet, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, according to charges made to Mayor Earl R. Kelley, today, by a committee of church members. According to the priest, several automobile loads of citizens raised a bedlam in front of his home from 11:30 last night until 3 o’clock this morning, terminating the noisy rites by burning a fiery cross. He telephoned police headquarters, he stated, and the acting sergeant replied: “I guess you’ll have to take care of yourself, brother.” The committee appointed to interview the city council includes: Eugene A. Logan, State Representative F. A. McCarthy, Dr. John R. Tobin, Eaton Fedou and Attorney Lawrence McNerney. ■■ o In Maine 5 per cent, of all the power used in manufacturing is developed by waterwheels, turbines

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