Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 17 March 1927 — Page 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

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

PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR.

Room 613 Wysor Block—Telephones 2216 and 2540 GEORGE R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Muncie, Indiana, Thursday, March 17, 1927.

Carl Henry Raney. (By the Editor) Thirteen-year-old Carl Henry Raney is dead. The death of this boy brings sadness to the heart of the editor of the Post-Democrat, who received the news Tuesday at Ft. Recovery, Ohio. Carl was one of the bright little newsies, ot the PostDemocrat family. 1 love all these boys almost as if they were my own and my eyes fill with tears and my heart aches with grief as I writes this. The boys are all my personal friends and none was more loyal, lovable, honest and true than Carl Raney, whose devotion to me, and to the PostDemocrat was almost pitiful in its intensity and earnestness. His face will be sadly missed from i ne crowd of one hundred or more riotous youngsters who stampede the circulation department every Saturday morning in the mad rush to be out first with their papers. May God comfort the grieving parents and receive this clean young soul in Paradise.

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Hit the Nail On the Head, Sometimes we get all out of patience over the tone, of “Comments,” Wilbur Sutton’s own column in the Muncie Evening Press, but more often we are*delighted and uplifted by their breezy candor and truthful philosophy. “Sut” certainly tapped the old ten-penny square on the bean Tuesday when he said the people here are concerned 'but slightly over the hair-splitting of lawyers who seek to thrash out the question of whether nr not tluHsenate has the right to try Clarence Dearth, but that they are mighily interested in the question of whether or not he is guilty ot , the things he is charged with. ,, If he is guilty of tampering with juries and of forcibly suppressing a newspaper, in violation df the first and fourteenth amendments to the constitution, that should end his career of judge and of course willj whether ne Win^hut on the question of “constitutionality” or not. ) Delawafe county will not stand for a judge who only escaped trial, conviction and ouster through a technicality. Dearth and h^s, brass mounted legal advisers, Ryman and Ogle, are preparing to carry on the fight to the supreme court. Even if the Senate convict him. The appeal, in the event of conviction, will not be based upon the inaccuracy or truthfulness of the evidence, we are tolds but wholly upon the question of the-right of the legis-

lature to impeach.

Wouldn’t • ■ : e a fine thing if we were compelled to retain on the bench a judge convicted of suppressing free

speech and' pa -king juries for the corrupt purpose of con- Evidently the ike Walton league vitting enemies and protecting friends? is not neglecting the fish Trying Such a situation is unthinkable and would be a bi-eede ) u^^|^<^ »« ^ocb. t for another salvo pf “bad publicity” for Muncie. jp ^ irieeis that his skirts are A iudge should be like Caesar’s wife—above suspicion. Id^n, wily doesn’t he court an in-

■ ’ - ' ■ vCstigation by the Senate instead

of doing everything in his power to

avoid it.

Sherdian Barlow, a brother of|railroaded to prison by crooked Pete Barlow, sat on the jury that I judges who connives to fill juries convicted the editor of the Post- \vith persons under ordeis to vote Democrat of “libeling” Raymond J to convict. Warner. Sheridan Barlow’s wife! Dearth and his legal staff, Wilbur waS drawn as a member of the j and Van, may yet cite these 93 grand jury that was to investigate!members of the lower house who a charge of murder against her j “held the judge up to the contempt brother-in-law, Pete Barlow. No: and ridicule of the people. Dearth wonder Clarence Dearth wanted to’•might escape trial by putting the

suppress, by force, the newspaper that has exposed the corruption of

his jury system.

Van Ogle announces that subpoenas have been issued for about two hundred defense witnesses in the Dearth impeachment trial. That would just about include the total number left in Delaware

county, who still believe that news-, . . ^ ,, ...

papers ought to be suppressed by

entire legislature in jail for contempt. W r e are offering this as a

suggestion.

TRICKffiYUSED

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force and that juries should be selected from Billy Williams’ poll

books.

SAVE THE SUCKERS

The Isaak Walton League ban-

queted Tuesday night

at the Ma- ch ^ ged

resign at the last minute, if his ob

structive tactics fail.

Even in case of his resignation, the trial should proceed. He stands indicted of high crime and corruption, by house impeachment. Men

in indictments with crime

sonic temple. Six hundred covers!'- lhe Dela ™ Ci »’ cuit court ’ who

were laid and beside each plate appeared a folder upon which was printed Councilman Barclay’s great “Save Muncie” speech, which he chased out of his system at the last meeting of the city tads. If the Waltonites are going to stand for that kind of stuff they ought to change the name of the organzation to the “Polyanna Club” or the “Hickory Shad Shin-

ers.”

Ike Walton, me eye! Ask Dock Karl Brown, the big Ike of the bunch, why he turned turtle and lobbied in the legislature against the antr river pollution hill.

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w "DRINK PARLOR” IS GOOD The Allen county grand jury made a final report Monday, in which it complimented tile police for their activities. The following day a thirsty citizen of Fort Wayne took a shot of hootch in what a newspaper of that city designated as a ‘‘drink parlor,” and fell dead before reaching the door. Coroner’s verdict, “poisoned by wood alcohol.” What Ft. Wayne seems to need is a few “think par-

lors.”

CHEERING TO PROPERTY The local (lailies announce that "the gents who found, a brokendown truck in an alle^ are preparing for an expansive improyemeiif campaign for the coming, spring and summer. The property owners who foot the hills should feel cheered to think that their affairs are left in such honest and competent hands. And by the way who knows whether that $2,600 was returned to the city? They hardly ever give it-back after they get it.

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AW, QUIT YER KIDDIN’. Some of the more proud Mun-

cieites beg the world to believe that all Muncieites are not like some of them. We’ll consider it. Judge Dearth was a free choice.—

Journal-Gazette.

* How Dearth could content himself to sit on the bench To , try others, after being convicted of “high crime and corruption,” is beyond the ken of the normal mind. Probably | his disordered intellect would not be disturbed by a situation which would cause almost any other man to crawl in

a hole and pull the hole in after him.

All Very Sipmle. Clarence Dearth will have but two things to prove, if lie expects to be acquitted next week before the state Senate, but he will have to prove both of them to be acquitted, unless the senate should decide that either suppressing free speech or packing juries is a condonable offense. He is charged on two indictments, one charge being that he forcibly stopped the distribution of a newspaper, thereby violating the constitution by suppressing a free press. " The other that he aided and abetted in debauching , the jury system. k All he has to do is to convince the Senate that juries %vere not “packed” and that he did not cause the arrest of ’Post-Democrat newsies and did not bring them into court, have their papers taken away from them and threaten them with arrest and detention in juvenile court if .they were ever again caught selling the papers on the street.

“Fretted” Is One Word for It. < “Every man in public place, whether conscious of short-

comings or confident of integrity, likes to preserve his good repute, and Judge Dearth, down in Muncie, is no strange exception,” says the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. “But it can be seen that with the incumbent of a law bench accused of crimes and misdemeanors and his legal competency to serve under »queston, parties with causes at stake in his

court are fretted.”

Judge Dearth can expand with the consciousness of a man who is making a noise.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.

BUSINESS MEN ARE FOR IT. A canvass of the sentiment of Muncie merchants discloses the fact that, without exception, they want Muncie’s dirty political mess cleaned up. -t 1 0 ' ■ m ' Contrary? to tiieHot p|r jpf propaganda, they are not in favor of a “hush” program. They are in favor of a full and fred discussion in order that the people may know their ills and cure them. ^ Just let the people know what is going on and it does uot take them long to get the old pruning hook in action. Business will prosper here when the people are assured of honest administration of

public affairs.

“SATAR1C,” Says He.

“Hon.” (?) Geo. R. Dale, Ft. Recovery, Ohio: Rendezvous No. Dear Sir: We write you with intent. Intent upon making you cognizant of facts. Prelude: Since it is current rumor that you, several years ago, was warned out of an Ohio town and you thought Muncie, Ind., would be ‘‘good picking” for a weakling “Indianapolis People” sheet, or a notorious “Day’s Doings,” underworld, non-facetious, vulnerable, vile, vulgar, slum-soaked, vituperative, nasty weekly production you style the “Post-Democrat,” you evidently did not reckon with your “past” when you tried to “buck” civil decency in Muncie. You fain would have, in addition to the SLUM and the SLUM bosses, the courts of our country bow to your contemptuous, vituperative, nasty rot! Your low, stenchy, vile, unmanly, sataric, SARDONIC! ! putrid, despised habits of conduct and speech have CORRUPTED, besmirched, clouded, be,meaned, lowered, scandalized and BLACKENED every ■step of your SO-CALLED “NEWSPAPER” work, and its only REAL achievement has been DAMNABLE DARKNESS, NEVER ELEVATION OR BEAUTIFUL LIGHT, as “a lamp to the feet.” Your life being evil, you have chosen DARKNESS rather than light, and as a result you are an “exile” from home. “I” a self-inflicted exile from home, because of my reptile, vulthre, ghoul-like, venomgus, slanderous, insulting, ungentlemanly, unmanly manner

of life.

in times past have been compelled to go to trial before Dearth’s packed juries, have not been allowed to

escape by “resigning.” Missed His Opportunity.

It is believed that Dearth forfeited his only* chance to escape trial when Judiciary A committee, after hearing evidence, and before reporting out the impeachment, gave

hint a chance to resign.

Instead of thanking the committee for its consideration, and resigning forthwith, Dearth shed his Mussolinian bravado and became a whining supplicant for mercy. Instead of thanking God that his rotten corrupt and lawless acts were not to be made public, | if he would only resign, he tried to beg off and practically admitted his guilt by promising, if the committee would only let him off, to fire his jury commissioners and name two men selected by the bar, to reform irregular practices complained of and guarantee that everybody tried hereafter in fiib court will have fair and impartial trials. m n

Disgusted the Committee

In disgust the committee ignored the debasing plea for mercy and I promise of reform. The real char-1 aether of the man was exposed, liy! himself, in all its raw and sordid

ugliness.

And it is fitting that of all the members of the’ Delaware county bar, most of whom rank high in the legal profession, that he had to rely locally for his legal defense: upon the two meanest, unlawyerlike, pettifogging specimens of the entire, group—Wilbur Ryman and!

Van Ogle!

A Precious Pair.

ftymau, discharged as a federal ! attorney by Judge Anderson for; intermeddling with the federal!

court to save his Klan boss, Bill! , ,

Cjihill,, charged with a federal! ne T s that tlmse lists would be pio- j padc juries for four years, crime, and Ogle, who disgraced thei ( ^ uce ^ in evidence in the pending j No citizen of Delaware county,

The above is the introduct’ory of a communication received at Fort Recovery. There were seventeen pages of the thing altogether but we thought the reproduction of two of them would be sufficient' since the other fifteen are so similar in general tune to the first two that it would be a waste of time to print' the whole thing. We are thoroughly acquainted with the old bum who wrote this stuff. He has been known as a nuisance by all the newspapermen of Muncie for years. He is always inflicting newspapers here with his drivel. We have filled several waste baskets with his effusions. In some of them he praises the Post-Democrat mightily but alas, he seems to have sort of lost his respect for

us.

He winds up with this admonition: “VERBATIM copy is retained, as the proof reading MIGHT OMIT A

WORD, and will detect any garbling.”

Wouldn’t it have been awful if we had missed or

garbled a word, especially “sataric?”

prosecutor’s office - ' and was kicked McAuley impeachment trial, Dearth into private life for his offenses; su( ^ un b' experienced a change ot against decency by the indignant ^ iear *' a l 1( ^ Gaue ^ the impeachment electorate of Delaware county! (proceedings to be dismiss erf A splendid trio! Three names to| r, ^ ie election of 1!)_6 came conjure with! Dearth, Ryman and s * )0n a ^ter and Clarence Dearth Op-let A triumvirate tliat rnrle?Wcts> one ol iYlcAuley s most active rough shod while the riding was! a ^ supporters although but good, but rode to a fall. It is meet I a few . mon , h * P^vious he had puband proper that these three should V C U branded ^ McAuley as being

ride the sinking boat alone.

JURY SYSTEM

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i unfit.

Did the signing of the truce be- ; twedii Dearth and McAuley mean that thereafter Dearth’s private littld lists of controlled jury fodder i should he used by the sheriff with-

out question? luntil 10:00 a. m., April 5, 1927, for Undoubtedly the supply jurors | improvement of the following

who values his reputation for truth and veracity, will have the ‘temerity to stand up before the state senate and declare these things are not so. The Wjtness who attempts to say that juries are honestly drawn here will impeach himself as a perjurer before the

whole state.

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“given a ride,” and it was known! called in the .Warner liftal caqe

Missed the Story. The Star, ten days ago, carried a lengthy Associated Press dispatch relating the amazing swindling operations of two men who ran afoul of the government’ by separating ‘ suckers from a million dollars through sale of supposed gold f bearing and oil-producing land in the ReTwblic of Columbia. The Muncie newspaper Wednesday weighted itself dpwn : with a heavy editorial warning the public against the wiles ; of get-rich-quick gentry. What the Star really missed, was the fact that it overlooked a live local story. Of the two men who pulled the deal the master mind was Joe Devore, former resident of Muncie, who was convicted here four years ago and sent to Michigan City prison for gipping an Ohio widow out of $9,000. Before coming here Joe cut a wide swath in Hartford 1 City, where he posed as a millionaire Chicago philanthropist. Wanting to do big things for the people of Hartford City. Devore accommodatingly let them in on some of his big ventures in oil and coal land&. When the blaloon bVst he left for greener pastures, if such a thing was possible. About ^ only moral we have to point out is the danger of editoi an husiasm and reportorial deficiency. Or possibly the : ■ new a Muncie man pulled the big deal and didn’t men i*>r fear that it hurt the town.

EDITOR GOES TO NEW YORK. The editor d£ the f'ost-Democrat leaves Sunday for New York, having been invited there to attend a conference of publishers interested in t he outcome of the '“truth is no defense” contempt case now before the Supreme court of the United States. The ultimate decision in this case is of vital consequence to every publisher, in the United States and no effort will he spared to insure its review, if possible, before the Supreme court.

THE ‘NEWS’ GROWS SARCASTIC How can the Governor be forced lo appoint a successor to Judge Dearth when Attorney-General Gilliom has already declared the impeachment lav/ to he unconstitutional?- 4 -Indianapolis News.

Remember, the next warrant that conies over to Fort Recovery from Indiana means the drying up of the Wabash river. We have discovered the tile ditch from which the mighty Wabash emanates and have the burlap all ready. Beware! BEWARE!!

“RIDICULE AND CONTEMPT.” The Supreme court of the State of Indiana, declared that even if the Post-Denpecrat told the truth about Judge Dearth, it would he no defense if such truthful publication held the judge up to the ridicule and contempt of the people. The editorial charge which Jed to the contempt citation four years ago was that a packed grand jury, drawn by illegally appointed jury commissioners, had corruptly conspired with others to indict the editor. And now the legislature seems to feel the same way about it. If the Supreme court was right, the packing of juries by a judge is secondary to the great crime of complaining about it. The dignity and authority of the bench must not be trifled with by the mere protests of those who are * o ing are Jay, Delaware, Blackford. Wells, Randolph, Grant, Adams, Makison, Wayne,

that assassins with piiirder in their hearts had fired inid his home. Lulu Sample a Fair “Sample*” '' Lulu Sample, wife af a city employe and a sister-in-law of Nina

Sample, testified that Luke Rowan Will had summoned her by telephone atj Having the home of Nina Sample. Was! times by

had been Selected with great care, for the express purpose of securing a conviction, no matter what

the evidence might be.

Fix Responsibiity.

been convicted three hand-picked jurors, the

roads:

IJoad 37, Section N, Marion county; bituminous surface treatment, 0.36 miles. Road 52, Section J, Marion county; bituminous surface treatment, 4.92 miles. Road 67, Sections J and K, Mar-

she waiting there to be called? editor of the Post-Democrat in-,l 011 aU(J Hendricks counties, bitumHow did Rowan know where to get. 'ends to pursue an inquiry until he i nu I ? ,s ^ u !.^ a ^ e treatment, 6.75 miles, her, and why did he call a woman 'ixes the primary responsibility Koaa b7 ‘. Section L, Marion cor to try the editor of this newspaper, tuhl then if there is any law left in j y: bituminous surface treatment, who {would have gladly voted to 'lie land he is going to send some-i”-^ L . hanjE? him? — body to the penitentiary for it. Road J, Section L, Henry connAfter the trial the defendant Manny times we have published! !_ y j 0 ^"'^^inous surface treatment, asked Deputy Sheriff Rowan who] the charge that the Dearth juries | 5 - 2 ^ n ‘ i1 ^- . gave him the list of the names of! are made up almost exclusively of | Road Ja,,Sections O and P-I, Del-

those who were called in to

help Dearth’s relatives, relations of his j aware an d Randolph counties, bit-

vote for a conviction. relations, members of his Sunday j uniinous mac adam, 7.61) miles. He replied thafcnobody had done School class, deputy road superin-1 Road 38, Section J. Henry counso. He said Dearth left orders at tendents, county and city officials j'-D bituminous surface treatment the sheriff’s office to summon aland their male and female rela-| on _H’affic bound surface, 8.50 miles.

number of persons to be on hand Lo take the places of those excused for cause and otherwise, and that he had selected the names at random from the telephone directory.

Probing For The Truth.

Luke has always professed friendship for the editor of the Post-Democrat and we really be-

tives, Billy Williams precinct com-| R oad 40, section P-2, Henry counmitteemen, deputy assessors, bene-J y : bituminous surface treatment,

ficiaries of county and city con-;b-44 miles.

tracts, and others who belong to 1 Road 3, Section M, Delaware the corrupt political gang of which coun ty: bituminous surface treat-

judge Dearth is a member. jment, 1.05 miles. It Will All Come Out Road 9, Section K, Gfant county,

We believe that in the trial of j bituminous surface treatment, 2.67

Judge Dearth before the state sen-, mil es.

lieve he is a friend. But with all a to next week, that evidence will Road 9, Section K, Grant county, due respect to his explanation we! be produced which will prove bituminous macadam, 0.20 milesi cannot believe it to be true. If it is - every assertion made by the Post- Road 18, Section C, Grant countrue then he is a party to the in-1 Democrat. fy: bituminous surface treatment,

famous jury-packing system and R will be Shown that scores of 0.26 miles.

must suffer the consequences along persons were selected who were!. . Roa . d Section L, Grant county; with others who have been parties not qualified by law. It will be bituminous surface treatment, 0.37

to the abominable crime of cor-sho^n, as the Post-Democrat miles -

rupting the jury system and send- charged over four years ago, thati .R° ad 9. Section L, Grant county; ing innocent defendants to penal Jake Cavanaugh, jury commis-! k ituminous macadam, 0.37 miles, servitude. - sioner, was not a freeholder, as! Date set l' 01 ' completion of all

Luke Rowan was told who to j the law requires, when Dearth ap- wol j f ’ October 15, 1927.

get. He was told by somebody who [minted hiny in November, 1922,1 Bidder shall file bond with

was interested in securing a conviction. If he -wants to accept the sole respohsibilty for the selection of Grover Eppard, Lulu Sample and Mrs. Cranor, that is his lookout, and his misfortune. He will be given full and ample opportunity

of telling how it was done. Who Gave Luke the List?

, .JP , . . I his and that Dearth attempted to qual- bid equal to one and one-half times ify him in that respect over -a amount of his prooposal. month after his appointment by j Proposal blanks, plans and specpersonally deeding to Cavanaugh | Rication are on file at the office a worthless lot in Whitely. of the State Highway Commission, It will be shown, as the Post-J n( R an apolis, Indiana, where same Democrat charged at the time, that j ma y be obtained upon payment oi

Cavanaugh and Davis the jury com-! U-OO per set

missioners, drew the names of! John D. Williams,

If he explains that the list of! their ow,n wives when it became! 3-10, 18 Director. “ringers” was handed to him by! necessary to fill two vacancies onl o his immediate superior in officer,| the regular panel, and that these! The 110-story skyscraper planSheriff McAuley, then the latter j women served throughout the in ed for New York City will have will be given a chance to explain term and were paid for it. -sixty elevatous, none of which where he got^the list. Who Will Help Defend? will make the entire 110 floor trip. When Sheriff McAuley was im- What can possibly be the line of! fn a recent examination of the peached by the grand jury, he] the Dearth defense against these I hearing of over 4,000 school chilmade the open statement that charges of damnable perversion of dren it was found that 575 had deJudge Dearth caused the action to i the sacred jury system? Who will Tective hearing unknown to either be taken because hd, McAuley, had be the witnesses that will have ! parents or teachers.

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refused to summon jurors whose names appeared on lists supplied

by Judge Dearth.

McAuley and his attorneys had in their possession a number of these carefully selected stool pigeons, one of the lists being in the liand writing of Clarence Dearth. McAuley Had It On Him After the 'threat had been openly

the hardihood to attempt to dis-i Butterflies in smoky industrial prove these things, which are self-!cities in England become darker in evident, and matters of record? color, due to eating manganese Will he try to bolster up the from the smoke wlfich is deposited

honor of the court by calling as a on foilage 1 .

witness -Sheriff McAuley, whose previous statements, as well as those of his attorneys, charge Dearth with jury packing. Or possibly he will call in former Sheriff

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