Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1923 — Page 1
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CANDIDATE FOB ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIANA BANISHED FROM KLM
Gross Burns at Old Home of Pat O'Donnell
"Bob" Moore Talked Himself Into Disfavor and Then Was Charged With Accepting a Bribe A Crooked Trail Laid Bare.
Burnows, Ind., April 2. In sad memory of Pat O'Donnell, president of the American Unity League and official Klan hater, this, his old home town burned a fiery cross in his memory, and just to let Pat know they were 100 per cent, at Burnows.
REPREMANDED BY GRAND JURY OF LA PORTE COUNTY
LAFAYETTE RAID?
IMPOSSIBLE, BUT
$50,000.00
CHALLENGE
AMERICAN
TO THE
UNITY LEAGUE
Klan Takes Prompt Action When Court Officials Act In Farwell Case.
CHIEF OF POLICE AND MAYOR SURPRISED.
Action Makes Clear Klan Cleans Own Ranks and Blocks Political Asper-ations.
CITIZENS MAY HIRE LIQUOR DETECTIVES
(By Special Correspondent.) Michigan City, Ind., April 2. While John C. Farwell, Michigan City contractor, stands convicted in the LaPorte county circuit court, general rumor carries the .story that Robert H. Moore, former deputy prosecutor, and avowed candidate for attorneygeneral at the next general election, alleged to have received a bribe from Farwell, has been banished from
membership In the Ku Klux Klan.
Mjpre . was reprimanded by the
Jfcy coincident with the return
.n Indictment against anvil.
That body recited allegations against Xln ..J A... KT.tl..!.! t
WEST INDIANAPOLIS LEAGUE DETERMINED TO COLLECT EVIDENCE AGAINST BOOTLEGGERS.
Moore and Attorney Nathaniel Bern-
stem, charging them with receiving $18 to dismiss against Farwell in the Michigan City city court. Following this action, according to the stories told, Moore was waited upon by a committee and his banishment from the "Invisible Empire"
read to him. Left to a vote, it is said, his removal was ordered by the organization. Farwell will serve an indeterminate term in prison for having committed a criminal assault upon Mrs. Phillip Schueff of Michigan City. The attack occurred on the afternoon of February 8th while her husband was was at work. She is the mother of a baby 10 weeks old. The grand jury investigated the alleged assault when the case was dismissed by Moore after Farwell is claimed to have paid Moore and Bernstein, Mrs. Schueff 's lawyer, $18, half of which amount was given the prosecuting witness.
Subpoenaed by the state Friday were several Mishawakans and-Mayor Eli F. Seebirt. Frank E. Green, of the South Bend Chamber of Commerce, and John A. Hibberd, banker, South Bend, who testified concerning Farcell's business enterprises in that city and Mishawaka prior to his coming here. Those Mishawakans who took the stand against Farwell were Attorney Charles Bingham, Attorney John Sthindler, F. N. Smith, bank
casnier; Attorney Isaac Parks, Dep. : Pro?. E. J. Bower, J. O. Sackman, j secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and James E. Kerwin, real estate broker. The state endeavored to impeach Farwell's reputation for veracity and the testimony given by the South Bend and Mishawaka witnesses was regarded as damaging to the defendant's case. Before coming to Michigan City, Farwell became seriously involved with prospective home builders and his departure from South Bend followed the filing of charges against him of obtaining money under false pretenses. The charges were nrer (Continued on Page 2.)
Private investigators may be employed by the Citizens League of West Indianapolis to clean that section of bootleggers. The league was organized recently as a result of alleged disregard of the liquor laws in that section. The Rev. A. V. Shaw, pastor of the Second Friends Church, was attacked and badly beaten when he telephoned police to arrest two men and two wotr'-n who were intoxicated in an
automobile recently, members assert. It is alleged bootleggers of the section were responsible for the attack.
The Citizens' League was formed among church members and all churches of the section now have representatives on the body. It was at first planned only to seek more rigid enforcement of the laws on the part
of the police officials, but members
of the league are convinced officers are doing all that is possible without special evidence of law violations. A meeting of the league probably will be called within the week to consider the question of employing specially trained investigators to get evidence. The police then would be provided with the evidence to make arrests. R. E. Woodward is chairman of the league. Many members of the Enterprise Civic League also are members of the Citizens' League.
BURNING OF FOUR FIERY CROSSES AT NEWARK, 0
TOOK MM LAST NIGHT Newark, Ohio, April 3. Four fiery crosses were burned last night between the hours of eight and nine o'clock on the outskirts of the city, presumably by the Ku Klux Klan of this city and vicinity. One of the crosses was burned at the top of Dugway hill, another on Horn's hill and two others in the vicinity of Quarry hill southeast of the city. The two crosses at the lat
ter place were some distance apart,
however, one resting at an , angle with the hill and the other straight upright. A number of curious people of an inquisitive turn of mind drove as
close to the places as they could get, but did not attempt to leave the highway and mingle with the Ku Kluxers. Several people in the vicinity of the burning crosses last night stated that they were apparently about thirty feet in height and burned for at least a half hour. The burning of the four crosses last night Tn this city is said to have been in celebration of Easter, but this is problematical, while others state a cross is bi-med for every five hundred members. This would indicate that the local society has a member
ship of two thousand. THE FIERYCR0SS
TO BECOME A
12 PAGE PAPER
Gambling Joint Operating Within Stone's Throw of Headquarters.
Action Follows Betrayal of Klan Oath By Lawrence Lyons, the Now Titular Head of the Republican Party In Indiana.
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POUT GAL AND
SOCIAL CONDITIONS STIRRED OVER DENQUEM
AW! LEW; QUIT
KIDDING THE KLAN
UNITY LEAGUE
HEAD KNOWN AS MURDERER
MOST REMARKABLE GROWTH AND DEMAND MAKES POSSIBLE ENLARGEMENT PLANS.
News-Gathering Staff Now Being Organized.
JOSEPH ROACH, JR., DESIGNATED AS FISCAL AGENT OF AMERICAN UNITY LEAGUE, HAS LONG CRIMINAL RECORD.
KUNSMEN ATTEND A BIB SCOUT MEETING
Coal City, Ind., April 2. Recently Troop No. 30, Boy Scouts of America, fter considerable preparation, prec seated a remarkable three-act play in the auditorium of the Coal City high school (Owen county). One act act included in the advance program was the appearance between
the first and second acts of a body of
Kiansmen, the leader of which made
a short talk on the principles of the
organization, pledging support to the Boy Scouts In every respect. Substantial assistance was rendered by the
Kiansmen, enclosed In a large enve
lope, ror which the scouts showed
their appreciation in a remarkable demonstration. This is thought to be the second Boy Scout meeting in the
State of Indiana, In which Kiansmen
havs participated and pledged their
.sappon lo ta organization.
Joseph R. Roach, who has been described as Indiana Fiscal Representative of the American Unity League, with headquarters at 1208 Merchants National Bank buildine, which offices
are adjoining the office of Roach, it should be recalled at this time is the
same Joseph Roach who has a long criminal record and whose picture, No. 3164, is now in the Rogues Gallery in the Police Department at
ierre naute, ind.
Roach murdered Matthew Robison.
on Feb. 28, 1905, in cold blood, in a
gambling room over Mawez's saloon, at 639 Wabash Ave., Terre- Haute, Indiana, by cowardly snooting him through the heart, without warning,
and without his having an opportunity to defend himself. Roach was at that time part owner of a-gam
bling joint over the saloon known as the "Inside Inn" at Terre Haute, Ind.
bpeakmg of this infamous crime.
the Terre Haute Star of May 5, 1905, states, "the slayer of Matty Robison
pleads guilty ot murder in the second
degree. tor this crime Koach was
sentenced to prison for life, but is
now free and astray by the act of
some misguided pardon hoard, or
public official.
Roach, a murderer and ex-convict.
was not so very long ago employed
ua assistant prosecuting attorney at the time of the famous grand jury
"misinvestigation" at which time the Marion County Grand Jury employed him for the purpose of indictine Dem
ocrats after the Federal Grand Jury
(CoaUaoed oft. Vt$l.)
The Fiery Cross, Klan newspaper for the Northern Central states, will shortly become a twelve-page national Klan paper, devoting it3 entire columns to news of the doings of Klandom. Additional press facilities are being secured, and will shortly be in
stalled and in operation, making possible weekly, bi-weekly, or even daily editions, as happenings of import or
importance may occur.
Ihree hundred thousand Indiana,
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Iowa readers received the extra edition of the Fiery Cross of March 31st, carry
ing the exclusive story on the reason why Republican State Chairman Lawrence Lyons betrayed the Republican party and the Klan oath. The American Unity League has declared war on the Klan in Indiana. The challenge has been accepted, and
the Fiery Cross, full of truth and the faith of its readers, will carry the message of the doings of Klandom. A news gathering organization of staff correspondents is being built up throughout the Central West, and will cover most thoroughly every
event of importance and happenings in, and of interest to, the citizens of the Invisible Empire, as well as to
hundreds of thousands of 100 per
cent Protestant American citizens
that are interested and are watching and rendering their every moral sup
port.
State Issues to Be a Feature The Ohio State Edition will go to
press on Wednesday of each week, and while covering general central states will feature Ohio news. The Iowa, and Illinois State Edition will go to press on Thursday, covering
general news of interest and happenings within, these states, as well-as general news of Klandom. The Indiana State Final Edition will cover
Indiana in particular, as well as general news, and will go to press on
Friday of each week.
Already a news gathering organiza
tion of staff correspondents i3 well
under way, with 100 per cent Pro
testant newspaper men throughout the central western states. With this
announcement it is anticipated that correspondents from practically every
viviuiiy wm ue urbanized into a news
staff for the Fiery Cross, constituting the most complete and thoroueh news
gathering agency maintained in the
United States by any other "than
regiua swannercnu .. s-jreas service.
Lafayette, Ind., March 31. That) the Mayor and Chief of Police of LaFayette, who would not permit the Klan to parade, and even arrested Innocent boys for tacking up a few signs announcing the parade, would permit gambling and vice to thrive in Lafayette, was simply out Of the question. But think of it, a terrible thing has happened in" Lafayette. A gaming house, admitted to be such, within a stone's throw of police headquarters, has been raided, not by the police, but by the sheriff. The efficient (?) police force, always on the alert, with
both eyes wide open, and tnat can detect a hand bill advertising the Klan three blocks' away, were not able to know that gaming was being carried on, and that vice was thriving under its very nose.
No, there is no mistake about it; it is a fact, for recently Sheriff Joseph Jackson, with his "deputies" and
Prosecutor Parker, made an unan-
nounced visit to a club room over a store on the south side of the public
sauare.
The ftct t.Ivit i? j mado no public
statement and did not issue a state
ment to the newspapers that they
were coming, resulted in quite a lit
tie surprise party, when six men were
arrested, and complete gamming ae
vices, including money were taken as
evidence. In order that the stalwart and efft-
cient police officers would not molest these "innocent men," who had been
arrested for gambling, it was decided as best, in the interest of law and
order, to escort them all to the office
of Justice of the Peace, Clay Bryan,
who for some remarkable, reason was sitting right out on the front step
waiting for them. In order to get the
matter over quickly, and to avoid mob violence and assaults by the police
for having been so reckless as to get
caueht. all six of them decided to
nlead guilty and pay their fines, and
get it over with quickly. To expedite matters Squire Bryan decided that
$10 and costs would help the thing
alone.
Holtzclaw, owner of the gaming devices, was fined for operating a gambling house, hut in order that he would not have any money left for the
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French Lick Shows Interest.
French Lick, Ind. April 3 Much
interest has been shown by our most
prominent citizens concerning the
work of the Ku Klux Klan. Some time ago a large fiery cross flung its
emblazoned arc over our little valley
causing much comment and more
speculation. Then, following this, an
unknown minister gave an inspiring
lecture on "One Hundred Per Cent
Americanism," to a record-breaking
crowd. A decided tend toward th
betterment of our citizenry has been a mute proof of the gallant efforts
that are being resuscitated by the Ku Klux Klan. '
SK
MIKE GLENN, HE KNOWS, AND HAS THE SAY.
$5,000.00 more If Sweeney, Roach and Harrahan Prove Claims That They Represent Real Catholics.
KLAN RECEIVES NOTE
No law now in effect can prevent
the wearing of masks in public places,
Taylor E. Groninger, city corporation counsel, asserted yesterday, following announcement by Mayor Lew Shank
that he will take steps to have it stopped.
Mr. Groninger said the only law of
the character is the "white cap" state law, which makes it unlawful for
three or more persons to wear masks
or other disguises when whipping an
other man or otherwise Inflicting
punishment illegally. This law, he
explained, does not apply to demon
strations of the Ku Klux Klan, to which the mayor referred.
The city council, however, has au
thority to pass any such law, accord
ing to Mr. Groninger, which may open the way for passage of an ordinance prohibiting the wearing of masks at any time except on Halloween night,
introduced several weeics ago ny Councilman Otto Ray.
Not Against Klan The mayor said he was going to in
struct Chief of Police Rickoff to have mask wearing stopped if advices from the legal department were favorable.
The announcement was made after a
group of white-robed, masked men en-
tered Cadle Tabernacle Sunday even
ing while evangelistic services were
being held and donated $600 to E. J.
Bulgin, evangelist, and the tabernacle
association.
"I haven't anything to say against
the Ku Klux Klan nor any man who
belongs to it," the mayor said. "But
consider it a mighty dangerous
thing to permit any man to go about the streets in disguise. How are we
to know that a bunch of hold-up men
will not adopt that kind of disguise?
CHIEF HAWKEYE SENDS TIP TO K. K. K. AND SENATOR BROOKHART.
Des Moines, la., March 31. King Kleagle Brown has received word to
get busy. Fearing to be arrested for using the mails to aid the Klan, "The Chief" uses the front page of the Des
Moines Daily News.
He also writes a tin to Senator
Brookhart of Iowa.
The two notes follow:
'To K. K. K.:
"Isn't it about time for yon to start
something? You haven't been on
Page 1 for several days now. Better
get your publicity hound on the job or your increases In membership will be halted.
-Chief Hawkeye."
GARY VERY SICK CITY
LOOKS TO "DR." ANDERSON FOR
RELIEF NOW THAT CASE HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED.
Too Much Murder, Booze, Vice Crooks
Are the Ailments.
(By Special Correspondent)
Gary, April 2. Today a nauseated
community is waiting for Judge Al bert B. Anderson in Indianapolis Fed
eral court to determine the fines and jail sentences to be imposed upon city
and county onicials charged with conspiracy with rum runners to violate the liquor laws. No comment is heard other than predictions of .what actions will be taken by the judge. One person en-
"To Sen. Smith Brookhart:
"Just a friendly tip. Senator.
We
are for you 100 ner cent, but may we thrown down by Pat O'Donnell is ae
suggest that you be a little less fluent cepted by the Fiery Cross, and it will and a trifle more guarded in your be our glorious, yet pleasant duty,
talk: Too much conversation has and we hereby dedicate ourselves, to
prematurely ended the careers of smash the American Unity League in
many good men. )
"Chief Hawkeye."
SHARP ADDRESS AT
COLUMBUS AROUSES
STORM OF PROTEST
OHIO CAPITAL CITY AROUSED
AND ALIVE TO SCHOOL QUESTION.
Columbus. Ohio. April 3. Declara
tions made here recently by Dallas
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School." under the auspices
Columbus English club, has aroused The Catholic Columbian to such a
fever heat that columns of meaning
less drivel are published in its current
issue by way of refutation,
This Ohio Romanist sheet is forced
to admit that Mr. Sharp "made a sav
age attack on the parochial, private
and special school." The writer wants to know why, if the public
schools are "infallible and impecca
ble" its supporters point out its faults in legislatures all over the country and are now endeavoring to
"force the reading of the Bible m them in order to save Christianity."
Mr. Sharp did not state that the
American school system was "infalli
ble and impeccable." He did point
Catholics, Jews and Public Alike Stunned and Amazed at Intolerable Action of Lyons.
(By Eyewitness.) Pat O'Donnell, President of the American Unity League, in last week's issue of Tolerance, the official hate organ of the organization, declares that "the battle is now on," that he has "thrown down the gauge of battle, and will drive the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from the State of Indiana, reannex it to the Union." .. That the American Unity 'League has tackled a real job is conceeded, and it is regrettable that the""1 Fiery .
L-ross cannot in tarn announce --a
equally diihcun. imtfc.'.m -oder-thAt it might glorify itself in the achieve
ment.
The "wee small gauge" of battle
Indiana, in the interests, not of a few self-appointed crooks and criminals, but in the interests of all the people.
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews alike. -
The $50,000 Challenge.
Following the action of Lawrence
Lyons, Republican State Chairman, the "Benedict Arnold" of the Invisi
ble Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in which he betrayed the Klan oath, and the confidence of the Re
publican party, and pledged his .soul to "Mad" Pat O'Donnell, editor of Tolerance, and president of the American Unity League, comes now
the last and most damnable development in the fight of the American
Unity League to drive the Klan out of Indiana.
Stinging under the terrific reaction
of public opinion to their dealing in
numan chattels, and mlamous conspiracy with a state official, the
KLAN GIVES REV. BULGIN
SIX HUNDRED "BULLETS"
Michael Harrahan, run an advertise
ment in the Indianapolis newspapers, making a cheap appeal for Catholic dollars, which says among other
things, that, "There is operating in this twentieth century in these
United States, an oathbound or
ganization, whose essential endeavor is to root up and destroy those great c it. j i ii . -.
lruvistuiis ui our r euerai vonsmution, which express in clear, impressive language the garnered wisdom of the world." No name of any or
ganization is quoted or given, but has
been scrupulously and carefully avoided, knowing full well that what
follows is a definite clear cut criminal act, but the advertisement addressed
to the citizens of the State of In
diana states further that, This or-
. , . m . , , uiana obavco i.ui biii btidb A Ilia Ui out, that one of its weak points was gani2ation is-amazing nnmerically the fact that it was not m the full- reater in Indiana tha in est sense of the word a "public : . it-; SI
T t 1 .I . . .1 stoic XI LKIC V iiiuu aiiu UdO lUI 1LB school, educating the entire youth of DU.M8e the onnreBaion nnA hh.Hr..
t t j ... in the free exercise and enjoyment of If Jew and Gentile, certain vital and inherent right of Pfflfaaffltlt nrhifa anI . .
'-""' nersnna as human heincs. . . .
the nation.
He said: Catholic and
SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS AND
ELABORATE SILK FLAG PRESENTED BEFORE GREAT THRONG.
Rev. E. J. Bulgin, evangelist, of
Portland, Ore., who has been deliv
ering "Bulgin's Bullets" to the Prot
estant people of Indianapolis for the
past week at the Cadle Tabernacle,
was presented Sunday night, with $600 in crisp new $50 bills, and a
beautiful American flag, by eighteen members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Kiansmen marched down the
aisle of the Cadle Tabernacle during the services, and made the presentation, which was followed by a most remarkable demehsiratiom. It iajanderatoJd thttt-fZOO of the
money wa for Jpr;. Bsluv.tmt the
additional $300 was given to the Cadle Tabernacle Association. Dr. Bul
gin, in fervent language and a voice that shook with emotion, thanked the group of Kiansmen, who immediately left the Tabernacle. Great Throngs in Attendance. Opening his evening sermon with a most significant statement that "Man never breaks God's laws, man breaks himself over the law," his address last night was the pinnacle of a- week's remarkable evagelistic
achievement. Several thousand people were denied admission to the
night's service and the Tabernacle
was packed, men and women standing against the walls, from the olat
form to the end of the building, and
on the stairways.
The Indianapolis Morning Star says that never in the history of the
city had so many persons ever visited at a single time, a religious gathering,' or indulged in a more remark able demonstration. -. t
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HERE'S THE DOPE!
BULLETIN I
accomplish its purpose this organi
zation does not scruple to violate all
recognized moral as well as certain specific and clear cut provisions of the law of the United States." With their damnable Jesuit contemptibinty
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(Special to the Fiery Cross.)
Washington, D. C, April 4. That Joseph R. Roach, Agent of
the American Unity League at In
dianapolis. Is backed by powerful
Interests lrr his effort to secure an
appointment as assistant attorney general for Indiana became known
here today.
Roach and his backers have put
it up to the department in no uncertain terms that he Is the logical
man to Institute proceedings
against the Ku Klux Klan In federal court at Indianapolis In an effort to smash that organization fat
Firey Gross at Delaware, QMd
Delaware, Ohio, April 8. Resi
dents of this community are of the opinion that the burning cross Been
blazing on the Court House lawn late last Thursday night, heralded the es
tablishment ox a chapter of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Rumor had it that an organizer of the Klan was in the community for several
days last week and succeeded in es
tablishing a branch. ; . J
Un two occasions this year crosses of a similar, kind have been burned on- MonBett-eampoa of the Ohio Wes-" leyan University herew; Tbes were
Beuersa ben set n& ry ato-
f 'A
y