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"THERE IS NO FAILURE EXCEPT FAILURE TO SERVE THE PURPOSE"

VOLUME II NUMBER 21

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1923

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IMPERIAL WIZARD EVANS DEFENDS HIS POSITION Shows Fight and Makes No Apology for Conduct of Office Condemns Attempt to Control by Individuals

BANKRUPTCY PETITION FILED FOR TOLERANCE

ANTI-KLAN SHEET AGAIN ON THE KOCKS

(By Eyewitness.) Dr. Hiram W. Evans, Imperial W izard of the Ku Klux Klan, issued a formal statement Tuesday for publication in The Fiery Cross, -which explains fully his attitude toward a women's organization under the protecting wing of the Klan. The Imperial Wizard takes a

frank, open and courageous stand in his own defense and justifies his administration of the Klan. He vehemently denies that there has been misappropriation of funds, or misdirection of authority and agrees fully with the position of The Fiery Cross that the Klan dare not be a personally owned or a personally conducted organization. He expresses respect for and confidence in Colonel Simmons, but explains that he cut off

the three-dollars-per-head contract

with E. Y. Clarke for the good of the order.

Dr. Evans's statement, dated at

Atlanta Tuesday, is as follows:

Atlanta. Ga., April 17. I confident

ly expect that within the next few-

days the courts of Georgia will have

finally decided that the constitution

end by-laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klau adapted by Klansmen

of the nation in convention assembled are valid, and that the votes of Klansmen which fleeted me imperial wizard last November were legal. Such a ratification of the proceedings of the recent national convention of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will, In fact, be a legal ruling to the effect that the affairs of this great order shall in future be conducted democratically, according to the wishes of its hundreds of thousands of mem

bers throughout the nation, and that the Klan is not a privately owned Institution. The property of the Klan, in my official custody, was taken from me temporarily by a writ of injunction issued by a Fulton county court on complaint of Col. William J. Simmons, that he was in full and lawful possession of the property, and that I was laying some pretended claim thereto. By a later ruling I was recognized as Imperial Wizard, and with a board of two other persons, Colonel W. J. Simmons and J. M. George, continue to exercise my office, awaiting the final ruling of the courts. I am without a shadow of a doubt the Imperial wizard Knights of the-Ku Klux Klan duly elected at the national klonvokation held in Atlanta, Ga., in So-

Iveinber, 1922. .-and as such officer I

to the best of my ability disH

marge my auws 10 me lunesi ex tent.

So far as I know I have no per

ianal enemies within the Klan and he present opposition has developed

because I cancelled a contract with

Edward Young Clarke for propagat

Ing the institution throughout the countrv. Under this contract Mr.

Clarke received $3 for every new member taken into the order. As under my authority as Imperial wizard given me by the constitution end by-laws, I cancelled that contract and diverted this money into Klan channels. Every dollar now received by the propagation department is turned back into Klan work. I determined when I assumed my high office that the organization Rhould not be used to. exploit private fortunes, and in that lies the secret of the present opposition to me, and the attempt on the part of a few Atlanta people to gain control of the arder and Its treasury.

It bus been my contention and is

my present position tnat tne Klan treasury belongs to the Klans of the nation, and that the money therein should be used in extending the boundaries of the invisible empire. The attempt to prove that William Joseph Simmons is the present imperial wizard is absurd. The records of the klonvokation clearly show that Colonel Simmons resigned the office of imperial wizard, and that at his suggestion, I was unanimously elected In his place. At the time of his resignation as Imperial wizard Colonel Simmons asked the klonvokation to elect him emperor. The klonvokation adopted his suggestion, elected him

as emperor and he has been receiv

ing a salary of one thousand dollars per month, the same as before the

klonvokation. Since my election

have been in full and complete charge of the executive branch of the order, and Colonel Simmons at

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KLAN FINDS

OPPOSITION AT I. U.

Boycotting and Threatening Letters Being Received by Indianapolis Merchants and Advertisers in the Fiery Cross

NEWARK, OHIO, PARADE THE

LARGEST

20,000 WATCH AND PARTICIPATE

IN STIRRING DEMONSTRATION

MAYOR CALLS ON 'POPE'

THIS REFERS, HOWEVER, TO A MERE POLICE CAPTAIN, AND NOT TO THE POPE OF ROME

Open Ceremony in Park Follows Street Scenes

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MAKES

ANTI-AMERICANIZATION TALK IN CHAPEL

(By Eyewitness.) "Tolerance," The Tolerance Pub lishing Company, the American Uni

ty League, and the American Unity

League Company, representing the

"Quadruple Cross" of the Anti-Klan activities has passed Into the great

beyond, in answer to the call of Satan for entrance Into his realms

and regions, following an ignomin

ious and inglorious, but short lived existence.

Bloomington, Ind., April 23. Recently Prof. Alva W. Taylor of Indianapolis delivered a message to the public in which he bitterly opposed

the Invisible Empire, Knights of the

Ku Klux Klan.

The lecture was given in the chapel of the Indiana School of Religion, in the state university, supported by

thousands upon thousands of Klans-

men throughout the state of Indiana, the university that calls on taxpayers

of the state to maintain it. It is understood that the Indiana School of Religion, while not affiliated with the state university. Is, however,

tocated on the campus and considered a part thereof. Professor Taylor frankly admitted that lie knew nothing of the Klan as it now existed. This fact was quite evident and undoubtedly proved, as

heLattempted to criticize the organization from the standpoint of one who did not know, but as a student of sociology rather than an intelligent patriot. His chief objection was to the secrecy in which the Klan

operates, but lie made no reference to the Masons. Knights of Columbus. Knights of Pythias, or other high and laudable organizations, whose fundamental creed is secrecy. However, Professor Taylor admitted that Jews and Catholics are both "clannish" and practice secrecy

among themselves, and that at times they cast their vote en masse. Gives Klan Some Credit Professor Taylor stated that Gov. Al Smith of New York, "who still would be" and probably would have been our next president but for the

activities of the organization through

out the Lnited States. ..In commenting upon the titles of the various officials of the Klan he stated that such weird titles were for the purpose of intimidating the ignorant, reflecting upon the intelli- ' (Continued to Page 7, Column 5)

CLAYPOOL

DISCHARGES KLANSMAN

Petitions in bankruptcy were filed against all the above concerns in Chicago, Saturday. Their assets were listed at $40,000.00, while the obligations of the American Unity League Company were placed at $475,000.00. The petition was filed in behalf of Catholic creditors, realizing how utterly impotent and ineffective were the efforts of its antiKlan program. Disclaimed, discredited, disowned, and denied the financial support of. the better Catholics and better grade of Jewish people, left .nothing else to do but to close the doors.

The Action Delays Plans to Meet As-snults.

At this time, in view of the demise of the entire "Quadruple Cross," it is only necessary now to meet the insidious propaganda started by thein in the form of chain letters threatening boycott to advertisers of the

Fiery Cross, as well as securing the discharge, of employes whose names have been published as alleged Klansmen throughout Indianapolis. On the theory that It was neees(Continued on Page 9, Column 3)

SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTION OF NEWSBOYS

(By Staff Correspondent) Newark, Ohio, April 21. The largest parade the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have ever held in Ohio,

was staged here tonight when one thousand marchers were cheered on by a throng of over 20,000 spectators who lined the streets from Mound Builders' park to the court house square, along the line of march. The parade was followed by an open Klavern and a public naturalization ceremony at the park.

A national officer, garbed in elab

orate robes, led the procession on horseback. He was followed by eight

other mounted men, who acted as his aides and marshals in the parade. An

automobile, on which was erected a red illuminated cross, representing the symbol of the Klan, followed next in line. Then came the Klansmen in divisions, from Newark, Zanesville, Columbus and other Ohio cities. Every large city in the state and every town in Central Ohio had a delegation in the line of march. They marched by twos, each pair

six paces apart The 20 -pic band- of the Newark Knights of 1,'vitos lodge furjiished the ;insfc. f.'i. rht,p';-,idf vi

ward Christian Soldiers" and other religious and patriotic selections were played. It was promptly at 8 o'clock that the line left the park, returning an hour and a half later. When they departed from the park, the grandstand, which seats 3,000 people, was filled to overflowing, and these same people remained to attend the open Klavern. Applause and cheering were gener

ous all the way along the line. Not only in the business section, around

the court house square, but also in the residential streets through which the parade passed, the crowds were large- Old residents declared that never before had they witnessed such a crowd in Newark. Restauant and hotel facilities were taxed beyond their capacity. However, thousands who had come from nearby cities left in machines in all directions after the ceremony. The

Newark police maintained order

among the spectators, mere was

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It Is to laugh. The mayor, Limber

Lunged Lew Shank, decided Monday

"that it might be a good Idea to have Captain Pope aronnd while this Kn Klux Klan investigation business was going on," and accordingly Roy Pope, captain of police, has been

transferred from dnty at police head

quarters, where evidence of the last

few days would Indicate he was not needed, to the office of Mayor Lew Shank, where he 1s needed even less

than at headquarters. The "assign

ment, however, is temporary." He is

to act as body-gnard and advisor to

the mayor, and it is presumed to pro

tcct him from the wrath, of law vio

lators who consider it unpardonable

and unforgivable that he should permit himself to be "jockeyed" Into a position where some outside force would come in and clean np the city. It is dangerons when the gang realizes how Impotent, how silent, how helpless their "King the mayor" be

comes In the face of a real force.

LIBER LUNGED LEW JARRED INTO SILENCE Klan Had Goods Startling Conditions Are Revealed Grand Jury Investigation to Follow Systematic Law Enforcement Campaign by Klan, Aiding County Officials. ...

$200.00 Fine and Six Months in Jail to Shank Adherents Result of First Bootleg Cases Up. Action of Lone Police Captain and Sheriff, Aided by Klan Operators, Results in Twenty-five Arrests First Three"' Days. Conviction in Every Case Assured.

TELL US, PR A Y TELL US

WHAT PIT) LIMBER LTTXGF.D LEW WAST WITH THAT LIST?

(An Editorial) Limber Lunged Lew asked for the addresses of the bootleggers in Indianapolis. He went into the newspapers l.i hli characteristic brass band

method and made the charge that Klan accusations were false. Fearing, perhaps, County Prosecutor Evans would actually get information and cause the prosecution of some of his favorites, who might be engaged in the illicit traffic of liquor, lie insisted that a grand jury investi-

ARGUMENT ABOUT KLAN ENDS IN MURDER

W. M. Giliey, Alleged Klansman and Member of the Detective Associ

ation, Slain by Berry Hudson, in Discussion Concerning Whether a - Klaa Member MayBelong to the Miners' Union Washington, Ind., April 25. The Daviess grand jury went into session today to investigate the death of W. M. Giliey, for whose murder

Other Important Information ud Affidavits Concerning Police Department. Political Graft, Administration Officials, Will Go to Grand Jury. (By Eyewitness) Steadily and surely the Klan is smashing vice and Limber Lunged Lew and he knows it. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

I in Indianapolis had the goods, and I bad a definite p'an. ......... . I The edito. refnsed So srvptC

; from this plan and become a party

to tipping off" the entire -underworld that the lid was going on, and waited for fotty-eigbt hours until the Klan'was ready to strike. Instead of furnishing just a mere list, evidence, affidavits were furnished and actual arrests resulted.

Berry Hudson is held in jail. Giliey i inaueuratine what will b a nersis-

gation be called. He will get more ; is an ullegad. Klansman, and mem-, tent, steady, cleanup, with all cases than ho asked for. I ber of the detective association, and I disposed of as they are hailed before Let us analyze Limber Lunged i Berry Hudson is a miner, and mem- the bar of justice. .

Lew's letter. It will be noted he , ber of the local miners union. The ' attest -tt&ftdisiduaSv-'n4

Prosecutor Thompson presented minor cases WiU.b:P9Wetf'&y,'pre-

EFFORTS TO BLOCK SALE OF FIERY CROSS 1 OHIO CITY TO BE FOUGHT OUT

WELL-KNOWN SUPERINTENDENT

OF SERVICE FEELS WRATH OF LOWRY

Battle to a Finish at Tiffin, Ohio, for Freedom of Press

Paul P. Sullivan, alleged Klansman, superintendent of service at

the Claypool hotel, known to thousands of traveling men, and enjoying the respect and admiration of In

dianapolis business men, has been discharged from his position as superintendent of service at the

Claypool hotel in this. city.

This action follows shortly after

the publication of his name as an alleged Klansman In "Tolerance," American Unity League publication.

Shortly after this publication,

Henry W. Lawrence, president and general manager of the Indiana Hotel Company, operators of the Clay

pool i hotel, and H. W. Lowry, attorney for the hotel, demanded of Sullivan that he sign an affidavit that stated in substance, "that being duly sworn upon his oath, that he, Sullivan, superintendent of service of the

Claypool hotel, had been employed at

the hotel for more than seven years, and that he further stated on his oath that he was not at that time,

and had never been affiliated with an organization known as tne Ku Klux Klan." Sullivan was also asked to (Continued on Page 8. Corsmn 2)

NOTRE DAME

WOULD DEBATE AMERICANISM

asked lor the addresses of the bootleggers in Indian:! polis, but he also made no promiue that upon these names beirrg supplied him he would cause the bootleggers so exposed to be immediately arrested and prosecuted for violation of the law. Naturally comes the question as to whether or not Low wanted these addresses for the purpose ot prosecuting bootleggers and criminals. The questions following then are: Why did Limber Lunged Lew want the address list? Is he contemplating the purchase of another farm? Does he anticipate the need of another limousine? Is he interested in

raising a campaign lund to asaas-

the matter to Judge M. S. Hastings

and Judge Hastings promptly issued a call Monday when court opened, calling the grand jury to meet today to take up the investigation. The grand jury for the April term of court will be used. Its members are: Joseph C. O'Brien, Bogard township; U. G. Barnes, Steele township; Charles Gold, Reeve township; Carleton M. Lee, Washington township; Lew Core, Elmore township, and Friend B. Colbert, Veale township. All members of the grand jury are farmers. Coroner U. H. Holder held an in

quest in the killing at 9 o'clock Fri-

sinate the character of the native- day morning at his office. Some eight

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WHO IS WHO?

(By Staff Correspondent) Columbus, Ohio., April 25. During the past week all three of the travel

ing newsboys for the Fiery Cross,

who are touring the utate in the interests of the paper, have been placed under arrest. Wayne A; Schull and

Harmon Titus, both of Indianapolis,

were arrested Wednesday at Vtt&n

Ohio, on a charge of "disturbing the

peace." Friday George A. Tipps, In

dianapolis, was placed under arrest

at the Union station in Columbus, ac

cused of "soliciting business in an

offensive manner."

Tonight at 7 o'clock the trial of

Schull and Titus opened before Mayor Adolph Unger, when the defendants pleaded not guilty. A re

port of the evidence presented by the state and the defense, put on by

Attorney Clarence Benadum, formerly of Muncie, Ind., but now of Columbus,

who figured in the Springfield trials, could not be obtained before press time. Benadum is also defending Tipps, whose case will be heard before Municipal Judge Edward F. Berry, here, Thursday morning. Wednesday Schull and Titus were sent to Tiffin to sell The Fiery Cross. They knew that Tiffin is one of the

hardest communities in the entire

Buckeye state to interest in a Protes

tant paper. At 8:20 In the morning the young men appeared, on Washing

ton street and In the way natural to news vendors started to shout that

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SURROUND KLAN SPEAKER AT SOUTH BENT) OPEN MEETING

Mammoth Crowd Packs Hall to Hear Tenets of Real Americanism Discussed

(By Staff Correspondent.)

South Bend, Ind., April 21. Stu

dents from Notre Dame University,

the largest Catholic college in the

country, crowded about an anony

mous speaker at a monster Klan

celebration here, and demanded that

the question of 100 per cent Ameri

canism, as defined by the speaker, be

made a subject for debate.

Except for a little heckling, the !

meeting, the first advertised open

meeting the Ku Klux Klan has held

here, progressed with no disorder. At the conclusion of the speakers' re

marks, the students threw a semicircle about him, and urged that the reference to 100" per cent Americanism be debated on a public rostrum. The speaker conversed with the men mildly, refusing to be drawn into a heated argument. Meeting the challenge for a joint meeting at which a Klansman and a Catholic representative could take part, the speaker said undoubtedly the Indiana headquarters would be willing to as

sign a speaker for that purpose. Place hall, the largest auditorium

In the city, was filled to overflowing,

Hondhtlla Announced Mm lmrnsin

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The following is a list of Roman

Catholics in Indianapolis, toge;her with a listing of the business they

are in, and their addresses. Read

ers are demanding tnis lnrormation

since "Tolerance" began publishing alleged Klan lists: 1. Joseph A. Uink, president of Rink's Cloak House, 33 North Illi

nois street. 2. Wm. W. Lowry, attorney for Claypool Hotel, also general practice office, 715 Lemcke building. Residence, 825 West Drive, Woodruff place. The Claypool hotel is the headquarters of the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish B'nai B'rith and propagation headquarters for both. 3. Mike Moroney, president and general manager Yellow Cab Company, 522 N. Delaware street. 4. Wm. M. Fogarty, president Fidelity Trust Company, 148 E. Market street. Residence, 1716 N. Meridian street. 5. R. E. Handlon, garment clean

er. 430 Blake street. Residence, 702 Blake street.

6. Dr. R. L. Bosler, dentist, 507

Hume-Mansur building. Residence,

1805 N. Talbott avenue. 7. C. E. Kaser, manager Quick Tire Service, Meridian at North. 8. Daniel G. Moran, Moran Trucking Co.; 127 S. East street. Residence, 506 N. Fulton. 9. J. P. Mullally, diamond impor

ter, street floor, L. S. Ayres & Co., Meridian and Washington streets.

Residence, 3045 Washington Blvd

10. George "Barb" Rice and Frank

"Pitty" Pittman, owners Pittman

Coal Co., 102 S. LaSalle. 11. John Kilcoyne, with John Rleman, 203 Massachusetts avenue, florist. Residence, 2114 N. Talbott avenue.

12. John J. Bulger, grocer, 2501

or ten coal miners who were present

at the time Giliey was shot were called as witnesses. An argument on the question of whether a member of the Ku Klux Klan rnnlri he a member of the Unit-

ed Mine Workers' union and comply

with the constitution of the union is said to have precipitated the murder of W. M. Giliey, thirty-four years old, of 307 Oak street, Thursday night. Berry Hudson, sixty-four, of South Washington, a fellow miner, is

in jail charged with the crime. The shooting took place about '8 o'clock

Thursday night in a meeting ot the Green Mound local ot the United Mine Workers at the Moose hall in the presence of twenty or more members of the local.

Hudson is said to have fired point

blank at Giliey from a distance of

not more than four or five feet. The

bullet entered Gilley's head Just

above the right eye. He died at 12:45 o'clock this morning at the Daviess county hospital.

Hudson, after being disarmed by

other men at the meeting, walked from the building and escaped to his home at South Washington when others in the room directed their at

tention to the wounded miner. The room was soon cleared of men, it is said, excepting Chris Osha, Ted, Holt, Orel Manuel and a Mr. Gardner, who

remained with the prostrate form of Giliey. While Giliey was being hurried to the hospital in the Gill ambulance for medical treatment, officers, both city and county, including constables of the Daviess County Detective Association, set out on Hudson's traiL They went at once to Hudson's home, a short distance east ot the Wallace grocery store on the road that leads

east from South Washington, but Hudson was not found. Officers did not know it, but at that very time Hudson was tn hiding in a field nearby. After all the other officers had left he approached Henry Burkhardt, patrolman, who was on guard at the rear of the home, and but(Continued on Pace 6, Column S)

senting to the grand Jury the more important cases of every angle of vice and law violation, from petty baseball pool selling and dealing in "hip liquor" to protected vice and civic graft, which will be uncovered, with startling revelations and exposure of conditions in the capital city. While Limber Lunged Lew was making a monkey of himself at Washington park last Thursday, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were

gathering evidence of the actual operation of baseball pool3 which opened on that day, and for which Klan investigators had been waiting. While Limber Lunged Low was entertaining "the boys from Louisville" Thursday night, Klan investigators were securing the names of police officers and their actual presence throughout the various saloons v and resorts In the- city, and securing? evidence involving policemen from;the rank of captain down to patrol-' j men. It was certainly worth waiting for, and behind a smoke screea of "no evidence," and "a list of 63;.-, which the whole Indianapolis gangSe fell for, the Knights of the Ku Klux' Klan went out and made a clean31'"-

sweep, showing up the Annltagsi crowd by outguessing Limber Lungeft'" Lew and the law violators. Aetion Fnlly Decided Upon in Con ference When it was found that Limbfef Lunged Lew with his brass bafixr?i methods had caused the lid to be6"1 clamped on tight, the Klan touM' that the word had gone out to "Bit", tight," and knowing that the base-'' ball pools would open Thursday,?: af conference was held and tt was de-,-cided that a "smoke screen" shouWr be thrown out sufficient to loosen up?1, and get evidence on - the basebair. pools, in addition to the mass of definite information and affidavits' already at hand. Witi the moral courage of its con-. victions the Knights- of the-Ku- Klux Klan became the butt of. ridicule for

forty-eight hours and were more than

repaid fay the: town opening np and

letting tne investigators at them in wholesale fashion. Thursday and Friday, and with the further result that in twenty-four hours it has become

as hard to buy a ticket is a baseball pool in Indiana polls as It is to aectrrs a drink--ot-cold water in tbe center ot the- Sahara, tfesert,- aadwUkvtIia . further result that -wlthtxrtwe&ty-&tnr hours there wasbroken up, what promised to be tb greatest gambling-season-eve -carried. sj4n a cRjtra . the Central' West-Tnls under tfca -very nose of the Indianapolis police ' and detective departments,-and unaided by them. . . Arrests According to Sebednle1'-" Deciding to operate entirely- in co-"'"' (Continued on Fate Tr Column. tX ' '

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