Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1923 — Page 9

THE FIERY CROSS

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Friday, May 11, 1923 30,000 VIEW PARADE AT LOGANSPORT, IND.

Rail Officials Order All Traffic

Stopped During March of Klan

THEATER FILLS TO HEAR GIBSON

Loansport, Ind., May 7. Before tho biggest crowd in the history of this city, the Ku Klux Klan last Saturday night paraded the streets of Logansport, headed by a detail of police and four robed knights

mounted on horses and with visors lifted. Ung before the hour . for the parade to move thousands thronged t lie streets and it was estimated that more than oO.OOO persons viewed the procession, in which two automobiles carrying fiery crosses lighted by electricity took part. A fiery cross

was burned before the parade moved and one immediately after. Three bands and a drum corps furnished music for the occasion and Marion furnished a float. The bands wore from Wabash, Delphi and l-'ianUfort. Kailroad officials stopped all trains for the parade and officials of the city street car company held up all traffic over city lines. Approximately 1,200 men took part in the parade.

Bluffton, Ind., May 2. Rev. J. Walter Gibson of Muncle, Ind., de

livered a stirring and patriotic address on 100 per cent Americanism, using as his text. "Ideal Citizenship," to over 2,000 people in the local theater Sunday. Many were unable to secure admittance to this, the largest auditorium in the city. Klansmen in full re

galia occupied seats on the stage. A musical program preceded the address of Rev, Gibson. The Wells Mando stringed orchestra rendered several musical selections, 'and an unknown Klansman sang "Hold Thou My Hand, Dear Lord."

The musical service included an

anthem by the entire audience, singing "America," led by J. E. Pritchard of Bluffton. The meeting was closed with the singing of. "The Star Spangled Banner."

This is one of the first and most enthusiastic Klan meetings held in this section and it is taken as evidence of widespread and remarkable interest shown in the Klan movement by citizens of this community. That there is a large and well organized organization operating in this vicinity is assured.

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COLUMBUS KLAN HAS BIG PARADE (Continued from Page 1, Column 2) Tarbell of Brown county.

The injunction was made out to

one "J. Edward Clymes," secretary of

the Columbus Klan. Efforts of deputy sheriffs to serve the injunction on "Clymes" in person were futile. Efforts of the sheriffs, police and newspapermen to locate the

headquarters of the organization or anyone connected with it, to learn what counter action would follow the

injunction, did not succeed. The In

visible Empire in Columbus is invisible. Judge Leaves City Shortly after the granting- of the injunction, Judge Tarbell left the city, and thus. Klan lawyers who

were preparing to argue for its dissolution did not succeed in reaching him. Since "Clymes" could not be located, deputies were ready to serve the injunction on the marshal of the parade when the line of march arrived at the driving park. But the Klan went one better. Although under some technicalities, they could

have occupied the park, because the

secretary of the organization was not located for serving the papers, the order demonstrated that they believed in abiding by the spirit of the

law as well as its specific provisions. No efforts were made to enter the park, and it was not necessary to serve any papers.

Thus with the park taken away at

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SHANK TRIES TO BALK ENFORCEMENT (Continued fr6m Page 1, Column 7) speeding, for which he, rather than reveal his identity, pled guilty and paid a fine, after having been given a ride to police headquarters In the patrol wagon, indicates clearly that the police department actually depends on the acts of the Klan investigators to give it sontething to do.

Further proof of protected vice, and diligent efforts of the police are borne out by the police "night riding

squad' which stopped Klan investigators Saturday night who jwere

operating in the neighborhood of West Eleventh street and Brook avenue. The investigators were-searched and ordered to "stay out" of the district and furthermore to "tell all

those Klan investigators to stay away." That, "the police department, and particularly the police 'night riding squad,' were taking care of law enforcement, did not

want ana .would not tolerate any outside assistance." We gladly snbmit to an intelligent public that this action by the night riding squad was in the neighbor

hood of Brook avenue and Eleventh street, which was indicated by testimony In police court as being a "good corner," and that the bootlegger could sell here during the hours that Patrolman Hartley was on duty. It was also pointed out In testimony in police court that, "Those damn Kluxers were making it tough

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could not enter the park, stopped by white-robed guards, were at a loss where to go to get in the line of march, even when directed. A traffic jam unprecedented in Columbus history, kept more than half the robed Klansmen out of the uarade. 2,100 in Line Although the Ohio State Jurnal for

Saturday, to satisfy its Catholic clientele, had a prejudiced story.

saying that less than a thousand men were in line, when 3,000 were promised; and The Citizen, to please its hosts of colored readers, could count only 741. Actual count showed 2,100 robed Klansmen, not counting the nine officials on horseback. From Livingston avenue and High street, starting at 9 o'clock the Klansmen -marched thirteen blocks

northward to Naghten street, on High street and then countermarched. At the starting point the parade broke up and Klansmen in

special street cars and automobiles made their way as rapidly as possible

in the traffic jam to "Smith's Forty

Acres," two miles east of the city limits, where the naturalization took place. With Visors Up The parade was headed by national and state officers on horses. They rode with their visors up. Following was an automobile on the front of which was an electrically lighted fiery cross. Then followed the

Newark Knights of Pythias band.

Klansmen marched four abreast instead of only by pairs, as has been done in all previous Ohio parades. Chief of Police Harry E. French called out the third battalion of jpolice, composed of fifty men, in "addition to the other officers on duty at parade time. Half the mounted squad were on duty and at headquarters about sixty members of the traf

fic division were held in reserve in ! the event of trouble. Plain clothes men were spread throughout the line of march and j through the colored districts. It was I feared that some radical negroes j.might organize a demonstration and i police were ready to nip it in the

bud should such take place. "I do not contemplate any trouble from the Klansmen," the chief declared, "but some hothead in the crowd might heave a brick and then there would be trouble. I have called out the extra men only to maintain law and order.

Knights of the Kn Klux Klan are ready to show the white flag and

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Summers, lieutenant of police, assigned to Chief Rikhoff's office, who

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the Ku Klux Klan has definite evidence of cases where raids were to

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Orderly Demonstration Traffic Sergeant Reisland, at the conclusion of the parade, said that

in the many years he had been in the

j police department, this was the-most i orderly demonstration he had ever

witnessed. Cheers and handclapning greeted the head of the line all along the route. Klansmen who were standing among the spectators, asserted that never had they heard so little comment, pro or con, about a demonstration. Everyone who had been downtown

endeavored to get to' the naturalization field, scrit seemed. It was about 1 1 o'clock when green and red flares were lighted, marking the area in

which the new citizens would be

taken into the Invisible Empire.

The discharge of rockets, heard

and seen from the city, showed many

where the place of ceremony was

located. Star shells and gropn lights

threw into weird effect the thousands of Klansmen who, hand to hand, formed an enormous circle, keeping back the public. The exhibition of fireworks has never before been equaled at an Ohio klonvocation. Three large "K's." erected on framework, brought

cheer upon cheer from the crowd' when "their red light blazed forth. A large fiery cross in fireworks around which were exploding numerous

Roman candles, was another unique feature-. Candidates Admitted Finally the candidates were ad

mitted to the inner circle, and col

lected around a truck -en which was

erected an altar and from which' the oaths were given through a megaphone. A second circle of Klansmen was formed and then thirty picked

men stood guard over the candidates.

Just before the new men were

taken into citizenship, a national of

fleer, addressing the xniblle, said that

the Klan as an organization was fre

quently persecuted, "Sometimes

this persecution comes in the form of depriving us of legally leased grounds for ceremonies - at the

KLAN WELCOMED

BY OHIO MAYOR

(Continued from Page 1, Column 2)

guards in keeping a crowd of spectators estimated at 5,000 from ap proaching closer than 200 yards.

Profusion of Flags

All crossroads for several miles

around the village were posted with

Klansmen bearing American flags,

who directed motorists to the farm

Flags also were scattered profusely

among the paraders.

Refreshments were served in the city hall during the afternoon and

evening and a large sign bearing the inscription, "Welcome, "K. K. K.,"

hung over the door of the building.

Shortly after noon the Klansmen and candidates began to arrive in automobiles and on the interurban line from Cleveland. By midafternoon downtown thoroughfares were almost impassable.

Huge Cross Burns During the parade a fiery cross, twenty-five feet high, was burned upon Grove hill overlooking the town. The . procession was led by officials marching in the form of a cross. The parade was orderly and there was no friction between the crowds and the

marchers. The actual marching began about 10:45. When interviewed in regard to the parade Mayor Leslie Wyckoff said:

"I granted permission for the parade and, so far as I know, they are welcome to come back tojChagrin Falls.

It was certainly an orderly affair. You can't deny that." The members of the Klan began motoring into the village early in the evening on all the roads from

every direction. Many came from

Cleveland, and quite a few of the automobiles bore Lakewood name-

plates under the Ohio license tags.

Other towns from which the men came were Warren, Ravenna, Akron,

Chardon. Cuyahoga Falls, Paines

ville, Ashtabula, and virtually every

city in the northeastern Ohio district. A. banner bearing the inscription

"Welcome, K. K. K.," flew from the

flagstaff of the town hall as the

marchers filed by.

eleventh hour," he asserted, to the cheers of everyone within hearing. It was a holy patriotism that prompted men to become Klansmen, the speaker continued. After outlining the things for which the order stood, the speaker declared that anyone who was against the Klan was against America and what it stood

tor.

Fifteen Hundred Initiated

The three sections of the Klan

oath were given by three different

Klansmen. Exactly 1,500 Franklin

county men were taken in.

While the oath was being given a forty-foot fiery cross was -burned to the right of the altar. Two silk

A m a tan A o era a rct 1 1 trTi t a tralnaH nn

them, fluttered in the breeze during

the entire ceremony. -. Thursday night eight crosses were burned at Linden, at the northeast extremity of Columbus, as, a Klan call to the ceremony. While members 'were erecting xM cross in an open field, a farmer, whose ideas do not run on the American track, discharged a load of buckshot. One of

the men was slightly wounded in the hand and ear. The criminal could

not be located later whea search was

made for him. J

partment to render protection to

known bootleggers and BellerS ot

baseball pool privileges. . That his

action are in the nature, of protection of law violators rather than the apprehension of them is a foregone conclusion. Attempt to "Get" Worley The next step in blocking law enforcement and rendering protection

to known criminals and law violators is an action set up to "get" Captain Claude Worley. Realizing that Capt. Worley, the one-man police department of Indianapolis, who is operating as special investigator assigned to Prosecuting Attorney Wm. P. Evans' office, and

who is making all arrests on Klan information, aided by Sheriff George Snider, an effort has been made to discredit him, and secure his removal from the police department, on ridiculous and absurd statements by a discredited politician, Republican County Chairman W. H. Freeman. The first step in this delightful little farce comedy, which is an insult

to the intelligent people of Indianapolis, was a meeting last week in which "Limber Lunged Lew" Shank gave orders to Chief Rikhoff, who in turn issued orders to the effect that "tongue-wagging" and "political talk" among officers must stop immediately. It is significant that this order was issued last week and that immediately following a statement was given out by W. H. Freeman, known Shank adherent, whose own alleged criminal acts are under investigation. This statement purported to conect Capt.

Worley in a "political plot," involv

ing conversation of a "political" na

ture between Capt. Worley and Wm. H. Jackson (Big Jack), and Henry

Fleming, colored politicians. Both of these colored citizens are under indictment in the criminal court on gambling charges,. definite cases, evidence on which was secured by Capt. Worley. On the statement of these two irresponsible individuals Freeman issues a remarkable interview to the newspapers and "Limber Lunged Lew" Shank immediately announces that an investigation will be made of "the reported political activities of Capt. Worley along political lines."

If this trumpedup and perfectly obvious "frame" of Capt. Worley

were true, he would not only have !

violated a "phony" and "fake" order

issued by Limber Lunged Lew, but would probably be in direct con

tempt of court for having had dealings of this character and conversa

tion of such a nature with two known criminals under indictment in criminal court. These utterly

futile and ridiculous efforts of course mean nothing. Worley was not

called before the Board of Public

Safety, but Tuesday was arbitrarily

reduced to the rank of "sergeant,"

after a long wrangle and executive

session of the board behind closed

doors. The "reduction" of Capt.

Worley to "sergeant" followed the attempt to remove him arbitrarily from the police department, which

failed for nothing else but the lack of courage to go through with it.

The slap at Capt. Worley by '(reduction" to "sergeant" was as far as Limber Lunged Lew dared to go at this time, and is merely an attempt to discredit Worley in his efforts to co-operate with American citizens in law enforcement. No one, least of all The Fiery CroSs, intends

to recognize such a ridiculous ac

tion, and Claude Worley will continue in these columns at least to be Captain Worley. The entire mat

ter just emphasizes the whole action as a direct political bid for the support of anti-Klan and un-American forces. Freeman, Republican county chairman, issued a statement stating that he "deplored the pernicious activi

ties of a certain group who ignorantly trampled under foot the sacred rights and principles of the bill of rights." In the same statement he notified the whole wide world that

as county chairman he represented.

not the American people, but a small class or crowd of -politicians and discredited individuals, not even

having the loyalty of heart to state

rffatly and frankly that he represented

only the Republican party.

War Declared by the American Unity League Simultaneously with this remark

able anti-law enforcement activity

came the organization, at a closed

meeting in the Denison Hotel Mon

day night, of the local American

Unity League. Of course the name of "Mad" Pat O'Donnell does

not appear, after having been

driven to the foreign city of Chicago

bv Klan activities. The organization

of the "Local American Unity League" of Marion county is an open

declaration of war on the Protestant

and American citizens of Marion

county, and is but the forming of the

battle lines, in an attempt by alien

opposition to block law enforcement

by American citizens.-

Coming at this time it is timely

and emphasizes the demand by Joe

Roach, known assassin, in his efforts

to block the law enforcement pro

gram. Any comment is remperea ay

oity and regret that tnree outstana-

ing and High-grade gentlemen sucn

as Daniel Foley. Ex-senator jonn j

(Jerry) Liddy, ot the Indianapolis Union Railway, as well as Ferdinand

Montani. commander of the Skid-

more Dean Post of the American Leeion. should become involved and

lend their support to such an infam

ous program.

This action is emphasized by it3

following the action of County Chairman Freeman in his declaration

against the Protestant American citizens of Indianapolis and -is inspired

bv Jo Roach, fiscal agent for the

American Unity League, iinaer pres

sure from the underworld of-radian

aDolis. to deliver the goods ana se

cure an easing up of law enf orce-

ment, is pointed out. It also parallels

the. Dolitical "ambitions, ot James EL

Deery, ex-judge of . the city court, who was selected as president at the meeting, along with Dr. J. H. Ward,

colored, who was selected as- vice

Dresident. . - -

Nothing could be more tlinely or

could emphasize more greatly and

more emphatically just what the situation is la Indianapolis. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan welcome these activities, even .though it be a declaration of war upon them, Joseph P. O'Mahony, member of the finance committee, at the meeting Monday night, is responsible for the statement that the organization will establish branches In every ward

ana precinct in tne county and a demand will be made for the resignation of every city, county or state

omcial who Is a member of the Knights of the Ku Klax Klan. He stated that this removal would be sought through the courts and that the local organization of the American Unity League represented 150,000 of Marlon county citizens, exclusively Catholic, Jew and Negro. That it does represent less than 1,500 persons of the Roman Catholic Faith is admitted, and that it does

not represent the Jewish and Catholic people of Indianapolis is pointed out. Telephone calls and letters tn

and houses of 111 repute in the city -of Indianapolis. There Is only one answer to this question -which is emphasized by the further inactivity of . the police department, and that is. because their hands are tied,, and that they dare not move in the direction of law enforcement. With Klan investigators, strangers to the city, and with a lone captain of police and deputy sheriff makine the

entire Indianapolis police department look like a small, black deuce, the situation is only emphasized. In the meantime the Klan investigation department 1s' marking - time and steadily bringing pressure to bear, together with gathering additional evidence involving "higher ups," even administration officials. That an attempt will be made to force their hand within the next week is apparent. But the investigation department of the Klan have proven and established the fact that they follow a fixed line of campaign and

retuse to be swerved m this direction

that the entire state be rid of crimeinfested districts.

OHIO CHURCH PACKED TO HEAR SPEAKER

thtfi nftina nf ilia Via.w .. . l .

: , r-" " " e or mat direction at thi3 time, or in basis ior the statement that it rep-1 the future, and will continue the Inresents no one except a small body ; dianapolis program, along with other ot men representine no oninlnn lint ' fit; n,v, .f jc

41 , m. 4 , , ; mi UUftUUUl IUC B14XIC, Ull UCU"

Jla . "al ' u?es represent nite conclusive evidence, to the end

uciiium: jjiufcrum io diock law en-

torcement by the Klan, and that it does represent un-Ameriean and alien political interests is a wellknown fact, and emphasized by its organization at this time. Klan Program Proceeds Steadily and Merrily On With a 50-gallon still confiscated in the heart of the city: and another

500-gallon still located on Pershing avenue, together with the capture of

a niacK ana tan ' taxicah contain

ing two negroes and one white woman, as it was attempting to pull away from a bootlegging joint that was being raided, the Klan investigation continues, with nine convictions for illegal selling of liquor, which all received sentences ranging from fines of $200 and costs and sixty days on the penal farm, to $100

and costs and thirty days on the penal farm, with not a single case lost in the city court, are the outstanding features of the week's activities in the Klan law enforcement program. Twenty-odd arrests were made, not

including one for which the police department themselves claimed credit, and-two more bootleggers were bound, over to the grand jury, together with nine convictions for pool selling. Six other men charged

wun otner onenses now awaitine

trial are the additional statistics in connection with Klan activities. Limber Lunged Lew does not accept this, however, as evidence of law violation and gives instructions to the night riding squad and police officers to stop the pernicious activities of the Klan investigators. The

question arises of why it is that the I police department, who are paid by j the citizens of Indianapolis, do not !

Dusy tnemselves in cleaning up protected vice, bootlegging, gambling

Baltimore, Ohio, May 4. The United Brethren Church was crowded to the walls last Sunday night, listening to the sermon in which cowards, unpatriotic citizens and weak-kneed Protestants were receiving their portion in due season from the minister, Frank P. George. The sermon subject . "Ninety-Nine Per Cent True-Blue One Per Cent Yellow," had attracted this great audi

ence, but right in the midst of the sermon, five white-robed friends walked to the altar, knelt and prayed for the church, the community, the minister and his loyal people, after which Mr. George was presented with a beautiful silk flag, a Bible and- a substantial check. On the envelope was written these words, "From the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." The scene was one of the most beautiful and impressive that has taken place in Baltimore. Reports came early the next morning that these same mysterious

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TTHAT

READ ! DOES THE SEED

NATION

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