Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1923 — Page 11

Friday, July 13, 1923

THE FIERY CROSS PAGE ELEVEN

POLICE CHIEF CUTS DOWN FIERY CROSS

Act of Alien Fails to Mar Celebration of Klansmen Big Class Is Initiated

ASHTABULA, O., July 10. The

Ashtabula and Lake Counties Klan ushered in the Fourth of July celebration held at Perry park along Lake Erie by the burning of fiery crosses and the firing of bombs In the public parks at Willoughby, Painesville, Ashtabula and Conneaut. Saturday evening and by a lecture on the lawn at Fairview Inn on Tuesday evening by a national lec

turer for the organization. More than fifteen hundred attended the lecture. Fairview Inn Js located oh the main road between Painesville and Cleveland and about three miles west of Painesville. Chief of Police Maloney, a Catholic, cut the cross down at Willoughby, but a score or more men standing nearby picked it up and paraded down the main street of the town. No trouble was experienced at any of the other places. Chief Maloney has shown much interest in the activities of the La"ke County Klan even going as far as to come

up into the hall recently while the ladies were holding a meeting In Willoughby. He was Informed by cne of the lady members of Willoughby that she carried a little whistle and when she needed him she would use the whistle. All-Dny Rally The meeting at Perry Park was an all-day rally held by the Ashtabula and Lake Counties Klan for members, their families and guests.

Perry park is located along Lake Erie and is one of the -finest parks east of Cleveland. Dancing, bathing and fishing and plenty of shade can he found at this park. The road

leading from the main highway to the park was marked on either side by American flags. About eight thousand people attended. The electric cross used during the ceremony at which a large class of candidates were initiated, is the only

one of its kind in use, being constructed of sanded glass, same being twenty feet high and ten inches wide, with red bulb3. The power plant carried on a truck, which also furnished power for a huge searchlight. The Lake and Ashtabula counties

organizations are growing very

fast. '

SPRINGFIELD SCENE OF DISGRACEFUL ACT (Continued from Page i)

attending the funeral of a fellow member, Wm. F. Swegert, at Fern-

cliff cemetery. When Sergeant Norton, Imp of Satan, and the Springfield police, sweating under the heat of the day and under righteous indignation for their failure to stop the organization of the Klan In Springfield, had borne In his mind, that fertile field of iniquity, the in

spired Idea to humiliate and heap Indignity upon a small body of American citizens.

First, a telephone call to Chief

O'Brien at the lake, where he Is recovering from the shock of his recent encounter with the Klan, then

orders to all traffic cops to desert traffic and report to headquarters, then orders to city automobiles

owned by the taxpayers to re

port to headquarters, then four loads of burly cops under orders to proceed to Ferncliff cemetery to arrest these men for unlawful action In burying a deceased brother.

A big Klan meeting was held at Boone, Iowa, June 18, and 200" robed

men and 1,000 men and women, from

Ames, were present. The demonstra

tion was witnessed by a thousand

people present to. see the parade.

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No "Arrests" Could Be Made On arriving at the cemetery, the arresting officers (of whom there can be no criticism because they were under orders) telephoned Imp Norton, agent of Satan, that they

could not arrest a body of peaceful law-abiding citizens, and again the

order was repeated, and again, not

once but three times.

Men In uniform advised Chief Imp

Norton that they could not carry out

the orders of his Satanic Majesty:

Chief O'Brien, and it was then, under threat of immediate dismissal from

the force, that 72 Klansmen, marching down the streets of Springfield, with their visors up, their- arms folded in front of them, following the Stars and Stripes and headed

by a chaplain with the Holy Bible, the Word of God, in his hands, were arrested on a charge of "disorderly conduct." Amidst a throng of sympathizers, orderly and quiet, however, in this formation they marched to the county jail. Realizing what a terrific and monumental blunder he had made and the tremendous reaction of public sentiment which

greeted his act, Sergeant Norton

then issued an order to divest them

of their regalia, but only under protest were they permitted to Tetain

their robes, the emblem of purity

and the Bible, inspiration of their

creed, and their flag, symbolic of

their Americanism. Under bonds of over $1,000, furnished by Attorney J. Fred Ander

son, who, with unusual foresight and with his usual alacrity In look

ing after the interests of the Klan, and who was on hand, they were permitted to go.

were naturalized Monday night, which can only add emphasis to the entire disgraceful and abhorrent affair..: - Norton's Inspiration Possibly Sergeant Norton, Imp of Satan, has just read about the re--markable gathering of the Spring

field Klan In its first annual picnic July 4th, at which over 30,000 Klansmen and theirfriends were gathered together to celebrate In a patriotic

and American manner the signing of

the Declaration of Independence.

That a majority of the criticism was heaped upon Chief Imp Norton Is evident because he was father to the thought, but the guiding hand and Inspiration of Chief R. E. O'Brien was evidenced by direct telephone

connection from headquarters and Indiana lake, where he Is recovering from the recent shock of the Klan attack and successful offensive to his

illegal arrest of Worley Cotner last

spring.

That the people of Springfield of

the same religious faith as Chief O'Brien are hearty in their con

demnation of the entire affair is evi

dent and that a movement Is under way fostered by his own adherents to have him removed is evident on every hand. Acts that reflect on the

general rank and file so seriously as this last episode are not only re

gretted but resented by good Catho

lies, good Jews and good negroes alike and every good citizen regard

less of their race or creed.

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Believed That Crowd of 150,000

Will Be Present at Big Klonclave

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Public Reaction Sets In The only disorderly conduct was that of a poor collie dog, who, in the

absence of police protection, got caught in the traffic jam and was

killed while barking at . the wheels of an automobile.

The only orderly, and decent thing

about the entire affair was the

majesty and dignity of the Klansmen themselves, and the order In which

their sympathizers dispersed when it was called to their attention by

Attorney Anderson that regardless of their motives and friendship, it might be said that their presence

there might be taken as intent of

acts was not entirely lawful.

It is thought that the terrific wave

of indignation from Jew, Catholic and negro alike, which swept ovr Springfield as nothing has ever swept over a town and become so unanimous before. This was only emphasized by Judge Golden C. Davis in the hearing Saturday morning in which he pointed out that both the local news

papers had misquoted him in reference to his decree in the former trial of Cotner and that the Imp of Satan had "guessed wrong again." Chief Imp Sergeant Norton stated that the arrests were made under the ruling that provides "that three or four 'masked' men assembled constitutes disorderly conduct."

Judge Davis emphatically pointed

fout that there was nothing in his

previous charge that could be so in

terpreted, as he cited Sec. 1280 of

the General Code, which provides

"Three or more persons who unite or combine together to commit a

misdemeanor while wearing masks

are guilty of a felony.

mat tuese Klansmen are un

doubtedly guilty of a heinous of

fense, because no one could deny that the last funeral rites at the

graveside of a deceased brother was a "misdemeanor," and no one could deny that the wearing of the regalia of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

with visors up, constituted the

'wearing of masks with Intent to

commit a felony." Oh, no, this

could not be true any more than to

hazard the lives of Springfield's citizens, in order to carry out their das-; tardly hate campaign constituted

misfeasance in office.

The entire affair is too shameful.

regrettable and ridiculous to even emphasize by pointed sarcasm, and If any of the newspapers think that

anything happened In Springfield

worthy of note, It 1b simply the fact that the time has come in America

and particularly In Springfield, Ohio,

when a few self-constituted agents of Satan, imps of Hell, let their own

vindictive hate so take possession of

their souls that they prostitute the

offices which they hold, and from

which the people of Springfield will

certainly relieve them.

It is only another link in the chain

of evidence which discloses a private

hate, and will discredit, dishonor and heap ignominy on Chief of Po

lice O'Brien and his unworthy co

horts, Norton and Fisher, and all

their Ilk, Twelve thousand citizens emphasize the necessity for such an organization and the reaction of the pub

11a mind Is so great that 2,000 more

BUCKEYE LAKE, O., July 11. We guessed the crowd at Kokomo at 200,000, opposition newspapers agreed that the crowd was there. We

estimate - in advance that 150,000

Klansmen will make the Ohio Klon

clave the greatest ever held in the Buckeye state, and even greater than

the Indiana Klonclave in that this will represent practically the gathering of Ohio's hosts of Klandom alone.

It is doubtful if there ever has

been as great an assemblage of

Klansmen anywhere gathered within the bounds of a single state, aa will

be present at Buckeye lake.

Bands from Columbus, Zanesville.

Springfield, Newark and other cities

will be present and arrangements

made will cover the gauntlet of ram

pant patriotic expression, serious-

minded sober business to the Mardi

gras spirit of entertainment. Traffic Jam Unexpected Taking lessons from the handling of the crowd at Kokomo, which even under the conditions was - laudable, traffic guards expect to handle the crowds of Buckeye lake even better. It is believed that at the Klonclave

at 12 o'clock noon, Thursday, at least 100,000 people will be on the grounds, and arrangements are being made to handle this vast assembly, expeditiously, efficiently and comfortably to all. At the same time a meeting of the Women's Organization will be held at Summerlin, directly across from

Buckeye lake, where Lancaster

Klanswomen will act as guards.

'H00CH' IS GROWING SCARCE IN CALDWELL CALDWELL, O., July 10. Since the organization of the order of the

Ku Klux Klan in Noble county some! months ago, there has been a surprising change In the betterment of the moral conditions of this entire section. Where, places of vice existed

previous to the organization there

is now respectability, where once

there existed places of Questionable character there is now purity, where

there but recently existed places of gambling there is now "cloBed shop." Through the existence of the local

organization of the Klan practically

all operations in the illicit manu

facture of intoxicants have ceased.

with the result that "hooch4s be

coming, as it were, as scarce as hen's

teeth. The cleaning up of all these

places of vice, merely as the result of the presence of the organization of the Klan, has met with the hearty

approval and loudly expressed commendation of the church and better

element of this locality, and the or

ganization is being given -hearty

moral support by hundreds who are

not directly affiliated with the same.

Membership Grows Rapidly

The local organization is growing rapidly in membership, numbered among It being persons of the clergy,

business and professional men, men

who have retired from an active busi

ness career, the better class of labor

ers, farmers and men from practi

cally all the better walks of life.

Caldwell and Noble county are cer

tainly delighted because of the pres

ence of the organization of the Ku

Klux Klan, and the actions of the Klansmen have invariably met with

the approval and commendation of all well-thinking and fair-minded

people, all of whom wish the Klans

men godspeed tn their noble and

commendable acts.

Klansman Is Buried With Military Honors

HEN AND WOMEN ARE HELD IN BOOZE RAID

ANDERSON, ;ind., July 10. The funeral of John H. Ford was held

here on June 25 and the burial

made in the West Maplewood cemetery. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in Anderson. Mr. Ford died In the marine service at San Domingo on June 3. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan attended the services and were present at the burial. The American Legion furnished the firing squad, Mr. Ford having been buried with military honors. Mr. Ford was a Christian character and made many friends In Anderson and elsewhere. He is sur

vived by his parents and three brothers. .

Detective Association Aids in Arrests Near Connersrille Klan Gives Information

Flaming Cross Is

Seen at Maxwell

MAXWELL, la., July 10. The

flaming cross of the Invisible Empire was burned here recently in the park near the city limits.

Two persons Who went to the

scene found no one about They

knocked down the fiery symbol.

HOUSTON WAS MASON

Masons have been prominent in publlo life in Texas for seventy

years. Sam Houston, the first president of the republic of Texas, was a Mason. Three of the four presidents

of the republic of Texas, and 21 of the 25 governors of the state, have

been members of the craft.

MAKE PILGRIMAGE

Mount Vernon, Cassia and Sharon

Masonic lodges of Baltimore made a

pilgrimage recently to Alexandria

Va., to honor the memory of George

Washington, who was master of the

Masonic lodge there.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind., July 10. In a liquor raid which followed information furnished, by the Ku Klux Klan, and during which a running gun fight was engaged in by the opposing lorces one officer was

wounded. The raid took place at

Bear Creek ridge. In . the southern

part of Fayette county, early last Friday. Four persons, two men and

two women, are held here as a result of the raid, in which two large stills,, ten gallons of whisky, an automo

bile and 250 gallons of mash were seized. A posse of seventeen men, including twelve members of the

Fayette County Horsethief Detective

Association, made the raid. . Approx

imately seventy-five shots were ex

changed.

William Worster, member of the

Horsethief Detective Association, was shot in the right arm.

Fonr Are Held Cale Richmond, Lyda Hull, Henry

Allen and Mrs Estella Bfcivins are held as a result of the raids. Allen.

who is deaf and dumb, was found at the first still raided and the other three were in a one-room shack near the second still. The stills were the

largest and most complete ever seized in Fayette county.

Chief of Police Ketcham received

Information regarding the -stills, and

when he called on the Detective Association for aid twelve men responded. Four patrolmen also made the trip. Sheriff Haley and Deputy Sheriff Mettel were out of the city, but returned in time to aid in the raid on the second still. A truck was needed to haul the confiscated apparatus to this city. Considerable difficulty was experienced by the authorities in reaching the stills, which jwere situated in a mass of underbrush, through which the men were forced to crawl.

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Outline of Program

Officers of the organization will ad

dress the gathering in the afternoon,

sandwiched in between band concerts and glee clubs, while in the

evening a great public naturaliza

tion, in which it is expected 6,000

candidates from all over the state

will be taken into-the Invisible Em

pire. The honor of conducting this work will be accorded to the Spring

field Klan.

Outer guards of the organization

will be furnished by the Columbus

organization at the same time the

Springfield organization will furnish

the inner guards.

In the evening a fireworks display will be staged in the middle of the

lake on large barges, which are belng prepared to handle the large set i

pieces. Magnificence and splendor

will be the crowning climax of the

evening affair. Special trains on the

Ohio electric traction and special railroad trains and automobiles will bring the visitors from the four winds. Greetings from Indiana Klansmen to Ohio Klansmen will be

a feature of the occasion.

The Fiery G:

Is First in Klandom 80 of the People Literally millions of people in the Central Western States of America today are doing their own thinking. If we are to have a rebirth of political idealism it will be because the people themselves desire it. Undoubtedly, the most deadly foe of progress is giving way before enlightened interest in those opposing the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

BIG DEMONSTRATION

AT GERMANT0WN, 0.

Crowds Throng Streets to Wit

ness Parade Led by Klan Band and Horsemen

GERMANTOWN, O., July 7. Thou

sands of people crowded the streets

here Thursday of last week to witness a spectacular parade of over 500 Klansmen in full regalia. A uniformed Klan band, led by Klansmen

en horses, headed the parade. Although the weather was threatening and brought occasional showers, tt did not dampen the enthusiasm of the throngs that gathered along the line of march, and the paraders were cheered and applauded the entire time.

At the Miami Military Institute campus, where the parade disbanded a speaker of national fame spoke, on Americanism, and patriotism before

a crowd of from seven to ten thou

sand people, who gave him rapt at teation and much applause,

The opposition to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan is mere unreasoning prejudice. Everywhere, on every hand, is the sympathy and coordinated good will of 80 per cent of the people, who quietly keep their opinions to themselves, but who are nevertheless the deciding factor in the end. The Fiery Cross, the only Protestant newspaper in the Central West, gives facts to this greatbody of influentialcitizens, this great body of thinking Americans, and these facts are affirmatively received, by this vast percentage of Protestant minds, representing 80 per cent of the population. In nearly 200,000 homes live the readers of The Fiery Cross,

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