Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1923 — Page 7
Friday, July 20. 1923
THE FIERY CROSS
2,500 CANDIDATES IN CLASS NEAR DAYTON
Imperial Officers Present at Ceremony Held Last Week 15,000 Persons Attend
UN-AMERICAN UNITY LEAGUE AGENT ROUGH (Continued from Page" 1)
DAYTON, O., July 16. At a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan, which was held last Tuesday night west of Osborn, a class of 2,500 candidates were
Initiated into the organization. It is understood that officers from the Imperial Kloncilium in Atlanta took part in the ceremony. About 15,000 persons were in the crowd that viewed the ceremony. A Klan band furnished the music for the evening. Five thousand automobiles were parked within the enclosure in which the- ceremony was held and it took them three hours to file out of the gate. The Dayton delegation returned to the city about midnight. The machines filed down East Third street three abreast and the procession lasted almost an hour. Greene county had four hundred candidates in the class that was initiated.
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their families witnessed the ceremony, at which it was announced that another ""ceremonial would be held in about ten days, at which a class of five hundred candidates will be initiated. The state road on which the field is situated was blocked for a mile in either direction with automobiles of motorists who were eager to watch the proceedings. The speaker of the evening, in behalf of the organization, presented to the man who is chiefly responsible
for the wonderful growth of the Klan in this county a gold cross set with rubies. To Hold Demonstration It is planned to hold a monster demonstration on the day of the initiation of the next large class of candidates. It is said that Jennings county is one of the strongest counties, in proportion to its population,
in Indiana Klandom. The reprehensible action of those employed by the un-American League and its supporters here has caused a feeling among Protestants in this
vicinity that is adding greatly to the numbers now joining the organiza
tion.
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(Special to Fiery Cross) VERSAILLES, Ind., July 16. With the moral pressure of the Klan being felt in this county and Sheriff Ira Spillman co-operating with the
Klan and acting on information fur
nished by it, the bootleggers in this county are becoming less numerous.
That the activities of Sheriff Spill-
man are hitting some of those who
are playing in the background of the
rum-rimning" in this county, is seen
in the silent movement that is now
under way to defeat him at the election next fall. The aliens of this county are backing the movement.
Batesville is the sore spot of the
county and there it is that slot machines are said to operate without interference of the police and that
gambling is rampant. Sheriff Spillman is being fought by the administration secretly, it is charged. The
Klan is being fought hard In Batesville as that city is strongly Catholic. Despite the fact, however, that there are seven Catholic churches in
this county, which in turn indicates
large Catholic population, the
Klan is gaining great strength.
Sheriff Offered Bribe Last Friday at an open-air cere
mony a class of almost two hundred
candidates was initiated in the Klan. Rev. William Blair, of Plainfield, de
livered an address that was enthu
siastically received by the big throng
that gathered to be present at the
ceremony.
The Klan here is well organized
and is back of the fight to clean the county of bootlegging and other
vices. The fact that Sheriff Spillman is putting his shoulder to the whee and assisting in every way has brought down the wrath of the aliens upon his head. It is known that money has been offered Sheriff Spillman to "lay off," but this is wasted
time with an officer of the caliber
of the sheriff.
With the new influence created by the advent of the Klan in this
county it is believed that the present
city administration of Batesville will
be overwhelmingly defeated at the coming election and men of entirely
different ideals put into office.
Following the arrest of Bert Grimes, 109 West St. Clair street, taxi driver for the Yellow Cab Company, and the confiscation of the cab
in which four quarts of liquor were found, one might think that the Klan
investigators were not "through with
Indianapolis. It was stated after the
arrest that it was made on "informa
tion furnished the office of Prosecu
tor Evans."
The arrest was made last Friday night when Captain Claude Worley, reduced in rank because of his activity against bootleggers, it is
charged, searched two houses in
East Market street. Sheriff Snider
took part in the search.
The arrest of Grimes was effected by Seth Ward, federal officer, who also made other arrests on liquor
charges and confiscated liquor . at
other points.
The city police took no part in the
raids on the liquor traffic.
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COLTJMBTJS, O., July 16. The trial
of four members of the Industrial Co-operative Institute, which urges social reorganization in America along the lines of present-day Rus
sia, which will be held here in mu-
nlpical court before Judge John F. j
Seidel, promises to be one of the
most interesting in the city court for many months. The defendants face
charges of using language conducive to provoke a breach of the peace and disorderly conduct, the outgrowth of
meeting held at the corner of Long
and High streets last Tuesday evening.
Police Prosecutor John J. Chester,
Jr., will have assisting him Clar
ence A. Benadum, lawyer for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who has assisted in many noted trials in Ohio; Paul M. Herbert, former pros
ecutor and now a member of the Ohio General Assembly. It was indicated today that Chauncey B.
Baker, legal adviser in Columbus of
the American Legion, would also aid the prosecution. Three civil war veterans who were in the crowd at the time the speeches were made.
will appear In their blue uniforms
as expert witnesses.
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majority of the GO.OOO visitors ar
rived after noon. We know that many Indianapolis folk just had to
stay in Indianapolis part of the day to help render tribute to our great
living hero, General Pershing, but
after that patriotic duty was at
tended to- there was nothing to ob
struct their progress to Mooresville
and they were in the right frame of mind to enjoy to the fullest extent
the spirit which reigned there.
During the afternoon prominent
women of the Indiana organization
and national speakers addressed the
gathering. While it may be that
women are just a little more emo
tional than men, we were impressed
by the generous and enthusiastic ap
plause which greeted the remarks of these speakers. Rev. Kane, of the Mooresville Methodist Church, and Rev. Greep, pastor of the Christian
Church of Carlisle, Ind., also spoke
during the afternoon.
Glee clubs, drum corps, soloists
and bands galore furnished plenty
of music during the day, and w
just want to emphasize again that
no one went hungry. We have
keen suspicion that about all of those ladies of Court No. 14 and Court
No. 2 and all the other courts have had previous experience in feeding
hungry multitudes; we think per
haps they belong to some Protestant
Ladies Aid Societies, because we didn't have to stand in line for two
hours to get a good cold drink of
lemonade or iced tea it was there
all the time, and there was no dim culty in getting to it. Wo under
stand, of course, that food anddrink is not the first consideration, but
the women are to be congratulated
upon their efficient handling of the needs of the crowd in this respect. Logansport Quartet Busy We are not forgetting the Logansport quartet either; we just wanted to give them a whole paragraph, for they certainly "went big" during the whole day. They rendered various piquant and entertaining selections
at the grove, and in the evening delighted the crowds congregated in the streets of Mooresville. The feature of the evening was the impressive parade in which 5,000 Kiansmen and women participated. The parade was led by women on horseback and garbed in the regalia of their organization. There were
some fifty attractive floats, the one on which was staged a tableau depicting "Liberty" receiving generous applause all along the line of march.
One jfeature which created consider
able amusement and brought many
laughs from the crowd was two mules, bearing placards, "Goodbye,
Forever." Bands from Muncie,
Plainfield, Brownsburg and Moores
ville furnished patriotic music along
the line of march. Fifteen Hundred Initiated
Immediately following the pafade the crowd returned to the grove where initiation ceremonies were
conducted, over 1,500 women being initiated into the organization. This was an impressive and beautiful
sight, and to those who were privileged to witness it a spectacle which
will not soon be forgotten.
A grand display of fireworks. Including the burning of a great fiery
cross, concluded the ceremonies of what will long be remembered as a
eala day in the history of Moores
ville and the Women's Organization
issued to Rev. Jones by the- board of safety and gave him permission
to have a display of fireworks at a
lawn social which was to be held
at the Westview Baptist Church In
Belmont street near Washington. On
Tuesday, the day following, Rev.
Jones appeared in person before the board of carety where he found
Chief Rikhoff and Fire Chief O'Brien
the hate prophet and one of the plotters to remove all Masons from the fire department where possible
and reduce all others.
After much argument the board of
safety let the permit stand but told
Rev. Jones he must take it with
the understanding that he could not burn a fiery cross. Despite the fact that there is no law covering the
ruling. Rev. Jones, when a crowd of between 7,000 and 10,000 persons
were at the lawn fete, would not
ight the cross which had been set
up on the church lawn.
Under orders from theirboss
wno, as a cmer oi poace, is an excellent tailor, a squad of officers ap
peared on the scene and hung
around all evening as there was
nothing to do until Saturday night when the now famous raiding squads
saunter forth to round up ' law vio
lators who are unmolested in their nefarious occupations the other six
days in the week.
Fiery Cross Is Burned
However, the hery cross was
burned and without transgressing
the law. Real Protestant Americans
carried the cross outside the city
limits and there burned it. Also an
aerial bomb unfolded a fiery cross
in the sky. The bomb was fired un
der the permit granted by the board
of safety despite Chief Rikhoff's pro
test that he was right and the law-
was wrong.
The whole affair was, in the eyes
of many, just that much in the pro
gram to embarrass the Protestants of Indianapolis and add to the long
list of alien acts against Americans
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THE PENALTY OF PROTESTANISM
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that "there would be no Klan in five years." August F. Krieg, 1802 North Talbott street, president of the Indianapolis Bank and Fixture Company, 312-
On the defense are Karl H. Pauli,
Toledo, a lecturer and speaker of the
education department of the Indus
trial Co-operative Institute; George
Neiswander, Columbus, known also as
Anatole" through his numerous and
prolific letters to the editors of local
newspapers; Ebner H. Cornwell, 185
South Fifth street, and H. E. Towns
ley, 815 Sullivant avenue. Attorney
Olin J. Ros3, president of the Co
lumbus Rationalist Society, is counsel for the defense. Attorney Louis
M. Alcott is defending Neiswander
It is the purpose of Prosecutor
Chester to so finely draw the issue
in the case, that it will be a matter
of choosing between the ideals upon which the government of the United
States was . lounaed and exists, or those upon which Soviet Russia is
builded.
Neiswander also faces a charge of
peddling books without a license
The publication he was selling is en
titled, "Communism and Christian
ism," by Bishop William M. Brown
D. D., of Galion, Ohio. The frontis
piece carries the subtitle, "Banish Gods from the Skies and Capitalists
from the Earth. A reproduction of the emblem of the Soviet republic
is also on the cover.
Inconsistency of Doctrine
A casual perusal of the volume
will show, the inconsistency of its
doctrine.. The statement made by
Kark Marx, founder of socialism, that
"air religion is the opiate of the peo
ple," is reiterated. Other quotations
taken from various communist mani
festoes declare that man can not be
free until Christianity Is destroyed,
Another quotation m the rear, re
verses this thought when it says
"Climb with us the hills of God to a wider, holier life," and "Onward
march and keep on marching until
His will on earth is done.
But, to return to the man who is charged with selling these books
without a permit, it is known that
he is the author of the Anatole
letters, which have dealt with every
social, economic, scientific and re
ligions subject. Just recently he
has been busily engaged writing
lengthy philippics against the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Another correspondent declared that in using the pen name, he was in substance wearing a mask, which was one of the cards he held against the organization. Police Officers Albert E. Tucker and O. H. Roush arrested the defendants, when the crowd threatened vio
lence if they did not tone down their
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fourth degree Knight of Columbus -Man guage and insinuations against
and foreign-born, discharged an em
ploye on account of his name appearing in a Protestant poll of Indianapolis. Is said to have told employe that he would discharge all employes who were listed on a Protestant poll.
Eight Protestants discharged by
Joseph M. Block, manager of The
Gibson Company, in one day. Mr.
Block, who resides at 2710 Sutherland avenue, makes all men declare
themselves not to be members of the
Klan before they can work for the
Gibson Company. The president of
the Gibson Company is Charles B.
Sommers. who is also president of
the Sommers 'Furniture Company.
Jerome S. Gollin, manufacturing
upholstering and slip covers, whose new address is Fairfield and College avenues, refused to let firm of Bu-
shong & Irwin, sign painters, do work for him after the name of one of the firm appeared in a Protestant poll of Indianapolis.
W. P. Flanary, Catholic and
Knight of Columbus, operating a
variety store at 1101 South West
street, dropped his account with
Rex Photo Shop when he learned the
proprietors were militant Protes
tant Americans. He is also charged
with urging others to do the same thing. He is proud of his membership in the Knights of Columbus and that organization's oath. He is ac
cused of cursing tne nery cross.
Robert Atkinson, operating a soft drink establishment at 202 South Holmes avenue, also a pool room known as "Bobs and Bills," canceled a coal order with Mt. Jackson Coal Co., because the management supported Protestant movements. J. C. Vance, serving chicken din
ners on the Crawfordsville road just
west of Speedway city, is condemn
ing Protestant friends because their
names appeared in a rroiesiam pou of Indianapolis. On March 17, when
' Mad" Pat O'Donnell, was marshaltine his hate forces In Indianapolis
Mr. Vance was very active in the
parade.
God, Christ and the United States
Pauli was on the rostrum when the officers approached, and warned him. "Here comes the little tin Jesus," he is represented by police as saying.
REV. GRIFFICE HOLDS CROWDS FROM FIRST
NEWCASTLE, Ind., July 14. On last Sunday, Rev. F. B. Grifflce, official lecturer' for the Fiery Cross, delivered an address near Mt. Summitt, before a crowd of about 1,700 persons. Rev. Grifflce explained the principles of the Ku Klux Klan
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the address a band rendered a con
cert. Rev. Griffice held the large
audience from the first and proved to
be a fiery and eloquent speaker.
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