Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1923 — Page 9
Friday, August 17, 1923
THE FIERY CROSS
MAYOR OF ST. ELMO AIDS IN CLEAN UP
Illinois City to Have Big Meeting on August Twenty-fifth To Announce Program
ST. ELMO, 111., Aug. 13. Preparations are now being completed for what la believed will be one of the biggest Ku Klux Klan meetings ever held In Illinois. The meeting will take place on August ?5 at this place and among the features to be introduced during the meeting will be an old-fashioned barbecue.
. An invitation has been issued to Hooslers to attend and from present indications a large number - of Klahsmen from Indiana will be In attendance. The Klan is very active here and a great change has come over this lit
tle city since the moral pressure at the Klan has been felt and the Klan
has gained the enmity of all law
breakers and bootleggers in this vi
cinity. T. J. McAdams, present mayor of the city, has been very friendly to the Klan and has ex
pended every effort to aid in the
clean-up.
The committee . in charge -of- the
program for the meeting will makeH
the program public -within the next
few days, it Is understood.
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CLINTON. I.. An. 13. The Clin
ton Morning Journal is in receipt of
iw forwarded to that paper by the Ku Klux Klan with the request that it be turned over to the committee of public-spirited citizens who made up the deficit in the funds of the Chautauqua association. When the money
was turned over to the committee by a representative of the Journal, it
was a pleasant surprise.
"many people nave patted us on the back," said one of the directors,
"but this is the first organization that has come forth with actual assist
ance."
A resolution thanking the Klan
waa . immediately prepared by . u
committee with. Gta request that tt
be printed la tle Journal . - -,-
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(International Newsreel Photo) At Central l&lip, L, I., the Ku mux Klan was increased by 900 members recently. The ceremonial was held in a huge field and was attended by a crowd estimated at 25,000. The gathering is said to have been one of the largest held in this part of New York and the rites were presided over by the King Kleagle of the state of New York. The photo shows a general yiew of the proceedings, with the fiery crosses and Klansmen in regalia.
COUNTRY'S LARGEST -
FLAG AT MARSHALL
Patriotism at High Pitch When
Speakers Address Throngs on Americanism
(By Kitter.) MARSHALL, Ind., Aug. 11. In one
of the largest patriotic rallies ever held in this part of the county Mar
shall witnessed her first Ku Klux
Klan demonstration last Monday night. The meeting had been widely advertised as a patriotic rally, in charge of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, with a cordial invitation to every American to attend. The streets of Marshall were early jammed with hundreds or people, and the few parking spaces available were filled with automobiles from here, Rockville, Kingman, Terre Haute, Veedersburg, Blooniingdale, Crawfordsville and other surrounding cities. The demonstartion opened with a beautiful Klan parade. Knights, in full regalia, formed at the main street crossing beneath the World War memorial arch and moved in
silent formation to the high school building. The crowd that lined the streets was estimated at 3,000 people,1 one of the largest crowds that ever packed the streets of this little city. School House Too Small The Klansmen disbanded at the school yard, where the remainder of the crowd waited. By the time the
Marshall quartette was ready to continue the program the crowd filled to overflowing the school yard. It had first been the Intention of local
Klan officials to use the school for
the speakings, but the large crowd made this impossible. Following a
song by the Marshall quartette, the local Boy Scouts, numbering about fifty, went through a splendid flag
drill that won the applause of all,
Following this drill a well-known Parke county speaker addressed the
crowd on the subject, "The Ku Klux
Klan and America." His speech was
enthusiastically received, and Mar
shall certainly went on record .as
approving of the Klan. Fiery Cross Burned
"The quartette then sang "The Old
Rugged Cross," and as the words of
that old song floated across the
fields there suddenly flamed up in
the eastern sky a huge fiery cross
emblem of the Klan. As the cross
flared up a mammoth American flag
was unveiled at half-mast. The flag
was ona of the largest Hags ever raised in this county, and as it was
rumored it had once been the Sag of
Theodore Roosevelt, it was very ap
propriate that it should fly as a tribute to President Haralng.
Women's Organization Assists The Klansmen were assisted in
preparing for the demonstration here
by the Women's Organization. There were at least twenty-flve ladies in
the parade. The Klan is very strong
here, including most of the desirable men of the community. After the demonstration Monday night there
was a stack of membership applications three inches high on the Klan official's desk.
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FORT SMITH. Ark., Aug. 14. Fort Smith Klan No. 15, held another big
outdoors meeting in a large field just
south of the city last night, at which
nearly one hundred aliens were made
citizens of the Invisible Empire be
neath the large electric cross, after which some good speakers entertained the Klansmen with speeches
on Klankraft and other matters of
interest to Klansmen.
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