Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1923 — Page 1
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Labor Leaders Swerving to Klan
GOV. WALTON FADING INTO OBLIVION
ANTI-PROTESTANT FORCES FIGHTING KLAN--ANDERS0N Tammany Hall Is Called a Politico-Ecclesiastical Combination in Speech
Self-Appointed Czar of Okla
homa Makes Feeble Effort to Machinery 0f Ciovernment Is I'rosti-
Continue Struggle Against
Citizens Throughout State Opened Doors of Jails and Liberated Dangerous Crimi
nals.
tilled and Y. M. ('. A. Is Jlaligned, Speaker Hectares
MOB ATTACKS KLAN MEETING AT READING
.HEX KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS AS . BltlCKS ARE H U R L E D THROUGH WINDOWS
RESOLUTION DUBS GOV. WALTON BULL FIGHTER OF OKLA.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Oct. 6.
Tammany Hall was bitterly attacked by Superintendent Anderson of the
. ! Anti-Saloon League, in a speech deI livered here before the men's organWith Exception of Alien Interests ; ization of the xorth Presbyterian Chief Executive Stands Alone, as : Church, in which he said that the f,.ri,r,. T..nr ( ..in.irv in Onest ' "politico-ecclesiastical combination
of Fnnds to Continue Fight
Legislature to Meet October Seventeenth
Police Battle for Six Hours In Effort to Curb Hob Sensational Auto Chase Through Streets
Hustling Hundred of Englewood Church Condemns Acts of Executive
Constitution Is Quoted to Show
Such Contingencies Were Anticipated by Makers
UNION REPORT
UPHOLDS KLAN ADVOCACIES
UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION XOW PERILS ORGANIZED LABOR
1 of Tammany and the Catholic church
were intent upon discrediting the Ku Klux Klan as an un-American institution." He declared that the acts of Tammany Hall tended to increase
membership In the Klan and that if fFiv Staff Cnrresnnndentl he was brought to trial before elec-
,m . n,-rv Ition it will be the last desperate card
UtVLAtlU.MA Uli, JKia., ti,0 anti-nroihibition interests
Oct. 9. Slowly but surely Jack ; The Foreign Masters Walton, self-appointed czar and ..If j brought to trial before dictator of Oklahoma, vho Cre-i election in an effort, to secure a verated a near reign of terror inM"1 of eill.v flo,n a j,irv composed . , . . , , . : i of men formerly in the liquor busithis state by his autocratic ac-nesB or nanKersy.on of tna busi!ieSs tions and arming of question-1 (ot courHe. purely through the actable characters, is sinking into dent of drawing), which jury is fixed Oblivion as the legislature Waits ! r tampered with by representatives a r iv,- it i of this Tammanv politico-ecclesias-to convene on October 17 tojtu.al combillation. t wlll be thor. consider impeachment proceed-, oughly understood that n is the last ingS against the arrogant and desperate card being played by this
dictatorial governor of this i "m-h ,n tlu-"- effm t to ('lect a Tain
state. Two weeks ago The Fiery Cross stated that Walton's reign was tottering to ruin. The brink has now been reached and Walton is all but a memory. It is true that he is stiTT putting up a mighty bluff, but he knows within himself that he is beaten beaten by the people of Oklahoma, who smothered him under an avalanche of'hullots last week in their ringing protest against his misrule. Already has the name of Walton
(Special to Fiery Cross) READING, Pa., Oct. 8. No more arrests have followed those made last week when, among others, P. J. McGovern, said to be the leader of
the mob that' attacked an alleged Klan meeting and continued the attack after the alleged Klansmen left the building, was held by the police. The police battled for six hours to quell the disturbance, which started when a big rock was hurled
through one of the windows and knocked unconscious a man who sat
close to the window. A riot call was sent in and the police quickly gathered to disperse the mob and the gangsters again gathered at Sixth and Penn streets where individual Klansmen were assaulted by the mob. The activities of the mob again started when several alleged Klansmen were found in one of the downtown restaurants after the meeting. One of the leaders of the Reading Klan was attacked and knocked unconscious. He was taken away by friends and when the police arrived at Sixth and Penn streets apparently everything was quiet with the exception that both sides
of the street were lined with machines and groups of men scattered at different intervals. Chase Through Streets
Then followed an exciting chase
Declaring Governor Walton, "the bull fighter of Oklahoma, for violating the law and invading the constitutional rights of the citizens," the Hustling Hundred of the Englewood Christian Church last week passed a resolution condemning the high-
I handed acts of the arrogant execu
tive of that state in which he has attempted to build about himself an empire of his own. Constitution Is Quoted
Section four of article four of the Federal Constitution was quoted in
the resolution, which was passed without a -dissenting vote, and which reads as follows: "The I'nited States will guarantee, to every state in the Union, the republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the executive when the legislature can not be convened, against domestic violations." Following this, the resolution read in part, as follows:
Whereas, J. C. Walton" took an oath to support this section of the
constitution, as well as all others
Foreign Agencies Plan Overthrow
of Federation, According to United Mine Workers
CELEBRATION WILL BE
MAGNIFICENT AFFAIR
Committees Are Now Hard at Work Plan
ning Stupendous Demonstration for Armistice Day November Tenth to Be Memorable Event
Imperial Wizard, Grand Dragon and Other Klan Officials to Be Present Announcement of Gigantic Gathering Is Met With Greatest Enthusiasm Throughout State
many assembly that will do things that may put the entire state at the mercy of Tammany and Its real foreign masters for a generation. "This New York district attorney
claims to be a Protestant, holds membership in a reputable Protestant church whose pastor he evidently compelled to come to bis fee-
bio defense, and yet he is doing the ; t,ironKh the Kll.eels , the noTthv,est.
(By Eyewitness)
A summary of the press dis
patches of the past week plainly indicate that the heads of organized labor are beginning to realize that the Ku Klux Klan is the best friend of organized labor today in the
United States. The Klan stands
solidly for the restriction of immigration and against the
radical element that is boring from within the borders of America, not only to despoil America of her regularly constituted government and laws, but to overthrow and disrupt the labor unions as they stand today. This latter fact is now being admitted by the greater labor heads of our country.
(By Wingfoot) Coming on the heels of the announcement that there are now 500,000 chartered Klansmen in Indiana, and-that the goal of 1,000,000 members by May of next year had been set, the announcement of the gigantic and magnificent celebration to be given in Fort Wayne on November 10 (Armistice Day) has been received with high enthusiasm and Klansmen in all parts of Indiana are now making preparations to take part in the greatest gathering of Klansmen since the Kokonao meeting on July 4 when, according to Associated Press dispatches, 200,000 Klans-
men gathered m that city.
mi. ir.-. i . -rrt -i j. ni
and has shamefully ignored his oath 1 t T 1bl?au"y . 4 , ,., -' n., v i contended that unrestricted immi-
agn iiis Bi'nte gratin laws steadily" will lower the
dirty work of the anti-Protestant
gang that is working through Tammany's control and prostitution of the machinery of justice. This Tammany disirict attorney is high in Ma
sonic circles, and yet he allows him
j ern section, in which the police were i in one car and the attackers in sevI oral others, trailing along to attempt j to "get the other guy." I The meeting of the Klan started
faded from the metropolitan papers self to be made in this matter the ' "t s o clock in the large first floor
of the country. Already has his star si-t. The people of Oklahoma have registered their disapproval of his unheard of actions in no mild manner. ically Dead Spectacular to the last degree, Walton is "planning to fight" the meet of the legislature. Once before he stopped the legislators by the threat of death and ordered his soldiers to "shoot to kill'' should the lawmakers attempt to meet and stop the mad career of the former engineer and mayor of this city. Walton can last but very little longer. Ily his own acts has he politically killed himself in this state and
inpie tool ami ntsiaw of tliP anti- . auditorium at the Odd bellows hall.
Masonic influences that are trving to! The building was fairly well tear down most of what JIasonry ! crowded, nearly all seats being taken
stands tor. 1 he .ew York district attorney's ally in this unsavory business is the Rockefeller representative who, as a federal official during the world war, doublecrossed the Masons to advance the Knights of
Columbus. Trying 1 Destroy Schools "This same politico-ecclesiastical combination that is trying to destroy the public schools lhat taught the effect of alcohol, and that is trying to cripple the Protestant churches by disrupting their Anti-Saloon
League agency following the blow at
naturally in every other place. His the churches by the vicious Knights
of Columbus propaganda against the
Young Men's Christian Association is waking the echoes with its pro(Continued on Page 5)
act of attempting to stop the counting of ballots through a court order
of an appointee, after the citizens had voted seven to one against him, was the last straw. n.,l.,.. U'..!tvv, ulnndu nlsino with
the exception of certain alien sup j WAVELAND HAS BIG
poi f anu i ii e Kiippun 01, aciui iu.uk to Aldrich Wake's statement to j newspaper men in Grand Rapids. Mich., radicals placed in high posts by Walton. His ezaristtc trend of mind has conceived the Idea of appealing to alien interests for money with which to fight the citizens of the state. Aldrich Blake, his secretary, and hater of the Klan, was within the past few days in the North in quest of funds, according
to Wake, to keep up the fight which
KU KLUX PARADE
Stirring Music and Beautiful Floats Lend Charm to Big Event
WAVELAND, hid., Oct. G. Automobiles from all surrounding points
has resulted in the downfall of Wal- brought a large crowd to this place
ton.
That there Is a large number
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WOMEN INITIATE BIG CLASS AT LOGANSPORT
LOOANSPORT. Ind., Oct. 6. An open-air ceremonial was held by the Women of the Ku Klux Klan of this city on last Monday night which was witnessed by a crowd estimated at about, six thousand people. Approx
imately one thousand women ap
peared In the robes of their organi
gation and took part in the ceremo
nial at which a very large class of
candidates was Initiated. The organization is growing be
yond the fondest hopes of the mem
bers in Cass county. The class initiated on Monday was composed of
one hundred and sixty-nine women. The ceremonial was most lmpreeive. During the evening the women sang "The Old Rugged Cross," among other hymns.
last Tuesday night to witness a pa
rade given by the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan.
The parade was headed by mounted
Klansmen in full regalia followed by the New Richmond band which rendered stirring music throughout the marching.
The Russellville' Boy Scouts Bugle and Drum Corps made a classy appearance and added to the enthusiasm of the crowd as they passed along the line of march. Many floats added to the beauty of the big parade and a line of women in the full regalia of their order received tremendous applause from the large crowd. . Giies Talk on Klan
After the parade had disbanded,-a well-known speaker gave an address on Americanism and the Klan, which
was heard with great interest by the crowd, and the orator was ' inter
rupted many times during his stir ring talk with bursts ot applause.
The Mystic Quartette gave a selec
tion of songs that were heartily ap
plauded, and the affair as a whole
was a wonderful success
up on the first floor and few being
left in the gallery. A minister from Pittsburgh vi.s the speaker. He made a plea for membership in the Klan. . It was during this plea that a crash of glass was heard and a stone came hurling through the window. It fell on the head of a man sit
ting along the side seats of the auditorium and he was knocked unconscious. An ambulance was called, but the man ' remained throughout the meeting. Kiot ( all Sent In A policeman who had been stationed on the outside of the hall immediately sent in a riot call. Rod lights were thrown on and from all
parts of the city ' police began to
swarm to the scene.
In the meantime Klansmen had
come from the hall, after the audi
ence had been quieted. They found
a number of men on Eighth street opposite the auditorium. Police
began to arrive about the same time and scattered all of them. The po
lice found piles of bricks that had been stacked up in the shadows across the street. The anti-Klan group, having moved on, proceeded to the Kis
singer market house where they talked over the plan of attack and other problems. License numbers of all automobiles were taken. It made a sizable list, the machines filling the square on Franklin street between Seventh and Eighth and on
Eighth street between Chestnut and
Penn.
Move From Windows The speaker who had the stage
when the brick came through the
window evidently was among the
first to realize what was taking
place. He advised all to move from
the windows. This was done quick
ly. No one was allowed to leave the
room, howeveiv The seats along the window side, which had been deserted quickly, were filled up again when more people arrived. The man who had been knocked unconscious resumed the same seat.
On the outside police in large numbers began to arrive. They
were under thc supervision of Capt. Hayes McKinney aad Lieut. Lloyd. The former was in street clothes. They kept everyone moving and allowed jio groups to form within a half square of the hall. When the meeting closed and the (Continued on Page 5)
to support the .ccsi"
claring mob rule U
militia, suppressing and ignoring the civil authorities of 'tte state, and by hatred and prejudice by mounting cannons and gatliug guns, and threatening to take the livesf members of the legislature for the purpose of intimidating and frightening them and the civil authorities, including the courts, from preventing the grand juries to meet, and ferret out criminal violations of the laws of the state of Oklahoma, and by calling his militia to his aid to set aside and prevent the judiciaries from discharging their duties to pro
tect society and the morals of the citizens of Oklahoma, and,
Whereas, nature's God has entitled
the citizens of Oklahoma to a decent
respect in the opinion of. mankind and requires that we, as true Americans, should condemn such unau
thorized power dedicated by one to
satisfv his usurpation of power
IMPOSTORS EXPLOIT PATRIOTISM OF GIRLS AND BOYS, IS REPORT
Fiery Cross Demands Immediate Restitution by Aborters of Americanism
CROWD SEES PARADE
AT ROMNEY, INDIANA
Junior Order Initiates Large
Class Speeches and FireVorks on Program
ROMNEY, Ind., Oct. 6. Ten thousand persons gathered at the big meeting of the Ku Klux Klan here last Wednesday to witness a mammoth parade which bordered on the spectacular. The roads leading to the city were crowded for hours with automobiles filled with Klansmen and their families and great crowds stood along the sides of the streets where the parade Dassed.
Long rows of Klansmen In full re
galia and many beautiful floats brought cheers from the big crowd
as the paraders passed along the
line of march. When the marchers at last disbanded, a large class of candidates were initiated into the Junior order. Speeches and Fireworks Following flie initiation ceremonies, a well-known speaker gave an address on Americanism which was
heartily received by the dense throng that gathered closely about the stand to hear every word. To conclude the ceremonies, a magnificent display of fireworks entertained the crowd for quite a.while. The parade was the first to be held in Tippecanoe county and Klansmen are very much, pleased with the impression it made.' Bands and bugle corps added to the at
tractiveness of the program and favorable comments on the ceremonies as a whole were - heard in many
quarters. ; FARMER IS EliECTKOCUXEIV,
.wage of the American worker. This
fact, too, is now being realized by
certain Tnen high in union labor, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of toilers within the ranks of organ
ized labor.
The largest union in America, that
of the United Mine Workers of Am
erica, has admitted that, after an exhaustive investigation, the seizure
of the miners' union is now being attempted by agencies of the Communist International at Moscow-.
According to a report given out
by the mine workers' union, an or
ganized program is now on for the conquest of the American continent
by the forces in Moscow. This work
is now being done through the
unions, the report states, and is composed of more than six thousand active leaders and lieutenants and approximately one million members, adherents and sympathizers scattered throughout every state in the union.
Organizers (?) Have Committed Unauthorized Acts Junior Klan Separate Order .
HAMILTON, O., Oct. 6.-Gustave
Langfeld. 58. a farmerj attempting
to extricate a horse from a barbed
wire fence, was electrocuted, a.i wire from a high tension system having
been grounded on the fence. - t
Appalling Condition Looms
Thisappalling condition is one that the Klan has, been fighting to
stave off by inculcating Americanism and attempting to secure laws that will stop the ceaseless flow, into the United States of the immigrants from
Europe.
The ultimate object of the move
ment, according to the mine workers, is the overthrow of the government
and the establishment of an absolute dictatorship and the elimination of
all forms of popular voice in government. The steps include the seizing of the American Federation of Labor and the supplanting of craft unions by "industrial" unions or "one big union." Following this, according to the report, would come the conversion anomobilization of farmers and other related groups. Unfortunately, these agents and workers of the Moscow movement, of which the report of the mine workers' union speaks, are aided and
abetted by certain other interests in the United States who are now fight
ing Americanism in a quite different way. All of these interests are
aligned against the Ku Klux Klan.
These interests are attempting to open wide the gates of immigration.
undermine Protestantism and dis
rupt those agencies built up by Am
erica for the dissemination of knowledge.
Klan a Friend of Labor All of this, while not spoken of in
the report, is evidently being real
ized by . union leaders who, it would appear, as stated above, are beginning to become aware of the fact that the Ku Klux' Klan is the strong friend of organized labor' and is
today fighting for the principles that
will keep intact, and not destroy, the organizations founded by the
laboring man.
Returning to the report, it is found
to say :
"The Communist movement In the next twelve months will be conducted
along more intensive lines than at
any time in the past. The labor or
ganizations will meet the greatest
assaults and attacks and the Com (Continued on Page 5)
That unscrupulous organizers or impostors, bent on exploiting patri
otic young women of between the
ages of twelve and eighteen, have
been at work, has come to The Fiery
Cross through channels that can not be doubted. That such reprehen
sible actions could have been indulged in is almost heyond the belief of those staunch Americans who are building Americanism in this country today. However, the ' source through which this knowledge has been gained by The Fiery Cross can not be questioned and if restitution is not made at once, the entire matter will be ferreted out and the names of these people published in the columns of this paper. How Despicable Trick Is Done The despicable trick has been en
gineered through the lack of knowledge of those who made donations
to become members of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, the donation
to that organization being five dol
lars. The plan which was used by the unscrupulous organizers who have evidently placed the money god
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DANVILLE PARADE TO
BE LAST OF SEASON
Big Crowd Expected to Attend AffairTo Initiate Big Class of Candidates
The Fort Wayne demonstration will be stupendous and committees are now at work planning the program for that day. It has alreadybeen announced thai Dr. H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, will attend
the Klonklave. The Grand Dragon
of Indiana will also be there, as will other state officers of the Klan. It is
also probable that national officers, in addition to Dr. Evans, will take part in the program. News has already filtered in from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois tha Klansmen from those states are plartnlng to go to Fort Wayne on" November 10. While it was not planned to make the celebration a "five-state" affair, Indiana Klansme'n will be only too glad to extend courtesies to those Klansmen from out ct the state who might wish to attend the mammoth celebration planned. 'o Labor to Re Spared The Fort Wayne event will be magnificent and today members of
the Klan are making plans to attend
trom every part of the state. Especially among those who found themselves unable to attend the Fourth of
July meet at Kokonio is enthusiasm high. Having missed that great event, they are eager to attend the Fort Wayne celebration. And on the
other hand, those who did make their
way to Kokomo on that memorable day, were so inspired that they, too, are anxious to be a part of another such splendid demonstration. Those in charge of the program on Armistice Day are sparing no labor to make the event the greatest ever held by Klandom. That the affair will be the greatest Klonklave ever held up to that time is not doubted and throughout the state there are one-half million Klansmen, who are augmented each day by thousands more, bent on seeing to it that -nothing is lacking to make the day the greatest ever. Each and every day sees the' Klan organization march ceaselessly onward in its purpose of saving America fop Americans; each and every time the sun sets scores of hundreds have been added to the list of those 500,000 already enlisted in the cause ot protecting the home, our country, and the Protestant religion of the brave forefathers who created and
founded America.
(Special to The Fiery Cress) DANVILLE, Ind., Oct. 6. All roads will lead to Danville Friday, October 13, when the Hendricks county Klan will hold their last outdoor festivities of the season. A gigantic parade is being planned in which there will be 100 Klansmen
on horseback, in addition to a thou
sand or more who will follow on
foot. Bands from Brownsburg,
North Salem and Plainfield will fur
nish the music and as far as is
known at this time there will be at
least fifteen beautiful oats.
The courthouse square will be
roped off for the occasion and
stand built in one corner of the
yard where a speaker of national
note will give a stirring address on
Klandom "as is. Speaking will
take place both before and after
the big parade.
Big Crowd Expected From present reports it is expected that the crowd will number at least 20,000. The arrangement committee has planned a fine program of entertainment and will make a special effort to see that all visitors enjoy themselves during the day.
Fitting liny Is Chosen All the official drum corps, bands. .
glee clubs, fife corps and quartets are now being marshaled for the big event. These will have a prominent
place on the program. No more fit
ting day could have been chosen than
that on which the event is to be held
Armistice Day. The day is in com
memoration of the ending of hostilities of armed forces which were slaughtering mankind. . The Amerl
can doughboys were then fighting for
democracy, tnat treasure for which, the Klan today is fightiug. While the doughboy was fighting on foreign shores, the Klan, ia which tens ot thousands of the "yanks" are now enlisted, still fights the foreign foe who would tear down all that Americans, by he aid of the public school and freedom from alien dogmas,' have built up. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan now stand, greater than ever before, between the peace, prosperity and
welfare of America, and those united enemies who, through propaganda, cunning and camouflage, have year after year undermined American institutions and American principles. Mightier, grander and, if possible, -more vigilant than ever before, the army of Protestantism and trueAmericanism will sweep forward to a glorious victory over the foe of en . Continued, on Page ifl v
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