Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1923 — Page 8
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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, November 1923
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(Continued from Page 1) in any way refer to the Klan. The resolution goes further to say that the Legion condemns any organization which "takes into their own hands the enforcement of law, determination of guilt or infliction of punishment to be un-American, a menace to our liberties and destructive of our fundamental laws."
It would take a wide flight of.
imagination to construe that this was directed at the Klan when one Is familiar with the fact that the Klan Is aiding in law enforcement in-all parts of the country; that the moral influence created by the Klan
is Increasing membership in churches and that each Klansman is under
oath to uphold the law and to assist
where necessary all duly constituted officers of the law in performance of their legal duties. Attention Culled to Others That that part of the resolution just referred to could easily be taken to have been directed at the Ancient Order of Hibernians can be seen by referring to a resolution passed by tho latter organization last , September, in which it declared "it would
take step's1 of its own" if the government and state did not act against tho Klan. Attention has also been Called to the act of some five hun
dred Knights of Columbus who, on a Sunday morning last spring, swept down on a meeting of Protestants at Boundbrook, N. J., and broke up the meeting. Following the passing of the resolution, which was taken as having been- directed against the Klan, the Legion immediately fell into step with the Klan and demanded a cessation of immigration. This act could hardly be construed as a de
sire for the foreigner to become stronger in this country, and, in fact, could only be construed for what it was really meant, to stop the steady stream of aliens into America, which would give the American a chance to keep America for Americans. Xot Idea of Enemies The desire to stop immigration is far from the idea of those organizations that are fighting the Klan so bitterly. It is anything but the idea of the amalgamated enemies of Am
erica, who are at the present time plotting to have each and every organization that they can control pass resolutions condemning the Klan. Summing up the Legion resolution as a whole, the question looms up most forcibly, "Did the American Legion condemn the Klan?"
CLARKSHUL STAGES BIG KLAN MEETING Spectacular Parade, Drill Team and Quartets on Program Klan Speaker Cheered
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crowd and many were applauded
along theentire line of march. The crowd was later entertained
by the "Mystic Tie" quartette of Montgomery county and the Ladies' quartette of Clinton county. These
two organizations rendered a number of Klan songs in a way that drew prolonged applause from the enthusiastic crowd. Band Concerts Given The New Richmond and Clarkshill bands gave concerts both before and after the parade and a well-known speaker addressed a large audience on the j'-r.ieiples of the Klan. He was received warmly by the crowd and was interrupted
many times, with bursts of applause. One of the features of the evening was the drilling of the ladies' drill team of Frankfort. They gave a wonderful performance and were re
ceived with tremendous applause. The Klansmen of Clarkshill extend their thanks and appreciation to all those from Clinton and Montgomery counties that helped make the meeting such a wonderful success.
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erating with the authorities of that town, brought the few miscreants to justice."
With a population of 116,000,000,
law and order becomes a problem.
Mayor Niemeier said. Any organiza
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law and order means much to our land, he said. The speaker cautioned the women in the big audience to watch carefully who they voted for and insist on men who would enforce the laws. Business houses closed at noon and by one o'clock a great throng was at the fair grounds where the picinc was held. During the afternoon auto races weTe held and many events were on the program.
At night a parade was held which
was viewed by an immense throng. During the day booths at the fair
grounds were kept open and served food and soft drinks. A number of addresses were delivered during the day and evening and a band concert was on the program.
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occupies the position of chief execu
tive in the land of the fair God.
In another place Lew brings out
the proposition that there is only one
man in the state of Indiana who
can make an American citizen and
that is the judge of the Federal
court. Fortunately, all Klansmen were born American citizens and do not have to be made. The mere statement of Limber Lunged Lew that he would not give anyone ten dollars to make him a citizen of the United States is, of course, a mistake in Lew's sense of value because it would be worth a great deal more
than ten dollars to take the shallow
framework which nature provided in Lew Shank and endeavor to develop
from it an American citizen worthy of membership In the ranks of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan whose patriotic devotion to their country repudiates the foul practice of re
ducing police officers without cause and whose conscience condemns-the
act ot a mayor who would make potential pirates of enforcement officers and whose sense of honor revolts at the thought ot discrimination and
cowardly oppression such as that practiced by Bill Armitage through Lew Shank in the city administration
of Indianapolis against the natural born white, gentile, Protestant citi
zens of the city who have been iden
tified with municipal affairs uiwier
the administration of Limber Lunged
Lew. More Than Empty Words Needed It will take more than empty words and meaningless platitudes to convince the people of Indiana that Lew Shank has even the slightest earmarks of sincerity when he said
with reference to citizens being given a fair chance before the law, that "Xo matter what his religion, color or race, he shall stand equal before me; and nKone shall be persecuted or discriminated against." If the alleged mayor of Indianapolis expects the people of Indianapolis to believe that last statement, he is not fit to be governor even though there were not scores of other disqualifications. He knows that
even though the people of Indiana
went insane for twenty-four hours and elected him to office that he would no more be the governor than he is today mayor of Indianapolis. How he could ever conceive the idea
that the citizens of this state would put Bill Armitage into the state
house is past the comprehension of
most people. Equal Eights to Bootleggers
It is possible, however, that his
stand for equality is inspired by the equal rights given bootleggers in Indianapolis and that any contracts
that may now exist between the lim
ber lunged auctioneer and. Bill Ar. mitage in regard to bootlegging in Indianapolis, might be extended
throughout the state.
It might be, however, that the
mayor does not mean this. Perhaps he means that when made governor and when he takes "all the city hall employes with him to the governor's office,'' according to his statement,
that he will continue his policy of equally standing by those who carry out the program of Joe Roach, the assassin,Mad Pat O'Donnell, the hate prophet, and Mike Glenn, the manipulator.
Mouthing meaningless nothings,
this clown auctioneer wonld have the
people forget Czar Rikhoff, hater of
Protestants, whom he keeps in of
fice : he would have them forget 3Iike
Glenn, captain of. traffic, ex-kecper of a notorious "joint;" Inspector of
Detectives John "Greenlawn" Mul-
lin, who rode in a stolen car until
called into the prosecutor's office; Chief O'Brien, hate prophet who took
such an active part in getting four
teen Protestants in the police de-
partnient reduced in rank, and
Iraiitis Hamilton, against whom serious charges were brought and which, as far as the public is concerned, were never investigated. Brick Heavers Exempt All of those persons . Limber Lunged, Lew woild have, the people
forget-He would?? nave' "the voters.
forget that his police department did not arrest any of the brick heav
ers who rode by night to crash out plate glass windows of Protestant merchants. That is, they did for
more than threejnontbs and simul
taneous with the clown's declaration that he was to run for governor, he ordered "them guys rounded up." Peculiar as it may seem, the police then arrested a dozen or more men, all of whom were later "exonerated."
This political misfit would have the people of this city and state forget his stupidity and his cowardly running away from the mayor's office during his. first mis-administration
when confronted by an issue involving the welfare of workingmen of Indianapolis. These are only a part of the things which Lew would have the people forget and there are a lot more to be added. Lew is so modest and so retiring and so little given to using the per
sonal pronoun "I," so little apt to
admit his self-confessing virtues that
the people of Indiana hesitate a long
time when they read- that plank in his platform in which he says, "No entangling alliances." Naturally, one wonders if he means by that to so conduct the affairs of the state in the event of his election to the high office of governor as to make certain that the bootleggers of the state shall not be Interfered with by the operators of horse race gambling nnd they wonder whether policemen
who maintain and operate stolen au
tomobiles shall not be disturbed by
his irresponsible chief of police who, in his mad passion of hate against the Protestant people of the state,
goes crazy and runs amnck. Furnishes Mental Speculation Another plank in Lew's platform which is interesting only as it furnishes product for mental speculation is that in which he says "No more abuse of the pardoning power." The honorable people of the state who believe in a decent government wonder if only bootleggers who have been put in jail by the activity of the Klan will be given Jhe benefit of the pardoning power and that the par
doning power of the governor in the event of his election shall not be
used for the purpose of getting persons out of prison who have been framed and railroaded by the dis
honest activities of public officials who prostitute their offices in a manner that recognizes no limit except
that of end in itself politics for the perpetuity of a foul machine. For information only and in order to keep the records straight so that the people might be fully informed perhaps Lew would like to tell them what he means when he says "No inflated" values as basis for utility rates." The public natu
rally wonders whether there could be
any connection between this and the recent srarbasre scandal In Indianap
olis or whether this has anything to do with Lew's romancing over onr
w orry waterworks wabbling w hich
has caused taxpayers oi inaianap oils so much concern.
Blundering Burlesque
ing feature of the Shank blundering burlesque. The titular mayor admits he is honest. That is illuminating indeed. The people of Indianapolis have long waited for some' such confession as this on the part of the mayor because it took such as this to give the public any information on the part of his integrity and now because of this statement there can be' " no doubt about it in the future. Because Lim
ber Lunged Lew said he was honest, that must be the end of it. The mayor never makes conflicting state
ments, that is, he is not quite willing to say he does. It will be remembered that he furnished a hall for
Mad Pat O'Donnell, the hate prophet,
nna joe Ko.ieii, tne assassin, to nse for a meeting in which they started their hate campaign in Indianapolis
against 80 per cent of the citizens of
Marion county and about 90 per cent of the people of the entire state and
in that meeting Limber Lunged Lew furnished Ids fire chief, O'Brien, to act as chairman to denounce 80 per
cent of the people of Indiana, whom
he now asks to put Indiana in the
limelight of America's greatest vaudeville stage by electing him gover
nor of the state. Heaven for Bainbow Chasers After working on his imagination to the extent that he was .convinced in his own mind that Indiana had become a political bedlam and a heaven for rainbow chasers, or a fool's paradise which would elect
Mm governor of the state and in expressing his regret for leaving the city hall crowd, he said, "I am going to take a lot of them to the s'-te
house with me." t is to be wond d
if Lew meant in his modest statement" that he was going to lead another mob over to the state house to
protest against the will of the people after the returns come in when he discovers that not even the en
tire membership of his family voted for him. It will be remembered that Limber Lunged Lew led a mad mob once before to the state house only to find that the only enthusiasm developed was the echo of his own enthusiasm when braying like an ass
he mistook the noise he made for
that of a mocking bird.
.Now comes the interesting part of
the whole announcement where Lew
says he sent his political henchmen
on a tour or tne state, wno took a
straw vote and found that he received a large majority. Will the
people of Indiana be kind enough to
write a letter to the Fiery Cross and
tell whether or not they heard any
thing of this straw-voting campaign
which was re-echoed by the forty
faithful followers who attended the
Shank show last week. (This is not
to be understood to include an invitation to the bootleggers ' and gamblers of the state to write in as this
might disclose their addresses. It is meant for the honest people of
the state.) Eunctures Thick Skin
sense he wished the people to believe; he ha3 no business trjing to run the affairs of a great state.
Let it be reiterated that honorable
men in Indiana and honest, pure women welcome- an opportunity to prove by the chastity of a clean bal
lot that Indiana knows of the recent mismanagement, misfeasance, non
feasance and malfeasance in the ad
ministration of the affairs of the city of Indianapojis. His Master's Voice Under this burlesque actor, who during his Idle hours between horse facing and the time that he answers to his master's voice, Bill Armitage, and the other portion of his time piv-
en to Mad Pat O'Donnell, the hate prophet, and Joe Roach, the confessed
murderer and assassin, would throw his hat into the political arena, is
announced only as a challenge to decency and places a question mark upon the sincerity of every patriotic son of Indiana by-his allegiance in life whatever it might be, it can be answered only by urging Limber
Lunged LeW to not tire in his efforts : here, that In the final answer therecan and will be an opportunity to -even penetrate, the "thick skin" oi
this misguided individual whose Hta
has never gotten beyond the letter "I."
Now that Limber Lunged-Lew has
heralded his much agitated candidacy for governor, we welcome the
opportunity to again unlimber our guns on the limber-lunged sycamore and alleged mayor of Indianapolis and will have quite a bit to say in the future to the end that the voters may be fully appraised of the entire situation. We anticipate now and prophesy the early "trend of the news" indicating Limber Lunged Lew's "with
drawal." It Is to be hoped that he will not attempt to sell out the Republican party on the eve of election and then abont face as lie did in the last primary and make his unholy alliance with Bill Armitage anew. The Star said he came out "fiatfooted against the Klan." Could it really have meant "flat headed."
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Lew says again, "There shall' be no
law, visible or invisible, controlling except the constitution of our country and the laws of our state." Even after Lew's confession that he is "thick skinned" the Klan's eternal pounding of the program "Back to the Constitution," has at least temporarily penetrated his pelt. It might be well to ask Lew when he
got the idea that all citizens had a
common right under tne Constitu
tion of the United States. It might be well to ask him also whether he was conscious of this sublime sentiment of his self-styled thick skin, when he reduced fourteen of the best police officers in the city department-and the only ones who were absolutely known to stand for righteousness and justice and an impartial enforcement of the laws of the
city. There is just one good-natured question which should be asked the Indianapolis Star or the proof reader on the Star wherein the sentence appears, "Entrance of Lew Shank into the gubernatorial race brings to the
campaign one of tho most picturesque' characters." Should not that word "picturesque" be changed to "burlesque I" The people of Indiana have had quite enough of the meaningless mouthings of political mountebanks who, representing no opinion save their own, go parading about the state mouthing sentences that assassinate the characters of reputable men and endeavoring to distort and
cover up their own shortcomings by the recitation of agent prepared
press platitudes. The time has come in the history of Indiana politics
when men who stand for something
beside their own desires only can
attract the attention of the voter and
if Lew's present act continues in the picking of defunct and misguided party machinery, the people of this
state will write a page in Indiana politics so plain and so forceful that even Lew Shank, be his skin ever so thick, will be able to understand
it. Again, let It be reiterated, that the Klan welcomes an opportunity to answer Limber Lunged Lew as to
how many Klansmen there are in the
State of Indiana. When the returns
are in he can count the entire vote
cast for all the other candidates com
bined and upon that figure can . de
tennine what per cent of the people
ot Indiana are patriotic and who are devoted to that sublime sentiment of
an operative patriotism which will
not tolerate ine placing oi uie ring
master of Pope, Mnllln, Ulenn,
O'Donnell, Joe Roach and Czar Rfkhoff at the head of the great state-of
Indiana as its chief executive.
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Limber Lunged Lew says he Is a
poor man. if be is a poor man, ana he says he is, it is another reason
why he shouldn t he governor. lr a
man after years In a lucrative busi
ness: two terms as mayor (even
though he didn't finish out the first
term and hasn t finished this one)
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The Star brings out another amus-J accept, is still a poor man. in .the
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