Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1924 — Page 5

Friday, February 15, 1924

THE F IKK if CROSS: PAGE FIVE

MICHIGAN CITY IS TO HAVE BIG GATHERING

Thirteenth Province Realm Convention Arranged for February 22

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 9. Klansmen of Michigan City are preparing to entertain the convention of the Thirteenth Province of the Realm of Indiana here February 22, Washington's birthday anniversary. It is expected to be one of the biggest days Klansmen have ever enjoyed in northern Indiana. The program is to include many features. Bands and other musical organizations are to be here from several Indiana cities and speakers of national reputation are to have a part in the program. The ideals and principles of the organization will be set out vividly and intelligently by the speakers. The program has not been completed, but it is assured the entertainment features will be elaborate and interesting. Northern Indiana Is to be billed so thoroughly as to leave no doubt in the minds of Klansmen that Michigan City is to be prepared to welcome all visitors.

MARY E. TOMPKINS

BURIED AT ELWOOD

WASHINGTON HAS A ' NEW SCANDAL BREWING

(Continued from page 1) tions at every turn and that agents of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice had hounded him constantly. His work took him all over the country gathering this evidence; he received-telegrams calling him off the work, but he paid no attention and went right ahead for he was working secretly under the direction of President Harding. With the death of President Harding a noted change came over Mellon and Daugherty, according to Brewer. Congressman King says the very officials Brewer is working under are trying in every conceivable way to discredit him. Charging that treasury officials already have destroyed some of the evidence, Representative King said: "There is no telling to what extent the country has been flooded with duplicate Liberty bonds." He said the treatment Brewer has received at the hands of Burns' men and the secret service is shameful. He also asserts that Daugherty has repeatedly tried to dismiss Brewer from the service since President Harding's death,

but that President Coolidge has kept him in the service over Daugherty's

objections.

(Special to The Fiery 'rosts) El-WOO D, Ind.. Feb. 11. Sixty member of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan attired in the regalia of their ordec attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary K. Tompkins on last Tuesday. Ttie funeral services were

held at the Christian church, Rev. E. S. l)eMiller officiating. The

burial was in the local cemetery and

the last rites were .held at the grave

by the Women of the Klan, of which organization Mrs. Tompkins had been a member. Mrs. Tompkins during her life in Klwood had been held in the highest esteem by a large circle .of friends and acquaintances. The pastor delivered a most glowing tribute to her high character and loving and lovable nature. A huge floral cross was placed at the grave immediately before the departure of the Women of the Klan organization.

HIGHLIGHTS IN ADDRESS

BY IMPERIAL WIZARD

WOMEN GIVE MONEY TO BIBLE SCHOOLS

CHESTERTON, Ind., Feb. 12. The Women of the Klan of this vicinity recently gave $25 to the Porter Bible school and $25 to the Chesterton Day Bible school. The contributions were much appreciatedas letters of thanks were sent by the two organizations to the women. Bibles were recently put back in the schools here. The Women of the Klan have paid tribute to the teachers in the public schools. They have been indorsed as very capable instructors by those

who have made investigations of the

work.

KLAN HELPS DEFRAY EXPENSES OF REVIVAL

DANA, Ind., Feb. 13. As the Rev. Harry Bell, pastor of the Baptist church of Dana, was conducting the service in a series of union meetings biting held here, four Klansmen entered the church, marched down the aisle to the rostrum and presented the pastor a purse containing $200, to be used for defraying expenses of the union meetings. The minister accepted the gift gratefully and paid a glowing tribute to the work of the Klan in this community.

IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL USE FIERY CROSS WANT ADS

fi.litiiHl Adv.

WM. D. BEANBLOSSOM

FOR COUNTY CORONER

rvn

Afraid of Evidence

Brewer told the twenty-six members of Congress that he feared his evidence would be stolen, as various attempts have been made to gain possession of the evidence he had collected. Members of Congress then persuaded him to take the matter into court for his own protection as

well as protection to the government. He then gave the keys to his safety deposit boxes to Congressman

King for further protection.

Brewer enters a further plea that the defendant officials be restrained

from destroying the securities of Liberty loan issues now in the treasury, which are necessary to determine whether they are duplicates of bonds not yet surrendered. He says treasury officials have been grinding up bonds that have been cashed. Mr. Brewer's petition to the court asserts that Secretary Mellon was called in by President Harding to look at the alleged duplicate bonds.

Brewer says the President re

marked to Secretary Mellon: "They call this man (Brewer) a nut. It

takes a nut to bring me such things as these (duplicate bonds). They are after this man, good and proper, and . I do not intend to let a thing happen to him." Brewer asserts that Mellon's only response was a nod of the head. Started Alter Him A week after President Harding's funeral, Brewer asserts, AttorneyGeneral Daugherty demanded his resignation. Two weeks later another demand was made. He then received a peremptory order to report to the department of justice where he was summarily dismissed. When President Coolidge was ap

prised of the situation, he sent for Charles G. Washburn, an attorney of Worcester, Mass., to hear aud consider the evidence. Following this. Brewer asserts he was directed by President Coolidge to proceed in

spite of the attorney-general. Later. Brewer said, he personally appealed to Secretary Mellon to cease the destruction of duplicate bonds, which he regarded evidence and Mellon ordered the destruction

to cease. He says hundreds of dupli

cate bonds were destroyed in the

macerating machine. The treasury department then demanded an inventory of bonds in possession of

Brewer. He also asesrts that his personal chests were broken open by a Mr. Cunningham, au assistant to Burns, chief of the secret service.

Brewer alleges that secret service men followed him across the country to California when he was gathering this evidence. Let's Have the Truth Congress ought now to go on record for a complete investigation in this matter. Let's have the truth, no matter who it hurts or on whom it reflects. It Brewer is a nut, let's know the facts. If Burns and his crowd have hounded an innocent man in doing his duty, let's know the1 reasons for it and get the truth. If President Harding was deceived let's find it out. Let's ascertain why

Daughe&y wishes Brewer removed from his job. If people working for the government in the bureau of engraving and printing have printed the Pope's head on one dollar bills,

let s know why and by whose order. If the same people printed duplicate Liberty bonds, let's find out about it. The charges are so grave that it

should be probed to the bottom. And

let there be no whitewashing. Let s have the truth, even if a campaign is coming on, no matter whether it injures the Protestant or anti-Prot-estant side. And if we have crooks

in the government service, let's get rid of them, no matter whether they are Protestants or non-Protestants.

And Burns might be called on the carpet, too, for his activity. Why should the secret service department of the government be found working against the President of the United

States and his special agent? Let the truth come out with a bang. And incidentally, let's find out how much government time and govern

ment money has been spent by Burns

and his secret service men in sectarian persecution of tile activities of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

religious ramifications, upon the monarchial idea of the individual as subject instead of citizen. v Public school education is democratic education. The fight against that system is being waged by and for Catholic parochialism, which is the essence of monarchy. ' The failure to provide, adequately and democratically, for public school education lies not so much' in the strength of the opposition as in our own national weakness. The pioneers who made America had before them the tragic consequences of church control of government. They, at least their immediate ancestors, knew from personal experience the perils and persecutions of religious controversy. Now, suddenly after half a century of uuperceived growth, the un-American power that developed out of the one-sided freedom has arisen to curse and confound our efforts in behalf of democratic education. The only soil in which free schools can flourish is that of a strictly American sovereignty, tilled by an undivided allegiance, watered by a patriotism that is undiluted and undefiled, with the sunshine of democracy always and forever shining upon it.

Democracy is not dead, nor is constitutional government, based on "the consent of the governed," going to die. The eternal right of mankind to self-government is being challenged throughout the world. There is but one unfailing defense against every kind of alienism in America; it lies in adequate, democratic public school education. The Vatican itself has a governmental character. At-this moment twenty-seven nations have duly accredited diplomatic representatives at the Holy See, seven of them bearing the title and rank of ambassador. And more are to follow. No religious organization ever has or ever can dominate education without an aftermath of disruptive strife. I do not for a moment contend that America will ever submit to a degree of church control of education which would lead to the battlefield, but I do say, with the tragic experiences of centuries supporting me, that each aud every bit of ground gained by and for parochialism in our schools will dilute truth, diminish democracy and feed the flames of destructive controversy exactly in proportion to the extent of that influence. My condemnation has been of the political system of the Roman Catholic church, not of its parishioners, nor of their religion. It is the hierarchy, not the rank and file of Catholicism, whose attitude I disapprove.

FIRST PUBLIC APPEAR

ANCE IN INDIANAPOLIS

(Continued from Page 3) concern. Our experiment of republican institutions is not upon the scale of a petty municipality or state, bat it covers half a continent and embraces peoples of widely diverse interests and conditions, but who are to continue 'one and inseparable.' Every condition of our perpetuity and progress as a nation adds emphasis to the remark of Montesquieu, 'It is in a republican government that the. whole power of education is required.'" The occasion of that memorial was the fight for more adequate public school education then engaging the attention of thoughtful, patriotic Americans. Of that attempt I shall speak later. I refer to it here because you should understand that this present battle began two generations ago, and also that at no time, from Washington, to Lincoln, or since, have the educational facili

ties of the nation been more than a beginning of what were required for

the safety and advancement of a great Republic.

In his remarkable book on "Child

Labor and the Constitution." Mr.

Raymond G. Fuller says:

"What nation shall be greatest

among the nations of the 'New

World?' That nation shall be greatest that puts children first in its

thought, in its politics, in its eco

nomics, in its ethics. The nation that

accepts the leadership of little children and sets them in the midst of its counselors, that nation will lead all others in the health, intelligence,

morality, efficiency and happiness of its citizens and in national prosperity, both material and spiritual. On

the quality of nations international

peace and progress depend." !

To show the extent of our failure, I present the opinion of Dr. Alexander J. Inglis, professor of education at Harvard University, who said in 1922: "In the first place let us recognize that in all parts of this country public education is very, very far from being that which we should all like to see it, that in parts of the county it is almost unbelievably bad, that vocational education has scarcely begun to be recognized, that the amount of illiteracy and of nearilliteracy is alarmingly great, that attention to physical education throughout the country is almost negligible, that our large foreign population constitutes a serious problem for education and for society, that most country children do not have anything like a fair opportunity for education, that in many

sections of the country short terms make effective education all but impossible, that a large part of our teachers lack proper education,

training and experience let us rec

ognize all these and many other de

fects of educatton too numerous to

Ct'.'.alog. They ai condition which

Wm D. Beanblossom for coro

ner of Marlon county, announces

his candidacy in this issue. Mr,

Beanblossom has been in the undertaking business at 1321 West Ray street for the past ten years

and has been a resident of Indl

anapoli fifteen years. His friends

predict for him success. He Is ft

Republican and goes before the spring primary willing to "1st

your conscience be your guide.'

IS THIS PART OF

THE SYSTEM?

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President Wilson. The $259,000 fee story went broadcast on the press wires. Every newspaper in the land carried it. In a few days Doheny sent a letter to the committee Btat-

ing that he was mistaken in the amount. He should have said $120,-

000, he said. This never got to the

public. But all the truth was not even told then. Doheny should have

said that the $150,000 was paid to the law firm of which McAdoo was

a member. McAdoo is the only one

to tell this true story and the pub

licity Is nil. McAdoo asserts he

never knew his law firm had such a client. That as it may be, he is entitled to his story. But back of It all Washingotn sees much more than

a black eye for McAdoo. Wash

ington sees a well-laid plan for

boosting Sniith, the Catholic srovernor of New York, for the nomination for president. As some proof of this letting in New York has swung about $50 to $100 that Smith will be nominated at the Democratic convention in New York for president of the United States.

'CLEAN CITY FIRST,' CITIZENS ASK OF DAVIS

Forgery of Naturalization Certificates Is-Discovered

tlficates, to enable Europeans to enter the United States as Uruguayans

has been disclosed. The Uruguayan

law requires ft residence of five years

before citizenship papers are granted an immigrant. Certificates were obtained in great numbers by false declarations of witnesses who ap

parently were members of a strong

organization wnicn nss ramiucauon;

In Argentina ana Brazil.

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house. This woman also stood with

pencil and paper it was said, taking

numbers of automobiles forming the

funeral procession.

KLAXSMAX IS BURIED

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Feb. 11.

Fifty Klansmen in full regalia took part in the funeral services and burial of Clyde Swalls, of Glenn Ayr, who was laid at rest la Highland

Lawn Cemetery here last Sunday afternoon. The Das tor of the -Glen

WASHINGTON. Feb. . The forg- Ayr M. B. church officiated. There

ing of Uruguayan naturaJizationcex&Urere eighty cars in the funeral pro

cession and many beautiful floral offerings were sent by a host of

friends. A large floral cross of red roses was among the flowers.

AVALANCHE FELLS FOREST VIENNA, Feb. . An avalanche sweeping down Hubertalp today, entirely uprooted a forest of 8,000 trees, t. ... ... ...

cry aloud for reform in the appealing voices of children deprived of their rights as American citizens. They are undoubted and indubitable

facts which can not be ignored."

Why a Department of Education Dr. Inglis here speaks-of "the de

fects of education too numerous to catalog." My serious study of the

whole problem suggests one funda

mental difficulty that is not in any

catalog, a handicap that goes back to the beginning, and before the he-

ginning of public school system. In fact, who among you now can say when, or how, our public school sys

tem began? The public school is the most essential of all American in

stitutions ; we all know that ; yet,

unlike any other great American in-;

stitution, it did not come into exist

ence with clearly defined distinctive character. No date or event marks its birth. No national document ever bestowed upon it specific principles and purposes. Nor was the basic question of its relation to government ever fully and finally determined. I mention these things to show that in this country public school education was never rightly honored by a place -in any organic act like the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution; nor

was it ever, for more than the brief

est time, given deserved recognition

in any outstanding federal enact

ment. It gust grew, in almost hap'

hazard fashion, through a kind of

vagrant evolution, into what it is today, with only about one-seventh of

the efficiency that our national needs

demand.

For centuries education was ex

clusively of, by and for the church

That was yet quite largely the sit

uation throughout Europe at the time of American colonization. The

first evidences of change were in

Holland and Scotland, andamong the

Puritans and Huguenots of England

and France. Those earliest liberals

had a vision of universal education

but there remained in their minds

the idea of religious objective.

Then, in the eighteenth century

philanthropy took an interest in ed

ucation. . Next there were charity schools. After that, thank God, came the conception . of the American common school, emerging slowly and uncertainly, because, as I have Bhown, it was an organic orphan, and had to shift for itself. As the colonies differed, so ' did their schools. But gradually American education took on a type of its own, although it was not until three quarters of a century after the birth of the republic that the public school, as we now know it, was at all firmly established. No one will deny that It was always the intention to have adequate education in America. Private and

public declarations of that nigh purpose are abundant; but the trouble was, and is, that the cause of public education was never given the sanction and standing, yea. and the se

curity, that could be obtained 'only through basic legal recognition of its

paramount importance; Pennsylvania offers a good iltas

tratioa, . Notwithstanding William

Penn's original requirement that the

governor and council "should estab

lish and support public schools," plus

the statesman ly efforts of Benjamin Franklin, it was not until 1833 that this commonwealth had a partly taxsupported public school system, and for the next two years there was such a clamor of objection as to threaten its overthrow even then. The truth is that half our national life was lived without a general puulic school system, and that, during the last half, public schools have been pitifully inadequate, to which failures can be traced most of the national ills that now beset us. At the half-way mark two of -our greatest Americans entered the arena to battle for this cause. They were Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, andHenry Barnard, of Connecticut. To them America owes the highest, grandest monuments ever erected to her deserving heroes. - Out of their statesmanship and tne labors of others of that period came the effort to give public school education the standing it should have had in the beginning. In 1867, James A. Garfield sponsored legis

lation to create a department of ed

ucation. Henry Barnard became the commissioner of education, but without a place In the cabinet. In addition to executive duties, this law imposed upon that office the task of investigating the disposition and misuse of previous national land grants In aid to education. There ensued a fight on the part of the secretary of the interior for the right to make

the investigation, because his departnient had handled the grants. It was like the story of political manipulation, and probably graft, that is engaging the public mind today. Politics prevailed. The department of education was demoted to a mere bureau under the secretary of the Interior, which it has since remained.

Barnard resigned. The clock of true progress for America was set back, not days, but decades.

The big thing, the fundamental, all important thing to be accomplished for the cause of democratic education in America is to give it the recognition, the dignity, the established standing, of a high place in the cabinet. We are supporting a program that will do two things: (1) .Establish a department of education, with a Cabinet secretary at its head; and (2) Give national aid to our public schools. That first object far outweighs the second. It is fundamental, organic, whereas the rest is a matter of efficiency.

If there be the slightest doubt as to what a department of education would mean to the public school system, that doubt will disappear when you understand the attitude toward

it of the enemies of democratic ed

ucation. In a few minutes I shall

discuss the forces, or rather the only organized fores, that is oppos

ing the American public school sys

tem Atthls point I desire only to show ththis opposition by the

Roman r "hurch hierarchy Is

f h idea of a de partment of education. That is what

they fear.

You will remember that there was little activity in behalf of the SmithTowner bill during the Sixty-seventh Congress, because of the pending measure to establish a department of public welfare, with education only a bureau in it. With respect to that situation, I quote in part a letter, issued on May 4, 1921, by the National Catholic Welfare Council, as follows: "It should further be noted that other measures are now under consideration "by the leaders in Congress which may obviate the need of opposition to the Towner bill.

Should the McCormick bill be passed and the- department of public welfare be established, the bureau of

education would simply be transferred from the department of the

Interior to the department of public welfare ; it would not be entered into a separate department. In that case

the situation would practically be

what it is at present."

In other words, the hierarchy does

not oppose legislation that leaves

matters as they are, with a poor, powerless, undignified bureau of ed

ucation, instead of a department of

education which would at once and

forever suggest to every American that at last our public schools had

been given the recognition and

standing that should have been their

governmental position from the very

beginning.

Therefore, I say to you that this

part of our program is the all-im

portant part; that there must be no

compromise upon this issue.

When we have given public school

significance as the creation oi a department of education will do, while

that belated act alone can not at once remedy the enervating results of one hundred and thirty-five years

of neglected duty, of wasted citizen ship, it will ease the national con

science and be followed quickly by

a new and constantly accelerating

educational vigor throughout the re

pnblic. . It will mark 'the beginning

of a rising tide or common Intern

pence, health, and virtue among both

the native and adopted sons and

daughters of America.

Shameful Inadequacy of Education

The indictment is that "the de

fects of education are too numerous

to catalog." How much more impossible is it to catalog the conse

quences of those defects. When

we face the results of our inadequate

public school system, the situation

becomes positively appalling.

Each year there is an assessment

of our material wealth. A survey, on

as exact and scientific a scale, of the much more vital human values has

never been attempted. It happened,

however, quite incidentally, that the

nation was permitted to get

glimpse at the menacing aftermath of educational inadequacy. When

our yonng manhood was conscripted tor service in the xreat war. they

Were examined, mentally and physi

cally: tests were made and recorded

the results are known. At last we may look squarely at the terrible truth about oar .composite humanity,

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Health Possible to Spinal Sufferers Chiropractic Health Talk Tfo. 43 By J. B. itOLDSBKRRY, D. C. Among the babyhood threats against a life of health and happiness are the spinal fevers and other spinal disturbances which may come from falls or accidents to which childhood is subject. Ailments due to such a cause are so obviously within the province of a chiropractic , health service such as that delivered by this

office, that it would seem unnecessary to. say so. And yet many accept the very common belief prevalent before the discovery of chiropractic, that such diseases were beyond treatment or recovery. But with the advent of chiropractic it becomes a question whether any youthful sufferer from such ailments need despair of recovery. Brain Fever Crossed Eyes of This Baby "William Edward was fourteen months when a consultation of doctors was called and they decided he had brain fever. The child made so little progress under their care that I asked them to .consult with a

chiropractor, which they refused. I then called a chiropractor and in five days the child was on his way to .recovery. His eyes were crossed by the fever but they became straight under continued adjustments. Today he is normal in every way." William Devaney, Chiropractic Research Bureau, Sworn Statement No. 1387C Indianapolis. J. D GOLDSBERRY, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR OFFICE HOURS 10-12 A. M. 2-8 P. M. Sunday and other hoars by appointment My Phone, MaJa 5007 55G Massachusetts Ave. Indianapolia, Ind.

GsasucncMMsai jtostmmmati.

WOMEN OF KLAN OF

NEWTON COUNTY BUSY

MOROCCO, Ind., Feb. 9. In spite

of the cold weather and bad roads, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan of Newton county held an enthusiastic

meeting in the K. of P. hall in Morocco Thursday night. Most of the townships of the county were represented at the meeting. Several women appeared in full regalia during the ceremony when a large class was initiated. The county officers are getting into the harness in fine shape and great things are planned

for the organization by the officers

and the various wideawake committees.

ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO FIERY CROSS NOT TO INDIVIDUALS.

GLANCY FUNERAL IS

LARGELY ATTENDED

HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Feb. 12. The funeral of Mrs. Isaiah Glancy, who died at her home three and onehalf miles west of Hartford City, January 20, was held January 23 at the Methodist church a short distance from her home. The funeral was one of the largest attended ever held in that community. The services were conducted by the Rev. M. F. Dawson, of Veedersburg, assisted by Klansmen and Women of the Klan. Six sons-in-law Were the pallbearers. Men and women of the Klan organization were present and contributed beautiful floral pieces, one being a cross. The Women of the Klan conducted a short .service at the grave. The husband, seven daughters and two sons survive.

Davis Two Rare Birds Durgatl

Ora Davis Again Is Out. Wish the Usual Promises

ftivis, mayor of Terre

Haute, where crime has-run rampant during his administration, has officially announced his candidacy for the nomination for governor of Indiana. In his announcement he says: "The principal planks of my platform," he said, "will be law enforcement and lower taxes. These, of course, are the stereotyped phrases used by all candidates, and are meaningless terms unless the candidate tells how he is going to do it. "I am going to lower the taxes by enforcing the law and by giving an economical administration of the business of the state." Here is the platform he ran on for mayor of Terre Haute. These questions were propounded by citizens who wished a clean city: "Will you clean up the moral conditions of Terre Haute?" he was asked. "Yes." The mayor now blames a Methodist minister with the crime conditions in Terre Haute. "Will you promise to effect a reduction in city taxes?" "Yes." City taxes were raised on August 31, 1922, eight months after Mayor Davis took office. "Will you positively order your chief of police to clean up bootlegging establishments?" "Yes." Here are a few of the things that have happened since Mayor Davis took office: Salary of chief of police raised to $2,600, and he was ordered not to go outside the city limits to arrest bootleggers. (Roadhouses just outside the city where liquor is sold openly, many citizens assert.) Seventeen gasoline stations held up and robbed in as many weeks. Murders recorded almost weekly. Members of city council convicted of bootlegging. Protest against his holding seat in council ignored. Yes, Mr. Davis is some joker. In the face of his record as mayor of Terre Haute, is it possible he thinksjhe can fool the people again with the promises be has continually broken?. We think not

George H. Durgan Pulls Another of His "Boners" Mayor George JKtJfcjjgan, ot Lafayette, who-as--Eunouncs3j-he is a candidate folQthenomi-:iA nation for governor Indiana on an anti-Klan platform, is continually springing jokes. His latest was at a,civic association meeting in Lafayette recently. It will be recalled that of an audience of estimated at 3,500 in Tomlinson Hall recently, when he made the announcement of his candidacy, about 3,000 marched out of the hall when Durgan referred to the Indiana Year Book of 1922 as -being better reading than the Holy Bible. The Indianapolis daily newspapers attempted to show that the marchout was a "near riot" Otto Ray, city councilman of Indianapolis, caused the arrest of a city fireman and a companion, on the charges of inciting a riot. The case has never come to trial in . court, being delayed by Ray when called for hearing. The Indianapolis board of works has reinstated the fireman, and therefore the case is a dead issue in court. Nevertheless, Mr. Durgan seems to be proud ot his remarks against the Holy Bible. He still is "pulling boners," as a Lafayette man puts it This man says that Durgan long ago was "discounted" by citizens of Lafayette, durgan is a joke, not a joker in the estimation of Lafayette citizens," the man who told of his appeal for applause say 8. "He has no idea of ever being nominated for governor of Indiana, but he really thinks he is a big man. When it came time for him to speak at the civic association meeting recently, he prefaced his speech . by remarking: 'When I speak I create a riot.' Then he smugly gazed out over his audience and awaited the applause he expected. All in the audience knew what he was referring to, but the Bible Ts not a butt for jokes with all citizens. Durgan was not In his own crowd. The silence was so dense, figuratively, it could have been cut with a knife. One could have heard a pin drop in. any part of the room and still Durgan awaited the applause, until it became painful. Finally eyen he, the. man of brass, became emharassed, and attempted to go on with his set "speech, but it apparently had left him. After hesitating and stammering and starting and stopping, finally he made a few remarks and gave the center of the stage to another speaker." This- is the comment ot a Protestant citizen of Lafayette. , It indicates the direction of the breeze stirred up by Durgan's "boner" in Indianapolis. Lafayette is not made up solidly of citizens of the Durgan stripe, even if he is, mayor of the city. Durgan has about run his race there . '

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