Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1924 — Page 3

Friday, May 30, 1924

THE FIERY CROSS

CONVICTION OF 200 BOOTLEGGERS NOT REGARDED AS NEWS

Rioting in Williamson County Was Page One Stuff for Tress Few Weeks Ago

AGE THREE

H. t. Johnson Loose Again

Klan Could Then lie Blamed Public Kye Herrin a Decent i Place (o Lhe in Now

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IIEIIRI.N, 111., May 26 How KruriRp it is that 'the conviction of 21MI bootleggers in Williamson county fails to iippeal to the press associations and the daily newspapers allien a few weeks ago were carrying scare headline stories of riot and Ku Jvlux Klan turmoil? Tlifsc same newspapers ignored almost absolutely the fact that, out tf Hit- smoke of battle of the good government organization Williamson county. Herrlu and Marlon have become fit places in which to live. That battle and' the smoke were paused by an enraged 1'rotestant

Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, dozing peacefully as the menace of the Roman Catholic hierarchy marches forward to strangle Americanism in America, la apparently prodded awake for a minute by the results of the Indiana primary, and Mr. Johnson forthwith takes his pen in hand, while still dazed by his long slumber, and as In a dream pushes his way into the Richmond Item office with a communication which is misrepresentation from beginning to end. Mr. Johnson, either -wilfully or ignorantly, makes statements that haven't the least foundation in truth. He is either a tool of the Roman hierarchy or he is absolutely ignorant of the conditions of the natton today, and he is an attorney, too, and should at least have a smattering of facts on which- to base his case. When he says the Republican party of Indiana is under the "influence of an organization which is at war with the fundamental principles on which this government is founded," he deliberately falsifies or is abscK

lutely ignorant of the subject on which he attempts to enlighten the readers of the Richmond Item.

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against it, for I would utterly despise myself if I were ever to discriminate against my fellow-citl-zens because of their race or religion, or seek to withhold from even the humblest of them any of the civil, political or religious rights and privileges which I enjoy myself. "HENRY U. JOHNSON, "Attorney, Colonial Bldg." Henry U. Johnson can fool no one in his own community. Whatever he might say against any person or organization would he a boost for that person or organization. The enemies of the Ku Klux Klan are welcome to him, so far as the Klan is concerned. If the Klan were picking a press agent for the opposition it could not

do better than to select a man of Johnson's calibre. He will do their

cause more harm in Richmond

among his neighbors, than a half

dozen Lnity Leagues or un-American Intolerances. -

VICIOUS BOYCOTT AGAINST AMERICANS

(Continued from Page 1) Catholic patrons they had the better it was for their business. The Roman Catholic who ordered the manager of the bowling- alleys to keep Livengood out of his place Is the agent in Jeffersonville for a soft drink manufacturer. His business is with Protestants as well as Roman Catholics. No Protestant has refused to buy goods from him simply because he was a Roman Catholic. What will Rome do with Americans when that great day the pope

is looking forward to arrives? Are American Protestants going to continue to slumber on while the subtle organization of the pope steadily makes inroads into America?

population refusing longer to sub

lint to a condition that made life! with honest intent could make such unbearable for decent people. When a statement. If ever there was an the lighting was on. the Ku Klux j organization founded on the princiKlan was blamed with creating riot. pies of the American government it S. Clenn Young, a federal enforce- lis the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, mcnt agent, sent to Williamson and its principles can not be miscounty by the liquor law enforce-i taken by any person who has read niciit department of the government j them. at Washington, was continually re-j Again, when he states that the referred to In those days "as a paid suit of the primary, so far as the Reofl'u er of the Klan." The Klan was j Publican ticket is concerned, "means lieid accountable in all these garbled j that men and women of this state newspaper accounts when a man was 1 are to be proscribed and discrimiehot down, when troops were called ! nated against because of their race or when riot was running rampant, j or color," be states what he can not in nn ii if Lirrnmi i help but know to be an untruth. In the Ihirkirround : Ktther that, or he is an avowed enIn the background at all times in emy of American institutions and a these newspaper stories were duly tool in the hands of the pope of authorized officers of the law who Rome.

refused to do their duty. They were ' But when one gets down to the

made heroes in the eyes of the pub

lie which did not know and could rot Ket the true facts from the daily press, which is supposed to keep the public informed. Back of those officers was another crowd, officially known in Williamnoil county as the Flaming Circle, an auti-Klan organization. This organization was anti-Klan. of course, but first and all the time it was antiimeiiean, anti-Protestant, anti-gov-rnir.ent. In other words, it was at Work itmstantly to -Hid the bootleggers, gamblers, saloonkeepers, robht rs, and all other lawbreakers lo escape the law. It was not difficult in those days, to defeat the law. Officers elected by the people to enforce the laws were lawbreakers of the worst typo. Mob violence was resorted to by the un-American Flaming Cross members when S. Olefin Young and his assistants, Protestants, yes, Klansmen if you like, made it so hot for the lawbreakers that they had to fight openly in an effort to continue the reign of terror, the breaking of every law on the statute books. This Was News The unlawful arrests of S. Glenn Youns; and his assistants was good reading for the publications fighting Americanism because they thought they hated the Ku Klux Klan. The indictment of these men by a cooked-up grand jury was more tood news for them. Their leading uvtieies for days were devoted to "Williamson county. Many of the

metropolitan publications sent staff j

third paragraph of Mr. Johnson's misrepresentations he finds the nut f the fruit be is dangling before the sleeping voter. It proves beyond question that Mr. Johnson is not making a plea for Indiana, but wholly for the Democratic party. That the voters of Indiana may realize somewhat the bitter fight that is to be waged by the un-American organizations of the state in the coming campaign, and of the misstatements the opposition of Americanism is willing to make, Mr. Johnson's communication to the Richmond Item is reproduced as follows: "Mr. Editor: "The Republicans of this state have chosen as their candidate for governor a man who is beyond question a member of the Ku Klux Klan. They have done this, too, by a decisive majority, and over

other aspirants for the nomination, some of whom they concede to be men of good character and excellent ability. This simply means that the Republican party of Indiana is under trve influence of an organization which is at war with the fundamental principles upon which this government is founded. It means that the party has committed itself to the proposition that the men and women of this state are to bo proscribed and discriminated against because of their race and religion, and that they are to be excluded from public office for this reason, however high their character and however great their attainments. I submit that a doc-

'Billie" Will Wake Up

RIOT RESULTS IN GREAT INCREASE

FRANKLIN, Ind., May 24. "I will stick to my anti-Klan platform regardless of the fact that the Klan has apparently captured all of the county chairmanships in this district but two," said "Billie" Hill, Republican nominee for Congress from the Fourth congressional district, today. "The election is six months away," he said. "People will have time to taite their sober second thought before Tuesday after the first Monday in November and I can not feel that there are a majority of the voters of this or any other American community who prefer an invisible to a visible government." Now that William has this off his chest, he, too, will have an opportunity for sober thought before the election in November. William's ref

erence to an invisible government

I proves that he knows nothing of the

principles or tne is.nignts or the Ku Klux Klan, or he is deliberately misstating facts. That old-time plea for partisan support is put up by Hill. He says lie feels very sure in the final analysis that voters will either be Democrats or Republicans. Again he proves beyond doubt that he is not up to the times; therefore, would be a rather poor selection for any district to send to Congress. It is the man, these days, William, that the voter is looking for. If that man is on the Republican ticket, all well and good; if he is on the Democratic ticket, it is the same thing. But he must be a man. He expresses himself in this manner: "Before the campaign is ended I hope that no one in the whole district will have any doubt in his mind concerning my attitude on this question that should never have been injected into politics." Never fear, William, the voter Is not going to forget you in November. Hill is a cattle buyer, stationed at the Indianapolis stockyards.

(Continued from Page 1) being cursed freely, the Protestant population began to realize that the underlying feeling of the riot was one against Protestantism. The unAmerican tactics of the mob which was stoning American flags, In addition to making physical assaults upon all persons whom they suspected of being Klansmen, was too much for red-blooded Americans of this city and county. The result is the soaring of Klan membership in this city and county and in many other counties in Indiana and in Michigan.

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men mere.- vwiy: i liat question I mis can never find permanent has not yet been answered. Why lodgment in the American mind, should a staff man be sent when "But what will the minority in the articles were cut and dried, pre- j the Republican ranks who dissent pared in the Associated Press office.! from this doctrine do. when the or in the. offices of the newspapers i nirtv nolitlcians attpmnt n

them up to its support at the regular election this fall? Will thev

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GREAT KLAN REVIEW,

rAtaMJNT TWU NIGHTS (Continued from Page 1)

and other apparatus for this part of

me program nave been placed in front of the grandstands. One of these attractions is a dive from a 100-foot tower. Lights are to be dimmed as the diver reaches his

perch on the top of the tower, the tower lighted only with a fiery cross at the tOD and a cross nlaceH ha-

neath his net on the ground. It is

sam to ne tne highest diving feat ever attempted. Arrangements Jiave heen ma do tn

accommodate many thousands of

visitors overnight at the' fairgrounds. Parking space, free, has been pro-.

viaea lor an visitors who wish to remain overnight unit i nno mti

have been obtained to accommodate those who wish to sleep on the

grounas. visitors to the 500-mile auto race, who visit the fairgrounds, may park their cars in the grounds overnight without cost.

Indiana and many surrounding states are to be largely represented at the meeting. Those in charge expect as many, if not more, visitors than were in Indianapolis at the Klan demonstration last Saturday. The Carnegie institute plans extensive explorations among the Maya ruins of Yucatan.

Which used them?

Hut the last juicy story was the bond story. S. (lienn Young, inlitted by this "special" grand jury on counts, was required to place bonds totaling more than $1,000,000. His associates indicted with him by this "special" grand jury were required to place another $1,000,000. That- was great reading for the pub.lic, which was misled throughout all "The uproar in Williamson county, these prejudiced newspapers thought. Then came an election. The good citizens had a ticket. Its candidates were overwhelmingly elected. Sheriff Callahan and his crowd were flown and out. That wasn't such pood news. Williamson countv was

being cleansed and the "good home" j newspaper in many parts of the country did not wish to announce these facts". Not Such Good News Finally, Callahan and his chief deputy were indicted by a federal Krand jury at Danville. There was no news in that at all. The Assorted Press refused to carry a line on it. Evidently the newspapers nerved by the Associated Press did not wrsh that kind of news. The federal grand jury was a rep.l-for-mire lawful limb of the law. The Associated Press knew that it meant Homething when a federal grand Jury indicted a man, so it wished to be prepared to ignore Callahan's trial. It did. Since then the real constructive work of the new officials, those who wished the laws enforced, began. Arrests by the hundreds were made. Honest courts and juries tried as lapidly as possible those arrested. The evidence was overwhelming. They were convicted Without loss of

lime. There was no news in that for the Associated Press. Evidently the members it serves-, the newspapers that are supposed to tell the truth to the public, did not wish this constructive, cleanup, brand of news. No News at All Therefore, when 200 bootleggers Were found guilty there was nothing in the.daily press. The fact that very saloon in Williamson county Jian been closed, that every gambling .'Joint is dark, that roadhouses where women made" a nefarious living are padlocked is not news to the Associated Press and its member newspapers.

stifle their conscience, abandon their righteous opinion, and yield up their conviction at the command of those who think and prate only of party regularity and allegiance? "And what of the Democratic party of Indiana? Here is its golden opportunity, not merely opportunity to win the election, but an opportunity to do right and to stand for the maintenance of a great fundamental American principle. If it fails to rise to the occasion, if it declines to seize upon this opportunity, it is unworthy of the confidence and support of the people, and richly deserves defeat. Its plain duty at the approaching state convention is to nominate for governor a man of exalted character andof recognized qualifications for the office, one who is openly and sincerely opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, and to incorporate into its party platform a plain and unequivocal denunciation of that organization. "The issue will thus be squarely drawn between those who favor the "invisible empire' and those who are opposed to it. and the people can render their verdict at the polls. This has never been done in this state before, for the Klan has invariably cast a solid vote at the elections while the opposition has divided and frittered away its strength upon questions and issues which were purely collateral. Nor need this issue at all impair the power of any citizen to vote for his party candidate for president, since the marking of his ballot so as to express his individual choice, by selection from among the divers candidates for the various offices of the two political parties, is now an easy matter, well understood by even the dullest elector. "I have, Mr. Editor, an abiding faith that the great majority of the voters of Indiana will repudiate the Ku Klux Klan if the opportunity for direct vote to do so is afforded them by the Democratic party, but whether they do or not, the Ku Klux Klan is, in my opinion, a paramount question In the approaching campaign, and I have deliberately made up my mind that I will not knowingly cast my ballot for any man or with any party that does not openly declare

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