Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1924 — Page 2

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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, June 20, 1924,

The Independent Voter

il'vom an Address by a Prominent Klansman) "I believe the American plan of representative government to be the best In the world. There should be, at least, two dominant political parties. At the present time we find there are two, the Republican and Democratic parties. Government by party is successful, only so long as representatives of the party in power are representative of the people, only so long as representatives of the party in power follow the will of the honest ma

jority, nntl do not connive, through the will of the honest majority, to rule the people by minority. Some people are in politics for power, some for personal gain, and some for service. Politics have been brought intc bad repute in both the dominant parties, at one time or another, in nation, in state and municipality, because the men in control used their power, through the manipulation of the party organization, to further their own selfish Interests. Therefore, it behooves all honest Independent voters to form independent Democratic and independent Republican organizations for the purpose of purging both parties of men who would wreck their respective parties for personal aggrandizement or personal gain. Have Come to Stay

The independent voters have come

to stay.

Let me explain what I mean by

the Independent voter. He is a man

who will not vote for a "yellow dog" because the yellow dog happens to

be on the party ticket generally fa

vored by him. He Is the man who

will vote the straight party ticket

of his choice, so long as the party selects straightforward, honest men,

men who have an earnestness of purpose; men who will carry their

convictions to fulfillment; who will stand by their guns; men who will not desert the Ideals of American

government and American institu

tlons for a mess of pottage; men

who can not be swerved by flattery

personal ambition nor coercion; men

KLANSMEN WIN IN G. 0. P. CONVENTION

who believe the American government and the American people should have their first allegiance, next to God. This independence of voting is no one man's ideal, it is due to the Intellectual growth of true AmericanIsm, it is Americanism in its broadest and truest form. The independent voter is sacrificing partisanship on the altar of good government. There always has been more or less independent voting. Lack of organized effort-ift them ineffective,

therefore the independent voter of today realizes, to be effective, be must organize and, thereby, become

an important factor in American

politics, to the end that good gov

ernment shall prevail.

This, then, is the sacred belief of

the independent voter: this idea up

sets and drives li.to oblivion the

timeworn and foolish practice of voting partisan politics, regardless

of the aspirants fitness for the

place.

I do not believe It expedient to

form a third party .and I hope that nothing I may say will give you the impression that any such idea exists

with me. It is much better for in

dependent Republicans and Inde

pendent Democrats to work within their own respective parties and remove the political barnacles who seek to destroy the very foundation upon which our American liberty is founded. This is only accomplished by organizing all the independent voters within the party of their own choice. With such an organization, the independent voter will have a voice in the affairs of the party; without such organization, you independent voters will not be consulted, and you will have to accept that which is handed you, be it in accordance with your views or not.

When the independent voters of

the nation take enough Interest In

the welfare of our government to efficiently organize and work, re

alizing the Importance of it, then,

and then only, will he be entitled to

the caption: "One Nation Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice

for All."

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SCRffiE SAYS RALSTON IS DEM. DARK HORSE

New York Writer Predicts the Defeat of Governor Al Smith

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(Special to The Fiery Cross) CLEVELAND, O., June 13. The Republican national convention of

1924 is a thing of the past. All read

ers of the daily press know of the

nomination of Coolidge and Dawes

and something about the platform adopted. The convention rejected the antl-Klan planks offered by R. B. Creager, of Texas: Charles F. Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University; former Representative Isaac Siegel, of New York, and Willam Liberman, a delegate from New York. The committee on resolutions also turned" down the arguments of Bishop A. J. Carey, of Chicago, heading a delegation of negroes, assailing the Klan. It was some fight but the Klan won through its friends on the subcommittee and the full committee on resolutions. Those who were not at the Cleve

land convention do not know what a

big fight the Klan was up against but who will now be pleased to learn of the brilliant victory won by its

friends The fight on the anti-Klan fellows was led by Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, and he was ably assisted by Senator Fess, of Ohio; Senator Gooding, of Idaho, and a number of others who were equally insistent in blocking all efforts to have the Republican party commit itself against the Klan or to adopt

any plank that would give offense to any patriotic Protestant American organization. Fought All Night The platform builders battled in an all-night session of the resolutions committee over the Klan, the world court and a few other planks. The most bitter arguments in the whole matter were over the Klan.

R. B. Creager, Republican committeeman from Texas, the man who is charged with alleged fraudulent land sales in the Rio Grande valley In Texas and who is now under investigation by the United States Senate for same, was the anti-Klan leader

and he was insistent that the plat

form should denounce the Protes

tant secret order. When the matter

reached the full height of discussion, the meeting was held behind closed doors and newspapermen outside could hear some of the heated debate.

Watson Blocks Creager The Creager forces at several

times thought they were on the verge

of success, but the cool counsel of

Senator Norbeck, of South Dakota, and the masterful arguments of Sen

ators Watson and Snioot finally over

came most of the opposition. The committee then, decided to reject

Creager's demands and adopt a plank

that conld not offend any secret or

ganization made up of real Amerl

cans. Creager's chief lieutenant in

his fight on the Klan was Governor

Arthur M. Hyde, of Missouri.

The plank as finally adopted is

really a Klan plank and not an anti Klan plank. It reaffirms the guar antee of religious and political free

dom, provided by the constitution,

and such guarantee is one of the cardinal principles of Klankraft. As one writer has said, "Christianity, loyalty to the constitution and government of the United States are the trinity of Klannishness."

Tho Klan Flank The Klan plank as adopted is as follows: "The Republican party reaffirms its unyielding devotion to the

constitution and to the guarantee of civil, religious and political liberties therein contained. We must have respect for law. We must have observance of law. We must have enforcement of law. The very existence of the government depends on this. The substitution of private will for public law is only another name for oppression, disorder, anarchj and mob rule." Dr. Evans Busy

Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial

Wizard of the Klan, was in Cleve

land and he was ably backed and assisted by prominent Klan leaders from all sections of the United States

who made their Influence felt among Republican leaders for the good of the Klan and the country. Their work was intensive and it required such because of the activity of the anti-Klan fellows. They even had to combat such men as Ogden Mills,

Qf New York, who was a member of the committee and ready to fight for the adoption of an anti-Klan plank.

Mr. Mills went down to defeat along with Creager and the others. It was a great Klan victory and can not be

construed in any other way.

The buck is now respectfully

passed up" to the Democratic party at its coming New York convention and Klansmen everywhere, millions

of them, are only waiting to see what

will be done. A strong and perhaps stronger effort will be made there to

get in a plank denouncing the Klan. Such a position is taken by Senator

Oscar Underwood, a candidate, and

it is reported that he will be aided by Governor Al Smith along the

same line. Undoubtedly Creager

will be found trying to get in his work with the Democrats just as he

did with the Republicans at Cleveland and there will be others. Another fight is just ahead. Watch the outcome.

Carter Field, writing Washington dateline to

under a the New

CAPITAL PUNBHMENT TO BE ELIMINATED

Authority on Penology Says "Legal Taking of Life Is Doomed"

WASHINGTON, June 16 One

hundred and twenty-five years ago

THE BED AND THE WHITE HAT

York Herald-Tribune, has a "dope" 222 offenses were punishable with

message of interest, as follows: death in England. In 1861 this num-

The much-talked-about deadlock per ws reduced to two: treason and

between Governor Smith and Wil- murder.

liam G. McAdoo at the Democratic European countries which have national convention, will he broken abolished capital punishment in7

early in the balloting when the Klan- elude : Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hoi

controlled delegates swing away land, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Jorfrom McAdoo and begin voting for way, Rumania, Portugal and Swe-

Senator Ralston, of Indiana, accord- aen. Tnougn JtJeigium, jjenmam

ing to authentic information here. Finland and Switzerland still re

All the more surprising In view of ain P11 Punishment is rarely, the spectacular come-back which ever used In the United States, McAdoo has staged since being in- Jatfe l??' JtSL t S1 volved in the oil investigation? the Pr tte e"heJt !r,f,i A , judge or jury, or both, to substitute information comes from a variety of tynT,,Bn'y tiaol, Thirtan

sources, usually so well informed tTV 7,,

as to leave little doubt as to its

truth. "A Question of How Long"

Briefly, the Klan leaders are not "That caDital punishment is

personally- hostile .to McAdoo, but doomed no thinking person doubts,"

they do not believe he possibly can says Hon. George F. Tracy, an Eng

be, elected if nominated. Senator Hsh authority on penology; "it is

Ralston is, in their opinion, the most merely a question of how long the

satisfactory man who has any chance practice shall survive. That jails

of winning the nomination. reformatories, houses of correction

Elan Strong for Ealston P106" LfZ Z s are now but pens in which human Scouts who have been through the cattle are herded are also doomed south and as far west as Texas fight- as 6UCh, is obvious from the trend

ing against McAttoo in tne interest 0j tne times. Tomorrow's penal in

or underwood, and men who nave stitution will not be so named

been in the northwest fighting more thought ef or administered. It will successfully for Smith, report alike not be a Dlace of Dunishment. but

that while the opposition rallied a place of remaking; criminals will round McAdoo, It was common talk, not be 'incarcerated' any more than from the Canadian line to Texas, patients suffering from contagious that the Klan leaders were more in- diseases are now 'incarcerated' In

terested in the candidacy of Senator hospitals. The jail of today will be

Ralston than in that of McAdoo. come the psychopathic hospital of Some of the Klan leaders discuss tomorrow; lawbreakers will be

this situation frankly. They say cured of lawbreaking, if curable; if they have no obiection to McAdoo; incurable, they will be kept at use-

but that they do not believe he can ful labor, for life if necessary.

possibly be elected over President a Long Road Coolidge. I n i i Qj r,,i ,

They say that his much-talked- but a mUe That the ena Q lt

aooui comepacs is Que aimusi- be &3 ls written above, lg at tirely to the fact that Senator Under- least lndlcated by the hlstory 0f wood, the opponent over whom Mc- crime pUnl3nmenti and the uselessAdoo has won practically all his sg f j lawg based upon the

syecLacumr viciunes, uau umaicu idea of punishment and revenge

tne ino.ivia.uai mempers oi me lviau, rather than cure and reform.

and some or their local leaders witn

a awacKs on tne orgamziuu. TEMPLE DEDICATED TClnn lenrlprc admit frnnlnv that TTn-

HnH 1 Dn0t,Q t tT,0m Th LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The Albert

are bitter at the announcement of P dedicated Ma naa tht Hiov win mnrtiint on April 12. The ceremony of con-

A man wearing an Italian-made hat landed In New York City recently. This peculiarly-shaped hat Is symbolic of certain principles for which he stands as a living example. This hat, Its wearer, and the principles for which they stand Italian though these principles may be were welcomed by their admirers, including the mayor and other prominent wealthy citizens of New York and of our Protestant country. They were all respectfully treated by the

descendants of the Protestant found

ers of this free land of ours.

A number of men about the same

time, with white headgear a purely

American creation themselves every

one native-born, white, American

citizens, and this white head-covering symbolizing the purity of America and her Protestant principles established at so great cost by the

founders, while walking in an or

derly manner through the streets of

one of our cities, were attacked, stoned the American flag trampled under foot by a number of those

who believed in the Italian hat the little ,red hat whose home is in Italy.

And yet there are those well-mean-

a fight for the adoption of an anti-

Klan" plant by repeating the plank of Kosenbaum 33d I degree. Sovereign

the Democratic convention of 1856, ,. 0 . . rx,th irTv Kwi,. sas, acting as Sovereign Grand Com

ings.

The Klan leaders assert, however

Witcover, 33d degree, was present.

The spacious auditorium was over

that the national organization of the !rowded ftnd the dedcatlo31 of thig

ivian

in

in nas never oesurreu iu eiuwi magnificent temple is recognized as

UBimng cnutsrwouu ut iu uwuu , &Q epocnai event in

ing McAdoo. Underwood himself Arkansaa Freemasonry.

uruugiit uowu uil ins unu ucau iug

opposition of individuals' in the or

ganization by his attacks. Changes the Outlook

the history of

A poor Klan-talk will pay poor In

terest on the time invested; a good Klan-talk will put capital in the

The fact that the Klan leaders pre- bank-of good deeds.

fer Ralston to McAdoo merely

changes the chronology of the New

York convention as it has been gen- the Klan from the housetops. They erally anticipated. It probably call attention to the keenness of the

means, according to shrewd political American ' voter to vote against

observers here, that instead of the someoody instead or tor somebody,

expected long deadlock with McAdoo They were voting against an enemy and Smith as the two leaders, which of the Klan, not for McAdoo, the

many observers had expected to be Klan leaders say,

broken by the nomination of Ralston,

lag Protestants who -wonder why th Klan! What would likely happen If Americans, foreigners' in Italy, would trample their flag and attack Italians?

Chicago Importer Shows American Spirit

There still are some real Americans in this country. It is not known whether or not the one whose story is told below ls a member of the Ku Klux Klan, but he certainly has the real American spirit, A certain American importer, emulating the practice of foreign importers by stipulating that his goods be shipped in a vessel of his own nationality, let a shipment from Germany rot in a Chicago warehouse because a foreign vessel was used.

This story was told to the house shipping board investigating committee. Joseph E. Sheedy, fleet corporation official, told the committee that on learning of "this loyal American's action" he felt "like jumping up and kissing him," as it was the first incident of the kind which had come to his attention during his connection with the government merchant fleet.

A lie has no conscience; it is just like the anti-Klansman who tells it.

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EXCEPTIONAL CEREMONY 0 BERLIN, Kan., June 16. A Ma

sonic ceremony of exceptional interest took place when the Master Mason degree was conferred on a candidate with his father acting as master, his four brothers acting as wardens and deacons, and his uncle acting as senior steward. -

the deadlock will merely shift to a

Smith-Ralston struggle early in the

fighting.

In addition, it means that instead

of the Smith forces being willing to

go to Ralston when they see that their own fight is hopeless, they will

now be embittered against tne In

diana senator.

In that event there will be uncovered the bitter division into two

groups which has characterized al

most every Democratic convention

since the days of Grover Cleveland.

On the one side will be the drys

and against them the wets. On the

side of the drys will be the progres

sives and on the side of the wets will be arrayed the conservatives.

The drys and progressives, socalled, will come largely from the west and

south, while the wets and reactionaries, socalled, will come from the

north and east. Klan With the Drys

The Klan will be found fighting with the drys and liberals, while the enthusiasm of the Smith candidacy

will be confined largely to the wets

and the conservatives

Save, for the Klan-Catholic issue

the lineup is the same as lt was when Bryan first split the party with the free silver Issue in 1896 and

Grover Cleveland stood firmly for gold. It was the same at the 1900 convention. It is the same as when Tammany and the east triumphed

four years later at St. Louis, when

Tammany and the conservative north

and east Dut over Alton B. Farker

In 1908 Bryan triumphed again, with

the same lines of difference drawn

In 1912 it became so bitter that

Bryan denounced Thomas Fortune Ryan on the floor of the Baltimore convention, but compromise was finally reached. Woodrow Wilson's grip on the party prevented an outbreak In 1916, but the same lines of cleavage developed at San Francisco in 1920,

with the Tammany conservative element scoring another victory, and Bryan announcing that his "heart was in the grave." Klan leaders cite tho Teapot Dome disclosure that McAdoo had. taken money trom E. L. Doheny and that there was a million-dollar contingent fee for McAdoo in prospect if he could accomplish certain things In

Mexico. Since that time McAdoo has restored his prestige and revived the respect of his opponents by his big primary victories. The Klan leaders are not Impressed br these. They point out that McAdoo merely humbled an opponent who had denounced

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