Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1924 — Page 1

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America's Leading Klan Publication "IN PROPORTION AS THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT GJVES FORCE TO" PUBLIC OPINION, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT PUBLIC OPINION SHOULD BE' ENLIGHTENED". WASHINGTON."THERE IS NO FAILURE EXCEPT FAILURE TO SERVE THE PURPOSE" VOLUME III, NUMBER 45 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS

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HERRIN QUIET AFTER THUGS KILL KLANSMEN

DENUNCIATION OF PROTESTANT MINISTERS HOUSES IRE OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY CITI-

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TURN BACK ON RESOLUTION

THROWN 1IEAI) OF CIAT10N

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LOUISVILLE JUDGE

UPHOLDS RIGHT OF FREEDOM TO SPEAK

Rules That Police Must Not Interfere With Peaceful Kian Assemblages in Kentucky

Dr. E. II. Laugher Wins Fight After Series of Arrests Court Says Speeches Arc Unobjectionable

(By Staff Correspondent) HERRIN, 111., Sept. 2. Following the murder of more Klansmcn by the thugs who

Newspaper Stories of Rioting Started by Opponents of Klan Arc Illirhlv ( iilurcil to Suit Taste of

AM-.,, i ti ,.. vi.M,fl,..r Pn.t. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 2. The

estaiit Organization "No Need tr tlh ,n ritv n, Tnilisvm and

Militia," Says General Black as other cities 0 the state lias been Quiet, Kcigns Follow iiitf Burial of won. Application for an injunction Kliinincu. . to prevent the police of the city of

Louisville from interfering with peaceable assemblage and from arresting Dr. Lougher was made after a long series of persecution by order of the public safety officers of Louisville and by sheriffs and other oflicers in the state. The case' came

Btill remain in Herrin, and the up before Judge Henry S. Barker, in

PAMPHLETS ORDERED BY AIR Tho flret order for "The Truth About tho Notro Dame Riot" to reach Tho Fiery Cross office via nir mail waa received last Monday. Tho order waa from Boise, Idaho, where on September 8 a big Kit Klux Klan meeting will be held. Tho order also called for an extra supply of copies of Tho Fiery Cross. Tho sale of the pamphlets telling the truth about the disgraceful riota indulged in by the students of Notre Dame University last May is increasing each' week Orders from every state in the Union show the interest now being manifest in such matters. Reports from Idaho show that the Klan in that state is malang enormous gains.

UFFALO MAYO

DISMISSES 32 PROTESTANTS

ORDERS DISCHARGE OF POLICEMEN AKD DISREGARDS CITIL SERVICE RULES

calling out of the state militia,

Herrin is again quiet. Sheriff George Gallaghan has been arrested on a murder charge and a number of men said to be Klansmen and who were arrested after the shooting affrays started Saturday by those forces opposed to the Ku Klux

the Jelferscn circuit court, chancery

branch, nd Judge Barker issued a restraining order enjoining police and city-officials from interfering with the Rev. Mr. Lougher in holding his meetings and speaking in behalf of the Ku Klux Klan. Judge Barker contended that the constitutional rights of the plaintiff freely and fully to speak on the subject of the Ku Klux Klan had, been g rqji'ly viul-.Cd and that itworrrtl

313,587 ALIENS LAND IN EXCESS OF QUOTA

Immigration Restriction Law Violated by Illegal Influx of Foreigners

Ghastly Shovof Intolerance Is Followed by Rain of Criticism on Head of Official

NEW RK, Sept. 2. Although tho Johnson immigration bill has been written in the statutes of the country, and presumably is in force, 670,587 Immigrants were admitted to the country during the past fiscal year, whereas the law provides that only 357,000 shall be admitted. These

jail. The farcical search Of thrfcSnttnue unless restrained by the r . .... . . . . j i. i, i;irf

Masonic hall and a local store

for "gTins and ammunition, claimed to have been stored there by Klansmen,- resulted in finding nothing. That a withdrawal of troops would begin today was believed by those close in touch with the situation. General Carlos K. Black, in charge of the troops now in Herrin, declared Sunday that he saw no signs of renewed trouble. The trouble started Saturday when, with the release of the Shelton brother", who ore charged with attacking Glenn Young and Mrs. Young last May. were released the aliens once again

took up the tilit against the Klansmen,. feeling secure in their despicable acts of intimidation. The Shelton brothers are now under intliclnieiit for their alleged part in Lie attack on Mr. and Mr:i. Young. The case in which they were acquitted Saturday was that in which they re charged with u part in the death of Caesar Cagle, a Klansman, last spring, and on whose tombstone aliens have since rubbed crude oil. Sheriff Is Arrested Sheriff Gallaghiin, who was arrested hero on a murder charge since the anti-Kian faction began rioting Saturday, must also f.ice a charge oi having conspired in the attack on

court; and that the plaintiff has no adequate remedy at law for the 'threatened injury, further stating that the theatened deprivation of the plaintiff's rights to earn a livelihood supplied ample material for the action of the court. The defendants, the city authorities, have twenty days in which to Continued on Page 5)

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY

KLAN HOLDS PICNIC

Big Basket Dinner Enjoyed on Shore c-f Lake Maxinkuckec See Students Drill

Young and his wife. Gallaghan, an Italian and Roman Catholic, is most bitter against the Klan. Many charges have been made that he has aided in the arming of the most - desperate thug:', and giving them commissions as deputy sheriffs.

Ministers and church people of this city are demanding law enforcement anil the stopping of the

arrest of innocent men. "Imprisonment of the innocent," paid one minister. Rev. D. Stickney, must stop. Dozens of men, alleged members of the Klan. are arrested and dragged off to jail on unfounded charges." The wholesale arrest of men believed to be Klansmen, each tini" the underworld starts a riot, is

getting on the nerves of the citizms of all Williamson county as well as those of Herrin. Denunciation of all i'rotesfant ministers in Williamson county by the prosecuting attorn uy has raised the ire of the better class of citizens. "Why is there no denunciation of the thugs and cut-throats who .are ruining the name . of Williamson county and making the world believe Herrin is a black spot oh tht map?" is being asked freely. "Why are such men as the Shelton brothers allowed to roam at will while

honorable churchmen are arrested and thrown into jail?" is another query that is yet to be answered. Sheriff Gallaghan, who has fought every move of Klansmen to clean up Williamson county through due process of law. Is also under an indictment on the charge of accepting a bribe to permit the sale of liquor In thlslcounty. He is an Italian although he has changed the spelling of his name to give the impression that he is Irish. He is said to b- r member of the Knights of the F".am(Con tinned on Page 5)

(Special to The Fiery Cross) SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 2. St

Joseph county Klan held its first annual picnic on the shores of Lake

Maxinkuckee at Culver, Ind., last

SundaV. Visiting Klansmen and their

friends enjoyed a big basket dinner at noon. In the afternoon a baseball game between the fat members and the lean members provided much entertainment, the heavier Klansmen

winning. Athletic contests were also on the program for the day. At 5 o'clock the picnickers gathered on the grounds of Culver Military Academy and watched the students drill in dress parade. They were particularly interested in the work of the cavalrymen. All returned to their homes at a late hour.

figures aVtT-for only eleven months of the period, but, as the quotas were long since exhausted, the record for the twelfth month, which has not yet been computed, makes scarcely no change. Increase of 600,000 It is pointed out that the excess of The numbers admitted over the announced immigration quota for the year is due partly to the fact that there are no quota limitations for Canada, Mexico and Central or South

America. More than 40,000 came

across the border as immigrants, the majority of these filling the places of farm laborers made vacant in the southwest by "the general exodus of the negroes. Many thousands came from Europe, exempted for various reasons, when their cases were carried to Washington by sympathizers. Only 69,958 emigrants loft -the United States, making the permanent increase in foreign immigration popu

lation 600,000.

"WOMEN ATTEND FUNERAL

SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept." 2.

Women of St. Joseph county Klan

held funeral services last Sunday evening for Mrs. Ccfra Jeffries of New Carlisle, who died suddenly at her home on August 22. A number of robed women marched in a group to the home, carrying with them a large red cross of flowers. They sang two verses of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and left silently.

Settle in East New York leads all other states in having immigrants settle within her borders, but a marked increase is being noted in the drift of immigrants to the west and middle west. The majority of the immigrants being admitted are unskilled laborers

and persons who have no occupation in their application for admittance. During the past year, 144,981 skilled

laborers were admitted, 22,906 professional men, actors, writers and artists. Among the immigrants were 1,831 clergymen (30 per cent of whom were Catholic priests), 1,214 physicians and 21S lawyers. The largest groups; however, included 103,382 unskilled laborers, 50r194 servants, 28,522 farm laborers,, 18,750 farmers and 10,699 merchants and dealers.

(Special to ThetFiery Cross) BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 2.-

Buffalo is today wondering what the next act of Mayor

Frank X. Schwab will be fol

lowing his order to dismiss

thirty-two Protestant policemen because of their alleged connection with the Ku Klux

Klan. Mayor Schwab's attitude clearly reflects the unAmerican attitude assumed by all Rorrln Cathoric officials in the country today and gives an inkling of what would take

place should the Roman Catholic political machine gain

control oi ail, America. 4 -

"''""Mayor Schwab lusTTTcITTaiheff"

nation-wide publicity through - his appeal for Roman Catholic organizations to give first heed to their military departments and in a speech made before the Roman Catholic organization, The Knights of St. John, of which he is the supreme president, virtually told them to arm for war against the Protestant, using as a camouflage the Ku Klux Klan. In ordering the discharge of the thirty-two officers, who were mem

bers of the police reserve force, Mayor Schwab is quoted as having said : "I don't know whether these

fellows are Klansmen or not, but we will be better off without them." The mayor said the names of the men had been checked up by a "spe

cial investigator. Religion Not an JO Sense It had been noted that twelve of the officers, whose religion Is not liked by Mayor Schwab, and who

were among the thirty-two ordered discharged, are regular policemen and can not be discharged, under the civil service rules, without being convicted of specific charges and religion is not one of them. The names of the officers are said to have been "found" in an office in the Calumet building. The fact that thirty-two policemen are said to be members of the Klan have

caused the citizens of Buffalo to "sit up and take notice." Much sur

prise had been voiced as the names

indicate that the Klan in Buffalo

is much stronger than the alien influences had attempted to make the citizens believe. The fact of the (Continued on Page 5")

STATUS OF THE KLAN POLITICALLY Because of recent expressions

of political candidates as to what they intended to do to the Klan,

and 'oT'tnigrepresentation by the

press of the nation as to this, that

or the other candidate that the Klan was supporting for office, it is well for Klansmen to read care

fully the following paragraph, a plain statement by Dr. Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Evans has stated many times .that the Klan as an organization is not in politics. However, Klansmcn, as good American citizens, are very much interested in the election of honest men to office men who stand foursquare for American Ideals, principles and law enforcement. That is the position of the Klan organization today, as it was a year ago, .two years ago, or as it

will be a year or two years hence. 1

The politician may be able to get a true slant on the Klan from this statement given out officially (in a speech recently made by Dr. Evans : "We will permit no group of politicians and no party to annex, disown, or disavow ns. Where onr conscience leads ns we will be found, regardless of who we find in the different political camps."

MANY THOUSANDS AT LABOR DAY MEETINGS THROUGHOUT INDIANA

Kendallville, Vincennes and Loganspcrt Scenes of Leading Klan Demonstrations

Annual session of wabAsh; conference fails to pass bitter- denunciation of american organization almost negligible 3ltn0bity is thwarted on last? dat of "meeting

Parades Held in Pouring Rain as Dripping? Throngs Remain Until Last of Processions Pass

"Pacifist Move" Is Also Killed by

I hurchmcii "Bitterly Fought" Contest Fails to Materialize When Cool-Headed Klansmen Refuse to Make Move That Would Cause Dissension In Church ' Yearly MeetBloomington Chosen for 1925 ' Meeting Place

ROMAN HATE ORGAN

- RECEIVES "WARNING'

New York Bulletin Resorts to Petty Methods to Stir Up Wrath Against Klan

WOULD MAKE IRISH

QUESTION AN ISSUE

DeValera Gives Out Statement Showing Determination to Inject It in Campaign

HAMILTON CO. KLAN HOLDS BIG MEETING

HOLD BIG MEETING SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 2. Women of St. Joseph county Klan

held a big meeting recently, six miles from South Bend on the South Michigan road. Band music, speaking and singing were on the program.

A white-robed woman on a robed horse rode out from the darkness, carrying a lighted torch, with which

she lit a large cross. In the light of the cross a largo number of candidates was initiated. The Kleagle of the Women's Organization at Elkhart assisted and stat&officers were present. s. After the initiation the men's drill team presented some fancy drills. The meeting was closed by the band playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the men's drill team forming a human cross. The large crowd !'neelecKand was dismissed by the 'I-"client Commander of the Women': Organization.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2. According to word reaching this country from Ireland, Eamon De Valera, Irish republican leader, will try to make the

Irish question an issue in the Amer

ican presidential campaign of this fall. This clearly indicates the position into which this country has allowed itself to drift. Through the generosity of America and Americans,

many of the countries of the world have reached the opinion that this country is a source of unlimited wealth and will do anything for any

other country that any group in that

country may desire.

It is the height of presumption for

De Valera or any other foreigner o

make an utterance expressing the plan to make tho political situation

In another country a campaign issue-

in this. Americans will do well to keep their hands off Ireland and other foreign questions of this kind.

2,000 Robed Klansmen Parade

College Hill Scene of Great Gathering

(Special to The Fierj Cross) CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 2. Five

thousand Hamilton county Klansmen gathered at College Hill last Saturday night for one of the largest Klan meetings ever held in the

.yicinity of Cincinnati and Newport,

Ky., wnere tiuiuau muuence is

strong. National speakers were

heard, and many applications for

membership were filed.

At ,9 o'clock a parade was formed and - 2,000 robed Klansmen and Klanswomen marched through College Hill and surrounding towns.

NEW YORK, Sept. . 2. The New York Bulletin, a papal organ, which was started just before the opening of the Demo'cratic national convention for the direct purpose of landing Governor Al Smith as the presidential candidate of that party, continues its anti-American policies by attacks on the Klan organization. When the Bulletin was started it

was whispered about that it was to j be the official daily mouthpiece of ! the Vatican. The policy of the paper

since its first issue confirms the suspicion.

It has now come forth with the claim that it has received a threat from the Klan. Bulletin Flatters Itself The following is the notice which appeared in a recent issue of the

sheet: "Klans Warning Compliment" reads the headline. Then follows : "The Bulletin has been warned by the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan is mortally afraid of the Bulletin because of the Klux exposures this newspaper is printing. The Klan has good reason to fear the Bulletin,

but the Bulletin pays no attention to Klan warnings except to ginger up its determined efforts to put this iniquitous anti-American, hooded mob out of business.

"The Bulletin knows the present

New York plans of the Ku Klux Klan, It knows the nation-wude schemes and operations of the Knights of the Nightie who have banded themselves together to enslave every Catholic, every truly literal and . really American Protestant, every Jew, without exception; every negro, and every man.

woman and cnna in tne unnea

States, who happens to be foreignborn Americans by choice and not ; by chance. ' "The Bulletin is keeping constant tab on every move made by the Klan. "Night and day, this sleepless watch is kept by trained. Bulletin investigators, whose reports will be printed in the New York' Evening Bulletin. "That is the Bulletin's answer to the Klan warning; and the Wizards.

Kleagles and other Bunco-Steerers

of Bigotry know what that answer

means.

'The Bulletin is going to smash

the Ku Klux Klan by pitiless ex

posure of Klan facts."

Klansmen celebrated Labor Day throughout Indiana last Monday and

large crowds gathered in many parts of the state to take part in varied programs. Rain interfered In most places, but programs wore carried ""Out despite the downpour except at Kendallville, where a large ceremonial was postponed. It had been planned to initiate several hundred candidates but . it was found necessary to hold the ceremony at a later date.

Among the larger celehrations were those at Vincennes, Logansport and Kendallville. A number of smaller demonstrations were held but the large crowds attended those named. At Vincennes, where the local Klavern owns a large tract of land near the city, the largest crowd ever attending a Klan celebration and one of the largest ever seen in that city, assembled to take part in the program, Bain did not evening and did -fiot"!iflarT-t1j.e prbr gram to any great extent. A number of prominent speakers delivered addresses during the afternoon and evening and many other events w,ere on'the program.

Parade in Rain

At Logansport a parade was held in a drenching rain. Despite this fact thousands of persons lined the curbs and waited until the last of the procession passed. The parade was more 'than a mile in length. A band concert scheduled for Sunday night was canceled on account of r. heavy rain. The celebration at Logansport began at noon and was held at Lux Grove. It rained at inter

vals throughout the day but many '.housands of persons heard the

speech delivered and . took part in the remainder of the program. The affair was most successful. Rain also was on hand at Kendallville where the ceremony was stopped but where a great crowd gathered in an all-day event. The parade which was held during the evening was participated in by thousands of Klansmen, Klanswomen

and members of the Junior organiza

tion. Many beautiful floats were in the procession, which was very long. It was viewed by a great throng. Bands livened the program throughout the day. Delegations from Ft. Wayne, Auburn, South Bend, Elkhart, and many other points took part in the day's program. The affair was held in a grove east of the city and a display of fireworks was one of ther-features of the celebration. A number of Klansmen

from Michigan were present.

PERU KLAN STAGES MAMMOTH GATHERING

12,000 Klansmen Take Part in Parade Wedding a Feature of the Program

CELEBRATION AT LUDtOW LUDLOW, Ky.. Sept. 2. Plans are being completed for an outdoor meeting here Saturday night, September 6, of John B. Castleman Klan No. 1 of Kenton county. The meeting will be held ton an island in Lagoon park and the public i3 invited. Two hundred candidates will be Initiated and 500 robed Klansmen are expscted to

narticipate in a parade through ihe streets of Lndlow. Ludlow is a suburb of Covington and has a large Roman Catholic population.

KLAN GIVEN SPECIAL DAY AT GRANGE FAIR

(Special to The Fiery Cros) CENTREVILLE, Mich., Sept. 2. Ku Klux Klan day will be observed Friday, September 19, at the Grange fair here. Klanamen will have charge of the special program for the day, which will include fancy drills, a band' concert, an address by a national speaker, a parade, an

initiation and Klan nreworaa

(Special to The Fiery Cross)

PERU, Ind., - Sept. 2 Peru

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan recently h.eld yie of the largest meetines ever held here.

The meeting began at noon at Rassjffer's Grove in the southern part of the city. A lady and a male

quartet sang a group of songs and a couple from Herrin, 111., was mar

ried in Klan regalia. A Klan speaker

was then heard.

At seven o'clock in the evening a

Klan parade was formed at the cir

cus grounds. There were 12,000

persons and many beautiful floats in the line of march. The Peru ladies' drum corps made tjieir first

appearance in their new satin uni forms.

Delegations from Kokomo, Lo

gansport, Tipton, Marion, Wabash

Elwood and many other places were

nresent.

After the parade the Peru drill team performed and the ladies' drum

corps was heard. Degree teams initiated a large number of candidates in the light of one of the largest crosses ever burns! in this district.

Refusing to abide by the "decision" of an almost negligible minority, the annual session of the Wabash conference of the Free Methodist church, which closed its an

nual session in Indianapolis last 'Saturday, failed to f ass

the resolution' prepared and which bitterly denounced the Ku Klux Klan. The expected "bitterly fought" contest- on the floor of tfee meeting failed to materialize when - it was found that among the delegates present there were many psm"'whom" it was believld belonged to the Klan as well as many others whose sympathies are with the Klan organization. The first intimation that an at

tempt would be made at the conference to denounce the Klan was on last Thursday morning when resolution was presented in which the Klan was roundly condemned. The resolution was copied, it is understood, from a resolution framed in the east where alien influence is very strong at many points. The resolution ' was turned over to the committee on ministerial investigation and was heard from no more until a report was read late Saturday afternoon just before the meet

ing adjourned. ' Drastic Changes Made The resolution had undergone such drastic changes that it was hardly recognized. In the meantime, those who were responsible for its original, appearance had had a change of heart it was evident, as no protest was raised when the resolution was again read and then

passed. The paragraph of the revised resolution which stood out most prominent was that in which it was resolved that the Ku Klux Klan should never again be made an object of discussion on the conference floor at future sessions. The many Klansmen and Klanswomen at the conference were ju

bilant over the fact that the meet

ing refused to condemn the Klan.

The great amount of talk indulged

in by the few who had attempted tp denounce the Protestant organisation had given rise to the belief that the condemnation would go through." Klansmen attending the conference,

however, did not" wish to engage in any controversy and this fact did ' much to avoid any dissension.

Bloomlngton In 1925 The conference, lasted four days.

having opened on Wednesday. Sat

urday, a resolution dubbed "a pacifist-

move" was turned down. The res-'

olution was finally altered, to suit ' the conference and was passed. The

original resolution would have putthe conference on record as refus

ing to permit the church sanction

for any war. It was changed to read

that the" church would sanction no

aggressive war but that should a defensive war be started that the church, as a church, would not op

pose it.

The conference xmose Bloomington

as its meeting place for 1925.

VEEDERSBURG KLAN

PLANS CELEBRATION

(Special to The Fiery Cross) VEEDERSBURG, Ind., Sept. 2. ' Plans for" a three-day Klan Karnival here, September 11, 12 and 13, are being put into shape by members of the local Klan. A' big parade and a display of Klan fireworks are on tha program for the closing night. Prises will be awarded for the largest decoration and Um bast float in the parade.

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