The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-28
THE BASE BALL CLUBS.
a STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
BY JOHN QUILL.

have terrible revelation to make.
Who would have thought that in this CONS
munity there is q band of men who are
leagued together for the purpose of doing
deeds at which angels might well weep,
and at the recital of which the hardest
man would shudder, and tear his hair out
by the handfulf Why, nobody.
But 1t is so
Listen
Upon my return from the South, where
L had my interview with the Ku Klux
Khan, / was waited upon by my friend,
Felix O'Dowd, who made the following
statement, which l hasten to give to the
public, so that people may prepare to de-
fend their altars and their fires, strike till
the last armed foe expires, and keep out
of the green graves of their sires, thus
saving funeral expenses, and sustaining
the healthy reputation of the city.
''Do you know" said Mr.. Felix o.
Dowd, "what all these Base Ball clubs
are for g
E'Why, to annuse young men who have
foudness for working very hard gratui-
tously. of course said 1.
''Ha, ha :" laughed Felix, wildly, ssnot
so let me whisper it to you"
"They mean blood !!IP'
81 board with the Secretary of the Tom
Tit Club, and in the silent watches Of
night before last, | saw him rise up off of
his couch, 20 TO the bureau, read a lot of
papers, run bis fingers TIN iough bis hair
with a wild and desperate air, draw his
deeply and return to bed.
81 examined these papers next day. 1
tell you these Base Ball clubs arc parts of
an organization which is sworn to-rise DID
and slaughter every Republican in these
United States before next fall, 30 as to
increase the Democratic majority. They
are Ku Klux Klanners in another shape.
They are going to deluge this land with
blood. They intend to begin with the
able bodied men who are liable to the
draft, and then take the ward politicians
When they are moldering in the grave,
they will take all the boys under twenty>
one, and slaughter such as have radical
proclivities.
''Oh, 1 tell you the undertaking business
will prove profitable next fall. Holders
of cUfins will become opulent. Don't
sell short in cemetery lots if you wouldn't
become beggar Buy in all the tomb
stones you can get your hands on
"Csn this be true p / asked.
Worse" said O'Dowd, seven worse
than this. They will next assault all the
orphan asylums, aud after leveling them
with the ground, and putting the mana
gers to the sword, they will take the fath>
erless children and educate them as Dem
ocrats-Democrats, / say-and teach
their childish voices to shout the battle
cry of the unterrified."
"Felix, you have been imposed upon.
1t cannot be that"
''This Base Ball business is a swindle,"
said Felix, ''a blind, base ball deception.
They merely 60 out and profess to play,
so as to develop .heir muscles for the ter
rible deeds which they are to do. 1t is
al fixed. The organization moves ike
machinery. Each one has his appointed
work. The 'catchers' viii go around with
a lasso and rope in stray Republicans,
then the pitchers will pitch into them.
The short stop is to murder his victims
quickly, and put short stop to their
misery. The 'long stop is to torture them
on tue rack-devilish engines in the shape