Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-08-04
From the Chicago Sunday Times.l
Orgies Of the Morgan Killers.

I From the Chicago Sunday Times.l
Orgies Of the Morgan Killers.
st. Johns day is observed by those
people who killed Morgan. Morgan
/ is q man who was killed in time to
carry an election. HIS initials are G.
I E.-GOod Enough Morgan. Having
some curiosity to see the people who
killed Morgan in order to carry New
York election, went out to the cele-
bration at Haas park. The men who
killed Morgan had red plumes in their
| hats, which indicate their bloody
character. They also had swords.
| They are the same kind of swords
with which G.. +. Morgan was slaugh-
tered. They also carried several inn
mense poles, which are pointed at one
end. These poles are employed for the
purpose of marking spots to be used for
| the graves of those whom the order
slaughters. A good many of the men
| had engravings Of skulls on their
breasts. These are accurate hkenesses
/ of the men who have been murdered
by the Masons. When a Mason has
killed three men, he is entitled to
wear the likeness of his victims heads
and take the degree known as Golgo-
| tha This is the true explanation OF
these skull-badges. OF course the
Masons do not own it. They pretend
that they wear these on account OF
the wet weather. They said a flood
might come up, and they wanted to
| be ready to skull themselves to dry
land. The Masonic performance at
| Haas park was of sinister character.
How many men and women We're
slaughtered during the orgies of the
day, and buried among the shadows,
no one, unless q member of the anti
Masonic society, will ever know.
/ One man not Mason was discovered
among the crowd. An hour later he
was found prone on his back behind a
tent. He was dead, yes, dead-drunk.
Some of the ceremonies of the satur-
ALA were horrifying. One druidical
| looking Mason, with long grey beard
and lurid spectacles, read something
from q roll of manuscript. As he did
so he was surrounded by an auditory
that occupied itself with weird and
fantastic ceremOnials. His words
seemed TO fill them with a strange
power. Unearthly sounds filled the
building, in which one could distin-
guish gurglings like that Of blo' d
from gashed throats, or the flow of
champagne from bottles. The air was
filled with whizzing pellets the size Of
corks. Bursts of laughter tore thrO'
the din, the further the speaker with
the lurid speetacles proceeded, the
! louder grew the clamOr. 1t was fine
address, probably. 1t was a ceremo-
NAL said to be illustrative of the con-
dition of the Masons who built the
tower of Babel. Nature evidently
does not like Masonry. 1t rained ter
rifically. The building in which the
Mason-killers were assembled was
shed which did not shed water. Ap-
parently it was a wood shed; in reali-
ty il was a wouldn't shed. Some of
the Masonic rites are peculiar. As
every thing about the craft has some
mathematical connection, the trian-
gle, the square, the pentagon, DC,
were symbOliZed. The circle was rep
resented by six small rings about the
size of a silver dollar. A Masonic
candidate would take these six rings
and attempt to throw them, one at
time, over spikes driven in a board.
To take one OF these degrees costs
TWENTY-FIVE cents. If the candidate
threw one of the rings around one Of
the spikes, he was adjudged worthy
and well qualified. Another degree,
which was conferred upon a good
many, was one in which the candi-
dates stood in rows, and poured in
amber-colored fluid, with a creamy
surface into their open mouths. These
degrees cost five cents each. One
man took forty of these during the
afternoon. He was then the highest
Mason on the ground except a ther-
mometer. There was a thermometer
on the ground that had reached the
S5th degree. Among other orgies of
the Masonic gathering was one in
which the members of the craft form
ed squares on a smooth board floor.
Then, to the sound of music, they broke
into oparallelograms, ,rhombOids, and di-
agonals. Each member, in this class of
orgies. was accompanied by woman.
The latter seemed to like it. Every
once in a while would be heard a
loud exclamation. It came from some
body who was being murdered. In
several cases of which was witness,
these fell victims Of Masonic ven
geance were outsiders, who were be-
ing shot in the neck. Lovely women
were there who mingled with the de-
scendants of men who killed Morgan
as freely as if they had been pious
members of the young mems Chris
tian Association. A woman is a mys-
terry. Her liking for Masonry can
only be explained on the ground that
it is composed exclusively of men.
In loving Masonry, she is engaged in
a sort of Wholesale business of the af-
fections. The sexton of the order is
man named Berry. He has charge of
the Berry-al services. 1t has its Bal
lev, which will hold more than any
other institution of the kind in exist
enee. And all this time the killing
ing was going OH about the encamp-
ment. Just how many were slaugh-
tered will not be known until the next
meeting of the anti-MaSonic cOnven-
ton. Mrs. Livermore is not men,
Der. She stated the other day that
when she was bOrns he turned her face
to the wall and wept because she was q
girl, and was therefore forever debarred
from being n Mason and obtaining
her rites. There were several cases of
missing men, which shows the true
character of Masonry. One woman
missed her husband. They had been
long married and she had learned to
like him. And now he had gone.
She commenced a frantic search.
She found him in a tent, eOnversing
in low, impassioned tones with wo-
man Younger and better looking than
herself Her heart was broken at
that sight, Such are the doings Of
Masonry! They had what is called an
encampment. A Mason in camp
meant one who was engaged in some
thing horrible, as can be proved by
the proceedings of the anti-seeret ma
tional convention. The latter had
some camps. These scamps at Fare
well Hall differed from that at Haas
park. Toward night, when the Ma
sons grew tired of slaughter, they sim
ply selected their victims and left
them bound. / saw scores of them
bound-for home. 1t was thrilling
spectacle.
Beauty on the Surf.