The menace., 1917-12-29
GERMANY FINANCES
MENACE, SAYS CULLOP
Defeated Indiana Congressman Be-
trays His Real Character by FaI-
slElng About The Menace

bAhd0 W WhAb INV Ah1 1NNNS~
oface, and the louder the echoes the
more convinced we are that MENACE
No. 2s7, our prediction political
edition, was q pretty reliable guide
for voters.
In that issue we gave the lineup
in Indiana, as elsewhere, giving the
names Of VIM. A. Cullop and Oscar
Bland, Democrat and Republican re-
spectively, as nominees for congress
from the second congressional dis
trict. Cullop's name was followed
by the key, "(E) (X) (DD)''
meaning that he had opposed the lit
eracy test in the immigration bill
was a candidate for reelection and
that so far as he was concerned with
the question of Romanism his posi-.
tion was doubly doubtful. We also
advised his defeat In No. 289.
After the name Of Mr.. Bland we
placed the word, American" show
ing that we had made an investiga
tion Of his record and standing with
reference to the great questions in
which THE MENACE and the patriotic
forces were interested and that we
had found him sound. Mr.. Bland
was elected by over a thousand ma
jority, Notwithstanding the fact that
1t was a democratic year and Mr.
Cullop had served in the 61st, 62nd
6Srd and Gath congresses, and had
the election machinery with him.
That Mr.. Cullop is, Just as we
thought, unfit for congress or any
other responsible place Of public
trust, is shown In what we consider
very reliable reports coming to this
Office to the effect that he is telling
the glaring and utterly inexcusable
falsehood, il. public addresses, that
The MENACE was started with Ger
man money and that it is in opera
ton for the purpose of dividing the
loyalty Of the American people and
helping the kaiser win the war.
In a speech before the Martin
County Teachers Association al
Loogootee, Ind, Dec. 1st, he is re.
ported to have said, in substance
that THE MENACE was started fol
the purpose Of making strife, anC
possibly civil war, between Protes
tants and Catholics Of this country
in order that they might not be
united for the purpose of taking part
in the present world war. THE
MENACE, you remember, was started
in April 1911, while the war did not
break out in Europe until July
1914.
No one but a pro-papal politician
who had been defeated for office or
the ground of his Americanism, OF
lack Of it, could possibly have such
an elastic imaginationl
And how silly such charges mus
appear to men sufficiently intelligen,
to be school teachers, especially /,
any of them have CHANGED to reat
The MENACE since America entered
the war. We are frequently crit
icized by some Of our friends for thu
awful pounding we have been givinc
the kaiser-they thinking we hac
our hands full to take care of tn,
pope-but to be accused of beina
pro-German and operating with Ger
man money is a falsehood SO far
fetched that we wonder if the spac,
used in mentioning the matter ISM
purely a waste.
A number Of MENACE haters II
Iowa tried to smear this paper with
German mud along last fall, but thu
backfre from their treachery anC
falsification brought them NOTHING
but disgrace and humiliation in thu
end, and those who were POLITICAL,
inclined have already reserved spac,
In the political graveyard.
At Bruceville, Ind, and othe,
places, Mr.. Cullop is reported to hav,
uttered the same falsehoods aboul
THE MENACE. What his objects are
If he is not In reality a true papis
and Knight Of Columbus, would b,
hard to tell, unless he is irving I,
get even for THE MENACE's positio,
regarding him In the 1915 election o,
grooming for another race for con
gress in which he expects to land b,
the grace Of Catholic votes.
In his speech before the MART,
County Teachers Association MI
Cullop offered as evidence of In,
truth Of his charges that THE MEN
ACE was financed by German money
the statement that THE MENACE
circulation had fallen from fou,
thousand to as many hundred Il
Vincennes alone since America en-
tered the war.
II this were true we might thiny
that our Vincennes subscribers wer
German. since our course has bee,
20 different to what Cullop charges
but as q matter of fact the state
Inent isn't true. We regret TO saw
but In the interest of truth must ad
nit that the most subscribers W
ever had in the city of Vincennes a
any one time was 178. Not a prea
number, to be true, but enough :
start the fame that devoured Cul
lop's political ambitions. and enougI
to rekindle it If he should ever 5
so indiscreet as to try to make th
race again for public office. Then
too, Vincennes is only small par
of the second congressional distric
and we are equally we'll represente,
in all parts.
Whatever Mr.. Cullop's aims ma,
be he is flirting with defeat, for tn
American voter who is patriotic an
has the welfare of his country a
heart Is neither going to vote for al
out and out enemy of free govern