The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-20
'SUPER-RULE
3-S|DED, SAYS
Ex-KLAN HEAD
KIux, Dry League and
HorSethief SIeuths Aided,
EmmonS Asserts.
URGED TO USE VIOLENCE
Organizer Advocated Tar
Party in South Bend,
Witness Claims.

Witness Claims.
Cooperation between the Ku-Klux
Klan, Anti Saloon Leagu and Horse
thief Detectives in super-govern-
ment program in Indiana, long
charged by Attorney General Arthur
L. Gilliom, was desired in deposi-
ton made at the attorney generals
Office today by Hugh "Pat' Emmons,
former exalted cyclops at South
Bend.
The deposition is to be used by
Gilliom in the suit to oust the Klan
from the State, first arguments on
which are to be in Marion Circuit
Court Feb. q. Throughout the ques-
tioning objections were registered by
Charles j. Orbison, Klan attorney.
Emmons left the Klan in 1926,
when he testified before the Reed
investigation committee in Chicago.
Here is how super government
worked in the 1926 primaries to
elect Senator Arthur r. Robinson,
according to the EmmonS deposi-
ton:
Inquired Of Machine
Secretary E. S. Shumaker of the
Anti-Saloon League came to the
Jefferson Hotel in South Bend on
day that Robinson was scheduled to
speak at 8 p. m. With him was
Wilbur Ryman, Muncie attorney,
for whom Emmons had made Klan
speeches and who then was and
again is a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for attorney
general.
He brought Emmons to Shumaker,
who Immediately asked:
How is your machine working?"
Cyclops Emmons reported the ma
chine in good condition and got a
goodly number of Klansmen to at
tend the meeting at night to hear
Robinson, whom he says then was
a member of the Klan.
AfterWard, Shumaker asked him
to bring Klansmen to his room
suspicion" to discuss things.
Must Work Together
He brought Edward Gross, and
Shumaker said:
''The Klan, Anti-Saloon League
and Horse Thief Detectives must
work together to put over their pro-
gram"
In 1924, Emmons said he got Shu-
maker TO take the~nanOe of Mike
Hanley out of the league approved
list for st. Joseph County sheriff
and substitute that of Tom Good
rich. Hanley, Emmons told Shu-
maker, was a "wet Catholic" and
Goodrich was "dry Protestant"
He told of secret political circulars
sent out by Grand Dragon Walter
Bossert in 1924 with names of Klans-
men designated so that they could
be detected by cyclops. He recalled
that Gilliom's name was marked for
non-approval.
BalIoonist Volunteers
He said an effort was made TO get
advertisers to boycott the South
Bend Tribune for being anti-Klan
and that the organization tried to
buy the South Bend Mirror.
Telling of a speech at South Bend
made by Bertram M. Triple, pro-
lessor Of the Methodist College,
Rome, Italy, he said that Triple
was brought there by Imperial Wiz
ard Hiram Evans as the author Of
book "Alien Rome"
A man named James Stewart,
whom Emmons described as Every
hot" came to him and wanted
money for dynamite to blow up
Notre Dame University.
He said Stewart said he was o
daredevil balloonist and willing
to risk his life in the great cause of
curbing Roman Catholic domination
Of the world.
Later Stewart was banished by
Emmons for burning fiery crosses on
the Notre Dame campus, he said.
He also told of conferences with
Evans, where he said the Klan
eventually would control the United
States Senate and make it impos-
Sible to elect a President of the
United States who wasn't a Klans-
man or favorable to the organiza-
ton.
Gave KIan Grip
His first meeting with Senator
Rabinson was at the Oliver Hotel in
South Bend, he testified. Robinson
gave him the Klan grip and said,
You know how 1 stand"
He testified that the st. Joseph
County Klan membership had
shrunk from 4,500 to ITS; that the
State total had been around 178,000
2n 1924 and now was less than 1000.
e gave evidence to support GIL
@m'S charges that it is a secret
political organization, spending
money in politics that is unrecorded.
He told of w. Lee Smith, then
Grand Dragon, sending a man
named SirmanS to South Bend to
aid the failing membership and a
speech in which this man urged
more Southern spirit" and recon-
mended tar and feathers in 'this
Roman Catholic community"