The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
KHAN MEETING
PUTS G. 0. P.
MEN IN DUTCH
Candidates Busy Explaining
Presence at Ku-KIuX
Session Here.
COFFIN INTRIGUE HINTED
Observers See Political
Trick in Blue Card
Invitations
BY DICK MILLER
Times staff Writer.

Times STAFF Writer.
Uneasily suspecting that they have
been the victims of political
strategy, more than score of city
and county Republican candidates
today were busy explaining that
some body is trying to hang the
khan label on us
A blue card bearing the cryptic
o. K of one Doc was the open
sesame to meeting yesterday at
210ia East Ohio street at what was
touted as a combined meeting of
three patriotic groups"
The candidates, tWenty-eight Re
publicans and a lone Democrat
polished up their oratory, marched
to the appointed address and pre-
pared to corral a few votes.
Docs" card worked fine. But
after they got inside, some of the
candidates began to perceive there
was more to the meeting than met
the eye. They soon were addressed
by DOC" Farrell. national fepre-
sentative of the Klu-KluX Klan.
Refer to 100 Per Centers"
Some of the candidates "tumbled."
In the vernacular, they took it on
the lam" away from there before
they were introduced.
Others. more bold or not averse to
capitalizing on the meeting, sprin-
Killed. short talks with references to
100 per cent Americans" and
pledged to appoint only such
aninted, If elected to office.
Presiding over the meeting, at
tended by a crowd estimated vari-
ously at from $50 to 300 persons, was
Paul Ford. Mr.. Ford was described
as the Indiana head of the Junior
Order of United American Me-
chanicS.
Also a speaker was Oren Davis,
president of the knights of America
and former head of the Marion
County Horsethief Detective ASso-
citation, group closely identified
with the khan in its heydey.
Denny Aids Invited
Although its was announced Or
CARNATIONS have been perfected in
every ward and precinct, there was
no mention made, it was learned,
of Endorsement of a mayor candi-
date.
However, observers pointed out
the fact that six ward chairmen of
the Republican Union. a George
Denny organization, had been in
vited
1t also was pointed out that can
didates making only minor Offices
were asked to speak. and several
well-known Republican politicians
present weer ignored when the
oratory flowed
Aside to repeated reference to
100 per cent Americans" there was
another incident which inclined OBJ
servers to the belief that the Khan
is rearing its head again One can
didate made a request for support.
pointing out that his two opponents
are Catholics.
Morgan Flaws Candidates
Seeking clews to what lay behind
the meeting checked the list of
candidates who attended. The list
fails to reveal any known to have
organization support.
Leland c. Morgan, a Republican
candidate for prosecutor, today
charged the meeting was an attempt
to gain control of the Republican
party He was one of those who
received a blue card. but did not at
tend. Il regret the fact that certain
candidates attended the meeting, -
Mr.. Morgan said. We can not allow
the Khan or any group with primo
iples of racial or religious intor-
ance to gain strength within the
party.
Candidates who attended and wish
they hadn't are wondering if they
weren't the victims of a smart po-
litical trick They wonder if the
whole affair wasn't engineered by
that master political stretegist,
George V. Cap Coffin, as an at
tempt to label those attending a
klanSmen or khan sympathizerS.
And I walked through the rain
to go, toe" said one mourner re-
gretfully.
And Their Names Are
Candidates said to have been
there were:
Edward G. Schaub, city clerk /:
Ernest Ambuhl. city council. First
district; Roy BeSS, city council. Fifth
district Fred Kepner. city council.
Sixth district; j. Herbert Hart
man. prosecutor; William E. JEFF
frey. judge superior court one: WAL
ter Carey and Roy L. Volstad room
four; Richard Lowther. probate
court; James E. Mcdonald. juvenile
court: Howard c. Baker, county
clerk; Charles w. Mann, auditor
George w. Elliott. recorder: Frank
Cones. treasurer; Howard H. Max
well. Charles RouSh and Theodore
j. Sourbier, all sheriff candidates;
Paul R. Bown, surveyor: James NJ.
Allison. assessor; Daniel j. Riser,
commissioner: Walter Sutton, Cen
ter township truce, and Ralph NJ.
Lett, state representative candi-
dates, together with a group of pre-
cinct committee. delegate and other
minor office candidates.
Zeph E. Kellar, seeking nominal
ton in room one, was the only Dem
ocrat there, it is reported.