Content note: Black-press page naming 23 St. Louis aldermen and carrying headlines on Klan violence, intimidation of Black voters and displaced Black residents. This object is shown as it was published. Why
The St. Louis Argus, 14 October 1921, Part Two: 'St. Louis Board of Aldermen Fails To Condemn The Ku Klux Klan'
Opening page of Part Two of a Black weekly, headed 'St. Louis Board of Aldermen Fails To Condemn The Ku Klux Klan'. It prints the 23 aldermen who 'refused to vote' by name and ward, with 'Cut These Names Out and Save Them In Your Scrap Book', beside a boxed St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial calling the Klan 'farce and menace'. Tell: the white-owned daily's editorial and a U.S. Attorney's statement are quoted as outside authority for the paper's own position.
- Date
- October 14, 1921
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- The St. Louis Argus (Black weekly, St. Louis, Missouri), with Associated Negro Press dispatches
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Harding Administration
- Leader
- Warren G. Harding
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Testimonial
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (St. Louis Argus collection, State Historical Society of Missouri / University of Missouri-St. Louis; item Oct14), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in the US in 1921, before 1931; the IA item page states no rights)
The St. Louis Argus, 14 October 1921, Part Two, via the Internet Archive (State Historical Society of Missouri / University of Missouri-St. Louis microfilm scan)
Text on the object
Do You Want The Negro Trade? See That Your Advertisement Appears In This Paper THE PEOPLE'S PAPER — The St. Louis Argus — THE TRADE MAKER PART TWO — ST. LOUIS, MO., FRIDAY, OCT., 14, 1921 — PAGES 7-12 St. Louis Board of Aldermen Fails To Condemn The Ku Klux Klan Resolution Calling Upon Governor, Mayor Kiel and Police Commissioner To Do All In Their Power To Lawfully Suppress The Ku Klux Klan Within The State Of Missouri Was Lost Because Twenty-three Members Refused to Vote. Alderman Sylvester A. Nagle, Of The Twenty-fifth Ward, Introduced The Resolution which was Seconded by Alderman Wm. Tamme Of The Sixth. Those Who Voted Against The Klan were: President Louis Aloe; Alderman Sylvester A. Nagle, Twenty-fifth Ward; Wm. Tamme, Sixth Ward; Wm. F. Neiderlucke, Third Ward; and Thos. S. Watts, Seventeenth Ward. Alderman Luke E. Hart Twenty-Eighth Ward was not present but had previously declared publicly that he was opposed to the Klan. RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN Remember the men who voted to defeat the resolution are among those whom you voted for along with the "Straight Republican Ticket." They are those who have betrayed your trust and confidence. The resolution introduced by Nagle of the Twenty-fifth Ward, was an instrument that all red-blooded Americans might well be proud to have their city or state adopt. Below, we are reproducing the resolution for the benefit of The Argus readers: TEXT OF DEFEATED RESOLUTION [resolution text and following columns not transcribed] Members Of The Board Of Aldermen Who Refused To Vote, Thus Defeating The Anti-Ku Klux Klan Resolution Here They Are GUS A. BAUR — FOURTEENTH WARD ALFRED BERGMANN — EIGHTEENTH WARD RALPH H. EILERS — TWENTY-SIXTH WARD JOHN FETT — ELEVENTH WARD CHARLES A. GROESCHEL — TWENTY-FOURTH WARD JOSEPH HECKEL — THIRTEENTH WARD JOSEPH HIRTH — EIGHTH WARD HERMANN C. KRALEMANN — TWENTY-SECOND WARD EDWARD KUHS — FIRST WARD MARTIN D. LOHMANN — NINTH WARD GEORGE MEISINGER — TENTH WARD CHARLES A. NEUMANN — TWELFTH WARD AUGUST H. NIEDERLUECKE — NINETEENTH WARD WILLIAM OTTO — FOURTH WARD ADAM REIS — SIXTEENTH WARD EDWARD SCHOLL — SECOND WARD WILBER C. SCHWARTZ — TWENTIETH WARD CLINTON E. UDELL — TWENTY-THIRD WARD WILLIAM J. STUDT — TWENTY-FIRST WARD HARRY UHLEMEYER — FIFTEENTH WARD HENRY WANDER — SEVENTH WARD EDWARD WIEHE — FIFTH WARD SAMUEL L. WIMER — TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD Cut These Names Out and Save Them In Your Scrap Book. You May Need Them For Reference, Some Day. "KU KLUX KLAN—FARCE AND MENACE" From An Editorial in St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday, September 18 The Ku-Klux-Klan scheme is a blind flummery and fanaticism, menace and "moral idiocy," graft and grotesquery, in which the sinister and the ludicrous are so mixed that one wonders how it can entice even fools into its meshes. The organization, however, is so antagonistic to law and order and liberty and is so menacing to American principles and institutions, that, in so far as the law may prove powerless, the whole force of enlightened public opinion should be directed to its abolition. KU KLUX INQUIRY BEGUN BY HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE Appointment Of A Joint Committee To Investigate And Determine Whether Any Members Of Congress Belong To K. K. K. Is Asked In Resolution. Negroes Appear And Give Testimony Against The Order. Other headlines on the page: K. K. K. IS CONDEMNED BY UNITED STATES ATTORNEY AT CHICAGO · DAUGHERTY TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATION OF K. K. K. · INCORPORATION OF K. K. K. REFUSED IN W. VA. · 500 NEGROES HOMELESS ON ACCOUNT OF THE K. K. K. · Must Help Suppress Klan · KU KLUX IS WARNING NEGROES TO KEEP AWAY FROM POLLS IN NOV. · NO NEGROES IN THIS KU KLUX TOWN · EIGHTH ILLINOIS REGT. TOOK 1250 MEN INTO CAMP · CONSTABLE INTIMIDATED BY THE KU KLUX KLAN [news columns not transcribed]
Read from the committed page image. Headlines, deck, the voting paragraph, the first paragraphs of the left column, the list of aldermen, the boxed Post-Dispatch editorial and the other headlines are transcribed; the resolution text and the news columns are not. Spelling and capitalisation follow the print ('Neiderlucke' in the deck, 'NIEDERLUECKE' in the list).
