KU KLUX KLAN CHARGED.
ttECTION INTERFERENCE. SERIOUS CRIMES ALLEGED. NEW YORK. February 2:V The Washington correspondent of the ««» York "Times" states that formal *™fgM against Ku Klux Klan were filed 7 to* Senate when Mr. George Peddy, •flßMted candidate in the Texas Senear"!, election, placed with the Ppper ?« documents alleging that the fcnator-elect. Mr. Karl Mayfield. was regally elected. Mr. Peddy charges the £ff* Klan with being a party to /MOUlent and reprehensible measures ™*n-to defeat him it, the election for «eat. The documents charge ah. "• **"* Klan with n,auv s " rio ° 13 ," in Texas, where it is alleged they "= wielding vast political, governmental, I ' and religious power* for their own ." • * nd Ireedinc disrespect for dulyX?^ Ed au tbority. Mr. P«Mf »»• ■!»'w Ontcst Wrs asking the new ; We to unseat Mr. Mayiield." The rase LIT' t0 aßsum " thp ASP'"<« "f a P ea t controversy, .A. and N.Z.i
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7
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