KU KLUX KLAN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 9

KU KLUX KLAN

EXTRA EDITION.

UN CONSTITUTIONAL METH ODS. MINORITY RULE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Aug. 25. 8.5 a.m. NEW. YORK. Aug. 23. At Augusta Maine. General Charles Dawes, Vice-Presidential nominee, in an adress, declared that he was opposed to the Ku Klux Klan. Although he realised that many became members in the interest of law and order, appeals to racial or religious class prejudice by a minority organisation arc opposed to the welfare of all peaceful civilised communities. He asserted that the Ku Klux Klan, in many localities and among many people, represented only an instinctive groping for leadership moving in the interest of law enforcement which they did not find in many cowardly politicians and office- holders", but it was not the right way to forward enforcement. General Dawes recounted the effect of Klan activity in Oklahoma, where Governor Walton, who finally called out the militia, was removed from office and “quiet restored by an orderly process provided by the constitution and the law.’ Attempts by the Klan to restore order after the Herrin massacre in Illinois nearly brought a civil war. and in a bloody corner of murders the Chicago Black Hand prevented convictions by the intimidation of witnesses. The r sanie thing always happened when minority organisations took the law into their own hands.—Aus.-N Z Cable Assn.