KU KLUX KLAN
THE LAW DEFIED
STATE GOVERNOR THREATENED,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 28. ■ (Received May 28, at 10.40 p.m.) The Ku Klux Klan again comes prominently into the limelight. Following on a passage in the law by the New York State Legislature requiring the Ku Klux Klan to publish its membership and forbidding meetings of masked persons, the organisation has issued *a statement threatening Governor .Alfred E. Smith, who signed the law, with political extinction, and has proceeded to hold meetings in various parts of the State. At these gatherings, which were guarded by armed men and lighted by huge flaming crosses, thousands of new members, all masked and robed, were initiated. The Ku Klux Klan defies the Governor to enforce the law, saying that it will never publish its membership. Governor Smith states that steps will be taken to suppress the violators of the new law.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18874, 29 May 1923, Page 7
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