THE KU KLUX KLAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19260, 26 August 1924, Page 7

THE KU KLUX KLAN

CONDEMNED BY MR DAWES. A SUPERFLUOUS ORGANISATION. Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 23. At Augusta (Maine) Mr C. G. Dawes (Republican Vice-Presidential nominee), in an address, declared that he was opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, although he realised that many people had become members of it in the interests of law and order. He said the appeals to racial and religious class prejudices bv minority organisations were opposed to the welfare of all peaceful and civilised communities. He assorted that the Ku Klux Klan, in’many localities and among many people, represented only an instinctive grouping for leadership moving in the interests of law enforco.nient, which they did not find in many cowardly politicians and office holders; but it was not the right way to forward enforcement. Mr Dawes recounted the effect of Klan activity in Oklahoma, where Governor Walton finally called out the militia. He was removed from office and quiet was . restored by the orderly process provided bv the Constitution and the law. Attempts by the Klan to restore order after the Herrin marsacre in Illinois nearly brought civil war, and in the case of bloody murders at Chicago the Black Hand had prevented convictions by the intimidation of witnesses. The same thing always hapened when minority organisations took the law into their own hands. -—Reuter.