Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-10-22
TIE CLANSMAN'S FIRST
VISIT.


The first visit to this city OF a
play that has swept both south
and North ike n cyclone Is an
event Of more than ordinary in
terest. The Management Is for
tunatc in securing The Clans
man for the Opera Heuse on oct.
2Sth. Both the company and the
production promised are identi-
cal with those seen in the leading
theatres ia New York and Chi
ago.
Among the iavori.e actors in
the present east are are Arthur
DeVoy. Evelyn Fahcr, Abncr IT,.
Summons. Edward b. McGuin-
ness. NJ. \. Carpenter. irving l..
Qlimhy. Joseph *. Garry. Jehn
r. Carleton. Jas. r. Lorraine.
William Lewis. James O. Sanders,
Willard Tracy Flanagan, Georgie
Lester Woods and Jessamine
Woods. None Of The features
( that have made "The Clansman'
so popular the last three seasons
is omitted. The Eu KluX Khan
cavalry. the beautiful! pictures co..
southern life and scenery, thu
chivalric men, lovely women an
comedy GarSics II the Recon-
struction period, an will b. there.
"The Clausuan' j. briefly the
story OF how the descendants 81.
tine Scottish clans. living in the
South Caroiina hill country. ros-
up in the year 1861 and threw OF
the carpetbagger yoke. Their
agency IN eIyctiCE this result
was the celebrated ku Klax Khan
THE hero OF tho play. Ben Came
ron, is a leader OF the Khan. Iii.
sweetheart, Elsie Stoueman. /.
the daughter Of an Aboli,iouisi
the organizer OF tile hated Union
League. Here IS the interplay
ot love and hate. Of passion an,
circumstance, in which the dram
Stist delights.
Elsie's father puts forth every
effort u enforce negro dom ma
dOn. and Ben as stoutly rasists
THE later is arrested and c.aIpe,
n jail by the s-a'awac Wait'
Governor OF the STATE. who i:
egged ON by the mula,to LieUten-
ant Goviruor. Silas Lynch. 4
Federal Court MARTA! sentance:
Ben 60 death. Elsie bcgs tbs
L.ieut-uaHt-Gover tp save him
The latter saws hc viii u Elsi,
viii marry liU Che mulatt7)
Elsie lairis at the shocking pro.
pTz.i. St.ueI.sn enters anu !.
mu-aened On learning what bis
tru- ~ pr9t.-a Lsrch has zone
lie has eHr uraced Lynch abou
social equality and indeed ha.
told him u 20 ahead and MARI,
a white woman; but when h.
.earus Lynch wants his Owl
daughter, thar is another stor,
anl mis- rage and disgust are be
ye0d bounds.
Net Stcueman and his daugh
Ter are helpless in the hands q
he mu!at;o. 1t is the kn klu
Khan who, headed by tie rescue.
Ben, surround tae house. max
Lynch : prisoner and Tree tae q.
man and his daughter. Stone
man IL last sees his gigantic ms
take IN trying 10 rule the couutr,
~ carpetbaggers and negroe
and in iHstillinc false ideas u
social and political equality. II.
announces that he viii make -
another trip 70 V aahington To- in.
liuce the authorities there To Witn.
araw the Federal troops and al
low the Southern people - man.
age their affairs in their own way
ben and Elsie are united. 4
%tairer day begins Tor that portion
Vi the stricken South. thanks Il
the high purpose. steadfast coar-
4ge and heroic achievements o.
the ku kluX klan, an Invisible
Empire which in a few months
ovcrspread q territory larger thar
modern Europe, snatched poWe.
! out Of defeat and death. and tore
the fruits OF victory from twenty
million eonquerors."