Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-18
THOUSANDS WATCH
XII KLUXERS MARCH
RICHMOND STREETS
Crowds Keep Perfect Or
der as Klansmcn Parade
Thoroughfares.
DON THEIR WHITE ROBES
AT CITY AUDITORIUM
Headed by Man on Horse.
back-Banners Bear Va
rious Inscriptions.

y crowd estimated at between 5000
and 10000 people silently stood on
The sidewalks of Broad and Main
streets last night 20 watch the pas
sin gof the parade of Richmond Khan
NO. |. knights of the Eu IluX Khan.
Tho whitc-robed figures, headed by
ehostly looking men on horseback
marched along the principal streets
IN orderly manner and with some pre-
tense OF military formation, their
hands folded across their breasts and
looking TO neither the right nor the
left through the slits which had Keen
cut in the masks which hid their
faces.
No untoward Incident marked the
event. Tho crowds along the line
of march were good -natUrcd. com
laratively few comments being passed
and those heard being mostly OF i
numerous nature. There were SOC
knights in line. The ku I<luxers
gathered ut the City Auditorium. Lin
den and Cary Streets. at I o'clock
ana there they donncd their uni
forms and formed the parade. Lcav-
ing the auditorium. they marched
down Cary street to Laurel. to
Franklin. to Second. To l:road. to
Broad. down BROAD to Ninth and
thence To Main street..
ON the side streets few people were
gathered, but Broad street. especial
ly. was quite we'll filed. and hun
dreds saw the Main Street end. While
Chief Of Police Sherry had announc-
ed that he did not deem il necessary
TO take any extra precautions because
OF the parade. IL was noticed that
quite a few extra policemen were on
duty along Broad Street and num-
Der OF plain clothes men mingled with
the crowds.
The procession was headed by a
man OF horseback. whose uniform be-
tokened that he held an office OF more
Importance than those who followed,
II blue and red sash stretching over
his shoulder and around his waist
after the fashion OF q Sam Brown
belt. II was conjecturcd that he was
the "cyclops." or king. The Rich
mond Khan. Following ann were 4
dozen or more horscmcn and then.
riding alone between footmen and
horscmcn, came a knight. riding. in
whose hands WAS clutchcG the flash
ing croSs"--a iuridly Illuminated
cross standing about three feet high.
small red iucandcsccnts. quite evil
IDENTIFY supplied Ivy n storage battery.
furnished the means Of illumination
Intcrspcrscd among the iootmcn at
horscmcn. generally two riding to-
gcihcr. Footmcn carried banners
hearing inscriptions here and there.
some OF them reading
Inscriptinns ON iinnnrrs.
Here Today: Here Forever I'VE
speak English" We Read English"
I'VE Write English" "FaulticsS and
Fearless" I'VE Are Evcryw here.
White Supremacy" America First"
100 Per Cent American Pure
Womanhood." Nh Native iiorn."
"Richmond Must Re Cleaned" For
Sisters. Mothers and Daughters"
Gamblers Must Co." Parasites Must
CO." Peace and Justice" 'Grafters
Must Go" "DcGcncratcs Must CO."
Thieves Must Go" THE Invisible
Empire" Right Will Prevail The
Guilty Must Pay" and several others.
bu, all in Keeping with the sentiment
expressed in those which have hccn
given.
There We're outbursts oi laughter
as the crowds read some of the ban
ucrs, but for the most part all were
read in silence. Some was along the
line OF march created uproarious
laughter by rcnHrking, after reading
all the banners. that the bootlcEEcrs
continued ON rage 10. Col. ID