The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-23
IMPERIAL WIZARD
 REVOKES CHARTER MOBILE KU KLUX
Simmons Tells of lnveStiga- tions Into Charges of Law Iessness By Certain
 Members of Order

| Atlanta, July 2f.-(Special)-As a result of reports of special investiga- | ton by the knights of the Ku Klux Klan into charges to the effect that
 members of the Mobile klan had per | formed minor acts of lawlessness
 through a misapprehension of the | constitution and bylaws of the
 Ku Klux Klan, Col. William Joseph | simmons today issued a final order
 revoking the charter of the Mobile
 l1lan and the organization has taken
 possession of the charter, parapher-
 nalia and costumes of the local klan. ] The action of the imperial wizard | against the Mobile klan and the ac-
 tion last week against the Pensa-
 cola kan, in which instance the Pen
 sacola klan's charter was suspended. pending investigation into the alleged
 work of certain members of the
 Pensacola klan visiting a Greek
 restaurant and making threats robed
 in the official costume of the organ ization. The imperial wizard an | nounced today that if it is proven 1 that the costume was worn by mem
 bers of the organization and threats
 made as charged that the charter O. | the Pensacola klan would also b. l revoked. In regard to the matter | Colonel Simmons says.
 We are making at this time a | searching lnVesl1gation into the ac- | t1vities of all the local branches ol
 this organization throughout the
 country. put we are conduc.lng a spe-
 ciai inyesugation into the r'iorida
 Alabama, Texas anu Ohlanoma kIans,
 and 1 have summoned approximate
 iy 30 men of the department oI In-
 sestigatlon into the work.
 A Good order
 q am determined that this organ
 ization shall be what it's founders ln-
 tended namely an organization CO., | operating with and upholding the
 majesty and supremacy of the law
 and before it snail be anything else
 1 will revoke every charter ot the
 organlzatIon in America. banish ey | cry member and burn all ot the cos tunes and paraphernana of the or I ganization, and, as it's founder anu
 mead, destroy the child ot my own l nandiwork and furnish to all ol | the officers of the law a list ol
 membership in each local community | in order that they may watch the | conduct ana acts oL each former
 member of the organization.
 Tn yerlficatioh and proof of the sincerity of thls statement, 1 last
 week suspended the charter of Pensa- cola, Fla, and revoked the charter of Mobile, and we are making com plete ana searching investigations 1 % ascertain the real facts regarding
 the acts charged against our organ
 ization in these two places, and if 1 they are sufficiently serious to so i justify and it be found that our or
 ganization is involved, 1 intend to
 furnish the officers in these places | with list of the membership in i that community.
 I Offenses Arc Minor
 | The oIfenses at both of these | places were minor, but l do not in-
 tend to allow even minor offenses against the law of the land.
 The knights of the ku klux Klan
 has been organized not to tear down but to streng then the arm of the law in America and to clarify and pre- serve certain great fundamental | principles, the same being an ab- solute adoration single hearted of the
 Stars and Stripes and the constitution of America, the perpetual reign political and social of the native- born white man in America under which rule all peoples have received their largest degree of freedom and
 justice, the assurance of a perpetual separation of church and state in America and the rebuilding of the old spirit of worship and sanctity con corning the American home.
 Tn the face of these great objects and purposes to which every real American should and does subscribe, it is ridiculous for anyone to imagine that l as imperial wizard would al- low this organization to degenerate into lawless institution of any kind. We are increasing at the present
 time about 5000 new members per week, and the increase is double
 north of the Mason Dixon line what it is south of the Mason Dixon line At the present rate of increase throughout the country the member
 ship will be double in the east and
 west to what it is in the south by
 September l. In recent rough calcu-
 iation the figures showed that today the voting strength of the organiza-
 ton Is north of the Mason Dixon line"