Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
MARK CONT WUAT|ON
Of XII KLUX FIGHT
Postoffice and Department
of Justice Agents Conduct
ing Inquiry - Boykin Adj
mits Membership in Khan

News dispatches from Washington
Friday quoted United States Senator
Thomas E. Watson as emphatically
denying membership in the Ku Klux
Khan. He was also quoted as deny
ing an interview published in the six
teenth article of the New York
Worlds exposure that he had adj
mitted he was called king of the X.
K. K. in Georgia.
The junior Georgia senator's de-
NAL of being a Kluxter was one of
the most interesting developments of
Friday in Khan affairs. Other devel-
opments, briefly summed up, were as
follows:
Sensational development In the
Fulton county grand jury's probe
into the theft of records from the po-
lice department archives bearing on
the arrest of E. Y. Clarke and Mrs.
Elizabeth Tyler, high Khan officials,
were expected momentarily. Indi-
cations were that the jury was delv-
ing into the circumstances surrounds
ing the arrest of Mr.. Clarke and Mrs.
Tyler, as well as into the mysterious
disappearance of ~the records in the
case.
Colonel Simmons, in signed
statement, declared his faith in the
integrity of Imperial Kleagle E. Y.
Clarke and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler,
head of the Klan's propagation de-
partment, but announced he was
Iii - ~F
the charges brought against them.
Probe of the khan in the United
States senate grew warm with spirit
ed speeches by several senators.
among them Senator Watson, who
declared he would With old judgment
until crime was proven against the
OrCer.
1he khan was arraigned as a "trai-
tor against God and defer of AL
mighty Gods will among men" by
speakers at a general church council
in Pittsburg.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, one of the
high khan officials who has been I'M
der the Worlds fire, announced she
had sold her interest in the Search
light to Councilman J. o. Wood for
$1,000. The Searchlight is said to
be the official organ Of the khan.
Announcement from Washington
that department Of justice and postal
inspection agents had begun a Wig
orous investigation of Ku Klux ac-
tivities throughout the country, and
that high Khan officials might be
summoned to Washington. Imperial
Wizard Simmons said he would be
glad to appear If called.
Replying to a story published in
the Worlds series of Exposure" ar
t:cles, Solicitor General Boykin ad-
mitted he is a klansman, but declar-
ed that fact would in no way hamper
him in prosecuting cases in his
court.
c. H. Meyers, of 1873 Ashby street,
who was arrested Wednesday night
on a complaint by klansmen that he
stole the Searchlight's mailing list,
charged that he was the victim of a
frame-up because he was a Catholic.
Governor Hyde, of Missouri, Bit
terly denounced the Khan in a speech
tion.
Mayor Allen, of Bartlett, Tex, de-
MED the Khan permission to stage
parade there, declaring he would
no longer countenance the existence
Of the organization in that city. -
Tie ''Kloncilium" of the khan, COIN
posed of sixteen high officials of the
inner circle. and the body which, 1t
fc, 4Ia NA1f ~ 10
der's operations, was reported to have
held a secret session in Atlanta We'd
nesday and Thursday. for the pur-
pose of discussing the charges
against the order as made in the
Worlds exposure" and to shape
plans for launching a counter offen-.
sive.
Some officials Of the order declined
to comment on the action taken by :
the "Kloncilium," while Colonel Sim !
mons emphatically denied that the I
body had held a meeting since last
July. He said further that no meet
ing of the body in the near future
was contemplated.
SIMMONS SAYS HE HAS #
NOT RECEIVED SUMMONS
Colonel William Joseph Simmons,
imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Khan,
was informed Thursday morning of
the Washington dispatch indicating
that Attorney General Daugherty
might summon high officials Of the
order to Washington to interrogate
them.
He was asked whether he had re-
ceived any such summons or invita-
ton. He replied.
II have not received a summons
or request from Mr.. Daugherty to
come to Washington, but as patri- s
otto American 1 hold myself subject
at all times to comply with a re-
quest from an official Of the gov
eminent.
1.-THE order has nothing to conceal