Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-04-02
GEORGIA NJ klUx kLA|V
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Imeris publication of a letter I've recolv
led from the REV. Homer Thompson,
the Hartwell MetbOdist preacher, CIV
ing furthe~' details OF the Hartwell
Speech. This letter Is us follows
"Your favor oil the 18th, adding your
testimony to the denial Of Gov. Dor
Soy that only the patriotic 81 inter
Of the Ku kluX Khan prevent
ed Il bloody race riot, is at hand. l
blank you for this additional refuta
lion of what ! cons. der a bnce Islander
= III, all parties concerned. The lecturer
In Queatiu. Vas one Col. Nolan, Of At
banUa. His Initials, l think, a:e ]. o.
8anta. His Initial, | think arc, j. q.
~. Q. Nolan is Il platform lecturer
md Jump speech orator Of Statewide
Population in Georgia. He has been In
! Ind out OF politics Tor many years. Was
8bnce i'll the Leg stature, was employ
Il Il to make speeches for the war saw
ng stamp committee and toured Tex
j. S in the interest of the Anti-Saloon
& .cague.) -!
His lecture here in the effort to
rouse prejudice against tho Colored
fCople and create Il demand for the
organization Of the Khan is not cal
I kulnted 10 better interracial relations
In Georgia. In fact, the miSreprcsen
Nation of the Atlanta incident ougst
10 be SlcnCed by somebody and none
a can do 50 better than you. In add
8ion, J have the testimony OF Meth
Adist preacher member Of the North
81 ;eorga Conference WHO declares that
y Khan Of which he WAS q member vot
I'D over his protest to blow up or burn
a Colorcd school house. 1t is at his
request chat I am ap2rehensive of tho
culture Of the Khan ana suspicious OF
81 S clandCstine work.
d "You are ut liberty TO use either of
Dry letters IL any WY that you see
II it. Fifty men will tcstify that what
Il wrote Governor Dorsey is Il correct
/ ummary Of Col. Noian's remarks in
8he Hart County Court House. Unless
s3he Khan at large approves of the vilc
#lander uttered hero against the Gov
sSrnor of our State the Chief OF Police
our Capitol city, and the Sheriff Of
mat County. II ought to recall this un
crupulous lecturer and make publ
81" apology to the men in Hartwsll
E&ho heard HIM and who he thought
zAere gullihie enough to accept his
y ,se diXit without question"
INVESTIGATE KILLINGS
In addition 10 the above 1t further
&ecame known that the Intcr-Racial
" ommittee has ho:n quietly at work
an effort 70 determine whether the
u Klux Klan was connected with
355arious colored killings and the Mt
! empt to drive colorea people out OF
I ertain localities In rural Georgia.
3he Governor it became known has
ben kept fully informed Of the pro.
eas of this work.
Ben. j. Davis a colored editor of
olored paper In Atlanta called the
independent, published editorials con
hrnlng Representative William Schlcy
toward, Of the Fifth (Mlanta) Dis
! let Of Georgia which aroused the
rath Of the Atlanta Khan, 1t further
,came known today, Upshaw defeat
John w. Martin II white Repubn
N candidate supported by Colona
epublicans, i'll tho general election
st November. The Khan determined
Is said to punish Davis for his cdi
rial attacks upon Howard A COM
ittee OF the Atlanta Chamber Of
bmmerco is said to have undertaken
prevent violence 20 DnySi, but fail
81 to make Roadway and turned the
ltte" over to the lnterRacial Com
ttee.
Alter several DAYS of Negotiation
which The committee established
ison with tho Atlanta Khan, it Ia
I Id Davis was persuaded by the com
ttee without their telling him of
plans of the klun, 10 publish ali
itorial IN the nature of all apology
That Is said to have been followed
a decision on the part OF the Khan
claim, credit publicly for the cdi
rial, when, the Inter-Racial Com
ice served notice that such n pub
alton would be followed by an e8
sure of the real facts in the case.
ere was no publication.
WOULD FIX RESPONSIBILITY
Solicitor Boykin, of Fulton Superio:
urt is now engaged in an effort to
ermine whrthcr the I<u KluX Khan
! 8 responsible for the, killing Of
ed q. Thompson, an automobile tire
pnlr pan, 10y ]. G. Thomas ten days
In a lonely stretch Of road q, short
lance from Atlanta. Thomas vol
tarily admitted the killing after
ompson's body had been found cut
pieces with knife.
ao THOMAS stated mat Thompson and
ee other man took him in an auto
49, bile to the scene of the killing, told
p they were going to punish him
neglecting his wife, and he Pro
fded to cut his way out of the fitua
n, leaving Thompson dead and send
: another member OF the party back
the city with a badly slashed arm.
Thomas had received threatening
!. tiers signed "The Eyes of the Tn
pwn" and The Eyes OF the Thousand
a. al Men," telling him of punish
-! mt unless he supported his wife
children. He showed them to the
1t office inspectors, but they could
nothing he"nnse the postal laws do
~ prohibit The lending of threntF1,