Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-06-16
AS It Seems to Others


politics aroused national both the Portland Ore
gonan Portland Journal have not yet discovered
any such occurred Neither has expressed
its attitude towards the Kan and the shameful conspiracy
Of silence obtained throughout the campaign con-
tinues
There is way of ascertaning whether these news
papers really secret sympathsers with invisible govern
ment by masked mobs, as their attitude ndcates or are
merely cowardy take stand in support of constitut
authority The fact apparent however, that they lack
the courage of their convictions.
During the campaign the Oregonan nerviy asked the
candidates to record by defining their attitude but
refused and still refuses to define it's position the
same subject all of which the difference between the
fearless Oegonan that Harvey Scott made famous and the
fearsome Oregonian of today.
The Ku Klux Kan has captured the republican party in
Multnomah county gown, cap and bogey and the Ex-
alted Cyclops is its political boss Efforts under
way capture the state republican organization and to
organize the legislature yet there is not of protest
these fearless organs" of public opinion If the
publican party Oregon entirely kuuxed and thereby
destroyed the responsibility will rest the cowardice OF
the Oregonian.
Defeated in its effort to the republican guber-
material candidate the Ku Klux Kan flirting with
the democrats who attempting to evade sradde the
ISSUE instead of captaZng the republican parys sad pre-
dcament and vigorously opposing invisible government.
If the democratic party also kukuxed the responsibility
will rest largely the cowardice of the Portland Journal
Commenting on the Oregon primaries the Literary
Digest which unable to find quotation from either the
Oregonian or Journal, says:
"he coseness of Oregon vote in the republican pri
mary contest for the governorhp which Governor Ocot
narrowly State Senator Hail. focuses attention
for the first time in months the Ku Kux Klan and its
entry into politics For Senator Hall openly backed by
the hooded organization and Federation of Patriotic
Societies. Texas too Kan reported to be active
in politics Culberson of the veterans of the
Senate, who has declared against the tx K. K
to civil law and organized society," is opposed by Con-
Henry who ndorses and praises the secret body
Lo11a 10
drive the Kux Kan from Texas is out after the
norship.
"Whie no active political campaigns reported from
other States learn that recent search of the office OF
the Grand Goblin of California, at Los Angeles after one
had been killed and two shot in frustrating Ku Kux
raid brought to light two automobile loads OF documentary
evidence of the Kans connection with the raid the home
of the Mayor of Columbus Ga, bombed and the City
Manager assaulted the Kan declares that it is innocent
in this instance.
Among picturesque bits in the dispatches, we read that
in Tulsa Oka band of who said they We're
members of the Kan, forced young to widow;
Hartford Conn., there held ceremony in which
some 1900 whe-robed members said to have partc-
pated and in New Albany Ind masked Klansmen donated
$25 toward church.
eOther recent and diversified activities in different
sections of the country are reported Kansas where
Governor Allen investigating the charge that members
of the National Guard also members OF the Kan in
Kansas City, Kans, where the Kan visited hospital and
left $402 with the superintendent in Sacramento where
secret ceremony reported in full by the Sacramento
Bee; and in New Jersey village where fty members of
the conducted services much to the surprise
of the widow, the grave of member
at is onp in Texas and Oregon however writes Mark
Sullivan political correspondent of the New York Evening
Post that the Ku Kux Klan will be "a major political is
sue in the State elections The recent Oregon primary
campaign the bterest and closest political campaign
in Oregons history according to Portland dispatch to
the New York World yet this points out editoray
"Oregon has negro problem. The antalen and relig
ous questions however, served the Klan's purposes OBJ
the Buffalo Express In fact the Portland (Ore)
Telegram charges that "a religious dustorm obscured the
real issues"
"e cosenes of the vote ought to be warning,
the New York Evening World "If the Ku Klux Kan in
ssts entering politics. good citizens must show it the
way out declares the Detroit Free Press for the Brook
lyn Eagle views it, f the movement to become per-
it would be the greatest sort of peril to the nation
'here is for the Klan asserts the Fresno Re-
publican "for Governmental structure places the
of