Evening star., 1922-12-17
ALLEN DECLARES
KHAN IS DOOMED
Urges Watching Society as
"CIeVer and Invisible Form
of Government"
MANY LEAVE FOR CAPITAL
Accept Presidents Invitation to
Discuss Prohibition En-
forcement.
MANY LEAVE FOR CAPITAL

Ky the Associated Press
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. w
Va. December 16.-The fourteenth
ANNUAL conference of governors ended
today with a spirited discussion of
the ku Klux klan. Many of the ex-
ecutives then prepared to leave for
Washington to accept President
Harding's invitation to discuss pro-
hibition enforcement with him at
luncheon Monday.
An executive committee consisting
of Cows. Cox of Massachusetts. Har-
dee Of Florida and McCray of In
diana. was elected. Former Gov
Townsend of Delaware was re-elect-
ed treasurer. and Miles c. Riley of
Madison Wis. secretary. Gov. Nc
Cray invited the governors to confer
next year in Indiana suggesting
French Lick Springs. Selection of
the next meeting place was left to
the executive committee.
kIan Doomed. Says Allen.
The ku KluX Khan discuss on de-
veloped after an address in which Gov.
N'en of Kansas declared the organ
ization was doomed to die and ex
pressed hope that the efforts of the
attorney general of Kansas to oust
the Khan from that state on the
ground that it was operating without
a charter would be successful.
In response to description by Gov
Allen OF indictments which he argued
sunrnr' ed his assertion that th" klan
was fiouting the law. Gov. Morrison
of North Carolina. said that although
The organization aroused religious
feelin" he did not believe 1t was re-
sponsible for violence in his safe. He
asked Gov. Allen whether the klan ever
had indorsed manifestations of law
lessness or had done anything to
stop them.
Says KIan Gives to Charity.
Gov. Alien replied that every member
of the orga niZaticn believed he was do
ing a roble work. When law'essneSs
,avc cloped. he said. tho khan would dis
avow it ard then give $50 to loose
God for the kan" He said he wa
ashamed that the Boy Scouts in 81.
Louis had not rejected gift Of $4,000
from the klan so that they could claim
100 per cent Americanism.
Gov. Olcott of Oregon asked if Kan
sas had sent troops to suppress the
Kan during the railroad strike. Mr..
Alien replied that he was ready to do
so. but that such action did not become
necessary.
Gov. Ocott then asked what means
Gov Allen thought would prove most
Kansas executive said he favored filing
of names of members with state Off
Gals and refusing to grant charters to
the organization.
klan in Indiana.
Gov McCray at this point said he
found that charter had been issued to
the Khan in Indiana a month before he
knew it, but that the klansnen had
been quiet in his state
Gov Allen commented that in his
opinion the khan was not here to stay.
Ut he urged that it be kept in mind
that it was clever and invisible form
o. government "
The governors were asked by Gov
Olcott to sign a petition urging the
adoption by Congress of the McNary
resolution to appropriate s3,000.000 for
relief work at Astoria. Ore, where fire
recently destroyed a large part Of the
city.
Baxter Accepts Invitation.
4 telegram from Gov. Baxter of
Maine read at the morning session,
said he had informed President
Harding he would attend his con-
ference on enforcement" and that he
believed there was mo greater issue
before our people than that of en-
forcement Of all laws, especially the
rohibitiOn law.
III our President and the forty
eight governors he said. will issue
a proclamation calling on the people
of the United States to uphold the
Constitution and laws of the country,
and to refrain from violating or en-
couraging others to violate our pro-
hibitory laws. such a proclamation
will rank with the great documents
of history.
You may rely upon me- he added,
ito maintain law and order in the
state of Maine, and to see that no in
a 6n x
klux klan obtains a foothold in our
state
Dry SIeuth on Scene.
Sherman Cuneo, attached to the Of
flee of Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes, arrived unannounced from
Washington this morning and began
circulating among the governors He
told of tomorrow's conference at the
White House, and asserted his visit
had nothing to do with the Presi-
dents luncheon invitation to the gov
ernors.
While he declined to explain the
significance of his presence. there
were predictions that he had arrived
to sound out the governors on the
aridity or wetness of their respective
states.
The question of marriage and di-
vorce laws again came before the
conference this morning, Mrs. Gene
We've Parkhurst, representing a num-
Der of women's organizations, speak
ing in favor of a measure advocated
by Mrs. Edward Franklin White,
deputy attorney general Of Indiana,
to bring uniformity through an
amendment to the federal Constitu-
ton. Mrs. Parkhurst contended that
divorce was not a matter of states'
rights, but was a national question.
Gov. Hardee of Florida suggested
pass uniform laws on divorce as on
other matters. Gov. McCray Of Indi-
ana Endorsed Mrs. Whites measure.
KLAN GIFT REJECTED.