The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-16
Kansas Won't Tolerate Such
Actions, Says Gov. Allen.
Makes Defiant Reply to Chal-
Ienge of the X. X. X.
ACT A DISGRACE - ALLEN
No Information Given as to
Course To Be Taken.
Oklahoma KIansmen Said 10
Be Active in Kansas.

Stern and determined in his course
Governor Allen today set in motion
the entire law enforcement machinery
of the state to bring the ku KluX
I[lan to its knees in Kansas FOLLOW
ing receipt of reports of the whipping
of the mayor of Liberty, the governor
called the attorney general to his Of
flee and plans for immediate action
were agreed upon following a lengthy
conference. Detailed plans of the
state will not be made pubic.
Kansas never has tolerated the
idea that.any group may take the law
in its own hands and s is not gong
TO tolerate it now" was The governor 5
defiant reply TO the klan challenge In
the Liberty outrage. There WASH
bit of humor in the statement OF the
governor, There was a determined
look in his eyes today and his jaws
were set as re. walked the length of
his private flee while debating
short statement. to newspaper repre-.
sentatiVes.
Is Disgrace. Says Gov.~AlIen. 80
THE act itself" said Governor AL
len as he stopped a moment TO look
east down Ninth street, is disgrace
of which every community and city
in Montgomery county and the state
should be ashamed
There wasn't d bit of the ''if this
or III that stuff in the governor
statement. There wasn't a word as
to the plan of procedure. Ihe hlah
had made its first bold, open stroke in
this state and the governor was pre-
pairing to proceed. With the decision
that marked his course in the coal
strike of 1919 and IN the recent rail-
road shop strike, the governor said the
state was ready to go the limit.
Arrests May Follow.
the state would take The governor
indicated a belief that men RESPONSE
BILE for flogging the Liberty mayor
would be arrested He left an intima =
tion that in his opinion the Klansmen
were residents of Oklahoma.
What would be the states first
move?"
"who will be the investigator in
charce?"
HAS the state information on which
to base arrests
All idle questions.
i can't stop speculation if anyone
wants to speculate" said the governor
but we are not sending word to the
Klan as to the cards we expect to
play"
Then the governor arose from his
chair and walked across the room. AS
he walked he dictated this statement:
KIan Is Very Active.
whether those who did this are
members of the Klan or are merely
Disgusting as cloak to hide their
identity, the responsibility is upon the
shoulders. of the men who employ a
disguise to preach the right OF mobs tC
take the law in their own hands I'm
doubtedly much of the violence in
oklahoma where repeated whippings
and outrages have been committed bS
men masquerading as members of the
Klan has been authorized by the sc
called Klan officials. 1 am told that
oklahoma Klansmen have been very
active at Arkansas City and other
points near the Oklahoma line in or
ganizing the kansas activities of thC
Khan.
kansas never has tolerated the
idea that any group may take the Law
in it's own hands and she is not goint
TO tolerate it now l have not re
ceiVed full reports of the whipping o
the mayor of Liberty. The act itsel
is a disgrace of which every com
munity and city in Montgomery coun
ty and the state should be ashamed.