The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-09-25
'K[AN8 lecturer
ATTACKS LOCAL
luRIST IN TALK
Press, immigration, and
Enemies of Ku, KIux Khan
Also AssaiIed.

Detying Judge E. NJ. showalter
ito place an indictment against me
for belonging to the Ku Klux Khan.
and declaring that when mar
occupying the highest judicial posi-
ton in a county condemns this or,
ganlzatlon without hearing It's side
Of the argument you should see
that man is removed from the
bench" DR.. j. H. Hawkins, national
lecturer of the Ku Klux Khan. ad
dressed an audience Of several hun
dred persons here yesterday after
noon. The address was given in
front of the old Normal School in
Fairmont avenue.
Opening his address with the at
tack on Judge Showalter, Doctor
Hawkins, who is q native OF Ma
/ rlon County, asserted tnat ne was
/: here to answer any grand jury
/ and that ~ defy any Judge to place
his hand on any law that prohibits
me from belonging to the Ku KluS
Khan II | want to-"
He then recalled that he was a
native OF West Virginia and that
he had attended the Normal School
the first year the Fairmont avenue
building was opened. Returning to
his attack on the local jurist, Doc
tor Hawkins declared that he took
orders only from one person, ex
planning that person was his wife
whom he had married fifteen years
ago.
I'VE have been told that we
would be driven out of Marion
County II we came, and defy any
court to place an Indictment
against me for belonging to the Ku
klux klan,' he said, adding that
81 am an American citizen"
| His organization. he said, was
fought, hated and feared, but ifs
aim. he continued, was to promote
a real American government,
founded on American principles by
taking men and making them re-
dedicate their lives to that govern,
iment."
Attacks World and Hearst.
Explaining "why the press has
ben SO bitter against the Klan,
Doctor Hawkins declared that 50
per cent Of the press in the United
States was owned by foreigners
pointing to the Pulitzers OF the New
York World as Hungarian Jews and
10 William Randolph Hearst as the
man whose papers were not allowed
in England during the World War
The Pulitzers, he said, Started out
Ito find traitor. and, God bless
you, there isn't an organization In
the country in which you can't find
a traitor" referring to the contin,
ued attacks OF the New York World
on the Khan.
Hearst, who is now a candidate
for governor OF New York, togeth.
er with Mayor Hylan OF New York
City. has been dismissing men In
civil service positions because they
won't so into secret organizations
and campaign for him." Doctor
Hawkins charged. Hearst is known
as Democrat In Georgia, Re.
publican in Pennsylvania and as a
! Socialist In Wisconsin, Doctor Haw.
kins declared, but the man wha
calls him "a son Of gun hits ii
closer"
He also claimed that the public
had never been given the facts re.
garding the Ku Klux Khan by the
papers, saying that the World and
the New York Journal had both re.
fused to print the organizations
side Of the case either as news or
advertising.
Taking up the charges made
against the Khan, Doctor Hawkins
said that, first, we seem to be
violators OF the law because we call
ourselves the IN Klux Klan." Re.
ferring to Patrick Henry's famous
words, Give me liberty or give me
DEATH" he made the statement that
It was this great spirit upon which
this organization was founded"
After saying that you nave been
told that the men composing the
Khan we're scalawags," Doctor Haw.
kins reviewed the history OF the
Khan following the Civil War, Incl.
dentally paying a high tribute to
the men who served In the World
War and declaring that there would
be no war today IL the Americans
had been allowed to go on to Der.
lin, because "the Turks would have
been wiped out Of existence" After
the Civil War, he continued the
men Of the South found "the hell.
ish hand Of the freed slave at the
| throat of their wives and daugh.