Paragould soliphone., 1922-08-09

Il IS one.
 '"You good country people, I used
 to live on farm. l used to hoe
 sorghum molasses. And I want to
 tell you that there is no chance for
 our boys and girls hereafter unless
 we stand together for them, and we
 some of us are net Methodists and
 we cant do it as Baptists or Presby terians or Christians, but we can
 stand together i'll the Ku Klux
 girls get proper education and chances.
 MT. Lamb told you that he was not being sent out to make these speeches by anybody and I believe that he told the truth, and I want to
 tell you upon my word that l was not sent out by anybody. l read in the paper that Mr Lamb was going to make a speech at Monette against
 the klan and I went down there and man was there who was going to answer MT. Lamb, and MT. Lamb talked for two hours Then I made a few feeble remarks. I went back
 yesterday to Lake City and made a few remarks there. l am not in politics; there has never been man asked me how I was going to vote.
 '" Here is the point, ladies and gentlemen; they say the Ku Klux Klan is in politics. The reason this klan got into politics is because the fellows who are interested had the idea that if they could get your mind on the Ku Klux Klan and off poliI tics, that they could carry their is- sues in the coming election"
 "Rev. Summers concluded his ad- dress by saying: "f I have made any enemies by doing this, l have no apologies to make.'
 ''The preacher referred to some abusive language which Judge Lamb used, which he characterized as out of place in the presence of ladies.
 Following Rev Summers, Roy T. | Davis, National Klan lecturer, and Baptist minister, spoke and like Rev. [ Summers, Dr. Davis was repeatedly | interrupted by cheering. Rev. Da- wis said at the outset that he want ed to answer two things that MT. Lamb had said:
 First" said Dr. Davis, 'he said that the Little Rock klan is torn all to pieces and that two thousand had dropped out. He made that statement yesterday at Lake City. Well, I didn't know about that so I got busy on the wires and talk ed to some members of the Little Rock klan who were present here and they tell me that it is absolute ly untrue and that they initiated eleven hundred members last night. There was one man who dropped out. Four men were running for of flee and they agreed to let the klan ballot to see which candidate would receive the klans support, and one of the defeated candidates refused to withdraw from the race.
 ''I call on the judge right here and now I will give him one thou sand dollars and have the money in my pocket, to prove that charge about this man being caught in bed pitb o1 in A ta It was a thing framed up by enemies )f the .klan and if you will wire for .he police records of Atlanta they will bear me out. I call upon Lamb or any of his supporters to prove this thing
 Now, if you are honest and ;quare-shooters and want to know he truth about the klan, right here s where you can get it. l will answer any question that any man ,r woman wants to ask me about he Klan, when I have finished
 "Dr Davis here read at length rom the preamble to the constitu- ion of the Ku KluX Klan, giving | complete history of the klan and he purposes and principles for and Ipon which it is based.
 Referring to the klan's stand Ipon the relationship between capi- tai and labor, Dr. Davis said My union labor friends, did you zee the way Mir. Lamb passed over his in discussing our principles? Did you see the way he joked about t? We stand for a closer relation hip between capital and American abor. If there is anybody going to To the begging and looking for a ob, let it be the foreigners and ct our own American labor have he jobs. My friends there has been wo and a half millions of dollars 'aised in New York with which to fight the klan, and all the bar as- ,ociations i'll the country can come md preach about what we ought o do, but we are going on until