The Brunswick news., 1922-12-17
Executives Go TO Washington to
Lunch With President Hard
in Tomorrow.
CALLED FOR PURPOSE
OF TALKING PROHIBITION
Governor of Kansas Tells Meet
ing His State is Preparing to
Expel KIan But Will do it in
Orderly Manner.
(gv Associated Press.l

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Dec. I6 The fourteenth annual con-
ference of governors ended today with
spirited discussion Of the Ku Klux
Khan Many executives then prepared
to leave for Washington to accept
President Harding's invitation to dis
cuss prohibition at a luncheon Mon
day The executives is as fol-
lows: Cox, Of Massachusette, Hardee,
Of Florida; McCray, of Indiana. The
next meeting place is left to the exc
eutive committee.
Kansas will not drive the
Ku Klux Khan frcIn the state by force.
but will expect to do 1t by refusing to
permit it to do business within the
states boundaries, Governor Allen de-
clared today at the Governors eonfe
ence.
The writ being sought in the Kaas
Supreme court, be said, would -
disappear the blazing cross an
ture parties, where men mask
selves and put on fantastic cersss-s
in an open field and terrarlge aHsRn-
tire neigRborhood. +"
In Kansas, we are seeking to ex-
pei the Klan from the state Govern
or Allen said Il note by the press Of
the country that some misspprehen-
sion exists as to just what we mean
by expelling the order, and the
thought has been expressed that il ~
the intention Of the state 10 drive 6asI
Of the state the members Of the Khan
This IS not at 80 what the action
before the auprenae court proposes.
Under the laws of Kansas every or
ganization doing business within the
state must be chartered. The Kn
Kfux Klan has 3 charter under the
laws of Georgia, and the action now
pending in the supreme Court of the
sts4e is for the purpose. of securing
4 writ forbidding the Kian to do
business hereafter in Kansas, -e
The essence of our opposition to
this organization is, IN fact. that It
does this under the Protection of a
mask and through terroism and yio-
lence
1T is incredible that this country
should have passed through the bap-
tlsm of heroic devotion which called
it into action four years ago, only to
sag back now into this most lament
able species of disorder.
Much human life has been sacri-
fieed, to the icause. of. Christian CIV
ilization, as America interprets it. Il
could take you to a place know in
France where the crosses rise row on
row, and after awhile we would stand
before cross which marks the rest
ing place of James Fitzsimmons The
record is that he was the first mem
bsr of the American expeditionary
forces to give his life on the combat
area Of Tonl II I had the power to
Teincarnate him | could say. James
Fitzsimmons, you think YOU are a 100
Per cent American, and | imagine he
would look mp at me afnd say new
er thought much about that, | was
born in America and when they told
me this war was for the defense of
our ideals and our civilization didn't
wait for the selectiye draft; | hurried
on TO offer my life for the defense of
the principles had adopted for her
own
If | would say you are not a 100
per cent American. There is an en-
perer OF an invisible gAyernmgnt in
Atlanta, Ca, who declares you cam
not be 100 per cent American be-
cause you are a Catholic dare say
be would say to me They never told
me anything like that when stood
in line with by gun, waiting to 60
ever the tod - ses& w
Speaking Of the appeal made by Or
ganizers of the Klan along line Of
what they call 100 per cent American
ism he said:
.'In many places the appeal to creed
has brought into the organization
some excellent men who believe that
they are addressing themselves ITO a
real problem when they draw the line
on religious prejudice"
"Tt grows very rapidly when I'll
Strikes a community and it requires
about year of experience to con-
vince its best members that the or
ganization has no real place Of use
fulness in America. 1t arouses the
intensest bitterness.
I'm some communities, where | am
acquainted with its activities, friends
Of life time have become estranged,
families have been divided, men be-
come suspicious sof their aeighhors,
(sigotry and intolsrancs have tbrivsd,