Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-03
EVANS MAY REPLY
To SIMMONS CARD
EARLY IN WEEK

H. W. Evans, imperial wizard of
the Ku Klux Khan, is expected to
return to Atlanta early this week.
and officials of the khan at the i'm
perial palace declared Saturday that
in all probability he would immedi'
ately issue a detailed statement as
| the result of proclamation issued
Saturday by William Joseph Sim:
mons, emperor of the khan and or
ganizer of the Kamelia, a women's
organization based OH Khan pria-
| ciples.
Mr.. Evans, although out of At
with khan officials, and through
them issued a brief statement to
the effect that the khan klonvoca-
ton last fall discountenanced the
organization Of Women's aux
iliary to the khan until an investi-
CATION of the advisability of such
a plan could be made by special
committee.
The Simmons proclamation took
direct issue with the imperial wiz
ards order, recently issued, direct.
ing kIansmen to have nothing to
do with any women's auxiliary of
the Klan. Mr.. Simmons assured
klansmen that no member OF the
khan could be suspended or tried
on legal charges for aiding in the
organization Of the Kamelia.
His proclamation follows:
Colonel Simmons Statement
Colonel Simmons statement fol-
lows:
my attention has been drawn to
the proclamation issued from the
imperial palace and directed to
klansmen throughout the invisible
empire forbidding the Identification
of a klansman with any organization
of women within the bounds Of this
country.
1.-THE proclamation is as follows:
| Whereas, it has come to the knoWl-
| edge of your imperial wizard that
certain klansmen in the nation are
becoming connected with, or foster
ing, or lending aid and encourage
ment to various women's organiza'
tons; some giving sanction to the
claims of these organizations to be-
ing auxiliaries to our great order,
in direct conflict with the expressed
actions of the klans in klonklave as
sembled: Be it known that any klans-
man who represents any Woman's
organization, or assists in the organ
ization of any woman's organization
in any manner, without written au-
thority from the imperial wizard,
shall be held guilty of a major Of
tense under our constitution and
laws. 1t is hereby ordered that a
copy of this proclamation be sent to
every khan in the nation
This edict subjecting any klans'
man to the severest penalty that
may be imposed in the order abso'
lutely separates the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan from participation in
any of the activities of any woman's
organization as well as the Kamelia.
Severe Edict
$50 rigid is the edict emanating
from the imperial palace as to in
hibit klansman from counseline
with his wife or his sister or his
mother if such counseling gave aid
or comfort to the companion and
counterpart order of the Knights OF
the Ku Klux Khan or any other or
ganization of women.
This proclamation, whether de-
signed to do so or not will shock
into inactivity as far as the WON
ans organization is concerned every
klansman in the invisible empire
It is, therefore, incumbent upon me,
as creator and founder of the
knights of the Ku Klux Khan and
later as the creator and founder OF
the Kamelia and as the responsible
head of both organizations to assure
the klan&men Of America that no ar
rest can be put upon their interest
or upon their activities in the pro-
motion and development of the Ka.
melia that will in any wise affect
their standing as klansmen.
I'm the free exercise of my rights
and in keeping with my original
plans formulated many years ago
and in obedience to the promise re-
peatedly made to the American WON
en-, I proclaimed and founded the
i woman's organizations known as the
Kamelia.
II now proclaim that any k1ans
man and that every klansnan has
the same inal:enable and indisputable
right to participate in the affairs OF
theKamelia that exercised in found
ing that order, the proclamation
from the imperial palace to the con
trary Notwithstanding.
civilian JOSEPH SIMMONS,
Founder and Emperor of the
/ knights Of the Ku Klux Khan.
Founder and Ell Mague of the Ka.
melia."
i y Khan Statement
The statement from khan head
quarters, declared to have been au'
thorized by Mr. Evans, follows:
1.-THE imperial wizard in issuing a
} proclamation to klansmen stating
that they should not participate in
the formation Of any women's or
CARNATIONS in connection with the
Knights of the Ku Klux Khan, car
ried out the instructions of the ma.
ticnal klonvocation Of the order
which met in Atlanta last November
"At this time it was brought to
the attention of the convention that
q number of women's organizations
existed, some of which sought to be
recognized as women's auxiliaries to
}, the knights of the Ku Klux Khan.
1.-THE klonvokation. which is the
law-making body of the khan, ruled
that the knights of the Ku Klux
Khan should form no woman's auxili'
airy and should recognize no woman's
organization formed on khan prin.
ciples until a special committee
; should investigate and report to the
imperial kloncilium on or before May
1, 1928.
1.-THE same resolution gave the i'm
perial klonVilium full power to act
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