Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-24
Recount Asked


Texas and "his alleged membership
in and approval Of the Ku-Klux Khan
and it's activities"
Recount Asked
"a recount of the votes is pray
ed" the petition said, it being alleg-
ed that if only such votes as May
field received were counted for him,
and if all legal votes which Peddy
received were counted for him. Ped
dy received a majority of the legal
votes.
HE Mayfield) was not fairly or
honestly elected because of the leaV-
ing of Peddy's name off of the bal
lots, because of the widespread in
timidation of voters exercised by his
representatives and conspirators Tin
Guiding the Ku Klux Klan) and be-
cause of fraud practiced in conduct
ing the election and in counting the
ballots"
Luther Nickels, of Dallas, former
assistant attorney general of Texas,
and now a law partner in the firm
Of former Senator Joseph w. Bailey,s
acted for Peddy in filing the petition.
which was q document of 80 pages,
with 700 pages of exhibits. 1t. was
presented to the president pro tenn
and laid before the senate in order
to make it possible to challenge the
credentials of Mayfield, recently for
warded to Washington, as soon as
the new congress convenes next fall.
The alleged purposes OF the hu
Klux Khan are set forth in the Pc
tition in the following terms:
cd Subversion of visible govern
ment into a mendaciouS inviSibllity
where corrupt and unpatriotic men
and women (unrestrained by law or
,, morals) may possess and exert brutal
power over the lives and liberties OF
the people-the erection of super
government wherein the governed
have no voice or representation IN
the ordaining or execution Of the Sc
cret laws and DEGREES clandestlnely
established for their control - such
super government being operated
and it's DEGREES xecuted-primarily
against citizens who are not MEM
bers of the Ku Klux Khan in their
immoral and lawless practices.
2 Entertainment of commerce and
industry and restriction of the fruits
and benefits thereof to favored
groups of avaricious confederates.
g. Prostitution of the Christian re-
ligion and defeat Of its blessed
strivings.
False Creeds Charged
The khan, the petition further de-
clared, .fraudulently protested adher-
ence to activities, principles and
creeds, many "unobjectionable and
worthy of commentator" in order
to get members The petition then
Oh fn1lnUT.
ing specific things are sought by
the khan.
"a To seduce and defile the pub
lie conscience ad character by (a)
Teaching and encouraging men to
lie, perjure, and false swear;
"(b) With money, gifts and insidi-
Gus gatherings, corrupting ministers
of religion, enticing them away from
the preaching of Christ and Him
Crucified to the worldly forums OF
partisan politics, to the support of
lawnessneSs and to engenderings Of
hatreds, chickering's and backbitings;
"(c) Generating in and from racial
ard religious characteristics unrea-
soning prejudice, sinful passions and
perilous hatreds; ...... ..
cd Breeding and developing,
IIIOuSn DCdCIICSS, pLSCSpJ anu SAdI1l-
pie, widespread disrespect for duly
constituted authority and public dis
content with restraint of law, and
intoxicating the belief and doctrines
established civil government is viz
tually incompeent to a extent that
justice can not be through it secured
and administered.
"(e)-Placing and maintaining in
Of nd 1i1N lin,
and out of said organization men
and women Of dissolute and degraded
character.
"f)-Establshing and seeking to
establish multiform commercial and
industrial boycotts and social dis
ordinations and ostracisms.
"(g)-Inculcating a general hypoc-
risy through public false professions
of the purpose and creed of said or
ganization, it's true purposes and
creed being as herein described.
''Q)-Subjecting the members of
said organization to corrupt oblig2-
tions and to the terrors, pains and
penalties of a brutal and tyrannic
control and discipline, to the impair
ment or destruction of liberty of con-
science and freedom of judgment
and the restraints of morality.
constitutional Menace"
"(bC-To impair and destroy, de-
feat and evade each and all of the
various provisions of the constitu-
ton of the United States and of the
constitution of these states drawn
from the experience and wisdom Of
mankind and ordained and establish
ed to secure:
"(a)-The equality of all men be-
fore the law. (b)-The right to life,
liberty and property and the general
pursuit of happiness-all within the
restraint and under the protection of
law established and administered in
| due process and free of the faint of
discrimination by the duly consti-
tuted repositories of governmental
power; and (c) freedom of thought
and conscience in matters of relig-
| ion; and for the accomplishment of
such purposes, the conspirators have
| caused and encouraged and contrib
uted to cause lin Texas and in other
| StateS):
"Q}-Homes and places of business
Of citizens to be Wrongfully, unlaW-
| fully and violently invaded and
searched and inhabitants thereof to
| be searched and subjected to insult
and violence.
"(2)-Members and officers of said
organization land its subsidiaries and
agencies) to become and be jury COM
missioners Tor other officers having
power with respect to the drawing,
summoning or selecting of jurors,
! jury panels and venires) in efforts
wrongfully and unlawfully to effect
or control the verdicts of juries in
! civil and criminal cases.
'(S)-Members and officers OF said