Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-01

| majority of the members of your
committee and minority Of the some
committee.
1.-THE majority members present
you with plank declaring in strong
est possible terms for freedom of re-
| ligion freedom of speech, freedom OF
! the press and freedom Of the right
| Of every Individual to the protection
of the laws.
TO Brand or Not to Brand
1.-THE only difference between the
minority and the majority is Wheth-
| err the national convention shall st1g.
Matte the khan as being guilty Of in
! terferring with religious liberty and
with the political rights Of their fell.
! loW-citizens.
make no mistake about the issue.
There isn't Any body anywhere in
America in any responsible position
that would defend any organizations.
Ku KluX or net, in violating the
principles Us tLc constitution or dis
regarding the lawful rights Of their
ow-citiZens.
II assume il Is true that members
wearing the mask and INDUCING in
midnigh7 froliCs with their nighties
on have been guilty Of depreda lions
and that sometimes the vilest and
basest Of cri'lJnaIs have worn the
mask to indulge themselves in some
criminal act. That is probably true.
1t is also true that there are other
lunatics in the country, who don't
wear this shroud. 1T is also true that
here arc other criminals in tho
country who do not wear this hood.
l have been amazed to see this con-
troVersy between Democrats as to
what ls wise party policy represents
ed ly the press as being a. defeat or
victory for the Ku XIX Khan. 1t
is neither one nor the ether.
GAS for myself l would not know
ingly deprive any American citizen.
however humble, of his right to wor-
ship God in his own way.
Cites Jewish Question"
"I have been taken care of by
negroes all my life and ] should
despise myself if 1 wounded the feel
ings Of the numblest in the land.
When Justice Brandeis was made a
justice of the supreme court Of the
United States / admired his great
brain and character. I did not care
that he was a Jew. From the Jews
we received the blessing of the BIZ
BILE. Ou, Christian doctrine is found
ed On the teaching of a Jew. When
OH sons wenl TO war in Americas
great battle we did not ask their
race or Greco, or color.
Shall we now allow the Demo
cratic party, with the greatest OPP
portunity in all history to be divided
on this question of Jew or Gentile?''
There were cries of mo" from the
audience.
Shall we use this question in any
way directly or indirectly to promote
or denote any candidates. whatever?
My fellow-Democrats let us be care
full This isn't isn't a question Of
courage, as a member Of the COM
mittee said. A member Of the COM
mittee said we didn't have the cour-
age to name the K. K. K. Well, I've
got the courage to name the K. K.
K. I'm not afraid Of a Ku Klux,
living or dead. There wasn't any
Ku Klux in your committee that T
know Of. In Louisiana the K. K. <.
was charged with killing some pes
pie at Mer Rouge. 1t never was
proven, and Louisiana passed a law
declaring that no man without per.
mission should wear a mask. They
didnf want to stop the Mardi Gras.
No Evidence Presented
We've got laws in this country
to control the Ku Klux Khan. We
have those laws in Oklahoma. We
can tear the mask off of them. They
tried to nominate a man there for
governor, and the good Democrats
and Protestants and Catholics licked
the stuffing out of them. We're
not afraid Of them politically or
any other way. The only issue Is:
will you say by the voice of this
convention that the membership OF
the K K. K. are guilty of violating
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