Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-01
CAUTIONS A GAINS /
ADVERTISING ORDER
n CONVENTION ROW
Continued from Page y

be constitutional provisions. There
las no evidence presented before
'3s to that effect. I don't defend
he Ku Klux. I think there are
bme brilliant rascals among them.
$ut I k1Av. too, there's a large
lumber or good citizens among
hem who believed in joining the
Fder that it was committed to obey
he preserve and protect the constl-
ltiol and the laws of the country"
AT that there was a mixture or
APPLAUSE and boos and Kisses from
be galleries.
Senator Owen concluded his ad.
,ess at that point and was sue
eeded on the rostrum by Mr.. Pat
Rngall, who spoke for naming the
fu klux Khan specifically.
Pattangall's Report
ut was suggested by the senator
Tom Oklahoma that there was lit
difference between the PROPOSE
IONS before you" began Mr.. Pat
lngan. 1--WE approved and accept
every single word that was put
the platform by the majority but
Za added to it supplementary
&claration. If you had an oppor-
&nitv to examine the report of the
aiority you would find that their
Ian merely reiterated the rights
deserved to American citizens I'M
r the bill of rights ana the con-
Tuition. We have done nothing
lore than added paragraph which
bplies those abstract principles TO
concrete case
Here Mr.. Pattangall read the
inority addition to the platform
mich mentions the name OF the Fu
lux Khan.
1--WE condemn political secret So
eties," read Mr.. Pattangall from
lie proposed plank and asked the
Invention docs anybody object 10
Eat?''
There were a chorus OF noes.
Then he went on to tlnlsh the
|ading of the plank including the
hme of the khan and wave or ap'
ause swept the hall.
"Now, is there anybody" ne ask
who is so ignorant of what IS
hing on in American life today that
does not know that the secret
&ciety we name lays down as part
its principle that no man who is
btholic, Jew or foreign born Is
gible to officer
lis there any denial OF that! ne
manded.
There were more noes.
Turns Guns on Owens
Then Pattangall read the remain
r of the declaration, and continued;
Senator Owen says he is willing to
me the khan.
"Where is he willing? On the
|atform of this convention in New
brk City? I want TO name it all
Ter the United States in this plat
rm. I want to name it wherever
e gospel of Democracy is preached
ALL Every man on that commit
E approached the subject with the
ksire to do what was right and we
agreed that something mad to go
Ito the platform on this situation.
he principal difference of thought
hs whether the platform would be
bsolutely frank Or not. If it is I'M
se to name the khan, it is unwise
put something in the platform
lat means the khan. There is some
ing more here than the mere name
There has crept into American
e so strong an influence in certain
htes that certain senators told me
st night that If they opposed the
an they could not be reelected.
here has crept into the life of the
hited States an influence SO strong
at it needs examination. And
It'd I'D I,
inciples of religious freedom, it is
oper that some great party should
and for the things that we all be-
i've in.
This organization couldn't dis
inmate against mel have all the
Publications Of membership. l
i pnder when Senator Owen voted
r. draft in 1917 if he only voted
draft the boys who were white,
fotestant and native born. When
society said to me that a man born
Jewish parents or in the Catholic
18th can't be able to serve his coun
y in civil life, but can be called to
rye his country in military life
hen it needs them, I'll condemn
EN- wherever / meet them
AT that the convention went into
uproar of demonstration.
woman Speaks for Plank
Il am Democrat because I was
light to believe that the fundamen-
cbeed of the party was that Amer
avs of every section were equal
a Democratic platform. There
Feds to be sent out over the whole
n1ted States a message from Dem
piracy that orr party hates bigotry,
Rtes intolerance and opposes them
fcause it hates them and it hates
Epocrisy and therefore calls bigot.
and intolerance by their right
Rmes when it speaks of them"
There was n good deal of favor.
ble demonstration on the floor when
be senator concluded, but most of
be noisy demonstration came from
lie galleries.
Mrs. Carroll Miller, of Pittsburg,
no seconded the nomination Of
overnor Smith, also spoke for the
inority plank proposed by Mr.. Pat
ngall.
What would you think of home
America where the children shud-
bred nightly in fear of the ku Klux
Ian? There are such places where
tizens guaranteed constitutional
rejection are denied the attributes
free life. Places where the for
gn born are Disseminated against
" the sheplleeper. Places where
he foreign born wife waiting for a
husband 10 return from his work is
ever sure that he will not be mob
ed before he returns TO his family.
I'm the mountains of my own state
his guerilla organization recently
rrorized community and three
ersons were killed. Do you cali that
merica? Do YOU call that Chris
Vanity? You say that political ex-
ediency demands our silence on the
Rlbiect? Since when has the Demo
ratic party knelt before the God OF
POLITICAL eXpediency? I'd rather so
own to defeat in 1924 as we did in
p20. on a clear cut moral issue than
bin on an issue you can't recognize.
Fet us Democrats remember it is bet.
pr to he a doorkeener in the house IF