Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-23
DAWES TO DECLARE
/. ON KLAN IN MAINE,
DUE ETOCHALLENCE
Will Answer PattangaIl, De-
spite Delicate Situation of
Party on Issue.
FIGHT WAGES AROUND
HOODED ORDER SUPPORT
General Says He Will Not Take
Dare, Regardless of Political
Effect.
By the Associated Press.

BRUNSWICK, Me, August pa
Charles G. Dawes, Republican vice
presidential nominee, on arriving to-
day announced that he would de-
clare himself on the ku klux Elan
question in his address this after
noon at Augusta.
The Republican nominee made his
announcement after reading in the
morning papers a challenge issued
by William r. Pattangall, the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor at the
State election On September 8, in an
address at Saco last night, calling
upon Mr.. Dawes to make known his
position on the Klan issue.
Will Not Refuse Challenge.
Republican leaders had urged Mr.
Dawes to omit reference to the Klan
while in Maine, because of the deli
cate situation in the party over that
question, but he asserted:
Il have been challenged to declare
myself on the klan question and /
am not man in politics or otherwise
to refuse challenge"
Mr. Dawes added that he would
not, however, answer two questions
put to him by Mr.. Pattangall, de-
claring that to answer every ques-
ton put to a candidate by rivals
through the newspapers was cheap
stuff"
The questions were: do you be-
lieve that the Ku klux Klan fills a
useful place in the life of the United
States?"
DO you agree to the proposition
set up by the Republican managers
of Maine, that a vote for a Klan-con-
! trolled candidate is a vote for Cool
idge and Dawes?"
Fight on kIan Issue.
Mr.. Pattangall was one of the
leaders of the anti-Klan fight waged
! in the Democratic national conven-
| tion, and is making his campaign for
the Maine goyernorship with Klan
| opposition as his "one great ISSUE
Ralph o. Brewster, the Republican
| gubernatorial nominee, received the
support of the Klan in the primary,
but has refused to discuss any issue
| not mentional in the Republican plat
form. The platform of neither party
4 mentioned the Klan.
! Gen. Dawes stopped here to change
| trains, and planned to prepare his
statement on the Klan during his
stay, and later motor to Augusta
Harmony Predicted.
Achievement of harmony among
| Maine Republicans, who recently split
| over the gubernatorial nomination,
was the hope of party leaders as the
vice presidential nominee entered the
/ State.
! Two groups, which contested for
| the nomination in the primary with
| it's kI klux Khan issue, and in the
recent recount, were to be brought
together at the rally. One group is
! led by Brewster and the other by
Frank G. Harrington, who was nomi-
mated on the basis of the unofficial
returns but lost in the recount.
| Arrangements had been made to
have both leaders on the platform a.
| Island Park, near Augusta, where
! Gen. Dawes is to deliver what he re-
CARDS as a more important speech in
some respects than his notification ad-
dress. harrington is to preside and
Brewster will speak also.
Harold NJ. Sewall, Republican ma
| tional committeeman for Maine, who
accompanied Mr.. Dawes East, predict
ed such harmony would result from
the Augusta meeting as to insure
| Republican success for the party's
| candidates in next months State cleo
| tions.
1--WE are together already and Mr..
! Dawes visit will remove all traces OF
any i'll feeling Mr.. SewaIl declared.
| After his address, Mr.. Dawes will
| motor to Mr.. Sewalrs Summer camp
at Small Point Beach, 16 miles from
Bath. Tomorrow Mr.. Dawes may Wis
it Thomaston, where his great-grand-
father, William Mears Dawes, lived
before moving to Wisconsin. He ex-
poets to leave tomorrow night on the
| return trip to Evanston, with a stop
| over of half a day Monday in Boston.