Evening star., 1924-08-24
SPURT OF~KU KLUx
AS NATIONAL ISSUE
IN CAMPAIGN ENDS
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well make his statement, If he is to
make one, regarding the klan when
he delivers his address at the national
convention of the Holy. Name Society,
which is to meet in Washington Sep
tember 81. This might be consid-
cred, however, too evident a bid for
Catholic support.
While the Democratic convention
was still underway, and the religious
and Klan issue had caused tremen-
dous hostility in the ranks of the
party, Democratic leaders admitted
that they did not intend to "let the
Republicans get away without takA
ing a stand one way or another on
the Khan" They insisted in private
conversation that President Coolidge
you'd be smoked out" on the klan
question before the campaign had
gone far. AS a matter of fact, Sena-
tor La Toilette smoked out the Demo-
Gratis, and in order to smoke out Mr..
Coolidge the Democratic nominee had
first to abandon the party platform,
which did not name the Khan.
Count ON Solid South.
The Democrats in making their
pronouncement against the klan have
counted on carrying the solid South
in any event, though the Klan is
States. 1t may cost them votes, how
ever. in some Of the border States
where the Klan is strong and where
the Republicans cast considerable
vote. as in Tennessee, West Virginia
and Kentucky. In the North the klan
has been stronger among the Repub-
licans than the Democrats.
Senator Underwood. by the way,
must feel that his stand against the
IN, lou nf
the statement now made by the DEM
ocratic nominee for President.
Glenn Shaver, Democratic national
committeeman, returned to Washing
ton yesterday, bringing with him re-
ports Of great Democratic activity in
the West. They are betting, he said,
in Chicago that Coolidge Will not
carry a State west Of the MISSISSIPPI.
Mr.. Shaver said that the Davis-Bryan
ticket is growing stronger ana
stronger in the West and Middle
West and that now the organization
for the campaign has been completed
in the States and that the campaign
is progressing very favorably to the
Democrats.
Pat Harrison Back.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.
who has just been overwhelmingly
renominated for the Senate, returned
also from the West, where he went
as chairman of the notification COM
mittee to announce to Gov. Bryan
that he had been nominated for the
Vice Presidency by the Democratic
national convention.
Commenting whimsically on the
political situation, Senator Harrison
said:
president Coolidge, I see in the
newspapers, made hay yesterday on
a Vermont farm. This is the first
time in 90 years he has made hay, and
I venture to say that 1t was because
he saw the Democratic storm about
to break"
Announcement was made last night
that Col. Robert N. Harper of this
city will be director of the finances
of the Democratic national committee
in the District of Columbia. The an
nouncement was made by Jesse H.
Jones, director of finance of the ma
tional committee. In announcing
Col. Harper's appointment, Mr.. Jones
said:
"Col. Harper will have full charge.
as director of finance for the Demo-
cratic national committee for the Dis
trict Of Columbia Of collecting funds
to defray the expenses Of the
Democratic committee in. the
coming election. would like to add
that the chances for success at the
November election are as good as we
could want them. They depend, of
course, wholly and entirely upon the
ability Of the campaign committee to
get the cause Of Democracy, the
things that John w. Davis stands for
and the nominee himself well before
the voters of the country"
Col Harper is one of the original
Davis is-for-President men in the Dis
trict. Three months before the con-
vention, Col. Harper made the sug-
gestion and prediction that the Demo-
cratic ticket, would be John w. Davis
and Gov. Bryan of Nebraska, in the
order named.