The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-23

about $4,000 today. The orders of
the dragons no longer make the suck
ers tremble at the knees The khan
is dead as a mass organization and
the politicians are trying to get out
from under.
1t now appears likely that Senator
Reed will dig deeply into khan politics.
It would be good for the democrats in
Indiana.
In telling of the klan's plan to make
Jim Watson their presidential candi-
date in 1928, Bmmons said he had
met Evans in Chicago several weeks
ago
Evans asked me how things we're
going for jim" the witness testified.
HE meant Jim Watson. I asked him
why it was that we. were having
Watson jammed down our throats
when it wasn't proven that he was a
klansman. He said:
Debt to Watson.
Now. Pat, Senator Watson is q
personal friend of mine. but am not
injecting personalities into this cam
paign. ! want you to know the ku
klux khan is a debtor to your United
States senator"
81 said: Well, that's news to me,
and he replied, Well, I'll draw this
picture for you and leave It to you
what to do with your boys down in
South Bend. 1t was my influence with
Watson that got to Senator Moses
and got one of our best klansmen,
Earle B. Mayfield Of Texas, seated in
the United States Senate"
THAT was all Greek to me and /
told Dr. Evans so. I said. We may
owe him something, ~but / don't un-
derstand It, He said; Senator Watson
Is favorable to the khan and he al.
ways goes down thers line for us,
whether he is a member or not"
HE acted real girlish," Emmons
added, while the. crowd laughed. HE
loved me up and said, If Watson goes
over in 1928, we will send Bill Zum-
brunn down to Mexico as the Ameri-
can ambassador
Deeply Indebted.
Evans also told him. Emmons
declared, that the khan was deeply"
indebted to Watson because the In
diana republican had arranged for the
seating of Senator Earle B. Mayfeld,
democrat of Texas. in 1922. In this
senate contest, Emmonsa said Evans
told him. Watson had also interested
Senator George H. Moses, (Rep, N.
H. in behalf of Mayfield
Mayfeld was a klansman, En-
mons said.
A Big Decrease.
The membership of the khan thruout
the United States two years ago, EN-
mons said, was "a little over 5OOO.-
900" but it has fallen off since. This
figure was given him, he added. by
Hiram w Evans, imperial Wizard of
the khan.
The witness figured too that the
membership paid S7,O0OOOO a year in
to the imperial treasury at Washing
ton at the height of the klan's power,
entirely aside from their local state
dues.
Emmons created another sensation
when he handed khan document to
Reed, on which the word rape" had
been written after the name of
grand titan, R. F. McNay, until re-
Gently one of the Indiana klan's high
officers.
'McNay was convicted of rape on
14-year-old girl and he was father of
IL children" Emmons testified. "The
evidence of his guilt was so strong
against him that he was convicted
even with three klansmen on the jury.
Despite this, he was kept on the khan
payroll. | demanded that he be dis
charged at once, said that if the
khan stood for the purity of woman
hood and the chastity of the home, he
should be taken off the khan payroll,
but they kept him on for three months.
Later on, McNay told me himself
that he was fined $500 and given a
suspended prison sentence and DR..
Evans gave him the money to pay the
fine"