The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-03
KU KUX KHAN TO
STAGE A DRIVE HERE
But Its Advance Agents Get Cold Comfort
From The Protestant Ministers OF
Elizabeth City

The ku klux klan is making
another effort to get into Eliz-
abeth City. 1t has been pussy
footing around town this week
trying to get things lined up
for membership drive to fol-
/ low series of lectures to be
delivered here next week by
one Hawkins. a Methodist
minister who can make more
money working for the klan
! than in serving God in a counr
/ try pulpit.
Hawkins advertiSes himself as
DIR. J. III. Hawkins. \. NJ. LII. d.:
OPT. u. +. V. A. o.. OPH. d.. He
has more degrees strung on To his
name than u backwoOds Negro
/ evangelist.
| First comes one Rev. Mr.. Afford.
a Free Will Baptist preacher from
/ MOrehead City. who talks to the
three or four Ku Klucker> in town
and then moves out. Now comes
one Mr.. PelOt. who is described aS
Frenchman from South Carolina.
who tries TO enlist the Endorsement
and Support of the Elizabeth City
ministers.
But Pelot got cold comfort from
the ministers after Il session WIN
the Ministerial Association We'd
neSday afternoon. Pelot comes 10
Set the stage for Hawkins who Will
deliver a number of lectures here
next week in which he will give the
Catholics hell up and down the
country and make all the nit-wlts
i'm town believe that the Roman
Hierarchy is going to draw ana
ouarter them if they don't JOIN
something. That something Is the
Ku Klux klan.
Pplot made his first move at Rev.
Geo. +. Hill. Rector of CHRIST
Church. Episcopal. and President
of the Ministerial Association. lie
wanted Mr.. Hill to give his support
tn Hawkins lectures. Pei0t toOk
unins to tell Mr.. Hill that he HIM
self WAS not Ku Klucker and that
Hawkins wasn't. He said Hawkins
wnu,dn.t lecture on the Klan at
all. that he was coming here to lee
ture on AmericaniSm. But Mr.. Hill
didn't take the bait. He knows that
the first principle of ku kluckery
i to lie. As rule KluckerS never
are KIuckerS. except among them
SOLVES Judge Grady the Imperial
Wizard is rare exception.
= The Ministers Shy on
Failing to get Mr.. Hill lined up
pelot asked him if he could taiS
20 the other ministers. Mr.. Hill
called a meeting of the ministers
and they heard PelOt. The follow
iu- ministers were present: Dr
James Henry Thayer. pastor ol
blackwell Memorial Baptist Church
DIR. :. III. Templeman. pastor o'
First Baptist Church: Rev. r. :
Ioye. pastor of First Methodist
Church: Rev. J. W. Harrell. pastor
of City Road Methodist Church
the Rev. Geo. F. Hill: Rev, Hllar!
r Bowen. pastor Of the Christian
Church: Rev. A. III. Outlaw. pastor
of the Free Will Baptist Church
: MonSeigneur DOherty of the Cath
Ollie parish was not present: neither
was Rabbi Ganderson OF Sou'l
Poindexter Street.
Pelot insisted that the meetings
To be held here by the man Haw'
kinS next week would not be hlan
meetings and that the klan had
, nothing to do with them. He didn
: want the ministers to indOrSe the
Klan. but he wanted them all tC
: come to the meeting and set vi
[ front: and he wanted one of then
: to open the meetings with prayer.
1 Not one of the ministers present
would agree to sanctify the Haw
5 kins lectures by praying for them
The ministers present, without
| single exception. agreed to hSv'
4 nothing to do with the business
b Some of them were outspoken.
| Rev. Mr.. Love asked Pelot som'
1 very pointed questions.
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