Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-14
EVANS CALLSKLAN
TO "MILITANT FIGHT
FOR AMERICANISM"

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he convention would unanimously
ndorse the selection of the grand
dragons.
The session this morning, like that
Of last night. was thrown open for
the first time in the history of the or
der to newspaper men. who were re-
QueSted not to reveal the identity of
any OF those taking part, should they
recognize them. with the exception of
DR.. Evans Names Of the speakers
were withheld. Most of the morning
session was taken up with the reading
of reports by imperial officers, in
Guiding those of the Imperial kla-
Xix" or second vice president. and of
the heads of the k-Duo or second de-
gree department, boys department
and other ranches of the order.
The imperial klaZik announced that
10 new State realms had been in
stituted during the last term and
that the grand dragons in charge
of other realms had been changed.
The realms of Maryland. Delaware
and Arizona We're put back to a pro-
visional basis. it was stated. An am
bilious program for Khan extension
work was outlined, the official de-
claring the orga IMITATION would not
he satisfied until there was Khan
in every city. town and hamlet in
the United States.
In accordance with a pledge made
by Col. w. J. Simmons. former i'm
perial wizard, and pursuant to an
agreement to cease further activities
in Orga niZng the kamelia, the order
has established second degree. which
ic ainiro in la ,-it y fhr0nuh
out the country, the speaker asserted
There are 260 second degree Klans-
men in the District of Columbia, he
disclosed. A red silken ribbon around
the neck is a symbol of this degree.
The sessions are being presided
over by the imperial klalff, or first
vice president. Numerous musical
selections are interpoated.
DR.. Evans told newspaper men to-
day that he thought there were about
100000 klansmen and 1,500. 900
Klanswomen now in the Invisible
Empire
Many Challenges Flung.
Challenges were flying thick and
fast at the preliminary session last
night. They were aimed at Musso-
lini. the CatholiC hierarchy, AL Smith
the World Court, aliens and the priest
who administered the last rites to
Valentino.
They were contained principally in
an address of welcome delivered by
a high officer of the Khan. whose name
was not made public. He was intro
duced as WashingtOnian and as
the man who seated Mayfield, I'M
seated Brookhart and seated in Brook.
harris place Mr.. Steck."
women and others affiliated with the
order cheered vociferously as the
speaker launched his vitriolic darts
on the platform were Imperial Wiz
ard Evans and the members of his
imperial council, and among those in
the audience We're Mrs. Robbie Gill
Conner, imperial commander of the
women of the ku Klux Khan. and Mrs
Evans, wife of the wizard"
Scores MussoIini Warning.
The speaker declared that Mus
SOlini recently cabled a warning to
the State Department that Americans
must stop agitation against the Fas-
cisti In this country. and he shouted
that America would take no dictation
from any foreign ruler.
The Catholic hierarchy came in
loI lloI1 several tunes, Inc
convention was told that the Khan
had no quarrel with the subjects of
this hierarchy" but that the order
was determined that the Catholic
Church should keep it's influences
away from the body polite of
America" The recent Eucharist
Congress in Chicago. he said. was a
challenge to the Khan, and what
we do at this meeting will he our
answer"
The mention of AL Smiths name
brought laughter and Kisses 1t was
proclaimed that All Smith must he
kept at home" The Khan has the
balance of power IN all but a few
States of the Union, it was asserted
in connection with an enumeration of
IL number of recent elections regarded
by the order as Khan victories.
Cites Court Membership.
The speaker read what was de-
scribed as list of the officers and
councilmen of the World Court. to-
gether with their respective religious
affiliations, and stated that so per
scent of the former and 20 per cent
of the latter were Catholics. THAT
is why the Catholic Church has had
so little to say of late against the
court the klansman said.
The Khan was given the credit for
passage of the alien exclusion laws
and it was confidently predicted that
the time will come when absolute
exclusion" will be in force. America
then will be for Americans, he
shouted.
Declaring that "all of us know that
Rudolph Valentino was a Mason" the
speaker sharply criticized the Catho-
lie priest who he said had intruded
and taken advantage of sick man,
whose mind was not clear" in admin
istering the last rites of the Catholic
Church to the dying film star.
The government of Mexico was
praised for its sta nd "A gainSt the Cath
Ole Church. He thanked God" that
Mexico has awakened" as the audi
ence cheered.
Washington kiansman Prpsides.
The meeting was called to order by
an unnamed Washington klansman,
following which the imperial wizard
and his council filed up the aisle to
the platform amid sea of uplifted