The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-16
HENRY REICH, JR.

He ruled an organization that extended thruout
the state and into neighborng states His spy sys-
TEN kept tabs the doings of politicians and those
of them that not like Caesars wife was SUD-
posed to be, lived in dread of Stephenson's black
mail threats. An organization for the detection and
apprehension Of horse tievesa lost art since horse
flesh lost out to gasoline - was turned into an
armed K. K. K. force at the service of the grand
dragon. When his downfall took place it was re-
ported that he had the ambition become president
of the United States. However that may be- he did
not become president and is not likely to-
This was the character whose word was law with
the senator's from the Hooser state who made tina
welkins ring with their patriotic effusions in the
o-stained capital of the nation When Senator Raj
ston democrat, gathered into the neatless arms
OF his fathers, Stephenson compelled Governor jack
to appoint Arthur Robinson in his place Sena-
tor James E. Watson, of the wheel horses of
the G. 0. ?. machine, was alleged to have a mem
hership card in the khan. He denied the allegation
Now it may be told.
WeSry unto irrepressibe indignation over the
scuryy treatment accorded him, Stephenson has de-
cided to squeal. There are many vacant chairs in
the prison chair factory he says He wants to see
them occupied during working hours by some of his
former political friends. But those fellows have
ears as keeny attuned to warning noises as the wild
curlews the hills of Scotland. The governor dis
covered that he had appointment in Kansas CITY
and others made themselves scarce in places where
they used 20 hang out.
When Tn @S2s Adams. the Indiana publisher tried
to pry the 49, eff the Khan cesspool a few wears
ago he was almost ruined. Enemies sniped at MIN
from every corner and loop hohe, and it looked for
while if he could thank his stars if he ESCAPED
Jail or an early grave for his pains. But Adams
IS now chuckling. Stephenson is going to spill the
dirt and the hidden documents that Senator Reed
tried to unearth when he held his session in In
diana are about to be brought forth laden
with facts that will rock the state and shock the
nation"
The bottom has fallen out of the Ku Klux Khan
The deluded petty bourgeois and proletarans who
were led to believe that the Negro the Jew and the
non-Nordic alien were responsible for their misery
have removed the rheum from their eyes and now
see things more realistically. Perhaps they do not
yet realize that the conditions that suggest short
enlng of the belt can be laid at the door of the
capitalist system which takes toll off the toll of
alien and native, Jew and GENTLE black and white
with mstuded Partially. The charlatans that once
fatted on their folly have now retired on a com
petence or have entered some other line of egitim
ate graft
The misguided workers who Joined the K X
thinking that it offered a solution for their eco
homie problems Should now be in recestive mood
to listen to the program of Communism which alone
points the way toward the goal which all workers
desire to reach, namely, freedom from all kinds Of
slavery and economic security for all those who CON
tribute to the social sustaining fund