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KLANS PROGRAM FOR 1924 1. Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. 2. Back to the CoHstltutJon. 8. Enforcement of tbe Eighteenth Amendment se long as It Is a part of tbe Constitution. I. Enforcement of present immigration law and enactment of more stringent laws en immigration.
Dr. Eddy Speaks
During the convention of International Student Volunteer Movement, which closed in Indianapolis last week, it was noticeable that a number of flings were taken at the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. When one stops to ponder the fact that it was an International affair and those speakers gave much more time to discussing he problems of Europe and Asia than in laying down plans whereby the serious problems of
America might be faced, their attacks upon the Klan are not a surprise. One of-the chief speakers before the convention was Dr. Sherwood Eddy, of New York, who after telling of appalling conditions in Europe and Asia, declared that the Klan was "one of the lingering evils of our time which must be combatted by Christian students." In view of the fact that Dr. Eddy is International secretary of the movement, it can hardly be expected that he hold National American viewpoints. Due to the fact that Dr. Eddy spent much of his address upon the distress in Europe, which, has known naught but Catholic rule, the question might be asked Dr. Eddy as to whether or not he believes the Roman Catholic system to be a "lingering evil." To be exact, Dr. Eddy, after condemning the Klan, pointed out the need of such an organization. Dr. Eddy stated that "we can not build a new world until we build new men." In that thought he is thoroughly in accord with the Klan. The Klan organization believes implicitly that to attain the highest degree of Christianity and citizenship, that the minds of Americans must be kept in the proper channel and that our citizenship must be trained to give thought to those great principles upon which our country is founded. The Klan stands for a unified patriotism and the teaching and practising of Christianity. It is noted that at the time Dr. Eddy declared against the Klan in his speech at Indianapolis, that in the East there is raging a bitter controversy between the Fundamentalists and the Modernists, the former upholding the Bible in its entirety while the latter are attempting to tear down the most beautiful story of our Savior. Is
it possible that these disturbing elements in our Protestant churches could have influenced Dr. Eddy in his condemnation of the Klan? It is peculiar that practically each and every attack on the Klan by such men
as Dr. Eddy, comes from the Modernists and not from tbe Fundamental
ists who are fighting to retain the Bible in its present form.
In each speech delivered by one who is attacking the Klan, glaring!
errors are made which instantly show tne intelligent treaaer mat me speaker is not 'familiar with his subject. Dr. Eddy proves no exception
to the rule. In an attempt to lay the crime of lynching at the door of tho Protestant, while attacking the Klan, he spoke of the vast number of lynchings which have taken place in the United States. While not
actually accusing the Klan of causing these crimes, he cleverly left that
impression. This is one of the points over which Dr. Eddy stumbled
Since the advent of tha Klan,. lynchings have gradually decreased until the official figures Just released show that in 1923 tho total number
dropped more than fifty per cent over 1922, and 1922 showed a big decrease
It is evident that Dr. Eddy, who is an International secretary is either
not in touch with American problems or that he, like many other mis
informed and .ill-Informed persons, are ready to believe anything about
the Klan which is published by those interests that Dr. Eddy upholds
against his own sect.
Dr. Eddy charged Protestants with fomenting lies against Catholics; he
stated that Protestant Christians were starting a campaign of hatred and attacked the strongest body in America today in the upholding of Protestant principles which, according to his own words must be far better than those of the Roman Catholic system, under which, he stated, he found naught but turmoil, strife and discontent as he toured Europe and Asia. It is possible that Dr. Eddy is attempting to "clean Protestantism" from the inside and for that reason remains within its ranks and does not openly become a Catholic.
Perils
The Klan idea is to close up the ranks, and thus allow the devil no chance for elbow room among them. Character win stamp its same on a visor as indelibly as -upon a viaqr-wearer's face. So live that honor will come to your visor the symbol of your beneficent work for your religion, your community,, and your country. e The fiery cross a symbol is. Where'er its light may fall,
Of faith that points the way to bliss
God's chartty toward all. The most effective reformers have always beea bitterly enrsed at the beaiBnliur of their labors. It is,
therefore, only natural that the Klan, the most vital and effective political and moral "reformer" of the past hundred years, should be denied and
condemned or tuose wno sieei mem
selves to an unrelenting prejudice
and a mordaciens campaign of violence, ill-will, and vindictiveness. Here are a few pertinent questions for good Klansmen to answer: Why am I not a good Klansman in the broadest sense? Is it because I will not sacrifice myself for the interests of the whole commonwealth? Is it
because I am morally afraid to in
form upon those who are breaking
the various local, state, and federal
laws? Is it because I do not love, in the truest sense, the institutions that
are essentially and specmcany American? 1 Should I not answer all
of these questions satisfactorily to my own conscience before I stand again in the presence of my Klannish peers?
Knowledge Is Salvation Ignorance discovers too late that
knowledge is a kind of super-salvation from most of the troubles that
arise. More than one Bulgarian
peasant, following out the meat
of this thought, has found that he
does not know what his revolution
ary woes really mean. "I can drive
oxen without a Commune just as
well as with a Commune," is a say
ing attributed to him. Yet, a little education during "his receptive years should have taught him the deep truth of the fact he has had to learn by suffering, hunger, bloodshed, and
similar things that befall a country
which possesses no true standards in
life and government. Similarly,
Americans who have not yet learned
what this "back to the constitution
movement really means, should profit
by the sudden realization that has
come to the Bulgarian farmer. The American, to continue the useful fig
ure, can drive a motor better with'
out a Commune" than without & con
stitution. .'
Americans Are Plain Minded
The American people the best of
them at heart want clean shows;
they want clean journalism; they
want effective and purposeful
schools; they want the religion of their fathers. So long, however, as
the lower elements of their natures
are played upon by the sordid and
the unclean, they remain befogged and uncertain in their purpose. To
clarify the vision of this people so
that the Indecent, the vulgar, the
salacious, and the vicious shall not enter completely into the popular life, is a part of the stupendous work
of the Klan. And the tools with which the Klan labors must be se
lected in every instance to meet in
dividual needs. With this in mind
it becomes clear that when an ef
fort is made to throttle impurities
and irregularities, taking it for
granted that in amusement, educa
tion, and religion, people, deep within, want what is right and decent, weighty consequences are apt to follow with amazing rapidity and
reforms along all lines arc likely to
come quickly.
The party whip drives Uncle Sam
along,
will perform, similar acts of heroism in the future. Always the principle
should be the motivating force be-
ntnd each noble deed.
The Preamble's the Thing'
Thepreamble is a most important part of tha constitution. Primarily,
the -object of the constitution was
ts remedy some of the defects existing under the. Continental confeder
ation. A number of the clauses of the preamble refer to those defects. The union, in those early days, was
a . most imperfect one. The states were continually quarreling. There was no "domestic tranquillity.'! It was seen that unless there could he
a strong central government, it would be impossible to "provide for the common defense" against foreign enemies. Besides this our founders
wished to "promote the general wd
fare" and "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our poster
ity In a "word, our preamble
phrased a proposition for a highly
organic, practical brtoherhood.
Jost Home Folts ' v
When you read the evening papers
on the doings of the Klan,
How they cut their wicked capers,
Hang and mutilate some man,
How they punish helpless women,
How they rawhide colored folks,
Laugh your head off, thats the trim
ming -The old devil gives his jokes. .
When you read a publication
Where some writer prints a lot
Of misleading information
And a bunch of tommyrot
When you see fool pictures blazing
And their meanings all confused
Laugh your head off it s amazmg
How half -lies keep men amused. ;
When you hear a bloated bully,
Purple with his beer and worse,
Speak and tell you very tuny
That the whole Klan is a curse r
When he lifts his raucous bellow,
Tells the world what dreadful men
Form the Klan, laugh at the fellow,
Then take breath and laugh again
Tell these vicious, mean alarmers
That we are your townsmen true
Preachers, lawyers, doctors, farmers,
Folks you know, all well-to-do;
Count us over on your fingers.
Do we look like rascals say?
Tell these evil-minded stingers
That we're home-folks here to stayt e e The Klan asks "and demands that the whole commonwealth make an effort to understand that what we pledge ourselves to favor and to do, is done because
the Klan, as an organization and
BAILY INDEX P ' AMERICAN CONGRESS
(Bureau of Publication and Education) - Thnrsfia y JssBsry S Senate Met at noon after a holi
day recess of two weeks. 'Adjourned
at $:z p, m. -. .
Senator Sheosard. Democrat, nf
Texas, took notice X Woodrow Wil
son s birthday anniversary on De
cember 28, although a. little late. In
an extended speech, in which, he re
viewed the accomplishments of the League of Nations. . .- - ....
After debate .over the verbiage of
tne text, a resolution was adopted authorizing as. investigation of the
election of ..Senator Marfield. of
Texas.
Adoption or five-year nrdsram
ror expenditure or $50,000,000 In con
structum of public buildings in
Washington recommended in a re
port of the Public Buildings Com
mission.
Adopted the Jones resolution ask
ing the shipping board what steps were taken to forestall the recent de
cision of the American Bar Associa
tion and the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce to send delegates to. Europe on foreign instead of American ships.
senator iatTmette, of Wisconsin,
appeared in his seat for the first time this session and took the oath
for his new term.
Introduction of bills and resolu
tions galore.
Two unsuccessful ballots for
chairman of the interstate commerce
committee were taken. No election, deadlock continues.
Nominations confirmed in execu
tive session.
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A NOVEL FOR ALL KLANDOM
By j. WALTER GREEP Anther eM5p vf&ixl Smurt" "The Ftnttt Yvtt" Stt. (Cewfttit im, by J. WALTfcRGXEEPi
House Met at noon and adjourned
at bite p. m.
Mr. Treadway, Massachusetts,
made a speech on the subject of the
abuse of the public on the part of those responsible for the high price of anthracite. Pedro Guevara, resident commissioner from the Philippines, addressed the House declaring for independence of the Philippine islands. Mr. U pshaw, Georgia, urged drastic action to stop congressmen and other public officials from using booze. Mr. Fairohlld, New York, asked the State Department for details of the, negotiations for the sale of war materials by this government to Mexico. Mr. Tucker, Virginia, denounced the Sterling-Towner education bill
as a drain on the federal treasury and a step toward a "consolidated empire in Washington."
Senate Not in session; resting. Friday, January 4
Several committees decided to go to
work next week.
House Not in session ; nothing to
do while waiting on committee work.
Satardav, January 5
Senate Not In session; planning
as individuals, Mbelletee4 hurch attendance Sunday on on of;
and in the tenets of the Chris
tian religion" because the Klan, as your brothers, your teachers, your ministers, feels beyond peradventure that "a godless nation can not long prr per." e
It was James Otis who said: "The
only principles of public conduct
that are worthy of a gentleman or
a man, are to sacrifice estate, ease,
health, and applause, and even life,
to the sacred cause of his country.
This pronouncement, made in the
early eighteenth century, meant no
more than It means in these twisted
years that stretch out before us. We are not worthy of the name of Klansmen if we do not make it the very
foundation of our constant endeavor in civic and national betterment. If
we fail to recognize the fact that
our whole organization nas no stronger plank to stand upon than
this plank so nobly worded by Otis, we fail to see the solemn task to which we haveset our united powers.
"He Is Himself, a Man
the eleven r golf courses.
' House Not in session; members
practicing in the gymnasium in the
House office building for hard work
ahead. Page Congressional Country
club,
But he has solid help and perfect) burn in his eyes, -and when he said
A recent survey made by one of America's foremost magazines developed a peril of our present immigration situation entirely new and unique in that it developed the fact that out of twelve hundred lawyers that have been carefully selected and classified it was found that fifty per cent were either of alien birth or parentage. It was found that, "it only takes sixty months' residence in this country (and that residence
may be in the non-American environment of a foreign "colony" in our midst) and the most simple of tests in the veneer of "Americanization"
to make an Anatolian shepherd or a Russian mujik entitled to sit in judgment as a "peer" in an American court," in the handling out of "justice" to Anglo-Saxons who have carefully built up the bulwarks of American self-government. Argue as one may, make charges against the Klan of "racial prejudice," the inconvertible facts are the ancient painfully and slowly achieved system of Anglo-American Common Law and constitutional governments today under the pressure of fourteen million foreign-born whites of which seven million are of voting age. Further it carries the blood strain of an
additional six millions and over of foreign-born men and women who are naturalized American citizens and therefore are potential, grand and petty jurors in our courts, citizens in our communities and voters in our elections. Of these, over three million are unable to speak the English language. A far graver and more Important question was never before the American people than how in the name of heaven is the spirit of American law to survive, how is the jury system of the Anglo-Saxon people, how is the bulwark of American self-government, how is American Protestantism Itself, going to be maintained under a pressure, of so ' huge self-centered and alien propagation. . With American courts functioning last year In which trials were held in different parts of the United States
In fifty different languages and representing over a hundred different C degrees of civilization and with Judges not infrequently elevated to their
, high office specifically because of their non-American origin, it is indeed
, . a very difficult and very grave question. It will never be solved hy put - ting It off. , .
" The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 'believe that It should be faced squarely
. and courageously without malice and la mo spirit of timidity. The bul
- wark of American free and popular government la worth defending ro-
, tardiesa c! criticisms.
a very young man, we once stood
in the presence of Benjamin Harrison, son of a line of patriots. As he reached out his arms-over the multitude, a kind of Same appeared to
DRY LEAGUE PLANS
WAR ON J. R. BANTON
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 5. William
A. Anderson, state superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League, and Orville
S. Pollard, the league's general
counsel, have announced that the
league intends to press .vigorously
for an investigation by the assembly
of the office of Joab R. Banton, dis
trict attorney of New York county
"and at least part of the Tammany
judiciary. Anderson did not attempt to eon
ceal the fact that he has a deep
grouch against District Attorney
Banton and Judge Mclntyre, of the
court of eeneral sessions. Banton
We remember that when we were obtained an indictment against An-
nlan
Flying to his relief yea, millions strong It is the army of the Ku Klux Klan. e
It's All in the Color "Mr. Bryan's challenge to science to explain why a red cow produces white milk leads a Dartmouth professor mildly to observe that in rock-
bound New Hampshire cows produce yellow milk," remarks an eastern newspaper. It would seem to the faithful Klansman that a still deeper scientific question is involved. Why, for instance, does the milk turn blue before it reaches the Klansman's morning coffee? Has the industrious Semitic imagination anything to do with the phenomenon or, has the dairyman merely -overworked the
pump in those early morning hours when he should have been resting
and listening to the Angelus?
see Some wicked Klansman may perhaps remark that during the present shake-up In religion when the "modernists" are trying to gag-rule the "fundamentalists' and the "fundamentalists" are endeavoring to gas the "modernists" very little has been said about Satan, the Old Adversary. It may be that the existing condition of things makes an argument About 'the devil's exis-. tence unnecessary. Usually you can meet the -Ancient Enemy ia almost every alley and even In some churches. , : . ,
It is reported' tSat a white man re
cently lost his life while defending
a negro. If the white man was on the right side f principle he did
well to die tor It. Many white mea
have given their lives for their, col
h lored brothers ta the past and -many simple- ftagsa'
in his measured voice, "My countrymen," there was not one of us who was not on fire with patriotism. The picture was one which could never be forgotten. Above us floated, in
a kind of stately radiance, toe flag;
below us and roundabout us, the
hosts surged in a kind of spiritual
exaltation ; in moving cadences the
music of the day's meaning vibrated through us like the splendid glory
of some sacred sacrament. Every
hearer felt himself a man and ready, on the instant, to devote his life and
all that he could hope to be to his country. It was as if William Henry
Harrison was again speaking: "Our
precious privileges the American
citizen derive neeause ne
is himself, a man." -
' Saluting (he Flag
The American flag symbol of our
nation's hope and honor should be
sainted every day in the public schools of this country. A flag should hang In every school, room-
At a signal from 'the teacher all
pupils should arise la their places
and stand erect. Then all enowa
bring tbe open riakt hand, palm
downwards, up to the forehead, tne
thumb just touching the eyebrow, in
this position, the school, in concert,
should repeat slowly ana. etsuncuy
the following pledge: "I pledge aileeianea to the American flaK and t
the republic for which it standal
one nation, indivisible, with iwerty
and justice for &IL"- At the words "to the American Sag" , everyone
should extend tfee rigM-aaaa towra
the sag and retain that pouitioa un
til Use siedx is omsmdV taea
hand should b permitted to drop
to the side. Perbens ther w
other ' terra.' ot - patriotic ritnaliasa
which wm do -more to fix
yoaag eind the reverence which
should i eeicor country tnaa
the
all
tale
derson and Judge Mclntyre refused
to grant Anderson s counsel permis
sion to inspect the mmutes of the
grand jury which indicted him.
A KLANSMAN'S CREED I beluve i&XIod and in the Unefi
ef the Chrittian religion and that a godless matte' cam not long prosper.
I believe that a chmrea that it net
grounded on the principles of moral' ttf and justUes a mockery to God and to man, V
I believe Ikat a church that doer not kave ttit ncelfart of tie common
people at heart is unvmrthy.
I beluve m the eternal separation of Church and State. I hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or relig' iaus power. . - "- hold my allegiance to the-Start and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. '-. I believe in just laws and liberty. - ' 1 beUevt t in. the upholding of the Constitution o f these United States. I tetitoe that our Free Put lie School is the corner stone of good government and thai those w are
seeking ta destroy it'ara enemies of 1 1 oar Republic and are .unworthy aTi
cttsnensmpi' - - I beUevt r freedenrofipeecM. -1 believe in a free Stese uncon
trotted by political parties or by re-
Ugums sects. I believe in lave and order.
I believe in the 'Protection ef our bare womanhood,
1 do not believe at mob violence.
bat t do believe that law shevld be enacted to prevent the comsts of mob, Molenee, ---.- believe in a closer relationship of
eanttaf and tabor.
7 believe in the prevention of unwarranted jtrittbf foreign labor
( believe in the limitation of w-
Hn tin mi &r acta a, -r
' t am a natimeone Jlmerieaa ckt-
ttn and t helteve my rights tm thu i-'fomtttff are superior those of fae-
(Continued From Last Issue) But there was another organiti
tion that covered the country for
miles about with a net ot secret service men, none of whom were commissioned, and that was the Ku Klux Klan. By direction of the Nighthawk, every Klansman within, a radius of two hundred miles was supplied in ten hours with the description ot Forthoffer and Camen and told to be onthe lookout for them. So effective was the Klan organization that, within a few hours after the command was given, farmers left their plows and business men their desks and set out to find the murderers.
In the meantime, Gene was inter
viewed and her story given to the press. There had been such a
4 marked ehange of attitude in the
newspapers that, instead of brand
ing the slaying of Judge' Karraker 8n atrocious Klan murder, most of them hinted that he was killed by a certain "doubtful individual, who has until recently held a place of
prominence among us and has sud denly disappeared," and spoke edi torially of ."certain sinister infill
ences in our public schools," refer
ring especially to the teaching ot
radical doctrines by unknown down
east Yankees. Gene stated that she
was in the upstairs room, dressing.
her father having informed her that he had invited George to dinner.
when she heard ngry voices down
stairs, followed by a pistol shot. She
hurried to the stairs, glancing through the window, saw Cameron running through the back lot. When
she saw her father and George, and realized that her father was dead,
she had fainted.
Much news matter went through
the preBS, most of which was favor
able to George. Strangely enough
his connection with the Klan was
scarcely mentioned.
And then, two days afterward, the
conspirators were found.-
The main road, leading from
Prairie City to Little Rock, travers
ing one of the hilliest sections of the great State of Southwest, is liable; to need repairing occasionally. It is a smooth road, well paved, but when repairs are necessary, the detours'
lead through some woeful country. Red sand hills, piney woods covered,
around which dirt trails wind their1
circuitous toilsome courses make
up the natural topography. And the
man who is motoring views with
sickening heart that mournful
legend, "Detour." In a fast car,
speeding toward Little Rock, Forthoffer and Cameron came suddenly
upon a closed road and a sign, visible in the moonlight, pointing them down a dirt lane. Having simultaneously exahusted their supply of expletives they turned their car into the byway and toiled through the sand. The hills were rough, the sand deep. At one o'clock in -the morning they found themselves fast in a sand hole. There was nothing to do but wait until daylight. They left their car and went back into the woods, safely out of eight, to sleep. The air was chilly. The pines rustled above them and the lonesome call of the whippoorwill sounded in
the depths of. the wildwood. They tried to sleep but could not. They
eursed the cold air, the whippoor
will, the crickets and the pine trees.
Little as the hardened soul of Rollo Cameron realized it, there was
something within him which was exerting far more power in keeping
him awake than all the animate sounds of Nature. It was the still small voice of conscience. - Since the
day that Cain slew Abel the mur derer has been sleepless.
Finally there was a sound at the
car. Forthoffer plucked Cameron s arm and they both crept down to the
edge of the woods to investigate.
Some farmers were opening . the
doors, looking under the seats and
trying to move the steering wheel.
Forthoffer nudged his partner.
' Some of these durn rubes trying
experiments' with our car. Been out
possum hunting, I wager. Suppose
we go down and give them a scare r
"I am with you."
They hastened to the car. "Here,
what are you doing; molesting other
people s property?" demanded .-.Cam
eron gruffly.
The farmers turned and one, evi
dently the leader, lifted his hat "I
beg your pardon, he said politely,
- dux is tnis ear. cameronr-
Yes," snapped the former super
mtendeat.
"And this is Mr. Torthoffer?"
Cameron and Forthoffer looked at
each other in amassment. But there
was no need to be alarmed. Both of them were probably well known la this Tkhtity, having .been here in
tneir .campaign.
"Tnat my name," answered
-ortaoser, "ana now, may I In
quire your name and' business, see
ing you knew me so welir"
, "Tea, my name !s Jennings, sheriff
ot wills county. consider,, youx'
seives miner arrestf - -
"Before they coold regain their
breath,, it seemed, they were both handcuffed, placed .lajtheic . owb car
and headed hac toward Prairia City,
When Cameron could talk agate-fais only comment was a rather anrefined
monosyuabie. . . -
UI want to ask you a question.
raid FOTthoffer. "what right nave you to arrest as? Wa ase pgaeahie
cititeaa, going to Little RocX.- :Of
what are ire aecnsedT .
"Your friend there. Is accused, of
i mureeyiBg judge Karraser, aaa
of conspiring with him."
"Heavens above, of all the Kail!"
said Cameron, "George Taylor killed Karraker."
"How do you know? Did you see
him?"
Yes." Then you were in the house when
Karraker was killed!"
WelL no " Cameron stammered
and did not complete the sentence.
The sheriff smiled.
How did you know we were on
this road?" asked Forthoffer.
A number ot men, who 'see
everything' told us of your where-
anouts. '
And again, deep in his heart.
Forthoffer cursed the Ku Klux Klan as they sped toward Prairie City and
aestiny.
CHAPTER XXVII The Trial The courtroom was throneed lona
before time for the session on' the ' following Monday, to hear the evidence in what was due to-be the most sensational trial in the history
ot bois a Arc county. Tavlor had
demanded a speedy trial. He did not
want matters to drag indefinitely and the whole thing to become a lawyer's wrangle. Forthoffer and Cameron had Asked for time in which to prepare a defense. They had been refused, seeing that it was a scheme of the defense. The court was called to order by the judge and the case announced. Then the day passed slowly and the trial continued, full of minor details, petty bickerings and irksome disputes. The thing that worried Taylor was the personnel of the jury. Three of the jurors were Karraber's righthand men the men whe had discovered the alleged body of Peterson. They seemed determined to convict Taylor, no matter what the evidence might show. From his seat in the front row George watched the faces of the jurors as each new wit- . ness was introduced, as each lawyer hurled his invectives at the other, as
each tried to tangle the witness in.
nis testimony. During the whole
time he noticed not one change in the
countenances of these three men. Their jaws were' set, their eyes steellike. Evidently they had already r&turned a verdict in their own mind.
When George came to the stand
the prosecutor spoke kindly to ilia..
Mr. layior, you will please en"the
court how you chanced to be at
Judge Karraker's house on the night of the election V
Yes," he replied calmly. "I was
invited to dinner by the judge himself."
"Now, Mr. Taylor, isn't it rather
singular that Judge Karraker should
invite his victorious opponent to din
ner on the election night at which he was beaten?"
"Rather singular, yes, but true." "Were you in the habit of visitine
the judge's home?"
"Until recently I was I am en
gaged to his daughter."
"Why did you stop going there?" "The judge and I had some dis
agreements."
"Then, how did it happen that the
iidge invited you on this oarticular
nightr
"He said over the nhone that he
was ready to bury the hatchet. Then he asked me to come to dinner. On
arriving at his house I found him in
an altercation with Cameron. Cam
eron fired the shot as I entered and
I snatched the pistol from his hand. He fled. Then the neighbors entered and found me with the gun. That i the whole story."
Then the state's attorney, a hard-
fisted lawyer from the Capital City, took up the testimony.
Are you a member of the Ku Klux
Klan?" he asked gruffly.
i am." Then, is it not possible, Mr. Tay
lor, that the Klan caused you to murder Judge Karraker out of malice?"
In the first place I did not mur
der Judge Karraker," Taylor an
swered quickly, catching his implication, "and in the second place the Klan bore Judge Karraker no malice
personally. "They did not like his
methods and opposed him in the election. But the Klansmea were not
murderers, if they have been accused ot it They- had absolotely nothing to do with the judge's death."
Instantly, at this defense of the
Klan, he saw a frown pass over the faces of the' three men and they
looked at each other, exchanging knowing glances. No doubt there was a tacit understanding. After a
cross-examination, Taylor was dismissed and Gene brought 'to the chair. ' - ; : . - f ' : It is 'unnecessary to go into detail and relate the endless chain of ques-
UioHs that were asked all the wit
nesses. Gene simply cororborated George's statements, testifying that Cameron had slain her father he-' cause she had refused him her attentions and her father had forbidden him to come there. - She referred. to the plot to kidnap "some young' girl" as-revealed by the Herald's expose. She Inferred -thamhis meant her. Her testimony was stroag against Cameron, who was the next on the stand, -. , . ... .. - His first Btiesttott was. "Judge, if yon wili permit a Witness ta ask a question, I would' like: to naif eae of the Tooag lady who has lust testltiedr. .?- -i-r - . ' Thefts franled the permission.
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