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CHICAGO. ILL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
No. 50
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Col. William Joseph Simmons, of Atlanta, Georgia,
the Grand Dragon or Wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, and His Cohorts Are in the Saddle and They
Are Successfully Riding Through the Northern
tates
tained with
Land,
orth
;.;? ,fie Past s'x ycars the Ku
tv, Kbrv under the leadership of
3tti'.k:':i Joseph Simmons of At-
wa, 0a its Grand Dragon or
n- ba-. increased from a tew
. 3 more than eight hundred
-t , Tiihcrs and the invisible
... 1... .1.- LT V V 'c
-"- - "HJ U iill. V. IV. v. &t
r, i 'he Atlantic to the Pa-
ct-4 in -1 IIOIH lC UUiCUIC
j-- ,lr to the uttermost parts
3 .c-tfc -n1 if the high govern
ed. j' and the officials of the
. tjt. jnd cities throughout
permit it to continue to
li-z -i fl-unsh like a green bay
pi'i onl be a question of
j-,.) a ttil! be ten times strong
er nouirful than the united
,L .rm.nt and all the states
e - c- 'Tunerts combined and
lio -d Vizards and Dragons of
a o iL!r "ipirc will be admtn
b. a" t. law of the land in
cj c thr i-tgular constituted au-Srr-.
iisrharcin those functions.
Tit'-i K past few weeks, Col.
Sr:- wended his way from his
fcr - '-e outh to Chicago, where
b - '-.sh-H headquarters for the
to-, o In- Klan and where
rr ""-jvind-, joined his white
rr ' zeb' nders in one night and
jp s---.,, or some one connected
n.i " r-1 h Chicago Tribune and
t other daily newspapers
esi 'i-rds of dollars for whole
BCf i' m, tmnts setting forth the
rk .czmijj; principles of the Ku
Ba foan and in an editorial Au
BT the Chicago Tribune prac
& ecdorstd everything which
iiKlu Klan stands for or for
i!3 Tce-nbtrs are falling for.
s Cbcaco Tnbune sounds the
P53C) th Ru Klux Klans for the
sc? ct in Insh-Amcrican readers,
jT,n.IiAm -.-- ...!... in) ifc
-'.'yti nen, -n readers, who are
cc;:dfTP() one hundred per cent
is and for that reason they
"stntr depned of the honor of
tng with the clay eating
- CI Georgia Alabama. LoUtS-
" MissisMppi. Texas and in the
"sosthern states where themem
$ ct thr Klan have in the past
t!frn -. .u. ? ..JJ.n
ii mi- present uiuc icuutu-
d6arnnlaRi'ul hands in the blood
- victims, both white and col--
both men and women thusly:
rtrthenrmro V nu:o rf tfip
acctT. as stated in its constitution
amendable. We all owe a duty
IS rr. i- ... .;.
- io support tne consmu-
PTON MAYOR TO
SUP-
PRESS K. K. K.
' National ccn;-.:nn fnr the
'acement of Colored People, 70
-J avenue. Ncvt York, has made
-CalMtr , . 1 A .c
- -...w o.n. t,u i LU1U1CU $vJ
' American Legion, Mitchell
fj5 post, Xo. 182, by the Mayor of
"fttoa, X I . in whirl tti nffirial
J1 te would take all possible ac
jjto thwatt the progress of the Ku
rKkn. The letter reads as fol-
Ititl, f. ..v ... .
, iu iak.e ;nis occasion ot ac-
jWgiag the letter of August
. st to me by the committee of
-tchell DaVis Post, No: 182,
'"tor. against the organization of
cs, UI "e Ku Klux Klan in this
Ia rml . ... - . . .
jr --v iu your. letter l wisn to
jjj -uuiinmee mat as long
iiCnfa "ayor f the city of
w will take evprv nnssible
j-, Prevent the usurpation of
"Ofdfcs pnvueges,
l5 of race, creed or color.
j l shall use all my official
trjj . Wart the progress of any
5s r uestgnea to upset the
leJ S that udst 'm Trcn"
jjj - -U1 wmie ana coiorcu
anfu. am strngly against the.
of any 9n tw aw-
N
and Cities and Unfurling
on the Ramparts in
and West.
tion and the law of the land, and this
duty justifies organization of citizens
to give aid when necessary to the
formal agencies of government and
to create that sentiment of loyalty
upon which the proper functioning
of such agencies depends."
Some of the Grand Wizards or
Dragons of the Klan claim that it
was reorganized largely for the pur
pose of protecting the virtue or the
chastity of white women from the
ravishments of colored men, which is
all hog wash, for less than .two
months ago a mob of Ku Klux Klans,
at least they claimed to be such,
rushed into a hotel in a small town
in Texas, seized a white woman and
bodily threw her into an auto, drove
some ten miles into a wild country
and when the machine came to a halt
three or four thousand men or white
figures who had already assembled
formed a circle and the white woman
was ushered into the center of it and
in the presence of those three or four
thousand fiends of the infernal re
gions, the white woman was stripped
naked from head to feet and after
she had been tried by the mock
court which had been set up by the
members of the Klan and found
guilty of committing bigamy she
was tarred and feathered and then
she was permitted to wander forth
upon the face of the earth in all of
her shame or disgrace and humilia
tion. It is enough to cause the bright
shining angels in the high heavens to
weep long and loud when such re
volting specimens of humanity set
themselves up as the sole protectors
of the virtue or the chastity of the
white womanhood of America.
The Ku Klux Klan proudly
marched through the streets of Con
roe, Texas recently and one of the
inscriptions on one of their banners
was "We want no mulatto children.
That inscription was enough to cause
the boss devil to crack his sides with
laughter. When we take into con
sideration the fact that for more
than two hundred and fifty years
that the vast majority of the
southern white gentlemen have
been working over time in order to
increase the mulatto population in
that section of the country and at the
present time ninety per cent of all
the bastard children born to the most
repulsive looking colored women
throughout the Southland are the off
spring cf white gentlemen.
.. ifrrrnrial distrust or friction
and your committee may rely upon
my active support at an uuiw -
vent the fomenting of such a condi
tion in Trenton.
..im.:- :- in., nosition: and if you
care to give this letter to the public
press you arc at liberty to do so.
Very truly yours,
Frederick W. Donnelly.
Mayor.
PREACHER TARRED AND
FEATHERED.
. , - ,- TT K. K. confined
AS long - .,-
its hellish deeds to brandiog. tn
hipping and lynchin, c0red
people, the white press had little : to
say about that criminal hanj. But
hear them howl wncn i"- -ged
white woman, ta"cd
,-n. - -hitP oreacher! Their
strong.denundation of the crimes im
mediately calls tne n --
law to get busy; reso.uu- --- '
titions have been sen to the a
county and state officials and they
in turn have taken steps to Pt the
Klan out of business. Th
show how much depends upon the
color of one's skin as JJJ
not the press and the law wm
to extinguish the Klan.
Human
KLAN IS WARNED BY GOV.
BLAINE OF BADGER
STATE.
Answers Protests on the Organiza
tion. raflicnn. Wis. PIcdec has been
made by Gov. Blaine in a letter to
Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwau
kee, that if the Ku Klux Klan in Wis
consin, "or its membership, violated
the law, the entire power of the state
will be used to protect the people in
their liberty and their security."
The governor has received a peti
tion signed by a large number of Mil--trr
citizens and another sighed
by Maj. J. G. Joachim of Kenosha,
in which it is urged that he use ms
influence to prevent the organization
of the Klan in Wisconsin.
"With such a record as the Ku
Klux Klan had during the period fol
lowing the civil war, and steeped in
crime as the Klan was, do you think
that any liberty loving, law abiding
sensible citizen of Wisconsin is go
ing to join an order that is alleged
to be a counterpart of the Klan of
rebel davs. if in fact it is?" the gov
ernor says in his letter. "I cannot
engage in the presumption that the
Klan will engage in violence or
crime. I must indulge them the
same presumption under our consti
tution that is granted others.
..rr r nrrmit me to say that
as governor. I must make the pledge
that, if its mcmbersnip y ""
. . .u. ...,:. oower of the state will
law c -"- , .
be used to protect the people m their
liberty and tneir sewj.
"I must also suggest that the com
mission of any overt act or any va
lence by members of any organiza
tion may, as a legal conclusion, m-
Blood
HON. GEORGE F. HARDING, JR.
The Best and the Ablest City Comptroller that Chicago Has Ever
Had, Whose Honesty and Straight-Forward Business Career for
More Than Thirty Years in This City Has Never Been Ques
tioned, Who Is Assisting His Many Colored Friends to Raise
One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Fort Dearborn
Hospital.
plicate and hold guilty the entire
membership if a general conspiracy
is proven.
"If Ku Klux Klan of today is like
the Ku Klux Klan of rebel davs. it
has no place in Wisconsin."
OUST PROFESSOR KERLIN FOR
LETTER TO ARKANSAS
GOVERNOR.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 70
Fifth avenue. New York, has an
nounced receipt of news that Robert
T. Kcrlin, professor of English at
Virginia Military Institute, and au
thor of "The Voice of the Xegro,"
had been expelled from hi;- position
because of a letter he wrote to the
Governor of Arkansas asking him to
review the cases of the Xegro far
mers sentenced to death in conncctipn
with the Arkansas riots.
In the letter Professor Kerlin wrote
to the Governor of Arkansas, , he
stated that the Xegro farmers of Ar
kansas, were the victims of peonage;
that they had neither instigated nor
begun the riots as was shown in the
trial before the Arkansas 'Supreme
Court, that they had armed them
selves only after being threatened and
molested: and that the convicted Xe
gro farmers had been tortured by
whipping and an electric chair during
their trials to make them testify as
the white landlords wanted them to.
"The time will come," said Profes
sor Kerlin's letter, "when the world
with full knowledge of this will be
revolted by such Congo barbarity."
Because of his championship of
these victims of Arkansas "justice,"
Professor Kerlin was handed a reso
lution passed by the Board of Visitors
of Virginia Military Institute, asking
for his immediate resignation. Pro
fessor Kerlin refused to resign and
the board of visitors thereupon passed
another resolution depriving him of
bis professorship.
Throughout the South
All Sections
REFUSES JOB ON
INDUSTRY BOARD.
Aid. Robert R. Jackson, alderman
from the old Second ward, has indi
cated that he will not accept his ap
pointment by Gov. Small as a mem
ber of the Illinois industrial commis
sion at a salary of $5,000 a year.
"I find that my business affairs will
not permit me to give the time to the
commission which would be neces
sary," Aid. Jackson has stated.
Aid. Jackson is placed in the new
Third ward by the fifty-ward plan.
He is regarded as the Lundin
Thompson leader of the ward. He
has served sixteen years in various
elective positions.
CLEVELAND, OHIO,
AGAINST-THE KLAN.
Cleveland. Cleveland's city coun
cil and Mayor William S. Fitzgerald
are on 'record today as unalterably
opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, a local
branch of which, it has been an
nounced, is beiifg organized here.
A resolution condemning the or
ganization received the unanimous ap
proval of council, while Mayor Fitz
gerald denounced the organization as
a "hotbed for stirring up race and
religious prejudice."
DAUGHERTY HALTS
KLUX KLAN INQUIRY.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Attorney Gener
al Harry M. Daugherty wired the
Department of Justice at Washing
ton to take no further steps in the
investigation 6f the Ku Klox Klan
until "further advised by him."
Their Banners.
MAYOR SMITH DENOUNCES KU
KLUX KLAN; DECLARES IT IS A
MENACE; CANNOT ENTER LOUIS
VILLE, KY., IF LAW WILL PREVENT.
Mayor Gcorsje Weissingcr Smith
cheered the hearts of Colored Louis
ville Monday when he came out in
a flat-footed statement denouncing
Ku Kluxism and declaring it could
not get a foothold in Louisville, if he
could prevent it.
The statement which i remarkably
clear and clean cut follows:
"For several months past there
have been rumors of attempts to or
ganize a branch of the order known
as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
in Louisville. These efforts have
been discouraged by officials and
private citizens. An advertisement
has recently appeared in Louisville
newspapers announcing the proposed
organization of such a branch.
"From newspaper accounts of the
workings of this order in Southern
cities recently convinced that such an
organization would be a menace to
the peace and good understanding be
tween the people of Louisville. The
alleged purport is to back up law en
forcement: its real purpose is to
arouse the old race prejudice of re
construction days. It is promoted by
paid organizers and is not a patriotic
organization.
"The order advertises for 100 per
cent Americans, but in its actual
workings it violates the principles of
Constitutional government by taking
into its own hands the powers of
courts and executives. In the dis
guise of a law supporter it counte
nances crimes as horrible as those it
seeks to punish.
COMMODORE PECK, HONOR
ARY PRESIDENT, CHICAGO
WOMAN'S BAND
Commodore Ferdinand Peck, Chi
cago's oldest native-born citizen,
born in '48, has not curbed his in
domitable, restless, creative genius.
Not satisfied with "conquering" kings
of Europe, as he did preceding
the World's Fair, gaining uniform
support of that enterprise from
abroad; not satisfied with the concep
tion and erection of the first Con
federate monument in the North; not
satisfied with being the "Father of
Grand Opera" in promoting the Opera
Festival of 1885 in the Old Exposi
tion Building on the Lake front; not
satisfied with the creation of the fa
mous Auditorium of Chicago, nor
with the great American commercial
caravan he led to the Paris Exposi
tion of 1900; not stopping with the
successes following in his wake in the
founding of many other Chicago pub
lic institutions of gigantic propor
tions, the insatiable energy of Com
modore Peck has impelled him to a
part in Mayor Thompson's recent
Pageant of Progress, the shining
light of which was the Chicago Wo
man's Band which has been breathed
into active, public being by the com
modore. This leader of men and
things swung this band into the pa
rade preceding the pageant where, re
splendent in their crimson capes,
skirts and turbans, 160 girls, com
posing the band, proved the great at
traction of the Pageant of Progress
and continued their daily attractive
ness midst the plaudits of the gath
ered multitudes at that great event
of the
"The good citizens of Louisville arc
able and willing to back up the con
stituted agencies of law enforcement
peace officers and the courts, and
do not need the doubtful assistance of
an order, the very name of which re
calls bitterness and bloodshed.
"The Colored people of Louisville
are in the main law-abiding citizens.
They have been quick to condemn
even those of their own race who
have not respected law and they have
assisted the police in apprehending
offenders and have helped in their
prosecution. Negroes who violate
the law, just as white men do so, can
be controlled by the peace officers,
as always has been done in Louis
ville, without clash or race prejudice.
"Because I believe this organiza
tion to be a menace, I shall use every
lawful means to prevent and suppress
its growth in our community, as long
as I am Mayor there will be no Ku
Klux Klan in Louisville.
"Geo. Weissinger Smith,
Mayor."
Mayor Smith is a true blue Amer
ican and he has the moral courage to
talk out straight from the shoulder in
relation to that class of colored peo
ple who violate the established laws ;
of Louisville, Kentucky, and the Ku
Klux Klan has only been revived fop
the sole purpose of racial strife, bit
terness and bloodshed.
Mayor Smith deserves to be highly
commended for assuming a bold
stand against the Ku Klux Klans and
in favor of law and order. Editor.
No musical institution of Chicago has
gained a place in the hearts of Chi
cagoans more quickly than has this
band. From its general director,
John S. Grccnwalt, its charming con
ductor, Miss Miriam Grccnwalt, its
stately, graceful drum major, Miss
Ruth Sinclair, down to the last of the
twenty drummers, the organization
is thoroughly loyal to Chicago and
loves the musical harmony it can pro
duce and will continue to produce to
please the cars of its thousands of
hearers wherever they play.
Commodore Peck predicts that the
band will soon be world-famous. En
gagements arc awaiting them at
"White City," Milwaukee and In
dianapolis, and applications for en
gagements are coming in daily. The
organization is incorporated under
the laws of the State of Illinois and
at a meeting held recently in the
office of Commodore Peck the fol
lowing officers were selected:
Honorary President Ferdinand
W. Peck.
President Mrs. Samuel S. Hut
chinson. Vice-President W. N. Horner.
Manager and Secretary Mrs. K. C.
Raclin.
Corresponding Secretary Mrs.
Ferdinand W. Pirnat.
General Director John S. Green
wait Conductor Miss Miriam Green
wait Trustees
Mrs. Samuel S. Hutchinson, W. N.
Horner, Mrs. Jacob Baur, Mrs. Jean
Prescott Adams, Mrs. Walter Lyt
ton, John S. Greenwalt, Mrs. K. C
Raclin.
The band is also sponsored by the
Illinois Women's Athletic Club and'
Mayor William Hale Thompson is
Honorary member.
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