KU KLUX KLAN SHOWS POLITICAL POWER IN INDIANA VOTE
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Activity of Ku Klux Threat
ens to Obscure More Vi
tal Issues, Sulli
van Says.
Beveridge Was Victim
By MARK SULLIVAN.
One of the Influence# that will af
fect the election# next year Is the
Ku Klux Klan. It Is not necessary
to Infer that the Klan as a nation
wide organisation can or will try to
throw lta Influence In favor of one
of the presidential candidates as
against the other. Ther# la practi
cally no probability that the person
alities of the two candidates will be
such as to give occasion to this kind
of prejudiced discrimination. It Is
conceivable that the platform' of one
party or the other may contain a
plank either denouncing the Ku Klux
Klan specifically or denouncing the
kind of thing It Hands for. Such a
plank In either platform might lead
to the lining up of the adheren*s of
the .Klan one way and those who
disapprove the Klan the other way
But it ie not necessary to anticipate
this sort of thing. Quite aside from
anything like this, ths Klan will un
doubtedly figure largely, sometimes
on the republican side and sometimes
on the democratic side. In local elec
tions for congressman and senator.
Some of the states In which the Klan
Is particularly powerful are doubtful
ones. Indiana, for example.
Indiana last year the Klan was
(^partly responsible for defeating one
of the best men who ran for the
senate In any state that year, name
ly, Albert J. Beveridge. It was not
that the Klan disapproved of Bev
©ridge. Nothing In Beveridges rec
ord or associations Incurred their
prejudice. They had nothing against
him. If the election had been held
over again a' month later the Klan
might as readily have voted In fa
vor of Beveridge. What the Klan
happened to do was a haphazard
fluke. But. combined with other
things, it was Just enough to defeat
Beveridge.
The circumstances were these: Just
a few days before the election Got.
Henry J. Allen of Kansas, an old
progressive party associate of Bev
eridge, came Into Indiana to deliver
some speeches In Beveridge's behalf.
It happened that only a little while
before Allen, as governor of Kansas,
tad denounced tha Klan, using the
/lgoroue language of which he Is
:apable, In the same manner In which
nany other governors and other pub
lic men have expressed their disap
proval of the menace to some funda
mental American conceptions of gov
;rnment Involved In the Klan’s activ
ity It Just happened also that the
^■t!fc.icular Indiana towns where Gov
ernor Allen was booked for hla
speeches were towns In which the
Klan had recently organized and had
secured considerable bodies of adher
ents. In these Indiana speeches Gov
trnor Allen aga n denounced the Klan,
aking it as one of his topics, just aa
he took up other public matter* then
current.
The Immediate reaction of the Klan
member* In these communities was to
take the first opportunity to show
their resentment. Aa often happens
when action is determined by a tem
porary emotion the expression of re
sentment was erratic. They wanted
to vent their resentment against Al
ien's speech on somebody and they
took It out vicariously on Beveridge.
It was all quite without relevance
to Beveridge or any issue with which
Beveridge was associated. But the
thing happened so clese to the elec
tion that It was lmposslbl* to over
come its effect.
In the election* next year there will
undoubtedly be cases like this and
other cases worse—cases In which the
Klan will deliberately and avowedly
vote as a body against some candi
dates and In favor of others.
All this la as unfortunate as possi
ble. The activity of the klan. Its very
existence—and, let us not omit to add,
the things, some real and some Imag
ined, which give rise to those preju
dices on which ths klan thr.ves—all
fcjhis constitutes one of the least happy
^TPSpecta of present-day American life.
Where ths situation raised by the ex
istence and activity of the klan la
clear, where It Is a simple Issue be
tween the klan and the fundamental
organlzat.on of our democracy, there
; i no duty on the part of the conscien
tious citizen except to put h!» voice
and hla vote on the antl-klsn side.
And yet, If you find any good man
who is m member of the klan or an
advocate of It or an apologist for It—
and In some commun.tles you can
find good men who either are mem
bers of the klan or have sympathy for
some of Its principles—If you talk to
such a man and If you practice
toward him the spirit of toleration
which we all demand he shall practice
toward the rest of us. you will be
led to feel that It would be useful
to make an expsrlment in frankness
and clarification.
It la clearly wise to accord to such
men the spirit of tolerance we de
mand from them. If they are In any
degree Intolerant the best antidote
and disinfectant for Intolerance Is
tolerance. Clearly the most of the
newspapers and magazines, as well as
most others which have discussed ths
klan at all. havs gone at it rather
too hammer-and-tongs. The fact that
the klan has gone on and grown In
some proof of that. It la proof also,
or at least It suggests that there
may be something vital and appealing
somewhere In an Institution which
has been able to survive such severe
onslaughts from ths outside, as well
aa such obviously detestable condl
-' -Tone as thers have been In some
t parts of its own organization.
If you talk to a man who tends to
be sympathetic with the klan, or at
least who Is moved tp refrain from
outright denunciation of It, he will
tell you that, ststert broadly, one of
Ita main purposes ia ta maintain
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American tradition* against alien In
fluences—alien Influences in business,
In art. In literature, on the stage
and In the movies, In religion. In poli
tics and in the schools. The south
ern or western smalltown sympa
thizer with the klan has got the Idea
—In wjjlch he has not the Information
to distinguish among the truth, the
half-truth and the no-truth—that the
American stage Is almost wholly In
spired, managed and dominated from
New York, and that New York Is not
an American c ty and does not reflect
Americsn Ideals or traditions. He has
the same Idea about New York fur
nishing the models and leadership of
the country In ths world of the
movies, of nrt, of fiction writing and
fiction publish ng, the world of the
newspapers and magazines, the world
of finance and business.
In support of this sort of loose
thesis the klan sympathizer will quote
to you a recent warning uttered by
Secretary of Labor Davis to the ef
fect that "American Ideals and Insti
tutions threaten to be submerged be
neath a tidal wave of old world Im
migrants, bringing old world Ideas."
To the persons who read this utter
ance from Secretary Davis It sounds
pretty convincing. Especially does it
sound convincing to people In smaller
towns and cities In the south and
west, where the population Is prevail
ingiy native American in greater pro
portion than It le In the large cities
of ths east. It Is In these native
American'communities that the klan
has had Its greatest growth, and the
chief reason for that growth Is the
sense of alarm about American Ideals
and Institutions which Is voiced by
Secretary Davis. To the man on the
country road this expression of senti
ment from Secretary Davis carries
conviction. He knows that Secretary
Davis Is the official In charge of im
migration and Is therefore In the
best position to have the greatest
quantity and the most accurate kind
of Information about the aliens who
are coming Into America and the ef
feet they threaten to have on Amer
ican life. Further than this, he
knows that Secretary Davis Is him
self an Immigrant, having come ns a
boy from Wales, and Is therefore pre
sumably the less susceptible to be
moved by a'sense of danger or to give
expression, to a sense of danger un
less he sees It clearly and feels It
strongly. (Perhaps It should be added
that neither the Ku Klux Klan speci
fically nor the' antl-lmmlgratlon senti
ment generally has In mind the sort
of Immigrant Secretary Davis was.
The prejudice against Immigration
and the alarm about i alien Influence
on America are not directed against
the older Immigration that came from
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland.
Scandinavia or even from Germany.
If all our recent Immigration had been
coming from those countries we would
not now have any Ku Klux Klan In
the form In which It exists nor any
considerable antl-lmmlgratlon senti
ment. Everybody familiar with the
present state of feeling In America
who can be frank with himself and
with others knows that our present
anil alien sentment Is directed
against other races who corns from
eastern and southeastern Europe,and
who in recent years have corns enor
mously to exceed the older Immigration
with which we were familiar In the
past and which we have assimilated
; so successfully that we hardly ever
distinguish between It and the native
American stock.)
The man with whom you talk, the
man who has come to a mood In
which ha refuses to denounce the Ku
Klux Klan unreservedly, if he Is a
man of Intelligence, of Ideas and large
Information, will throw a good deal
of light on that oddly assorted body
of prejudices, suspicions and half
truths which animates many who
Join the klan. He will tell you among
other things that the sentiment which
sets up the Klan as an irregular ve
hide for the extra-legal, and some
times dangerously Illegal, expression
of opinion may lie In the feeling that
the political parties, the newspapers,
the courts, the legislatures and other
Institutions which constitute the regu
larly accepted vehicles of American
public opinion sometimes give a sense
of falling to function adequately
enough to make up ths Ku Klux
Klan, and even to others who would
never Join that kind of organization,
but have emotions not dlssimllai
about soma things that go on in
America.
When that Kabotschnlck family In
Philadelphia, having a wholly legitl
mat* desir# to shorten their name to
a form easier for Americans to under
stand and spell, honored the Cabot
family of Bofcton by asking the court
recently to let them assume that an
clent Boeton name It wss, ns reported
In the newspapers at the time, an ob
servable and possibly not negligibly
significant phenomenon of present
American life that the court dismissed
the objections of the Cabots tor rathei
the objections of the Society of Som
of the Revolution, for apparently It
was this old American institution, and
not merely the Cabot family, which
set up the objections in court). Also
it was observed that the reaction ol
the newspapers in the eastern cities
took the form of humorous Jibing at
*he Cabot famllr. One wondered, in
the first place, whether the Kabot
schnicks might not have been at on*
and the same time more conslderat*
of the rights of others and more con
scious of self-respect In themselve*
if they had spelled it with a “K.'
More deeply than this, one wonders
what may have been the reflections
of a good many American* on the de
rlslon of the court, and especially on
the attitude of the newspapers
whether these reflection* may have
included the thought that perhap* th«
r„.. ,,r,«-^rs and other Institutions of
the larger eastern cities reflect the
i v*i.a those cities are prevailingly
alien more truly than they express
o'-’de in American traditions. Since
Ibe action of the court presumably
.. * ow u.,xiued l>y me law—or more
accurately poeslbly by the absence
of a law covering the ettuatlon—per
hap* the kind of man who sees some
Justification for the klan reflected
that some lawmaking bodies, out of
deference to the presence of bodies of
alien voters, fan to pass precisely
those laws which the members of the
klan think ought to be passed. From
many angles this episode, though
small In Itself, Is Illustrative. I bus
pect that the majority of native Arner
leans have almost as much pride In
these old American names, long and
honorably prominent In our country's
history, and In the American tradl
tlons with which they are Identified
as do the bearers of the naanes them
selves.
One may be permitted to guess that
this Kabotschnlck episode did not
help much toward suppressing the
Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, any one
familiar with the resourcefulness and
Ingenuity of the salesmen might as
sume that those agents who sell
membership In the Klan at SO many
dollars commission per membership
pasted these clippings In their pros
pectuses as, to use the vernacular of
salesmanship, ‘‘a fine selling point,”
and counted It a good day.
If soma of the principles and many
of the practices of the Klan were not
so clearly of a sort that they cannot
be countenanced with safety to democ
racy and the orderly process of law
—If It were not for that, one m ght
listen with some patience to the Klan
sympathizer who argues that a man
who wishes to Impress hts ideas on
the community has as much right to
organize a group who believe with
him as any other citizen has to start
a newspaper or to organize a good
'government league or to make him
self head of the local precinct re
publican committee.
It Is quite true that there Is al
ways a field beyond the field of stat
ute law, a field of common custom
and commonly held beliefs, In which
there la recogn zed propriety In or
ganizing for political action or other
wise for the Informal expression of
widely held standards about the cots
duct of men in their relation to others,
for the maintenance of traditions, for
a kind of Informal censorsh.p or
reproval of any sort of conduct that
is • pugnant to the community gen
erally.
Bui when the Klan sympathizer ar
gues this way the obvious answer Has
In two aspects of the Klan which are
not common to other organizations
that aim to impress themselves on the
! community. One is tha aecrecy; the
other Is the wearing of the hood, the
cover.ng of the face. As to the latter,
the honest Klan member tries to e*
plaln that it is immaterial, that It waa
of the devices of the old Klan of
60 years ago In ths south to lm
press tha Ignorant or superstitious
negro, and that this feature of tha
ritual Just happened to be taken over
with the rest by the organizers of tha
present Klan. Bui the fact Is, tha
wear.ng of the hood Is material In
practically all those present local ac
tlvlties of the new Klans which are
Illegal and not to be condoned. It la
the wearing of the hood that helps In
dividuals and local Klans to commit
crimes with the minimum danger of
detection. It Is the wearing of the
hood that enables Individuals and
groups to use the cover of the Klan
for the prosecution of private ven
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tlon that the klan tries to carry out
even those of Its purposes that are
justifiable, or at leaet no wore* than
debatable, anonymously—to thla ob
jection the klan member makee the
Ingenious answer that he In hie at
tempts to Influence public action is
no more anonymous than the writer
of newspaper editorial#, nor that fig
ure who Is so often alluded to as "the
man higher up" or the man In the
background of many bodies organized
for political or social action. In this
as In many aspects of any argument
you have with a man who seeks to
Justify the klan there la some alight
amount of half-truth. It all throws
light on the nature of the minds and
on the motives of some who join the
klan wdth sincere though only partly
Informed motives.
In all that Is said here there la no
Intention to deal with the essential
principles of the klan nor with the
men at the head of It. Some of them
may be good men; soma others of them
may be decidedly otherwise. One of
the early organizers of the klan was
a rather venerable old fellow who in
hla vague-minded, narrow-minded,
long-haired way had motive* entirely
sincere and completely unwordly.
One of the others who had a good deal
to do with the energetic spreading of
the klan appears to have been a de
cidedly less attractive type—In fact,
his name has been appearing In the
papers pretty frequently In rather
markedly odious connections. All that
however, Is a different story. The
present article does not concern Itself
with the leaders of the klan, nor with
Its methods of organization, nor with
those men—frequently very commer
cial-minded, one Is compelled to sus
pect—who make money through the
organized selling of memberships In
the league, who practice what has
been called the commercial exploita
tion of hate. All that, let It be re
peated. la another story. The present
article has In mind only the Individu
als who Join the klan—and only aotne
of them. Borne who Join the klan do
so because they eee In It an oppor
tunity for the prosecution of private
feuds In an Illegal and odious way.
Borne Join It In a spirit nothing short
of the most deplorable bigotry. But
the clear fact that must be conceded.
If we are to make any headway
through dealing with this widespread
prejudice In a spirit of calmness and
tolerance. Is that some others who
Join It are good men with motive#
that are sincere, even exalted. The
writer has been told by sources which
compel him to believe It that tn many
local communltbs, especially In the
south and west, the very best men in
the community belong to the klan
And It is with the attitude of mind
of this sort of man that the present
article deals.
Such a man In the eoursf of any
long conversation with you will tell
you, and will easily convince you,
that his motives personally are at
least unselfish. The salesmen of
memberships and those who organize
the salesmen and direct them may be
In It partly or wholly for the com
missions they earn and the various
financial “rake-off*’' incident to the
commercial side of the organization.
But the good man who pays his
money to these talesmen is obviously
quite without any selfish motive.
Such a man Indeed will tell you, and
will marshal a certain amount of
proof, that among all the organized
forces now aiming to have Influence
in American politics the Ku Klux
Klan Is almost stone in having no
selfish, material object. He will tell
you that the object of the farm bloc,
for example. Is to get more money
for Its members In the shape of high
er prices for crops, government credit
and the like. He will tell you that
the purpose of the labor unions In
trying to exert political pressure Is to
get higher wages. He will tell you
that even the American Legion haa
among the objects of It* political
action a cash bonus for Its member*.
He will cite other similar examples
until you And yourself almost tend
ing to admit that among all these
blocs and organized minorities the
two which have conspicuously an im
personal motive free from. material
consideration* are the Ku Klux Klan
and the Anti-Saloon league. In this,
as in any similar broad generalization,
there Is, of course, a certain amount
of specious half-truth.
Nothing of this kind should blind
any one to the fact that eome of the
principles of the klan are Inconsistent
with the American theory of democ
racy and government, and the fact
that some of the actions of some of
it# local groups are even more con
cretely odious. The Important point
Is that to the degree that honest men
with good motives are attracted by
some aspects of the klan they ahould
be provided by the political parties,
by the newspapers, by the courts and
legislature* and by the other more
orthodox vehicle* for the expression
of organized opinion with less excuse
for taking to this kind of group action
In order to get consideration for
those of their purposes that are legiti
mate.
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