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Mayor WilliamsReiterates HisStand on Klanm-ith j»n- jng I’HS jho ith jtor ; .-----ip. Mayor „f I*' William?5 gave the lie to ! direct to a Ku Klux Klan speaker, ir- i quoted as telling several thousand ike i peoplo in JSioux Falls Saturday nightur i that Mayor Williaria had “hogged the Klan to come back to Mitchell and iat ask for the use of the Corn Palace ig- I again. The statement of the un-Lp_ known Klan speaker was made at a nd j meeting of the Klan southeast of ig- j Sioux Falls at Split Hock creek, the by ! occasion being the initiation of a nd number of klansnien.“I have not changed a particle in regard to the Klan'*, Mayor Wil-on ! Uams declared this morning. “There mi | Isn’t a scintilla of truth in the state-; ment the Klan speaker made in ip- I which he said I had begged the klann- to come back to Mitchell. I don’t he believe the K. K. K. Ifas a place in of America and I know’ it hasn’t a place nd in Mitchell. The speaker told a deliberate* lie when he said I wantedhis organization to come back. If the?r-rmfa- j whole council vo*.ed in favor of al-of 1 lowing the Klan to use the Corn Pal-ith i ace and I had the power of veto, I would veto such a decision.“If the Klan does come back to of | Mitchell, T have only one thing to k- say and that H that the members irs j had better be careful and keep well a j within the law.’* ialnon-1 One person in every niae in theit* United State* owns an autaOnbil*
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Mitchell Evening Republican
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Mon, Jun 02, 1924
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