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Mayor WilliamsReiterates HisStand on KlanOIMayor J oirrct to a^ ! irii i-f 1 honFv William^ gave the lie Ku Klux Kian speaker, quoted a* telling several thousand people in Sioux Falls Saturday night that Mayor Williaris had “hogged the Klan to rome back to Mitchell andthe use of the Corn Palaceof theask foragain’ . The statement ot tno unknown Klan speaker was made at a meeting of the Klan southeast of Sioux Falls at Split Kock creek, theoccasion Fteing the initiation of a number of klansmen.“I have not changed a particle in regard to the Klan *, Mayor Williams declared this morning. “There isn’t a scintilla of truth in the statement the Klan speaker made !n which he said I had begged the klanto come back to Mitchell. I don’tbelieve the K. K. K. Ifas a place in America and I know* it hasn’t a place in Mitchell. The speaker told a deliberate' lie when he said I wanted his organization to come back. If the whole council voted in favor of allowing the Klan to use the Corn Palace and I had the power of veto, Iwould veto such a decision.“If the Klan does come back to Mitchell, I have only one thing to say and that i« that the members had better be careful and keep well within the law.”OneUnitedpersonState*in every nine in theowns an auUOftbfl*
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Mitchell Evening Republican
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Mon, Jun 02, 1924
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