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KLU KLUX KLAN r PARADE HEREHAND BILLS DISTRIBUTED— PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION EXPLAINED.neoRev. Blair, from parts unknown, appeared at the band stand in Mon-ticello at the appointed time Wednesday night - of last week and for two hours expounded tlfeprinciples of the Ku Klux KlatL crowd that had assei him. An air of mystei the affair and noyeyei-ieitv %dl-rs ote ithe speaker appe|ri*d fRAcconr-panied on the band stand and started his address and at the conclusion disappeared as mysteriously as he had come.The speaker spoke at some length on the history of the Klan movement and stated that at present they have a membership of more than 300.000 in Indiana. He said that the only difference between the Ku Klux Klan and any other secret order was that the other orders made their membership known and kept their principles and oaths secret N! while the Klan made their oaths and 11 principles public but kept their 1,1 ; membership secret. The speaker n*, used as his text a card on which ig . were printed the allegei] principles i'. | for which the Ku Klux Klan stands.! Chief among these were white su-i premaey, law enforcement, support ; of Christian religion, curtailment of { foreign immigration, and strength-ening of the public school system.Handbills were distributed about town last Tuesday evening announcing a Ku Klux Klan parade to be held in Monticello Wednesday evening and at press time Wednesday afternoon considerable excitement is apparent on the streets as the people look forward to seeing i- a robed parade about which they if- halve heard so much in other towns, ck
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Monticello Herald
Monticello, Indiana, US
Thu, May 03, 1923
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William C.
IN, USA 31 Jan 2018
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