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Show QUAKER CITY MAYOR , CLOSES "CLANSMAN" Convinced .that ifca -intention. - of "Tha Clansman." tha play which opened at tha Wahiat' Street Theater. - in Philadelphia, la tn lntnlt fh racial tistrad between tha white-men and the aegroea, and that it haa a tendency to incite to riot. Mayor Weaver, after- hearing the statements of representative represen-tative negroes and the managers of tha play. Instructed Director McKenty to sea that tha play la not produced again. Mayor Weaver's action in closing the play was largely due to the fact that ha baa-been baa-been informed that tha agitation among tha colored men of that city waa started by tha agente of the show for the purpose of advertising adver-tising the production. The Mayor declared that he had been Informed that booklets, describing tb play, had been sent by messenger mes-senger boys to promluent negro clergymen at midnight a short time- ago. for the purpose pur-pose of arousing their antagonism. "The Clansman" was presented there laat spring for four weeks and a aimlalr protest was made , to the Mayor by prominent colored col-ored men. At that time the managers of the play were represented before the Mayor by the law firm of Edmonds A Mason, composed of Franklin Spencer Edmonds, chairman of the city party city committee, and William Clark Mason, who Is a city party candidate for the State Senate in West Philadelphia. Owing to the fact that there - waa - no' public demonstration tha Mayor permitted tha production to go on. A delegation of more than a hundred colored men. some of whom have achieved ; national prominence. . called on Mayor Weaver Wea-ver and asked blm to suppress "The Clans- BM-" : - |