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Show WHITE LAUGHS IfJOllLOPS HOODED BAND Turns Over Page of Emporia Em-poria Gazette to Klan Organ Or-gan Calling Him All Species Y of Scoundrel EMPORIA, Kan.. Aur. 4 (Br V. P.) William Allen Whits donned a editorial -night ehlrf a disguise dis-guise today to taks'a last wallop at hi special nmr, th Ku Klui Klan, before departing for Ma mountain cabin la Colorado. White waa chuckling aa ha left, for ha believed ha had slipped ana ovar on tha klan, who harpooned him by sleeting lhelr candidate for mayor of Emporia laat spring. Tha Emporia Gaiatta. White's pa par, received a eopy of "Tha Fish Hook, a. klan organ, published In Enid, Okla, In which) tha sags of Emporia ta fnad'mAtfof Tha namaa In tha dictionary and soma that ara not. BILL SNICKERS, Instead of throwing tha paper In the waste basket. Whits clipped the most vllsl parts snd ordered them printed. Interspersing ths reprints with comment as the following: "The hose Is In Colorado. While hs Is hie he won't let us print things aJwut him that other editors write. But hers Is an editorial that tella so much truth about him tn such sueelclent tsngusgs and nt the asms time photographs him aa we who eee him every day know him, that ws have decided to risk getting fired snd print it." LOTS OP PEP. Ths article la from tha Fish Hook, the official organ ef the Ku Klux Klan and one who reads It can understand un-derstand tha enthusiasm and Injustice In-justice of ths membership of ths nobis organisation. "Tha downtrodden and oppressed fores on ths Gasette that haa to live with this old wrangdoodls and listen to hla preterbaolous scandu-latlona, scandu-latlona, haa felt for some time the town ought to have the truth about him. But It took tha editor ef the Fish Hook to say It. "The culernacloue old hypsrchle-rlds hypsrchle-rlds certainly can't fire the whole force when be comes back, and ws are so giving the people of this man's town a large chunk of truth for the first time In thirty years, "Extra papers may be had at the office for five cents each snd If we Increase ths receipts to 10 to TO per cent the greedy old plodder will probably thank ua He la the kind of an affercaactpue old salamander who would spread storteo about his own family to peluvsrats In tha lg-altoua lg-altoua profits." |