Show I CONVENTION OF KLAN IS CALLED IMPERIAL GIANT WANTS KU KLUX KLAN TO CLEAN HOUSE AT ONCE Meeting Is Suggested For Atlanta By Leaders Leders Claims Principles Have All Been Abandoned Atlanta Ga E. E. E Y V. Clarke imper- imper al lal giant has hns issued a call for tor a ann ann- national na national na- na congress of ot the Ku Klux Klan to meet in Atlanta on February 20 G to gather together and prayerfully consider consider consider con con- sider methods to eliminate existing evils or else to follow the example of the founder of the original Ku Klux Kan and have the tue courage and manhood manhood man- man hood lood to devise ways and means for forthe forthe forthe the Immediate disbandment of at the or- or gani atlon Mr Ir proclamation calls attention attention at at- to tho the organization of the klan klanO O on July 4 1916 by William Joseph Simmons now emperor and says that these laudable alms aims ideals principles principles ples pies and purposes have havo apparently been jeen al abandoned by the tho klan and the organization has become one with u-ith lawless a tendencies and political do- do sign and that the end of tho the bitter war between the emperor and Imperial Im Im- Im wizard is not in sight With the above aboe conditions existing and with tho the federal government and the courts of ot the land becoming in increasingly increasingly In in- alarmed over the situation situation situation situa situa- tion Mr Ir Clarkes Clarke's proclamation says that It behooves klansmen of all an ranks and stations to gather to together ether and consider means menns of at eliminating existing evils e or else disbandment of the organization The proclamation which Is signed E Y Y Clarke Imperial Giant imperial imperial im im- im- im penal Wizard Emeritus states that all an officials of the tho klan re regardless ardless of factional differences or aJl alignments ments take the necessary steps to see that every ery klan kan in the this nation is fa represented represent represent- ed by uy one or more delegates IncludIng including including ing cyclops of each klan It adds that the emperor and ImperIal imperial im Im- irn- irn penal wizard of the organization will willlie he lie asked to be in Atlanta at this time and to hold themselves in readiness to come before the national convention convention conven conven- tion in case that body so desires at atan an any time during its Ita session which it itIs itis itis is now contemplated will last for at least two full days The Imperial proclamation was addressed to all grand dragons hydras hydras hy hy- dras grand titans furies cyclops terrors king Imperial Imperial Im Im- im- im penal representatives and citizens of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan William IllIam J. J Simmons is emperor of the klan and II 11 V. W. Evans Eans Is Imperial wizard |