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Show iVERKS IN VERBAL CUS I Merits and Dangers of Klan Organization Cause Flurry WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.. Dec. 15. State executives attending attend-ing the fourteenth annual conference Of governors here turned from their conference discussions todav to an inspection in-spection of coal mines near Beckley, after engaging at midnight in the first flurry of debate which has marked tho session. Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan were the two questions which brought B clash of views when the meeting was thrown open to debate shortly before be-fore mldnlcht after an address by Governor Olcott of Oregon. In which he assailed the klan as a national menace. ADVISES MODERATION Governor Morrison of North Carolina, Caro-lina, taking the floor, declared he opposed op-posed introduction into the conference Of either the klan or prohibition questions, ques-tions, which previously had been brought up by Governor Parker of Louslana In an address1 In which he declared prohibition was almost a farce and that the klan should bo curbed by federal legislation. Wlille he did not mean to defend the klan, and deplored its possible danger to the country In arousing the spirit of religious Intolerance and racial ra-cial fooling, Governor Morrison said ho could relate many acts of benevolence benevo-lence attributed to the secret organisation. organisa-tion. TWO KINDS OF M SKS Governor Kilby of Alabama asked how It was possible to argue with a masked man Mr Morrison replied that highwaymen were masked, but that the stales knew how to argue with them. oo |