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Show kuIlux klan mm in suit CITY EDITOR OF EL PASO TIMES BRINGS ACTION FOR DAMAGES Arti:'e Declaring Newspaper Man Was Placed in Ja:i for Driving Car While Intoxicated, Intoxi-cated, Cited El I'r.so, Tex. The Ku Klux Klan is named in a suit for $ro.O0O damages filed in st .te court here Tuesday ly Hal F. Kelley, city editor of the El l';.so Times. C L. Simians, S. J. Issacks. Charles PeGvoff, J. A. Borders, J. M. Crawford Craw-ford and W. J. Moran, named in the petition as defendants, "with many ethers whose names are unknown to the plaintiff." are alleged to he publishers pub-lishers of a weekly "sheet" known as the Frontier Klansman. It is alleged that Simians, who "purports to he the owner and editor of the Frontier Klansman, is hired hy the defendants, and the defendants are resp msible for the acts complained complain-ed about." W. J MOran is alleged in the petition peti-tion to be the owner of the printing establishment "where the sheet" is published. It is further alleged that the "organization "or-ganization meets in the dark and secret se-cret and refuses to disclose the names of its members, while at the same time it makes claim that its members, are all 100 per cent Americans: that it poses as a power for good and that it claims an all-seeing eye; that instead in-stead of being a power for good in the community, it has had the opposite op-posite effect in this community, and that where before there existed a spirit of harmony and cooperation there is now suspicion and distrust." C. L. Simians is named as one of the few who admits his membership and calls himself "kligeraph," and as such has charge of the roster of membership. |