The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1922 Page: 2 of 8

                                
Dr. J. B. Cranfill
Opposes Ku Kiux
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• df\ l. M .lories. Kter.vbqdy invited
Mi-. Flora Shelley, a siu.lfni at
Kidd Key ('allege al Sherman, spent
iSatiu da^ a ml Sunday w i r It |i t*r par
n lifif Mis.- la-la llainhiiek was
'la- -iif. i or Miss Shelley while she
w a here.
I S Rollater received the .sad
of Uif death ol his brother in
'dilahiniia The body arrived here
I in- 'I n and funeral services were
fiindlieied by Key. K. M Jones. Inter-
mi ni lollowed at Spring Greek ceme-
teiv The bereaved have the svin
I>itthy ol this conununitj    Mi    and
Mi • J VS’. l>oolf<v, Mis. VV. P. Yar-
hrough Mi and Mrs. A II Hartline
attended I tie funeral.
Those who waited to find the mil
come ol their oats have found that
they have no oats.
I Ik- Baptist church building is near
h' coinplclcd It will be a credit to
ihose who have worked so hard lor ii
as well as something lie- community
w ill be proud ol.
The I.allies Missionary Society of
I    In- Itapiist church gave a program al
llie Methodist church Sunday even-
ing,
I'lif hoys of tile Kenner and Hebron
■ cliools played ball Saturday after-
noon. I'lif score was four to five in
favor of Renner.
Dr. and Mrs, 0. T. Mitchell. Mr. and
•Mrs. (ieorge McLendon motored to
Mineral Wells Friday, all except ’Dr,
Mitchell returned Sunday. Dr. Mil
flit'll will remain several days
Mrs. Charley Wilson and Miss Jes-
sie Lee Vance, of i’lano, Mrs. L. \V
II    a n 1 i lit*, of Alien, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Holt pent Sunday with Mi and Mrs
A II ilarlline.
fDI -U | Lk|FF ol Fast land i oiilily |
hie • fled Ilia deputies li> sliuiil a 111 n j
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Frank lord Items
• i <Vi < • i A (uiet\r
Dilio when, caught stealing ......
Ihci: the sin l ilt, il consisienl, w ill
oidei his deputies lo shoot all oilier
Ddi - ■ caught stealing If all the
e In ri II s will do likewise we may be
able sol.lll lo tell u lie I lie I il eosls mole
to keep penitentiaries lot thieves or
hospitals ami cemeteries lor their ac
(omiiiodation. Thai may be luicresi
"0 .' a matter ol economy
of humanity but that r. mu
liurlant in Ibis progressive age
ni.it
Dl! CI!AN FI LL'R article, printed on
the second page of tin- StarCourier to-
day. is ihr expression ol opinion that
may naturally lie expected of a man
learned and experienced in the wider
fields ol thought and action. An cm
iiii'tit preacher, a brilliant ediiAr, a
slicee slid business man, Di Cranfill
Ins that acquaintance with human na ...............
litre Dial tea flies then is good in al! i belter al Ibis writing,
men, Jew
Die lit lie baby of J 1!. Vinson atlo
wile, who was very ill last week, is
reported convalescent now.
Mrs Ara Rowe returned Saturday
from a visit in her sister. Mr* llaeeus.
in Dallas.
Mis w D. Talbot and daughter
Nellie, visited Mrs S D (Sregory Sun
day.
vlis J T Nance reruincd from
Rjjdiai(Ison Saturday where she ha.-
bei'ii at the bedside of her mother,
(irandma VY'omuck, who recently had a
Broke of paralysis. She is reported
Till Id: \ ril of Rev. John tl Shtylcr,
past or ol (lie Fast Dallas Christian
* burcli. whicli oeeui red al Kcrrvillc.
D'a.i . a lew day.- ago, is lamciileil all
"'ii North le\a-., where lie was well
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know a i iiiiiiisti'i Roiarian amt
•*'    ■ ' |>11 I .. as a l li
is a tribute to wrsalile iiecom
and broad and liberal
Dtiukttiv, Die mini who i uequniuhwi
mill with l lit* pa ri ini In r vocation lie
loliow.-, and whose lliougJiis never
Wander and whose liamls never reach
md lo other Ihings, is seldom a great
man and is seldom beloied He may
is lammis in Ins profession and use
i.11 ii. bin he lias not the parts
Dun i mnpo- .• greainess.
Ihe Start oiirler $1 an the vear
w ell a-, i ’.eiil ties, Cat ho
lie .is well as Protosliiins lie knows
il o i lint neither rare mu religion lim
I lie inalienable right of Amerieall
ei d/ensiiip nor that it limits tin*
In ot bet hood ol man or the fatherhood
of Hod ihul belongs to every creature
Sw il/.ei land inhabiled by three or
lour nut ionalilies who share etpiallv
in its government, and by lioth Catho
lies and Protestants, nearly eiiuully di
'ided lias more centuries of civil and
religious liberty to its credit titan any
eoitniry of Furope The various races,
and Hie religions a ill a >ton ist ic ill oilier
eounlrie-, lievei dislurhes Ihe ipiiet.
peaei , happiness and contentment of
Hie Swls,-. cantons, the oldest and mosi
continuously republican government In
the world
Miss Hindis Skin tier visited rein
lives al McKinney the first of ihe
week.
Mrs .1 H. Miller visited Mrs. C.
Dai pool at Hebron Sunday evening.
Quarterly Conference was held at
the church lure beginning Saturday
and continuing over Sunday Rev
Thompson, presiding elder, was with
u and preached splendid sermons. Ai
together it was a line meeting.
Mr and Mrs. Evans visited with
J R. Vinson and wife Sunday.
Mi s Kdilh Branhaiuan returned to
her .home in McKinney Saturday alter
a week's visit with relatives and
friends. She was accompanied home
by her brother, Morgan Branhamun
who visited there until Sunday
Mrs. .1 T. Nance and son. Hopi
Name, and family, visited Grandma
Nance at Prosper Sunday. Grandma
is eighty years of age and in v ery pool
heal Hi.
Farmers here who had planted corn
before the cold spell are planting ovei
now.
Gene Calloway, of Frisco, was in
this community on business Tuesday
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Austin. Texas. March 14 That ttie
grand jury ol Travis county lias tin
tier investigation Hie Ku Klux Klan
became known today when Ihe grand
jury reported to District Judge James
I! Hamilton that J D Copeland. City
Police Commissioner, and F. (J Key
nolds, clerk of the local camp of the
Wood nit'll t of the World, who ha-u
litt'ii summoned as witnesses before
the grand jury, had refused to a ns wet
questions propounded by the grann
jit rot s.
Copeland and Reynolds, under in
(nutions of Judge Hamilton, wen
■ tmiuumod into court and questioned
tiy Judge Hamilton The questions
which had been asked them in Hie
grand jin* room wen* repeated.
Copeland refused to answer the
questions it lie was a member of the
Ku Klux Klan, who are the officers
oi iltf Ku Klux Klan. or who are mem
hers h| ijuil organization. In Answer
to a question Copt land said lie did
not | i i sunnily know of Ihe sending oi
any tliit'ii!s In \ustin by the Ku Kiux
K Ian.
IL said tJiai be was not present a\
the killing ot Peeler Clayton, service
ear driver, who was shot on the night
" D 1 PJ1M, near ihe Ku Klux
Hall.
Following the questioning of Cope-
fin: 1. District Judge Hamilton pro-
; " ii, h d questions to both Copeland
md Reynolds Ilotli declined to an-
in a recent Dallas News conttibu-
D<in Dr. J B Cranfill, prominent
Texas Baptist minister, editor, basi-
n' ss man and lormei candidate for
vice president on the national prohibi-
Dou party ticket, opposes the Ku Klux
Klan iri his usual vigorous style of
expression.
"In a recent issue of the News there
appeared an article in which the wri-
ter stated that all of the ministers
wlio were indorsing the Ku Klux Klan
were Baptists, but in that issue ol
Tin- News I noted that the pastor of
the Methodist church at Kaufman
was indorsing the Ku Kiux Klau syn
finonously with one. of our Baptist
pa: lor- at Dallas. In recent weeks
Klan indorsement havt- been given bv
six Methodist preachers, six Baptist
preachers and one Christian preach-
er. It does this Methodist brother no
credit to seek thus to capitalize his
denomination on the one baud and re-
proach a sister denomination ou the
other hand. All men of all creeds,
who believe in law and order, should
stand together in a time like this
against Hie reign of the nmb which
menaces every sacred interest among
us.
Every minister of every denomina-
tion everywhere will live to regret
any indorsement he has given of the
Ku Klux Klan. These ministers who
have accepted gifts from the klan will
f'gret l hat this money ever came to
them. Every good man who lias had
any sympathetic connection whatso-
ever with the Ku Klux Klan will soon
deeply regret it.
There is no place in a civilized State
or community for a secret, hooded,
subterranean organization, which as-
sumes superiority to civil law and he-
roines a self appointed arbiter of
philanthropy on Hie one hand and of
justice on the other. 1 know that the
klausmen elaini they have never been
guilty of any of these tar and feather
crimes, nor of any other mob violence,
but iheir very existence lias opened
the door to criminals of every class
who for any reason desire to wreak
vengeance on an enemy or punish an
alleged offense against law and order
or society, li is especially lo be de-
plored that preachers of righteousness
should Ij# thought or word or deed add
Die weight of their influence to the
Ku Klux Klan, which, whatever its
declaration of principles, is destined
to ti most unhappy end.
An a business investment the Ku
Klux Klan is the. deadliest blow that
has ever been dealt to Uie Slate of
Texas. k has taken us long and
weary years to outlive the flavor oi
I rentier lays and the belief that had
neeii introduced in the minds of men
further east that we are a race o»
armed cowboys, whose chief amuse
mem is in shooting up towns and rais
ing the devil in every known tongue
Through our public officials and far-
seeing citizens we had almost out-
lived that old-lime unwholesome repu-
tation when the Ku Klux Klan came
on the scene with all the attendant
anil shameful criminalities that have
followed in the wake ot this organize-
Don. | don't know that anv of the
outrages that have ben staged in
Texas were committed by the klan
but they have been committed by men
who have masqueraded under the
aegis of tlu* klan, and who have-com
initted these crimes because they felt
'hat they could get by with them and
have them till charged up to the Ku
Klux.
The other day when the
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wim whether or not tJiey knew or
• it - sent out by the Ku Klux Klan.
U 1 they had heard such threats
'i i " They said that they Inul
nut heard ary member of the Ku Klux
K an hscuss the killing of t'afton
Copeland and Reynolds said to Judge
;.inn*t«*!• that they wire standing up-
on their constitutional rights in refits
: . o answer lortain questions. D A
hi., oreman of ilie grand jury, in
'H'd hat Copeland and Reynolds be
■i' 't iled to answer the questions, de
■Hing that the information sought
w - nipouant in the Investigation be-
o r l onduti* I by the grand jury.
;"-mii Vnorney J B Robertson
"11)01 i t we want the questions an
'wari'i oid we have offered both of
was perpetrated on the Catholic
pi ic.st at Slaton, Texas, the people of
^ la ton attempted to stage an alibi
through the statement that Catholics
participated in Ihe diabolical outrage
on the priest, i also noticed that the
Ku Klux Klaqjof Dallas, w hoever they
are. offered a reward of *500 for the
mob than outraged a Jew, of course,
by Diis token attempting to demon-
sirate to tha public that the Ku Klux
had nolting to do with this crime.
However, it is a noteworthy fact that
<»ne of the planks in the platform ol
Hie Ku Klux is that they will not ad
mil Jew's into their organizations. The
whole movement is fraught with dis
aster Horn its inception and can bring
nothing but disaster In the end. Trie
activities of the klan in politics is in
every way reprehensible, but their ac-
tivities are not so reprehensible as
the bids that some candidates are
making for their political support.
It seems to me that the time has
come when the good citizens of Due
las of every class and creed should
themselves perfect an organization
that would in the best possible way
counteract and neutralize the terrible
effects upon our city and our Slate
that are being wrought by this wild
rfot of crime and this secret, hooded
and subterranean organization. There
has never been any justification for a
mob anywhere at any time under any
circumstances. For four long and
stressful years I fought the mob otil
in W est Texas, and througn all those
years carried in* life In my hands.
There were no Ku Klux then, and no
tar and feather parties. The mob
then was simply an organization of
criminal, gunmen who killed witnesses
who were in possession of the know] i
edge of the crimes of these criminals.
to quit pussyfooting on this question,
It is time when till public teachers
•‘'liquid speak out in no uncertain tones
against this increasing tide of crime
and against the reign of the me*
everywhere. Bishop Ainsworth was
Tight when he said the other day in
Idle News that these same hooded
klansinen who come into houses oi
j worship and leave money for the
l preachers will soon bo assuming to
outrage dictate to the preachers what they
shall preach. This Is evidenced by
Hie fact that they have outraged a
Catholic priest and have run him out
of his parish. Some of the very preach-
ers who have been advocating the Ku
Klux Klan and accepting money from
then) will suffer the same fate before
the. tragedy is ended. 1 am for a
square deal for every man and a fair
trial for every one accused of an o.*
fense against the State and this ac-
cording to the forms of law. I am for
u square deal for the American, the
foreigner, the w hite men, the negro,
the Methodist, the Baptist, the Catho-
lic. the Jew and the infidel. If any
nian is guilty of an offense against law
or decency there is plenty of law and
there are plenty of patriotic jurors to
give him a fair and expeditious trial.
Even if the Ku Klux Klan here and
there punish a guilty man, the reme-
dy is worse than the disease. One
kind of crime is just as reprehensi-
ble as another, and 1 do not see any
difference between the crime of the
ordinary garden variety of criminal
and the' crimes of the mob, hooded
or unbonded, who assume the prerog
atives of court and Jurors and punish
men without the semblance of a trial,
tints trampling under foot every sa
cred principle of equi y and Justice
J B CRANFILL
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When ^ ou’re Nervous
Rev. L. A. Johnfon, a Baptist min-
ister, was assail Led Sunday morning
near the Bethlehem Baptist church a
few miles north ol Farmersvflle imp.
uty Sheritl Tom Folcomb went om to
Johnson's home The party who
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and who were ready to put out of the,----------- , llr-    WJ1U |s
W'»> event man, including the officers, alleged to have assaulted Johnson had
who dared to challenge their right to j gone to Leonard and uo arrests had
nun H" county. All over Texas and been made Monday morning
all over the South, as well as over the J It is reported that Johnson prenen
w hole United States, this mob riot ' ed at Bethlehem Saturday night and
is rampant. Last year sixty six men | denounced danci tg. Some of the mem
in America were murdered by mobs, bers and persois In the community
1 and many others were outraged by took exception to his remarks. Sun-
being tarred and feathered and by be i day morning He man whom it Is at-
i tm: subjected to all kinds of mob in leged as sauted the minister drove to
| dignities. The situation has been a j Johnson - Jon e and invited him to
j Hundred told worse    since tne organt-    get in    his tar    md drive to the church
,-union of the Ku    Klux Klan, and    as lie    wan ed    to talk with him. It is
whether the klansmen are guilty of    said that upon    nearing the church and
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created the atmosphere in which thes,« othet men the driver of the car ns
criminals commit their crimes    j saulted and beat up Johnson
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