Today -100: September 11, 1923: The Klan is for law and order first, last and all the time

Germany has allegedly ordered the end of passive resistance in the Ruhr. It is not clear what form this order is supposed to have taken.

There’s a rumor that Prince George, the Duke of Kent, is engaged to Grace Vanderbilt, daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt III. By my count, that’s the third false report of a British prince getting engaged on the front page of the NYT this year.

The Navy, or some in the Navy, are pretending that the destruction of those 7 destroyers was caused by a seismic wave coming from the Japanese earthquake and not from ships wandering around blind in the fog.

The Klan wins the Portland, Maine election for city-manager government and I don’t quite see why they care. Possibly because city council members will now be elected at-large, so Catholic neighborhoods are swamped electorally? School board elections are also changed to at-large, and current board has a Jew and two Catholics, which the Klan are not thrilled by.

The Oklahoma Klan gives in to Gov. Walton and orders members not to parade or hold meetings in masks. “The Klan is for law and order first, last and all the time,” says Grand Dragon N. Clay Jewett. Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans says they’re complying with “this despotic edict” not because of fear of the National Guard but blah blah blah.

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