RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924
$2.00 Per Year; S8H 5 Cent&
Vol. I. No. 21
KLAN AVERTS LYNCHING IN NEW BERN
JEFFERSONIAN BEGINS PUBLICATION
[ LIST OF CONFEDERATE PENSIONERS
f Following Charges That There Are Irregularities
H in Disbursements, This Paper Undertakes to
i Make Check of Various Counties
I
| This week the Jeffersonian be
gins the publication of the list of
Confederate pensioners to whom the
State Auditor mails vouchers twice
annually. The list was prepared
for the Jeffersonian by Major Bax
ter Durham, the auditor, who de
sires to assist the paper in its ef
forts to determine whether or not
any of the funds are misappropri
ated. j)
It has been charged that in some
counties the clerks of courts and
pension boards are not so careful in
the disbursement of these funds as
they should be. One clerk of the
court has been convicted of misuse
of the funds and is now serving a
sentence in State Prison. This man
is a Republican, and it has been
charged that he was singled out by
the Democratic administration be
cause of that fact; that there are
many others in the State equally
guilty.
:jl It has been intimated by some
|hat publication of the entire list
would disclose many, irregularities.
On this the Jeffersonian has no com
ment to make. There may be some
irregularities. If there are it is
hoped that the publication of the
list will disclose them. The list is
large, containing some thousands of
names. It- is necessary that it be
published serially—iti installments
df one or two counties, at the time.
Here is the first installment,
showing the names of pensioners in
Alamance County:
Isley, Wesley, Burlington.
Purcell, James T., Haw River.
Thomas, M. G., Graham.
Smith, H. C., Mebane.
Hensley, H. T., Burlington.
Adams, William D., Burlington, R7.
Allen. William G.. Snow Camp.
Albright, J. T., Haw River.
Anthony, G. W., Burlington.
Barnett, J. D., Burlington, R. 8.
Bahannon, T. A., Burlington.
Bason, W. H., Swepsonville.
Bason, J. D., Burlington.
Black, John, Graham.
Blanchard, E. U., Burlington, R. 3.
Boon, Phil. H., Burlington.
Boswell, Wm. M., Burlington, R. 9.
Bradshaw, J. M., Haw River.
Capps, A. J., Burlington.
Clendenin, J. N. H., Graham.
Coble, Henry M., Burlington, R. 1.
Coble, A. L., Burlington, R. 1.
Coble, G. S., Graham, R. 1.
Davis, J. C., Haw River.
Dick, P. 1*., Burlington, R. 4.
Euliss, John H., Liberty, R. 2.
Fowler, Leander, Mebane.
Fogleman, John A., Snow Camp.
Fitzgerald, R. J., Burlington.
Garret, G. W., Burlington, R. 7.
Garrison, J. M., Burlington, R. ‘2.
Gibson, J. S., Mebane, R. 6. *
Gibson, Calvin, Mebane.
Hall, William A., Burlington.
Hightower, W. D., Mebane.
Holmes, J. W., Graham, R. 1.'
Hornaday, W. 0., Graham.
, JarrettK D. J., Haw River. ^
?Fohnstpn, L., Meban<e..> . f V ^g
Ikeleyy A^EVank, Burlington, R. 8.
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DEMOCRATS DID NOT
BEGIN CASE AGAINST
SAMPSON COURT CLERK
Sessoms Victim of Investigation
Instigated by Republican
Neighbor
MAJOR DURHAM DENIES
- HE MADE STATEMENT
Has No Recollection of Saying
That Pension Funds Were Mis
appropriated Throughout the
State-—System of Disbursing
About <as Perfect as Could be
Devised, He Points Out.
Democrats were not the instiga
tors of the investigation which ”dis
closed misuse of Confederate pen
sion funds in the office of Fleet Ses
soms, clerk of the Superior Court
for Sampson jQounty, who now is
serving a- prison sentence following
that disclosure, it was stated yes
tered by Major Baxter Durham,
State Auditor, whose office directed
the prosecution after the charges
were brought against Mr. Sessoms.
Daniel R. Lee, a Republican resi
dent of Mr. Sessoms’ home county,
was responsible for the investiga
tion, Major Durham pointed out.
Mr. Lee came to the Auditor’s office
more than eighteen months ago with
evidence that all was not right with
the Sampson clerk. Major Durham
investigated. He sent George Hum
ber to Sampson to make full in
vestigation. Mr. Humber’s investi
gation brought out the .evidence
through which Mr. Sessoms was
convicted.
When Major Durham’s attention
was called to the statement by the
Union Republican declaring that he
had said on’e dollar out of every
(Continued on page 5)
JUDGE HENRY A GRADY
• Jurist and Christian gentle
man; leader of the Ku Klux Klan
in North Carolina; type of pure
blooded American permitted to
join the organization which
places the Christian spirit, paT
triotism and clean living above
all else.
KINSTON KLAN HAS
A BIG CELEBRATION
THANKSGIVING DAY
Speech by Dr. W. L. Straub and
Barbecue Feature Great Gath
ering in the Lenoir Capital
600 KLANSMEN PARADE
THROUGH MAIN STREETS
Seventy Aliens Are Naturalized
Into Invisible Empire—Open
Air Ceremony at Fair Grounds
—Straub Says Critics Are
Klansmen at Heart — Mcll
waine Introduces Doctor.
Featured by the naturalization of
seventy candidates into the Invis
ible Empire; a speech by Dr. W. L.
Straub dnd a most delightful bar
becue, Kinston Klan of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan staged a
spectacular and impressive demon
stration in Kinston on Thanksgiv
ing Day night.
Preceding the naturalization 600
hooded and robed klansmen paraded
through the principal streets of Kin
ston and were led by a klan band.
More than 10,000 spectators lined
the streets to view the silent march
ing figures following the fiery cross.
(Continued on page 5)
Officials of Local Organization
Tender Strength of Body to Police
COLONEL ROBINSON
DENIES IVY CHARGE
AGAINST CATHOLICS
Pays Doheny of Oil Fame Did
Not Organize Papists Against
Democrats
LAITY WOULD RESENT
CHURCH INTERFERENCE
Recognizes No Right of Rome toj
Dictate Action of Followers in
Politics—Priests and Laymen
on Same Ground When it
Comes to Vote, He Declares.
Eesenting the charge made by
Thomas P. Ivey to the effect that
the Catholic Church was organised
by Doheny, the oil man, to defeat
the Democratic party, Colonel Jos
eph Eobinson, editor of the Golds
boro Daily Argus, denies that any
such organization was effected. He
says that Mr. Ivey’s charges are
manifestly so unfair and prejudicial
to the Catholic religion that in jus
tice “I must publicly protest against
the insinuations of the writer.”
“Iu.jjttpport. of his thesis,” ^Col
onel Eobinson writes, “Mr. Ivy de
pends on gratuitous statements and
bad motives gratuitously attributed
to the gathering of a Catholic re
ligious. society in Washington. He
gives his own personal opinions and
own personal interpretations of cer
tain occurrences. Are such utter
ances to be accepted as infallibly
true? Unsupported assertions do
not prove, nor does the naming of a
bad motive establish a fact. ‘
“Individual Catholics, like indi
viduals of any group, may at times
do what does not merit approval, but
the guilt of individuals should not
be attached to the whole body of
Catholics.
“No one would more quickly re
sent political dictation from their
religious leaders than the Catholic
laity who recognizes that their
church is entitled to obedience only
in the religious sphere, without
(Continued on page 5.)
Prompt Action Probably Saves State Disgrace of
Mob Action in Case of Negro Who Ran
Down and Killed little Girl
HENDERSON KLAN IS
TO BUILD NEW HOME
AT COST OF $40,000
Plans to Erect Building in Keep
ing With Importance of
Organization
CONSTRUCTION STARTS
EARLY AS POSSIBLE
Details Not Given Out, But it is
Understood That Location Will
be on One of Most Desirable
Sites in City—Klan Strength
Large in Yance County.
A new home, to cost between $35,
000 and $40,000, is on the program
for Henderson Klan, No. 55,
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Con
struction of the building will begin
immediately, it'is shid. ''
Decision to proceed with the worfi
was reached at a meeting of the
Klan held recently, it was stated
the membership being a unit as to
the procedure.
A suitable lot is to be acquired in
the most desirable location in tfie
city, the statement said, the build
ing to serve as a permament home
for the order.
It was further explained that,
owing to the large membership and
rapid growth of the Ku Klux Klan
in this city and county, it is impos
sible to get available accommoda
tions for the attendance of the mem
hefs.
No details as to the location were
learned, and it is understood one has
not been acquired, but the order
plans to erect a building in keeping
with its ‘membership here and one
that will provide ample accommoda
tions for its work.
Eighteen Days More of Subscription Campaign
Remain For the Workers in Jeffersonian Drive
Only eighteen days separate seven
folks from happiness. At the end
of that time the Jeffersonian will
know who of its army of subscrip
tion workers are entitled to the
seven premiums offered in the cam
paign which closes on the night of
December 22.
Meantime the rules of the cam
paign will be Strictly enforced and
somewhat tightened, in order that
the interests of the good workers
will be more thoroughly protected.
Henceforth all who do not report
regularly according to the rules will
be dropped from the race.
Too, in order that the publication
inay keep a strict accounting of all
work done; ‘ WORKERS MUST
REPORT FULLY BY NOOH OF!
EACH MONDAY—that is, every
subscription gotten during one week
must be in the office by noon of the
following Monday. Under no cir
cumstances will this rule be disre
garded. To gain full credits reports
MUST arrive on time.
During last week several of the
weaker brothers and sisters have
dropped by the wayside. There still
remain a dozen or more good work
ers who are running a pretty race.
Last, week several of them did ex
cellent work. Those who were much
behind came to the front and are
threatening those who got away to
tf better start earlier in the game.
These are like good horses who,
given a bad start, run a steady race
an<r overtake those that set the
; V ;Ayt;
track afire in the first quarter. They
are going to be among the winners.
Still, it is anybody’s race at this
stage of the game. A few days of
real work will win that beautiful
Buick for any one in the race. The
Ford, the diamond rings, watches
and money will be left for those who
do not keep the pace.
Throughout North Carolina there
are communities that still have not
been worked. There are thousands
and thousands of prospective sub
scribers who have not been seen.
There sire hundreds who can be got
ten for the asking. The busy worker
is the one who will get these—and
they are the material to he used in
earning for yourself the first award.
Here are the possible winners: I
Miss Virginia C. Barnes, care
Barnes Music Store, Henderson,
nr. c.
Miss Kate Brantly.
Miss Nancy Noblin, 602 Harp
S,t., Baleigh, N. C.
Miss Cora Lee Chadwick, Sellers
Street, Selma, N. C.
Mr. H W. Kriner, Greensboro,
N. C. '
Dr. D. J. Bose, 103 South James
Street, Goldsboro, N. C.
Mr. L. J. Brown, 116 N. Chest
nut Street, Winston-Salem, N. O.
Mrs. J. W. Wilson, Bocky Mount,
N. C. '•/
Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Dunn, N. C.
Joseph Caudell, St. Pauls, N. 0.
Mrs. C. G. Chappell, 552 East
Martin Street, v
Prompt action by officials of the
Ku Klux Klan at New Bern is be
lieved to have averted the lynching
of John Godette, negro alleged rum
runner, who last week ran his auto
mobile over and killed Edna Wil
liams, little white girl, who was at
play with companions. Feeling
against the negro ran high and
threats of lynching were expressed
in many parts of Craven County.
It is said that a mob was being or
ganized to take the negro from his
cell and administer punishment.
When Klan officials heard of this
they offered the entire strength of
organization to the police authori
ties in an effort to uphold the law
and save the State the disgrace of
another lynching.
The following letter, concerning
the incident, signed by “Official of
the Klan,” appeared in Wednesday’s
issue of the Morning New Bernian.
It expresses the Klan’s attitude to
ward lawlessness: '
“Tonight the local Klan of the
35r®ux* Klan planned to ‘haver a
public demonstration and a natural
ization ceremony, followed by a bar
becue. When the news was received
of the horrible death at the hands of
a convicted negro bootlegger of a
young girl while on the highway of
our county it was judged best to
postpone the gathering of the Klan
until some future date, and assist the
officers of the law in preserving
peace, as threats of lynching the ne
gro were heard openly spoken of.
“True to its principles as uphold
ers of law and order the Klan wishes
to make a public announcement that
it is now and always has been op
posed to mob law or unlawful vio
lence, although it deplores the occa
sion that has aroused our people to '
the pitch of indignation and rage
against a negro the product of a
condition that has been permitted to
exist in our city and county; until
the natural outcome is the disfigure
ment and death of one of our chil
dren.
.Promptly on receipt of the word
that citizens in different parts of the
county were preparing to enter it
and give way to a violence that
would be deplored in seeking the
death of the negro by lynch law, the
Klan placed its membership at the
command of the city and county po
lice authorities, and through their
efforts a calmer attitude was taken
that led to a subsidence of any rash
attempt to take the law in their own
hands.
“The Klan feels that a condition,
not a theory, confronts theiffb.w-abid
ing people of this community, and
that at once notice should be served
on all bootleggers, both white %and
black, that their traffic in liquor
must and will end. If it is not the
processes of the law will be invoked
without regard to who is hurt. The
people of New Bern and Craven
County should resolve once for all
never again will hearts be saddened
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