Klan Issue May Be Fought Out on Floor of Convention, June 28, 1924

Seems Certain Now That Klan Issue Will Be Fought Out on the Floor of the Convention

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No Rift in Cloud

By the Associated Press

New York, June 28—The cloud of the Ku Klux Klan hung so heavily over the Democratic National Convention today that the platform committee after an all-night session, was unable to see a rift of light.

In a last effort to prevent an open rupture on the floor of the convention, the committee authorized Wm. Jennings Bryan to select as many members as he might deem necessary to enlist the aid of party leaders and the various candidates for the Presidential nomination, to remove what was regarded as a serious threat of a split in the party.

Moreover, the members of the committee under instructions from their deliberations to support a plank specifically naming the Klan, volunteered to confer with their colleagues and urge that there be a reconsideration of the question.

From midnight until dawn, the Klan issue was a subject of intense debate.

Before seeking rest, the committee directed Chairman Cummings to notify the convention that the committee had been unable to complete its work and to ask the convention to recess until 3 o’clock.

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From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 28, 1924