Attached is a Literary Digest article that reported on the 1928 trial of a number of Pennsylvania Klansmen at the Federal Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
“A Daniel has come to judgment, in the opinion of many a newspaper writer, when a federal judge in a formal opinion read the bench delivers a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan in terms as strong as any of the private enemies of that organization have ever used. Federal Judge W.H.S. Thomson, in ending the complicated Klan case at Pittsburgh, remarked that the Klan was an ‘unlawful organization’ coming into court ‘with filthy hands after open and flagrant violation’ of the law…”
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