BY OWEN DAUGHERTY
The editorial was published on Thursday and Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Ala., confirmed to the Montgomery Adviser on Monday that he wrote the column.
“Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again,” the first line of the editorial reads. “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
"This socialist-communist ideology sounds good to the ignorant, the uneducated, and the simple-minded people," he added.
When asked about it by the Montgomery Adviser, Sutton repeated his writings, saying, “if we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off.”
"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," Sutton said.