According to the historians'  Report, the KKK's almost full page ad "Here's the Truth, The Whole Truth etc" was  (also) published in the Springfield News, which was generally anti-Klan, suggesting  it was carried for advertising revenue rather than politics.  So I'm left wondering if the Guard's editorial policy in the early 1920s followed Fisher's anti-Klan approach  as Price asserts, or that of his lesser   partner J.F. Shelton, reputed Klansman.      

What we do know is back in the 1800s the Guard was horribly racist while Harrison Kincaid's Oregon State Journal was far more progressive.  Also, that during the Civil War era, the Knights of the Golden Circle, a racist forerunner of the KKK, was quite  popular in Lane County, especially out on the "Long Tom Confederacy."