The editor-in-chief of Alabama newspaper resigns after calling on KKK to "get up"

The editor of the Alabama newspaper, who called the Ku Klux Klan to "come to the surface," said he had left office.

Goodloe Sutton, 80, told The Auburn Plainsman on Friday that he had stepped down as editor and editor of The Democrat-Reporter, a small newspaper published in Linden, Alabama.

"I do not have it," he told the newspaper. "I can drink beer and chase women now, they can not run too fast, or I can not catch them."

But the paper notes that Sutton's comments were contradicted by Elecia R. Dexter, who replaces him as editor and editor.

Dexter, a 46-year-old African-American, told the Associated Press that Sutton would own the property but "manage everything else." Sutton then confided to The Auburn Plainsman that he had entrusted the journal's responsibility to Dexter because he believes that she can handle this effectively.

"You know how you manage women," Sutton added. The Auburn Plainsman noted that Sutton had ended the call by telling the newspaper's editorial director "to be nice" and to "behave".

Sutton drew public attention earlier this month after writing an editorial asking the Klan to "give back courage" to block tax increases in the state.

"It's time for the Ku Klux Klan to come back in the night," he wrote. "Democrats from the Republican Party and Democrats plan to raise taxes in Alabama."

Sutton then defended his argument, saying Montgomery Advertiser that if "we could get the Klan up there and clean up D.C., we would have all been better off".

Sutton published his latest newspaper as a publisher on Friday. The plain soldier noted that he had included a letter to the editor of a self-proclaimed Ku Klux Klan member.