Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Morley charges Warden Tynan with incompetence, in- human treatment of convicts, insubordination and drunkenness. The Warden replies that the Governor is a Klansman and wants to parole or pardon most of his convicts. The two officials have been snarling at each other for two years. Governor Morley went out of office last week in favor of Governor Adams; Warden Tynan was not grieved...
...these other Toombs County dwellers real or spurious Klansmen? Grand Dragon Forrest, of course, says they are not. He adds another $500 reward to Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week...
...began by buying a few politicians. His system was a miracle of simplicity. He found a good Klansman who wanted to run for office and paid his campaign expenses always with the understanding that his candidate, when elected and in control of public moneys, should repay him at the rate of three to one, or 300%. If the candidate lost he owed nothing...
...Klansmen attention: Remember your solemn oath to obey all edicts, mandates, rulings, and instructions of the imperial wizards. It is the order of the imperial wizard that all klansmen work faithfully for the nomination of our brother klansman, Major Jackson...
...Klansman hissing through disinfected bars...