Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Lowmans had been in jail a year and a half while they were being tried for the murder of Sheriff Henry H. H. Howard. The Sheriff was a Klansman. He had been shot in-the back while raiding the house of Sam Lowman, father of the three prisoners. While Howard's body lay in state Klansmen had paraded past it, two by two, in full regalia. A fiery cross was burned in the cemetery on the anniversary of his death. Meanwhile the Lowmans were tried and sentenced to death. The State Supreme Court reversed this sentence and ordered...
Even the most rabid Klansman must feel at times when he puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern...
...Louisville, shortly before the election it was discovered that the Democratic candidate was a Klansman. He resigned and another candidate was put up, but Arthur A. Will, Republican candidate, was elected. A Democrat was elected to a vacant seat in Congress. Three men were killed in gun fights in the mountains...
...Mayor of Herrin, Ill. Elections are due next week. It is desirable that there should be more than one candidate. So Marshall McCormack, head of the grocery firm of Marshall McCormack & Bros., put himself forward in opposition to the regular Ku Klux Klan Kandidate. Mr. McCormack is himself a Klansman, is running on a joint Klan-Klanless ticket, is bitterly opposed by the Klan-or-nothing regulars. A year ago, some enemy set fire to his store; the flames were...
...morning during the trial of several men accused of killing Skelcher's father, a Klansman testified that he did not believe the accused were guilty, and the case was dismissed. Later the same day, the Sheriff and two deputies walked into the J. H. Smith Garage, said to be Klan headquarters, to seize a car said to have been used in the attack on Skelcher. Dewey Newbolt, a Klansman, was sitting within, four guns strapped to his waist. Everybody opened fire. Before the firing was over, six were dead and five wounded. More troops...