Word: klux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stephenson (in jail since April 1925 for murder) last fortnight began (TIME, July 18). Mr. Stephenson had begun his expose by confiding to Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy many of the deeds performed during his (Mr. Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took the Indianapolis Times into his confidence and sent to the Times many of the documents contained in the "little black box" where he had foresightedly deposited written evidence of his transactions. The most startling of these...
...those days had all been much the same to him. They would continue so, too, for he was a lifer. He would be there, in the common phrase, "from now on." Surely an unworthy end for David Curtis Stephenson who through many years had controlled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which had controlled the politics of Indiana. In the Republican State Convention of 1924 he had patrolled the aisles of the convention hall with a gun on his hip. The men whom he had picked for office held office; the men whom he had opposed had been defeated...
...that the modern Texan costume includes no six-shooter, preaching the doctrine of economic interdependence among 48 states. The trip had been designed on a strictly non-political basis, Governor Moody having repeatedly refused to discuss either "politics or personalities." He did say, however, that in Texas the Ku Klux Klan is "as dead as the proverbial doornail...
...Klux Klan has done more for Colorado than Judge Lindsey ever did."-Attorney Edward M. Sabin, of Denver
...However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule" in Indiana, though there was very little organized opposition to the City Manager movement...