Word: klux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achievement of this end he placed foremost the question of child labor. He condemned the use of injunctions against Labor, the Ku Klux Klan and radical activities in Labor...
...Klux Klan's " efforts to supplant organized government, to promote religious intolerance, racial antagonisms and bigotry...
...State of Oklahoma between its Governor, its Legislature, its Ku Klux Klan, its Supreme Court and its National Guard is very much at odds with itself. The Legislature desired to impeach Governor Jack Walton for attempting to be " dictator " by putting the state under martial law to suppress outrages attributed to the K. K. K. The Governor had not called a special session, but the Legislators decided that they had the right to meet under the bill of rights in the State Constitution...
...pretty clear answer in the special election on Tuesday. By a large majority the people of Oklahoma delivered Governor Walton the rebuke which he deserved. Since it is hardly conceivable that such a great proportion of the people should be Klansmen, one can assume that sympathy with the Ku Klux had little influence in the voting. Nor is it too much for one to assume that the question of a special legislative session was not the primum mobile. The prime object of the people was to tell Governor Walton what they thought of his martial law and his high-handed...
...soldiers appeared, and the Ku Klux Klan, as such, disappeared. A court of inquiry is evidently seeking out the Kluxers. But large sections of the press and Oklahoma's legislators rose up to fight the Governor. Though a military censorship was placed on several newspapers, the legislators were not so easily controlled. They began moves to assemble the Legislature in order to impeach the Governor for usurpation of authority. Governor Walton threatened to jail them if they...