Word: klux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Walton of Oklahoma, who recently declared martial law throughout the state and "absolute martial law" in several cities, found himself facing a difficult situation. He set out to fight the Ku Klux Klan, which he declared was responsible for 2,500 floggings in the state in twelve months...
...present, comparatively unimportant. He has forbidden the state legislature to meet, and he has proclaimed martial law: but he has been backed by President Coolidge and has the Federal Government on his side. For the time being it is a fight between the governor, and the Ku Klux Klan, and it is the governor who has been forced to take extraordinary measures. He is not in the position in which Andrew Johnson found himself, where he must await passively the worst which the legislative body can do, for he is now the representative of the central government at Washington. This...
...Conference in New Haven put itself on record against the Ku Klux Klan and in favor of the World Court...
...education, but the Governor's project for education of the farmers, by the farmers, for the farmer vote. Jack Walton was elected Farmer-Labor Governor of Oklahoma and immediately appointed red-headed George Wilson, Farmer-Labor organizer, head of the State Agricultural School. The American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, the Chamber of Commerce and the united Rotary Clubs filed demurrers, exceptions, writs of error and habeas corpus proceedings. Walton had handed the education of Oklahoma over to the Reds. For a month the Governor held on. Then he fired Wilson without specifications. And that was the end of Jack...
...every province of Canada was represented. Seventy-five thousand new members joined the order during the past year, bringing the total membership up to 800,000. A feature of the convention was a speech by Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, in which he challenged the Ku Klux Klan and other K. of C. detractors. He declared that the K. of C. would combat all combinations which seek to inject religious or racial bias into governmental or social life. He then sketched the vast educational work of his order: hospital work for 30,000 disabled soldiers; national correspondence school for members...