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...back by a combination of cleverness and good fortune. He put up his wife to run for Governor. She ran second in the first Democratic primary. In the second Democratic primary Texas had the choice between her and the man who ran first?who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Texas, intent on repudiating the Klan, chose Mrs. Ferguson to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. In the election she beat the Republican nominee 1) because she was a Democrat, and 2) because she was anti-Klan. Last January she was inaugurated with a great ball (TIME...
...primary, but the New men helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge was defeated in the election by his Democratic opponent Samuel M. Ralston. In 1924 there was no senatorial election in Indiana, but Ed. Jackson with the support of the Beveridgites and the Ku Klux Klan managed to squeeze into the Governorship...
...were: Robert M. LaFollette Jr., running on his father's platform; Roy Porter Wilcox, onetime state senator, candi- date of the Republican state organization, Francis E. McGovern, former Governor (1911-15) running on a compromise Coolidge-La Fol- lette platform; and Daniel Woodward, "Coolidge-Dawes" candidate with Ku Klux support...
...buried with full honors by the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan, of which she was a member. Six masked Klansmen in regalia were her pallbearers...
...embattled patriots: Ku Klux Klan, Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Patriotic Order of the Sons of America, Patriotic Order of Americans, Daughters of America, Order of Fraternal Americans. The same patriots lately backed, but lost, a bill causing verses from the Bible to be read daily before school classes...