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...Klux Klan. "The last election showed that appeals to class and nationality have little effect. . . . We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law, or apply any religious test to the holding of office...
Borglum's friends spoke loud for him. Said William J. Robinson, Manhattan art dealer, friend of Borglum: "This is largely a Ku Klux Klan matter. Borglum attacked Dr. Evans, so called Imperial Wizard, very bitterly, and said the latter was sowing hate and discord in the world while he, Borglum, was working to unite peoples. . . . Borglum was not trying to be tactful. . . . Well, Gutzon isn't diplomatic. He's a steam engine in pants. He's a genius. ... If he never does another stroke of work on Stone Mountain, he has to his credit something greater...
Because of a shortage of funds and hence of police, the Chief of Detectives of St. Petersburg, Fla., accepted an offer of the Ku Klux Klan to furnish patrols gratis, sans robes, sans masks...
Members of Congress and other Washingtonians received a royal proclamation inviting them to join the "Chivalric citizenry" of the "Royal and Beneficent Domain" of the "Knights of the Flaming Sword," a rival of the Ku Klux Klan now being advanced by William J. Simmons, one-time promoter of the Klan...
...Four bodies were carried to the undertaker's. Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who left Herrin last fall, after an affair in which six were taken to the undertakers, gave notice that he was going to return to town. According to reports. S. Glenn Young, his feud enemy, Ku Klux Klan leader in a number of dry raids, paraded the streets all one day waiting for Sheriff Thomas; with him were a dozen supporters; towards evening, Thomas met Young at the European Hotel; someone-said to be Young-opened fire. Young, Sheriff Thomas and two others were killed outright; three...