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What did the Ku Klux Klan do in the election? Nobody knows exactly, but they say it pushed...
...Bavaria, had (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923). Further, he had demanded that the ex-Crown Prince should appear before a court of honor to defend himself. The Bavarian Generals demanded an apology and were said to have expected challenges to duels. General von Ludendorff has ever preserved a Ku Klux Klan attitude toward the House of Wittelsbach (that of Prince Rupprecht) because it is Catholic. "Ludy" is a fire-eating Protestant and pins his faith to the House of Hohenzollern. Nevertheless, he has had a remarkable following in Bavaria which he appears now to have lost. This seems likely to affect...
...cleared" earlier than usual. But Mr. Davis, speaking from the very rostrum from which Candidate Coolidge was nominated in June, found time to denounce the tariff and the Republican record and to squelch a heckler who bawled out "What is your stand on the Ku Klux Klan...
...desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle has been ridicule of the Ku Klux Klan-a string which he has played with incessant vigor and variety. Reports last week indicated that Mr. White was unsettling the calculations of Republican Candidate Ben Paulen and the plans of Governor Jonathan M. Davis, Democratic candidate, whose chief cries are: "Honesty! Friendship to farmers...
...first place that great American institution, the Ku Klux Klan, does not represent any particular class as much as it represents a state of mind. Its causes are not so much economic discontent as they are chauvinism, bigotry, and intolerance. These virtues are not necessarily middle class nor do they have their roots in economic dissatisfaction. Klanism is simply a sad commentary on the condition of education and religion in the United States. It is possible, of course, that the Klan may some day decide to support something reasonable like the rights of the middle class. No such comparatively broad...