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...campaign, John W. Davis traveled from his Manhattan headquarters down to Seagirt, N. J., as a guest of Governor Silzer of that State. He spoke first of Wilson, then of the Oil and Veterans' Bureau scandals, of the Fordney-McCumber tariff, of Foreign Affairs, of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Klux Klan. "If any organization, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether Ku Klux Klan or by any other name, raises the standard of racial and religious prejudice or attempts to make racial origins or religious beliefs the test of fitness for public office, it does violence to the spirit of American institutions and must be condemned by all those who believe as I do in American ideals...
...believe that the Ku Klux Klan fills any useful place in the life of the United States...
...once that I recognize that the Ku Klux Klan in many localities and among many people represents only an instinctive groping for leadership, moving in the interest of law enforcement, which they do not find in many cowardly politicians and office holders. But it is- not the right way to forward law enforcement...
Next day, a South Dakota Bishop, Bernard J. Mahoney, performed a paradox. He condemned the Ku Klux Klan without naming it and at the same time scored the two larger political Conventions for having failed to name it in their condemnations...