Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any other names to match them on the rolls of Prohibition? All of these save William H. Anderson spoke. He was there as a delegate and as correspondent for The Fellowship Forum, a "Protestant paper" published at Washington (and favorable to the Ku Klux Klan...
Even though it invited negroes and Jews to join it, the Ku Klux Klan has just received a severe setback in two major attempts to gain political control of great population centers outside its main field of influence in the middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical...
...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...