Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some one has to be Mayor of Herrin, Ill. Elections are due next week. It is desirable that there should be more than one candidate. So Marshall McCormack, head of the grocery firm of Marshall McCormack & Bros., put himself forward in opposition to the regular Ku Klux Klan Kandidate. Mr. McCormack is himself a Klansman, is running on a joint Klan-Klanless ticket, is bitterly opposed by the Klan-or-nothing regulars. A year ago, some enemy set fire to his store; the flames were...
...Lindsey of Denver, Col., has had to fight for his office about a dozen times. By appointment or election, with or without party help (he is a Democrat in not very good standing), he has always got it. Last November, the Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge has been revived. His gallant personal story...
...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...