Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bourne from which no politicians return? According to statisticians, Mayfield's chances are these: Five Republicans and 27 Democrats that he will sit in the Senate; 47 Republicans, 15 Democrats, and Senator Shipstead (Farmer-Labor) that he will not. Senator Mayfield was "elected by the Ku Klux Klan"-which is enough to put most Republicans and the Northern Democrats against him. In addition, he is accused of various corrupt practices. It is expected that he will be allowed to take his seat in the Senate and that then an investigation will be ordered. Already the cry is going...
OKLAHOMA: The Reverend W. G. Mahoney, imperial klokard of the Klu Klux Klan, told the Legislature: "This country has a super-government. We must break it. We will...
...Skipwith, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan at Morehouse, La., said that he was "highly elated " over the result of the trial of certain Klansmen in Bastrop. For the Klan has won a marked victory. The blackhooded night riders who last August tortured to death two of their opponents and hid their bodies in Lake La Fourche have not yet been convicted. The Special Grand Jury which tried suspected Klansmen dismissed the case on grounds of insufficient evidence, and, although 125 witnesses testified to various criminal activities of the Klan, including murder in their charges, the Jury referred only...
Justice Ford and his followers have their weapon at hand. The Ku Klux Klan will prove a stout ally. Cabell and Broun and Lawrence and Mrs. Hull, beware the sheeted band...
Murder will out. So will the Ku Klux Klan, except that more properly speaking it was the Ku Klux Kops that came out recently in New York. It was a startling discovery for New York to find that thirty of her patrolmen were members of the sheet and pillow-case organization, and were consequently unable to carry out Mayor Hylan's order to run the Klan out of town. There seems to be some doubt whether to consider the thirty Kops as legitimate members of the metropolitan police, and as subject, subject to Mr. Enright's rule: or whether they...