Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans of the Ku Klux Klan also issued a statement...
Texas held its run-off primary for Democratic nomination to the Senate. U. S. Representative Tom Connally ran away from U. S. Senator Earle B. Mayfield by more than 50,000 votes. Interpretation: The Ku Klux Klan which backed the Hon. Mayfield is becoming as impotent in Texas as it is elsewhere...
...story was that a maid had reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter did not get around to the job until late. The Senator, who received his callers in an oldtime full-length nightshirt (Ku Klux Klan uniform), acted most strangely. Handy upon his bureau, the men noticed, was a pistol...
That, of course, was a Ku Klux Klan demonstration as well as a Southern demonstration. Nevertheless, its sheer, insensate violence made people wonder how serious was the likelihood of many Southern Democrats splitting away from their Northern brethren over Nominee Smith this autumn...
...Will Rogers, who is also an Oklahoman, wondered what it is that makes Oklahomans funny. Heflin. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope and who loudly and repeatedly predicted that Smith would not be nominated, was speechmaking to Ku Klux Klan audiences in the East during convention week. He sent a $22 telegram urging the Alabama delegation to cast no votes for Smith at any time. All but one Alabama delegate obeyed him. He was Heffling in Towanda, Pa., when he learned that Smith was nominated. He said...