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Residents of Atlanta, Ga. a decade and more ago used to wonder what went on inside the handsome, white-columned mansion which stands at Peachtree Road and Wesley Avenue in the city's swankest district. Everyone knew it was the "Imperial Palace" of the Ku Klux Klan and that in it labored Hiram Wesley Evans, the Imperial Wizard and all-American antiPope...
Launching into a defensive counterattack, Chairman Hamilton declared that in 1924, when Democrats dodged the Ku Klux Klan issue at their National Convention, Alf Landon had supported William Allen White's anti-Klan candidacy for Governor of Kansas, and he himself had run for the State Legislature on an anti-Klan ticket. Elected Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there...
...Bellaire, Ohio's $25-a-month Health Commissioner, squint-eyed Dr. William Jacob ("Dr. Billy'') Shepard as commander-in-chief. To citizens there "Dr. Billy" was a "harmless old coot." incurably hipped on the preservation of Southern chivalry. Eleven years ago he appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing to keep it alive...
...Klux Klan tradition, have emigrated to Detroit in search of unskilled factory employment. To uphold "Protestantism, Americanism and Womanhood" and, as a sideline, to establish a mutual assistance group to find members jobs, a number of them founded the Black Legion in 1933. The organization burgeoned. No man could apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support...
Under Editor Ethridge the Macon Telegraph regained much of its oldtime prestige, became "South Georgia's Bible," and "The Georgia Bombshell." Editor Ethridge loaded his bombshell with many a charge of what in the South was authentic editorial dynamite. He derided the Ku Klux Klan. He came out for Negro rights. He sympathized with poor-white tenant farmers. He lambasted Prohibitionists. He took to task the paternalistic Mill Village system of potent Bibb Manufacturing Co. For such activities Editor Ethridge was tagged an outstanding U. S. Liberal...