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Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, backed by the Ku Klux Klan, opposed by Republican Senator John W. Harreld, who is a friend of the Indian tribes and a mild denouncer of the Klan. Oklahoma is one of the few states where Klan political influence is more potent than a grimy-faced ragdoll...
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan...
...dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl. He was dealing with D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
...Stephenson had really lived in Dallas, and so had Hiram Evans, dentist, salesman, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. They used to work together. The Wizard told Mr. Stephenson the system and the blurb of the K. K. K. They hatched a scheme. For four years after that, D. C. Stephenson moved among the virgin fields of Indiana, getting members for the Klan. For every $10 initiation fee he was paid $4. He took in several hundred thousand members and made so much money that he got into trouble with the national Klan.* He was ready, he thought...
...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...