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Brigadier General C. E. Sawyer. M. D. to President Harding, laid low a baseless rumor: " Stories that Warren G. Harding belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and that an initiation was held in the state dining-room of the White House are, in my opinion, baseless. They are taking advantage of a man when he can no longer speak for himself...
Oklahoma continued her fireworks (TIME, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Oct. 8). The Legislature wanted to meet to impeach Governor Walton. The Governor shouted his desire to strangle the Ku Klux Klan, at the same time using both hands to hold off the Legislature. He could not do both...
...special election the Legislature secured the right to meet. Then Mr. Walton, seeing resistance vain, went the Legislators one better ?he ordered them to meet, but specified that it was to devote its power to-annoy exclusively to the Ku Klux Klan. At any rate, the Legislature was called for Oct. 11, with the Governor preparing to fight for his place in the halls of the law givers and the courts of the law definers...
...Klux Klan's " efforts to supplant organized government, to promote religious intolerance, racial antagonisms and bigotry...
...State of Oklahoma between its Governor, its Legislature, its Ku Klux Klan, its Supreme Court and its National Guard is very much at odds with itself. The Legislature desired to impeach Governor Jack Walton for attempting to be " dictator " by putting the state under martial law to suppress outrages attributed to the K. K. K. The Governor had not called a special session, but the Legislators decided that they had the right to meet under the bill of rights in the State Constitution...