Word: kluxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign, John W. Davis traveled from his Manhattan headquarters down to Seagirt, N. J., as a guest of Governor Silzer of that State. He spoke first of Wilson, then of the Oil and Veterans' Bureau scandals, of the Fordney-McCumber tariff, of Foreign Affairs, of the Ku Klux Klan...
Dear Mr. Allen-In reply to your letter, which has been brought to my attention, I answer the question in the same direct manner you put it; by saying that I am not, never have been and will not become a member of the Ku Klux Klan. I trust that in my coming speech of acceptance I shall make my position on the great question of religious toleration too plain for any misunderstanding or dispute. Yours sincerely, (Signed) JOHN W. DAVIS. Devere Allen, Esq. 396 Broadway, New York...
...Robert P. Scripps, New York City. Dear Mr. Scripps-Your letter of Aug. 1 received. You ask where I stand on the Ku Klux Klan. Similiar inquiries have come to me from others. I take the liberty of making my answer to you public. This will inform all those interested in knowing my attitude on this question. . . . I am unalterably opposed to the evident purpose of the secret organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, as disclosed by its public acts...
...office, and riding in his automobile in the evening. Of speeches he has made none. In writing, every now and then? just often enough to keep on the front page?he injects himself into the public mind at regular intervals: writing a letter on the Ku Klux Klan, wiring the American Federation of Labor to thank it for its endorsement...
Next day, a South Dakota Bishop, Bernard J. Mahoney, performed a paradox. He condemned the Ku Klux Klan without naming it and at the same time scored the two larger political Conventions for having failed to name it in their condemnations...