Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came back by a combination of cleverness and good fortune. He put up his wife to run for Governor. She ran second in the first Democratic primary. In the second Democratic primary Texas had the choice between her and the man who ran first?who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Texas, intent on repudiating the Klan, chose Mrs. Ferguson to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. In the election she beat the Republican nominee 1) because she was a Democrat, and 2) because she was anti-Klan. Last January she was inaugurated with a great ball (TIME...
...primary, but the New men helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge was defeated in the election by his Democratic opponent Samuel M. Ralston. In 1924 there was no senatorial election in Indiana, but Ed. Jackson with the support of the Beveridgites and the Ku Klux Klan managed to squeeze into the Governorship...
...materialize. Mr. Smith said it was too much to expect states to reduce their expenses as much as the Federal Government had done, because the states had no war expenses to clean away. From then on he did not touch on another national issue-not Prohibition, nor the Ku Klax Klan. The crowd applauded but it did not go wild...
...four were: Robert M. LaFollette Jr., running on his father's platform; Roy Porter Wilcox, onetime state senator, candi- date of the Republican state organization, Francis E. McGovern, former Governor (1911-15) running on a compromise Coolidge-La Fol- lette platform; and Daniel Woodward, "Coolidge-Dawes" candidate with Ku Klux support...
...buried with full honors by the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan, of which she was a member. Six masked Klansmen in regalia were her pallbearers...