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Great-nephew of the wizard-of-oil, son of William G. Rockefeller, grandson of James Stillman, this stalwart scion of honorable American lines, gazed, brooding, on the horizon. Bending among his men on a mid-thwart, he had swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...
...Creager of Texas went away somewhat discomfited. But another Texan went away feeling much better. He was Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, a dentist by profession. Dr. Evans thrives in the regalia of Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...high nomenclature, he is a modest man, who describes himself as "the most average man in America," and who once said to his Knights: "We have not been appointed by Almighty God or any Imperial Wizard to go out meddling in other people's business. . . . Get behind...
...Imperial Wizard...
Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration...