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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...
...achievement of this end he placed foremost the question of child labor. He condemned the use of injunctions against Labor, the Ku Klux Klan and radical activities in Labor...
...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...
Supporters of the governor have bound themselves with a host of estimates which they have attempted to juggle into a position favorable to him Through intimidation by the Klan and the sheriffs of the enemy some 275,000, they judge, have been frightened out of voting against the special session. With some thirteen hundred precincts still to be heard from, it is possible that some of the 275,000 may have bucked up enough courage to vote after all, perhaps not always in the governor's favor...