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...Stephenson,* I knew him. All politicians in Indiana knew Stephenson. . . . I always was afraid to give him my confidence, and never did, because there was something about the man that always warned me not to do it. I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit...
...Senators Watson or Robinson, or Governor Jackson to start an investigation of "super-government" in Indiana. Last week Mr. Adams threatened to force the calling of a special session of the Indiana Senate to consider the impeachment of Governor Jackson, if he was not allowed to interview D. C. Stephenson. Later in the week, Prosecutor Will H. Remy, who had sent Mr. Stephenson to jail, called for a grand jury investigation of Indiana's grime...
...Later, in 1924, Mr. Stephenson was ousted from the national Klan because he had violated his oath of allegiance and had been "disrespectful to virtuous womanhood." He had already organized an independent Klan, had himself chosen Grand Dragon; and then replied to his old friend, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans: "The present national head is an ignorant, uneducated, uncouth individual who picks his nose at the table and eats his peas with his knife. He has neither courage nor culture...
...story says he collected the jewels in a pint milk bottle, took it home full. -Mr. Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...
...Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...