SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN
Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office
At a slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign, Wm. M. Rogers of Indianapolis testified that Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, had shown him a card of membership in the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire, and swore that the card matched his own. Rogers said the order existed for personages who wished their klan membership kept secret; the testimony followed Watson's recent denial that he belonged to the klan.
Testimony at an inquiry into campaign funds in Indiana's senatorial race names a republican senator from that state.
(Special to The Daily Worker) FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28. - Sponsored by the ku klux klan for the vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candidate for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, was identified this afternoon as a sworn member of the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire in a new sensation developing at the slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign.
This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M. Rogers, of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan's highest and most secretive organization. Rogers swore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and that Watson's card matched his own.
This came in the fact of Watson's recent denial of membership in the klan, but Rogers explained that this imperial order of the masters' organization was maintained solely for important political personages who desired that their klan membership should be kept secret. * * *
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SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN
Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office
At a slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign, Wm. M. Rogers of Indianapolis testified that Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, had shown him a card of membership in the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire, and swore that the card matched his own. Rogers said the order existed for personages who wished their klan membership kept secret; the testimony followed Watson's recent denial that he belonged to the klan.
Testimony at an inquiry into campaign funds in Indiana's senatorial race names a republican senator from that state.
(Special to The Daily Worker) FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28. - Sponsored by the ku klux klan for the vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candidate for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, was identified this afternoon as a sworn member of the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire in a new sensation developing at the slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign.
This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M. Rogers, of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan's highest and most secretive organization. Rogers swore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and that Watson's card matched his own.
This came in the fact of Watson's recent denial of membership in the klan, but Rogers explained that this imperial order of the masters' organization was maintained solely for important political personages who desired that their klan membership should be kept secret. * * *
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SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN
Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office
At a slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign, Wm. M. Rogers of Indianapolis testified that Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, had shown him a card of membership in the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire, and swore that the card matched his own. Rogers said the order existed for personages who wished their klan membership kept secret; the testimony followed Watson's recent denial that he belonged to the klan.
Testimony at an inquiry into campaign funds in Indiana's senatorial race names a republican senator from that state.
(Special to The Daily Worker) FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28. - Sponsored by the ku klux klan for the vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candidate for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, was identified this afternoon as a sworn member of the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire in a new sensation developing at the slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign.
This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M. Rogers, of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan's highest and most secretive organization. Rogers swore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and that Watson's card matched his own.
This came in the fact of Watson's recent denial of membership in the klan, but Rogers explained that this imperial order of the masters' organization was maintained solely for important political personages who desired that their klan membership should be kept secret. * * *
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SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN
Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office
At a slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign, Wm. M. Rogers of Indianapolis testified that Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, had shown him a card of membership in the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire, and swore that the card matched his own. Rogers said the order existed for personages who wished their klan membership kept secret; the testimony followed Watson's recent denial that he belonged to the klan.
Testimony at an inquiry into campaign funds in Indiana's senatorial race names a republican senator from that state.
(Special to The Daily Worker) FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28. - Sponsored by the ku klux klan for the vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candidate for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, was identified this afternoon as a sworn member of the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire in a new sensation developing at the slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign.
This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M. Rogers, of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan's highest and most secretive organization. Rogers swore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and that Watson's card matched his own.
This came in the fact of Watson's recent denial of membership in the klan, but Rogers explained that this imperial order of the masters' organization was maintained solely for important political personages who desired that their klan membership should be kept secret. * * *
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 30, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN
Hoosier Is Hooked Up With Imperial Office
At a slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign, Wm. M. Rogers of Indianapolis testified that Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, had shown him a card of membership in the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire, and swore that the card matched his own. Rogers said the order existed for personages who wished their klan membership kept secret; the testimony followed Watson's recent denial that he belonged to the klan.
Testimony at an inquiry into campaign funds in Indiana's senatorial race names a republican senator from that state.
(Special to The Daily Worker) FEDERAL BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28. - Sponsored by the ku klux klan for the vice-presidential nomination in 1924 and hailed as its potential candidate for the presidency in 1928, Senator James E. Watson, republican of Indiana, was identified this afternoon as a sworn member of the secret Imperial Council of the Invisible Empire in a new sensation developing at the slush fund inquiry into Indiana's senatorial campaign.
This testimony was given Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, by Wm. M. Rogers, of Indianapolis, who declared Watson had shown him a card of membership in the klan's highest and most secretive organization. Rogers swore he, too, was a member of the Imperial Council and that Watson's card matched his own.
This came in the fact of Watson's recent denial of membership in the klan, but Rogers explained that this imperial order of the masters' organization was maintained solely for important political personages who desired that their klan membership should be kept secret. * * *
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 30, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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