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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
HOME EDITION
TEN PAGES
PRICE IN AUSTIN 3 CTS.
VOL. 53 -NO. 51.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1924
LOEB ACTUAL SLAYER OF BOBBY FRANKS
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Klan Politics Fiercely Assailed at Ferguson Meeting
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BALDWIN DEFENDS; TRAVIS ATTACKS, MANAGER PLAN
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AMERICAN FLYERS
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FACING PERILOUS
PLEDGE SUPPORT
By IL IL SMITH
Emma Goldman
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LOEB WITHOUT SOUL
EMMA GOLDMAN
one hour,
ussion in
Mr. Travs spoke for about
persons’ crowded into
district
the
revolution breaks, 100,000,000 Russians
both a humorous and serious Way and
will be
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Charles
WALTON BEHIND IN " Pedigo Dissects Manager
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recincts out of 99’
,095;
GOVERNMENT TO SUPPLY
FARMERS WITH EXPLOSIVE AGED GEORGETOWN MAN
DIES VERY SUDDENLY
TOTCLEAR THEIR LANDS
THE WEATHER
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From Iceland to the Coast of
Greenland Round-the-World
Aviators Will Be Confronted
By Grave Dangers.
IN CHARTER CAMPAIGN
STIRS KEEN INTEREST;
DEBATORS APPLAUDED
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With Ice Conditiohs the Worst
in Many Years Flyers May
Be Forced to Refuel in the
Open Sea.
The One Doubtful Point in Chi-
cago’s Most Amazing Crime
Definitely Cleared Up By De-
fendant’s Own Admission;
REPORTED AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT PROVES FALSE
Hundreds of the Capital’s Most
Prominent Men and Women
Participate in Wildly Enthusi-
astic Rally.
Wife of Comedian Ed Gallagher
Says She Was to Be Starred
on Screen.
BIG CROWD EXPECTED
TONIGHT AT DEBATE
ON CITY M’G’R FORM
world flight in company with the two
other fliers.
Lieutenant Wade’s original craft, the
man. 26,544;
7195.
definiteness the manner of the selec-
tion of this council, or board of political
control for Austin,” Mr. Pedigo de-
clared.
Once the council is selected and the
lay,
Pire
ber
ery
Former Governor Is More Than
3000 Votes Below Opponent
for U. S. Senate.
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OXYGEN CARTRIDGE
MAY BE PERFECTED
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and seventy-
6 gave How-
pression of free utterance now prevail-
ing in that unhappy country.”
OKLAHOMA ELECTION;
KLAN'S MAN LEADING
Alienist Testifies That Youthful
Murderer Is Absolutely Barren
of All Human Emotions and
Sensibilities.
"MASTERMIND'
OF MURDER PALS
ADMITS HAVING
WIELDED CHISEL
Charter; Sees Danger To
Our Political Liberties
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Approximately 250 persons at Wooldridge Park Tuesday night
heard A. C. Baldwin, proponent of the commission-manager form of
government, set up the structure of the city manager plan that will
be submitted to voters of the city next Saturday and then heard
Edmunds Travis, chairman of the Commission Government League,
take down that structure plank by plank, starting from the top and
working down to what Mr. Travis termed a “faulty” foundation.
--------;----------- Mr. Baldwin spoke without any fag
peakers were introduced, by
B. Cook, chairman of the City
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
Bolshevism Worse AUSTIN CITIZENSFIRST JOINT DEBATE
Than Czarism. Says
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Fiery Speeches Feature Meeting
in District Court Room; Judge
Victor Brooks Serves as the
Chairman.
ACTRESS CLAIMS TO
HAVE ‘FALLEN FOR’'
ADMIRER’S PROMISES
all pet
The
A large crowd is expected to attend
Wednesday night the debate at Wool-
dridge Park on the merits of the city
manager form of government. Ike D.
White will point out the advantages
of the manager farm, while Edmunds
Travis, chairman of the Commission
DALLAS, Texas. Aug. S— Mrs.
George nine, saleslady ut La Mode
department store was probanly fatally
shot today by a well-dressed woman
who entered the store and fired four
shots into her body. Mrs. Edna curlee
was taken into custody by a police-
man who quoted her as saying domes-
tic. troubles caused the shooting.
Mrs. Bine was reported in a critical
condition.
rach. '
"About hanging he said in the most
unemotional way that it would be too
bad he would not get to read .about
Concerning Loeb’s “phantasy ure" .
Dr. olueck said Loeb told of the origin
of them, particularly toward picturing
than 3000. One thousand
sECoND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. EJTABLISHED is::
East Texas: Tonight and Thursday
partly cloudy possibly local thunder-
showers in northern portion: cooler In
northwestern portion tonight and In
northern portion Thursday.
West Texas: Tonight and Thursday
partly cloudy, probably showers In ex-
treme west portion; cooler In east cen-
tral portion tonight.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 6.—Proposals
of marriage and promises of a well
financed film career were made in a
Pullman state room in which she and
Jack White, wealthy mming man, were
speeding westward toward Hollywood
and the movies. Ann Luther, actress,
testified here in her $160,000 suit
against White for alleged breach of
an agreement to star her in motion
pictures.
White told the superior court Jury
of eleven Women and one man that it
was Miss Luther who lured him across
the continent to help her get started
In the films, and that it was only after
they arrived here that he learned she
was the wife of Ed Gallagher.
Miss Luther remained on the stand
all of yesterday to deny these accu-
sations. and she described in detail
how White. after persuading her to
go to California with him to be starred
in pictures at his expense, tiled the
journey from New York to Hollywood
with proposals that they go to Mexico
and marry, although he had a wife
and child.
WOMAN SHOOTS WOMAN
IN DALLAS; DOMESTIC
TROUBLES CAUSE TRAGEDY
EL PASO, exas, Aug. 6-Rumora
yesterdy tha Mrs. Dudley Golding,
wife of a prominent Wichita Falls
golfer was killed in an automobile Ac-
cidont near here, proved false when
Mr. and Mrs, Golding were found at
a local hotel.
They were unable to explain how
rhe ronert oines nireulsition
Rturns from the Republican pri-
mary were slower coming in and by
afternoon only 645 of the 2996 pre-
cincts had reported: W. B. Pine, sup-
ported by the klan, had 16,524. The
other Republican candidates stood:
Loreton, 8710; Scott, 4292.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. —Explosives
enough to fill n freight _ train forty
miles long are to be given away by
the government to farmers for clear-
ing land and to the state governments
for highway construction.
Announcement was made today that
100,000,000 pounds of pyrotol, part of
th© vast supplies of explosives gath-
ered by the government for the World
War, soon would be made available
to state agencies through the bureau
of public lands. •
Recipients must stand the cost of
preparation and shipment.
preservation with any thought than
that of “dust to dust” and ashes to
ashes’’ is infinitely the better method
of disposition.
Nono of us want criticism in life.
Few of us want even our loved ones
to view us after death. None of us
want cold strangers giving us the crit-
ical once-over a thousand or two years
from now and maybe taking us to i
pieces to see how it was done and
making souvenirs out of the remains.
Seven Kansas banks whch have
been in receiverships will re-open this
month. The reason is the rese in the
price of wheat and other farm prod-
ucts. When the farmer prospers the
cities soar. ' '
The reason for the rise in the price
of wheat is a little insect in Canada
and Europe which blightec the wheat
crops of those countries. The law of
supply and demand is at work among
the wheat raisers. But tto agents of
nine pi
ard 42.
voters of Austin? the speaker asked.
Digressing at this point for a brief
time, the speaker said that he had
been somewhat of a student of po-
litical history and he desred to call
attention to a few historical facts
which were, or ought to be, obvious
to the most casual student of his-
tory. Referring to Louis XIV, the one-
man autocrat, whose reign was in its
day one of the most magnificent in
Europe or in the world at that time.
Mr. Pedigo briefly outlined the steady
acquisition of power exercised by that
monarch. "Human nature is the same
today that it was in the days of Louis
XIV, and history teaches the plain and
unvarnished truth that the exercise of
power by one, two, three or five men
is one of the most dangerous and
Walton, 38.928; Wrights-
Gore, 23,042; Freeling,
A western candidate for the Demo-
cratio nomination for prosecuting at-
torney is nearly as shrewd as the Re-
publican politicians. He was defeat-
ed. And while his name was yet prom-
inent in the minds of his people he
a ’ gave out an interview declaring his
love for everybody and advising that,
since his people did not want him to
prosecute them if they did violate the
law, he would be glad to defend “any
citizen of the county who is unfor-
tunate enough to be accused of crime,
i That last line is a subtle expression
of confidence in the innocense of his
future clients “accused of crime." And
every criminal wants his lawyer to
think him innocent. That man will
succeed, if he never gets an office.
opinion approved
by the government was allowed
expression, every other utterance be-
ing suppressed. •
"The bolshevikl, like Christianity,
axe tramping under foot the principles
of commission just as the church
tramples on the spirit of Christianity.
"The first task of the revolutionary
anarchists should be the annihilation
of state and militarism.
“As soon as the dawn of the new
Manager Club, who made no comment
or explanation of the issues himself.
"Much has been said in this cam-
paign that has absolutely no founda-
tion and so many misrepresentations
have been made that it is pitiful to
hear some of these discussions," Mr.
Baldwin declared in opening his ad-
dress.
Baldwin Defends Charter.
"You have been told that we propose
to get a burgomaster to rule you, that
lie propose to employ a dictator to lord
(t over you, that we want to introduce
a system of government* tending to the
ruination of your city, to disfranchise
the voters and to place the burden of
(Continued on Page Three.)
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There are thirty-three widows of the
war of 1812 drawing pensions from the
federal government. The oldest of them
is 105 yoars of ago.
The last pensioned widow of the rev-
olutionary war died in 1906 at the age
of 96. The last pensioned soldier of
the revolutionary war died in 1869 at
the age of 109 years.
War does not seem to be the devital-
ixing thing it is reputed to be. From
/ 1909 to 1924, according to statistical re-
* ports, the average span of human life
increased from fifty-six years to sixty-
one years. And this in spite of our
participation in ths world war.
In 2056, at the same rate of increase,
the average span of human life will be
a century.
eulogized Mrs. Ferguson and assailed
bitterly Felix Robertson and the Ku
Klux Klan. The resolution commit-
tee, headed by Judge Charles Rogan,
endorsed Mrs. Ferguson for governor
and Dan Moody for attorney general,
and condemned in no uncertain terms
the political activities, of the u Klux
Klan.
Judge Victor Brooks, whose selec-
tion as chairman of the meeting elicit-
ed much spontaneous applause, Sena-
tor Pau Page of Bastrop, and Major
A. V. Dalrymple, the three speakers
of the evening, all flayed the klan.
H. A. Wroe, who had charge of the
meeting before a chairman was elect-
ed, expressed his unqualified approval
of Mrs. Ferguson’s candidacy, and
said he was not fearful of Mrs. Fergu-
son’s stand toward higher education.
It was evident throughout the meet-
ing that Ferguson supporters will
make a desperate fight to carry Travis
army air service to send an irplane
Md
know when to speak.
There will be a shower of stars dur-
each of his sallies was greeted with
either applause of laughter." In several
instance Mr. Travis challenged Mr.
Baldwin on the logic -of his argumet
and urged the voters not to go to the
polls_next Saturday and adopt R fanlty
charter regardless of who drafted it.
He declared that a government strne-
ture is no better than its foundation
and that having a faulty ' charter to
start with, the city manager form of
govern men could not be expected to be
Uncle Sam makes the enthusiastic
report that the Alaskan Eskimos pos-
sessed nothing thirty years ago, while
now, under government regulation,
they have brought their possessions to
$5,000,000 in property.
That sounds like benevolent pater-
nalism. But the Eskimo’s view of the
matter probably would be, that thirty
years ago he possessed the whole
wealth of Alaska, while now, under
government regulation, he has left to
him only $5,000,000 of it.
Lo, the poor Indian, probably would
join the Eskimo in his plaint, too.
Boston, was wrecked near Fa toe
Islands. The substitute will be chris-
tened the Boaton II. It is the extra
Douglas machine used by the pilots
during training for the flight and will
be flown from Langley Field by Lieu-
tenant George C. McDonald.
Both the white house and war de-
partment have been besieged since the
mfshap io Leutenant Wide to make
some arrangements to permit him to
finish the flight. After safely negoti-
ating 19,000 miles and almost crossing
the two oceans, it was argued, every
(Continued on Tago Four.)
By Associated Press.
REYKJAVIK. Iceland, Aug. 6.—Lieu-
tenants Lowell II. Smith and Erik
Nelson, th© United States army world
aviators, expect to remain here sev-
eral days following their stormy trip
from Hoef Hornafjord on the eastern
Iceland coast yesterday. The fliers
said they could start on their Green-
land flight today except for the un-
certainty of the situation at Angmag-
salik, where the worst ice condition in
years is reprted.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. •.—Possibili-
ties of developing a successful cart-
ridge ingredient from the absorption
of liquid oxygen are to be investi-
gated by G. S. J. Perrott, associate
physical chemist of the department of
interlr, who has been detailed to ob-
serve methods employed* in the use
of such oxygen explosives in a silver
lead mine near Pachuca, Mexico.
Th© Pachuca mine, which has used
lignite oxygen for several years, is the
only mine in North America employ-
ing the explosive in daily blasting
operations. The Com pan la de Deal
Del Monte y Pachuca, a subsidiary of
an American corporation, operates its
own liquidifying oxygen plant at the
mine.
Other experimental work expected
to be taken up by Mr. Perrott is the
"use of cartridges sd sentitive as to
detonate with fuse alone and requir-
ing no fulminat cap.
drinktg. , ,
"His final relationship to the Franks
situation was made possible by the
strange and peculiar assoclation which
arose between Leopold and Loeb. From
all I conclude m> impression is der:
imite that Loeb ie sutteriog from a
disordered personality, that tbe nature
of this -disorder -primariy is a pro-
found discord between his emotional
and intellectual lite. and this boy.
while capable of orienun h.msclf In-
tellectunfty. Is quite Incapable of en-
dowing these surroundings with an
adequate emotion . In this sense he
might be looked upon as disintesreted:
had built
new state
Hyde Park voters assembled on the
lawn of the Hyde Park Christian
Church Tuesday night to listen to
anti-manager speakers present the
reasons why th city manager form
of government should be decisively de-
feated at the polls Saturday, Aug. 9.
E. R. Pedigo led in the presentation
of reasons for the defeat of the city
manager plan, delivering one of the
most stirring speeches of the cam-
paign. Frequent outbursts of applause
greeted Mr. Pedigo’s analysis of th
city manager plan proposed for the
municipal government of Austin and
throughout the speaker’s address the
audience of 150 men and women fre-
quently applauded vigorously.
Warning his hearers that the fas-
tening of the city manager type of
muncipal government on Austin would
'result in the building up of a self-
perpetuating political machine at the
city hall, Mr. Pedigo called attention
to the vague provision in the charter
for the selection of a group of five
men who would, as the political board
of control of th© affairs of Austin,
choose from qmong their own number
a mayor of Austin. This mayor to
be selected by the “council” under the
city manager form of government will
not V© a representative of the people
of Austin chosen by the voters of
this city at th© polls, Mr. Pedigo told
his hearers, but will be the representa-
tive of the select political clique which
is subtilely provided for in the pro-
posed amendment to the city charter.
“I don't know how this council or
board of control of Austin’s affairs
Is to be chosen or selected," Mr. Ped-
igo said, “as there is not the slightest
Indication in the amendment itself as
to the method for selecting this coun-
cil. Neither has anyone of the pro-
ponents of th© city manager Idea at-
tempted to explain with any degree of
Science ha® perfected a new process
of embalming by which a human body,
for an expenditure of $60 to $75 may
be given an electro-plating treatment
which will preservg every line of face
• of figure and preserve the body for-
ever. The “plating” consists of from Ve
to V4-inch of copper, and this plating
in turn may be covered with gold or
silver if desired.
Writers on the subject praise the
new process highly, and suggest that
our war profiteer® and other plutocrats
may wish to preserve their bodies for
the inspection of generations centuries
hence.
But no man who watches the present
day treatment of the Egyptian mum-
mies can view the idea of permanent
waving or oratory and pointed out
vrhat he claimed were the merits of the
city manager plan and how it is
superior to the present commission
form of government. He was given
close attention by hts audiene and
only a few times was Mr Baldwin in-
terrupted with a lippie of applause.
Mr. Baldwin spoke for an hour and
fifteen minutes and based his plea for
tho adoption of the city manager
chatter on the. idea that the city
legislators wh) make the laws ought
nt to be reuira1 to enforce them as
is now being dcre under the corAmis
£‛or form of ac • ermnent.
Travis- DissscgEa’dwn’s Arguments.
menacing things in human experi-
ence; its evil effects are not lone
confined to the. people upon whom the
exercise of autocratic power is im-
posed but it always reacts upon the
man or men wo exercise that power,
as does disease and mental malady.
Today a man may be in the full en-
joyment of his mental and physical
powers and tomorrow he may be ir-
responsible, mentally unsound and a
e not only to socfety at large
but to those more immediately related
to him in business, politics or in d
professional capacity,” Mr. Pedig de-
clared. 'Thu® it is in the exercise of
political power. Who knows what to-
morrow may bring forth. The man
(Continued on PauA Thre)
Charles W. Bryan expresses concern
less the defense day mobilization® will
disrupt industry. That is not what
Charles W. mean® at all. He is
throwing out a "feeler" to the ultra
progressive.
If he must speak, he ought to speak
plainly. But he should be reminded
that he is now the off wheel horse of
a great political party, and that he
ought to think twice, and then verify
his conclusion, before he spaks at all.
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-d-hnstt*------Ai nuncell- .— - -- - a ger form.
GEORGETOWN, Texas, Aug. 6.—J.
W. Askew, 77 years of age, died sud-
denly at a late hour Monday afternoon
of heart failure and was buried Tues-
day in the Presbyterian Cemetery in
this city. Mr. Askew was born in
Tennessee, coming to Texas in 1850
when a small child. The family located
in Williamson county and have con-
tinuously resided here.
Deceased was never married and
leaves surviving him three sisters, Mrs.
F. H. Brincklum, Misses Tina and Joe
Askew, all of whom made their home
with him on the Askew ranch south of
town.
italistic and as mil-
itaristic as the Rus-
sia of the Roman-
offs. "While cap-’
italism is supreme
in Holland, at least
there is freedom of
propaganda, where-
as’ in Russia only
By Associated Press,
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.— Dr Bernard
Glueck of New York, testified at the
Franks hearing this morning that
Richard Loeb throughout his mehtal
examination of him had admitted that
he struck the blow’ with a cold chisel
which killed Bobby Franks.
Throughout the investigation of tho
connectioh of Loeb and Nathan F. Leo-
pold Jr., with the murder, the matter
of who actually struck the fatal blow
had been the unsolved mystery. Both
youths, while -confessing to the kid-
naping and slaying, accused the other.
Two defense alienists previously on
the witness stand had failed, they tes-
tified, to ask the boys as to which had ,
struck the fatal blow and the state
had been unable to bring out the point.
Lpeb remained impassive when Dr.
Glueck testified that he had killed
Bobby Franks. Leopold leaped for-
ward, a grimace on his face, smiled .
sloivy and talked with counsel.
"I took up with Loeb the Franks
crime and asked him to tell of it,” Dr.
Glueck said. "Loeb replied in a most
matter of fact way. narrated without
any squeamishness all the details and
planning of the crime. He showed no
remorse, no regret, no passion or love,
and as he kept on talking it became
evident to me that he was utterly de-
void of emotional responses. -
"I never saw such profound dispar-
ity. He told me of his little brother
of .whom he was most fond. Yet he
had considered him as a possible vic-
tim. Even here he showed no emo-
tional response. He explained his mat,-
ter-of-factness by saying that he had
nothing within him that might call
forth any such response.
"He does not take seriously at all
his present situation. My whole im-
pression of him, based upon my ex-
perience, is that of a person who was
in a. disordered state of some .sort.”
"Did Loeb tell you anything else,
doctor?” asked Defense Attorney Bach;
mayor of Austin in turn selected by
the council, who will be the political
guardians of the affairs ot the city —----- ■
and of the political fortunes of the himseif 112 a . . .,g nn nor
- - - • 1 The witness snid- it Was an unfor-
tunate experience that Loeb, so early
in vears, fourteen, started through col-
lege. He was not equipped, he de-
clared. and so consistently Indulged in
a number of dissipations, including
Men and women, high in the pro-
fessional and business life of Austin
and Travis county, participated Tues-
day night in a rousing, wildly en-
thusiastic "Miriam A. Ferguson for
governor” meeting. More than 600
The soviets were perpetrating a
great lie on the world when they said
that the Russian people were free, de-
clared Emma Goldman, famed an-
archist, in an ad-
dress in The Hague.
Miss Goldman,
who was deported
from the United
States for her rad-
ical activities aa-
erted that the bol-
ing the present month, the greatest
known in year®, according to astron-
omers. If the showers prove delight-
ful the agents of the Republicans will
point out that the language of General
Dawes started th $ shower, while if a
large meteorite by chance should fall
or some city with disastrous results,
the blame for the shower will be laid
on the Democrats.
l jv
county for their candidate. H. A.
Wroe was named general chairman of
th© organization that will fight for
Mrs. Ferguson in this county.
On the campaign committee were
placed many of Travis county’s out-
standing citizens. The list was not
• (Continued on Page Two.)
An Austin
Owned Newspaper
By Associated Press."
LONDON, Aug. 6.—Safely at Rey-
kjavik, capital of Iceland, after a
strenuous battle against a gala during
their five-hour trip from the east
coast yesterday, the American army
aviators are turning their eyes to far-
off Greenland.
Between them and their next goal
and along a route which parallels the
Antic Cirole, stretch 590 miles of
bleak water, part of which is blocked
by ice fields, conditions being the
Wort in years for this season.
The Danish steamer Gertrude .Rask,
entrusted with delivering supplies for
the airmen at ngmagsalik, their next
scheduled stop, reported yesterday by
wireless that she was frozen and drift-
ing with the ice, being unable to ful-
fill her mission.
Latest advices from the aviators
said Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, com-,
mander of the expedition was in con-
ference with Lieutenant Eric Nelson,
the other remaining pilot, and the
convoying naval officers as to the
next step.
The fliers may be fared with the al-
ternatives of refueling near the edge
of the ice field, landing in the open
water near the Gertrude Rask, or fly-
ing directly to Ivigtuk, on the south-
west coast of Greenland Instead of at-
tempting to stop at Angmgsalik.
WASHINGTON, Auk. Arrange-
ments were completed today by the
By Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. t-Ku
Klux Klan endorsed candidates for the
United States senate continued to in-
crease their leads as returns from yes-
terday's primary elections came in to-
day.
E. B. Howard, congressman, klan
endorsee, had increased his lead over
J. • C. Walton, avowed enemy of the
klan in the Democratic race to more
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