A striking feature of the election is the political comeback of the Ku Klux Klan. The candidates endorsed by the masked organization have apparently scored sweeping victories in Indiana, Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma, and later returns may add Montana to the list. The one notable exception is Texas, where the anti-Klan Democrats for a second time in three months rallied to the support of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson and carried the woman candidate for Governor to an impressive triumph over Dr. George C. Butte, the Republican candidate, whose election the Republicans thought possible owing to the wholesale desertion of the Democratic ticket by the Klan voters.
The outstanding Klan victories were those of Ed Jackson for Governor of Indiana, Ben S. Paulen for Governor of Kansas, W. B. Pine, United States Senator from Oklahoma; Colonel Rice Means, United States Senator from Colorado and Clarence C. Morley for Governor of Colorado. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas is also said to have enjoyed a Klan endorsement and he won his re-election by the biggest majority of his career. All of these men are Republicans.
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