County Democrats Propose Political Klan Elimination

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, January 7, 1926:  Four hundred precinct committeepersons, ward chairs, and other prominent members of the Marion County Democratic Party adopted resolutions last evening pledging to fight to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan from controlling politics in the county.  The resolutions called upon, “all fair-minded citizens regardless of past political affiliations to join in eliminating the Ku Klux Klan and its leaders from all political control in Marion County [and to] resist all efforts of the Klan to nominate candidates in the Democratic primary or to control the Democratic organization.” It was understood veteran party leader Thomas Taggart thoroughly approved and the weight of Marion County with its big block of delegates will make a bitter fight at the coming Democratic state convention against “pussyfooting” on the adoption of an anti-Klan plank in the party platform.

“County Democrats Propose Political Klan Elimination,” The Indianapolis Star, 7 January 1926, p. 1:2