From The Indianapolis News , Monday, January 25, 1926: Indianapolis attorney Charles Orbison was appointed imperial klaliff (vice president) of the Ku Klux Klan national organization by imperial wizard Hiram Evans at a Hotel Lincoln banquet attended by 300 Indiana Klansman yesterday evening. Orbison will receive an annual salary of $12,000 ( 2024 : $217,000). He succeeds local attorney Walter Bossert who had relinquished the office as well as the position of Indiana gran