Now he instructed his agents to compile dossiers on local public servants, dissenters, and troublemakers. He also ordered them to create a file on every person of voting age, with particular emphasis on those who might be enemies of the Klan. Along with “Bootleggers and Bolsheviks,” the edict singled out “All Jews, All Negroes, All Roman Catholics.” Across the state, men with badges and no uniforms took to the field as the eyes and ears of a very ambitious Klansman.
