While campaigning against alcohol, she’d fallen in with the Anti-Saloon League, her gateway to the Ku Klux Klan. They shared many of the same values, rooted in a militant evangelism. “The father and mother of the Ku Klux Klan is the Anti-Saloon League,” said Clarence Darrow, an assertion that few would dispute. Stephenson modeled his Klan on the well-oiled Anti-Saloon League, using the same Protestant churches as his recruitment base. He envied something else about it—no lobby in America held more power over Congress.
