Elsewhere, the Empire elected not just a governor in Colorado, Clarence Morley, but a United States senator, Rice Means. In Denver, an oath-bound Klansman, Ben Stapleton, survived a recall election in a city where one in seven voters had taken the same vows. “I will work with the Klan and for the Klan,” he pledged afterward. “I shall give the Klan the kind of administration it wants.” As promised, he named a Klan police chief and filled the prosecutor’s office and law enforcement with fellow brothers under the hood. The new governor promptly launched a campaign against Catholic sacramental
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