It was inside Cadle’s domain that the Klan gave one of its largest bribes to a minister that spring—$600. Readers of Tolerance could compare that with other Protestant payoffs, a list of preachers who’d been bought by Stephenson to spike the faith with Klan poison, the “subsidized evangelists,” as they were called by O’Donnell. Most of the ministers were handed $50 to sell souls on the Klan, but a few were given as much as $250—nearly half a year’s salary for a butcher or baker.
