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  • Tags: Will C. Edwards

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Discussion of the sensationalism in "Birth of a Nation" and defense by the Denton Record-Chronicle whose editorial staff compared the film to "the loveliness of a rose-gold dawn, the awe-inspiring spectacle of a stormy sky, the majesty of snow-capped…

Congressional Record Blanton Speech 1924-12-03.pdf
Speech by Congressman Thomas L. Blanton (TX-16) about the Ku Klux Klan's candidates in the 1924 primary election. Blanton lists Will C. Edwards as the Klan candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Strong
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Danner
Mme. H. F. Schweer
Mme. L. H. Schweer
Mme. P. Lipscomb
Mme. J. W. Sullivan
Mme. J. W. Simmons
Mme. W. C. Edwards

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"Denton County has never had a lynching. It went through without any such trouble. But in the relatively recent year of 1897 it came very near to mutilating that good record. Only the alertness of the sheriff in secretly removing to another county…

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Those who have argued that lynchings and burnings and other expressions of mob violence are not a deterrent for those contemplating crimes similar to those so punished will find considerable support for their contentions in two Texas communities.…

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DRC Editor Says No Visible Klan in Denton

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This editorial not only expresses support for the Ku Klux Klan, but it also explains the raison d'etat of the Klan itself.
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