Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard, resplendent in purple and gold, smiled and bowed hat in hand as he proudly led some 30,000 to 50,000 Klansmen and Klanswomen down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the Treasury.
Occasionally the crowds along the way applauded, but there was neither cheering nor jeering. The parade marched and was reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months agoa national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or...
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