Guns, poll watchers, KKK & the Horse Thief Detective Association (vigilantes) were facts. Prior to May 1925 primary elections the former head of the KKK, D.C. Stephenson, was arrested & later convicted of Murder. The Indls PD Chief issued orders “to keep members of the 1/4

Horse Thief Detective Association far away from all public polling places. The association, of course, had once been an integral part of Stephenson’s organization - the ‘enforcement’ arm of the Klan. On voting days in the past, members had turned out in large numbers 2/4

to intimidate anti-Klan voters, driving through black neighborhoods and displaying their guns as a warning for the blacks to stay home.” Lutholtz, “Grand Dragon,” Purdue Univ. Press, 1991, p. 213. Guns & poll watchers are part of Indiana’s history & how many ppl were racists. 3/4

We need to understand our history so that we don’t allow others to repeat it against us. I’m Mark Small, pro-separation of church & State, pro-choice, pro environment, pro-civil rts & anti-gun GOP nominee for Indiana House Distr 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 4/4