... Klan. Membership reached four million by 1925. For a Klansmen to be arrested for their serious crimes, was a very rare occurrence, and even when it happened, Klansmen were unlikely to be convicted by local Southern juries. "But where it was strong the Invisible Empire elected scores of local officials, state legislators, a few governors, several national representatives, including Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, William J. Harris ... life in jail. When Henry Hays was tried for murder six months later, Knowles appeared as chief prosecution witness. Hays was then found guilty and was executed...

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