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	“There was no secret society or order ot Ku Klux lu reach of us as I ever heard. V ~

	~I voted Republican ticket. We would ~o to J‘ackaou to vote. There wpuld . be a crowd. The last I voted was for Theodore Roo8evelt ~ I voted

here in Helena for yeara. I was on the petit jury for several years here iii Helena. ~

	“1 farmed in your atate sane (Arkansas) . I farmed ai]. my young life. I been in Arkansas sixty years. I come here February 1879 wIth distant relatives. They OŒflø south. ehen I come to Helena there was but one set of mechanics0 ~ I started to work. I learned to paint and hang wall paper.

I‘ve worked in nearly every house in Relena.	-

	“The present times are gloomy. I tried to prepare for old ace. I had a apartment house and lo8t it. I owned a home and lost it~ They foreclosed
	rae out.	~ .

	“The present generation. is not doing as well as I have,

	$~y heailth knocked me out. My limbs swell, they are stiff. I have a bad bladder trouble. V

	RI asked for help but never have got none, If I could got a little

relief I never would lost my house. They work my wife to death keeping us from starving, She sewed till they cut off a~i but white ladies. When she got sixty—five they let her go and she got a little job cooking. They never give us no relief.“