The next Klan was revived in 1915 in Georgia by Simmons. This Klan collected initiation fees from the members which was ten dollars per person. Edward Young Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler persuaded Simmons to give them a fourth of the profit that was being made from the Klan. They ended up receiving thirty- thousand dollars a week which meant that the Klan had a huge number of members. By 1924 the Klans population grew to four million people. The Klan had many phrases that they expressed publically. One of them being “100 percent Americans”. I know what you’re thinking. How did the Klan gain so many supporters and how did it become so popular? The Klan promised to “provide better schools, improve law enforcement, and hold fast to the traditional values being threatened by the socially permissive Roaring Twenties”. The Klan promised to improve the lives of the white people. They convinced people that everyone that wasn’t white was out to get them and to take away their rights.The Klan was populated by the Medias newspapers like the Boston Globe, St. Louis Post –Dispatch, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and the most popular The New World. The New World was dedicated to taking the Klan down because it saw past the ignorance that it was trying to spread. What the paper failed to realize was in the effort to put a stop to the spread of discrimination it ended up increasing the population of the Klan. In order to keep the attention of the readers the paper included cartoon artwork that portrayed the Klan in a negative way. Another newspaper, called the Commercial Appeal, attacked the Klan by announcing that it was a money making scam. In an attempt to put a stop to the papers writing negatively about the Klan, and after a rejection from Mayor Rowlett Paine to join the Klan, the Klan nominated W. Joe Wood, a Klan member, for mayor. The Klan tried to intimidate the mayor so that he would drop out of the race but they failed. The Klan members didn’t win the election and that disappointed them. The paper continued to attack the Klan in the media as they showed the world who they really were. They released the Klans’ application that was required for people to fill out in order to be a member. One of the questions that they asked was “Are you a Jew?” What the paper didn’t see coming were people started to cut out the application and mail it in as an attempt to become a member. In the 1920’s the Klan’s continued to attack the public with physical violence. They attacked people who they didn’t agree with them. People who gambled or had drinking habits were attacked frequently. Other people also were attacked because of their color and religion.