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On this day in 1922 Oregonians reading the newspaper would have found considerable coverage of the previous day's elections. Of particular note was the election of Walter M. Pierce to replace Ben Olcott as governor. Olcott had refused endorsement of the then powerful Ku Klux Klan, saying, "I would rather meet defeat and be a free American than to serve another term in the governor's chair with the millstone of such an endorsement hanging around my neck." There was also the overwhelming passage of a school measure that would require all students to attend public schools after 1926. Approval of this bill changed the roles of private and parochial schools in Oregon.
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