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  "notes": "Councilman C. J. Leverett, explaining his vote on Bend's woman's protective division ordinance, recalls his election platform: \"no bank, Emblem club, no Commercial club, Woman's league, labor union or church, could control my vote unless it be for the good of Bend.\" Evidence of how the club was regarded as a civic force in 1921.",
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    "summary": "A Bend councilman's 1921 statement lists the Emblem Club among the six interests he says cannot control his vote — the archive's clearest evidence of how the club was regarded as a civic power.",
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      "Councilman C. J. Leverett named \"no bank, Emblem club, no Commercial club, Woman's league, labor union or church\" as bodies that could not control his vote.",
      "The Emblem Club is listed second, ahead of the Commercial Club.",
      "The statement was made on February 4, 1921, before the council adopted the woman's protective division ordinance, and printed the next day.",
      "This is the archive's clearest evidence that the club was regarded from outside as a civic interest rather than only a social body."
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      "This is one councilman's rhetoric in a contested debate, not a measure of the club's influence. Nothing here shows the club ever tried to influence a council vote.",
      "The Bulletin's own headline treats Leverett unsympathetically; the passage is quoted from a report, not from a document he signed.",
      "No connection between Leverett and the club, for or against, is established.",
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      "The speaker is Councilman C. J. Leverett, on the night the Bend council adopted the woman's protective division ordinance, February 4, 1921. The Bulletin ran him at length the next day under the headline “‘Hell and Damnation' Sermons Advocated by Leverett; Councilman of Distinguished Ancestry”, which tells you the paper's view of him.",
      "For this archive the value is not the man but the list. Asked to name the interests that might try to buy a Bend councilman, he named six: the banks, the Emblem Club, the Commercial Club, the Woman's league, the labor unions and the churches. The Emblem Club comes second, ahead of the Commercial Club — the body that in June 1922 would ask the Emblem Club's permission to use the emblem, and which had itself been reorganised in the Emblem Club's own rooms fifteen months before this.",
      "Almost everything else the archive holds about the club is social: dinners, dances, cups, card parties. This is somebody outside it, in a hostile mood, treating it as a power. A club that nobody thought could lean on a council vote does not get put on that list."
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    "quote": "Before I would accept the payless and thankless position as city councilman, I told you, among other things, if elected, that no bank, Emblem club, no Commercial club, Woman's league, labor union or church, could control my vote unless it be for the good of Bend; that I belonged to no entangling alliances whatsoever. I meant every word I said then, and I mean every word I say now."
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