 Klansmen in the Indiana General Assembly passed a bill in 1922 that created a Klan Day at the Indiana State Fair, complete with a nighttime cross burning.Governor Warren T. McCray vetoed the bill, beginning his public resistance to the Klan; he was the highest-ranking official to oppose them.The same year Edward L. Jackson, a Klan member who had been elected as the Secretary of State, granted the Klan a state charter.