 "The Stamford Advocate" (as "The Advocate" of Stamford was then known) published an advertisement signed by local Democrats (who relied on the Catholic vote) protesting the meeting.The Klan published an advertisement in response, noting the "un-American" names of some of those who signed the Democrats' statement.By 1926, the Klan leadership in the state was divided, and it lost strength, although it continued to maintain small, local branches for years afterward in Stamford, as well as in Bridgeport, Darien, Greenwich and Norwalk.