The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-09
WALTON IN TALK
OPENS CAMPAIGN
FOR STATE CHIEF
Democratic Standard Bearer Launches
Drive to covernorshIp: First
Speech at Crescent: He Out.
Iineu His Policies.
DECLARES FIELDS GANG
L0OTINC THE FARMERS
Discusses Progressive Platform Adopt.
ed at Convention; Declares He
Stands with Historic Men
Who Made Government.

''hi''Id'' htdt' tsuiipaiEn WIS lof-
mally opened here today by J. &.
Walton. who heads the ticket as
candidate for governor.
There has been considerable
speculation as TO the line Mayor
Walton would follow in presenting
his claims for election ON Nov. Z
aud he did not leave his hearers
long In doubt. That he viii carry
the fight TO John Fields. his repub-
lican opponent, was evident from
the first.
"NIr Fields will discuss nothing
hut the looting of banks" Walton
declared. Il wish TO discuss also
the looting of farmers by the banks.
This issue Mr.. Fields lodges. Why?
Because Mr. Fields is the candi.
date for governor of one OF the
bank gangs that is looting the
farmers.
For years they have relied on
Fields to hand out the soporific
dope through his Farm Journal to
keep the farmer quiet and content
ed while they picked his pockets.
If progressive farmer asked for
space in his paper TO advise the
farmers to organize and protect
themselves, Mr.. Fields would reply
six hundred dollars a page, please ="
There also has been great deal
OF interest expressed as to the
stand Mayor Walton would take on
the question of platform. He Gov
cred this phase early in his speech
when he declared:
Where do | stand? | stand to-
day with the historic men who laid
the foundation stone of our state
government. AT the recent demo-
criatic convention progressive
platform was adopted. Approx
mately 30 per cent of the Shawnee
platform was Incorporated in that
progressive instrument. What about
the 10 per cent you ask. Well, |
stand for peoples election law,
the soldiers bonus bill, etc. stand
for the 80 per cent, and, speaking
for myself, amplify the 80 per cent
by adding to it the Farmer.Labor
program of 1906 and 1922"
Campaign Opening.
The subject of the 1906 platform
was gone into at considerable
length by the democratic standard
bearer. He read the document to
his audience from what be designat-
ed as the Kane presentation" a
leaflet circulated over the state by
Judge Matthew J. Kane, who sub
seauently was elected to the Con-
slitutional Convention and after
statehood to the Supreme Court, OF
which he still is member and a
candidate for reelection.
"There is nothing in the Shaw
nee platform of 1922 as radical as
the demands in the Shawnee plat
form of 1906 he said and proceed
ed to read from list of the sign
ers thereof, numbering 100, the
names of such well-known demo-
Gratis still active in politics in Okla
homa as Judge Robert L. Williams,
Ex.Chief Justice Samuel w. Hayes,
Chief Justice John B. Harrison, Ex-
Chief Justice Jesse Dunn, Judge
Thomas H. Doyle, VIM. M. (Alfalfa
BID Murray, Charles N. Haskell,
Ben f. Harrison, j. S. Buchanan
and many others.
"At the republican convention
Mr.. Fields made speech in which
he defined the Shawnee platform
of 1922 as a tRussianized conception
of the democratic standard He
was applauded by Senator J. w.
Harreld, who sat directly back of
him on the platform, and when Sen
ator Harreld made his speech, he
reiterated this statement Of Fields.
While Harreld was clapping his
hands, humorists in the gallery
whispered who was it elected Har-
reid to Congress and then elected
him to the United States Senate?
Now, if | am attempting to Rus
s;anize' the government and over
turn American institutions, all OF
the gentlemen whom I have named
above as signing the platform of
1906 and the tens of thousands of
voters, democrats and republicans,
who voted for them with a high
purpose preceded me on the job.
q laid down the main issues in
this campaign in my opening ad-