The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-09

their fisht with the rld-wide cor
porations which seek TO destroy
them. When l am governor 1t will
not be necessary for them TO spend
a dollar to protect their rights from
corrupt legislators.
II might speak OF many things In
the way OF constructive legislati ion,
but at present 1 will speak only OF
one.
We must have decent election
laws in this state. Every citizen
must approach the ballot box un-
afraid. cast his ballot and have that
ballot counted as cast.
The centralized power over the
election machinery must be de-
stroyed.
In the conflict Just closed | APP
pealcd to the women, and my appeal
was not In vain. And now again /
appeal to women.
II am surrounded by competent
and powerful men who are marshall
ling mighty elemental forces In my
behalf as the representative OF the
farmer-labor cause. In YOU resides
one of the mighty forces. When the
child Is born 1t In the woman who
goes down to the gates OF death. Il
you fail and refuse to enlist: IL you
desert me in this fight for the COM
mon people. THEY will sacrifice
your children in foreign wars to pro-
tect their foreign oil fields and for
eign loans.
AT the inception OF our republic
the titled and landed lords--an aris-
tocracy OF wealth and honor claim
ing TO be OF the better. class----as-
serted the right TO rule. Then Il was
that Thomas jefferson organized the
farmers and laborers--the great
common people-and won under the
slogan: Equal rights to all and spe-
cial privilege 10 none
"Malefactors OF great wealth,
| built up under favoritism OF govern
ment, now rule, SO that there IL no
fair balance coming to the Industrial
groups. Witness the contraction of
the currency, billions OF dollars, by
the money trust IN 1890, distressing
all ordinary business and crushing
the farmer-labor groups. Restore
the buying power of these and all
Will share the prosperity except the
criminal wealthy.
"PreJudiced ones and the unln.
formed will say the shawnee plat
form Is socialism, but no socialist
thinks so. That document Is In fact
Jeffersonian democracy. and as a
! lifelong democrat, / advocate IL and
other remedies for the greatest good
TO the greatest number. believing &
that no man or party can err or
fail standing for the masses against
the classes.
(signed) -. C. WALTON"
BY the Associated Press State Wire.
MUSkOGEE. Aug. S.--"Mayol
Walton had right to ask that Mus
kOgee county send delegation [,
the state democratic convention
that Is friendly to him." declared
State Senator S. Morton Rutherford
in making the Keynote speech a
the county convention here today
and the convention selected 20 dele
gates pledged TO consider the su
bernatorial candidates wishes abov,
everything else in the drafting o
the state platform.
THE Shawnee Farmer-Labo
Reconstruction league platform Il
nearer to Jeffersonian democracI
than any platform on which an!
candidate for governor has ever ruI
on in this state" Senator Ruther
ford declared.
Rutherford, Archibald Bonds
president of the Owen-for- -Governo
club here before the primary; j
Berry King, campaign manager 70
George +. Short for attorney-gsn
eral; FRED +. Branson, nominee 70
the state supreme court and Mrs