The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
Fifty Cars Motor Out to
Meet Candidate; Parade
Staged in His Honor
KEEPS AFTER WALTON
Attacks Shawnee Platform
and Offers Substitute to
Plan by Leaguers
BY KIRK +. LATTA,
worlds staff Correspondent.

tho county seat Of Comanche coun-
Il ~ turned out en- masse this morn
\ ing TO rreet John Fields republic
can candidate for governor, upon
his arrival here. The Fields party
which had stopped at Snyder on the
trip from Frederick, Tillman coun-
~. was met eight miles from Law
i ton By about so Lawton cars loaded
with republicans and democrats,
who greeted Fields with loud cheer
ing.
pieces was on hand and on a large
truck. headed the procession TO the
city limits. whore the boys dis
mounted from their gasoline Etced
and, playing patriotic songs, led the
parade through Lawtou's residential
district TO the courthouse square,
where Fields talked to citizens Of
Inwton and Comauche county
farmers.
Lo,, of "Pcp" at Lnwton,
The Lawton reception was the
most enthusiastic which the editor
candidate has received. when he
was introduced to the crowd he was
greeted with cheers and shouts OF
approval. And at the conclusion the
enthusiasm was even greater.
night to ! 200 Tillman county citi-
2ens He was given a rousinE re-
ccption there. where his chances for
carrying the county are more than
even, despite its strong democratic
tendencies. Tilman county wa
Walton's weakest point IN the prim-
any, and he is highly unpopular
there today
The democratic organization IA torn
assunder through a local fight over
the county judgeship nomination,
and j. V. Ruch republican candt-
date Of Granville, is regarded as
having an excellent chance to be
Frank Carter. democratic nomi-
ncc for corporation commissioner,
halls from Frederick and, while TIL,
man county citizens regard the can
dldacy Of one of their associates as
an honor, Carter Is unpopular. How
ever, it is not believed that he will
lose his home county TO w. i. Nc
Williams OF Miami his opponent,
who is a member OF the Fields
party. But the Miami man believes
Carter's vote I'm Tillman county will
be cut down, due to his unpopularity.
Tillman County Prosperous.
The most contented farmers and
the best crops OF the entire cam
paiGn were encountered in Tillman
county. Near Upton, little town
not far from Frederick. are thou
sands OF acres Of sub-irrigated land
which even this year Is veritable
garden spot. Here the cotton will
average third of a bale or better
n the acre. Elsewhere in the state
the cotton will make about one bale
TO 10 acres.
on the trip to Lawton this morn
ing the Fields party stopped Off at
SNYDER, in Klowa county, where
Fields talked TO a crowd OF about
500 Snyder citizens and farmers Of
the community. snyder Is the coun-
~ seat OF old Swanson county
Fields Is regarded as having ex-
cellent chances to carry both Kiowa
and ComanChe counties, At Hobart,
the county seat OF Kiowa, whore
Fields spoke Monday night his
cause is popular. In fact he is the
popular candidate throughout the
county. In ComanChe county the re-
publicans have real organization.
Not content with having n perfect
county central committee and 9TH
or workers, a campaign manager
for the county and state ticket has
been appointed and he directs
speakers and other workers into all
sections Of the county. Fields is
also popular here, and many demo-
Gratis who have made known their
alliance to the republican candidate
believe that he will carry the county
which eight years ago he carried by
about one hundred votes.
Continues Shawnee Attack.
In his Frederick. Snyder and
Lawton talk. Fields continued his
attack on the Shawnee platform
and Walton's campaign promises
and outlined the policy he will pur-
sue IL elected. He pledged himself
70 clean up the banking department,
facilitate organization OF co-opera-
tive marketing associations, TO sup
ply free text books TO school chill
dren to he purchased not by the
school district, but by the state; to
encourage and aid farmers In crop
diversification and to give the state
non-political administration In the
interests Of the people and not po-
htical party
He condemned the Shawnee plat
form proposal 10 bond the state. so
as to obtain money with which TO
put in operation q home ownership
law, Instead, he offered an admin
istration Of the $4,000, 900 public
school fund, 90 that no one but real
farmers who were living on the land
could get money from that fund.
Such a move, he argued, would do
more toward relieving tenantry than
any other one thing, 1t would pre-
vent land spectators from getting
cheap state money, he pointed out,
which today Is the biggest obstacle
toward the abolition Il farm tenan-
try.
When Fields concludes his talk
at Chickasha. Grady county, he viii
have spoken in 80 counties since
starting his campaign, three weeks
ago His tour OF the state has In
cluded all OF the northwestern,
southwestern, part OF the northern
and southern and n few Of the cen-
trail counties of the state, His cam
paign ne saiu today, will continue
until tho week before the election.
Kilauca Breaks Forth Again.
By the Associated Press
HONOLULU. Sept. 16.--K!lauea
volcano today burst out in great ac-
tlvity with the lava lake fountaining