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

The nomination OF Mayor Walton on tho plat
form written by the reconstruction league al
shawnee did not constitute a monaco of any
serious proportions The shawnee convention
and tho Walton candidacy was more d protest
against the outrageous maladmInlstration Of the
state government by tho democratic clique
that has been onthroned AZ tho ststehouse Tor
many years than an affirmation Of radicalism
seriously intended.
Time after time did the farmers and inborers
seek relief through natural means, that In TO say
through tho election OF the natural opposition
party ticket And time after time their efforts
were rendered ahortive hccauas Of tho unApeak-
able corruption and chicanery practced In elec-
tons The alternative was to capture the r,il-
ing party and thus force tho reformatory
measures they desired Corruption, inerlcency
and favotltlsm In the public service never
fails to breed radcalism In commonwealth or
city where the division along partisan lines Is
unbalanced by proponderant majority on one
side tho other,
The nomination Of walton was intended to be
smashing rebuke to the democratic oligarchy
that has ruled Oklahoma for many years past:
and equally a rebuke TO the new secret political
religious party. the Ku-Klux Khan which was
seeking TO control Of the state In the
interest OF factlonal movement even more
mischlevous and destructive than tho demo-
cratic ollgnrchy Tens of thousands Of voters
supported Walton In tho primary who are
ont of sympathy with the reconstruction league
platform as they are untinged with Catholicism.
And 1t is impossible to escape the conviction
that tens OF thousands OF Catholics supported
him without this slightest intention OF voting
for him in the general election, their purpose
hostility to their religion. rsbuks the attempt to
inject religious and racial animostlos into our
governmental system. then to elect Fields. the
candidate who stands on strict constitutional
grounds and belongs to no secret society or or
Eanization OF any Kind.
But the maneuverng which has taken place
since the nomination OF Walton makes hts can
didaey real menace to tho state not because
OF the shawnee platform, some would have
you believe: not because OF the Catholic sup
port given him In the primary. as others make
pretense OF believing, but because OF tho en-
gagements and commitments being forced from
him by the political chictans OF tho bourbon
camp who have held Oklahoma in the hollow
of their hand since the first day OF statehood.
Walton with the bourbon chieft2ins fighting
him, as In the primary, Is not a menace TO the
great commonality OF oklahoma n elect
ed and there would be real danger OF that;
but Walton with the bourbon chieftains sup
porting him, which would mean that ho had
agreed to their demands and apportloned his
authority in advance, constitutes a menace more
real than the people easily appreciate. For
his election would mean more OF the same
thing; would merely shifting Of the
scenery with the same old interests pulling the
strings from behind the scenes.
And that Is what IN taking place before the
eyes OF the people why do you suppose Has
helI and Gore and Ferris and all OF the other
bourbon leaders are coming 20 oklahoma for
the democratic state convention To aid Wal
ton In actually putting into practice the theories
of government set forth by the shawnee conven-
ton? II ia laughabe to think OF such a
thnsl DO you suppose Frank and Hugh John
son, who have from their banking houses con-
trolled the finances OF this state aud dictated to
the statehouse--do you suppose any OF these
gentlemen are seeking 10 aid Walton in putting
them out OF business? Not bit OF g.
The bourbon chiefs foregathering to
make their peace ana secure their own safety.
The breach In the democratic ranks Is to he
closed at all costs. The Robertson administra-
tion is TO be Endorsed, Anything and everything
is TO be done that win prevent the partisan
enemy from entering the fort, throwing open
the gates and letting the people know what has
been going on. There are pardons 20 be rranted.
reprieves Issued: and above all, 'ne,, re nu-
merous cases where the statute OF limitations
must be allowed to run before hostile admr-
,szrstion gets possession OF the records To
render secure their past and make certain their
liberty in the immediate future, the bourbon
cheftains are willing TO place themselves and
their machine behind the reconstruction plat
form and candidate raise an immense cam
palgn fund and roll their largest vocal artillery
onto the firing line, even II they do have 20
send 10 New York and Washington for It, They
are fighting for their lives, their regulations
and their liberty.
Jack Walton, standing on his Shawnee plat
form even, and supported by the organized fac