The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-26
.AtGER MELTON MAKES PLEA To
4. DEMOCRATS To DEFEAT WALTON
tpolIticai AdvertlsIng.)


In an address 10 a crowd that filled
tho district court room. Tuesday
evening, Algcr Melton. well known
Chickasha attorney and former chair
man OF the Democratic State Com
mittoe. spoke as follows:
Serious conditions are confronting
the people OF Oklahoma In tho po'
lItloal contest now being waged for
the election of governor. On one
hand is the republican nominee.
nominated by republicans; on the
other, is n socallcd democratic nom.
inee, nominated by socialists, who.
for that purpose alone registered
and voted in the democratic pri.
mary. The one is making his cam.
paign on HIS party platform: the
other. on a platform rejected by the
democracy OF Oklahoma. In this
contest there Is more involved than
men; there will be other political
contests In Oklahoma and other
men involved. The question, ns
see Il, Is one involving principle, In
which both country and party are at
stake. II Is no time for men and
women 10 let political mlsrepresen-
tations. prejudice, passion, appeals
TO class and class hatred, and the
evil tongue OF criticism and SANDER
silence their conscience or influ-
ence their judgment. II Is time
when every true American who
loves his country and his party
should use his own judgment, inves-
tigate for himself, seek the truth.
and then vote the dictates OF his
own conscience. When this is done,
he will have performed his full duty
as an American citizen, but nothing
short of this will measure up TO
American citizenship.
Democracy Without Nominee for
Governor.
The democracy of Oklahoma has
no nominee for governor. Socialists
in Oklahoma arranged convention
at Shawnee in February this year,
and that convention was composed
of socialists and socialist sympa-
thlzers That convention adopted a
platform and picked candidate for
governor. That candidate accepted
the platform and became the can
didate OF the socialists The con-
vention then adopted motion that
the candidate make the race on the
Shawnee platform in the democratic
primary, as the democratic party is
THE DOMINANT POLITICAL PAR
TY IN OKLAHOMA. Socialists were
instructed to, and did, change their
registration from socialists to deme'
Gratis, for the purpose of voting for
this candidate in the democratic
primary election, and thereby noml
nate their candidate as a demo
crat," believing If this could be done,
enough democrats could be deceived |
and misled by the name democrat |
to elect their candidate. The So
cialist vote in the democratic pri- |
mary nominated Walton for COVER
nor.
In ia, the socialist party voted
its strength in Oklahoma 5270S; in
1916 and 1918, the attitude of So
cialists toward the war, resulted in
a loss of socialist party votes. In
the 1922 socialist primary the social
list vote was little more than 1000. |
The balance of the $4,000 normal
1914 vote, voted in the democratic
primary to nominate Walton.
Wilson Received the votes of S4,569
democrats; Pc Walton received the
vote of 119,5O1 socialists, republi-
cans and democrats. Take from
Walton's vote the vote of the social
lists who did not vote in the social
ist primary but registered as demo-
Gratis to vote for Walton, and this
would leave about $4,000 democratic
votes, or more than 10000 less than
Wilson and less than one third of
the democratic vote. If socialists
had not registered as democrats and
voted for Walton in the democratic
primary, Wilson would have been
the nominee, and under the letter
and spirit of the election laws of
this state he was the nominee of
democrats.
The socialists have succeeded in
attaching the name democrat" to
their candidate in violation of party
integrity and the election laws of
Oklahoma, and no democrat is un-
der any moral or political obligation '
to support him. Not only was Wal
tCn nominated by socialists on
Socialist platform, but he now de- {
cltPes that he expects to be elected t
on that platform and enforce its l
declarations if elected governor, al S
though it was repudiated and re. y
jected by the democratic convention. {
Walton, therefore, repudiates the
democratic platform, and swears al
legiance to the socialist platform. {
The Shawnee convention was a |
political organization and adopted l
and promulgated the Shawnee plat e
form as its theories of government, c
The foundation of the organization. e
It abandoned the name socialist" a
because the people of Oklahoma Il
have fought socialism as destructive fl
If government and society. 1t n