Evening star., 1923-09-29
TALKS and TALES
With and About
CAPITALS GUESTS

Deeply chagrined over prevailing
conditions In his state, which, he said,
would prove detrimental for years to
come. r. c. Allen Of Tulsa, Okla, for
mer district Judge of Muskogee coun-
ty and attorney for the Creek Indians
under the Wilson administration, sat
In his rooms at the New Willard Hotel
and ridiculed many of the reports
that had emanated from the seat of
trouble during the past two months.
The former jurist deplored the
notoriety visited upon Oklahoma by
what he termed the bizarre actions
or Its governor" and said, newspaper
accounts notwithstanding. the
stranger within the state TODAY will
have to use binoculars to and the
uch-advertised martial law. "Ail of
our CIVIL courts are functioning as
usual, said Judge Allen, land while
there may be a few militiamen scat
tered about the parks, the men them
selves take their duty good -naturedIy
and are not figuring on trouble.
And alI this talk about Ku KIux
ana antf-Ku Klux 10 dr!bble, The
truth OF the matter is. the best citi-
1ens 1r Oklahoma resented the use
doning power. he having liberated
several desperate criminals with no
apparent tustif1cation whatever. The
ku klux Klan had organised: in the
state, and maybe some of its MEM
pers are legislators. but for the most
part those opposed to the governors
methods resorted to the Khan as a
means to an end"
Judge Allen said that he personally
was bitterly opposed to the Khan. that
af t..I, t. nr..f~
Oklahoma City and other towns of
the state. believing there was no
room In America for such an organi-
zatfon, but that he was equally op-
posed to the way Gov. Walton was
conducting his administration.
Nv. E. Disney" continued the Tulsa
man. "one OF the leaders in the fight
against Gov. Walton, is associated
with me In my law Office, and no
man in the United States is more
whole thing has been distorted,
and not until the true situation il
.oid VIII the wrong done Oklahoma
be righted."
Judge Allen is in Washington on
business, being at present the repre-
sentative of the late Glen T. Braden,
Oil magnate and capitalist of Sewick-
ley, Pa, who died in Pittsburgh last
Sunday. Mr.. Braden was the holder
OF vast interests in the state Of Okla
,
prior to 1905. represented the Stand
ard Oil Company.
While a democrat, Judge Allen said
the people of Oklahoma were highly
pleased with President Coolidge, and
he regards Secretary Mellon as the
greatest Secretary Of the Treasury
the country ever had.
Now, listen. friend, never let any
body tell you that Hiram johnson
-. Vol.
has a mind to-" This came from
Charles Frank Stern. executive vice
president of the First National Bank
Of Los Angeles, just as the financier
was about to check out of the Shore
ham Hotel: and was In response to
California senator was having in his
state.
He can sweep the state at any time.
at any election and for any Office by
Just flashing the signal" continued Mr..
go into the presidential ring is an
other matter-one I would not care
to discuss-but all this hullabaloo
about the San Francisco legislator be-
ing up against Ii is pipe stuff. Sena-
fornia i'm the past. and we are not
the kind to soon forget it" And so
saying the big southern Californian
gave orders for taxi.
All business to do with the forth
coming nation wide campaign to Sc
cure funds for the completion of the
National Episcopal Cathedral has
been .overshadowed by the consecra-
tion ceremonies of Bishop Freeman.
and, according to Carl W.. Alderman,
international newspaper correspond
ent, who Is stopping at the Hamilton
Hotel, not until the exercises are
over and all guests have departed
will resumption OF the campaign be
attempted.
Mr.. Ackerman, who will be promi-
nently identified with the fund rails
ing, reports that most gratifying re-
suits have been attained to date and
little difficulty Is anticipated in put
ting the drive over 100 per cent.
"If the present volume of business
had been transacted In 1913 the pa.
pers would have carried front-page
stories telling of the country's Won
cher. governor of the Federal Re-
serve Bank Of Cleveland, as he and
II. F. Strater. another official OF the
same institution, strolled through the
office OF the Hotel La Fayette.
and most eli Ohio towns" continued
Mr.. Fancher az he waved to Pierre
Jay, governor Of the New York Fed
erai Reserve Bank, who also is stop
ping at the house. Even the gem
erai business in our section is be-
tween IS and SS per cent of what
we have been accustomed to call nor
NAL during the past few years. OF
course. ours is an industrial city and
our outputs are greatly needed"
The reserve bankers are in town
for a special committee meeting and
their presence here is merely to
thrash out routine matters.
with exceptionally low prices and
only about two-thirds of normal
crops in sight. the Kansas farmer is
way down in the dumps this fall, ac.
cordihg to r. ID. Hammatt, member
of the Kansas state board of agri-
culture, who, after an extended trip
through the northwest and Canada,
dropped in at the Lee House for q
short stay in Washington.
"I have not been in Kansas for
quite some time." said Mr.. Hammatt.
"but conditions are not any too good
in the Sunfiower community. 1t was
lust the reverse in the northwest
Section, where. in Washington. Ore
Eon and Idaho, the farmers seemed
happy and were counting on a big
year. The western kansan does not
diversity his crops and Is suffering
the most, for in the eastern part OF
the state corn, cattle and dairy prod
ucts are helping immeasurably to
make both ends meet. All, however,
are too wrapped up in their own busf-
ness to talk much about poiities.
IT'S too early for the Kansan."
Mr.. Hammatt Is accompanied by
his wife, and will travel In the nortn
before returning home.
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