The Arvada enterprise., 1923-10-11
Governor Walton, Beaten in Okla
homa Election, Refuses to
Give Up Fight.
FOES WANT HIM INDICTED
German Cabinet Resigns and Chan.
osiior Strsssmann Plans Directorate
-Menarehy Due Soon In BAVARIA
Federation Of Labor convsn-
tIon-prssIdsnt Coolidge
and World Court.
sy EDWARD W. PACKARD

IT WAS the turn Of Governor Walton
i to get walloped last week. and he
did get wallOped. But he didn't take
the blow lying down. To those who
enjoy q stand-up and knock-down fight.
the news from Oklahoma these days
may be pleasant reading but II really
II not edlfying. 1t would seem that
when such conditions can continue for
q long time there must be something
lacking In our democratic institutions.
Having obtained court sanction for
the special election called for last
Tuesday. the people Of Oklahoma In
sisted on holding II. At first. Walton
declared It should not be held. Insist
Ing that, as he had called It. II was
his election and he could call It of II
he desired. He reconstructed the state
election board so that II might obey
his behests: ordered the entire Ma
tional Guard OF the state mObilized
and then recalled the order; called
another special election for Dec. @;
yielded ut last In the face OF various
restraining orders from courts, and
said he was willing TO vacate his office
n the people OF the state preferred
the rule OF the invisible empire" to
that OF the constituted authorities. In
several counties the governors efforts
prevented the citizens from casting
their votes in the usual manner. but
many Of them mailed their ballots to
the capital and others used improvised
election machinery. But the election
was held, and by majority Of about
four TO one the voters approved Of the
constitutional amendment authorizing
the legislature TO convene itself TO con-
slider Impeachment charges against the
governor and other state officers.
Though he was thus knocked
through the ropes, Walton climbed
back into the ring and obtained from
District Judge Tom @. Chambers. one
Of his appointees. temporary re-
straininK order forbidding the state
election board to certify the returns
10 the secretary OF state. Hearing on
the application to make this order WAS
set for October q. The governor as
serted the election wns illegal because
the proposed amendments submitted
had not been properly advertised. and
that thousands OF voters were intimi-
dated by deputy sheriffs md by the
influence OF the Ku Klux kim. The
opposition countercd with n petition
for a grand Jury In Oklahoma City to
investigate charges that Walton hns
misused public moneys and to Inquire
Into the appointment Of thousands Of
state "secrct service" agents OF the
executive.
Governor Walton is issuing n strenm
Of procinmations and statements. In
one OF the lntest he says: "Thc klux
guns OF the nation are trained on me.
! am daily In receipt OF threats OF Rs.
snssination. hut l Ind rather die by the
hand Of nm assassin than die the denth
Of coward. The fight Is TO n fnish.
There will he no compromise"
Representative McBec. lender Of the
antl.Waltonitcs In the legislature, a..
scrts there Ia no khan issue In Okla.
honu, except In the hallucinationa Of
a disordcrcd brain"
uAvING failed utterly 10 come to
- terms with the Social Democrats,
who opposed the abolition Of the eight.
hour day and the reorganization Of the
cabinet to include the Nationalista
Chancellor Stresemann Of Germany
dissolved his ministry and was direct.
ed BY President Ebert to form q new
cabinet. The chancellor's spokesman
announced that there would he no new
party cabinet. hut small ministry
similar TO \ directorate. and Il was
assumed the rcichstag would he dis.
solved. Various cabinet ofiicca will