The Winslow mail., 1923-10-19
BY EDWARD w. PACKARD

by EDWAHD w. PACNAHD
TT WAS the turn of Governor Walton
to get walloped last week, and he
did get walloped. But he didn't take
the blow lying down. To those who
enjoy stand-up and knock-down fight,
the news from Oklahoma these days
may be pleasant reading, but it really
Is not edifying. 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 it. At first, Walton
declared it should not be held, insist
ing that, as he had called 1t, 1t was
his election and he could call it off If
he desired He reconstructed the state
election board so that it might obey
his behests; ordered the entire Ma
tionaI Guard Of the state modified
and then recalled the order; called
another special election for Dec. 6;
yielded at last In the face Of various
restraining orders from courts, and
said he was willing to vacate his office
If 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 G. Chambers, one
of his appointees, a temporary re-
straining 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 g. The governor as
serted the election was Illegal because
the proposed amendments submitted
had not been properly advertised, and
that thousands of voters were intimi-
dated by deputy sheriffs and by the
influence of the Ku Klux Klan. The
opposition countered with a petition
for a grand jury in Oklahoma City to
Investigate charges that Walton has
misused public moneys and to inquire
into the appointment Of thousands of
state "secret service" agents Of the
executive.
Governor Walton is issuing a stream
of proclamations and statements. In
one of the latest he says: ''The klux
guns of the nation are trained on me.
] am daily in receipt of threats of as
eassination. but I had rather die by the
hand of an assassin than die the death
of a coward The fight is to finish.
There will he no compromise"
Represer tative McBee, leader of the
anti Waltonites in the legislature, as
serts there is no khan issue in Okla
homa, except in the hallucinations Of
a disordered BRAIN
HAVING failed utterly to come to
l. l. terms with the Social Democrats,
who opposed the abolition Of the eight
aour day and the reorganization of the
cabinet to include the Nationalists,
Chancellor Stresemann of Germany
dissolved his ministry and was direct
ed by President Ebert to form new
cabinet. The chancellor's spokesman
announced that there would be no new
party cabinet, but small ministry
similar to a directorate, and it was
assumed the reichstag would be dis
solved. Various cabinet offices will
be left untitled and others will be unit