Evening star., 1923-11-25
WALTON CHARGES
HUGE K. K. K. PLOT.
Grand Jury as Well as Legis-
lature Working for His
Ruin, He Says.
Er tie Associated Press.

Er tie Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Novembe
Ga charge that both the action
of the grand jury in indicting him
and his Impeachment and removal
from office by the Legislature iS part
of a secret and diobolical con.
spiracy now in progress to paralyze
his arm in his fight against the Kp
Klux Klan, was made here tonight III
Il statement issued by j. c. Walton.
deposed governor.
The former governor also COM.
mented on the activities in the: state
senate on antl-klan legislation, Wnlch
he proposed before beng trled On i'm;
peaGhlnent charges, ueclarlnS: that
No one can fail to see the eloVen,
hoof of the invisible empire pretrud-:
ing from beneath the hypocFItlcaE
robes of pretended innocence"
His statement was occasloned by
the return of Indictments against
him yesterday by district :court
grand jury here, charging that he
diverted public funds to his: own
use, inundated an officer by: pro-
hibiting a meeting of a grand jury
during, martial law. and prevented an
assembly of the state Legislature. He
is to be arraigned on the charges
Wednesday.
executive entered Il GENIAL that his
actions We're unlawful; and branded
them the " ork OF his enemies I'll tne
ku kluN Kan.
Seven Indictments Returned.
THE grand jury has presented
seven indictments, the statement
said when District Judge George
w. Clark, acknowledged klansman,
convened his court to empanel the
jury on the petition of paid :emis-
saries of the klan and other interests
hostile to my administration and
TO all law and any reasonable stand
ard of decency, / presented motion
to the court, saying that the: pro-
ceeding was a conspiracy concocted
and carried forward by the ku
Klux Khan to destroy my power
heretofore asserted to uncover and
punish the pathetic and terrible
crimes II had lately cominitted
throughout the state.
Tie presiding judge OF that Eourt.
who, tor the movement, mad pat OH
the mask and robe of secret ana
criminal organization TO assume the
spotless ermine OF judicial authority.
ordered my motion stricken from the
record.
The mountain now has labored
and brought forth mouse. / am
charged in five indictments with di-
version of public funds because of
the appointment of MIR. Edwards (his
private Chauffeur) in the department
of public health and because he drew
his salary. There is no syllable of
evidence rejecting upon ME any: suS-
picion of guilt in that transaction.
Another indictment charges me
with attempting. to intimidate. the
district judge when, during martial
law, at the instance of his fellow
klansman. it was attempted to con-
Tene grand jury to obStruct, hinder
and defeat the majesty of the Law in
it's righteous effort to discover: the
perpetrators of nefariouS crimes: and
bring them to- justice.
Legislature as Mob.
In still another, / am charged
with dispensing the legislature, a
body that all men know was convened
with no other authority than the
command of the grand dragon or: the
imperial wizard and financed from
the same source; body that was
by every mark and act convened not
as a Legislature, but as a mob"
Calling attention to his previous
charges that the state Legislature was
dominated by the ku Klux Khan; that
the. movement to impeach him was
Matched in the councils of the klan,"
and that the senate court of i'm
peAchment did not give him a fair
trial, the deposed governor added:
Was l right or wrong when / said
that time would lay bare to the world
the wickedness, the high-handed
cruelty, the low-groveling intrigue,
the utter cowardice and villainy of
the Ku Klux Klan and all that wear
its mask or bow the knee to it's do
minion?
Time will uncover the truth, and
when it is known, as it assuredly will
be, 1 hope to rejoice again in the
friendship, the loyalty and approval
of the magnificent citizenship of OKLA
homa."
The statement was signed, a.: C.
Walton"