Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-09-20
TWenty-0ne Charges of Law
Violation Made Against Exec
utive in War on Khan.
LAWMAKERS CONFIDENT
THEY WILL GUST LEADER
Deny K. K. K. Backs Session-To
Ask Bill 0usting Body From
State, Is Said.
BY the Associated Press.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., SeplsHl-
Der 2O.-Events in Oklahoma moved
today toward a showdown between
Gov. j. C. Walton and members of
the state legislature over the execu-
tive's exercise of authority and his
war on the Ku Klux Khan and mob
foggers.
A call for an extraordinary session
of the lower house to consider a
series of charges that Gov. Walton
has taken unto himself the powers
of despot and has supplanted con-
stitutional government with dicta-
torship. was issued early this
morning.
AS a refutation of Gov. ]. c. Wal
toms charges that the movement to
assemble the state Legislators in spe-
cial session is inspired by the ku
KIux Khan. several members of the
lower house, proponents of the spe-
cial session movement, issued state
ment today that they would INTRO
lduce a bill at the next session banning
activities of masked organizations
| in the state.
The call was made public by w. d.
McBee, representative from stephens
county bore the names of forty-hVe
house members, with the promise tnat
during the day the list would grow
to fifty-four, constituting a majority
| of the house.
Noon of next Wednesday is the hour
fixed for the assembling of the law
makers.
| Representative McBee declared that
he anticipated no attempt by the
governor to carry out his threat to
jail the legislators in the event that
| they convened.
1.-THE folly of attempting to carry
out his threat to arrest members has
been made apparent to him. He re-
allies that the call is legal and can
not be forestalled," McBee asserted.
Walton Appeals to State.
At almost the same moment the
| Legislative call was promulgated Gov.
Walton appealed to the people of the
state in a proclamation to reaudiate
the attempt of the lawmakers to as
semble. charging that those sponsor
ing the movement are KHAN mem
bers" of the legislature. inspired by
the invisible empire and aided by the
Khan press"
1t was asserted by Representative
McRee that Gov. walton, in conjunc-
ton with hurry F. Gibbons, speaker
of the house, was contemplating the
issuance OF a carr FOR a special SEES
sion lin a last desperate effort, with
the hope that some of the boys might
be won over to his cause by a show
of desire to remedy situation that
he has created" McBee released the
call drawn by house members. he ex-
planned, Ito beat the governor to it."
If the special session of the house
/ is convened the members present
would sit as grand jurors to hear the
evidence against the governor. Should
| impeachment be voted. the case would
| go to the senate, which would be re-
quired to convene and act as a court.
The call for the session declared
that the time had come to prove or
disprove charges openly made against
| the governor.
Says Khan I'm Power.
Civil government in some counties
is under the control of the Ku KluX
| Khan and the only way to stop law
lessness in the state is by use of the
military, Gov. Walton declared in his
proclamation. He ordered the re-
moval throughout the state of all
publicly displayed fiery crosses of the
| Khan.
Instructing civil and military au-
| thorities to dismantle the Khan en-
blems where they are found, the gov
| ernor said:
l
| the sovereignty of the state and is
| the enemy of the state of Oklahoma.
It's flag is a fiery cross, now high
aloft in many public places, evincing
| it's encroachment upon the civil gov
J eminent of this state. The cross is
| an emblem of peace, of amity and
| order and sacred to history; but the
| fiery cross is the pagan emblem of
! fear, hatred and rebellion.
! evidence procured by military
courts of inquiry proved that the
Khan is responsible for beating and
| mutilating hundreds of persons in
| the state 1t has the civil govern
ment of Tulsa and elsewhere under
| its control Because of the organi-
zation's power, / know of no way
I there is no way-to stop this out
lawry and terror except by the mil
Editors of a number of representa-
| tive newspapers of the state, meeting
| at Tulsa. issued statement last
| night addressed to the people of the
| country, attacking the governor for
| what they termed his attempt to alb
/ rogate the constitutional rights OF
| Oklahoma citizens and set aside the
! processes of republican government.
The editors also urged that the
Legislature be convened at once.
| Challenging the governors procia-
nation that a state of insurrection
land rebellion exists throughout
IOklalOma, the EDITORS ueCldlcu tha I
his decree of martial law is libel
against the state.
'The supreme issue in Oklahoma
| today is not visible or invisible gov
| eminent, as Walton says, but con-
stitutional government or despotism,
| the editors statement asserted.
| Khan Answers Walton.
A signed statement declaring that
Gov. j. C. Wilson has made the
Ku Klux Khan "the peg on which a
political bankrupt has hung the tat
tered habitiliments of grotesque fail
ure while making his last frantic bid
| for public favor" was issued here to-
day by T. c. Jewett, grand dragon OF
J the Khan in Oklahoma.
Mr. Jewett declared that despite
the insidious insult to klansmen in
| the offer of protection If they would
withdraw from the order. we have
| been enjoying a record-breaking
growth in membership in the past few
He asserted that the Khan is mot
going to fight back now" and would
| leave it to the people of Oklahoma
| to settle the fight"
"Mr. Walton did not frown upon
the Khan until he had learned that it
| did not smile upon him. 1t is affect
of indisputable record that he was
irregularly made member of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Khan, that a
| passport or membership card was
! irregularly issued to- him. and that