Evening star., 1923-09-15
FIRM DICTATORSHIP
OF MILITARY FORCE
FACING OKLAHOMA
Governor Says State Legis-
IatorS viii Be Jailed if
They Attempt Meeting.
CENSORSHIP OF PRESS
ANOTHER WALTON PLAN
War on Flogging in State Develops
Many Sensational Aspects
in Day.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Septem-
ber 15.-The mailed fist will descend
upon whoever opposes Gov. J. c.
Walton in his war on fioggings. AS
suming all the powers of military
dictator. the executive made it more
plain today that martial law and state
troops will be the answer to any op-
position to his will.
Members of the state legislature,
if they attempt to conyene themselves
in extraordinary session to consider
the governors act, will go to jail.
State newspapers that raise their
voices against the executive will be
muZzled by censorship. Counties
considered by the governor to be hos
tile to his course of action will be
occupied by troops.
This is the plan OF campaign out
lined by Gov. Walton and he promised
today that he spoke no idle threats.
Should members of the Legislature
come to Oklahoma City without his
call and attempt to meet in special
session, Walton declared he would
consider such action direct interfer-
ences with his efforts to return the
government Ito the hands of the
properly constituted authorities, and
to secure equal justice for all of our
citizens"
VIII Jail Legislature.
IF they come here and try such
an unlawful thing, I'll put them all
in jail and keep them there as long
as I am in Office" he warned.
Certain of the lawmakers were re-
ported yesterday to be contemplating
an attempt to hold such a session. No
Legislature in Oklahoma has ever met
without call from the governor, the
constitution providing for this pro-
cedure. Those said to have been
planning session without the gov
ernor's consent, were understood to
+. have taken the position that there
was warrant for such a course be-
cause the constitution does not ex-
pressly forbid.
On the other hand, even bitter
political enemies seem to sustain
Gov. Walton's position. g. = g..
With the time limit drawing near
for the execution of the governors
threat to clamp down an IRON handed
military rule in Tulsa county, no ef-
fort is being made to meet the de-
mands of the ultimatum calling for
the resignation of five Tulsa county
officials, alleged by Walton to be un-
der domination of the Ku Kiux Klan.
II DIS InaI unless the Off1-
ctals retired voluntarily, custer pro-
ceedings would be instituted on the
basis of evidence already gathered
by the military court sitting in Tulsa.
Publishers of the Tulsa Tribune are
preparing to go into federal court to
test the right of the governor to
establish a censorship of that news
paper, and Z. K. Bixby, managing
editor of the Muskogee Phoenix, has
announced that attorneys for his
publication would join with the
Tribune in asking federal injunc-
ton
Gov. Walton would not discuss what
steps he planned at Muskogee, where
w. r. Sampson refused TO obey the
executives ultimatum to resign as
exalted cyclops of the Muskogee
Klan.
In well Informed circles, it is pre-
dicted that martial law soon will he
declared in both Muskogee and
Oklahoma City.