Evening star., 1923-11-24
WALTON TO FACE
I. COURT WEDNESDAY
Deposed Governor, Chauffeur
and Health Officer Will Be
Arraigned Together.
By the Associated Press.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Novem-
Der 24-Arraignment of ]. C Wal
ton. deposed governor. indicted yes
terday, was set today for November
2S before Judge George W. Clark in
state district court. DIR. A. f. Dav-
export, state health commissioner.
and It. T. Edwards. the former gov
ernor's personal chauffeur. indicted
with him. will enter pleas at the
same time. All have made bond for
appearance.
KC kluX klan supporters emerged
victorious in their first test of
strength in the state senate when
the upper house voted late yesterday
to strike from the proposed anti-ku
KluN klan measure under conside ra-
tion a section which would have COM
PEELED secret organizations in Okla
homa to file their membership lists for
public inspection.
Proponents of the section declared
that by Its defeat the senate would
fail to enact anti-Ku Klux Klan leg
islation with teeth in it, although
they took some consolation in the
passage Of n provision requiring Off
GERS of secret organizations to reg
lister their names with county author
tiles.
Many Bitter Clashes.
The action on the membership
clauses came at the close of a day
filed with dramatic debate, in which
members of both factions came out
openly in support of their convictions,
precipitating verbal clashes unequal
ed in bitterness during the present ex-
traordinary session.
Enemies of the Khan denounced it
as being founded upon racial hatred
and religious intolerance and desCrib-
ed 1t as revival of the organization
of reconstruction days" which was
strongly condemned. Its friends de-
Tended it as a righteous organization,
upholding law and order in the midst
of crime.
Leads Attack on KIan.
Senator Harry CHASER of Enid led
the attack on the klan. He assailed
the organization for it's operations
under the mask, and declared. in an
impassioned speech. that the uues-
tion of religious intolerance has no
place in a democracy"
Il wonder" he asked "if the Jew
and Catholic buddies of some OF our
own senator's here. giving their full
measure of devotion in the mud and
blood of France. thought that in five
years their fathers and mothers would
be called un-American? There were
$4,000 of them who died for American
principles and American democracy
wonder if they who saw active
service questioned the Jew and Cath
Ollie buddies at their side. wondering
il they We're 100 per cent American?
Was the heroic charge on Belleau
Wood. which marked the turning
point and which was carried out by
Jews of the 18th Division. recruited
from New York's East Side, an un-
American act?"
More than half the army command
ed by Washington and Lafayette at
the birth of the republic We're Roman
Catholics the Enid Protestant senator
declared. Where T part company
with the Klan,' he said. "is when they
try to regulate my conduct at trial
at which | am not represented and
the identity of my accuser is hidden.
That is contrary to all principles of
fair play. No man can he made a
good citizen by placing piece Of bed
ticking over his face upon instruc-
tionS of high klanSmen; no man can
be made a citizen by tramping on the
feet Of members Of another religion"
Making his maiden speech at the
session, Senator Jack Barker of FL
Keno, one of the oldest members, of
the upper house, declared the Khan
is not against the bootlegger or the
thug; it is against a certain religion.
Defense of KIan.
Chief of the khan defenders was
Senator Wash Hudson of Tulsa. ma
jority floor leader, who declared the
khan is an agency for law and order
and that much of it's effectiveness
is gained from its secret membership.
you will never accomplish any
thing with this bill to make public
the names of klansmen," he asserted,
describing how the organization by
its activities had cleared up" Tulsa
county from a state of lawlessness.
With consideration of anti-Klan
legislation temporarily halted by
Legislative adjournment over the
week END, representatives of anti
Khan organization from all parts of
the state are expected to meet here
today for a general conference in an
effort to evolve a united opposition to
the organization.