Evening star., 1924-10-12
OKLAHOMA LIKELY:
TO GO FOR DAVIS
Democratic Faction, How
ever, Seeks to Repudiate
Walton Candidacy.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, October
n.-John w. Davis is reasonably GER
tain OF Oklahoma's electoral vote.
When the Democratic voters are
apathetic this State sometimes turns
upside down. There's no such dan
ger in 1924. as the fight for and
against former Gov. J. c. Walton
Democratic nominee for the United
states Senate. is making Oklahomans
sit up and take notice.
When Robert J.. Owens. Democrat
and the present senior Senator from
Oklahoma, sees tit to call on the
Democrats of the State to repudiate
Walton and cast their votes for his
opponent, w. B. Pine, Republican.
some idea of the intensity of the
battle may be conveyed to the out
side world.
Has Raised Khan Issue.
Walton won in the Democratic
primaries as a minority candidate.
He has raised the anti-Klan issue.
Newspapers like the Daily Okla
homan, which are and have been anti
Khan, decline to allow that issue to
influence their feeling about Wal
spectacle of most of the Democratic
w .
Davis and the Democratic State tic
ket, but boiling the Democratic nomi-
nee on the senatorship.
Walton's Impeachment and his
record In office are given by Senator
owen as reasons for refusing to sup
port the man nominated to succe ed
him. Naturally a row inside the
Democratic party has its dangers.
Pressure is being put on many old
&C
ticket, including Walton, the argu-
ment being made that defectfons in
one place might lead to others and
that might carry with it certain
peril to the Democratic nominees for
supreme court judges.
Six are to be elected, which makes
up majority of the court, and the
thought is being distributed among
Democrats that if the Republicans
win the court they will knock out
the Jim Crow laws, subject on
which Oklahoma is as tender as South
Carolina or any other State OF the
solid South.
Votes for In Toilette.
Senator La Toilette will get a big
vote. perhaps 100000. This would be
little less than a nth OF the total
vote expected to be cast. But there
always has been Farmer-Labor vote
here and a Socialist movement. 1t
has been somewhat obscure and
hasn't always gone to the polls be-
cause OF the known futility of that
errand. With La Toilette conceded
to be a factor in the presidential
contest-at least in being abe pos
sibly to deadlock the contest-the
radicals are coming out to vote. Then
there is the protest vote against both
parties. 1t always amounts to some
thing. Rising agricultural prices
tend to some extent to erase discon-
tent, but 1t hasn't been enjoyed long
enough to squelch all OF the protest.
ing farmers.
John w. Davis is we'll liked in
Oklahoma 1t is interesting to find
a state like that, for here the news
papers have given space to his
speeches and attachments, and the
strength OF Davis is not unlike that
which has been carefully cultivated
for President Coolidge in States
where the Republican press is all
controlling.
Gov. Bryan has been making a IA
vorable impression with his speeches
in this State. The Democratic cam
paign is well organized and the State
probably will poll an exceptionally
arge vote, which would mean a Davis
victory by anywhere from $1,000 to
$4,000 votes this time. even counting
the defections to La Toilette.
Copyright, 1824.)