Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-14
.DKL AHOMA CERTAIN
FOR DAVIS, DESPITE
:. SENATORIAL FIGHT
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Special Leased Wire to The Journal-Copy-
So right, 1924.)
3 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Oct. II.
John W. Davis is reasonably sure of
)klahoma's electoral vote. When
he Democratic voters are apathetic
his state sometimes turns upside
Town. There's no such danger in
.924, as the fight for and against
ormer Governor j. c. Walton,
lonlinee for the United States SEN
tie. is making Oklahoma sit up and
lake notice.
When Robert L. Owen, Democrat,
nd the present senior senator from
oklahoma sees fit to call on the
Democrats of the state to repudiate
walton and cast their votes for his
,.pponent, w. B. Pine, Republican,
.ome idea of the intensity of the
attic may be conveyed to the out
1de world.
Walton won in the Democratic
lrimaries as a minority candidate.
lie has raised the anti-klan issue.
newspapers like the Daily Okla
-Ioman, which are and have been
nti-klan, decline to allow that is
ssae to influence their feelings about
gNalton's candidacy, so one finds
giere the spectacle of most of the
Democratic newspapers supporting
ohm ". Davis and the Democratic
icllet, but boiling. the Democratic
ominee on the senatorship.
Walton's Impeachment and his
ecord in, office are given by Senator
wen as reasons for refusing to sup
ort the man nominated to succeed
i'm. Naturally a row inside the
Democratic party has it's dangers.
'ressure is being put on many old
ne Democrats to vote for the whole
icket, including Walton, the argu.
lent being made that defections in
ne PLACE might lead to others and
hat might carry with it a certain
eril to the Democratic nominees
Or supreme court judges. Six are
be elected, which makes up a ma
or1ty of the court, and the thought
being distributed among Demo-
rats that if the Republicans win
he court they will knock out the
i'm Crow laws, a subject on which
oklahoma is as tender as South
aroina or any other state of the
old south
Senator La Toilette will get a big
ote. perhaps 100000. This would be
tile less than a fifth of the total
ote expected to be cast. But there
ways has been a farmer-lab Dor vote
ere and a socialist movement. 1t
as been somewhat obscure and
asn't always gone to the polls be-
ause Of the known futility Of that
rrand. With La Toilette conceded
be factor in the presidential con.
st at least in being able POSSIBLY
deadlock the contest, the radicals
re coming out to vote. Then there
the protest vote against bo.h mar.
Ies-- 1t always amounts TO some
hing. Rising agricultural prices
end to some extent to erase discon.
ant but it hasn't been enjoyed long
inouGh to squelch all the protesting
lrmers.
John w. Davis is we'll liked in
oklahoma. 1t is interesting to find
state like that, for here the news
7pers have given space to mis-
peeches and attainments, and the
trength of Davis is not unlike ths
fhlen mas been carefully cultivated
or President Coolidge in states
mere the Republican press is all.
ontrolling.
governor Bryan has been making
favorable impression with his
peeches in this state. The Demo.
ratio campaign is well organizes
nd the state probably will poll an
exceptionally large vote which vonId
mean a Davis victory by anvwhere
rom $4,000 to $4,000 votes this TIM,
ven counting the defections to La
Gillette.