Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1923 — Page 9
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CLERMONT TO HAVE ' WOMEN'S MEETING
CLERMONT. Ind.. Sept. 25. The 29th of this month is the date set for the big meeting of the Women's Or ganizatten to be held here. The
luet-tinff will be hold both in the afternoon anil evening and three speakers will give addresses on the Klan, the Women's Organization and the Junior Klan. The State Ladies' Quartette will give a program of songs and by the envious reputation they have gained over the state the committee on arrangements is to be complimented on procuring them for their meeting. The place of meeting will be on the schoolhouse grounds.
MINNESOTA PEOPLE HEAR KLAN SPEECH
GRANADA, Minn., Sept 23. A brilliant speaker who delivered a lecture on the principles of the Ku
Klux Klan spoke in. the Community Movie park to a splendid crowd that listened and applauded for nearly two hours. The Klan lecturer wore a beautiful robe that added much to the meeting. After the lecture many men and women came forward and presented their hands of greeting just to let the Klansmen know that they were not afraid, and as a testimonial that they didn't believe all the Action that had been printed to discredit the Invisible Empire.
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(By PHILIP KIKSLEY, in the Chicago Tribune) OKLAHOMA C1TT, Okla., Sept. 22. Gov. John Calloway (Jack) Wal
ton is 'in the ,way of becoming a national figure aa the result ol his
spectacular fight on the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma. He is strong and courageous. His enemies say he is
unscrupulous and dangerous. Tea years ago Walton was a Kansas City electrical supply salesman. He did business with the state departments here and in 1913 moved here and opened an office as consulting engineer. He bcame a city commissioner and In 1919 was elected mayor. He was known as a union labor man and Jias always been associated with the radical wing of the Democratic party. As Mayor Saw Rise of Klan During his reign as mayor he saw
the rise of the Klan to political
power. One of the largest initiations ever held waswhile he wa3 mayor. He took no stand on the matter. There was a strike in packingtown and a negro strikebreaker was lynched. The city police did little to stop tho mob. The town was wide open for a while, but Walton fired his chijf of police and personally led raicig squads into saloons and dives until he had cleaned the town. Hs used to march with Ills police Into the Christian chnreii to attend services. He always hail an eye ior the spcctaeuhir, and in politics was quick to seiae upon the enrrent ostrnm that appealed to the imagination of the crowd. .Leads Xew Party Alliance In 1922. while he was still mayor,
he was made the notninea o the
reconstruction league of the state for governor. This organization, led
by the Oklahoma Leader, a radical
publication, had sensed in Walton a
winning political figure after his city
success against the conservative
Democrats. They were formed on the line of the Nonpartisan League
of North Dakota, capitalizing the dis
content of the farmer and the union labor sentiment. Their tactics were to bore into the old party. The Shawnee convention of this organization, in 1921, indorsed Walton on a radical platform. He went into the campaign and, although he lest in the capital, and had mcst of the big state papers against him, he won in the state by the biggest majority that any governor ever received.
Soon Jumps Into Limelight
Ho jumped into the limelight with his famous inauguration barbecue, where all the farmers were invited
to come in their overalls. He turned out the militia and gave the state three days of the wildest kind of a picnic. He was the idol of the plain people, their governor and friend. He was going to turn the agricultural and mechanical college back to them, take out the classics from college courses and get back to dirt and
grease, lie was going to clean out the bank thieves from the state, reform the budget and get down to
economics to relieve the farmer from
tax burden. - Today, despite failure lo do any of
"these things, lie can still draw preat
crowds on a new Issue. Though he has broken away from the reconstruction league and led them to sro hito the camp of the enemy, he Is rebuilding a powerful state machine. On the Kn Klux Klan Issue lie Is
planning to become politically impregnable, become senator or a vicepresidential candidate.
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The dreams of the little group of Idealists, whose work contributed so
largely to Walton's selection, were
soon found hopeless. Today they call Walton a traitor. They found that Walton was not a true radical, but a political opportunist, who had used them and dropped them. The true radicals will never go back to
his banner, although they hate the Ku Klux Klan as much or more than he does.
He has put them and many other groups of good Oklahoma citizens in
an ineffective and" perplexing situa
tion. If they oppose him they are accused of being "Klan." He has muddied the waters and forced the issue so cleverly that there is only
one thing for the majority to do
go with him. Ills Eow Over College
Walton's first act which drew down
the wrath of his supporters was his
action in the A. & M. college presi
dency. He promised to make George
Wilson, an Oklahoma school teacher
president of the college. He did not keep his promise. Farmers and latar delegates called on him and
forced him to make the appointment.
Later he fired Wilson.
The Leader on July 25 announced
they were through with him, quoting-
Browning's "The Lost Leader" "Just for a handful of silver he left
us," etc. In the Field of State Finances The banking situation In the state had been in a bad way and depositors had lost millions In failures and liquidations under state, bank managers who looted and fled the state. The farmer-labor group had the governor appoint Joe Strain, in whose honesty every one believed. Strain took office. He found an attorney asking a $45,000 fee tor services in a small bank liquidation. He found the attorney-general and his . aids trying to liquidate a bank, which he saved for the depositors. Then Strain was fired. E. T. Bynum was put in as bank commissioner, although he had had no other experi
ence In finance than managing -Walton's political campaign in Tulsa. The state banking law states that
the commissioners must have had live years banking experience. -
About " this time the scandal in "pardons and paroles", began to
break. From January 6, when he assumed office, to September 9 last Governor Walton had extended 253 acts of executive clemency at the McAlester penitentiary. , ' Pardons Tile Offender Charges- have been made and printed that money was paid to men
close to the governor for some of
these pardons, particularly $2,000 in the case of Ira Williams, a rape case
cenviet. Miss Sue Bonds of Okmnlgee county wa raped In 1918. Her liai)ce, Holden II. Vance, was oversens. She died a year later hi Arkansas, broken hearted. Williams was convieted and sentenced to twenty-five years. He was a traveling salesman. On May 18 last Walton paroled him. Vanee wrote the governor a harsh letter and parole was revoked.
Wllaanift' sister thesi came forward anil said she had paid $2,000 for the parole to a man close to the gov
ernor. In the meant-i'ie Williams had fled, and Is still away. Murderer 'ext Paroled
In 1912 Charles T. Renter, an attorney, was murdered. Guy McKenzie was convicted and sentenced
to life. Ho had conspired with the
attorney's wife to kill him. Mc-K;-kzie was posoted by .'.irmor Governor Robertson two year.- aso. He was caught bootleggin.s And was returned-. On June 15 Walton paroled him. There is a long list of such cases reaching up to two days ago. This list of paroled includes Dick Ivey. bank baiidit, who killed a bank
cashier at Kotchum while oil parole The list includes 15S felons, iifry-hve pardoned ar.d the rei:uiiniir thirty-ti-r?e commutations, reprieves. Executive clemency has been extended to tv.PBty-uine mardcrcrs. The governor claims they were all worthy cases. Considerate to Convicts The "leave of absence" is an institution established by Walton
under . which convicts are release-.!-
for various periods. There is r.o i
record oi. the number or thes- cases. Governor Walton announced early
in his term that he would not ;er."nit I
any one to die in the electric chair. Instead of reducing tax-as to the farmers the governor has 'piled on expenses until today deficiency warrants totaling $177,722 have been issued. The bankers and farmers havo besu uneasy over the situation. Twenty men, most of them former policemen when WaUon was mayor are kspt as a personnl bodyguard
for the governor, drawing state
lands. There are live at his side nearly all the time, even at night. At the close of the last session Walton vetoed $6,000,01)0 in appro
priations and voiced a refund of $1,-
000,000 to oil companies. Most of his added expenses has been in his war on the Klan. - .Start of Martial Law These are the chief points in his record leading., tcr the martial law period. This began August 14 last.
The immediate cause of the proc
lamation of martial lav at Tulsa was the whipping of Nate Hantaman, a bootlegger. He was whipped with the aid and consent of the police of that city, court records are said to show. He was not whipped because he was selling whisky, but because
he had gossiped that he had paid pro
tection money to the police. Thus
Oklahoma's "insurrection" may be
laid indirectly at the door of the mockery of prohibition enforcement.
There was no talk of impeachment
or an extraordinary session of the
Oklahoma legislature until the martial law proclamation and his "flght-to-the-death" campaign against the
Klan. The charges which will , be made against him rest entirely upon
his usurpation of dictatorial power and his new reign of military absolutism. He admits all these charges, so there is really nothing for the legislature to "Investigate."
Informing Public of Evils
Without Suggesting Remedies of No Aid, He Says
KLAN E MAKING TOWN GOOD PLACE TO LIVE
2,000 INITIATED AS HEAVY FOG HOVERS
WASHINGTON", Sept 22. The president has expressed himself upon the publication of news and editorial views which, inform the public of evils without suggesting remedies, in no uncertain fashion. In a letter to the Southern Newspaper Publishers' -Association Mr. Coolidge says: "Every newspaper can be very helpful in its support of the government, whether it be state or na
tional, f undamentally, this means
always making the authority of the law supreme. It means undivided allegiance to the constitution and unhesitating obedience to legislative action made in accordance with its provisions. Constructive Criticism Helpful
"Constructive criticism is always helpful. It keeps institutions from becoming fossilized and falling into decay. But constructive criticism does net accomplish its purpose merely by pointing out what is evil. It must not fail to direct attention, with more emphasis, to what is good. Our institutions, our social organization, our economic condition are all
of a quality and quantity which are
worthy of our highest admiration. I bel;c.'r"Trr;t it will be exceedingly helpful to miblic sentiment if these principles -nd ideals can be reiterated from time to time, joined with a reverence for religion end an aspiration for better things."
RUSH FORD. Minn.. Sent. 23.
Somewhere around a thousand people assembled-on the street in front of the Klan lecturer's automobile here last Saturday. This was the speaker's second appearance in this city. There was JLron in the speaker's blood, for he turned on tho attackers of the Klan in a way to leave no doubt in any parson's mind as to tho source of the anti-Klan attacks that were recently featured In the daily press. In a loud voice Mr.
Ornoasked the question, "Who dis
covered America?" Wheu he an
swered his own question by stating that Lief Ericson was the real dis
coverer ot America, a wild applause
broke out. Th -Klansmen here are doing things effectively to make Rushford a better place to live in.
DALY, Cal., Sept. 23. More than
5,000 persons attended the ceremony of the Ku Klux Klan initiation held
near here recently, when it is reported that approximately 2,000 candidates were taken into the order. In the Black Hills, two miles east of Daly, and in a natural bowl of the valley the actual "naturalisation took place. A heavy fog hanging over the scene lent an air of unreality to the whole proceedings, and made the ceremony even more impressive.
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