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Oklahoma continued her fireworks (TIME, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Oct. 8). The Legislature wanted to meet to impeach Governor Walton. The Governor shouted his desire to strangle the Ku Klux Klan, at the same time using both hands to hold off the Legislature. He could not do both...
...basis of Tuesday's special election you conclude that "Governor Walton's appeal to force has not been successful." I do not believe that the recent election, if conclusive at all, is indicative of the true "temper of the Oklahoma people," for Governor Walton was elected by the largest majority in the history of Oklahoma. The recent expression of the "people of Oklahoma" is similar to that of a boy in a dentist's chair, who, when asked how he felt after a bad tooth had been extracted, replied "worse...
There is, nevertheless, ground for believing that Governor John Callaway Walton, in adopting the only course of action available to him in a State where the fiery cross brazenly burned from the tops of courthouses, will defeat the members of the Invisible Empire that "gave its orders to sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and judges, ordered citizens flogged, threatened others, and instituted a business boycott against what they call the alien world...
...Governor Walton asked the Federal Government not to let the Legislature meet in any Federal building...
...Governor Walton had previously called a special election to pass on proposed amendments to the State Constitution. One of them would allow the State Legislature to assemble on a call by a majority of its members without the Governor's assent?would make legal the very thing the Legislature had attempted...