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Show FORGES DRAW BUTTLE HUES III OKLAHOMA aanvasjsasanawaB Lower House of'Legiala- ture, Preparing to Convene Con-vene Wednesday, Iaauea Warning to Governor EXECUTIVE READY S. TO MEET ATTACK ! bitter Foe of Ku Klux Declare. De-clare. He Will Arm Every Ev-ery Man Opposed to the . Klan If Necessary OKLAHOMA CITT. Okla.. Sept 'It (By A. P.) Legislators aaaklna the official bead of Oavemor J. Walton marched on today In their plana for Impeachment, whll tha asecejtlva fathered atranfth for a final drive on tha Xg Klua Klan. (Which ha bkunea - for tba stonp that haa broken abeut blm. . The lower bouse of tha Oklahoma ' teflslatur will convene at neon I Wedneeday ta consider eharaea that Walton baa aet at naught coa-' coa-' aUtutlonal gevernment and If tba ' 1 aavarnor lnterferea . with - tha meeting ha "acts at hi peril.-' This I was tha pronouncement of leglala-' leglala-' tors who will asek tba executive s impeachment. ' Waltoo'a final attitude toward tha houea aaaaloa waa expected ta ba developed during tha day, but . hit legislative eneralea were confident confi-dent that ha would not carry out his throat t Jail tha house mam-bare mam-bare If they attempted to aaaam-! aaaam-! ble. Blnce voicing bla threat soma j af tha governor's legal advisors ) have urged him to permit tha aes- n. aa they declare It would ba iagel and without affrot How-ovar. How-ovar. tha final ward ramalna to b ' , aaeaia aad ha till set aaa-aet. t .Was witlidvmwm - , ' WALTON WANTS FUNDS. t Admitting tha Tight waa weigh. IV lng heavily upon him, the goverrror an but an appeal for fuada, ask-i ask-i lhg those -who bsllsve In a repre-' repre-' esntallve form of government" to ' send contribution to Mrs. Aldrlch i Blake, Oklahoma City, wlfa of the (executive eouaeellor. Blake now la J absent from tha stats on a mission ! tor the governor. He aald that if It proved nsces-vary nsces-vary hs would army evsry man la .atate who Is opposed to the "Invlsl-'. "Invlsl-'. ble empire." " A broadside wss tumsd en the hlan by the governor laat night whan he released a portion of the teatlmony taken before a military court hare ahowlng that County Attorney J. K. Wright, Sheriff Tom Cavnar and District Judgs G. W. Clark bad been obligatsd In the !klan. and detailing charges made by Dr. A. A. M sup In, a dentist and former member of the organisation, organisa-tion, aa te the connection of the "lavlelble empire" with mo violence. vio-lence. .UOOI HELD OBLIGATED. It wa Judge Clark who Issued ths call for a special grand Jury te Investigate chargea that Oover- - nor Walton Illegally had uaad atate employes to check aamaa on an Initiative petition to which be was Opposed. The grand Jury wa dlsmlsssd whsn the military authorities trained machine guna on tha courtroom court-room at the ordera. of tha governor. gover-nor. Ajrcordlng to, ths record ef tha tnltary court, 'Judgs Clark testl-ytrd testl-ytrd that - although ha had beea initiated In the klan a year and a halt ago, ha had paid no duea and ' for nearly a year had not considered consid-ered himself a member of the organisation. or-ganisation. - Sheriff 'Cavnar admitted he Is new a member of the klan and the portion of .County Attorney X Wright's tsstlmony mode public rs-aVnaled rs-aVnaled that he bad elated that be paid tha fee for memberahlp. . Dr. Maupln'a testimony waa of a aenaatlonal nature, exposing the v alleged machlnatlona of tha Oklahoma Okla-homa City klan In dealing out punishment pun-ishment to persons falling under tha proscription of tha "klansmen jury." Dr. Msupln testified that Orand Dragon N. C. Jawatt had atated te blm that ha wa rsaponslbls for the whipping of a men named Merrl-man, Merrl-man, whom Jewett had charged with being Intimate with a married woman. |