Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 167, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 25, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol. 2—No. 167
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1922
IT OVER
PRICE TWO CENTS
STATE OFFICIALS PROBED
The Shawnee Convention is
history.
It reaffirmed the position
taken last September, wrote a
comprehensive program and se-
lected candidates pledged to
carry that program into effect.
The actual work to be accom-
plished has begun.
I.et us face the situation
squarely.
The convention was harmo-
nious in spite of the effort of
certain influences to make it
otherwise. Complete unity was
shown between the farmers and
workers. In that respect, as
in every other, the convention
was all that could be desired or
expected.
But all this splendid work
will be lost it' the accumulated
enthusiasm is permitted to
wane—if we lay down on the
job—if we do not prosecute and
cultivate intensely the golden
field of opportunity now pre-
sented to us.
"* 0 *
An entire new house of rep-
resentatives is to be chosen.
Twenty-two members of the
state senate are to be elected.
The legislative branch of the
stale government must be cap-
tured. Without this the suc-
cess of the state ticket would
be an empty and meaningless
thing. Therefore the work of
organization at the grass roots,
in every precinct and ward, in
every county in the state, must
be prosecuted vigorously from
this moment until the fight is
won and the machine of (he
Plunderbund completely smash-
ed.
<« * *
The campaign fund pledged
at the close of the convention
amounting to more than $10,-
000 is but a small part of the
money that will be needed. ■
Every pledge must be made
good and steps taken to provide
such funds that at all times the
executive board of the farmer-
Labor Reconstruction League
will be unembarrassed in the
prosecution of its work.
In every county in the state,'
with perhaps one or twd excep-
tions, a county chairman and
secretary has already been
named. These should go to
work at once and at the earliest
possible moment call county
meetings and begin the work of
organizing at once. The State
Manager of the League will co-
operate in every way possible,
but his work is going to be so
heavy and arduous that he
must be assisted in every way
possible.
* « if
Another thing, very impor-
tant, must not be forgotten.
Every member must inform
himself respecting the election
laws. In the matter of regis-
tration you must not be negli-!
gent. If there are registration
officials who are inclined to i
deny you your rights in this be- j
hall', steps must be taken to en-1
force their compliance with the!
law. Be sure that no barrier is!
erected between you and your I
light to express yourselves in 1
the coming primary election. '
Altogether fellows. Up and1
at them. Work hard and work
last and whatever work you do,
do it well and victory is for the j
people.
VETERAN FIREMAN
DIES ATHOSPITAL
Bar I W. Scant I in. .15. captain of
Hose Company No. ?, of the Okla- j
lioma City fire department, died Fri-
day morning after a long period of
suffering from blond poisoning. The !
poisoning started with an injury of
the hand, and gradually destroyed '
the arm and attacked the body. An
operation failed to give relief. Scant-
lin had been a member of the lire
department for Jo years, funeral !
-ervices will be held Monday morn-
ing at 9 o'clock ut St. Joseph's Roman
Catholic cathedral, Fourth ann Har-
vey. Burial will be at Fairhiwn
cemetery. He leaves a widow, who
lives at 12u7 West Sixth street. Scant-
I in has always been a staunch friend
" nd supporter of the Oklahoma
Leader and labor unions.
KANSAS DEMOCRATS FOR
REPEAL OF COURT LAW
TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 25.—Kansas ,
Democrats will make the state in-
dustrial court law an issue in the
■"ining rampaicn. Resolutions in
ti"- state convention being held here
•b mand the repeal of the law* and
>4.i' tttutipn ot an • Itcti c board
of mediation and arbitration. i
OKLAHOMA'S NEXT GOVERNOR
Mayor J. C. \talton, the choice of the Farmer-Labor Reconstruction League, for Govern
Shawnee Meet
Ends In Whirl
Of Enthusiasm
Dangerous Situations Safely Handlocf — Convention Avoids
Split, and "'Makes Port' With Full Harmony and Deter-
mination to Capture Election.
THE CONVENTION'S PILOT
HAMBERLAIN. Union,
ith tears streaming down
•e walked down the aisle after
of vain pleading with his chief
nifested his intention to stay
He had previously
hou
and ma
HiHH With theLeaf^l
Recon- announced the decision of th
ecutive board of the Farmers'Union
to submit the question of future
a flil ir. ti on with th^ League to a ref-
BY ERNEST R.
Staff f ori
SHAWNEE, Feb. 25. With the de-
parture of the last delegates to their
homes the intensive organization
\ ork of the Farmer-Laboi
struct Ion League u hich is
to sweep Mayor J. < . Walton and a
full state ticket into office in No-
vember. was begun.
The convention which in the early Simpson admitted that he placed
stormy sessions of Friday morning the nomination oi Whitehurst above
seemed in Imminent d .nger, when the principles of the League. With
.lohn Simpson, president oi the Senator Frank Carpenter and a lew
Farmers' Cnion. declared that he of his follower.- lie left the hall, but
would bolt the convention if J. A. the majority oi the Farmers' Unior
Whitehurst was defeated tor the delegates-, thosi who ha-! favorec.
board of agriculture, rode safely into Whitehurst as well as those who
djourninent. opposed him, accepted the decision
g vote in favor
hour
port by th<
Whitehurst was snowed under and
Simpson, thus tar. has shown no
disposition to return to the Leatrtie,
but the majority of his own follow-
ers refused to follow him from the
hall.
Reger Sticks.
The most dramatic and inspiring
ine'dent of the entire convention
was when Ed Reger. chairman of
thr> cWli f bo-T'l of the Fnrpiprt'
of H. O
pledged th<
Idler
Norm
SPEAK N
DATES
Farmers' Union Rallies to the
League Despite Simp-
son's Deflection.
Requests for *|icukln : dates Rre
swamplns Mayor J. ('. Walton,
gubernatorinl candidate of the Farm-
er-Labor Reconstruction League.
Letters and telegrams from all
over the pt; te come from Farmers
, and Trade Unionists who want to get
i personally acquainted with their
j standard bearer.
j Walton will make speechet* on re-
; Quest, for the next few months but
■ will not stump the state intensively
I until Summer.
| Meanwhile tfie executive board of
: the League was in conference Satnr-
i day morning at tho Egbert hotel,
! mapping out the plan of action for
, what promise* to be the hottest cam-
paign in Oklahoma history.
I .Much has been made, by the oppo-
j aitlou, of the apparent deflection of
! the Farmers' Union through the
THE TICKET
Mayor J. C. Walton,
For Governor
Oklahoma City.
Lieutenant Governor Senator
Harry R. Cordell, Tillman county.
Attorney General—E. P. Hill, of
McAlester.
Auditor J. P. Irby, of Choctaw
county.
Secretary oi
Sneed, Lawton
State Treasurer—Joe Strain No-
wata.
State Examiner and Inspector—
Fred Parkinson of Wagoner.
State—Col.
FUNDS
DEPOSIT
County Attorney Says Grand,
Jury May Be Summoned i
in Oklahoma County.
Local bankers had received sub-
poena* Saturday afternoon to come,
State Ubor CommlMloner—Claud* to Okmulgee with hunk records to
toutullj Ol Lehlisli testify liffore the itrunil jury iute*U-
Corporation ( ommissioner — Fay ' .i„ . , . . , „
Connor, Fairview. 0,6 Okmulgee hank failure.
regarding the accounts of several
state officials and former slate offU
withdrawal of John Simpson. That
the rank and file will not follow
their president la the declaration of
members of the Farmers' Union now
on the executive board of the league
who will stick and fight.
: W. A. Villlnes. secretary o/ the
league, nominee for congress, and K "h«V
"one of the most Influential members'
• of the Farmers Union, has pledged
j himself to the unconditional support
I of the league and all its candidates.
; J. B. Tosh of Hobart. Farmers Union nnvl.
number of the league board. de- '
: elarea that a fair referendum will 1 ngrtsstr
| snow Simpson under an avalanche
of repudiation.
'The league board is
e Superintendent of Public In- I v™
ion Mm Suwun v t r I><,nn,S resigned hank commis-
Mn su ,lU 1 1 or** o! , doner, and s. P. I reeling, former at-
torney general, were to he ImsM
John L .1 km ted. i
I Banks mentioned were the Secu-
rity National, the South nest Jia-1
tional, the First National, the Ameri«i
ran National and the Liberty Na-
tional. The subpoenas were senO
by remristered mall, it was sai(L
Secretary of Board of Agriculture
— H. O. Miller, Norman.
Commissioner of Charities and .. . ,, ,
Corrections Mabel Russett. Sapulpa ""mors from Okmulgee slated that;
Mttei
struct ion
Shawnee.
Insurant* commissioner
Pickens, Enid.
State Mine Inspector—Millard Hay,
Muskogee.
District Mine Inspectors
First District- W. G. Roberts, Dow.
Second District — John Almond.
of Dewar.
Third District — Robert Brown,
Coalgate.
Clerk of the Supreme Court—Wil-
liam Franklin of Madill.
Justices of the Supreme Court—
Third District Mathew J. Kane,
county.
Fourth District- Postponed.
Seventh District- W. P. McGlnnls,
Muskogee.
Criminal Court of Appeals—Thom-
Perry.
ssmen-
First District 0. Lonergan, Paw-
nee.
in absolute j Wflr
dfdau?" "" '^\?rlnC!Plf """ can- Third District J. D. Laughlln,
dldatea. was the declaration of Bokchito.
ueorge \> ilson, state manager of the
lengue.
U
That there will he a state ami- I
grand Jtiry investigation of the fail-4
ure of the First State hank of Dnr-!
ant was an announcement of Fred
Parkinson. Btate examiner and in-' I
spector. Saturday.
The Durant bank failed in Janu-!'
ary. The bank was capitalized at
$30,000 and was said to have had^ I
closed.
700 depositors when the doors wci
A urand jury will meet March 20,' I
Parkinson said.
That he will call a grand jury in!*
Oklahoma county, in connection with J
the Okmulgee hank scandal if con^M
dltlons warrant, was the statement ofjt
(Continued on I'ajio Three.) i.
Villlnes,
B. Swank, Nor-
Fourth District
Semlncde.
The farmers and workers of Okla- Fifth District 1
homa nre united and any professed man.
lender who aaaks to thwart them in. Sixth District Jed Johnson, Cot-
their camualKn for the I,eacuo tlckot i ton county.
will find himself discredited." j Seventh District J. B. Tosh,
"The workers and dirt farmer*! Kiowa.
have the bit in their teeth. They are Eighth District LeRoy A. Curry,
disciplinarians and will not. be Carmen county.
swerved from the path to victory by
individual opposition of any leader,
whether that leader's motives be sin-
cere or tralterous."
The campaign chest has grown
from 910,00u to $18,000 and the dele
gates are reported to
111
IE
[GATE
CE AT
COUNTY DADS GO
All But Britton Censure John!"
Wilkinson's Action. •
, Feb. 25. I "nounc^Ai
TO STUDY ROADS atlonofjohnw
* Illy/iL/kJ the Oklahoma Mine Workers, fo- *
— - | j attack upon the Leader, is cc* til
be preadln County Commissioners Ed Butter- m a resolution signed by twViMi I
their contagious entthusiasin to their ' ®*d and B. W. Black left for Ken- gates from the Oklahoma III e I
constituents at the grass roots and tucky Friday night, for a short stay
in the workshops of Oklahoma.
WEEVIL ON
INCREASE
Farmers Urged to Take Meas-
ures to Fight It.
NEW ORLEANS, i^a., Feb. 25.-
Due to the mild winter, according to the board of commissioners was wi-
the 1 nited States Entomologist. ; able to go on account of illness In his
there will be a large Increase in the family.
number of weevil to emerge this
To
gates from the Oklahoma i^.
ers to the Reconstruction^1 —^
Oklahoma, which has ju, it*P * I
Its convention here. Jfuiju;;
The only delegate < -jt ' olnM]
workeri who refused ti • i res«ll
olution was Jack Britto? ^ lem^r-'of-1!
Wilkinson's executive I i^d. 1 I
The resolution folloM?:^v« J1 *
The undersigned delegiaes to the1'
In the state fomifrly famous for its
mellow old corn, and now noted for
excellent moonshine.
A study of roads and their cost
and upkeep is said to be the object
of the trip, the expenses of which
are paid by the Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce. Kentucky is I
noted for its good roads, it being un- shawnee, 1922. convention of thd* I
wise to maintain poor roads in a p a r m e r-L a b o r Reconstruction • I
■tate where llQUOr has a real kick who represent the llbafff I
in if and automobile dnws are unions of th< I'nited Mine Workers'!
o!ten intoxicated. jof America in Oklahoma, declare anil*** I
George Brown, third member of | make known: s ' I
1. That we are not in sympathy6' I
with the officials and the Dlstrictfrl
utive board of the United Minef* I
Black and Butterfield
year. To counter this It is urged astonished indignant taxpayers by re-1 h
that farmers contemplating planting jectlng bids on road work because],
cotton, plant only what they can tend i they objected to the low bidder. In- a'
recently | Workers of District 21 in which thcy*(
instituted court proceedings
gainst the Oklahoma Leader, and/"
denounce said action as bcini
they obje
In an intensive manner. State laws \ formation gleaned in Kentucky will i , . .. . . .. i
! establishing non-plantlnK zones wer. he used in the building of :.>ads In j * 0 ' 0
1 advocated. Oklahoma county, it Is
ds
i challen,
he left
or Slain
By Dope Ring
Me Thwarted?!
Theory Gains Strength As Officers Investigate Story Told
By Man Arrested In Detroit — Director Said to Have
Saved Actress From Dope Habit.
hership of District 21.
I 2. We point out that the i
j held by the United Mine Work^j
' District 21 was taken by the Vfl
;i convention of delegates rep*
' ing the membership of said '«n
/ation, and the officials ami
rive board of said district >ui?
authority to bring a suit/ tPlu
this particular without a * Mflnd
ihe membership given in i ,Hn
I vention. w hich has not been,,0,s i ori
aa i ,
dKll'c I
•\.t l]
"f
thalion f
Sd Reger, on his
ips no other man in the stat
rmer-Labor Reconstruction I
d permanent chairman of th
id personal sac
:f the Shawnee conventh
has worked harder for the suci
true than Win. \lbert Villlnes.
convention. Ah a fitting tribut
nimously endorsed
nomine* for congressman from the Fourth
LOS ANGKLES, Feb. 25.
was added today to the t.
i William Desmond Taylor
rector, was slain by a dope ring that
sought vengeance after he had res
cued an actress from Its clutches.
1 The arrest of a man in Detroit,
giving his name as Harry Fields, and
his subsequent "confessions," with
the official Investigations which fol-
1 lowed served to give partial sub-
stantiation to the theory
! Fields muddled his story somew hat,
and authorities are at a loss to know
whether the original ws a fake, or
whether he told the ^ 'hen
became frightened, and attempted to
discredit his own statements.
Taylor is supposed to have sent a
young woman east, to be cured of
the dope habit. Upon her return to
| California, it is said that the "dope
ring" agaiu tried to get her in its
power, resorting even to blackmail,
j Taylor threatened to start a sweep-
ling prosecution of the rin: i« tivi-
tie
trength , other persons were implicated in the
ry that plot to kill Taylor. It has been es-
tablished that Fields and the dope
peddler named changed a *1.000 bill
just before Taylor was slain. Fields
hes since denied, however, that the
bill was or a $1,000 denomination,
saying it was $100.
Two white girlrf are understood to
ha\e left Ixis Anegles hastily just
after the killing of Taylor.
. (Signed)
JACK DAVIS, Henry dtp i
3061. '
WALTER CRETCHLEV,
etta, Local No. 2557. ™
NEWTON DAVIS, Dewar,
No. 421.
JAMES DOYLE, Dewar, Local
JOHN L. GEHR, Bokosha, iJcfj
DAY SMITH, Local Union No. 71^
J. W. ANDERSON. Krebs, Locir .
1 ields, in hfe confession.
>
aid that
CONVENTION
PROCEEDINGS
Extra copies of the Leader,
special state edition, containing
full reports of the Shawnee con-
vention, may be bail by sending
the Leader your remittance for
copies wanted at 2 cents each.
Orders must all be in by Satur-
day, March 1
« IR« ULATION DEPT.
Oklahoma Leader.
J. A. SULLIVAN, llughe
2o84. ,
W J. I •ON.NERY. Henryetta. Locaipl I
1
XV. 11 THORNSBROUGH, Coalgat
l.ocnl 1(HM. .
FELIX RHBITTO, Coalgate, I.ocaI 1
I 1026. j
A. 1'.*. KCI.AIU, Coalgate, I.ocal 1'1J. 'f
THREE GUNS TO GUARD J
15 GALLONS OF HOOCH1'
' H
With a loaded revolver in his hand t
and two others un ler his pillow as ^
he lay asleep, deputy sheriffs sur-
prised and captured Jack Dilbeck Oil r
West Reno aveune, late l-Yiday, ac-
cording t« W. i' Lindsay, nnder-^ "
sheriff. Fifteen gallons of whiskyLjjjl
were found, according to deputies.
He and- Charles Putnam, also In^
th- house, were arrested on cbarsc0
of ill";-;'l possession of lirjnor, and
inform;;!ions were filed against them
by J. K. wight, afc i tant county at-
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Ameringer, Oscar & Hogan, Dan. Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 167, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 25, 1922, newspaper, February 25, 1922; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109682/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.