Word: kight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some callers have been vexed by Mrs. Hammonds' firmness in denying them audiences with Mr. Johnston, have called her a "Mrs. Colonel House." State Senator W. M. Gulager of Muskogee has even called her a "she-Rasputin." And recently State Representative H. Tom Kight of Claremore, spokesman for 69 colleagues, addressed Mr. Johnston publicly on the subject of Mrs. Hammonds, as follows...
...should know that it is common talk throughout the State that she is Governor in fact. And this situation is alleged to be a daily humiliation to the citizens of Oklahoma." Representative Kight and his 69 colleagues were holding in abeyance a petition demanding that a special session of the Legislature be called to investigate Mrs. Hammonds and other features of the Johnston administration...
Last fortnight, Representative Kight and three others handed Governor Johnston their petition. The names of the 65 other malcontents were withheld until Dec. 6, the day set for the proposed meeting of the Legislature. It was said that they feared "embarrassment...
Representative Kight and colleagues represented themselves as desiring merely to "protect" Governor Johnston from Mrs. Hammonds. But the Johnston regime has been attended by something besides the anti-Hammonds talk. Governor Johnston has been accused of being a Rosicrucian.* He has been suspected of trafficking in the supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain...
Rosicrucian or spiritist or whatnot, Governor Johnston had to deal this week with the petition of Representative Kight and colleagues to investigate himself...