Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the Board saw the possibility of suggesting 13 officers for court martial, these had to be exempted from testifying, being given the same rights as defendants in a trial (TIME, Oct. 1). Nevertheless, the 13" interested parties" waived their rights and testified. Captain Edward H. Watson, in command of the squadron which went ashore, took all the blame upon himself, and in the final arguments instructed his counsel to make no defence. The defence of the others was chiefly that, according to regulations, all ships were obliged to follow the leaders course...
...State of Oklahoma between its Governor, its Legislature, its Ku Klux Klan, its Supreme Court and its National Guard is very much at odds with itself. The Legislature desired to impeach Governor Jack Walton for attempting to be " dictator " by putting the state under martial law to suppress outrages attributed to the K. K. K. The Governor had not called a special session, but the Legislators decided that they had the right to meet under the bill of rights in the State Constitution...
When the governor martialed his shock troops and the legislature replied by enlisting sheriffs and sheriffs' posses in its behalf, the rest of the country may well have begun to wonder who was and who was not in power in Oklahoma. The question has had a pretty clear answer in the special election on Tuesday. By a large majority the people of Oklahoma delivered Governor Walton the rebuke which he deserved. Since it is hardly conceivable that such a great proportion of the people should be Klansmen, one can assume that sympathy with the Ku Klux had little influence...
...courts that the election was invalid because not sufficiently advertised. That is beside the point at present. The fact, however, that he did not surround the polls with his regiments shows that he has had one thing proven to him: the people of Oklahoma infinitely prefer legal proceedings to martial violence...
Governor Walton of Oklahoma, who recently declared martial law throughout the state and "absolute martial law" in several cities, found himself facing a difficult situation. He set out to fight the Ku Klux Klan, which he declared was responsible for 2,500 floggings in the state in twelve months...