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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Masonry | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...question of whether Governor Walton's drastic measures are legal is one which is, for the present, comparatively unimportant. He has forbidden the state legislature to meet, and he has proclaimed martial law: but he has been backed by President Coolidge and has the Federal Government on his side. For the time being it is a fight between the governor, and the Ku Klux Klan, and it is the governor who has been forced to take extraordinary measures. He is not in the position in which Andrew Johnson found himself, where he must await passively the worst which the legislative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE THAN POLITICS | 9/27/1923 | See Source »

Whippings, floggings, disturbances that called for state-wide martial law in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 24, 1923 | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

Governor McCray first came to the fore during the coal strike of 1922 when he summoned a conference of Governors to deal with the situation. At the outbreak of the strike he established martial law at the mines and maintained it until the strike was concluded. He thereby gained the enmity of the miners, who demanded his impeachment. On several occasions he has denounced Eugene V. Debs as a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Sep. 10, 1923 | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

King Alfonso pardoned the ringleader of the recent Malaga Mutiny. "The King's action has created a very favorable impression throughout Spain." The man, name unpublished, had been sentenced to death by a military court martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moroccan War: Sep. 10, 1923 | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

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