To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

On the basis of Tuesday's special election you conclude that "Governor Walton's appeal to force has not been successful." I do not believe that the recent election, if conclusive at all, is indicative of the true "temper of the Oklahoma people," for Governor Walton was elected by the largest majority in the history of Oklahoma. The recent expression of the "people of Oklahoma" is similar to that of a boy in a dentist's chair, who, when asked how he felt after a bad tooth had been extracted, replied "worse".

There is, nevertheless, ground for believing that Governor John Callaway Walton, in adopting the only course of action available to him in a State where the fiery cross brazenly burned from the tops of courthouses, will defeat the members of the Invisible Empire that "gave its orders to sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and judges, ordered citizens flogged, threatened others, and instituted a business boycott against what they call the alien world."

In less than six weeks a Grand Dragon and a Titan have been put under arrest and charged with rioting four Klansmen have confessed to flogging a defenseless citizen and have been sentenced to two years each in the State penitentiary, many others have been bound over to the district courts, the fiery cross destroyed, and on September 10 the Invisible Empire has announced that all masked parades and meetings will be "deferred." JAMES S. KAUFMAN '24.