Ewe Lamb Rebellion

In Oklahoma, where political parties are constantly split and where Rosicrudan philosophy (founded 1313) is still a topic of conversation, Governor-Suspend Henry Simpson Johnston went on trial, last week, before the State Senate, sitting as a court on eleven articles of impeachment.

On the first day of the trial, many a pair of eyes scanned the senate gallery and focussed on a middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever."

"Are you sick of politics?" a news-gatherer asked Mrs. Hammonds. "Yes, I am sick," she said. "I am nauseated! . . ."