<P> With American entry into World War I, the rhetoric and the stakes were raised yet again, with the Democratic state government of Oklahoma establishing a state - level organization to promote the aims and policies of the national military effort, the Oklahoma Council of Defense . This group of wealthy citizens and community leaders launched a coordinated campaign against the "dangerous" internationalist and pacifist ideas of the Socialist movement . Local councils committed acts of violence against dissidents, including the use of tar and feathers, application of yellow paint, and flogging . </P> <P> The Socialist Party opposed World War I, and came under fierce attacks for being unpatriotic . Oklahoma suffered from widespread Germanophobia, which saw the cities of Kiel, Bismark, and Korn were renamed Loyal, Wright, and Corn, respectively . </P> <P> In late 1917, the leadership of the Oklahoma Socialist Party disbanded the state party, in the tumultuous aftermath of the failed Green Corn Rebellion, for which Socialists and Wobblies were blamed . However, this decision was contested by many rank and file as being illegal under party rules . </P> <P> Throughout the 1920s the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, formerly one of the strongest state divisions of the SPA, virtually vanished from the political landscape . Only a small handful of at large members remained on the party's membership rolls, with all locals and the state organization discontinued . In February 1928 effort on the part of the SPA's National Office in Chicago began to be exerted to reestablish the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, with the state's at large members reached via mail with a view to the calling of a state conference in Oklahoma City prior to the party's national convention late in the spring . </P>

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