Show and then the man 1 f rondo made the fatal nils afa of causing to 7 be rend read out of tile dem E party and barred front from tile tho through and court tie 9 y tion thereupon afro i ferguson ennio forward fora as 18 it candidate on an anti kian platform with icv ivy aad ele the avowed purpose of vindicating her husband in the first prini nry in july nit nil of tho the eight e candidates were allm except jt V fa iv evvi vi 0 tv B IB H S alm tl lu T ibb 0 I 1 pov k if IX tw bar hur BR Z 8 H i VR auh ji hiroji Hiro jj H w 1 va N va 1 I MS ri 0 Z H I 1 H 1 lm 7 1 r YI jv 7 by JOHN DICKINSON SHER bherman elt 1 help I 1 11 I 1 ive 91 got HO llo ie write the story of the election of two govern governors drs of 1025 1925 who tire are also women with a mrs airs r end and I 1 dont know what to call them try au out t aft tap I 1 different combinations tor for yourself I 1 I 1 think ill Illi us Use her excellency the governess the heirs and assigns of tile tho late lamented noah webster will have to get out a new edition all so sd here goes her excellency the governess of of wyoming AAs nellie tayloe iloria Il orfa born tayloe widow of the late gov NV william illiam B D ross who died in ace october 2 1021 1924 1 her excellency the governess or oc texas mrs miriam amanda ferguson born lawrence the wife of former gov james E H ferguson impeached in 1917 r something now new two women govern ors ora I 1 should say bay so never was there a woman governor before bufore yet bet the sociologists will probably tell you that instead of new stuff it Is the oldest stuff in the world that hat there was more sentiment than politics in their election that in one case the com community was moved aa usual to provide for or a widow wid nd children that in the other it listened 0 to o the appeal of a woman for the vindication of her husbands honor ill leave it to you yon the two stories are strikingly alike in some ways in others as dissimilar as an Is possible in her husbands chair or the reward of a real helpmeet would be a good title for the touching little wyoming story bou net beats hood or mu ma fergusons Fergus ons revenge might do for tile the texas thriller heros heres our nells political idyll nellie tayloe was born in st joseph mo ito forty years yeara ago ago tho the f family amily moved to omalia there she met and married a young lawyer of cheyenne Clip yenne ross mixed politics with ills his law and in 1917 hiis was defeated in the primaries for the nomination tor for the governorship two years later his campaign was vas successful in this campaign mrs ross was with her husband constantly st before that she had been busy with the care of three thred sons ross was waa the third democratic governor to be elected in fit wyoming during its 34 years of statehood the state la Is normally republican during the democratic national contention in new york governor ross was a conspicuous figure in tile the five gallon hat but of the wyoming delegate ue he went home to campaign tor for his big tax amendment program fell was operated on tor for aap appendicitis itts and died ilia death made necessary an election november 4 A democratic state con vent lon practically thrust the nomina nomona tion upon mrs ross who as not a candidate it argued that her husband had been well liked that his tax lax measure program was popular that the people of the state knew her and would trust her to carry out her husbands policies so mrs ross rosa accepted the nomina tion with tho the provision that she should make no speeches during the campaign she overcome overcame the lie republican majority of about defeated the formidable republican candidate eugene J sullivan and lias has taken up the task of carrying on tier her dead husbands work in III the pioneer woman suffrage state the first woman governor the world has ever seen now for the high lights on ma ala fergusons Fergus ons hectic thriller A synopsis would read something like this heroine miriam amanda wallace born about abou fifty years year ag ago in bell ell county texas graduate bay baylor 10 college nice girl descendant of well todo to do early settlers hero Jarnes edward Feir ferguson guson born same county 1871 worked on pacific coast and in rocky mountains as is laborer teamster miner etc and in texas as railway bridge builder came back home and took up farming on family i lands studied law admitted te texas x as bar 1897 1807 practiced in belton and temple married miriam amanda wallace 1899 1809 organized temple state bank 1007 elect ed governor texas 1014 reelected elected re 1010 two daughters penio democrat crat mason woodman K of P odd fellow elk home temple texas impeached and barred from state office also indicted 1017 ran tor for governor 1018 organized A merican american party and was its candidate for president polling votes in texas 1020 candidate for united states senator and ans second in field of five in first primary but was beaten in runoff run off iff by earl B slay field ku klux klan candidate 1922 candidate for governor in 1024 1924 ruled off ticket by state supreme chui coui court rt mrs airs ferguson became candidate to vendi vindicate husbands honor slie site was see second in first primary won runoff run off triumphantly antly elected over republican ferguson name vindicated revenge ou on klan tableau red tire fire martial music 1 jim ferguson everybody in texas calls illin him that whether they like him or hate him Is N what hat they call a he man out in tits his necks of wo woods he had little early education but in tile the fifteen years ears folloN following tits his marriage tie he made himself rich fa ruling farming land investments tind and banking ue he was unknown outside of ills his county in 1014 when lie he battered ills his way through the primaries and election to thu governorship er in ills second term he fell afoul of the university of texas its friends retaliated by impeachment anti and indictment charging financial arregu larit les and misuse of executive power the indictments were finally fin rilly notte nolle pi pressed ossed ferguson as a political speaker Is pretty nearly per cent effi efficient clent in tile the 1022 1922 campaign the wy way lie he tore into the klan was a wonder and lie has improved with practice ever since by the opening of tits ills 1024 ferguson was regarded by the klan as it its s bitterest foe and by ills his many en enemies emles as a nuisance his only mouthpiece in the press was the ferguson forum a weekly established by him in 1917 but tits his primary campaign progressed bust just the same f felix I 1 D robertson the man klan c holce choice and mrs ferguson so all the ant klun klan forces were obliged to accept mrs airs ferguson or take to the tall timber it was n bitter pill tor for jlia jim fer guyons many enemies but they swallowed the pill and went into the pitch pitched d battle with blood in their eyes the whole outfit nobody anywhere ever saw such a battle as aa that runoff run off campaign no body anywhere ever saw sucu such a performance for mance as aa the fergusons Fergus ons gave there was always a big crowd friends and foes mrs ferguson good looking dignified with rather a sad face would come on the platform with her bright little littie four year old grandson grandion ernest nalle of austin point to him and say A mothers lothers I 1 love ray my children just as you ou love yours there sits my little littie bright eyed grandson that I 1 loye better than life itself some of these days lie ma grow up and it may be lie he will want to run for and servo serve tits his country if lie he does and some one cue should point at him the finger of scorn and say your tour grandfather was impeached by the state of texas I 1 want that grandson to be able to answer yes and as a rebuke to that seriate sedate which denied my grandfather the right to go to the people my grandmother was elected governor by the people of texas the first woman governor in tile the world 1 say maybe you can imagine the response tire to that front from a crowd all liet bet up lip over politics cheers and sobs and rebel yells the shouted chorus me for mn ma and ma ala for tile me she shell beat tile the klan arnd fells felix D 1 then after the hullabaloo had died away ma ila would cull call jim to the platform ani and turn tuni loose on them alio best beat political campaigner texas lian has seen in III twenty five live years hed likely begin to 0 warm warin up something like this I 1 if my wife Is elected governor we will fight the K K K X f from ro in uell hell t tb ilaw haw river why if christ come came to td earth again and knocked at the door of tile rion klan hull hall out would step some grand gizzard with a tar bucket in out one land hand and a bunch of feathers in the other and he be would cast christ into outer darkness because he was a jew think 0 that folks would you vote for or u man who thinks lie he Is butter better than christ then go to it ma ala and me dont want your vote in the runoff run off primary in august the vote broke all texas records by a third increase ana ala beat felix D by just about an even hundred thousand then the antis asked the courts conits to declare ma a woman ineligible ell gible they got licked ann an on election day ma ila ferguson beat the republican candidate oh the use you yeu know what ob abow ow a republican has hao in texas I 1 |