Show el 7 Excel c 17 C fhe Governess l 1 e Bled rte F Wom lIl I g gI V pAy x I eLtA x y k R p l e k i e f r rI re p 11 I x y zo T gy gyNa L Na eJ io 7 vl iJ By 1 7 JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ELIM ELII 1 Help 1 11 If l Ive I've got to toB B I write the die story of the write election of two to governors of ot 1925 1025 who are also women with a Mrs Sirs la and I don't dont know what to call them Try Tryout out the different combinations for tor yourself I l I think Ill I'll use Her ller 1 Excellency the Governess The heirs and assigns of tho late lamented Noah Webster will have to get out a R anew anew new edition that's all So here goes tier Her Excellency the Governess of at Wyoming Mis Ms Nellie Tayloe Ross born torn Tayloe widow of at the theo late Gov William B B. B Hoss who died In office olice October 2 1024 1924 Her lIer Excellency the Governess of at Texas Mrs Miriam Amanda Ferguson born Lawrence the wife of former Gov James E. E Ferguson Impeached In 1917 1017 Something new two new two women governors govern govern- i ors ora I should say so Never was I Ithe there a 11 woman governor before Yet Tet the sociologists will probably tell you that Instead of ot new stuff It Is the oldest oldest old old- est et stuff In the world that there was more sentiment than politics In their election that In one case the community community com COLD was m moved ved as usual to provide for a II widow and children that In the theother theother other it it listened to the appeal of ot a woman for the vindication of ot her husbands husbands' husbands husbands' hus- hus bands' bands honor Ill I'll leave It to you Ou The two stories are strikingly alike In some ways was In others as dissimilar aa as Is possible In Her ller Husbands Husband's Chair or the Reward of ot a Real Reul Help Helpmeet meet would be a good title for tor the touching little Wyoming story nonnet Bonnet non Bon net Beats neata Hood or Ma Fergusons Ferguson's Revenge Revenge Re Re- enge might do for the Texas Tuns thriller Heres Here's Our Nells political Idyll Nellie Neale Tayloe was born In St St. Joseph oseph Mo forty years ears ago The family moved to Omaha There she met and and married a rising young lawyer lawer of ot I Cheyenne Ross Boss mixed politics with his bis hislaw hislaw law and In 1017 1117 was defeated In n the primaries for tor the nomination for the governorship Two years later his campaign campaign cam cam- was successful In this campaign campal n Mrs Irs Ross Boss was with her husband constantly constantly con con- before that she had hod been busy with the care of three sons Ross Hoss was the third Democratic governor to be elected In Wyoming during Its 34 years of at statehood the state stale Is U normally Republican During the Democratic national conn con can convention In New v York Tork Governor Ross was as a conspicuous figure In the five gallon hat bat of at the Wyoming delegate He lIe went home to campaign for his tax amendment program fell ill was operated antor appendicitis ls and nd died Ills death made necessary an election November 4 A Democratic tate I practically thrust the nomina nomination tion ton upon Mrs Airs Ross who was not a candidate It ar argued ed that her husband husband husband hus hus- band had bad been well liked that his bis tax measure program was popular that the people of the state knew her and would trust her to carry out her husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's policies So Mrs Airs Ross Rosa accepted the nomina nomina- tion with the provision that she should make no speeches during the campaign She overcame the normal Republican majority of about defeated the formidable Republican candidate Eugene J J. J Sullivan and has taken up the task of carrying on her dead husbands husband's work In the pioneer woman suffrage state the first woman governor the world has bas ever eer seen Now for the high lights on Ma Fergusons Ferguson's hectic thriller A synopsis would read something like ilkI this Heroine Miriam Amanda Wallace born about fifty years ago In Bell nell county T Texas graduate Baylor college college college col col- col- col lege nice girl descendant of well- well to-do to early settlers Hero James Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Ferguson erguson born same county 1871 worked on Pacific coast and In Rocky mountains as laborer teamster miner etc and In Texas as railway builder bridge-builder came back bock home and took up farming on family lands studIed studied stud stud- fed law admitted Texas bar 1897 1817 practiced in Belton Delton and Temple married married mar mar- ried tied Miriam Amanda Wallace 1809 1890 organized or or- organized Temple State bunk bank 1007 elected elected elected elect elect- ed governor Texas 11 14 re elected ed 1010 1116 two daughters Democrat Mason lInson Woodman K of P. P Odd Fellow ell ow Elk home Temple Texas Impeached and barred from state office also Indicted 1917 ran for governor 1918 1018 organIzed organIzed organized organ organ- American party and was Its candidate candidate candidate can can- for tor President polling votes In Texas 1020 1920 candidate for tor United States senator and was second In field of five In first primary but was beaten In run off by Earl B. B Mayfield Mayfield May- May field Ku Klux klan candidate 1022 1922 candidate for governor In 1024 1924 ruled off ticket by state supreme court Mrs Ferguson became candidate to vindicate vindicate vindicate vindi vindi- cate husbands husband's honor she was second second sec see ond and In first primary won run-off run triumphantly triumphantly triumphantly tri tri- elected over Republican Ferguson name vindicated reven revenge e on klan tableau red fire tire martial music Jim Ferguson Ferguson everybody everybody In Texas calls caUs him that whether they like ilkI him himor himor or hate bate him Is him Is what they call a htman heman beman he ht man out In n his necks of woods He lie had llad little early education but In the fifteen years rears following his marriage be he 1 himself rich through farming land Investments and banking lie He was unknown outside of his county In 1914 IOU when he battered his way through the primaries and election to the tha gov gay In his second term he fell afoul of the University of ot Texas Us Its friends retaliated by hy Impeachment and Indictment charging financial Irregularities and misuse of executive power The Indictments were were finally nolle nape pressed Ferguson Ferguson as a political speaker Is pretty nearly per cent efficient In the 1922 campaign the way he be tore lore Into the klan klun was a won der derand and be he has Improved with practice ever ever er since By the opening of ot his 1024 campaign Ferguson was regarded by the klan as Its bitterest foe und and by hy his Ilse many enemies as a nuisance Ills only mouthpiece ce In the press was the Ferguson Forum a weekly est b- b LIsI d il by by- him In 1917 But his bis primar mar marx campaign progressed just the anise And then thra the klan kits i made the fata fatal of ot causing Ferguson to tobe tobe tobe be read the De Democratic Dem party and barred from the ticket through committee and court Ourt ac cc tion lion Thereupon Mrs Mra Ferguson erguson came forward rd as a candidate on an klan anti platform with the avowed purpose of vindicating her husband In the first primary In July all of the eight candidates s were elim eliminated except 0 a SA a w u J J. f er wort on d I J y wol rv v wo Felix D D. D Robertson the klan choice and ond Mrs l Ferguson So all the anti ant klan khan forces were obliged to accept Mrs 1 Ferguson or take to the tall taU Umber limber tim Um- ber It was a bitter hitter pill pili for Jim Fergusons Ferguson's Ferguson's Fergusons Fergusons Ferguson's Fer Fer- guson's many enemies But they swallowed ewal- ewal lowed the pill and nd went Into the pitched battle with blood In their eyes the the whole outfit Nobody anywhere ever saw such sucha a battle as that run run off campaign N Nobody Nobody No No- body anywhere ere ever saw such a performance performance per per- form once as the l Fergusons gave There was always always' a big crowd friends and foes fols Mrs Irs Ferguson erguson good looking dignified with rather a sad face would come on the platform with her bright little year old grandson Ernest Nolle Nalle of at Austin point to him and say Mothers I love my children Just Justas as you ou love yours There sits my little little lit lit- tle tie eyed bright grandson that I love better than life ute Itself Some of these days he will grow grow up and It may b bhe be bebe bebe be he will want to run tun for office and serve his country If he does and some one should point at him Woo the finger of scorn and say Your Tour grandfather was Impeached Im Im- Impeached by the state of Texas I want that grandson to b be able to answer answer answer an an- Yes Tes and as a rebuke to that senate which denied my graI grandfather df ther I the right to go to the pc people my grandmother was elected governor by bythe bythe bythe the people of at Texas the first woman governor In the world Say maybe you can Imagine the response response re re- re- re spouse to that from a crowd all het bet up over politics cheers politics cheers and sobs and Rebel yells the shouted chorus Me lIe for Ma and Ma for tor me shell she'll beat the klan and Felix D. D Then after otter the hullabaloo bad had died away Ma Mu would cull lull Jim to the platform and turn loose on them the best political campaigner Texas has hat seen In twenty-five twenty years Hed He'd likely begin to warm up something like this If my DIY wife Is elected governor we will fight the K K K K from Hell to Haw lIaw river Why If It Christ came to lo earth again and knocked at the door of ot the the- Klan hall out would step some grand gizzard with a a atar tar bucket In one hand and a bunch of at feathers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other And he would cast Christ Into outer darkness because he was wasa a Jew think of ot that folks Would you yon rote ote for tor a man who thinks he is better than Christ Then go fO to It Ma and me dont don't want your vote the In-the run run- run off tr primary In August the vote broke all al Texas records by a third Increase and Ma beat Felix D. D by just Jut about an even hundred thousand Then the AnUs Antis asked the courts to de declare Jare M Ma a woman in In- eligible Th They got licked And on election day day Ma Ia Ferguson beat the Republican candidate candIdate oh oh what's the use yc yeu u know what show a Republican hat has In Texas |