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Show WOMAN WILL RUN AGAINST 1A' FERGUSON IN TEXAS - i l t v1- , j I i MRS. EDITH WILLMANS. frank and blunt in her few speeches and talks little about things strictly political. -Mrs. Willmans a Politician, Mrs. Willmans is a good mixer, possibly more of a politician in the accepted sense of the word and delights de-lights in discussing state issues. She is' the' only woman ever elected to the state legislature and is an attorney. at-torney. Last winter she was secretary secre-tary to the House appropriations committee. ' She can make as good an extemporaneous extem-poraneous political speech as any man. while "Ma" on public occasions usually reads a brief typewritten, statement. The only point of similarity in the two women seems to be that both are excellent housekeepers, for "Ma" : still finds time to preserve large quantities of peaches. Mrs. Willmans' law practice has been concerned mainly with cases involving in-volving domestic relations, but occasionally occa-sionally she handles a criminal case. She has three daughters and her husband is dead. While in the legislature she sponsored spon-sored measures to compel all children chil-dren up to IT to attend school; to require good health certificates for all persons desiring to marry; to give ifnancial aid to families when t lie father has been sent to an asylum; to provide more humane treatment of prisoners. Jazz music, sensational movies and extremes in women's drpss grate on her nerves. One of the first laws she hopes to :have passed if elected governor will be one giving a married woman the right to sell her property without the consent of her husband. She can't do this now in Texas. ' FORT WORTII, Tex., Aug. 31. It will.be "Woman vs. Woman" in Texas next year. . , For Governor 'Ma" Ferguson in her campaign for re-election will be opposed by another woman Mrs. Edith Willmans of Dallas. Women never fight, harder than when fighting each other and the Texas gubernatorial campaign promises prom-ises to be a pnique battle from start to finish. Both "Ma" and Mrs. Willmans are noted through the state as "political nmazons." Both are certain to take the stump and the Klan is likely to Kg itre 'prominently in the contest. Attacks "Ma" and "Jim." Mrs. Willmans has announced she will be a candidate for the Demo-i cratic nominatio, which, of course, is einivalent to election and already has started to fight In the announcement of her candidacy can-didacy she took a fling at "Ma" by saying that "Husband Jim" Ferguson Fer-guson is the real governor of Texas, Mrs. Ferguson only visiting the cap-Itol cap-Itol occasionally to sign documents. "No individual will dictate dffairs of the state over my shoulder, if I am elected," Mrs. Willmans says, defiantly. "If I go into the governor's office sisting of the president of the sen- j sisting of the president of the sen- ate, speaker of the house, heads of important departments and three1 prominent Texas women." j "Ma" Ferguson and Mrs. Will-, mans are exactly opposite typos. "Ma" is strongly opposed to the i Klan and made it a leading issue in her campaign. Mrs. Willmans is a Klanswoman. Governor Ferguson is a quiet woman wo-man of the rugged type. She is |