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Show If LAN AND RUM ! IN TEXAS FIGHT DALIA8, Tex Aug. 2. The Texas political pot quiescent since the July 22 Dcmocraiir primary In which Senator Sen-ator Charles A. Culberson failed of renominatlon after 24 years In the lUnlted States senate, began boiling again tod;y with the opening of the campaign for the second or run off, primary to be held after August 26, ln which prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan apparently will be Important la-sues. la-sues. ln firing their opening guns last night, the two seekers for the senatorial sen-atorial nomination Earl R .Mayfleld and James A Fer&TUSOn, outlined what Is generally believed will be principal features of the campaign. Mayfithl, speaking St Fort Worth, declared the : transportation question was the biggest big-gest question before the American I people today on account of the unreasonable un-reasonable rates, m iddled up on com-merco com-merco by the interstate commerce I commissions Prohibition is another important, question, he declared in criticising Mr. Ferguson, who he said had tho backing of American brewers. brew-ers. Ferguson, in his opening address denounced de-nounced the Ku Klux Klan charged j May field with being a member of the I klan, challenged him to a Joint debate 'on the question, and 20 to B for an amendment for the Volstead law to permit the manufacture and sale of I light Vlnes and beer. I Ferguson, a former governor of Texas, asserted Mayfleld was running with tho permission of the Imperial wizard o Atlanta and declared it was , time for 'these Ku Kluxers to take the bed ticking off their carcassts .and come out Into the sunlight." |