Show and then the trials made the f let mistake y of ra be 1 A ba rend ad out it of the dam I 1 f bentic patty party and barred ba from the he ticket through ahn to committee m rise and court cour af beg 99 vy un on thereupon mrs over far Feri came cizl as n c candidate is ui y r W yoaw wd becs EX elacy e naf the blue III platform purpose farm r poll i to of vindicating u wowe 1 in the first primary in july all of at the eight e candidate were I 1 ell e boated except judg jc W a thae 7 1 by 1 JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ELP I 1 ill help I 1 11 I 1 ive v got at to arile rite the story of tile the M H J efee election ga of tan 91 governors stairs JO M of 1925 who are also wn women with a mrs mm ind ad I 1 don t know what to call them try out the t different combi combinations thom tor fill van I 1 I 1 think use her excellency the G governess v erness the hair and ad 19 1 9 ot if the late lament lamented 0 d noah 1 ebster will have ban to get out aut a new edition edicio theta that a all so here bar goes her excellency th the governess of wyoming IA aba 1 0 1 1 toy ime ross b bom ra to I 1 e w widow d a U ot of the late go gov wit william ma B R rosa as who ho thad died in office october 2 1924 her excellency the G governess mu of texas teba mrs miriam amanda F ferguson a aga on a acom lawrence the wife its of former go GOT jamea E ferguson impeached in 1917 comet something b ing new two women govern ora on i 1 abound say eay so BO never was age th there e to a woman oman governor goemer before yet let th the e sociologists will P probably bably tell you I 1 that at instead of new stuff it la Is the old not eat stuff in the world orld that there them was ano more sentiment than politics politic la in their etc election I 1 that hat in one case it the coin munley Us was moved as u usual I 1 t to provide tor for a widow and children e that gmt in the other it 11 listened to th the a appeal of A a woman domn for or the vindication indication of he her has bua YOU band banda e honor III it lea leae it to you T the h t two a a stories are am strikingly alike in le bome me w ay BIB la in oth othera to a as dissimilar as ab 1 in possible 1 I in her flat H tudd chair or III the reward of at a real help meet would bould be a good title for the aral touching him little W wyoming yo run story etory bon ban pet net boat beats hood or MW ma ferguson a 8 revenge might do for the texas lexa thriller heres hema our nells nell political idyll nellie ell a teti tayloe a was born in st fat joseph mo forty 30 i cars r ago the family moved to omaha there she met and worried married B young lawyer of C boreal Cne yenne a ross mixed politics with his bie law and in 1017 was defeated in the print ties tor for the nomination for the gov two years year later hla his com cam palo w was successful 1 in this campaign at mrs rite toes was with eith her husband coo con stonily antly Bt before that she lied had been bus with the care of three cons ross was a the t JAM diard democratic governor to be bleet elected e d in V ming during its 34 years of statehood the state is normally during tile the democratic national con v nation in new york governor U use se was a conspicuous if fidure in 1 the 8 alve gal ballao on hot hat of the th wyoming dc delegate legate he went home to campaign campal for his bin tax lax amendment program fell wax was operated on an for far appendicitis and died hla 13 1 z death made mone fiary an election november 4 A democratic state late con practically thrust throat the nomona flout upon mrs rons BOBS who was not a candida it argue argued d in that u t 1 he her no hus band b had been well il liked k it t abat t his ux tax measure u r a pr offin g mm was popular that the verple people of in the let tate knew her sad ad would trust her to carry out her no bus bond bands pat policies Is be M lira rose accepted the fill with the P provision that she bhe should 1 11 make Is ml BO 11 speeches a d during the Us campaign she ov overcame a a the normal arzi republican majority jorl of about 8 defeated the formidable republic candidate eugene J csullivan and no has taken up the task of carrying on her bar dead husband a work tn in the pioneer woman suffrage state the first woman gave governor the world has baa ever seen see now for the high 11 lights on M ma ferguson fergusons Fergus ons hectic beetle thIl thriller lr A synopsis would read mail something mouthy like this thas heroine miriam amanda we wallace fare born bom abndt fifty a rara ago a in be bell county texas graduate baylor col lege lage nice girl deseada descendant des t of well to a do early arty sam hero james ed ward nard I 1 erguson born some same county 1871 on pacific coast and ad I 1 in rocky mountains Is as laborer teamster footnote minor miner etc and in texas as railway bridge builder came back home end and took up farming on family lands stud led law admitted texas bar 1 1897 practiced la in belton baltan and aad temple me mar tied miriam amda amanda N ollace allars 1899 or temple state bank 1907 elect ed ad governor T texas X 1 1114 14 reel reelected acted 1916 mo tw 0 daughters daughter democrat mason woodman K of P odd fellow elk home temple tex impeached and barred from state late office also indicted 1017 ran for governor 1918 1018 organ teed ford american party and was it its can an didace for far president polling palling votes in texas 1920 coli candidate didt tor far united sto states t senator an and was as second and as arturr 1 in field of five in first at P primary ry but A was a beaten in runoff run rom off by earl 13 may field ku kluz ell klan candidate 1822 1912 cand candidate date tor for governor in IM 1924 ruled olt off ticket by state supreme cpr eme court mr afra became to vinyl cuts cate husbands husband honor slie she was sm second secand in first primary won runoff run off irl ill antly elected over aler republican berguson name vindicated revenge on klan aktan tableau red fire martial music I 1 jim ferguson everybody in texas calls calle him h im that whether they like him or hate bale him 1 ta what they call a heman out lu in his necks of woods re he had bad tittle early education but tn in th the fiat fifteen years fears following his marriage I 1 he made himself rah through eti f farming aadal land investments and banking he wax waa unknown outside of his county in 1114 1914 when he battered lna has way through the tb primaries and election to th thi gov arror 1 in ilia second term lie he fell erml of a the university of lexan its friends retaliated by impeachment and indictment I 1 charging financial mal HII and ral misuse of at executive five power the indictments ere finally nolle imle pressed ferg farguson us ban be as a 1 speaker la pretty ami nearly too per par cent cam efficient in the campaign the way he be tore lore into the tb klan idea was waa a won an iler der and he has improved with FrIc ever alum by the bilotti of his 1924 campaign ferguson wax was regarded I 1 I 1 the h klan bull aa 8 tu its bitterest toe foe and aad y his many enemies as a nuin nul saULO life ills only mouth mouthpiece iders in the prea was ems the be faroul a weekly flat loithi il b by him biou in 1917 but his fill mur z pat progressed just the abul F ratio felix D Robert wn the klatt klah choice and ad mrs ferguson Fergo soD so fill all the ditl kill forces force were ame obliged to accept mis ails fe ferguson t go or take to the tall if allm her bar it was a hitter bitter pill for or jim b ler er gusona man many eneal but they saal nal lowed the pill and went welt into the pitched battle with alth blood in their eyes tile the whole outfit nobody anywhere ever saw new such 1 a battle an aa that run off campaign 0 no o body ann anywhere here ever saw each buch a per firmance for fori mance amar a aa the fergusons Fergus ons gave there a was always two a big crowd fri friends do and boea a mrs mm B good looking dignified with ith rather other a sad old face ace would the with our her bright come on platform R iti little mit our year old iw grandson ernest not nalle of austin point to him and say mothers I 1 love my children just as a you to love yours your there them sits my lit tle go bright eyed small grandi grandsion ion that I 1 to love better than life itself some of these days day be will grow up bad and it may be he wilt will wool want to run for far mh office a and ad serve his count country if he be 4 does a and some one should point at him the sager flags of scorn or and ad say bay your grandfather wa was im beached by the state let of T texas I 1 want ut that grandson to be I 1 able I 1 t to 0 1 an 1 meet vea Y mal and aa 1 a rebuke to 11 fim that 1 senaie which denied my grandea grandfather her the right to go to the people my gr grandmother and mother was elected governor by the people of texas the first woman governor in the world norl cal say bay maybe you can im imagine acme the re to that flint from froin a crowd all hat bet up over pol politics itice cheers and soba bob and rebel yells the shouted cho chorus me for at ma and ad ma As for me adabell actie 11 beat the llan klan and I 1 elix D then than after the hullabaloo hallub a to had bad died M away mo ma would call jim to the platform and turn I 1 loose on them alie I 1 beat im ithal cpr campaigner T texas has seen been in twenty 11 a years he hed it likely begin to warm up something like this nf it my its Is elected governor we will fig fight it the K 1 1 I 1 K from hell hall to how haw rhe why y I 1 if C christ b alt came to earn mar earth afa agian and k knocked a d at I 1 he door a or of at tile the klan hill hall out oat would step sume grand gizzard with a I 1 tar bucket in one hand and a bunch of fen feathers in the other and he would cast christ into outer darkin ss because he ha was wa a jew jel think of folks would you vote for a man who thinks he be 1 Is bell better ti than christ then go to it me aln and me don dont t want your vote tn in the runoff primary in august the me vote broke all texas records by third increase and ki ua beat fell felix D by just juat about an even hundred thousand the the anti asked the th courts to declare me ma a woman in eligible they got etc licked ed and on an election do day ua ferguson bent beat the republican candida b eliut the us use you yen know blow what all show imas a R republican ft he has in |