The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-15
SHE WEARS THE BREECHEs.
Governor CulbersOn dominated by n
Religious, Ambitious Wife.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-'In view of the
statements attributed to Mrs. Culberson in
a recent interview it may be interesting to
know that the be.t-Fitzsmmons fight
was stopped by Mrs. Charles Culberson,
wife of the Governor of Texas" said a
Dallas county official visiting Washington
to-day to your correspondent "Such a
statement as this would not be news to
any one living in Dallas he said, but il
may be news here. Charles Culberson's
political course has been steered by Mrs.
Culberson since he first broke into politics
and there has not been a time since they
were married when she did not dominate
the Culberson household. Culberson is not
che moral light that would appear from his
recent action. He knows the taste of good
liquor and has consumed a Texans share
since reaching mars estate. He is sporty
in many other ways and the keel of his
political fortune was laid at the side of a
cockpit which he ntl only patronized hut
helped support. He is we'll known in this
city for his sporting proclivities. Mrs. Gull
berson on the other hand is an intensely
religious woman who looks with great
dsfavor on the course of her husband.
She is mixed up in every religious game
that is started i'm the Lone Star State and
is president of half dozen organizations
Of the h;so W. ,rtsnss, r. n;,,,,oms n sort She She
she mixes her ambition with her
religion in a manner that makes home life
is the nady Macbeth Of the e
household and she holds her husband to a
course that he would not take under any
circumstances If left to himself; In this
reached herself, for she has killed her
husband politically in Texas. Young Cul-
have tc MI lt
Dallas county that made him Governor
IL he should return to Dallas to-day there
are lmen in that town who would do him
bodily injury. There are men and women
in that town who have been ruined 10y the
action of the Governor and the Legislature
Idn preventing the fight in Texas num-
Der of people had purchased privileges at the
Dallas fair under the impression that the
town would be filled with strangers. visit
the fight. They paid double in many cases
for their privileges and will be unable to
make out their expenses Many hotel
pairing for the event knowing that the laws
OF the State would not be available for
preventing the fight The action of the
Governor in calling an extra session, thus
frustrating their plans in q manner as un-
expected as it was novel, left them with
out leg to stand on. They We're dumped
without a chance TO win out. This has
made Culberson enemies not only In Dallas
but in other parts of the State where there
prospered by the thousands and perhaps
millions of dollors that would have been
left in the State. Dallas county, however,
holds the controlling vote I'm State matters
and that county is now hourishing a knife
as nurderous looking Cuban machete.
They'll do Charlie sure and his political
future in Texas is very dark. But, as be-
fore stated, the entire situation was the
outcome OF Mrs. Culbersons religious
views. She has an adherence of anything
SO vulgar and degrading as prize fight
and, Knowing the horror with which the
thing would be regarded by her friends in
n IN W bal0nQg
termined 10 stop the affair through her
husband. She domineered him into taking
the course he did although 1t led TO his
political ruin She 1t was who made him
make the fight for Rubernatorisi nonors,
although in doing so he killed his fathers
senatorial aspirations"