El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-08

! 81 HAVE no patience Win q man
1 who tries to array class against
| class. I don't want him (Ferguson)
| TO array the little red school house
against the university. because
want both TO live. I don't want him
/ TO array labor against capital be-
/ cause I know that both have their
place at this time" declared state
I representative r. z. Thomson, of FL
! Paso. during the course Of a brief but
! comprehensive Indictment Of the i'm
/ peached governor at a Hobby rally
held at the courthouse Friday night
I and attended by about 100 citizen
7 voters, men and women. Attorney
[ Walter Scott presided at the meeting.
which was addressed by W. ". TuI-
ney. wh3 also spoke on behalf of the
Hobby candidacy. and Sergt. Verne
Marshall, who made a brief appeal
for greater interest in the war saw
ings stamp campaign.
Ar. Thomson. who was a mem Der
Of the legislature that impeached Fer
guson, spoke, in part, as follows.
Face Crisis in Texas.
"As we now face a crisis in the his
tory Of the nation, so also we are
bout to face crisis in the history
Of the state. ] hope you viii believe
me sincere when i say that. while I
I have nothing against Ferguson per-
! sonally, against his betrayal Of the
oath of the high office Of governor !
have the most intense feeling
And as much as I feel the univer-
sity matter, It is not comparable with
the money affairs Of the state as cJl-
Quoted by our late governor. Just to
touch on the university matter want
TO say that I visited the old place re-
Gently and I saw in its halls two
mighty service flags, with 1900 stars
and 200 more TO be added i said TO
myself, may God bless those boys
while they hold the western line
against the damuable Hun. while Jim
Ferguson goes about the state brand
ing them as traitors.
May BE "FOr Rum
he has a political organ, called
the Forum I don't know whether iI
is pronounced Forum or 'for-rum.'
When / first went 10 Austin. was
friendly 20 Ferguson. Things went
. on nicely until an affidavit was filed
that irregularities in the state fl
/ nances were going on Against my
protest. I was appointed on the in
yestigating committee
"One charge was that the state was
paying all his family expenses. thai
he was buying ukeleles. groceries. and
the like about town and charging it
TO the state
Has $4,000 Overdruft.
Another was his disgraceful con-
duct Of the affairs of the Temple
. bank shortly after he was created
governor. he had an overdraft there.
and when this Investigation came. he
owed the bank $4,000. Yet the law
Of Texas says no man can borrow
over - percent Of the capital and
surplus OF a bank. and the capital
and surplus Of this bank were S150.000.
BE it said TO the credit Of Colquitt
that with all his faults. he was alb
solutely honest with the states money.
He left a fund Of S10l000. insurance
money from an old normal school
This was well secured and drawing
= percent interest. and Ferguson
put 1t In the Temple bank and friend
ly banks at . percent.
State Money for Personal Note.
'He Paid a personal note Of $500
with state money and didn't pay il
back until after the Impeachment
charges were made
He took from one office alone
S564000 and took it to the Temple
bank When they were pressing him
about Ovedrafts. he sent $4,000 one
night Later, he sent five checks of
$4,000 each
DO you want that kind Of a man
-A ne --AI ? AaaA AlaAA OF PUBIC LAnus p
Ole or the SaQQesl parts Of the whole
story is that when he was forced TO IT,.
he had 10 admit he received in cur
rency Sl66,9OJ from one man whose
name he would not disclose, while he
was governor, and right at that time
he owed $4,000 and admitted IT, He
refused 10 say where he got that
sl56-l10 when he was governor; but it
+ IS strange that at that time prominent
brewers left the state when the in
I vestigation was on.
Speaks Against the Draft.
There were also German agents in
] Texas at the time. ] don't attack his
/ loyalty, but yet he made a speech at
Dallas against the selectiVe draft
Now as TO Hobby, he was born in
I the piney woods Of east Texas. grew
D up as neWsie and established the
/ Beaumont Enterprise. Ferguson SAYS
! he became governor by accident Well
i he did more by accident than Fergu-
son ever did on purpose. While he
I was an antiprOhibitionist. when the
I call came from Washington that
I liquor conditions about army camps
| mad TO be corrected, ne saluted his
chiettain, Woodrow Wilson. and called
] the extra session that passed the anti
[ liquor bills"
Refutes Fersuson's Statements.
Z ar. Iurney devoted almost his en-
[ tire time 20 refutiug statements made
/ by former governor James Ferguson
I during q meeting in Liberty hall. May
] l5, and in so doing reviewed many Of
I the events leading up TO Ferguson's
I Impeachment.
Texas is entitled to a university
] equal to the great universities Of any
I other state in the union" said Mr..
/ Iurney- The speaker here on May l3
/ voiced his absolute and undying oppo-
I sltion to the university. and called
/ the management crooks. liars and
/ thieves Mr. Ferguson held himself
/ up to the people Of this town. as he
] holds himself up before the people Of
an the state. as a martyr wrOnEfuuy
/ deprived Of his office by a kangaroo
J legislature.
! Ferguson has sought to divide the
] people Of this state. setting them class
I against. class, rich against Door. He
said that only the children OF the rich
attend the state university. and thar
] the institution was being run by mil
lionaires
Tries o Coerce Regents.
The university Of Texas was found
Z ed on the constitution Of Texas and
started with 800 students in 1852. It
struggled along with barely sufficient
support TO maintain it until 1915, when
Ferguson took office as governor
/ Many people thought that the univer-
sity should be endowed sufficiently so
tfar Il would cease 10 be the toy OF
politics at each session Of the legisla-
Z ture- But Ferguson attempted TO CO.
cree the board Of regents roughshOd
and demanded the instant dismissal
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