San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30
FARMER JIM
FAVORS FORD
As PRESIDENT
Manufacturer Can Save
Country From Money
Power, He Says.
CROWD HEARS SPEECH
Jack Walton Would Make
Good Running Mate,
Ferguson Says.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 29.-Formel
Governor James e. Ferguson of TEN
pie, in an address delivered to q
xe audience at Woodbridge Parl
Thursday night, announced himself
not only for Henry Ford for Presi-
dent but also advocated Governor J.
G. Walton Of Oklahoma for vice
president.
sMr. Ford may not be the embodi,
ment of a Washington and may not
make q Jefferson but he has made
|, 4 Lincoln in our day and generation
said Mr.. Ferguson.
II am for Ford for President. be-
cause he is right and sound upon
the main questions before our peo-
pie.
sin the first place he is against
the Ku Klux Klan and his paper
made the pioneer declaration as far
back as 1921 against the khan.
~He has forcefully declared that If
he should become a candidate he
would not run with a crowd that
wears a mask"
The speaker also declared. he was
for Ford because he was right on the
railroad question and that Ford was
the first man in history who owned
a railroad and demands the privilege
of lower rates.
"The public should be given the
benefit of such an experiment in the
direction of getting lower rates on the
railroads" said the former governor.
Would Benefit Farmers.
Continuing Mr.. Ferguson stated he
was for Ford @because his administra-
ton would mean much to the farm
ing interests of this country" and
that "few people are aware of the
fact that he is now working $4,000
men making fertilizer and his product
gives every evidence and hope that
the cost Of fertilizer will be greatly
reduced as a result of his activities
in that direction"
Mr.. Ferguson declared he was for
Ford, because of his experience in
successfully managing 100000 en-
ployes eminently qualities more than
any other citizen to direct the 700,-
600 employees of this government.
My opinion is that one year after
Eord is installed as President" de-
AIRED the former governor, "he will
tell one-half of the government en-
ployes to quit. and the other half to
60 to work"
He also claimed that Ford was
geographically in the right place
which gives reasonable chance of
victory.
HThe next President will come from
the Middle West" he continued, "be-
ing happy medium between radical
ism of the west and standpattism of
the east.
Walton For Vice-President.
"f you ask me who is good a
running mate for Ford, l will say
from a birdeye view of the situa.
ton, it looks like Jack Walton il
the man."
He also advocated the election of
Ford because the latter was right on
the money question, the latter in the
columns of his paper has been stand
!ng for and urging large increase
IN the volume of circulating medi-
I'M.
Ford is the only hope, Ferguson
declared "to wrest this country from
the domination of the money power
which is now being usurped by the
Rothchilds and the Morgans to the
detriment and disturbance of all
property"
In concluding the former governor
declared:
sPeople may say Ford has no
chance of being elected because the
politicians are against him, but let
me predict right now that before
Christmas all the politicians will be
riding in Ford car and shouting
about what great man he is"
MIR. Ferguson was frequently ap-
plauded during the speech.
During the afternoon Mr.. Ferguson
visited the state house and viewed.his
picture which was only recently hung
ubnfhe wall on the third floor.
he remarked that the portrait was
painted last year.