Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-23
MA FERGUSON
To WIN IN TEXAS,
WASHING HEARS
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
d0S Evais Building.

40S Evlis Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-Mere
males from Texas who come to
Washington nowadays bring a sur
prising story from the Lone Star
state. which didn't tumble over it.
self to indorse woman suffrage and
least Of ALL expected a woman gov
ernor even in these days Of the new
freedom
Yet, according to all the radio
grams and the mouth -to-mouth re-
ports, and the mutterinss of men
on the ground, Texas is about to
elect woman governor. Her name
is Mrs James r. Ferguson, Miriam
Ferguson, by feminine rights and
nomenclature.
Politicians in Washington are
nightly interested now in the Tex
as reports. If a feminine governor
had happened in Wyoming, Utah or
any other pioneer woman suffrage
state, it would not have been so sur
prising-but in Texas, Georgia or
Alabama, well, it rather flabbergasts
the men.
However, all the inside reports
from Texas indicate that Mrs. Fer
guson is about to win. Indeed, GER
tain of the male voters who drift
into Washington express it as just
"a question of majority" in the run
off primary to be held Saturday,
August 80. Involved in it is a Ku
Klux Khan and anti-klan fight, but
the real issue is the vindication Of
Farmer jim" Ferguson, one-time
governor of Texas, who was inn
peached for alleged misapplicatiOn
of state funds.
They wouldn't let Jim Ferguson
run again for governor, and so vim
dictate himself. He was political
leper-an OutcaSt.
MA Tests Theories
SO Ma" Ferguson decided she'd
run just to test out woman suffrage
and what she called political fair
play and maybe vindication for the
family name She was the runner
up among more than a half dozen
candidates in the first primary. Now
she is in a runoff race with Judge
Felix Robertson, head of the ticket,
and so-called khan candidate, while
Mrs. Ferguson is both anti-blan and
pro-husband. She gets in the run
off because she is nearest to the
Texas primary leader and nobody
received a majority.
Colonel James T. Stacey, of Dial
las, Texas, long influential in the
politics of that state, has returned
10 Washington to spend the autumn
months. AS is his custom as
Democrat, more or less independent
in state politics, he brings this re-
port from Texas:
when ] left the state" said Col
onel Stacey, they were beginning
to bet 3 to l on Mrs Ferguson. The
several candidates she defeated as
the runner-up had Endorsed her. 1t
appears to me that Texas will be the
first state in the union to nominate
and elect a woman governor
There are several local issues in
volved, including the khan question
and the vindication of former Gov.
ernor Jim Ferguson. But the big
fact is that both the men and women
OF Texas seem to me about ready
TO name Mrs. Ferguson as governor
of the Lone Star commonwealth.
That is the reaction l got as left
the state.
Whether or not one is for woman
suffrage or the woman in politics
it is a significant situation"
"Me for Ma
Other Texans arriving at the ma
tional capital this week have amazed
the male politicians by bringing pre-
dictions such as those voiced by
Colonel Stacey. They refer to the
formation of the "Me for Ma clubs
throughout the state Former Gov
ernor Ferguson calls his wife Ma,
and has for many years. Voters
forming the me for Ma" clubs in
tend to vote for a woman governor
of Texas, and also by such votes TO
erase so far as. possible by indirect
action, the word "lmpeached
against the record Of pa Ferguson,
or Farmer jim" recently governor
of their state.
FERGUSON NAILS CHARGE
HE DID NOT BUY WAR BONDS