Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-16
sM4' FERGUSON STTRS UP TROUBLE
BY PLANS FOR CABINET OF MEN
Seas Political Groups Out
of Step With Proposal
in Texas.
WOn,al. Governor Not
Sentin.entGiist First
Reported.
By Consolidated Press.

! TEMPLE, Tex, December 16.-"AIa"
| Ferguson, who is to become governor
of this vast commonwealth, which not
so very, very long ago was republic
of its own right, seems destined to
get into all sorts of trouble with the
| the country. For MA" is going to
give the State for two years a mans"
administration. 1t is commonly un-
derstood by now that she is going to
have a man cabinet. and that office
seekers of the feminine persuasion
have found Ma" icy cold as to their
rights for public preferment.
Leaders of the feminist movement,
elated at first over Mas" election,
are turning their gaze away from
Texas, saying that this is not the
ideal victory they were looking for.
Ma" is not the great sentimental
list she has been pictured at times,
and in her conduct of State affairs
she is to be guided largely by the
practical views of husband who is
one of the keenest politicians the
State has ever known, a man who
served one entire and one interrupted
term as governor.
Won't Stop FIosging.
II has been reported that Ma" be-
cause she is a woman, would first of
all put a stop to the logging" of
prisoners in the State. AS matter
of fact Texas has had very little of
that sort of thing.
Ma" will look into the subject
along with other things, and if she
finds abuses at any time, undoubtedly,
with the advice of her cabinet, she
will correct them.
= The truth is that abuses" in the
Texas prison system seems to have
been along an entirely different line
recently. The honor" system has
been on trial at the State farm, and
the good" prisoners have had no
guards over them, being permitted to
live as free life as possible within
the confines of the big ranch Ma"
does not think we'll of the honor sys-
TEN, and, it is said, will abolish 1t.
There have been too many escapes
under it, she has been told.
Just at the moment Pa" Ferguson,
otherwise known as "Jim," is doing
all the talking for the Ferguson fam
lily. Ma" stays here at the old home
and sends PA" out TO represent her
at various State conferences - the
been held at Dallas on the subject of
a new taxation. Pa" speaks conf
IDENTIFY of "the coming Ferguson adj
ministration." He also uses rather
freely the editorial or the royal we"
in speaking of the future policies
likely to be put into effect at Austin
on and after the 18th of next Janu-
airy, when Ma" takes the oath of
Office.
Dis1ikes LimeiiRht.
MA" Ferguson does not care an
awful lot for the limelight and does not
pride herself on her public speaking.
During her campaign she made few
speeches. being content most of the
while to utter just few words of
greeting and then introduce her hus-
band to do the talking,
OF course, allowing ones husband
to do all the talking for one is en-
| tirely out of line with the ideas of
the modern feminist movement-an
anachronism to say the least-and
| that is another reason why MA" is
likely to fall down woefully in the es-
| timation of her sisters in politics
| throughout the rest of the country.