Evening star., 1925-12-08

upon him by that unjust impeach.
rnent OF 1917. My friends introduced
In the Legislature q bill providing for
such an act. It was on the regular
calendar of the House and Senate.
On that same calendar was blu
known in Texas as the anti-mAsk bill,
an act that took the fangs from the
Khan serpent. because 1t took the
mask from the faces Of men who were
ashamed to do their dirty work in
Texas In the daytime.
The anti.mAsk bill was passed finally
by the Legislature. Just two days be.
fore the amnesty bill for my husband
came up before the House Of Repre-.
sentatives. having already passed the
Senate.
The anti-mask bill came down to
my desk for the signature that would
make 1t law. But along with that
bill came a thinly veiled threat that
amnesty would never be granted
James E. Ferguson II the anti.mask
bill became a law.
antimask bill Is minutes after it got
to my desk.
Then it was a bitter fight indeed
that our friends waged on the floor OF
the House for my husbands vindica.
ton. The strength of the Klan in the
Legislature lay in the House. But
when the vote was taken amnesty had
been granted and the Ferguson name
had been officially cleared of an In
justice stain.
Have Not Forgotten.
Is It to be supposed that such a
slap in their faces will be forgotten:
Those men had run the State OF
Texas unmolested for two years. They
have not forgotten such things In IL
brief months.
Those men who want the Legisla
ture to meet to inpeach me are klans
men. Among them are the men who
wanted the State to sell the prison
farms, move the prison buildings
move and a sale that would have in
dicted great fins ncial loss to the State
but would have been OF great finan
cfal gain to some people.
1t is currently reported that certain
Of these leaders conferred with the
mighty DR.. Evans In Washington be
fore this petition was signed. How
true that rumor is / cannot say. Bu,
l do know that DR.. Evans came to
Texas almost Immediately afterward
and was in Dallas, where these leader,
of the movement against me were
meeting.
My election and the anti.mask bill
did cut off the head Of the Klan-snake X @
but the tail Of the serpent Is still
Wigeling
The death Of the snake meant thou
sands OF dollars out of the Khan cof
fers. Is II TO be supposed that men
power.mad and money-mad. will take
kindly 10 cutting off their income
an income so easily gotten? Is It &c
be supposed that none of that money
Is LETT to fight the woman who ha.
beaten them cnce?
Do you think for one minute thar
they will forget the fight becau use 4
is against a woman? Again il Is Il
laugh.
sun Going Down"
Did not the Speaker OF the Hous,
or Representatives announce that thu
fact that | an. woman will have
nothing TO do with impeachine me-i
they fnd cause for impea
Has the Khan ever stopped an out
rage because their victim was
woman? / call your attention to tn,
hundreds of women they fiogged, the,
tarred and faathered. they besmirchec
during their hcydey in Texas.
But this time the Khan has addef
one line to It's ultimatum:
IF they lind cause for irnpeach
ment.'
They have long and an arduous
search before them. The sun has no,
set, but 1t is getting along toward
night. and there is sort Of chill ir
the air down here in Texas, my friends
OF the Invisible Empire
copyright. I925D
Continued tomorrow.