Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-27
Moody Knew Statement
Was Untrue, Jim
Says in Reply
(By The Associated Press.)


AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 27.-James
A. Ferguson, today denied the state,
ments made by w. T. Montgome~..' OF
San Antonio in the Travis county 53rd
district court room yesterday that Frank
Lanham, resigned member Of the state
highway commission told him (Mont
gomery) that Ferguson was responsible
for the award Of the American Road
company contract.
Mr.. Ferguson issued the following
statement:
This is another infamous falsehood
which is not true in whole or in part
and Dan Moody (attorney general)
knew it was not true when he offered
it in court. Moody thinks he IS run
ming for governor and he has been
spending more than half his time trying
to reflect on me in this highway liti-
cation. 1t is his whole scheme to build
himself a campaign issue upon which he
expects to be elected governor AS he
has now injected my name into the liti-
cation / owe it to myself to tell the
people Of this state just what is going
on. Let me recite few facts and the
people will no longer be deceived
Moody Boom Launched
Beginning with Thanksgiving day
Anon Carter, a big Butte Ku Klux,
(Butte, defeated republican candidate
for governor in 1920 in the presence Of
10000 people, while in a condition that
the people have not forgotten, raised the
cry of "hurrah for Dan Moody" Just
few weeks later, Sister Claybrook, one
of the prominent ladies of the Butte
Ku Klux aggregation, raised second
cry for Mr.. Moody. From that time
down to this hour the Austin American.
a Butte-Ku Klux organization, has been
publishing articles regularly discuss
ing favorably Moody's availability as a
candidate for governor
1t was only last week that Moody ac-
cepted an invitation extended by Mrs.
j.. q. Ross, noted Butte supporer and
a Ku Klux sympathizer, to address a
law enforcement meeting in Houston
AT this meeting prominent lecturer Of
the Ku Klux, Mrs. Parker, made Ku
Klux speech extolling the great virtues
of one hundred percent American ism
Houston Post Dispatch, another Butte
ku Klux organ, arose and declared that
Moody was the political Moses to lead
the people in this years contest. Then
colored gentleman arose and express
ed his sympathy with what has been
said and then Moody got up and from
the same platform with a negro. Ku
klux and an aggregation of Butte re-
publicans, stated that he was opposed
to the Ku Klux
Jim Declares War
The question | want to ask is, if he
is opposed to the Ku Klux what is he
doing down there running with them
and making speeches from the same
platform. His miserable efforts will not
deceive anybody. While he was making
this speech the grand wizard, Hiram w.
Evans, was in Houston and | am inform
ed was in the audience, This is the
same Evans who declared at Arlington
few months ago that the Ku Klux
were going to have candidate for gov
ernor this year who could hold the Of
flee in his own name. ONLY this week
Moody was seen in close and earnest
S"iiNeisatioH With one OF Evans lnveStl-
gators.
so it will be seen from these facts
that Moody has been perfumed and they
will soon have him straddle of the
Evans horse, but thank God the people
are on to him and he will not be allowed
to ride the peoples horse at the same
let him come out in the open and not
let him come out in the ope nand not
be hiding behind political propaganda
which he tries to inject into civil pro-
ceeding in court in order to make head
lines for these Ku Klux newspapers.
SO here is to you, Mr.. Moody. 1t is
up to you. Hop to it. Get in the game
and play it fair. Lay on McDuff and
D be he who hollers calf rope and
says take him off,