Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-04
TEXAS TO GO
TOPOLLS FOR
HOOVERLOVE
Ghost of F~ergusonism
Not to Deter Dry
Voters, Audience at
Is Told
Especial to The HeraldA

audi.rn- Ahos' ID. Love told an
love IN his address said in part:
ne democrats Of Texas have n
kkisae opportunity, unexampled in the
1922 OF the state, at the election
woman, Mrs. Will Irwin. il right n
oeciaring that Herbert Hoover l.
tunity.r Oh oPPor-
For more than fifty wear. Texas
democrats have been anti-Tammany
9emocrats. They were Cleveland
eemoerats and Bryan democrats. and
nslped Bryan, indispensably, to make
woodrow president Of the United
states. A New York magazine zeal
Dusty supporting Al Smith, in an edi-
tcrial recently said:
aided by the circumstance Of
OF oryan's death. he (Al smith, has
managed to purge the party of the
curse OF Organism that crippled il
Tor thirty years"
lexas was n great agency In pro
melting that thirty years OF BRYAN
Ism. II was crippled to Tammany
Hall, and when Tammany Hall hears
the returns from Texas mex Tues
Day 1t will find that Bryan still lives
IN the hearts of the men and women
CT Texas.
REPLIES To Moody
In his Dallas speech for AL Smith
last Saturday the governor OF Texas
said:
Il am going TO saw this 10 the pro-
hibitionists-that IL YOU quit the
democratic party In Texas you turn
the party and the administration Of
- 49, " IT,
Trson, and never intend to DO that"
our years ago the governor was
or the stump urging the democrats
on Texas 10 turn over our state gov
eminent to Jim Ferguson while some
OF rs were or the stump pleading
With the democratic voters not to
democrats ard re jealous friends and
supporters Of Governor Moody we
urre you not to follow his advice in
his carpaicn TO turn the govern
rrent Of tire United States over to
Temmany Hail.
l have fought Fergusonism from
the beginning to the limit of my poor
abilities. In 1924 I fought 10 keep
Forgusonism out of power when the
governor was fighting to put il in,
asd 1926 l fought with him to put il
ont of power after he had helped
put Il in. But on what ground would
any friend Of good government rath-
er have the democratic party in Tex
an turned over 10 Tammany Hall
than 20 James Ferguson. Why should
any citizen strain at the gnat Of Fer
gusonism and swallow the camel of
Tnmmanv Hall.
Ferguson Not so Bad
Let us be fair 10 James Z. Fer
/. cuson. Certainly his record Is not as
bed rs that OF Tammany Hall. Ger
taDhfy no. democratic state executive
committee and no democratic state
convention dominated by James T..
Ferguson ever practiced more oppres-
sive and unlawful outrages upon the
democratic voters Of Texas than those
practieed by the democratic state ex-
ecutive committee this year., and by
the Beaumont state convention and
tho Dallas state convention. Texas
p~elitics this year has been dominated
Nv Tammany Hall. with James Z.
Ferguson indispensable aid, through
the agency of the "under-eover
bovs. who are Tammany's under
strikers in Texas. After this try-out
of the national Fergusonism OF
Tammany Hall. / prefer Jim's local
brand TO the Tammany Hall brand.
Rut what right has anyone 70 say
chat a victory against Al Saith In
Texas would turn the den s attic
marty over to Jim Ferguson. J4mes
= Ferguson was the original Al
smith man in Texas and is the most
notential and influential Al smith
lender in the state. On next Tues
d.v he will deliver more votes Tor
Al Smith in Texas than Governor
Needy and Joseph Weldon Bailey
ara led Adams and "Gooseneck
Riu Mcdonald and all the Al Smith
rallowing congressman and all the
aunder-cover' boys combined. An
al smith victory in Texas next
Tuesday would be a victory for Jim
Ferguson and Tor all that he stands
far and has stood Tor. Schooi
children know that.
History Repeats
put we are not going to quit the
5.mocratic party. We are going to
~ in the democratic party and
s..s FOR Dan Moody and the other
- for Herbert Hoover. We vii
eli .how IN in the democratic pri-
msrv in 1880 that will save Texas
Srom Fergusonism and from Tam
manyism, which is worse, as we
saved it by electing Governor Moody
in 1926. ...,r Fam
Years ago when Governor MOODY
rsas on the stump arguing the lex
=. voters too turn the government
and the democratic party over g
linn Ferguson, in the sacred name
- marty loyalty and party regular
~. inst as today ne urges Iexas
Ismnrrats 70 help the government
- the United States over 70 ram
m,rv FALL, there were 2eO,OOO OF US
iawsI Texas democrats who voted
So George c. Butte for governor.
W. did not quit the democratic
80 We simply stayed in the
Pi.nsrratle party and voted against
Ta~~usonism just rs this year we
roing TO stay in the democratic
- and vote against Tammany
Pgsn n IL a mere matter Of arith-
49, ~ demonstrate that IL we
~ o.it the democratic party and
NJ. -. voted for Governor Moody
nae 1926 primaries he would not
u. hsen elected governor.
n.y. Trexas democrat has to quit
semocratic party in order to
me for Herbert Hoover next Tues
so.e The present legislature fixed
csy, ~ passing a special statute or
.na' a;ert last year, recommend
tne sunroved by Governor Dan
60 which solemnlv and conciu-
~ declared shat no person
siv,is sser be denied the right to
snAa -. ;ngs urinary in this
bseauZ Of former political
~z or affiliations"
Hoover's victory In Texas will not