Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-08
HOT CAMPAIGN
IS PREDICTED
Mayfield, Ma, Sterling In
cluded In List of Pos
sibilities

AUSTIN, July g. Up While
committees wrestle with u~ninterest-
I'll figures, the foot loose legisla-
tors, waiting impatiently for the
~financiers to get the appropriation
bills in shape, like to speculate on
next years state political cam
paign.
Formal announcement CT Senator
Thomas B. Love of Dallas for gov
ernor has added fuel to the flames,
and everybody is counting on ono
of the most colorful campaigns
Texas has ever witnessed.
AS the situation stands now there
will be a field of eight or ten.
There are now five avowed can
didates, Senator Love, Oscar B.
Holcombe, former mayor OF Hous-
ton: Representative #. N. Mauritz
Of Canada, advocate Of an income
tax; Miss Katie Daffan Of Ennis,
historian and active in the United
Daughters of the C~onfederacy, and
Z. @. Senter Of Dallas, writer and
lawyer.
Some now in might get out. At
the outset Of every gubernatorial
campaign there are announced
candidates who decide later to pull
down before the horses are led to
the. tape.
MayfieId Hinted
Lieutenant Governor Barry Mil
Ter is depended on by a large fol-
lowing to announce his candidacy
in due time. Gossip circulating
freely through the capitol has it
that Earle B. Mayfield, former
United States senator, contemplates
making the race. The same current
of talk carries the rumor that if
Senator Mayfield runs, former Gov.
Pat M. Neff Of Waco will enter the
field. Senator Mayfield and Gov
ernor Neff had quite a spat lately
when the retiring United States
senator from Texas opposed the
confirmation of the former COVER
nor as a member Of the United
States mediation board. Senator
Mayfield had claimed credit for
getting Governor Neff the place,
and the Wacoan countered that no
one except former President Calvin
Coolidge was due credit. Senator
1 Mayfield protested his confirmation
to a new term, and Governor Neff
did not get the place. Former
Gov. Oscar B. Colquitt, supporter
of President Hoover in the late
presidential campaign, was award
ed the plum.
Ma, Too
/ Another strata of gossip has put
former Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson in
the race, in the event Senator
/ Mayfield enters.
Robert L. Bobbitt Of Laredo, for
mer speaker of the house Of repre-
~sentatives, is a likely candidate, his
friends have announced. 1t is re-
! ported Governor Moody would look
with favor upon the Bobbitt can
didacy.
West Texans are said to have in
mind booming Senator Walter c..
Woodward of Coleman or Senator
Clint G. Small of Wellington for
governor at the proper time.
r. S. Sterling of Houston, chair
man of the highway commission,
has been mentioned more than
once. The other day at a bridge
opening at BeTleville, Sterling, the
principal speaker, heard himself
put forward for the g~overnorship
by speakers who preceded him.
There are plenty available issues.
Mr.. Love said he would run as an
anti-Tammany candidate, inferring
he would revive the acrimony that
developed last November, when he
and other democrats left their
party to fight Gov. Alfred E. Smith
for the presidency and carried
Texas on their side.
May Bar Love
Mr.. Love was a candidate for
lieutenant governor in the last
primary and quit the race before
the run-off with Lieutenant Gov
emo Miller, after several counties
had barred his name from the Of
ficial party ballot because Of his
announced determination to
scratch the ticket in the November
general election.
There may be a movement next
July to bar his name from the