Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-20
RUMORS THICK
In STATE RACE
Final Lap Offers Many ifs
And Ands" For Public
To Chew
BY RAYMOND BROOES
Especial TO The Herald.)

AUSTIN, July i9.-Revulsion at
a 30 years diet of political hash.
A scramble between Thomas 3.
Love and Earle E. Mayfield for the
Hoovercrat vote.
Reports from an opponents camp
claiming Love may quit the race.
limitations from his close
friends that Gov. Dan Moody will
make four speeches during the
week against Earle B. Mayfield and
the FergusonS.
Continuing widespread indiffer-
ence TO the race.
Growing uncertainty as 70 its out
come.
These were scrambled into the
political mess-kit as Texas started
out on the final five days OF the
governorship quest this year.
Voter dissatisfaction with the
hash of the Smith-Hoover fight.
the "fed-up" attitude over old po-
litical S~quabbles altogether, forced
the two issues Of this years cam
paign, both economic issues.
They are:
State highway construction bonds.
Tax corrections.
They're linked closely, because
The appeal of the bond plan is in
assuming over-heavy local tax
burdens from bonds voted TO build
state roads.
Real Meat Wanted
r. S. Sterling did not make his
bond plank the factor in the cam
paign.
Popular demand for some meatier
subject than old political bones,
c~lean-picked through the years,
forced the economic question TO the
front.
Even the politicians who have
been accustomed to fight battles Of
personal Y~ituperation were forced
to see this, in having to come
around to accept the u~npalatable
negative side Of the contest on this
issue.
Governor Moody's close friends
have said since he withdrew from
the race that he would. IN the final
week, go on the stump for four
speeches, one In each quarter Of the
state, to carry on his fight against
Earle B. Mayfield and James z.
FerguSon's proxy candidacy
They have guessed his course &C
curately in the past. Up to the
end Of the week he only had said
publicly that he had no engage
ments to speak.
No further basis vas given for the
claim that Thomas B. Love might
draw out than his precedent IN the
lieutenant governors race two years
ago.
Mr.. Love I'D to now has been
claiming he's high man by $1,000 Of
$4,000 votes In the first primary.
while many people have expressed
doubt he vii poll 10000 votes al
together.
Voters refusal TO longer swallow
the elumgullion Of old-styie political
campaigning may be the basis Of the
purported indifference at this stage
Of the race.
Sentiment Slow
10 has been repeatedly said that
in the campaign, r. S. Sterling and
Clint G. Small, who have had no
part In any OF the old rag-picklngs.
have benefited as the undecided or
SLOW" sentiment gradually crystal
lized.
Love. Mayfield and Ferguson have
been paStmasters in the business of
political strategy through mani
years. Sen. Mayfield has been sue
ceSsful so far in winning every Of
flee for which he ran. He was de-
feated for a second term for the
United States Senate. He has built
up a legislative record and record
In public office that is impressive.
Observers this year believe he has
been caught in the eddies Of the
economic issues and that his pros
poets now are not nearly so good as
they were four weeks ago.
Silliman Evans, vice president OF
the corporation operated by A. p.
Barrett. big Fort Worth aviation,
radio and financial figure, who
frankly considers Mayfield king
high in the race, has admitted there
is a scramble between Mayfield and
Thomas B. Love for the Hoovercrat
vote Of 1928 vote that Love al
ways has been claiming as hts own
following.
An element OF the Hoover vote
are the former ku klux khan people
who bolted Alfred E. Smith be-
cause he is q Catholic. Now il is to
be remembered that the ku klux
khan deserted the man who thought
IL behind him and helped elect Mr..
Mayfield TO the United States Z n
ate. Also that IL quit him. 50 far
as any concerted vote was concern
Ell when he ran for r~e-p1ectin~