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some of the crowd tittered. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, outgoing Governess, had on an old grey coat...
Clear-voiced,§ Mrs. Ferguson rose to speak. Her black eyes glittered like beads behind the octagonal lenses at either side of her hawk nose...
...Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...
...against "Ma" Ferguson that the blame should be laid for her freak administration, but rather against the people of Texas who supported her candidature. Mrs. Ferguson in seeking election was actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...
...delve into the irregularities and peculiarities of the situation in Texas. But that such exist we cannot doubt, for wholesale pardoning is an irregularity which nothing but peculiar circumstances can warrant. Perhaps Governor Ferguson hopes to duplicate the success of Governor Len Small of Illinois, who is said to have found such tactics compatible, even necessary, to the building of an efficient political machine. Of course, a good politician must be magnanimous and appeal to every stratum of society, but until Mrs. Ferguson has shown some such lofty motive her position is open to censure...