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Last week Governess Ferguson announced?or her husband did it for her? that she would resign from office if she did not get a majority of 25,000 on July 24, provided that Dan Moody would resign his post as attorney general if he did not get a majority. Foolishly, some thought, Mr. Moody accepted the challenge...
...When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
...novel agreement was made last week by the Democratic candidates for Governor of Texas. One of them is Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to succeed herself. The other is her Attorney General, Dan Moody, who has attacked her Administration as inefficient if not corrupt, as husband-ridden...
Recently Governess Ferguson opened her campaign. She spoke at Sulphur Springs. As her right hand was bandaged, she did not have to do any handshaking? she is not good at it and has a poor memory for names and faces. After she had read a brief speech, her husband, who was the main attraction, got up and opened with his big guns and then hand-shook everybody. Jim said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that...
...never took office. He was convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and is now in Atlanta Penitentiary. Last week his wife proclaimed that she would stand in the Republican primary in August for election to her husband's seat. She maintains his innocence, and (like Governess Ferguson of Texas) fights to vindicate her husband...