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| a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop. |
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| made by James Ferguson. promised if elected he would pass bill that set max limit on shares of crops due to landowners from tenant farmers/share croppers. |
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| banker and business man who ran for the democrat gubernatorial nomination. encouraged the term "farmer jim" to capture the farm vote. also reffered to as "Pa". |
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| "Ma" ran for Governor in 1924. Won election over KKK candidate. Accused of giving to many pardons while in office. Finally in 1926 Moody decided to run against Ma and won. |
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| UT President. refused to fire the professors that pubicly denounced governor ferguson althought ferguson called for it. |
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| Board that ferguson could not get to overrule vinson's decsion not to fire. the board actually stood behind vinson and his descions. |
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| University of Texas controversy |
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| gov. ferguson wanted a few professors at UT that opposed him fired. However Vinson would not fire them becuase they opposed the govenor. |
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| University of Texas controversy (participants) |
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| Students stormed the steps of UT and protested against tyranny and one-man rule. the influential alumni of the University swung into action, calling upon legislators to deal firmly with Ferguson. |
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| University of Texas controversy (outcome) |
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| The legislature responded on June 23, 1917 and eventually impeached ferguson for many reasons including the UT contoversy. |
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| University of Texas controversy (effect) |
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| James E Ferguson (impeachment) |
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| Ferguson was eventually impeached during a special session that was called to order. since the governor has to make the agenda ferguson did not put is own impeachment on the agenda. the legislature discussed the impeachment and went ahead with it. Ferguson claimed that it was unconstitutional becuase he did not put it in the agenda. to avoid actual impeachment ferguson resigned on sept. 24, 1917. |
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| after resignation hobby took oath. Pa ferguson challenging the impeachment Pa challenged hobby for democrat nomination. hobby won the nomination. |
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| first appearance in texas was in houston in 1920. |
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| Tenets of the new Klan's ideology were anti-Catholicism, white supremacy, hatred of Jews, anti-radicalism, opposition to continued immigration, and moral censorship. |
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| . Membership in the secret order was principally confined to the lower middle class. However, men prominent in business, politics, and even law enforcement donned white robes and hoods, and many clergymen welcomed it as an agency to enforce Christian moral behavior. By 1922 Klan membership in the state was between 75,000 and 90,000. |
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| Only a small portion of the Klan's defense of morality and society was directed at blacks. Its campaign of systematic terrorism was aimed mostly at bootleggers, gamblers, wayward husbands and wives, wife beaters, and other "sinners." |
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| Chambers of Commerce, American Legions, the Daughters of the American Republic, the Texas Bar Association, the Masons, and others denounced the Klan. As well as Ma and Pa Ferguson. |
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| : "The Democratic party emphatically condemns and denounces what is known as the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan as an un-democratic, un-Christian and un-American organization." |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1924 |
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| many Texas Klansmen voted for Mrs. Ferguson's Republican opponent in November, she won handily. one of the most heated political campaigns in Texas history. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1924 (candidates) |
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| Ferguson decided that his wife Miriam would run for it. Most political experts discounted Mrs. Ferguson's chances, believing that Judge Felix Robertson would win the Democratic nomination. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1924 (supporters) |
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| Robertson supported by KKK. Two factors probably explain her electoral success. Her husband still remained the idol of the dirt farmers, the "boys at the forks of the creeks," and with other rural voters as well. Also, as indicated before, the tide of Klan popularity had by this time reached its high water mark and was receding. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1924 (outcome) |
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| Mrs. Ferguson won by nearly 100,000 votes. the Ku Klux Klan in Texas was given a merciless political drubbing.signaled the passing of the Klan as a significant force in Texas politics.year Mrs. Ferguson persuaded the legislature to pass a bill making it unlawful for any secret society to allow its members to be masked or otherwise disguised in public. |
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| Miriam A Ferguson (campaign) |
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| one of the most heated political campaigns in Texas history. campaign slogans, "Me for Ma, and I ain't got a durn thing against Pa," "A bonnet and not a hood," and "Two governors for the price of one." Ferguson's fight with the Klan was based partly on principle, partly because the Klan's desire to dominate Texas politically clashed with his own ambition. |
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| Miriam A Ferguson (scandals) |
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| more than 2,000 pardons. Pa possibly bribed during Ma's run. A joint House-Senate committee reported that many of Ma's pardons had indeed been granted on the recommendation of her husband. If highway builders wanted contracts had to buy ads in Ferguson's political paper. More charges ensued that highway contracts were being granted on the basis of personal friendship and favoritism. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1926 |
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| Moody announced that he would oppose Mrs. Ferguson in the Democratic primary. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1926 (candidates) |
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| Moody promised that, if elected, he would restore honesty in state government and insisted that the overriding issue before the voters was "Fergusonism." Ferguson's tried to link Moody to the invisible empire. However the accusation was not believed by voters. |
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| Gubernatorial Election of 1926 (outcome) |
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| even with "Ma's" defeat by Dan Moody in 1926, Fergusonism did not end in Texas |
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