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Two years ago he ran for Governor. The State was still being run by the egregious Fergusons, who had been twice ousted from the Governorship but twice came back. In 1917 Pa (James) Ferguson was impeached and removed from office. In 1926 Dan Moody beat Ma (Miriam), who had won back the office. But in 1932 Ma Ferguson won the Governorship again and in 1934 when Jim Allred set out to be elected, the Fergusons were in the field once more in the person of Candidate Charles C. McDonald. In the primary, Allred and another Wichita Falls lawyer, Tom F. Hunter, both beat the Ferguson candidate. For the run-off the Fergusons shifted their strength to Hunter. Again "the little boy in the big breeches," as Tom Hunter called him, beat his elders. Result was that Jim Allred, aged 35, took dowdy Ma Ferguson on his arm into Texas' inauguration ceremonies last year and that this year Ma & Pa Ferguson will sit at home listening to the Texas Centennial by radio instead of in seats of honor at the Dallas Exposition.
*Spain, 1519—1821; France, 1685—87; Mexico, 1821—36; Texas, 1836-46; U. S., 1846-1936; Confederacy, 1861—65.
†The bluebonnet is Texas' State flower.
*Wrote Hubert Roussel in the Houston Press: "This promises to be the great lemon and strawberry pop fair."