In Texas

A 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.

In Texas of course the Democratic nomination is equivalent to election. The Democratic primary is to be held July 24. If any candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, he is nominated. If no candidate has a majority, another primary will be held on Aug. 20 in which the electorate will choose between the two who received the highest vote in the first primary.

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 he never had any use for the Klan and that the only issue is Jim Ferguson's dictatorship.

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!"

If a third candidate should prevent either of the two from getting a majority, neither will have to resign. Otherwise one or the other will have to resign after the primary in July, and it is just conceivable that both might have to resign under the literal terms of the agreement--if Mrs. Ferguson should win with a majority of less than 25,000. Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 votes are expected to be cast in the primary, since the state is watching breathlessly the Moody-Ferguson battle.