Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1920 — PUTS HIMSELF IN LIMELIGHT. [ARTICLE]

PUTS HIMSELF IN LIMELIGHT.

Temple, Tex.. April 21.—James E. Ferguson, former governor of Texas, today announced his candidacy for president on the platform of the American party, organized at Forth Worth, Texas, last August by a faction of the Texas democratic party. In his announcement Mr. Ferguson expressed opposition to the league of nations, national woman suffrage, national prohibition and compulsory military training. He declared in favor of light wines and beer until the “national prohibition amendment- is repealed,” promised recognition of the principle of trades unionism and pledged himself if elected, to grant full pardon to Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader under conviction of alleged conspiracy to obstruct the draft. _ On denouncing compulsory military training he declared “we need an army to take the cornfield than an army to take the battlefield.”