Outline

The Perils of a One-Party State, 1914-1941

  I.  Progressivism waning after 1914
      A.  dominance of the prohibition issue
      B.  conservative "business progressivism" still popular
      C.  continuing opposition to progressivism
         1.  wets still angry
         2.  woman suffrage?
         3.  taxes and "big government"?
         4.  rural opposition
  II. "Fergusonism"
      A.  background of James E. Ferguson
      B.  the election of 1914
      C.  Ferguson in power, 1915-1917
         1.  a progressive?
         2.  an old-school conservative?
      D.  Ferguson impeached
         1.  the war on U.T.
         2.  corruption charges
         3.  Ferguson removed from office
         4.  William P. Hobby assumes governorship
   III. Rise of the second Ku Klux Klan, 1920-1924
      A.  "100% Americanism"
      B.  Protestant fundamentalism
      C.  the Klan enters politics, 1922
         1.  local successes
         2.  the gubernatorial election of 1922
            a.  Farmer Jim vs. Earle "the Klandidate" Mayfield
      D.  decline of the Klan
      E.  "Two Governors for the Price of One", 1924
  IV.  Fergusonism, Parts 2 and 3
      A.  "Ma" in power, 1925-1927
      B.  the end of Fergusonism?
      C.  the return of Ma, 1933-1935
  V.  "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy"
      A.  W. Lee O'Daniel and the election of 1938
      B.  "Pappy" in power, 1939-1941
      C.  Senator O'Daniel?
         1.  the six-week senatorship of Andrew Jackson Houston
         2.  O'Daniel vs. LBJ, 1941
         3.  in the senate, 1941-1949
  VI.  The perils of one-party politics
      A.  personalities trump policies
      B.  emotions trump issues
      C.  the primitive vs. the modern