Jim Ferguson fought to bitter end

His fate was already sealed when Gov. James Edward Ferguson rose to speak on Sep. 24, 1917. The defiant defendant aimed his parting shot not at the 28 jurors, whose minds were already made up, nor the hostile gallery but at the people of Texas. “You have decided to remove me from office so that another man can take it. But you have made a political issue which will follow you and which this…