The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-19
Inc STATE Press and The State Cam
paign.


Major Vardaman, candidate for
Governor, has the strongest fol
lowing on our Gulf coast.
Pascagoula Democratic Star
A good many men don t agree
with VardamaB 5 plan for dis
vision Of the school fund. but viii
vote for him because they be
Hevc he Is sincere, honest and IN
corruptible, and will make a good
Governor. = I AGO Sentinel
All candidates for Governor
have supporters in Noxubee, that
is those candidates who are max
ing the canvas Critz, Noel, Var
daman and Fox and We believe
the order IN which they are
named will be the result of the
primaries in August. Noxubee
Herald.
Congressman Fox is d new en-
try in the race for Governor. He
may be man of force and ability,
but we never heard of his ac-
com plishing anything very great
or distinguishing himself during
the six years that he has been
serving in Congress. Newton
Record.
It is said that Congressman
Fox has been pulled into the face
for Governor by the Anti Varda-
man crowd. 1t appears to US
that the Anti-Critz brethren
might have had a hand in the job
also. The gentleman in Wash
ington may find himself in water
too hot for him before he has
fought the fight to a finish
Jasper County Review
Tt is said that the chief oppo-
sition at Jackson to Vardaman
is based on the fact that many of
them up there fear he will have a
sure enough investigation made
of things that have been doing
around the State capital and on
the penitentiary farms, that he
will turn on the X-rays, and probe
all the recent scandals to the
very bottom. There are some
who do not want the searchlight
turned on, and consequently they
have been fighting Vardaman
from his very entry into the con
test. Natchez Bulletin.
The Biloxi Herald notes that
in a signed statement Gov. Lon
gino points with pride to the fact
that he signed the present pri-
mary law of the state. A few
remarks from Senator Noel on
this part of the Longino Wilson
senatorial announcement would
be interesting. In view of the
notorious fact that the senator
literally crammed this law down
the governor S throat over his
hysterical protests, rendered in
chorus with the schreechy oppo-
sltion of referee Wilson's Plea
yune bureau and the Clarion
Ledger, that point with pride"
is the most brazen passage of a
phenomenal exhibition of gall
Vicksburg Herald.
Maj. Vardaman is a big man
and he is the leading candidate
for Governor, but he has not yet
assumed that he was bigger than
the constitution of the United
States, and he realizes what the
limitations of that document are,
and he would be the last man in
the State to try and run rough
shod over them while acting as
the Chief Executive of MISSISSIPPI
pi He is opposed to the pres
ent plan of distributing the school
fund and has the courage to say
so. The other candidates for
Governor may desire a change,
but have not so expressed them
selves. When Mr.. Vardaman be-
comes Governor there is no dan
ger that he is going to try and
override the constitution of the
United States or of Mississippi,
and his distinguished opponents
know that to be a fact. Yazoo
Herald
Again Mr.. Fox iusulted the en-
tire newspaper fraternity by the
statement that those opposing
him and supporting other candi-
dates were doing so at a penny a
line. This would appear like a
bid. If these papers want more
than a penny a line let them with
draw their support of the other
candidates and give it to Mr..
Fox. Perhaps he would raise it
to two pennies line. But there
are some papers, even in Missis-
sippi, and as poor as they gener-
ally are, which are not for sale.
We do not believe that Mr.. Fox
has bought any of them. but
since he was the first to make the
charge as applicable to others he
should remember that others will
naturally consider it an infallible
sign that his own skirts are not
clear. Still this may be only
another coincidence not altogeth-