Evening star., 1903-08-03
Mississippi Votes Tomorrow.

The people of Mississippi at primary
election tomorrow will vote for candidates
for state offices to be filled In November
and also express their choice between
lIr. Money and Gov. Iongino for United
States senator for the term beginning in
March next. An old-fashioned canvass has
been in progress for months, and every
county in the state has had its rallyings
and barbecues. AS there Is but one party
In the state the contest has been between
democrats. while the leading topic of dis
cusson has been the negro, whose past.
present and probable future have inspired
| a good deal of fiery defamation.
Mr.. Money and Gov. Longno are both
men of ability. The former has seen long
service in Congress, first in the House and
then in the Senate and the latter during
his one term as governor has shown him
self to be a man of firmness and resources.
And yet strangely enough, each has ap-
pealed for support in this race principally
on the strength Of not what he has done.
| but what the other man has done. for a
! helpless race. Mr.. Money has dwelt upon
| the fact that Gov. Longino. while In office,
| has issued small commissions to several
| negroes not declared to be unworthy. and
the governor has retorted that Mr.. Money,
| as senator, has voted to confirm the ap-
| pointment of several negroes to federal
| places. And there you are. Truly great
| issue in connection with the office sought
But 1t is in the race for the gubernatorial
! nomination that the negro cuts the livellest
| figure The leading candidate is Major
| Vardeman and in all of his discourses he
| exhibits the full courage of his extraordi-
| nary convictions. This is sample of the
talk upon which the major is relying FOR
votes at the polls:
IF were a sheriff and a negro fiend fell
into my hands would run him out of the
country. If 1 We're a governor and We're
asked for troops to protect him. would
send them. But If l were private citizen
I would head the mob to string the brute
up, and I haven't much respect for a white
man who wouldn't.
why squander money on his education
when the only effect is to spoil a good field
hand and make an insolent cook? God AL
mighty fixed his position, and 1t remained
for that coon-favored miscegenationist.
Teddy Roosevelt to attempt to improve on
the plan.
After this, nobody will be surprised at the
information c6ntained in the following trib-
ute to the major:
"Vardeman was mixed up in a street fight
| in which two men We're killed at his home
| town Greenwood some years ago He
was then running the Greenwood Enter
prise. and the men who We're slain We're
| foolish enough to walk upstairs and ask for
| the editor They found him and a friend,
| Jim Money. who Joined in the fray.
In September 1883, he acquired expert
| cnce in the riots in which JOS negroes We're
killed in a week along the banks of the
| Tallahatchic river.
These are the estimates of the provisions
| consumed at the barbecues at which the
| candidate spoke:
zone thousand beeves, 1000 lambs, 5000
chickens 5000 turkeys, 10000 quail. 2o.0O
| squirrels. 10000 pounds Of pork, 1.0p0oO
| pones of corn bread, 1ot0OoO gallons OF
! iuttermilk and 2OVpJ gallons of cider
| Surely there is an item missing here. But
| termilk and cider could not alone even in
| the quantities mentioned, have floated SO
| remarkable campaign.