The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
ISSUE UNFORTUNATE
IEvx TELLs or MICRO IN MS.
 sIssRPI CAMPAIGN.
Says vardaman Posed as the Repre- sentative of White Supremacy and by Flimsy Pretext Alt
 tracted the Red Shirt.

Birmingham. Sept. 9.-(Special )-Col.
 R. M. Levy of West Point, Miss, who was manager of Judge Critz' campaign for Governor in the recent campaign in that State. is spending several days in the city, guest at the Morris Hotel Colonel Levy Is well-known in Birming- ham and has many friends here. He Is on his way East. where he will spend a vacation recuperating. having been en- gagged for some time in arduous campaign work.
 Speaking of the Mississippi campaign
 and its results Colonel Levy said: T regard Major Vardaman. the suc- cessful candidate for Governor. as a very clever gentleman and have always had a very warm feeling for him personally. It
 Is pleasure for me to say that even the heated campaign just closed has not les sened my friendship for Major varda- man. In my opinion, however, 1t Is a most unfortunate thing for the South to
 have the race question reopened, as 1t had been adjusted apparently to the entire satisfaction of both races. Indeed, I do not regard that there was any race ques-
 ton in Mississippi. The conditions there between the races seemed to be perfectly and satisfactorily adjusted, the white man as landlord and the negro as tenant, the latter asking only to be allowed to earn
  erty protected.
 Tt was unfortunatef also, to agitate
 this question in view of the docle sub l mission of the negro to readjusted con. | ditions under our Constitution, which | eliminated him entirely from participa ton in the affairs of the Government. It was likewise unfortunate that a camapign | should have been pitched upon a plane appealing to the passions and prejudices | of the people, thereby dividing the people | and engendering personal enmities among
 our people who have always been a unit on great questions affecting the interests | of the white population of Mississippi. Major Vardaman posed as the cham pion of white supremacy. This was the | fimsiest pretext to attract to his stand ard the red-shirt element, who always bring about the disturbances between the |, whites and blacks, when there are any. Major Vardaman Is no more the cham pion of white supremacy than is every other white man in the State of Misss- | sippi and I do not believe thaat there
 lives south of the Mason and Dixon line | a single solitary white man who is not
 in favor of white supremacy
 "Of course, the attitude of President
 Roosevelt toward the negroes and par l tfcularly, the Indianola case, gave Major Vardaman the opportunity to bring this question prominently to the front, and he | used 1t to a great advantage with that l class of people who can see no good in | the negro even as a laborer. The story
 that President Roosevelt said that he
 would give $5o,000 to see Major varda- | man beaten proved, upon investigation,
 to be pure fiction, but it had great
 weight. particularly in the rural districts.
 where denials could not reach the peo- pie.
 | T am glad the campaign is ended. It
 was one of the hottest and most closely
 contested ever held in UT State. I sim
 cerely trust that the results thereof will
 have no depressing effect upon the great
 wave of prosperity which Mississippi,
 alike with the other Southern States, is
 now enjoying and hope that Major
 Vardaman will give Mississippi such an
 administration as he is capable of giv- ing.
 Judge Critz takes his defeat as he
 always does everything-in a philosophi-
 cal manner, and bows to the win of the l people and joins them fin the hope that
 Mississippi will always prosper under all
 conditions and circumstances"