The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-27
From Wednesdays Paper.
WILL CLOSE TO-DAY.

ton animosities and the strife,
resentment and feeling which it
has engendered will have been |
forgotten and our people will be
engaged in commercial enter
prises and in selling and market
ing the best crop which this sec
ton has seen in a long number |
of years. The primary has
proven a great success. 1t has
enlisted the interest Of the peo-
pie IN the election for State Off
GERS to an extent never known |
before and out of this interest a |
large amount of education has |
resulted. The people have a bet
ter understanding and appre- |
hension of the State political con-
ditiOns; the educational needs and |
requirements Of the various sec
tiOns are familiar and well known;
the States institutions are bet
ter understood and a decree of
enlightenment and general infOr
nation helpful to good citizen
ship has resulted all along the
line. The men selected to adj
minister the affairs Of State are
honorable, capable and useful
citizens and the standard of of
fetal life has been in no way low
cred by the resort to the pri-
mary. Vardaman, the peoples
candidate for the highest office
in the State, under the old con
vention system with the politi-
clans against him, would have
been defeated long ago, but the
people rule now; their voice is
supreme and tomorrow they
will triumph over all the efforts
to perpetuate disreputable politi-
cal methods in the State.
THE DISPATCH all through
this campaign has stood for those
men and measures which we be
Iieve would best serve the inter
ests of Mississippi. Vardaman s
proudest claim to our support is
the political enemies he has
made and the character of the
men opposing him. All our life
we have detested machine meth
DDS and the one man idea. We
believe in political liberty and
that the greatest welfare will in
ure to our people through the
fullest and freeSt expression of
individual rights. Under our
form of government it is neces-
sary for the maintenance of free
institutions. Vardaman s whole
life and character is an embOdi-
ment of this idea. He stands
for the fullest measure of person
al and political liberty. He be-
Ieves this is a republican form
of government and that all au-
thority and power rests with the
people-they are the final tribu-
nal TO which all appeals should
be made.
Again, we have espOused the
cause of Mr. Vardaman because
we believe he is abreast of the
thought and the best sentiment
of the age in advocating the So
luton of a problem which is
laundering at the very source of
all of our society and civilization
the race problem. Partisans
may refuse to see this problem;
may mislead and deceive by cry
ing there is no problem; yet the
greatest and prOfoundest stu
dents of our time, SentinelS on
the watch towers, are crying
out that it is coming. Vardaman
is the the only man who has
cried out the warning and who
suggests a solution of it in our
State. The change he advocates,
giving the poor white children of
the State the benefit of the com
mon school fund, is a change
which has been sanctioned by
every educator of note who is
familiar with and who has made
a study of the operation of our
school law. 1t is criminal to
force thousands and thousands
of poor white children in Mis-
sissippi to go to miserable shan
ties of schools few short weeks
in each year to poorly paid white
teachers when negroes in other
counties are housed in handsome
brick structures, taught six