The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1904-08-05
Vardaman Post Office.

hSnlngtOn. August Z.-fOSt-
master-General Payne to-day adj
mitted what had been denied by
Assistant Pos. master-Gen Wynne
last week, that the department had
refused To name Mississippi posi-
Office in honor of Gov Vardaman.
although petitioned by the citi-
zens 70 do so. The statement given
out by General Payne takes occa-
sion to slap Governor Vardaman
for an editorial in the Greenwood
Commonwealth In 1908. at time
when race feeling was high in Mis-
sissippi on account of closing the
Indianola post office and the cor
dial treatment the President was
according in social way to Book
er Washington and other negroes
at the White House.
While General Payne says that
the editorials unfit TO reproduce.
his office is making it easy for cor
respondents TO procure copy of
it. A copy was forwarded TO the
department by State Senator G. G..
Dunn of Lauderdale county and
others with aftidavits attesting nc
curacy and saying the original
newspaper may be seen at the Lau-
derdale County Critz Club. Al
though General PAYNE says the
President had no part in rejecting
Ing this request from Mississippi
citizens, it il believed he had some
thing TO do with the preparation
OF the statement given out.
jackson. Miss August Gov.
Nardnman in reply 10 the charge
by the Washington Postoffice of
ticials. that he had reflected on the
mother of Theodore Roosevelt
this being the reason assigned by
the Federal officials for refusing
TO allow the name selected to be
used as the name of the office
said tonight
Il have never in all my life said
or written anything derogatory to.
or that reflected upon the fair name
of the good mother of Theodore
Roosevelt, or any other good wo-
man | am not RESPONSE BILE for
what the campaign liars ascribed
to me during the campaign in
Mississippi last year and | pro-
tested against being misreprrsent-
ed. All that | have ever written
or said about the ancestors of the
said Theodore Roosevelt WAS in de
Tense of said ancestors against the
the unjust charge of responsibility
for the moral and racial degenera-
cy of the accidental occupant of
the White House, whose conduct,
it persisted in, in the Nardaman
postoftice matter. demonstrates
his infinite littleness."
Governor Vardaman, when edit
or of the Greenwood Common
wealth, in an issue of January 10.
1903. said:
at is said that men follow the
bent of their genius, and that pa
rental influences are often potent
III shaping thoughts and ideas of
after life. Probably old lady
Roosevelt, during the period of
CESSATION. was frightened by dog,
and that fact may account for the
qualities of the male pup which
are so pronounced in Teddy. |
would not do either an injustice,
but | am disposed to apologize to
the dog for mentioning it."
Meridian. Miss, August B
Special to Memphis Commercial
Appeal. -Anent the Nardaman
post office incident in the Com
mercial Appeal of this date, in
which. among other things, it is
stated that A b. Amis, &C. Dunn
aud nineteen others forwarded a
copy of certain editorial appear
ing in the Greenwood Common
wealth of date of January 10, 1903,
attested by affidavits at the post
office Department, you do US a
erea, injustice. We emphatically
oeny having had any connection
whatever either directly or indi
rectly with bringing the matter to
the attention OF the Postoffice De
partment by sending the papers
referred to or III any other man
ner. We therefore request that
you have your correspondent TO
thoroughly invests gate the matter.
and that you give this telegram
and the true state of facts under
such investigations. rs great pub
licity as has been given the article
above referred to. Please publish
this in your issue of August 4.
A. b AMIs.
G.. G. DUNN.