The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-08-06
VARDAMAN'S EDITORIAL
DISPLEASED ROOSEVELT.
postmaster General Payne Admits
the Truth Under Great Pressure
Explaining TO Waynne's Confusion
Why "Vardaman', Post office VIII
Be Called TlmberyiIIe.


washington, Aug. g. Postmaster
GenLWayne admitted today that tho de-
partment had refused to name Missis-
sippi postoffice in honor OF Gov. Var.
daman, although potitioned by the citi :
zens to do 80. After making this sd :
mission In the morning itrequirce a DAYS
pressure by the newspaper correspon-
uents before an efficient statement OF the
cause for this unfayorable action would
DC given. The statements prepared by
Gen. Payne and given out this evening
taxes occasion TO slap Gov. vardaman
Tor an editorial published in his paper.
the Commonwealth, on Jan. 10, 1908, at
a time whom the race feeling was high in
mississippi on account OF the closing OF
the lndianola postofiice and the cordial
treatment the President was according
In social way Booker Washington and
other negroes at the White House.
While Postmaster-G General Payne saws
that the editorial is unfit to reproduce,
MS oiiice is making II easy for cores
pondents to procure copy Of 1t. A copy
was forwarded TO the department by A.
b. Amis, 9. G. Dunn and nineteen 9TH
ers with affidavits attesting accuracy and
saying that the original newspaper may
be seen at the Office OF the Lauderdale
County Critz Club. Although Gen. Paw
ne says the President had no part In re-
jecting this request from Mississippi
citizens, 1t is believed he had something
TO do with the preparation OF the state
mont given out this evening.
PAYNE's STATEMENT.
Postmaster-General Payne made the
Following statement explaining the rea-
sons for refusing to name Mississinni
postoffice in honor Of the Governor OF
that State:
ION the 9th day of May, 1904, a petit
ton was filed with the department ask
ing for the establishment Of postoffice
at a certain point in Calhoun County, in
the State OF Mississippi, and requesting
that 1t be named Vardaman.
Immediately the usual investigation
made by the department as TO the neces-
sity for the establishment Of the office
was undertaken. Pending the inquiry.
a copy of the Daily Clarion Ledger, a
newspaper published at jackson, Miss,
dated Aug Is, 1908, was filed with the
department, containing an article to
which the departments attention was
called. This article was a copy of an
editorial printed in the Commonwealth
under date Of Jan. 10, 1903, which paper
is published and edited by Gov. Varda-
man. The article in question was 50 vile
and indecent In Its statement concerning
the mother of the President OF United
States as 10 be unfit for reproduction
The Postmaster General did not esteem
it proper to give postoffice tho name OF
any man who had used such language
regarding any woman. The postoffice in
question has been ordered established
and given the name of Timberville.
"In exercising the discretion given him
by law, the Postmaster-G General fire.
quently rejects names suggested for pro-
posed postoffices. He has never been
clearer as to his duty than in this case.
at Is proper to say that President
Roosevelt had no knowledge OF the incl
dent referred to-"
The name Timberville bestowed in lieu
Of Vardaman was suggested among
others by the parties interested in the
neighborhood, one OF their names having
been rejected because of Its similarity to
that already held by anotherp postoffice in
the State.