The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-04-20
MONEYS
SUCCESSOR
Williams and Vardaman Are Anx>
ious for the Honor Williams
No Doubt Can Win.
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Jackson News
The weekly press Of the state is
takeng hand in the discussion OF
the senatorial raue. There is a
strange sameness ABOUT the comments
of all the administration papers on
the situation. Every one of the ad-
ministration papers want Congress
man Williams to retire from the race
and let Governor Vardaman go to the
senate. They don't seem to take in
consideration that Congressman Will
liams has had laudable ambition
for many years to go to the United
States senate, that he is fitted by tenn
perament and training for duty in the
upper branch of congress. They ut
terly lose sight of the fact that Mr..
Williams has no ambition to be gov
ernor Of the state, that his talents
don't run in that direction. The
administration papers desire to keep
Mr.. Williams horned off until the
time comes to dispose of the shoes Of
your Uncle Anse, and then he is to
spring into the arena. The following
editorial from the McComb City
Journal is like dozens of others that
have appeared in Mississippi sup.
porting the state administration
1--WE think Governor Vardamar
and John Sharp Williams should gel
together and one or the other get ou,
of the senatorial race. Vardamar
has made, without doubt, the best
governor this grand old common.
wealth has ever had. Williams is
today head and shoulders ADORE any
other southern man in national
affairs. They are warm personal
friends, hundreds Of men in the state
admire both gentlemen and if they
both continue in the race it will be
very embarrassing to large number
OF people who admire these gentlemen
and we think for that reason if none
other one or the other should stay out
OF the race. We suggest that Varda
man go to the senate and Mr. Will
ans run for Governor. Both mer
can be elected and at the end of this
term Of Office as governor Mr.. Will
liams could step in "Uncle AnsA 50
shoes. If the race continues one o1
these gentlemen will be retired tt
private life. We hope they will gel
together F"
Now this is all very nice, but il
will strike the average person as
being a bit one-sided. Mr.. Will
liams don't want to be governor. He
wants to be a United States senator
There is going to be senatorial va
cancy, so why should not Mr.. Will.
liams make try for the position.
The News does not believe that
Mr.. Williams will consent to the ar.
rangement which the administration
papers have mapped out for him.
1t is more than likely that he will
be in the race at the proper time.
The fact that the governor and Mr..
Williams have been friends for many
years is dwelt on at great length by
the administration papers. They
deplore the fact that there is to
be a clash of interest between the
two, and most of them while not as
bold as the McComb City Journal,
intimate that they should hang to-
gether to the end that they fall on
Your Uncle Anse at the proper time.
They seem to be trading in Uncle
Anse's job like it would be an easy
matter to take it away when the
time comes, but there are sundry
gentlemensin the state of Mississippi
who bear scars acquired in battle
with your Uncle Anse, who will in
form them that beating the Sage of
Rankin is not like taking canday away
from child.
There are other thoughts that sug-
gest themselves in connection with
this senatorial race, and one of them
is why the administration papers
should all come out at once and with
one voice proclaim that the senatorial
toga should be given to the governor.
They are disposed to quarrel with Mr..
Williams for even looking in the di
rection of this garment, as if it were
sheer impudence. The governor
certainly has no inherited or inherent
right to the Office Of senator. It will
be a free race to all, and all this talk
about Mr.. Williams running for q
Office he doesn't want is pure non.
sense. It will be up to the people to
decide who will fill the shoes Of Sem
ator Money, and the News does not
believe that any amount of talk on
the part Of the administration papers
swerve Mr.. Williams from his pur,