The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-07-27
ENTHUSIASTIC YARDAMAN
MASS MEETING HELD
In Greenwood Monday. Strong Resolutions
Adopted Endorsing Leflore County's Favorite
Son for United States Senator, Whose Elec-
ton Promises F9-Reaehing and Beneficial
Results.

L hC3QikSs
An enthusiastic meeting of the friends
of Governor Vardaman was held at the
law offices of McClurg, Gardner and
Wilmington last Thursday evening at
Greenwood. The meeting was not ex-
tensively advertised, hence great many
of the Governors warmest friends were
not present, nevertheless the meeting
was representative one and one that
any candidate might feel proud to have
assembled in his honor. General Mon
roe McCiurg was elected chairman OF
the meeting and Mr.. HI. B. Dixon Sec
retary. Appropriate remarks were made
by Hon. w. S. Barry, DR.. w. t. Mat
| thews, DR.. Il. B. Stewart, General Nc
| Glurg, DR.. c. N. D. Campbell, Messrs.
w. S. Marye, Walter Pillow, D. c.
Peteet, w. r. Bell, j. w. Quinn, G. c.
Money, J. 7. Spivey and others.
The following resolutions were unani-
monsly adopted:
eve, the citizens of Greenwood, Miss,
cake great pleasure in ascribing the fol-
lowina reasons for devoting our interest
and pledging our support to James K
Vardaman's splendid and brilliant can
didacy for United States Senator.
"1-He is our own distinguished fell
| low-citizen, of whom we think any city
of the nation might be proud.
s'2-He is Democrat Of faultless rec
ord and faithful allegiance to his party,
and both as private citizen and as an
offcoholder he has constantly espoused
and defended the highest moral, politi-
cal and economic interests of the COM
| mon masses.
"3-His record as Governor of the
great State of Mississippi has been in
every sense wise and aggressive for the
interest of the people and has challenged
and impelled the admiration of his po-
htical enemies.
"4 = James K. Vardaman, by his
splendid championship of the white
mans political and social supremacy,
has attracted the eyes of the nation and
has given Mississippians the opportu-
nifty to speak their protest against the
open policies of the U. S. Constitution.
s'5-He is the first man in the South
or in the nation who has dared to max e
his race for Federal Office on the issue
of the repeal of the "War Amendme hts -
to the u. S. Constitution as the para
mount question in his platform, theraby
giving Mississippians their first oppor-
tunity to say by their ballots that Re-
construction was wrong and that the
ssNegro Amendments" to the Federal
Constitution were a disgrace to the
] Anglo-Saxon race of the South.
"6-The North accepts the issue be-
tween James K. Vardaman and his op-
ponent, Mr.. Williams, as an open and
shut question as to whether Mississippi,
by the election of James K. Vardaman,
will repudiate the "Negro Amend
ments" to the U. s. Constitution or, by
the election of Mr.. Williams, Mississippi
will, after forty years, RE-RATIFY
these Amendments which were forced
upon her with all the other ills of recon
struction days.
"7-James K. Vardaman is the only
son of the Confederacy who has given
| Mississippi or the South au opportunity
| to protest against the disgraces and in
famies that were heaped upon her in the
| helpless aftermath of a war in which
she accepted honorable defeat.
"S-Since the repeal of the 14th and
18th Amendments to the u. S. Consti-
tuition is the paramount issue of his
campaign for election, and since the
North looks upon this Senatorial con-
test in Mississippi as test of Southern
sentiment on the repeal of these Amend
ments, we regard that Mississippi owes
it to herself, the South and the Nation,
to elect James K. Vardaman by such
overwhelming odds as to speak into the
ear of the Nation protest against the
! burdens and dangers to the South of the
open policies of the Constitution by
which our social and political suprem-
acy is grayely threatened.
"9-We believe that the conjunction
of race riots and differences all oyer the
Nation with Italians, Greeks and Japan
ese, as well as with the negroes. gives a
positive assurance that the day is not
/ far distant when the Nation will be
forced to modify her constitutional
qualifications for citizenship, and that
for these reasons the agitation for the
repeal of the .War Amendments to
the Federal Constitution are opportune,
and the accomplishment of their repeal
is eminently practical.
/ For these reasons we are proud that
our splendid little city has the honor OF
producing Senatorial candidate whose
/ platform embodies such momentous
issues and whose election gives promise
of such far-reaching and beneficial re-
suits.
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