Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-13
VARDAMAN'S UNFAIR TACTICS
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS SAYS
GOVERNOR INDoRsEs WRONGS.
Hints That Forgery Was One of the
Crimes Committed in Camp Of
His Opponents

YAZOO CITY, Miss. August 13.-Charg-
ing that Gov. James X. Vardaman spurned
democracy and coquetted with the populists
in the late campaign for United States
senator. John Sharp Williams. the victor in
the fight for that Office, in an address here
on the aftermath of the campaign, said:
Gov. Vardaman declares that he has no
regrets to express for anything said or done
by himself or by any Of his friends during
the late campaign i hope that in saying
this the governor was only talking out loud
and before he had finished thinking.
'If he means what he says. then he
means that he indorses and does not re-
greet the action Of one of his friends who
affixed the signature of a justice of the
peace to a document in the absence of and
without the knowledge or consent of that
official.
TT would mean that he indorses and does
not regret the action of another one of his
friends who was caught with the ballot
box.
You have a right to congratulate your
self on the fact that Mississippi has again
gone democratic. and that you Will have in
the Senate a man. however meager his
ability Is, who will at least think upon po-
litical subjects after the manner OF Thought
of Calhoun and Davis and Tilden and Wal
thall, and not who will think after the
manner of thought of Tom Watson and
William Randolph Hearst.
Filtration With Populists.
when l entered into the campaign | soon
began to discover that there was an effort
being made by Gov. Vardaman to play to
the populists. This was shown first by his
coquetting with the proposition Of govern
ment ownership. proposition which no
democrat of the school of Jefferson, Cal
houn. George or Wathal could have tol-
Grated for so much as a minute. This
shown in the second place by his introduce
ton of Tom Watson as a man easier to
criticise than to answer This fol-
lowed by a letter of euogy to Watson,
which published by Watson in his
magazine. and tEen by words of eulogy
writing concerning my competitor by Wat
son.
1t was proven in the third place when at
Bay ST Louis. Miss, the governor seemed
to take a stand upon the rankest doctrine
of state social the doctrine which would
efface the power Of the courts to declare
acts of the national Legislature to be uncon-
stitutional. and thus turn over to the
absolute rule of an unbrided majority.
My competitor received the 5000
10000 populist votes of this state almost en-
masse. They took their marching orders
from Thomas Watson.
There is one great benefit that has been
attained by this lesson taught by the late
primary. The plan of Tom Watson and his
adherents to capture the democratic organi-
Ia ton in this state by holding the balance
of power between democrats came 80 very
near being successful that the plan itself
has been exposed and the eyes of democrats
who love their party have been opened.
Tom Watson Democrats"
1.-The probab ility is that Mr.. Bryan will be
the next nominee of the democratic party.
No man in all America has ever attacked
him, his motives and his character so saw
agely as Tom Watson. Yet there are 1900
or 10000 men participating in democratic
primary in the state of Mississippi who re-
ceive and acknowledge marching orders
from Tom Watson. What are they going
to do when the presidential election comes
and Mr.. Bryan is nominated by the demo
Gratis and Mr.. Watson by the populists?
From whom are they going to take their
marching orders then? l just throw this
out as illustration.
My duty now Is a plain one-the duty of
a national legislator, as a Mississippian and
a democrat. to go forward trying to bring
about a revision Of the tariff. trying to
check monopoly trying to put halt to
miiitarism 50 that we can use the S250D.000
or S30,0OD,U0 now uselessly expended for Il
over-large army to develop our internal i'm
provementS and give us fourteen-foot
channel in the great central artery of trade, |
the Mississippi river. and a Panama canal. |
and to do such other work as is important
and well to be DONE and. above all. will
leave in the pockets Of the people as much |
as possible OF their money not taxed out.
I'VE people OF the south have another !
plain duty to help the drift and tendency |
of time toward a solution of the race prob !
lem. AS the problem consists OF the |
juxtapostion of the two races in nearly |
equal numbers, its only solution will be in |
the measurable separation of the two |
races by Increasing the number of white |
people in the south and decreasing the !
number of negroes. We do not want the |
scum of Europe, its driftings nor its bad |
element. but want only such men and |
women as our forefathers were when they /
came to these shores-self f. respecting and |
honest people who love republican instItu-
lions. We can get them. for there are plen-
ty of them, both to the north of US and
elsewhere. Meanwhile. ,ne natural tend
ency of the negro race to scatter over all /
the United States is helping u.s."