Arizona republican., 1907-08-04
PHOENIX ARIZ,, AUGUST 1, 1907.
SENATORIAL ELEC-

RThough John Sharp Williams has t&obably received the nomination for United States senator. his victory over tte unspeakable Vardaman has been Il so slender a margin that thinking ISople who have hitherto favored the pbpular election of senators will pause tS think again.
 kIt may be laid down as an American Exposition that if the majority of the Ifople of any state prefer black 8ard to a gentleman for any elective q kfice they should be permitted to live him. The constitution and the @kvs allow them to make such a choice Il t the returns from Mississippi bring violently to the public attention fact Which in in a similar contest in almost a1y other state might not have been rSticed.
 Two candidates and their meth d1s of campaigning could not be in sfonger contrast. Though Williams is rpt perhaps the greatest or the most
 
 Itpular member of his party. we can think of no other who wields such a Ralthful influence in it or who com Hands in so great measure the re- Beet of the democratic leaders and tne leaders of the opposition His pace high or low in the roll of Amer i6n statesmen is assured. He meas
 les up to that hish standard which 3e south before the war set for its Snators and which in most of the Authern states has been retained.
 tvardaman on the other hand has
 zen a public disgrace ever since he Acame a public man. He is of low dfder of destroyers of Ephesian tenn les. those American politicians who $ek to climb to eminence on the Iklns; to attain political honors by
 Setting the admiration of the ignof- aht multitude by acts of bravado from 1hich sensible men recoil. Pennoyer q Oregon and Waite of Colorado were q this class but hardly to be men toned with Vardaman of Mississippi. < The campaign of Vardaman for fbvernor in 1904 would have been Hdiculous if his success had not rem dered6it serious. It was unbelievable that the people could regard as possi- De the things he promised to do for oem.
 I In the campaign which has just &osed his promises were even more Hckless. He promised the ignorant Door whites of the back woods district that he would secure the repeal of the Constitutional amendment conferring the right of suffrage upon the negroes.
 h the same speeches he assailed in elltingly the senate of the United States as it is now constituted and 4lvocated a reign of burning and knching in Mississippi as he had done
 h his gubernatOrial campaign and Throughout his administration as gov Srnor
 \ Vardaman and Williams engaged in . joint campaign. The latter was Helpless in the benighted districts. Eothing he could say appealed to the Door white trash alongside the profuse promises of the governor
 The interesting and instructive fea- lure of the canvass appeared in the teturns. The votes of the cities and tOwns and seats of intelligence were three to one for Williams. But his long ead has been all but wiped out by the returns from the swamps where the inhabitants grope in ignorance and hire.
 I Perhaps just such a campaign could bot be conducted. with just such a result, in any other state of the union. bult would be different only by de- trees. just as the intelligence of the toters differ by degrees from that of the voters who voted for Vardaman.
 The founders of our government Recognizing such conditions as that (which has just been disclosed. decreed That the senate should not be chosen Directly by a misguided popular vote. 3f they foresaw that a senator might how and then buy his seat from a Corrupt legislature. they doubtless tealized that such occurrences with Their attendant risks would be more lnfrequent than the success of trick fters and demagogues who run no risks at all.
 The senate is the balance wheel of fongress. Its purpose is to take up bnd demagoguery that 1t may not