The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-07-07
HICKS TELLS OF WEATHER MILLS.
vARDEMAN, WHITES MUST RULE
Manager Barker and Ex-Gov Buchtel Divide Honors of
Sunday Program, and Both Are Warmly APP
plauded by Splendid Audiences.
Vardeman of Mississippi Makes Strenuous Repeal
of Fifteenth Amendment so That Whites
May Rule in the South.

is but crude and imperfect state
ment of the Hicks theory.
Saturday evenings entertainment
was pleasing one, the fine singing
of the Eureka glee club alternating
with the wonderful limitations of
familiar sounds. varying from the
gurgling caused by pouring from a
bottle to a barnyard concert and a
dog fight, which pleased the children
present between the ages Of eight
and eighty immensely.
Sunday afternoon the audience
was disappointed by the non-arrival
of Gov. Buchtel on account of train
arrangements, but Mr.. Barker came
into the breach with a lecture re-
plete with anecdotes and the recol-
lections of a ripe experience, and the
audience gave him a Chautauqua
salute for filling the gap so we'll.
The singing Of the Eureka Glee Club
sounded better than the night be-
fore and was given in good measure.
In the evening Gov. Buchtel of
Colorado gave an ideal Fourth of
July talk that ought to make every
American citizen who heard it glad
he was here intsead of on a foreign
| shore. The governors contrast of
conditions here and in European
countries was always to the advantage
of our own country. Gov. Buchtel
is a patriot and an inspiring infu-
ence wherever and whenever he
speaks.
Gov. Vardaman's address on the
race question last Monday was given
in lieu of the one previously an
nounced by Senator Bob Taylor of
Tennessee. We may be ungracious
but we are just a little sorry that
Senator Taylor's official responsible
tiles prevented him filling his Chau-
tauqua dates. Nevertheless, per-
haps it is better to know unwelcome
truths than to have our ears tickled
with verbal and beguiling music.
Gov. Vardaman's single statement
that every white woman in Missis-
sissippi is in state Of siege and not
one of these daughters of Mississippi
would dare to walk the streets of
any Mississippi town without male
escort, sounds startling to northern
ears. If that is the condition in
Mississippi we are not only glad we
do not live there but also admit that
the condition affects in some degree
every state in the union. Gov. Var
daman says that the white men of
Mississippi must govern, but we
fail to see just how the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment is going to
help the solution of the race ques-
ton in Mississippi. where the ne
groes considerably outnumber the
whites.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was drawn to
New Ulm as by magnet yesterday
and her going there disappointed
two thousand people, more or less,
who had packed the tent here to
hear her. Mrs. Nation was on the
afternoon train from the cities, over
the M. & st. L., and when the train
arrived at Winthrop. through some
evil fortune the precipitate Carrie
went on to New Ulm instead of to
Morton and Redwood.
The management kept smiling and
offered those people who would not
be able to remain until the evening,
the return Of their money at the
gate. Somewhere around two hund-
red people accepted the offer. 1t
was most unfortunate break on
Carries part. Lieut.. Gov. Manship,
scheduled for the evening, was ap-
pealed to and stepped into the gap
made by Mrs. Nation mishap and
soon had the audience going with his
contagious good humor.
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