The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-30
DEMOCRATS LOOK TO
GOV. VARDAMAN FOR AID
Known Throughout the South As A
Negro Batter.

land and defend the DISTINGUISHING
amendment is former Governor
James K. Vardaman, of Missis-
sippi. 1t is understood that Mr..
Vardaman has accepted the invi-
tation, and in order to do this has
cancelled a half dozen lecture en-
gagements. -Four years ago, when
the Poe amendment was the para
mount issue in the Democratic
campaign, Mr., Nardaman who was
then Governor of Mississippi, was
invited to participate in the Mary
land campaign. Serious object
ions were raised to his presence
here. Anyhow, MI Nardaman
did not come.
The invitation extended to Mr..
Vardaman shows to what desperate
straits the Maryland Democrats are
driven i'll their effort TO secure pop
ular approval Of their pet scheme
to make Maryland one party
State. Until his election as Gov
ernor of Mississippi in 1905 he was
politician of the type common
everywhere-plausible, ready to
take up any issue that promised
success and known in his own
State solely for the insistence with
which he constantly ran for Office
and the persistence with which he
was turned down whenever oppor-
tunity offered. In 1905 he sue
Ceeded In becoming Governor of
Mississippi, despite the opposition
of men like Senator McLaurin,
Governor Long and other Demo
Gratis Of the State, who knew the
man and, recognizing his dema-
goguery and his pandering to the
lowest element in politics, feared
only too well that his administra-
ton would bring disgrace upon
-<heir State Their fears were
LUCKILY realized.
On January 10, 1908, when his
election was assured because of his
success at the primaries, Mr.,
Vardaman printed in a paper of
which he was editor and proprie-
tor, an attack on the mother of
President Roosevelt estimable
Southern woman, resting for many
years i'll an honored grave-an at
tack SO vile that it cannot be re-
printed in any journal. A cry Of
execration went up over the entire
country Here and there an apollo
.gist appeared, but the papers of
Mississippi as a rule and the men
ofthe Sonth everywhere hung their
heads in shame and asked only
that the South be not judged by
the mouthings of a vulgarian wko
happened to hold high Office.
He wisely remained away from
Washington at the time of the in
auguration of President Roosevelt,
recognizing that his presence in
Washington would be the signal
for an outburst of indignation.
When the battlesbip Mississippi
was launched at Philadelphia in
1905 again Governor Vardams Il
feared to face men, and he turned
over to Senator Money, a gentle
man who worthily represents his
State in the Senate, the duty OF
representing Mississippi at the
launching.
Until, by his foul reflections on
a good woman, whose grave should
have sheltered her from even a
Vardaman, he attained the motor
iety of execration, this man was
known only in Mississippi as a fan.
attic negro batter. Presumably, il
is because Of his record as the
most violent hater of the black
man in all the world the Demo
DHhrats in their desperation think oil
: bringing him into Maryland, He
made his campaign for the Cover.
norship in 1902 and 1908 solely or
the fanatic issue ofthe negro. The
negro as a menace in Mississippi
in 1902 and 1905 was nothing
short Of absurd, for the negro as q
political factor had absolutely dis
appeared. The Mississippi Con.
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