The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1910-09-07
All this consumed but

committee. All this consumed but
| d few minutes time.
| Senator Hebron was then intro.
duced BIZ The temporary president
Iof the club and proceeded with his
speech, and the crowd continued To
increase until the court room was
crowded very much as it was at
the forenoon speaking the Varda-
man men being 10 an overwheIm-
ling majority; but the late arrivals.
both Vardaman and anti Varda-
man men. did not know what had
been done before the speaking BEL
gan. and to this fact was due the
misunderstanding and interruption
Ito orderly procedure which hap
pened later Oh.
When Senator Hebron ended his
speech and the chairman arose to
call for the report expected from
the committee on resolutions. there
were loud calls. not general
throughout the room. for Repre-
sentative M. Mccullough. and d
good deal Of noise and confusion on
the part Of those who. apparently,
did not wish to hear him. Mr..
Mccullough seemed to hesitate
about responding. and, as the
chairman knew him to be a sup
porter of Candidate Alexander and
not entitled to address a Vardaman
Club. unless specially invited to do
SO. he was not recognized and all
persons not Yardaman supporters
declared out of order.
After the resolutions were read,
Mr. Hiram Cassidy. who. with
others had come in while Senator
Hebron was speaking, not knowing
that a Vardaman Club had been or
ganized. arose and attempted to
speak in protest against what was
being said and done. Mr.. Cassedy
was asked BY the chairman if he
was Vardanlan man. because the
chairman was in doubt, and when
he answered in the negative, he
was declared out Of order, and
when he persisted in trying to
speak, in spite Of the chairman's
ruling declaring that those opposed
to Vardaman should be given time
to withdraw, his voice was drown
ed by the shouts of those who did
not recognize his right to speak in
the meeting, and he desisted.
After the report Of the commit
tee on resolutions had been read BY
Chairman Norton and comparative
quiet restored, the chair stated
distinctly that none but vardaman
men were entitled or expected to
vote on the report, either way, and
when the vote was taken the reso-
lutions were adopted unanimously.
Just before the club adjourned
Representative Mccullough tried to
get the floor to make some state
ment or announcement, and the
chairman appealed for quiet in his
behalf that he might do So, but
the opposition to hearing him was
SO great that it was with difficulty
he could be heard by those nearest
to him. If the anti Vardaman men
had seen fit to organize d meeting
Of their own, either before or after
the Vardaman Club met. there
would not have been the slightest
objection raised BY any yardaman
man.
II is due to Mr.. CASSIDY to say
that he informed the editor Of The
Leader yesterday that He acted
under q misrepresentation. Or he
would have had nothing whatever
to say il the meeting. and Mr Me-
Cuilough and several others were
doubtless ii the same attitude.
Besides the reasons above stated
why recognition was not given I'd
anti -vardaman men to speak and
have a voice IN directing the pro-
ceedings Of d yardaman Club, to
have unnecessarily protraeted the
meeting would have been an alto.
gether uniustitiabIe treapaaa upon
the courtesy of the court.
The club adjourned subject to
the call Of the chairman and at the
next meeting the organization will
be completed and made permanent:
The club already has several hum
dged members Every Yardaman
man in the county IS eligible to
membership.
Election Of a Medical Inspector for the
BrOokhagen Public SCHOOLS.