Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-02-18

with prophetic vision, he foresaW
it's future.
And if that rugged old veteran
of many a hard fought battle was
on earth today he would be fore
most in the ranks of those who are
opposing this senseless agitation
of phase of the problem already
settled.
But, you say, James K. Varda-
man wants the repeal of the fif
teenth amendment, and if he can
do that it will put the negro out of
politics in every stAte in the Un-
ion.
Of course he does. And - OF
course we do. There is not a true
son Of the South today who is not
anxious to have that hideous relic
of post -bellum day stricken from
the organic law of the nation.
There are lots of things in this
world we would like to have, but
whether we. can get them, and
how can we get them, are. differ
ent questions.
We would like to have the gol-
den rule strictly observed. We
would like to see the ten com
mandments implicitly obeyed. We
would like to have an equal divis-
ion of the national wealth, and
each of us would like to have at
least a milliO dollars.
And there are perhaps a mil
lion wants that might be mention
ed if we but had the time to do it.
Man is never satisfied with his
earthly lot.
But, as an old darkey once de-
fined the same trouble, "It's not
what we wants in this world, but
what he gifts"
With James K. Vardaman in
the United States senate, hurting
firebrands right and left, denounc-
ing everything and everybody,
belching forth invective and vitu-
peration, alternating his common
wealth from any likelihood of
friendly consideration, all posi-
bility of the fifteenth amendment
ever being repealed would go
glemmering i2to the dim and hazy
distance.
The man who is perpetually en-
gagged in asserting fancies for
facts, and thereupon building the
most frightful theories and dread
full hallucinatiOns, can never in
spire respect and confidence, or
exercise any measure of influence
in any body composed Of Ameri-
cas- most profound statesmen, alb
lest scholars, and foremost bust
ness men.
And especially is this true of
man fwhOse mania is so intense
that he has never yet been able to
see but one of it's phases, and who
is lamentably lacking in the men
tai processes essential to cogent
thought and intelligent assimila-
tiOn.
In a word, people of Mississip-
pi, this is neither the time or the
occasion to send a half baked the
orist to the United States senate
to engage in senseless agitation.
We have no need of a political
Don Quixote to tilt at imaginary
windmills.
Other problems Of far greater
confront us. Other
questions of more vital concern
are pressing for consideration.
We need a man equipped with
logic, rather than rhetoric. We
need ready and fluent debater, a
man who can think on his feet, |
and reason while in action, rather
than sophomore declaimer with |
a super hearted imagination.
What we want, and must have,
is a man who can command the |
respect of his colleagues and ac-
complish something for our com
man who can keep
on speaking terms with
all branches of the government; a
man who will not ALLEVIATE US from
the friendly consideration that is
our constitutional right; a man
who will work faithfully and in
diligently for his constituents,
and who possesses not one element
Of physical or intellectual laziness;
4 man who has been a personal
success in life, and thereby give
is assurance that he can achieve
equal success in the discharge of
public duties; a man who has
studied the material needs of our
and will work in
1ustriously for this recognition
md Development; man who is
lble to understand that the Unit
ID States government is the great
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