The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-12-16

did not, l only a elgnty-SeVen duu
it took fourteen Vardaman men 20
make the n hundred and one
Some Of the most extreme Vardaman
men in the state voted that it should
be by ballot. They voted that the
election should he by ballot just as
every other election for United states
senator b. the Legislature has been
held in the past. just as every demo-
cratic senator now In the United
States Senate has been elected where
the election was contested and was
by a legislature. In the years gone
by. before the Australian ballot sys-
TEN was inaugurated. employers fire.
quently marched their employees up
in blocks OF Nifty and a hundred and
made them vote as they directed I'M
der the threat that they would take
the bread out of their mouths II they
did not do SO. To avoid this the
Australian ballot was devised and Il
registers a free mans will. unintim-
dated by the populace. unswayed by
patronage, uncorrupted by money. for
the scoundrel who will sell his vote
will not stay bought In a secret
ballot. But It has been said that
these men in the Legislature wers
representatives. That Is true, but
they were uninstructcd representa-
tives. There is no way known 70
the democratic party of Mississippi
OF instructing legislators except BY
democratic primary and where the
vote is on a Senator. II has TO be n
State primary.
In the last contest representatives
voted not as their counties went, but
all voted for Williams because they
were so Instructed by the voters OF
Mississippi, and In the absence Of
instructions It was Just as wrong and
Just as cowardly for fifty or one hun
dred mel from a county 10 gay to a
representative. you vote az Wa tell
you tn vote or We will destroy your
political future" 40 Il we In the old
sH days. for an employer to aay to
fifty or one hundred men, You vote
as I tell you TO vote or I will take
the bread out of your mouths" II
they had voted according to instruct
Ions in the last primary, ninety-six
votes would have been cast against
"ardnmau. Cor that was the vote in
the seustort~i primary BY counties.
Y :sey had voted according to the
expressed wishes OF the people in
that primary, he was doomed { de-
feat, because he ran second best in
a race OF two. And If they voted
according to their own consciences
and Judgment he was bound to go
down In defeat, because that was
the way the vote was cast.
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS OF THE
PAST.
In 1880 Mississippi sent ]. z.
George to the United States Senate.
She sent him from a democratic cav
Gus and by a secret ballot. And after
three weeks of balloting in that cau-
Gus he was elected. Walthall, Single
ton and B~arksdale being defeated.
In 1904 Mississippi SEN to the Unit
ed States Senate A. J. McI4aurin. She
sent him from a democratic caucus
and by a secret ballot. Vardamsn
was In that Legislature and partici-
pated in that caucus. and In that
balloting. More than that, He was
an antSMcIaurin man. and the au-
ti-McLaurin forces had many candi-
dates. They finally thinned down
to three, Robert Taylor. Robert Low
~ and J. A. P. Campbell varda-
man was an anti-McLaurin man, and
OH the day before the election the
anti-McLaurin forces me- IN the So.
prerle court room In Jackson In q
uup| autuu w WupSu v6I iIbn par
ticipated, and by secret ballot they
named Robert Taylor. And on the
next day McLaurin beat Taylor In the
general caucus by a secret ballot
and went to tho United States Senate
More than that. You have heard
much OF the Gibbs resolution passed
by the last caucus This resolution
had its precedent in a resolution
adopted IN this Legislature, OF which
Vardaman was a member. being the
Speaker OF the House, that resolution
providing that members Of the can
Gus should scatter their vote In tn.
voting in open session 80 that nc
election should be had until the eau
Gus made a nomination. This reso
luton passed unanimously on tho
9th day OF January, 1894. In 1896
Mississippi sent to the United States
Senate H. D. Money. She sent hin
from a democratic caucus and BY
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