Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-12-16

hau votcu TOT Uaiiot, ana tuel
j IdId not. only had eighty-seyen ant
/ II took fourteen vardaman men L
make the one hundred ana one
Some or the most extreme vardamat
men in the state voted that II should
] be BY ballot. They voted that the
election should be by ballot just Al
, every other election for United states
} senator BY the legislature has beer
: 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
J by a Legislature. In the years gone
by, before the Australian ballot sys-
tenn was inaugurated, employers fire.
quently marched their employees up
IN blocks OF fifty and a hundred and
made them vote as they directed UNI
der the threat that they would take
the bread out OF their mouths if they
did not do So To avoid this the
4 Australian ballot was devised and il
\ registers free mans will, unintim-
dated by the populace, unswayed by
4 patronage, interrupted by money, for
the scouhdrel who will sell his vote
will not stay bought in secret
ballot. But it has been said that
\ these men In the Legislature were
Representatives That is true, but
they were uninstructed Representa-
tives. There is no way known to
the democratic party OF Mississippi
of instructing legislators except by
democratic primary and where the
vote is on Senator, it has to be
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 II was just as wrong and
Just as ccwardly for fifty or one hum
Idred men from a county to say to a
representative, "You vote as we tell
You to vote or we will destroy your
political future" as it was in the old.
en- days for an employer to say to
fifty or one hundred men, you vote
as tell you to vote or | will, take
the bread out OF your mouths" III
they had voted according to INSTRUCT
ions in the last primary, ninety-six
votes would have been cast against |
vardaman, for that was the vote In
the senatorial primary by counties.
II they had voted according to the
expressed wishes of the people In
that primary. he was doomed to de- !
feat, because he ran second best in I
a race Of two. And II they voted I
according to their own consciences
and Judgement he was bound to go I
down in defeat. because that was
the way the vote was cast. 4
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS OF THE
PAST.
In 1880 Mississippi sent ]. q.
George to the United States Senate.
she sent him from democratic eau
Gus and BY a Secret ballot And after
three weeks Of bailoting in that eau
Gus he was elected, Walthall, Single.
ton and Bafksdale being defeated. |,
In 1904 Mississippi sent 10 the Unit 4
ed States Senate A. ]. Mcr.aurin. she
sent him from democratic caucus
and by a secret ballot. vardaman
was in that Legislature and partici-
pated In that caucus. and in that 4
ban6ting. More than that. He was
an antt-Mc1aurin man. and the au-
ti-McLai,rln forces had many candi-
dates, They finally thtnned down |
to three, Robert Taylor. Robert Low /,
~ and J. APP. Campbell varda-
man was an anti-McLaurin man, and h
On the day before the election ishsi
anti-McLaurin forces met In the So.
prenie court room in Jackson in alb
in winch vardansan par Z
and by secret ballot they Il
named Robert. Taylor. And On the
next day McLaurIn beat Taylor in tho 4
general caucus by i secret ballot, Ii
and went to the United States Senate. II
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