The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-27
VAPDAMAN TALKS
OF TWO PRESIDENTS
Thinks Taft's Railroad Meas
ures Are Bad
GIFT TO STATE NORMAL
Mrs. Fannie E. Atkins Deeds 1913 Acres
of Land to School-Municipal
Ownership Fhvored--City
Political situation
GIFT TO STATE NORMAL

Admission, June 26.-(Special. FLAMES h
vardaman, former governor of the state
of Mississippi, agrees with Braxton Bragg
Conner, governor of Alabama, and Senator
LaF gillette of Wisconsin, that the Tart
administration railroad measures take
virtually everything out of the hands
of the people and transfer it into the
hands of the carriers; that Theodore
Roosevelt's railway policies were more
democratic and that the sage of Oyster
Bay is a greater friend of the people
than the present Incumbent; but he
says, that's saying mighty little for
Teddy" "
This opinion was vouchsafed by TN ex-
governor and strenuous one of N isis
sippi as he reclined In the comic liable
seat of a Pullman smoker Sunday morn
ing on the Birmingham special en- route
to Atlanta from ahe Magic City where
he delivered lecture Saturday night on
the race question. 1t was prompted by an
Admission newspaper correspondent, VINO
handed the Mississippian copy of Inc
Birmingham Age-Herald and called his
attention to a Montgomery special re-
ferring to Governor Conner as cited above.
Taft is one fellow, l believe. who
really enjoys holding office. l don't be-
Iieve he has ever felt that depressing
sense of responsibility which most office
holders experience in their grasp OF
power He eats and sleeps and drinks
and laughs and smiles and does not seem
to understand that he is being used as
tool
But I guess it's WE'LL" the ex-governor
continued reminiscently, for laugh and
the world laughs with you; swear off and
you drink alone
Governor Vardaman stated further IN
effect however, in his peculiarly var
damanesoue language that while Mr.. Taft
is eating and drinking and sleeping and
smiling and laughing, Wall street is also
feasting on the opportunities and laugh
ing at the expense of the good-natured
President.
In the opinion of Mr. Vardaman, when
former President Roosevelt intimated re-
Gently that he may never make another
political speech, the returned hunter
merely made new bid for the position
as the logical head of the Ananias club.
At heart Roosevelt Is in sympathy with
the corporate influences of the country,
Mr.. Vardaman believes. yet he has sue
ceeded wonderfully in fooing the people.
He is somewhat of Chantecler, in the
opinion of the Mississippian, who ex-
claimed: "Why, IL he should get back to
nature, with nothing but rooster feather
to adorn his strenuous carcass, as ne
strolled up Fifth avenue, the people would
remark How gracefully he walks! Amt
he grandr''
In the sleeper smoker the Mississippi
politician cast aside the dignity OF the
lecturer and evinced the charms with
which he has won the votes Of the peo-
pie of his state. He says tote and
.'ain't," sometimes come In the wrong
place and uses several words that are
not down in the dictionary. He is brusque
and epigramniatic. He Is pleasing
talker, but it does not take long for him
to belle the ministerial impression that
goes with his white tie and elongated
locks.