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

cal, and sometimes so rabid and
coarse as to betray lack Of gentil-
ity and become offensive to good
taste and culture. His style, now
and then, impresseS me as a self
assertive attitudinarian, posing
as the peoples champion, when
| he is in fact only an agitator for
his own aggrandizement.
You know how little sympathy
| ever had for the leaders of that
party which always stood for the
oppression of the South and her
people. 1t was hatred of their
methods that persuaded you and
me to wear the robes of the Ku-
hlux Klan; and yet there never
was time when I could have
been induced to write of the
President Of the United States
and his mother in the ribald man
ner of Vardamau's editorial allu-
sion on one occasion to Mr.. Roose-
velt and his mother-a manner so
atrocious that nothing | ever
come across in print approaches
it. By that act alone, if he was
guilty of no other sin, either Of
omission or commission, he has,
in my opinion, disqualified him
self for the high and honorable
office to which he aspires.
| do not believe Vardaman any
stronger now with the true-blue'
Democrats of Mississippi, than
when he was a candidate in the
! Democratic primaries against
John Sharp Williams. 1t is true,
he gave Williams close call for
the nomination but, in my opin-
ion, his vote was largely swelled
by the disgruntled element of the
party, and by late accessions to
it from the ranks of the populist
and other dissatisfied finders
who used to rally around the
standard of my friend Frank
Burkett (and I am very fond of
old Frank and you may give him
my love. if you willy in the days
when Burkett was in the zenith
of his editorial and political glory
and
Zone blast upon his bugle horn
Were worth a thousand men"
to battle against the Democratic
party.
By the way, Burkett is the big
ger mantle strongest man in
tellectualIy-of the two and would
in my judgment, make the most
cro6it9 hlo senator
And [ want to SAY another
thing" Notwithstanding his edi-
torial pronunciamentoes in which
he 'out-herods Herod" as a dem
ocrat, you Will find Vardaman
stalks alone and unchallenged,
among all the candidates for the
senatorship, as the man whose
following delights most in rodom-
ontades and abuse of men whose
greatest crime is worldly pros
perity or the occupancy of high
public place through political pre-
ferment.
But l beg your pardon; I did
not mean to get off to such an eX-
tent on the foregoing line.
| am glad to know John Meln-
mis- is in Jackson, for | know you
and he will enjoy being together,
if you are not two such big old |
fools as to let the senatorial mat
ter cause you to drift apart. Pol
tics couldn't pull me away from
either Of you.
Idon't know who Mac is for,
but | know him we'll enough to
stake my souls salvation upon
one fact, towit: He is for a man
who has brains and can neither
be bribed, bought nor cajoled into
pursuing any political path not
justified by patriotic purpose and
honor.
If 1 had the call, the place
should go to my friend, Leroy
Percy; but i also like Alexander,
and no man, not even you, has
any higher appreciation of his
social political and intel
lectual worth than I.
Love to you and John McInnis
and may God bless each of you
and all those near and dear to Ell
ther of you, Remember me to
Price and say to him to
keep you straight,
Sincerely yours,
r. w. BANKS.