Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-05-19

that Vardaman was just as strong
in the final ballot as in the very
first ballot that was cast? Is it
not a fact that SO far as corruption
was concerned all such charges
were thoroughly disproved both
by legislative investigation and in
the courts where a jury half of
whom were Vardaman adherents
very promptly rendered a verdict
of not guilty? Is it not a fact that
some of Vardaman's strongest
supporters voted for the Gibbs
resolution, and that all of his sup
pOrters went into the caucus, and
that he, himself, remained a candi-
date before that caucus until the
very last vote was taken? Is it
not a fact, so far as the S of
whisky was concerned, that Var
daman's own headquarters we're by
no means dry, and that numbers
of men testified under oath during
the legislative investigation that
they had taken drinks with Pro
hibition Jim? Is it not a fact that
if Vardaman and his pious adher-
ents, among them Bilbo and Bill
Stegal, knew of any corruption
they yer untrue to the sovereign
people when they failed to make
it promptly known? And is it not
also a fact that the majors friends
in the legislature if their charges
were trve, were traitors to
the u of good government
when, after a caucus, a horried
"secret caucus" that was rotten,
Infamous, base, corrupt and alto
gether damnable, had chosen Mr..
Percy as it's nominee, every moth
er's son of them answered to the
roll call in the open session of the
legislature which followed and
voted to ratify that nomination?
AS to Mr.. Anderson being ap-
pointed a member of the Supreme
Court, according to DR.. Wards
own statement, Judge Anderson
was ''the most rank, rabid and un-
reasonable antagonist" that the
major had, and most certainly
then the position was not offered
to him in order to influence his
vote. Mr.. Anderson was always
known as an anti Vardaman man
and a mighty fine one at that.
DR.. Ward refers to pass 854 as
"a bogus pass' Notwithstanding
the fact every man whose name
appeared on that pass remembered
riding on it except Major Varda-
man, who simply couldn't remem-
Der the incident at all. The fact
is, the only thing that was bogus
in connection with that pass was
Major Vardaman's pretended for
getfulness.
So far as Mr.. Percy's leaving
the senate abruptly when the
news was flashed over the wires
that a man had been indicted for
bribery is concerned, the ONLY
fault with that statement is that
it stops far short of a true and
complete account of that incident.
Why did not DR.. Ward tell us
that when Mr.. Percy abruptly
left the senate he came to Jack
son, addressed q joint session of
the legislature in regard to his
commission and that a unanimous
vote of the legislature was given
to a resolution offered by a strong
Vardaman adherent, and n of
the states purest citizens at that,
which expressed the utmost con-
tdence in his integrity and in the
stainlessness of his commission?
But then a man who thinks the
OATH of a lewd woman is of
value is prepared to believe most
anything of a scandalous nature!
And isn't it rather peculiar that
the women of questionable char
acter. who. it was charged by
D
Bilbo and his friends, was en-
ployed by the opposition as a 90