Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-06-23
NOT SUBSIDIZED

The extravagant and absolutely
indiscrimlnate charges of Varda-
man and many of his followers all
over the State that the members
of Mississippi press who r OPP
posing him are subsidized and paid
for opposing him may have led
some foolish persons in NOxubee
to think it possible that the BEA-
CON is paid for the political posi-
ton 1T has taken in this campaign
So far from true is this that the
BEACON has incurred considerable
extra expense in properly sup
porting it's principles and it's can
didate, not one cent of which has
been paid or ever will be paid by
any third person. The BEACON's
only reward will be in believing
that it has done it's best in advo-
eating it's beliefs and in furnishing
it's patrons a thoroughly good
newspaper.
The Beacon has not received
one cent for what service it may
have rendered to any candidate in
this or any other campaign, nor has
any offer of such a nature been
made to it, or any suggestion Of
such an offer been made. The
policy of this paper is not for sale,
and any insinuatiOn to that effect
is not only absolutely untrue, but
absolutely unwarrantcd. While
THE BEACON has not failed to
express it's opinion frankly and
without equivOcatiOn, it has been
no more vigorous and certainly no
more vindictive in it's antagOnism
to Major Vardaman's candidacy
than scores of papers supporting
Major Vardamau have been in
their attacks upon the candidacy
of Senator Percy and Mr.. Alexan-
der.
In this connection the Beacon
desires to state that it is sincerely
and conscientiOusly opposed to
the election of Major Vardaman
because it believes that his eleva-
ton to the high Office of United
States Senator from this state
would prove of untold evil to the
people of a commonwealth whose
interests are much dearer to this
paper than the political aspira-
tiOns of any man however long he
may have aspired. 1t believes that
an agitation of the race problem
in the National Senate, as pro
posed by Mr.. Vardaman, would
be fraught with the greatest dan
ger to the people of the South in
that it would serve to reawaken
old antagOnisms and to rekindle
the fires of bitter prejudice which
God knows we have had enough
of in the unfortunate past, and to
throw upon a great section where
Booker Washington is tenderlv
referred to as DR.. WASHINGTON.
the settlement of a question that
the South far better solve if
let alone. The Beacon also be-
lieves that if it were true that
now is an OppOrtune time to re
open the race issue in the halls of
congress, that Major Vardaman is
the last man that Mississippians
should choose to send on such a
mission. 1t firmly believes this
because the proper handling OF
such a question would require the
utmost tact and prudence, suavity
of manner, as great freedom as
possible from acrimOny and bitter
ness i'll discussions, a quickness OF
thought, a cogency of reasoning
and a readiness and willingness
to meet on the floor of the senate
some of the master debaters of the
world. Major Vardaman has never
yet proved himself capable OF
making other than a set speech
Astounding in poetry and fowery
tributes, except where he has il
numerous instances lost all self
restraint and INDUCED in the