The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-03-24

him by a production of the books of til,
bank. l I'M glad that in this matter o.
the Importance of an officer keeping al
accurate account 1 find myself in per
feet accord with the views expressed BY
Major Vardaman. l will, therefore, lei
him speak. In the Commonwealth Of
October II, 1862, discussing the failure
OF the warae of the penitentiary to keel
an account les to which the warden was
exonerateo) Major Vardaman wrote
THE warden stated in his testimony be
fore the board of control the other day
that he knew that the law required him
to take receipts for money paid out
etc.; that the board did not require II
and he did not do it. He did not even
keep a cash book for his own use. Such
. policy is r~eprehensible, and unless the
board of control looks to . moro rigid en-.
forcement Of the law in such cases, every
member thereof should be proceeded
against. It is q shameful neglect Of duty
and violation of law, for which no ex-
cuse can be rendered. Knowing the mem
bers Of the board, l am unable to under
stand why some Of them will permit such
methods. The truth is the warden should
be discharged and q man employed who
will take the time and keep . record of
his doings, but probably the warden
knows too much to be turned out just
now. It might complicate matters"
Since the public now knows his views,
and he has assured us that he will at all
times be guided by the supreme rule of
his life" never to have a political secret,
and to turn the light on all public men
and take some trouble to find the truth,
cannot the public wait in confident hope
and expectation until the governor has
had time to put into practice this rule of
lifef If he will do this and show from
the original entries Of the banks, their
ledgers, and deposit slips, and checks and
pass books that funds were kept intact
and paid out for proper purposes and
baiance turned over when called for, he
Will at least have put to rout and confu-
sion those who have dared to visit on
MN the censure which he % severely Wis
tied on the warden.
Gov. Vardaman Solves the Philippine
Problem.
How to deal with our foreign posses
sions presents a problem for the wisest
statesmen. Rightly or wrongly, the
United States has acquired the Phillip
pines, and with them several millions of
dark-hued denizens. Here certainly
Major Vardaman could find q field for
his craftsmanship. No man could be
better fitted to deal with this race prob
lem. 1t might vex others, but has he
not given his best years to a study of
the race question? Sure enough, as we
might expect, he promptly evolved out
of his experience and study q solution
OF the problem that cannot fail when
generally known and advocated to win
Tor him a worldwide reputation. 9th
ers may halt and hesitate as to what
to do with the little Filipinos. His plan
is grand in conception, and would be
boid in its execution. Here it is II read
from the Commonwealth of January "a,
1907: IF the United States are to hold
the Philippine Islands and make sub
Ject provinces, l think it would be an
act OF humanity to destroy the inhab-
itants outright, apply torch and sword,
u it as you would a sage field and
then shoot the natives as you would q
lot of rabbits" Now, the major would
not advocate what he would not be will
ing to execute. He was a major in the
war that brought us the Philippines,
When he gets his plan adopted he will,
OF course, volunteer to lead his troops to
the field. Think of it, veterans. To
your guns again, there is work for you!
Imagine, it you can, our brave and chiv-
alric soldiers marshalled for this duty.
Can you imagine the gallant colonel here
on my right, who fought in nearly every
battle in the army of Virginia from Bull
KUN to AppomattOx, out there in the
P~hillpPines shooting, not at the face of
a brave foe, but at the little black streak
left by a fleeing Filipino! Practice ND
on craftsmanship, colonel, for YOU know
you must shoot them on the wing.
Mr.. Alexander stated that he would
have to omit, for lack of time, all dis
cussion Of the liquar traffic, as TO which,
however, his record is well known in his
W city. He expressed regret that he
could not at this .iM5 deaf with the
great danger of government by injunc-
ton and the great wrongs which have
been perpetrated under the protection of
some OF the federal courts in our coun-
try. He promised to discuss this mat
ter during the campaign.
He next proceeded into a full and
complete discussion of the negro ones
ton, saying that the effort of som to
commit u party at this time to re-
opening the franchise question was trln-
wise, untimely and fraught with peril.
He followed his usual lines in this dis
c%ussion, drawing a clear distinction be-
tween a race problem growing out of the
physical presence of the negroes and
the question of white supremacy, as to
which he said there was no problem:
that a problem implied doubt, and there
was no doubt about white supremacy.
He commented on the personnel and
work of the constitutional convention of
1890, and showed how it had for twenty
years eliminated the negro from poli-
tics and was still effective. He said that
it was singular that an element in our
own state should distrust that constitu-
ton and the ability of the Anglo.Saxon
to maintain his own supremacy when