Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-05-12
VARDAMAN'S REPLY.

framed cOmmcnG
concerning "Private" John Al
lens highly interesting letter to
Major Vardaman, deeming it best
to await Mr.. Vardaman's reply
thereto, in order not to express a
too hasty opinion. The reply from
the major has now appeared, how
ever, and it proves to be the very
same kind of ''reply" that he has
been making to all the serious
charges that have been preferred
against him, insofar as bitter abuse
is concerned, but with this very
notable exceptions; the major for
the same reason that it is said
that "'murder will out" we pre-
sumo, saw fit to caption his reply
to Mr.. Aliens letter with these
significant words, "Pity IT'S, IT'S
True" And evidently the letter
of Mr.. Allen must have been true,
every word of it, since the major
in his ''reply" failed to answer a
single one of Mr.. Aliens ques-
tiOns.
To the man who has read Mr..
Aliens letter, the "reply' of Ma
ior Vardaman is absolutely pa
thetic in it's weakness. It consists
absolutely and solely of nothing
save the vilest and coarsest abuse,
and that, too, against an old Con
federate soldier whom the major
says must be in his dOtage. We
regret that we cannot publish the
entire "reply" as proof positive
of the majors oft repeated asser-
ton that he doesn't deal in per-
sOnalities. However, we shall
make oom for the opening para
graph of this editorial classic:
"Hon. (Private) John Allen,
the second hand politician, the
erstwhile clown of Congress, the
has sheen in Mississippi politics,
and an all around dead duck in
Mississippi public affairs, has
belched forth through the "anti"
papers a volume of putridity which
would do Justice to a real master
in the art of villification." And
in the final paragraph-and a most
fitting close it is-sO truly Varda-
manesque-the major alludes to
what he is pleased to term the
tIavings' of Mr.. Allen as a cross
between the braying of an ass and
the illusions of a polecat." Now
really wouldn't that sound nice in
the Senate?
According to the Major Mr.. AL
len is a second hand politician.
the erStwhile clown of Congress.
the has-been in Mississippi poll
tics and all round dead duck, and
yet it was this same ''second- hand"
politician" etc, whom Mr.. Var
daman used to greet with the
words, GOOD bless your patriotic
Soul!' And it was this same s'has-
been in Mississippi politics" whose
statements are now a ''cross be-
tween the brayings of an ass and
the illusions of a pOlecat," whose
advice was sought and taken by
Mr.. Vardaman in regard to the
merger of the Mobile & Ohio and
Southern Railroads.
In his ''reply" the major ami
imadverted upon the rOttenness of
that awful 'tsecret" caucus, of
course, which was to have been
expected. Whenever a man is COR
nered he always likes to muddy
the waters in order to divert at
tentiOn to something else. But in
so why didn't he take the
dear people into his confidence and
tell them of the fact that he had
been in secret caucuses several
times before the one that defeated
him, and that on one occasion he
his forces with those of
Col. Street to defeat 'Fthe wheel
horse of old Noxubee," James S.
for speaker of the Sen
.tef And why didn't he make