The Hattiesburg news., 1911-07-26

Not once has he been treated rude,y or
discourteously by follower Of mine.
I don't lead this kind Of people. am
striving to lead the sober, selfrespectiug,
God-fearing manhood Of Mississippi on
to great victory, and l would not /
teach one Mississippi boy TO be a hood
| lum for all the honors that this great !
state could shower upon me, but have
On numerous occasions been interrupted
not with questions but yells and jeered
at by his followers. Has he ever through
his paper or public utterances rebuksd
| them?
Can man incite his followers to
such conduct and not expect it to flower
| into violence? Is not Il man morally
responsible for that which logically fol-
lows from his own teachingst If not
then it is no longer true that 'whatso-
ever a man soweth that also shall he
reap If not then the anarchist preach
ing anarchy in our streets is not to be
held morally accountable for the deeds
of violence that follow such teaching.
But don't rest the case of the State
of Mississippi against James *. Valda-
man here. will put it where every
man among you will realize that the
charge is just one. Almost at the
beginning of my campaign spoke ON
the Fourth of July year ago at Cod
bold Wells, in Pike county. | was ccm-
tinually interrupted by the Vardaman
followers with cries of Vardaman,
'Bilbo' and Mary Stamps the latter
said to be q negrsss of evil reputation
living in Jackson. Did Vardaman rs-
buke this treatment by his followersi
About week after there appeared IN
Vardaman paper the following edito-
rial, unique In journalism In this state:
Honorable Leroy Percy spoke 70
large audience In Pike county . few
days ago. and the crowd hooted him 'n
such way that he completely lost hts
head, became angry and PIT on scene
too ridiculous to be decent the writer
meant that finished my speech, not
withstanding the Interruptions and finally
quieted the audiencel. Mr.. Percy may
be game all right, but he shows every
thing but level headelncss. The jour
nal predicted several weeks ago that Mr..
! Percy would quit the race before the
SIeCtlOn anu HUtuiflk HAS HdHpNhNu wv
to change our opinion, but instead sew
eral occurrences have taken place to
make us frmer in the belief. Il wonder
} what kind of prophet this fellow now
thinks he is.) Ordinarily we would con.
denim in most strenuous terms the con-
duct of this audience, but when we con-
} slider the situation brought about hV
q lot of peanut politicians, as is the case
in our state, we are littbs bit OF the
opinion that nothing too nasty Il hate
) to TIRE that word in the presence Of
Mississippi women) can be enacted By q
political audience in Mississippi until the
present controllers are forever buriel.'
'Whsn before was the manhood sf
Mississippi ever taught that there was
nothing too nasty for them 10 do at
public gathsringt No act of hoodlum.
ism, no act of ruffianism, that tfey
ought not to do. Did Vardaman rebuks
thisf Did he say, Don't teach my fol-
lowers that which will make rufriaBs
and hoodlums out Of them Mssissippi
has honored me too much for ne to be
willing to bring dishonor on herr No,
he reproduced the editorial In the Issifs.
In that ALI No, he left no uncertainty
IN resAru :" MS pos't.cA' n I.',~
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County journal, makes 'ns ioiiowiAs
very sensiose ana perunsA. sossrVA.'s-
upon the political situation just new;'
a
, In other words, at the very outsss
Of my campaign, he said TO his fellow
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