Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-03-24
A FAIR PROPOSITION

Ex-Governor Vardaman, made to
him a proposition that it is diff
cult to see how Mr.. Nardaman
and his faithful followers can af
ford to ignore The major has
been going up midtown the state
during the past few weeks de
nouncing as absolutely false any
and all insinuatiOns rejecting
upon the manner in which certain
trust funds were handled by him,
even going so far as to say of Mr..
Alexander that "any man who
would miSrepreSent an opponent
to get votes would sell his vote if
elected" And he also meets Ger
tain charges of his opponent in
the following chaste and elegant
language:
"The man who is circulating
these attacks was spawned in the
Shiny cess pool Of the secret eau
Gus. grew to the tadpOle stage in
the political prostitution that fol
lowed, and when his tail was cut
off at a Snb secret caucus, he be-
gan to hop from pond to pond
croaking 'Vardamam, Nardaman,
Nardaman!'
And this, too, in the face OF the
fact that Mr. Alexander hasn't
participated in half so many Sc
cret caucuscS as has Major Narda-
man, and that should the ''blesSed
sunlight of publicity shine in" on
their respective headquarters it
would show Mr.. AleXander'S to
have been fully as clean as that of
the immaculate governors, not
even excepting the office Of the
Commissioner of AgricuIture.
But as to the charges against
Mr.. Vardaman in regard to the
several public funds entrusted to
him while governor, it may be
said that such charges are far too
serious to be met solely with
grandiloquent assertions of limo
cence and the employment of vul-
gar abuse. If the charges are
false, their falsity can easily be
proved; if they are true. then Ma
iOr Vardaman has absolutely no
claim to the support of the honest
voters of Mississippi. Mr.. Alex
ander has opened the way for Ma
jor NardamaD utterly to disprove
these charges as the following eX-
cerpt from his Lexington speech
clearly shows:
els there not here both an OPP
portunity for Major Nardaman
and a duty to put into practice
the boasted supreme rule of his
life, viz: That he Will never
have Il political secret, and that
he will tell the whole truth in re-
gard to public men and measures,
and that 'he will put himself to
some trouble to learn the TRUTH
If he will do this this and, in
stead Of answering with denun-
citation and Cpithct, will produce
for the satisfaction of the public
and the taxpayers the original
books of the bank where these
funds were kept. he Will escape
the cenSure he visited on the war
den of the penitentiarY; and if
these original entries when pro
i
funds were kept intact, never
mingled with private funds, and
were promptly paid over when
called for by the proper authori-
ties, he Will do even more than
avoid criticism. No one knows
the voters of Mississippi better
than Major Nardaman, and he
knows and l know that if such a
showing is made in the only rea-
sOnable and conclusive way, and
it shows he has been Slandered.
the fair minded voters of NIiSSiS
Sippi almost certainly Will accord
to him a vindicatiOn. | will 90
further and say that IN the inter
est of fairness and justice, which
are far more important than the
fortunes of any man, if he makes
this showing in this manner and
it appears that he has been Sian
dered, l MYSELF, WILL DE
NOUNCE THE SEANDER IN
EVERY SPEECH | MAKE
DURING THE CAMPAIGN"
Could any proposition be fairer
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