The Jones County news., 1911-03-02
Vardaman's $ Campaign
Opens With Enthusiasm
-
Thousands Hear Eloquent
Address at jackson
Friday Night.

opened his campaign TOR the Office OF
United States Senator in a speech at
jackson on Friday night of last week.
The speaking was preceded by a
torchlight procession, which is said to
have been one of the greatest political
demonstration in the history of
Mississippi.
1t is estimated by friends of Major
Vardaman that not less than 5000
people heard his speech at the Col
lis:um building, which was packed to
its seating capacity.
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which
is opposed to the election of Mr.. Var
daman, said editorialiy:
GAS is very well known, this paper
is not supporting Ex-Governor Var
daman for Senator, and would be
glad to see another elected; but it
feels that 1t would be untrue to itself,
to truth and to history to attempt to
be little the Vardaman meeting last
night, or to pretend that it was any
thing but a large affair, for an inn
mense number of people assembled in
the Coliseum to shout for the swhite
chief'', to hear his speech and ap-
plaud his remarks"
"As said in the beginning, the
Clarion-Ledger is not supporting
Vardaman. There is no reason why
1t should, and many reasons why it
should not. But, regardless as to
its views, this paper proposes to
treat Vardaman courteously and
will endeavor TO give him a fair DEAL
Notwithstanding the fact that 1T
prefers either of the other Sena-
torial candidates to him, as is well
understood and for reasons that the
reader will appreciate"
Vardaman Career.
In the year of our Lord 1861, just
before this great republic of ours was
plunged into the horrors and blood
shed of four long years of civil strife,
was born unto Jackson county Texas
a babe, destined to become one of the
greatest statesmen the South has
known since the early days of the
republic. In the course of events
this little babe was given the name
we now hear so much in the discussion
of politics IN Mississippi; name that
will go down in history, and a name
that will redown to the honor and
glory of the Southland as long as
the love for true democracy exists in
the hearts of the people.
Although Texas was the birth place
of this great and eloquent statesman,
yet it was not decreed by the gods to
be his home. The old maxim that
westward tends the star of the en-
pire" did not apply in this instance,
for early in his life, when scarcely
five years of age, his parents moved
eastward, crossing the majestic Mis-
sissippi, and took up their permanent
abode in our own beloved state. If
Mississippi can not claim the honor
of being the birth place of this great
and noted man, she can claim the
distinction of furnishing the environ.
ments that have raised him to the
exalted position he now holds, that of
being chief and foremost in the hearts
,Sof the people.
The beginning of the life of Jas. K.
: Vardaman, like the beginning of the
lives or most men was very unpreten-
tious. He lived the life of an ordinary
school boy, attending the free schools
of Yalobusha county, accomplishing
the every day tasks of the average
country lad, and dreaming the dreams
that only the American youth, in
who's veins flows the pure Anglo Sax
on blood, can dream. Seemingly his
opportunities were no greater than
yours or mine. There was nothing
In the beginning to foretell that he
would attain the exalted position he
now holds among his fellows. Early
In life Jas. K. Vardaman chose the
profession in which he has since be-
come famous, revising, explaining,
and enforcing the laws of his native
state. Of the period of his life from
1926, during which he led the
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