The Washington times., 1911-08-07
Successor Of Percy Never
Has Been Known To :,
Wave Olive Branch.
POPULARITY CALLED
GREAT WHITE LEADER
Rise of Editor-Politician To Fame
Has Been Most Re-
markable.

Mai James K. Vardaman-United
States Senator Vardaman ne will soon
be called-stands out from the crowd.
When he takes his seat among the
lawmakers, another of those strange,
forceful characters which the Senate
has always numbered among its MEM
bers will step from the limited public
life of a sovereign State into the tuli
glare of the public life of the nation.
His coming will be watched with in
terest. Vardaman, although governor
of a sovereign State, has made his ut
terarfces widely felt. Vardaman never
has hesitated to speak out. Fardaman
has not been awed even by the visit
of a President TO his baliwick. Will
he stand still unawed in The halls OF
the Senate? Will his voice oe heard as
was the voice of "Pitchfork" Tillman.
and will his flowing hair toss where the
political fight is waging fiercest. or
will Vardaman. United States Senator.
be different Vardaman from Varda-
man. governor of Mississippi?
These are a few of the reasons why
the coming of the MissIssippian is a
matter of national interest.
The Great White Leader" he is hailed
ny Ills IlLS pOllllSdl OppOIlcIllE
say, in the words of former Senator
Percy, that his election Is IAN lndict
ment so severe that l would draw
against no people"
All Agree As to
Strength of the Man.
But whether they hail or condemn,
uphold the utterances he has made in
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Southern governors chair, but which
sounded across a nation. or condemn
them, all who know him agree that he
is a strong and a forceful man. They
acknowledge that he has individuality
and originality.
What matter whether the comment Is
Nardaman good or Vardaman bad"
the name OF Vardaman Is on many lips.
and that is why he may have to be
reckoned with as a national character
Mr.. Nardamans rise to political en-
inence has been strangely rapid con-
sidering that he never has been an
Odds-On favOrite with the strict poll
ticians. He was too fearfully frank,
they declared, and said he seemed to
lack political tact.
In Nardaman,s war beg never yet
has been found the olive branch OF
denim his TOO straight-from- the shoulder
methods are Criticising his failure TO
use the emblem of peace. none OF them
ever say that he waved an olive
branch before their eyes 20 blind them
to an underhand attack.
Rise of Vardaman
Strange As the Man.
And because Maj. James X. Varda-
mans armament knew no such thing
as a disappearing gun. and the muzzIes
Of his political weapons protruded un-
hidden, he early in his career as
politician arrayed against himself pow
erful interests
No less strange than the man himself,
was Var1aman's rise. Famed through
out his State for his radical opinion,
and with a reputation as an orator al
ready established through two unsuc-
Cessful campaigns, James X. Varda-
man came again into the political arena,
Just at the time when Senator Noel
drafted his primary bill
The bill proved to be a veritable
Frankenstein. and destroyed its crea-
tor Noel making the one and only
chance that Vardaman would have ever
had to become governor of Mississippi.