The Grenada sentinel., 1911-05-05
Cascilla. Miss, April 26. 1911.

| thought l would DROP you a few
lines from this neck of the woods to let
you know that we appreciate your val
liable paper up here, and that we en- Joy
your every issue. Those cartoons have
simply been fine. Vardaman undoubt-
edly realizes the truthfuness of the one
showing that his support is breaking.
Our people are very much interested in
the senatorial race. For the life of
me, | cannot understand how man
like James X. Vardaman has hoo-dooed
so many people so long. l know he
poses as the poor mans friend, but
words is one thing and what man does
is another. He boasts of being poor,
yet he does not live like poor people do
out in the country and like everybody
else does when they are in hard lines
riding over the United States, and as
understand, he lives in good style, yet
he brags to the voters that he is poor
| suppose he makes these brags be-
cause he knows there are more poor
people than any other kind, and he
wants to make them believe he is in
sympathy with them. If the majority
of the voters were rich people, reckon
he would boast of his riches. 1t is
strange thing to me how he can run
from one county to another and make
a politipal capyaSs apJ pript oil af b;c
campaign literature unless he has money
or else stands in with the fellows who
do have it; somebody must be putting
up" As | understand, one of the men
who is making speeches over the state
in Mr.. Vardaman' interest, owns big
delta plantation, owns bank stock, and
has only recently built a fine residence
in the city of Jackson. | do not know
what Bilbo owns. They tried to fool
the people up here about the so-called
secret caucus A first we thought
the lights We're turned off and the
doors closed and nobody but the nem-
bers of the Legislature allowed to even
look in; but since then We have found
out that the caucus was just as open as
any other session of the Legislature;
that hundreds of people We're in the
galleries looking on and that $50 cleo
trio lights were burning all over the
building. We have also learned that
Mr.. Vardaman took an active part in
the same kind of caucus trying to de-
feat Anse McLaurin when he was first
elected senator. 1t is a strange thing
to me that if Vardaman had the major
ity of the legislature why they could
not elect him. He certainly had a Pc
culiar crowd of friends, if they were
for him and could not control their own
votes. This is in effect what all those
charges mean. Vardaman and his
friends bring grave charges against
many of his supporters. They un-
doubtedly think they have numerous
traitors among them because they are
constantly giving evidence of the fact
that they are suspicious of some of
their own crowd. They talk about their
friends being bought or bartered. He
unquestionably thinks that he has many
cheap, sorry fellows in his camp. Let a
tape line be applied to these men ask
ing for the United States Senatorship
Weigh them, consider what they have
done i, what they are protesting, or
promising that they will do. Let the
people remember that when they elect
a United States Senator they are max
ing a six-years' contract. If they were
just employing senator for year, it
would not be so serious thing. 1t is
not a compliment they have got to be-
stow; they do not owe it to anybody.
But they do owe it to themselves to Sc
lect man who will render them the
best service, and they should choose ar
officer by the same test that they woulC
employ man to look after their owr
interests.
For my life, | cannot understani why
Vardaman as trustee of state insti
tuition should be allowed to collect twice
as much as other trustees of the same
institution for the same services; othel
Governors have not done so. The Law
fixes the compensation and the Cover
nor is sworn to execute the law, and j
is as much his duty to obey the law a
that of the humblest citizen. And jus
to think that the poor, unfortunate
people at the insane asylum shoul'
have had money taken away from then
and used by Governor as street ca
fare, when, as matter of fact, tn
institution did not owe him one-twenti
eth of the amount. One hundred dollar
for street car fare; just think of it! Ii
thinking about this and the many othe
ways that Vardaman took money out o
the state treasury and used it withou
showing for what purpose, | am no
.,,-,,;ead fbat tho yoor rQOplp are Ion