The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
Voice Of the People
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TO the Editor OF The Times-D!spatch;
Sir.-ln tire editorial column OF
your issue OF the 18th instant. you
most unjustly and unreasonably at
Tempt to defame the Character of
James X. Nardaman, OF Mississippi
l am resident of Richmond, was
born and reared there. and have been
a reader OF your paper since childhood,
ms communication in Your Tho
Voice of the People" column
L nave known James Is. Nardaman
personally for years. and 1 know him
TO be IL man OF culture, refinement and
ability. as well as the intended victim
OF u crowd OF machine politicians who
would keep from office all honorable
men who do not take orders from
headquarters" You rap" the good
people OF Meridian, Miss, because they
indorse and applaud the man Of their
choice. You criticize them for hay-
Ing Nardaman ride through their
streets in chariot" drawn by white
horses. when in our own state of Vir-
sinia one of the leading candidates
in our senatorial fight rides in a
chariot" drawn by yellow dogs"
James X. Vardaman has been before
the people for years, and has been
honored by the voters of his State
with many positions OF trust. Every
single one OF these he has filled with
honor and no Governor of our own
Virginia can point 10 the years of his
term Oh OlilCe ana tnc OIIlcldl ana I'M
official acts thereof with greater pride
than can James *. Varda man, of Mis-
sissppi
Your suggestion that vardaman
should have "a hundred and sixty
ebony Mlssissippians chained to his car
of triumph, etc" is particularly in
appropriate. in view of his record and
policy towards the blacks of AIissis-
sppi while he was Governor.
I do not recall another Southern
Governor who az 10
contiscate n railway engine and car
Cover the protest of the railway COM
pany) and carry thereon a company of
State militia to rescue n negro brute
from the hands of mob. Vardaman's
well defined Ideas regarding the negro
may seem radical, but they are in
dOrsed by thousands throughout the
South, and time will yet prove the cor
is thus due him for the square deal
given the negroes in this State during
his term ms Governor.
If You will pardon mo. I would sug-
sest that you use a little more dis
try's prominent men. Roasting men
of the stripe Of please. OF South Caro-
lima: Davis. of Arkansas; Roosevelt of
"big stick" fame. and Hepburn. of
foul tongue" fame, is one thing. and
regarding a man like vardaman is
entirely another. It might he we'll for
you to know. II not already aware,
that the people throughout our Sunny
Southland regard dear old Virginia as
about the worst ring-ridden ana gen.
orally. rotten politically State below
the Mason and Dixon line From the
time Of our famous yellow dog fund"
to the present time. when IT is an
acknowledged fact that we have n
district in this State in which they
vote not only. dead mon. but cats.
dogs, billygoats and even fish and
crabs it would seem to some of your
readers that YOU should he just a wee
bit more modest in your criticism of
people and things political In our
Southern states You can Just rest as
surcd OF two things. that James X.
sardainan IS going to represent the
state of Mississippi in tho United
States Senate and that he will compare
favorably with Davis Lamar. Money
ana Prentiss. He will also make
hundreds of our voters in the state of
Virginia wish we had Vnrdaman TO
represent our good old Virginia.
IWnchburg. Va, July 81.