The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1911-11-03
DESPERATE EFFORTS TO
DEFEAT WILL Or PEOPLE
lnconcsIysbIs Plot Seriously 0ls.
cusssd BY Which Same 0IdAss.
cret Caucus" Crowd Hopes
To Bsst vsrdamsn

the vast majority ~ The people ~
this state IN hls unfolding " plan q
20 Investigate" vsfdaman In the
special term of the Legislature now
gathered IN Jackson. SO remarkable
IA the depraved politics shown be-
hind this attempt, the Register artl'
Gle Is reproduced IN full as follows:
There Is growing belief 10 MissIs-
sIppi, and especially around Jackson,
that something IL going 20 be put
across" 40 the extra session OF the
legislature which has 10 do with
that everlasting question Of Varda-
man and "anti," and they think this
Is an anti, or, as one expressed II, q
granny" plan.
According TO the dope floating
about 10 political circles, the scheme
Is rather an extensive one. ills, FIRST
OF all, 10 get resolution through
the house or senate, Jointly " posi-
able, siDgly II not, and through which
ever branch will stand for II, TO "fn-
yestigaten Governor Vardaman and
his handling OF public funds four
years ago, or beginning abou. eight
years ago and bringing II up to four
years ago, The right sort OF commit.
tee TO be appointed, OF anti-Varda.
men people. and then all the cam.
paign charges delved into. Unex-
plalned, some OF the facts and figures
obtained look, to say the least, like
an explanation Is needed to make the
corners Of the several propositions
Ia volved 1t square,
CONDEMN VARDAMAN
At any rate II is proposed, so the
legend goes, TO have the committee
Investigate" Then 1t will bring in
q ripsnorting report condemning Var
daman. Then IL is To be followed, II
> possible, and II u sufficient majority
. Is available, by resolution through
, the Joint session, or one branch or the
= other II possible that will stand for It.,
', to the effect that Vardaman Is not a
III person to represent Mississippi In
u the United States senate.
- That will give the ammunition &c
u go TO Washington on, and present tt
U the United States senate, to stir W
a an Investigation there and endeavo
~ TO keep him out OF his seat 1t Is 6g
" urcd shat the Republicans who dom
'e want him are 10 the majority ant
T. some democrats, who hate HIN
~ greatly, and 1t will be enough OF
10 partisan majority to keep him gu,
'e 1t would be an awful thing to smit
CT him on the face right on the threshol
W OF the senate.
w This Is the talk that Ia floatlnl
w about and being repeated from ma
'es to man. Whether or not the ant
"a. Vardaman crowd eau put It throug
w remains to be seen, but the Vardama
a' folks are getting busy, and when I'll
- clash comes they will give the fellow
'e' who are after their idol another tigt
.h that will be a sure enough one.
pe CAUSTIC COMMENT.
aas a It is almost inconceivable that sue
-, a plot exists, and yet 1t is assertt
~ that II does exist, and by usually W.
l., l., informed politicians. II II Is true
~ - is a pity--a great pity. The wouu'
IA and dissensions OF the campaign
m ,,a summer we're being forgotten, al
tho bitterness aud malice and en-
,is. and hate of an almost unparallel,
the campaign we're happily disappearin
md Then, like bomb shell Ia cam
~, came the publication Of muck.ra
old ing article Ia one of the Eastern ma
azines on the Mississippi caucus
though II is very doubtful II this h
had anything TO do with the prese
situation and the plot as outlined al
ere given out by Vardaman adherents
ON. being in existence, II having be
ant perfected before the undertaking |
,ast ticle was published, 40 1t is said.
ub. There has been a coterie OF 20
air, ticians who, although badly beat
asst, by the choice Of the people express
YES at the polls, have not accepted I
Iery verdict OF the supreme court to who
,ce- arbltrament the case was appeal,
ters aud have been hoping and prayi
ling that vengeance might yet be the
ter upon the man whom they would {
side stroy politically, aud In whom /
and people expressed their coniden
,our These politicians and Others ha
ring kept the Goals Of hate alive, and tt
un' now believe that II is about to bu
gil, ,na into triumphant, devastating hsu
w soaring the bright Geld wherein |
preaching full fruition bud the hoI
of the Vardaman adherents.
POLITICS AND WAR
,r snsv !, II anything Of the sort is attempts
To: II will breed dissensions that Y
oNE cause a split 10 the party In Miss
ursd evi sippi for years to come, 1t will Il
IRE. to state OF feeling that the bitter
d IN moments of the senatorial campal
abcr. never began to reach last summer;
I, will cause violence and deplora
nsi ani,x situation all around and II is 8
mu- cerely to be hoped for the peace q
A'' good name OF Mississippi that
o. rumors are merely the tlgment
=. ovcrwrought imaginations; but fr