The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1911-03-03
Vardaman's Plan Of Campaign is Insult
to Intelligence Of Voters.

campaign! Have you Thought
what it means if he were by any
miscarriage of right and justice
elected United States senator
from Mississippi?
Of course, some of his follow.
ing never think. They allow
Vardaman to do their thinking
for them, and his sole thought is
to gain United States senator
ship by hook or crook. He claims
to be the champion of the people,
yet he would burden them with
himself as an officer of the state,
and give absolutely nothing in
return save damnable demago gy.
His plan of campaign is an in
suit to the intelligence of Mis-
sissippians. He is abusing the
confidence of his own friends,
those who are still loyal to the
fast falling idol, by preaching a
false doctrine, advocating false
principles and trying to ride into
office on the ignorance of a GER
tain class of voters in this state.
Of course there are a few men
of influence and affluence sup
porting him but because they re-
gard him a political investment,
and their only way of securing
returns on the investment is to
elect him to Office.
Vardaman, in his campaign,
seems to be going upon the same
theory upon which Barnum con.
Quoted his circus believing a
sucker is born every minute.
But there are times when even
the sucker refuses the bait. and
it is about time for the political
hook to show beneath the worm
in Mississippi. And when it
does, Vardaman will be relegated
to the EaljEral Junk shop He
will be toxsed into that historic
pile with w. J. Bryan, Alton
Parker, Tom Watson and others
too numerous to mention.
James K. Vardaman will find,
in the Forthcoming primary that
when Abraham Lincoln said,
"You can fool all the people some
of the time, some of the people
all the time, but you can't fool
all the people all the time" be-
spoke the gospel truth.
Not only has Varda,nan cast
his campaign on lines of deceit,
but he is so full of his own i'm
portance that he cannot stop to
deal with cold facts. He will
not meet a logical argument with
logic. He wilInot meet either OF
his opponents in joint debate.
He has his reasons for this and
they are patent to the student OF
his political campaign game.
He is conducting a campaign
of Misrepresentation. He is max
ing statements that, were he ia
face one of his opponents on tn,
stump, he would not dare make
knowing he wouldHbe challenged
on the spot to< produce his proof
He knoWs his bubble Of self-es
teemW Would be pricked, his feath
&s ruf1ed and his claims for tn
Z support of an intelligent citizen
nv turned into ridicule.
When you come down to sun
up Vardaman's clhims for tn
office he seeks it can be summe
up in few words, II want tn
Job" explains it. and his state
ments on the stump in his Cal
rollton and Jackson speeche
show he has no other argumen
to present to the people.
Claiming to be the enemy 9
corporations, he accepted, an
even courted favors from corpol
atoms doing business in tn
state while governor. But n
seems to think that he was livinl
up to the scriptures by acceptin
what was given, as the Bib
says that TO him who hath no
the Lord will give or some
thing like that.
Alter appealing to the voter
as the enemy of corporations