The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-07-28

At by his followers. Has he ever througI
HE paper o public .u&tersnces rebuke.
them? ~
Can a man ineitc his followers u
such conduct and not. expect It TO flowe
INTO vi.leacc. Is i..- d. man morally
responsible for that which logically fol
lows from his W tsschingsi II moi
then it is no longer true that 'whstso
ever q man soweth that also shall b.
reap If o then the anarchist preach
ing anarchy in ow streets u not to b
held morally accountable for the deed
of violence that follow such teaching.
But I don't rsat the case Of the Stat
Of Mississippi against James x. vards
man here I will put It where ever
man among you will realize that tha
charge is q just one. Almost st tn
beginning Of my campaign I spoke On
the Fourth of July a year ago at Cod
bold Wells, in Pike county. wac cen
t~inually interrupted BY the vardamsr
followers with cries Of Vardaman,'
'Bilbo' and Mary Stamps,' the latter
said to be . negress Of evil reputation
living IN Jackson. Did vardaman 70.
buke this treatment BY his followers
About q week after there appeared In
q vardsman paper the following edito.
rial, unique in journalism in this states
Honorable Leroy Percy spoke 10 .
| large audience in PIKE countv = fsv
| days AGO., and the crowd hooted him IA
such q way that he completely lost his
head, became angry Snd mt on . scens
too ridiculous to Re decent the writer
meant thst I hnish,~l my sicech, not.
withstandina the inte.rupt,eus and uua.ly
quieted the ~audiencc,. Mr.. Ferry may
be game all right, bit he shows every.
thing but level .heade-lncss. The Jour.
nal predicted several weeks ago that Lr.
Percy would u'iit the race before the
election and nothing has happened vt
70 change our opinion, but instead ~.
ersl occurrences have taken place to
make US frmer in the belief. Il wonder
what kind of prophet this fellow now
thinks he isl Ordinarily W. would con-
denim in most strenuous terms the con-
duct OF this audience, but when we con
slider the situation brought about By
a lot OF peanut politicians, as is the case
IN our state, we are a little bit OF toe
opinion tnat hotnihg TOO nasty - n@se
10 uSe tnat woro IN the presence OF
MississiPPi women can oe enacteo oy
poiiticai audience IN MISSES ppi until the
present controllers are forever purel'
when before was the manhood OF
Mississippi ever taught that there was
nothing too nasty for them to DO at .
public gathering! No act of ,hoodium-
ism, no act OF r~uffianism, that tfey
ought not tn do. DID Vardaman rcbuke
thisY Did he say, Don teach my foh
lowers that which will make ruffians
and hoodlums cut of them Mississippi
has honored me too much for. ME to be
willing to bring dishonor on herr No,
he reproduced the editorial in the Issue.
Is that alli No, he left no uncertainty
in regard to his position. He endorsed
Is, 1910, under the caption, Good Res
soning,' and with this endorsement:
Twill c. Hight, editor of the Winston
County Journal, makes the following
very sensible and pertinent observation
upon the political situation Just now:'
an other wo,ds nj the xarv o,,t..t
of my camnaiyn he AID IN h;s fol:ov.
ara. There ;s man .hs. 7 am going
to abuse and Islander. but whor, / will
not meet in Joint debate. call upon
YOU to interfere with. and IL possible.
stop his campai.n bx being ~ NASTY
a. possible. There /. nothing which YOU
can do. nasty and indecent. that I viii
not ap1 rove Of, What leader that eve,
lived in Mississippi before 40 r,urht h;s
f~o,lowersY Men Of Alcorn county. il
tbers . father among Won vho would
teach his how IN attend y publi, meeting
and he "a nasty. AZ indecent. "A much
liz. . boodlum and ruffiau AZ It vas
no..;hle for him 70 hei Anv .athcr
smona rov who wo,ld h. Js,rad.d
enough IN teach Il IN bis how would
bov. IN do Il awav from the prcsencc n
the mother of that bow. While vow
would not teach IL yourself. would you
vet follow az YOU leader the mar who
teaches IL TO the men and bows of Mi,-