Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-12
FROM THE PEOPLE
After the Victory.

f1lfnf u' the hNAcpns
After all great victories. either Of
battle or politics, we naturally want to
know something about the casualties.
the tactics and stragetical points of the
victorious general.
Our great political landslide recently
in Mississippi is not an exception for it
must 90 down in history as n of the
greatest political battles ever fought in
this state.
By some plan or other Ex-Governor
Vardaman gained the unprecedented
victory and for several reasons we want
to know how it was gained. A short
answer to these questions would be to
say that he captured the "'Rednecks."
as he calls them, but we want to know
how that was done. It will he conced-
ed that eight-tenths of the Vardaman
votes were of the laboring classes, most
Of which we're the one-horse farmers.
and those constisute a large majority
Of the credic people of the state-that
is the people who depend upon advances
to pursue their OCCUPATIONS. A close
enquiry among the "Rednecks'' will
reveal the fact that they cannot give
n reasonable cause for supporting
"Jimmie"- "they just liked him." is
about all the reason they give. The
little town man is not better informed
as to the cause for supporting him and
all this want of cause, while the great
CO White Chief was being shot at
with guns loaded with unsavory accu-
sations.
When we go hack and trace the Chief
through his political life we fail to re-
ognize any great deed or promises of
anything that is worth g practical far
thing. Through legislative enactments
whic IN are still on our statues the "red-
necks' are forced to pay from one to
two hundred percen. for advances. and
this not in cash, but for the necessities
OF life, known as supplies. The red
necks do not do that now, but the Chief
had not a thing to do with the change
in business which had been in vogue
for quite a number Of years. Not in
n of proclamations did he recommend
a repeal of those arbitrary or one-sided
laws. If so the writer failed to see
them. There are other laws that
have been effectual obstacles to the
progress of the "red-necks" in the way
of Kidding them of their credit in bust
ness, but it will be interesting to know
just what Vardaman has done for their
repeal, and the most ardent supporter
cannot sight us a single objection to
any other acts that 'makes the rich
richer and the poor poorer"
Now if he has utterly failed to take
part of the ''red-necks" through these
many years in which they have hattled
against these and other one-si.sed laws
that have tended to make life with many
not worth living, what, may | ask, has
he done for them that they are so very
enthusiastic forhim? He has constant
ly waved his old flag Repeal of the
18th and 18th Amendment" Even if
the repeal Of the Amendments were at
all practicable how could this help the
~"red-necks." The best lawyers of the
state say that a repeal of these amend
ments would change our representation
in congress from eight, as we now have
it, to four, for if the negros were de-
prived of their supposed privilege of
franchise, which as we all know, is a
dead letter, we would Immediately lose
half u representation in congress, 1t
will suffice on this line to say that a
close observation on Vardaman's past
has failed to note any great act Of good
ness or the promise of anything that
was not promised by other candidates.
What, then, has given him his great
popularity?