Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-06-20


have had under cautious observa
ton the Hon. James Kimblt
Vardaman, now United States
Senator from Mississippi, on gen
eral principles and from expert
ence we have doubts always
about any man who wears his
hair long. affects the spectacular
and goes out of his way to veal
clothes which are conspicuous
Yet Mr.. Vardaman has beer
speaker of the Mississippi house
of representatives and governor
of the state and is senator, chos
en- at a primary election. There
fore. we were disposed to think
he had some sense and that his
eccentric exterior decorations
were merely the results of some
whim of genius or weakness Of
vanity such as sometimes mars
the strongest men. Now we
reach the sad conviction that Mr..
Vardaman has no sense and that
the people who voted for him fol
governor and senator have less
than none. At meeting Of the
National Woman's Democratic
League IN Washington a few
days ago, Senator Vardaman,
among other remarks and mani
festations, scared thus:
The women should be rec
ognized. If I had the the
building of suitable statue
to Americon womanhood |
would mould it's base as large
as eternity; for it's shaft |
would use the everlasting
granite of truth, and | would
build it so high that ITS pierre
ing pinnacle should reach
through the clouds into the !;
ffts.sogt saac.ua4ies of Issav-.-i
en- in order that the two
maidens | would place there
on could whisper into the ear
of God Almighty.
In the hands of a maiden
clad in blue I would place
the Stars and Stripes. and
the maid in gray should have
the Stars and Bars. while the
angelic choirs of seraphim
and cherubim Joined them
in singing Yankee Doodle"
and Dixie" :"
If the statesman uttering this
had been drunk at the time, ev-
erybody would be ready to for
give him; but Senator Vardaman,
we believe, is more of an abstain
er from the hollow joys of rum
than Col. Roosevelt himself.
Cold sober and with deliberate
preparation he achieved the ora
tory quoted and gave it out for
publication. We cannot recall
any rhetoric quite like it or any
equal feat of the imagination.
Dickens, in Martin Chuzzle-
witt" has a far Western Ameri-
can orator presenting the eagle
with one pinlon on the Rockies
and the other on the Atlantic,
screaming to the world proud de-
fiance and the information that
his home and roost were in the
setting sun and that he was the
proud child and parent of liberty.
That, however. is a conception
feeble by comparison with that
of two maidens perched on a
granite tower of truth, with a
blse as large as Eternity, leading
the Heavenly hosts of Cherubim
and Seraphim in Yankee Doc
dle." Only a man with long
hair and a fervid Mississippi
mind could think of the legions
of the Seraphim and Cherubim
tuning up their harps and paus-
ing from their accustomed musi-
cal exercises to warble under the
leadership of the two elevated
maidens:
Yankee Doodle came to town
Upon a little pony;
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it Macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, doodle do,
Yankee Doodle dandy.
Stuck feather in his hat
And got stick of candy"
Senator Vardaman might have
gone a little further and suggest
ed that after the completion of
this outburst of angelic ecstasy