Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-09-11
How VOrdamOn Hates wilson.

Sle COnITmdLIOn OF ATTORNEY General
McReynolds as justice eff the Uuited
States Supreme Court. The implaca-
Bile nature of Vardaman's hatred for
! President Wilson can be understood
only by those who know the Corsican
character of the man. Merely because
President Wilson has not spaped the
policies of his administration to suit the
whims of our junior senator, Vardaman
Is bitterly opposed to any and all acts
OF the chief magistrate of the nation.
On frequent occasions, within the brief
period of little more than a year, he
has openly deserted his party, hoping
! thereby to embarrass the President,
but in each instance he has been with
hopeless minority. jackson News.
The Herald does not attribute
the ''junior senator's bitter op
! position" to hate of President
Wilson. In the first place we have
his oft repeated assertion that,
while invariably running contro-
versy into abusiveness. he doesn't
''hate" that he lives by the Col
] den r Il lie. Vardaman's latest
"distinction" is only after the
manner of one who occasionally
: feels the prompting to get in the
limelight, to remind the folks at
home that he is still on his job.
His limitations bar him from any
thing more than a "supe's' part
IN debate = interjectional parts.
1e tried himself out in this re.
spect in the debate on the canal
tolls repeal bill, with an exper-
'ience that was saddening to con
template. Hence, as there is no
vainglory in following construc-
tive leadership, he must achieve
fame according to the capacities of
his mental impoverishment- cast |
his vote with a handful of other
'snipers, and follow it up by pitch
ing into some Qne in newspaper
interview.
The peculiar attraction of the |
newspaper interview is that such
bushwhacking attacks on men OF
high and responsible position can
be made with impunity- y-looked
on in Washington as puerile and
unworthy resort by senator, it
goes at home with a factious fol-
.j0Wing S nppless .fos4I sassss+s
Senator Vardaman had made a.
speech against the McReynolds
confirmation on the lines of his
subsequent outbreak; which we
hNote' as it appeared in the Times
|Picayune:
Washington, Aug. 20. Any South
'Crner who advocated political equality
for negroes should be regarded with
great suspicion, according to Senator
pames K Vardaman. For This reason
|he vehemently denounced James Clark
fMcReynolds today just after Mr.. Nc
Reynolds had been confirmed as an as
eociate justice of the supreme court of
ne United States. He declared he had
Dot forgotten when Mr.. McReynolds,
&outhern born and Southern reared, has
tanvassed the Republican members of
HE senate in favor of the negro Terrell,
yho Mr.. McReynolds pronounced as
f'about the best judge of the District
pf Columbia"
1t is easily imagined how SEN
atOr who Side-SteDS iOixAt debate
especially one with Vardaman's
recent unhappy experience-would.
make such an unfair and vulnera-
BILE attack upon the President
over the Attorney Generals
shoulders, in a press dispatch rath-
er than in the senate. No one
knows better than Senator Varda-
man that Terrelps appointment
was made largely upon the wish,
pr advice, of Northern Democratic
Senators, with large negro voting
constituencies. And that the ap-
pointment being made by his
Chief, it was both proper and right
for Mr.. McReynolds to work for
its confirmation.
In debate, Vardaman would
have been asked if the names of
practically all the white lawyers
of the bar interested especially in
it, signed to the petition, was not
sufficient warrant for the appoint
ment. And if Terrell is "about :
the best judge in the District"
was it manly, or Southern, to as
sail the Attorney General for so
saying? Nor thern Democratic
senators could well have challeng-
ed The propriety or the reason, for
him, or any other Southern con-
gresham, waging war upon
De m ocratic administration, oe-
cause the President and the At
torney General did not adopt the
race code of the Southern states,
lin non Southern STATES appoint
lment challenged it as an insult
ferable and mischievous arrog-
ance.
Is Vardaman, it may be asked,
|any wiser, or truer, than the 9th
Ter Democratic senators, who did