The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-08

This Mississippian Is Not After



nEAR SIR: I was much interested in an arti-
- Gle in The Jeffersonan this week, and would
like to ask question tWo not in a spirit or
controversy, but to keep the record straight
In the article referred to, on page eight, in the
last paragraph you say Gully for old Varda-
man" | take it you refer to the junior Senator
from this State Mr.. Vardaman. What arouses my
curiosity is this If it is wrong for Senator Smith
and the other Senator, Mr.. Hardwick, to vote for
the Alaska grab' why is it not wrong also for
Senator Vardaman to do the same thing?
Also, if it is pleasing to the Shipping Trust
for the Georgia Senators to vote against the Ship
Purchase bill, why is it not pleasing to them for
Senator Vardaman to vote that way too? If,
you say, Mr. Vardaman has made the ''best rec
ord, far, of any Southern Senator, will you
please explain what question it that he
made the Is ord? Was it on the Tariff? Gould
not Senator Vardaman have prevented a negro
from being appointed on the bench in Washing
ton? Did he make any effort to prevent the con-
frmation of the negro Judge? Changing the sub
ject page ten of the same issue of The JEFF
fersonian, notice article the appropriation
of money, by Congress, for negro bath-house,
etc. Judged by your articles that this appropri-
alton made from the public fund. Does not
Congress raise money from the property owners
of Washington for the maintenance of public in
sttutions for her citizens? Do they pay taxes the
citizens Of other cities, they de-
pendent on Congress for all the revenues it takes
to maintain the Municipal Government? And is
it not a fact that when Congress makes an appro-
priation for them, it is their own money thus
used?
of The Jeffersonian, and greatly obige an inter-
ested reader &c. POTTER.
Mississippi
ANSWER
(1( / did not exonerate Vardaman on the
Alaskan Railroad grab.
On that matter Vardaman is in the bed
with President Wilson, Bryan & Co.
| presume that j. c. Potter also condemns
Wilson, bryan 4 Co.. for the Alaska grab
Bully for you, Potter!
~ | did not criticise anybody very much
for voting against the Presidents ship pur-
chase bill
Nevertheless, I realized that it was step
toward public ownership, and it amused me
to read the PopuIist speeches in the Presi-
dents defense.
presume that j. c. Potter also read said
speeches with much amusement.
Bully for you, Potter
81 | don't know whether Vardaman
could have prevented the confirmation of the
negro Republican Judge, Bob Terrell
Am sorry he did not try
II Potter wants to cuss Vardaman about
that, let him begin at he right end, and cuss
the President, first.
a. Potter is badly off about the appro-
priation of the money for the negro college,
and the negro wash-pool.
Congress did not take that money from the
Washington property owners. 1t is NOT
Washington City money which is thus used.
1t is in part, yoor money, Potter.
One-half of all the prodigious sums Of
money spent on Washington City-on the
whites and the blacks-the streets, parks,
hospitals, schools, city government, police,
public works, bathing pavilions, etc, come
from the taxpayers Of the United States.
The people generally are never told about
this.