The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-10-13
DOES THE ADVOCATE ENDORSE HIS U

The Grenada Sentinel Editor appears 70 cherish the belief
that Senator vardaman is politically dead in Mississippi Forget
ii, Brother Lawrence. The Noel and Cntz followers told us the
sung it from the hOusetops in 1911, Bur v.r4anan persists in
refusing to stay POLITICALLY dead" If you believe yarsaman
politically dead" Brother Lawrence. induce your friend Brewer
to get in the al when the Senator announces for reelection.
-Gulfport Advocate.
The Editor of the Gulfport Advocate should not suffer him
self to forget that Vardaman was in three contests for Cover.
nor and that he made three races for the Senate, hence out OF
The Editor of the Advocate should also recall the words
of that distinguished Democrat and able Tennesseean, Benton
Governor at two different periods. Mcmillan said: Every
politician may well remember, while looking at 1ne pontsal
Sisaa he has erected f'F others that SOMEBODY IS making
Our esteemed contemporary knows full we'll that if it were
left to the vote of those who pay 80 per cent of the taxes of the
state, who teach the schools, who preach the gospel, who min
lister to the sick. who support the missionaries and who care
for the sick and the needy, who own the farms and those in
whose hearts there is no ranking Of socialism, that any good
job 3 to /. -.
No, we did not say that Senator vardaman is dead poht-
ically, but he has strutted in his own vanity and fed upon his
own egotsm so long that he is dead to the elements of true
leadership. This is the impression he makes upon the vast
majority with whom he comes in contact, even beyond the con-
We are charitable enough with Senator vardaman not to
believe that the Senator'S heart is on a parity with his words
but he has practiced fooling others so long that he is now
fooling himself worse than anybody else. i
Senator Vardamans political life was born of passion and
has been kept alive on the same thing, together with the blum
Does the Advocate endorse vardamans course in the Z. s.
Senate, if SO. then he in a large measure condemns the policy
the Senate?
Vardaman said this government used to be one Of and by
the people. but is now one of the President (Wison) and by
the President. Could any Republican %spelbinder bring a
worse indictment against our party?
We forgot. We perhaps have wasted time and space in
an endeavor to enlighten the Editor of the Gulfport Advocate,
who does not seem to be much of a factor in shaping the affairs
of his county or section.
There should be such a rallying of the cause of decency
and good government for the fight brought on by the liquor
Interests and which will be determined at the November cleo
ton that the gang will never dare show its hydra head again in
| Mississippi. The only danger about the contest is overconf-
dence and the fact that some really honest and sincere friends
of prohibition may be led to believe that. the Weakley Law
overdoes things. There is nobody complaining about the law
Except the fellow who sells whiskey and the man who buys it.
Undoubtedly the law makes less blind tigers and consequently
less brois and disturbances in those parts of towns and counties
twhere lawlessness usually begins.