The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-12-07
CATCHES
-HARRISON'S TRAP
Continued from page one)

After springing this bombshell Mr.
Harrison was cheered to the echo by
the huge crowd which jammed the
hall. The speaker then referred to
his official record in Congress and as
sured his audience that he had al
way stood solidly by the administers
ton and that ne intended to do so
during the rest of his official career.
Continuing he said:
81 have an official record. So has
the junior senator of Mississippi.
These records are subjects for legiti-
mate discussion. The junior senator
Of Mississippi recently said at Walnut
Grove, in opening his campaign
They don't tell anything but a lie.
They will tell you now that I have
embarrassed the president in war
legislation. There is not enough truth
in that statement to make a decent
be. / have voted to give the presi-
dent every man he asked for, every
dollar ne asked for. and / voted to
give it TO him right now
Vardaman's Attitude in Senate.
''Tha. puts the proposition up to
rs in pretty strong language, to say
the least of it. But such a statement
is not hard to refute. l will not
enumerate the many instances where
the Junior senator has embarrassed
the president, but I want to call your
attention TO two instances where he
did not vote to give the president
every man he asked for, every dollar
ne asked for
when the bill to raise the nation
al army was before the Senate he
fought it most bitterly and when il
was put on final passage he voted
present Was that voting to give
the president every man he asked
for?
when the aviation bill, carrying
an appropriation of $64O, 0O0, 600,
was before the Senate, the junior
ehdko stdtCo III ~ = " hS
speech of opposition thereto hat he
would not vote for it. The measure
passed without the necessity Of a
roll call, because the opposition was
SO small, but had the roll been called
the junior. senator would kave un-
doubtedly voted against it. Was that
giving every dollar that the president
asked for?
He made a feeble excuse to the
audience at Walnut Grove in expla-
nation Of his opposition the the avn
alton bill, but he failed 20 tel! his
audience that he took occasion dur
ing his speech to refer to the rioting
Of the draft resisters in Canada in
this fashion:
SIT was very gratifying to me TO
see from the newspapers a day or
TWO ago the manifestations of indie
pendence and patriotic courage on the
part of our brethren across the Dor
der in Canada
why did the junior senator use
such language three months and IL
days after we entered the war and
on the eve of the draft in this coun-
try?"
WAS it to help the president win
the war? Was it to make the people
Of this country feel more kindly to
the draft or to have more confidence
IN their government?
Defended Policeman Organs.
"In this same speech against the
aviation bill the junior senator went
out Of his way to speah most ardently
and tearfully in defense of the pub
ti~cations which the government was
trying to appropriations and
reasonable pro-German organs that
we're being excluded from the mails.
He had this to say on this point
The excluding from the mails of Ger
tain newspapers that are guilty Of no
offense except the exercise of the
blood-hought privilege of an honest,
p~atriotic citizen to exercise his on
victions on governmental and social
question. ! do not agree with much
that some of these papers say, but
l deny the right of any officer, from
the president down to the constable,
70 prescribe. limit or abridge the right
of free speech. 1t is not treachery
in a newspaper editor to express his
disapproval Of anything that the Con-
gres or the president has done since
the beginning of this war
"Yet the journals hat the junior
senator was so ~cIoquently defending
were known to be bitterly ani-Ameri-
can and the seditious, reasonable