The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-09-21
ENVOY" THINKS GRAVES
LET THE CAT OUT
OF THE BAG.

Coldwater, Miss, Sept. Is, 1917.
Inc Grenada Sentinel:
n Vardaman papers throughout
the state have been publishing a let
ter written by John Temple Graves.
late OF Georgia, euolgizing the said
Vardaman for offering President Will
son his distinguished services in the
mllltary branch of the armed forces
OF the United States. Nardaman has
mad cause heretofore to cuss what
ne termed the plutocratic m%etropoli-
tan press of the East for its criticism
Of his curse in the senate. but never
such cause as John Temple Graves
now hands him in his letter to VIII
liam Randolph Hearst's New York
American. What had Vardaman done
or failed to do to cause this man to
expose to public view and public criti-
cism the fact that the senator had
laid his life and the great military
record earned by him in the Spanish
American var upon the altar of his
country? Whatever chance Narda-
man had to succeed himself has now
gone gllmmering. it seems to me. He
evidently intended to come before the
people Of Mississippi next year or
sooner, posing as the sanity and
Chrlst-hke apostle of peace. But
John Temple Graves has cut the
ground from under him if he is tell
ing the truth and he is the biggest
mar IN America if he is not telling l..
|, l have no doub- that cur Jeems
had already prepared his speech and
the very tone an gestures with which
he expected to deliver it and | q
in my minds eye already see the
twitchlng lips of the fathers and the
heart-wrung tears of the mothers as
he depicted to them the sufferings.
wounds and death of their loved ones
on the battle-scarred fields Of Bel
GUM and France-all because the
President would not listen to him
when he told him that this was a "rich
mans war and a poor mans fight"
a war to make more profits for the
manufacturers of clothing, leather
goods, metal goods and especially the
manufacturers of munitions.
Think of it for a minute. all this
good campaign thunder spoilt and
ruined and nothing else half as good
a%vailabel. For suerly. after winning
the ~governorship on the manifold sins
and damnable transgressions of the
niger and the senator ship on the
repeal of the fifteenth and the modi-
t~ication of the fourteenth amend
ments to the constitution, he viii not
SO far presume upon the ignorance
of the more intelligent of his friends
as to attempt to use these same old
cries" again. Then what will he do?
Bilbo and he differ as wide as the
poles. John Hebron has retired into
"innocuous densetude' and narv
other former friends are sulkirg in
their tents. | understand h. is lirira
like a prince in Washington. drink
ing champagne at $500 per bottle in
stead of water.
Your friend. Mr.. Editor. the late
chairman Of Nardaman's camnairr
committee. Mr.. II. V. Watkins. of
jackson. is almost as culpablo as John
Graves is. for perhaps you nor your
readers would have ever heard OF
the eulogy OF j. p. G. nor Jeems'
heroic offer to lay his life upon the
altar of his country if he had not
sent you the clipping from the "plu-
~tocratic' New York American and
dared you to print it. What spirit of
%malignacy prompted Mr.. Watkins to
do this? Surely no friend of .Jeems
would have done 50. Don't YOU know
if Jeems had made the offer in good
faith and wanted it ITO get out on
him that he would have found WAYS
and means to have gotten in the press
of the country ven if he had been
forced to pay for it at advertising
rates next to pure reading matter"
in REAL MONEY. don't you?
SO anxious am ! for our ,Jeems to
meet Pat Harrison on the stump as
Pat says. in every nook and corner
of the state that ! hereby offer to
contribute from $4,000 to $4,000
towards paying his campaign ex-
penses, and no one will be prouder
than to hear him truthfullv refute
and explain what his enemies regard
as his manifold sins of both omission
and commission.
His votes without explanation are
enough to make every proud citizen
of Mississippi hang his head in shame.
Both PoindeXter and Robt. !. Walker
cut the same capors before the war
while in the senate from Miseissippi
and the people CT their day saw them
cussed, reviled and dispised while
they yet lived and saw them die 'un-
wept, unhonored and unsung." 80
be it to all traitors"
Look out. Jeems. Move amor
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