The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-12-07
HARR|SON'S TRAP
CATCHES OPPONENT.
Answers Charge of Junior Senator
About His not Volunteering for
War. Beat vardaman to Ii. Read
Letter from President Wilson That
Puts Somebody in Hole. cre.,
Reception at Hattiesburr.

dattioOuis, miSS', NOV. 3U.--No
reception ever given a candidate II
Hattiesburg surpassed that accorded
the Hon. Pat Harrison here tonight
Mr.. Harrison spoke in the auditorium
Of the Y. NJ. c. A., and people were
being turned away long before the
hour of the speaking. i
f There was no mistaking the senti-
ment Of the people Of Hattiesburc
and Forrest County. Frequent
cheers interrupted the speaker. and
he was given ovations both before
ard after his address.
Vailed thrusts at his patriotism and
honor by papers friendly to Senator.
Jas. X. Vardanan were foiled by the
representative of the Sixth siissis-
appi Congressional District and can.
didate for the United States Senate
for the place now held by Senator
yardaman.
According to MIR. Harrison, some of
the papers supporting Senator Var
daman had charged that he was n
Stacker and that he had not offered
"his services, his fortune and his life.
if need be, at the feet of the nation
Mr. Harrison read two letters
which had passed between President
Wilson and him in this matter. He
read a letter written to the presi.
dent onthe day that war was declar.
ed, Offering to shoulder the gun and
take his place in the trenches, de-
spite the fact that he has a wife and
two children. He exhibited rep|y
IN which the president reminded him
that it would be unwise and mex
pedient to create vacancies in the
House of Representatives at the most
critical time of the nations history.
The tenor of the letter was to the
effect that Mr.. Harrison was more
badly needed in Washington than in
France.
In the course of his speech Mr..
Harrison analyzed the defense made
by Mr.. Vardaman since the opening
OF the campaign. At various times
the senator has decried the charges
mat he opposed the president Of the
United States and hampered and en-
oarrassed him in the prosecution of
the war. Senator Vaydaman has stat
ed that he stood with the adnninistra-
tion IN every move vital to success.
Mr.. Harrison threw some interest
ing s'delights on these statements and
read from speeches and interviews
Of Senator Vardaman, which appar-
entity showed that he was opposed to
the war in general and TO the admin |
'stration especially.
Sheriff A. E. HARRISON Of Forrest |
county, one Of the staunchest SUD-
porters of Senator Vardaman in the
last campaign, introduced Mr.. Har-
rison, and announced that he would
vote and work for him.
The address of Mr.. Harrison in
part follows;
Some Of the few newspapers that
are still supporting the junior sena-
Tor have been very much concerned
OF late because ! am not in the
trenches in France, or some other
place far removed from Mississippi
30 exercised have they become over
the matter that they have misrepre-
sented me and criticised me most Sc
verely.
Here is sample of the criticism
tnat is being aimed at me and which
is taken from an article that has been
going the rounds of the Vardaman
press:
HAS any one heard of even a
gentle hint that Pat had offered him
self upon the altar of his country to
make the world free for democracy?
Well, not so you could notice it,. No,
the records do not show nor will they
Show anywhere or at any time that
Mr.. Harrison has come to his country
and laid his services, his fortune and
his life, if need be, at her feet, al q;
though possessing, as he does, splen- |,
did physical as well as mental quail
fications.' Y,
II want to keep the record straight I
as we go along in this campaign, and I
i am sure that is the desire OF the G
friends Of the junior senator, al 7
though they would no doubt prefer !
that his record be mentioned and dis
cussed as little as possible. In order t
to do this, ! feel that it is necessary I
Tor me to read you a letter that ! S
wrote the president the day he sign {
ed the war resolution, and his reply
thereto. When wrote the letter to
the president, told no one, not even