The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-07

othOFS; but it was his fighting Spirit
saie efforts and determination that
forced the committee to report the bill,
and it was due to his management and
through his personal influence that it
passed the senate"
In the senatorial free-for-all, 20 be
run off in Mississippi this year, the
issue 10 "Vardaman." 1t is an old is.
sue, and it will not down. His enc
mics will not let it down." and his
6sianda will not let his enemies
down him" 1t was fought TO fare
yan-well six years ago, and "Varda-
. mar" won over two able and distin-
gafshed opponents, by the largest vote
and the largest majority ever given
any man in Mississippi.
Out OF that mud-throwing, vilifying,
@bESiVe campaign, Mr.. Vardaman
came to the senate in 1918, freighted
with q thousand lies his enemies had
told on him. Because he had refused
TO wear any corporation collar; be-
cause ne had refused to sit still and
see great corporation interests grab
great bodies OF land and hand it down
90 their soulless successors; because
he had been friend to the deaf and
the blind and the dumb, and had res
cued the states delinquent wards in
stripes from the merciless whip OF
zaercenary masters, and converted
N q n.
ang places fit for these unfortunates
To live in, and in doing so had to
drive the money-changers out, he had
been so censured and abused by an in
fiuential class, who somehow or other
managed always to get hearing
through the metropolitan press, that
people outside of Mississippi, despite
the vote OF confidence given him by
the people inside of Mississippi, looked
uDCn him askance. Loved and trusted
ut home for the reputation that he
made as governor OF the proud old
Magnolia State, he was weighted in
the senate with reputation that his
enemies had made for him.
sEe had been heralded as so rabid
a fire-eater, that the timid trembled,
Ter fear he would belch forth fire and
HE4mstone and blow up the capitol.
G@batal had been told that he was so
irbplacable foe, that they set their
caFtoonists on him the first time he
Waiked down Pennsylvania avenue.
Knowing, as is the truth, that they
nollld not control him, big business
rot busy at once and in every sway
POSSIBLE, seeking to destroy him. And
theg could get all the data they wart-
cd from their sycophantic satellites,
eVea I'm Mississippi.
That is what vardaman had to go
No against. That Is what he has had
To live down. A new member, at best,
has no easy turn in the Senate of the
United States. Most OF the work in
both houses of congress Is done
through their committees; and no new
member can get the best committee
assignments ct first. They have to
wait; and the waiting is sometimes as
slow as 1t is in the army and navy.
Sometimes that seems to be a pity,
but oftimes it is not; because II
man: is honest and fairly intelligent,
the most valuable asset for good sery-
fce to his constituents, is experiences.
No new member has the chance to
asrYe his constituents as well as an
GA member has; and few, precious
few. new members could, IL they had
siae chance. serve their country as well
as an old member, ripe m experience
any man can, IL ne will, serve his con-
stituents better a second term than
Ahn frat. and any honest. Industrious