The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-19

IoeHdtoId II WHO nave kept IN tOuCH WIZ NllSSlSSlppl poll
tics know that they will'not now. Indeed several that are plac-
ed in the Authoritarian column are already espousing the
OUR RIPLEY NAMEsAKED DISTURBED.
Under the caption. Wilson snubs vardaman," the esteem
ed Ripley Sentinel considered one Of Miississippis best newspa-
turbed because, forsooth, President Wilson has seen fit to ex-
!ss Gn tie f stssss is s ssn5ssEf &. ' !so H Si% y s 'ss s9 %s1sssis fs sf
Mississippi without consulting our Junior Senator. The impress
an arrangement made between Senator's Williams and Varda-
man. a thing that could be true only so far as the President
sun,es them say ao t%st appointments aF pint %sas , within tihin s the state. .r Our R Ripley
president to place in the hands of senators certain patronage in
the state when the senators are Of the same political party of
generally used to signify favors handed out. But the socailed
rule, to place in the hands Of senator's patronage involves
President Perhaps in this particular case had our Junior Sem
ator not often made violent and yitrolic attacks on the President
In public as well as around the Capital, and had he not jumped
outside Of his part; party 50 frequently, he would have not felt en-
We hazard the statement that our Junior Senator has not dark.
ened the doors of the White House for many months. How
tank matters over with MI. wilson, T. grant that It because ssuse ee a
would remake them, is at least an .extravagant assumption.
m %u Ssa natsr p sss aswsS ID u sonne tas Sr %ss in so tss past Wt f1ss years ssv:
that 1T is the right or control of nomination to political office
favor" has our u junior IN ( Senator ssssa may den Ss' sne P Py ids1t. tha Wh Se
should renew a courtesy extended him four years ago? Our
and has often failed to cooperate with a majority Of his party
and and our snx1 Riglsy ds namssake knows it; f The President es s ever
raigning the "wiful twelve" for defeating the ripht of the conn
try to arm Its own merchant vessels as a protection against the
submarine II Is not matter of record. But we will let the
Ripley SentinePs editorial speak for itself:
Quite a good deal is being said in the state papers about the APP
pointment of United States marshals for this state recently made by
President Wilson in which the president ignored a former patronage |
agreement with Senator vardaman. 1t has been a thmehonored rule
or I'M president to place in the hands of senator's certain patronage in
the state when the senator's re of the sam political party Of thu nres.
dent. Senators Williams and Vardaman had agreed as to the patron
age, Williams naming the federal district attorneys and vardaman the
msrshals Things went all right four years ago and all parties to the
agreement kept faith with each other. Some weeks ago Senator Var
canaan MADE ms appointments for the lev term and after they had been
conhrmed n without discussing the matter with Senator Vardaman
the president appointed the two marshals, naming Bruce Alexander of
Bonneville and Floyd Lopez of Lake. Alexander and Loper are two
very hne gentlemen. Both are well known to the editor of the Senti-
nell N 1t Is u opinion that they will dc the work as well as any two
men that could have been found in the state. There is absolutely n
oo'eeton TO tAese good her SO far as W e are concerned, but We do OBJ
J@t an the people Of Mississippi have a right 20 object, to the treat
mem accorded Senator Vardaman by the president. + it was done
simply to snub and humiGate a Senator and incidentally the peode of
this state, it vas certainly a very, very small thing to do. IF these an
pomtments were placed at the disposal of Pat Harrison with the hone
that he could us them to his advantage, as son of the paperss seem to
uMhk ws Tn case then it "a more than a mere small matter.
1T matter of eecting a senator from this state belongs abso-
"e| !" 'e people OF mississippi and n o outside interference should be
tolerated. That there will be money from the proftees and mon
naged speakers sent into this state w have n doubt but the people
s"o"o De OF guards and OF ALLOW themselves to be bhnd-folded and mis-
led. This is a time of all times when the individual voter should do his
duty to himself and his family by voting his honest convictions. If
votes are to be traded for appointments and money then God saw the
Republic"
Our Ripley brother says "if,' and please observe that be
refuge behind if, lit was done simply to snub and humiI-
late a Senator and incidentally the people of this state it was
certainly a very, very small thing to do How can the naning
as the Ripley newspaper would put it, the people of
That paper says they are very fine gentlemen"
,nat tney VIII 40 the work as we'll as any two men that
nave been found in the state, and that "there is abso-
utely no objection to these good men,, then whv nrotest9 Re-
assured that Mississippi is not going to raise her voice against !
wo men against whom there is no objection" and "who will do
ne work as well as any two men $50 in the state"
But our Ripley friend hits the raccoon pace and discloses Il
'here ne Is amoiing to in the second and last paragraph of the I