The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-06-21
MILESTONE ANSWERS MILESTONE.

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MILESTONE ANSWERS MILESTONE.
In Sentinel of May 10, appeared the following, editorial
under the caption, where was our Junior Senator Then?
"Wbere was our junior Senator when the vote ws taken last Sat
urday OIL the sediton bill in the Senate? The press reports do lot re-
cord him as having voted Oh as being paired. Was he opposed to the
bill, was it the fear of Mississippi that kept him from recording his dis
approval? Since there has been a protest of.diapproval of his course
from end of the state tt the other it seemst to have been his rule to
vote with the opponents of the administration to amend or mascuta
every administration measure possible and then on final show down to
vote for the measure. By this rule of conduct he undertakes TO say,
4 am standing by the President now
Our attention has been called to the following in the
Greenwood Enterprise of May 81 which reproduced the edl-
torial with the following comment:
"Now there is n o MAJ who knows better than editor Lawrence Of
the Grenada Sentinel that Senator Vardaman never resorts TO suoter-
fuge and is unafraid to stand for his convictions in the open W e h0w
nothing about his press reports but we are gong TO tell MN from Oe
Congressional Record where Senator Vardaman was and what his posi-
ton wa in regard to this particular bill but will wager dollars 'o
doughnuts that after enGghtening his ignorant and benighted mind on
this particular occasion that he will not publish it. We DO MS merely
10 NOW yu sH~ enna+or var]amen and that when it comes t. politics
you can not rely upon a thing in the worldp ubhshed b the mt 'aro'-
man Press"
Now it would perhaps be qnbecoming for H,; us to d Safy+ fhat
we have an ignorant and benighted mind: hdltor " etssone
who is supposed to direct the editorial policy of the Enterprise
was evidently a briefess lawyer and one without chents' o 1ttIo
wise he would not have laid down his law books IS to ear a n and
sheet like the Enterprise-h he can claim to be ootn a law vha a he
an editor, and therefore should all the more KNOW we M ho
writes about. However, the Junior Senator did not vote or II
But when we note how the Enterprise is champing its BITS
and foaming at the mouth just now to follow the lead OF the 81
sue. the chief of the mudslinging and deception brigade, our
mind reyerts to an editorial il in n i, the SANE Ta Ea Paper W het 10Y j" did d' not
then know what he was writing about it is fair to assume that ms
mind is equally off the mark today, II ne snot }. ms n moJom
and can not be relied upon in the heat of the contest. Wll ne
say that he was wrong then and that some one needs TO pass %t =
on what he writes before it is printed? But we Will let me
March 9. 1e17. editorial speak for itself. There could hardly
be any truer Indictment of the Senator:
"senator vardaman in a speech before the Senate Tuesday *
nainine his position on the armed ship bill and stating that he had Meth
er part nor parcel din the fHbuster that prevented the bill coming 70 a
vote in the Senate, stated that he recognized nc master "a Inc peop w
of Mississippi who gave him his credentials in that body: we are ~ns
ing to grant, and the record bears him out in the state"eh 'a' ne
no part in the fHbuster. All he did was to refuse to sn 'he io ""S
robin and it was known that he opposed the bill ut IN WV"
Senator vardaman is that he recognizes n o mastes H. % wen Me p a
pie of Mississippi who, by their vote& gave him his COMMISSION a. q
United States Senator and whose representative N SerVS" nc 10 '"r
posed to be. : ; ~< t nd will
Of his master. even though they may conflict with his own ideas. II j,
ator vardaman recognized the people Of Mississippi as ms ms as,ar anu CIV.
tried to carry out their will and wishes he would cease ms e"s' ~.o p
noshion to the President and get in line with the administrator ineie
p" moro dorh h.n there is that the sun will rise tomorrw morning
that the people of Mississippi are back of President WILSON enuol's
his actions in the present situation and that they dsapploe ~ o - hGr
tnuous opposition. of Senator Vardaman, supposed to % n OIL ensn
representatives and servants in the Senate TO TN present. e""@
IF Senator vardaman recognized the people of Mississippi as his
u.s+er and their RIGHT to control his actions in the Senate he would not
have voted against endorsing the actions of president wilson In sever
ing relations with Germany. That vote die no represent me "S n 10
the people of Mississippi. If the Senator is. sc onscieneo "a' .e
could not vote with his party N a measure m oa not NEE. enG.a Ms
personal approval he could have cast his vote r @e peop !" snasch
: smpi and afterwards rose to a point of personal privilege n IN a speeen
! before the Senate explained that personally he was agains' me IN "f Ms Mis-
that he voted for it because he "a obeying the Will OF 'he peop "
, sss;nni He could have signed the round robin in thu nam OF INT po-
nleo of Mississippi and then rose to a point Of personal plvlese any "a
p1oined hat the round robin did not express his personal views ahu ne
was personally opposed to the bill, but he signed 1t as tn sersan v ., de
noorler If Mississippi whose views 1t dc represent" l.
pn had done that he would have shown his recognition OF the people Oh
M;s;ssippi as his master and the true press OF TN o'a'ea AN .
mouidh a singing praises instead of filling their columns WIN ~.
trnc If his acts charging him with many things nal lie ever au,
"No, Senator vardaman does not recognize M pep Up = - has " sh
sim; as his master to obey their will. He has taken TINT Oh IN ms 'een
.nd doing a he dn pleases without regard to 1e VIII o wsnes -
y. roone If Mississippi. He is drunk on his hatred OF the DrIusn h-
tor and he is headed for political destruction just ike a orunKaro 70
his grave unless he reforms and turns from n Terror u ms way
A HARRlsoN,s FINE RECORD.
Mo- or,vs South Mississippi, which produced him, but. every nook
~ corner Of this great commonwealth, should be inmeasuraby graf
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