The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-07-19


Some one has taken the trouble
to place my name on your mailing
list and the Issue Of June 9Th has
just reached me. note on the front
page the statement: <Mississippians
who are fighting him." and +tmn fol-
lows the article telling cow, as you
say, the negro-loving, whiskysoaked
Metropolitan journal, the New York
World, is fighting VzrIaman, all of
which may he true, but would it not
be just as we'll for MSssissiprlans to
love Vardaman for the friends ne has
made among the newspapers Df the
North? Would it not be just for Mis-
sissippians to know that the papers
owned by tire Hearst Syndicate and
their hired correspondents are exceed
ingly wen pleased with the record of
the Junior Senator and are Frequently
throwing bouquets ear him? And
would it not be we'll for them to know
that William r. Hearst, owner and
controller off these papers is oDnsid-
cred by many one of the most danger
Gus politicians in America, that he is
regarded as an anti-administration,
anti British and pro-Ger1nan; that he
is worth several million Dollars where
the average MississippMn is worth
one dollar and that the said Hsarst
and his papers and hired corresqon-
dents favor Mr.. Vardaman's reelec-
ton and are doing their bits for it?
Yes, while Mississippians are loving
him for the enemies he has made, let
them love HIM, If they chvse, for the
friends he has made among some
shady characters in the North. The
New York World may be whiskey
soaked, nigger loving and even South
hating, but it rs better than pro-Ger-
man. But the New York World, Z
have always understood, is Demo
cratic paper. More than that, show
me a pro-German paper or pro-
German interests that rs fighting Var
daman. and l viii show you an Ethio-
plan changing his skin and leopard
his spots. Likewise, show me pro-
German paper that Vardaman is fight
ing and l will show you baby mice
eating live tom cats.
/ also note that you have good
deal to say about the Flood Control
Bill, and claim that Vardaman de-
SELVES dIIHOSC CUGl CICOIC 1OA AeO
passage. Granting that it would not
have passed but for him, would it be
well for you to call attention to the
fact that the bill benefited only about
ten per cent of the white population
of Mississippi; that is, the delta peo-
pie, who are, by the way, great peo-
pie, big hearted and patriotic, but at
the same time people who are already
immensely wealthy compared with the
rest of the people of Mississippi. The
Flood Control Bill has doubled land
values for them, has caused land
rents to become exhorbitant and made
it practically impossible for a hill
county farmer to even rent land
there unless. his face is black. And
yet the farmers of my county and
your county and every other hill coun-
ty in the state comprising ninety per
cent of its white population, are being
taxed to make the other ten per cent
richer, and still the Junior Senator
is lauded to the sky by his friends as
being the "poor mans friend" I am
a poor man, my father was a poor
man, and have spent my life among
men of moderate means. know their
life, their hardships and their needs
and have made some little study of
the public men of Mississippi. and I
absolutely fail to find single reason