The Columbus commercial., 1918-08-08
los VOTERS SIGN 1T.


ty, who have heretofore voted for
Vardaman, Will not vote for him
again for the following reasons:
/. Because all pro-Germans, and
all Socialists, and all persons who
are against the war, and all persons
who are against the government are
supporting Senator Vardaman.
2. Because he has lost out at
Washington, and has no influence
except when voting with the Repub-
licans.
3, Because he has used his off
cial power to overthrow and destroy
the Wilson administration President
Wilson said that "a little group Of
wllful men representing no opinion
but their own have rendered the
great government Of the United
States helpless and contemplate. !"
Senator Vardaman was one of the
little group Of willful men,"
a. Because we do not believe that
Senator Vardaman is in sympathy
with the American government in its
great struggle against Prussian tu.
tocracy for the preservation Of our
government and the freedom of the
world
o. Because so far as we have
been able to ascertain Senator Var
daman has never spoken one word
Of sympathy for poor robbed and
raped Belgium and brave patriotic
and bleeding France.
6. Because +. d. Lander a Ger
man propagandist, who published the
Hattiesburg News and who left Hat
tiesburg on account of his pro-Ger-
manism and opposition to the Amer
lean government, went to Washing
ton, in the same city with Senator
Vardaman, and from that city has
occupied the front page of The Is
sue, Senator Vardaman's campaign
organ, with his propaganda.
Z. Because a recent examination
of the files Of the Hattiesburg News,
of which Lander was editor, uncov-
ers veritable nest of pro-German-
ism, and yet this man Lander is still
poisoning the minds of the people of
the State, through Senator Varda-
mans campaign organ, The Issue.
8. Because after we entered the
war, Senator Vardaman flooded the
State, under his official frank with
the speech of LaFollette, Republi-
can, and the arch German propa
gandist Of America, in order to pois
on the minds Of the people of tht
State against the Wilson admins.
tration. The literature disseminated
over the State by Senator Varda.
man carries a tribute to him by {
great unnamed senator. Why die
Senator Vardaman not let the peo
pie of Mississippi know who thi.
great senator is? Is he ashamed tt
let the people know the company h,
has been keeping in Washington I
the witness is either of his eonfeder
ates, LaFollette or Reed, then W,
hold that the evidence is incompe
tent to go before red biooded Mis-
sissippians.
, 9 Because we feel mortified tina
{ Senator from Mississippi find i
necessary to come home and tour tn
State to deny the charge of disloy
atty and pro-Germanism, based alto
gether on his official acts and dec
larations at Washington, which wer
made It a time when the duties t,
his office, and his duty to the peo
pie of Mississippi required of hin
the highest order of American pa
: triotism. The public press report
him as saying at Amory that "ther
are men in this State who, in orde
to encompass my defeat, would traf
fc in the virtue of their homes" w
bow our heads in shame that a can
didate for the Senate could so dis
r7ce Mississippi
10, Because we feel and believ
that the reelection Of Senator Var
daman would he condemnation o
the Wilson administration, condem
ration of the American government
and a justification of Germany an,
her bloody and brutal warfare.
Signed by Hon ] NJ. McBeath
Judge c. W. Cochrane and more thar
, ~a hundred prominent citizens o
Meridian and Tauderdale county.
66G cures by removing the cause