The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-08-02
The Yellow 0eys.

1t has been the way Of man, from
and including Adam on down. to
conceal his wickedness. Thus We
see the thief. working when no one
is looking; the assassin getting in
his deadly work from the rear. That
little spark of celestial FIRE called
conscience usually tells a man. when
he is doing wrong. and his coward
ice impels him to conceal it. The
night is the happy hour Of the thief,
the assassin and the coward; under
it's protecting mantle he goes about
his dirty work.
Running true to form some party
or parties, up in Alderman. proceed
ed to paint the store fronts OF sew
eral of Senator Vardaman's friends
yellow. the night before the senator
Was to speak there. These stores
all belonged to men OF high stand
ing in the community and of un-
questioned loyalty. We know. per-
sonally only one of these men. and
and that is Senator w. r. Chrismond
and we know there is not a more
hnnorable man in Mississippi. Sem
ator Chrismond has been the leader
in Liberty bond drives, Red Crosse
drives and w. s. s. drives and in
every other kind of war work. And
yet because he did not espouse the
cause of the candidate of the Jack
son Evening News and the Clarion-
Ledger. he is thus Insulted.
Yellow is the accepted color of
the coward. and is now appropriate
ly applied to the Stacker. 1t is the
emblem of the thief. the assassin,
the coward and the Stacker. Hence
we think it very appropriately adopt
ed by the wielders of the paint brush
in Ackermag; the color they left be-
hind was simply their footprints.
just as slime is the mark OF the trail
of the serpent.
This incident might have passed
unnoticed, as the work of irrespOH-
sible parties. who did not realize
the foul insult they were giving to
the people of Mississippi; had it not
been approved by some of Pattie's
leaders. We find the Jackson News
endorsing the work in the following
words:
And the citizens of the town
painted the erandstand yellow.
Times have changed. Think Of
it. the idol of Mississippi speak.
ing from a erandstond orna-
mented with yellow stripes; not
red. white and blue stripes. but
yellow stripes. Our intelligent
readers are left to draw their
own conclusions from this in
cident."
And the people will draw their
own conclusions and those conclu-
sions will be that men guilty of such
a deed are unworthy to select a u.
S. Senator.
And then the Clarion Ledger ap-
proves and gloats over the work of
these midnight character assassins.
In letter to the Commercial Ap-
peal. the deed is also stated in terms
of evident approval by Frank Pin
son. one OF Harrison's campaign
managers. And the letter is also
signed by the mayoe OF Alderman.
Harrison's central committee has
not disavowed responsibility for the
act, and we therefore assume that,
if not done under its instructions, it
had it's approval and endorsement.
The act was repeated at Am0ry the
following night. when some one in
charge of Harrison's campaign evil
IDENTIFY found out that ID was being
condemned by the people Of Missis-
sippi. and it has not been repeated
since.
1t is unnecessary to condemn this
outrage. because when these parties
did it IN THE NIGHT TINE, and re-
fused to admit the authors Of it,
they confess the foulness Of the deed.
An honest. brave man is not going
to do anything he is ashamed and
afraid to admit.
This is doubtless intended as an
insult to the friends Of Senator Var
daman. 1t shows cOnclusiyely the
feeling Of the Opposition not only
toward Senator VaEdaman, hut to-
ward his friends a we'll. And it
likewise portrays them just - they
are. It shows the price they are
willing to pay. and the dspths q in
fanny to which they ape willing 20
descend in order 70 accomplish the
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