The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-03-22

brother, w S. Vardaman of Greenwood, whose circle of friends
erybody joins in commencing as a highly useful citizen. AS to
Capt. eastman, the newspaper, the vicksburg Post, which he
years ago nominally passed to his sons, has never failed to en-
dorse every position assumed by Mr.. Vardaman in opposition to
the President, going so far sometimes as to be exceedingly crit
ical withtthe Democratic administration. OF course Capt. Cash
on %a fhe ea rie + pe Of American s'Ses to ei aG en'i; t When pa ls re eaTf eweer n and
former editor became a federal official, but the fact that the ap-
pointment came through the influence of our Junior Senator
gave Capt. eastman no more rights than anybody else has.
What could Senator Vardaman have expected other than
George Washington on down, to deny official favors to those
who bitterly assaulted them. Presidents are still human beings;
responsible for the conduct of public affairs, that those named
for public Office by it should be in harmony, with it; certainly
not it's violent critics. If Vardaman has not been bitter at tunes
in his arraignment of the administration, then no administra-
ton Il NV was asa ever ARA srraie g1a a by q v 1seSse S5a %ou Ssq haSe do ama when
it came to dispensing patronage to a Senator who was "nause-
back and forth to the White House with hats in their hands get
ting orders from the President" Jackson would have told such
a moment what Grover Cleveland would have said to a sena-
tor. about appointments. who so repeatedly found fauI win MN
the many and numerous times that Senator Vardaman has tax
en- a position antagonistic to the President on important iegis!a.
ton being urged by him: But for the stubborness OF our r JUNIOR
Senator, and a few confederates, the Ship-purchase bill urged
BY President Wilson in 1914 just after 1 the g European psaa war start art
to get our soldiers and war equipment across the waters. haa
millions who believe that we would not have had war at all for
the reason that Germany would have known that we could
before the war. Then when the President was almost sweating
blood about German outrages and doing all IN ms power 10 Keep
this country u o II n cIIiUI COHnACI, AC "CH1 OoA"CS OOA
Congress and asked for the passage OF a resolution or law EN-
nowering him to put arms on our merchant vessels so that they
could act in self defense when attacked by German submarines,
but our Junior Senator joined with II other Senators to Keep
this from being done. These IL senators said by their acts that
it would not do for a man to arm himself against probable muir
|derous assaults. And so in almost everything else; Even where
our Junior Senator has voted for measures urged by a majority
of the Democratic Senators, he has frequently given forth ut
terances that highly pleased the Republicans and since the war
begun, his foaming and frothing deliverances have furnished
much consolation to the Kaiser and the German autocracy. HIS
opposition to the Democratic administration runs almost
throughout the whole of his senatorial career.
With a knowledge of all these matters In the PRESIDENT s
keeping, if he believed the course he has pursued to be best for
his country and truly patriotic, would he not have dealt falsely
with himself and been untrue to those who have so cordially and
patriotic ally co-operated with him, had he given the same con-
|sideration to the recommendations of a Senator, who has grossly
criticised his acts, that he did to those of a Senator who has not
called him a dictator" and numerous other things not pleasant
to the ears of any man. The President has pursued the patrl-
Otto course in the matter. He has done the human thing. 1t is
never wise to place cudgels in the hands of those trying to un-
dermine you.