The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-03
PROTESTS AGAINST
| VARDAMAN SPEAKING

VAkDAMAN NPEAkINU
NatcheZ, Miss, Sept. 27-ResOlutions
condemning the war record of James
X. Vardaman. once Senator from Mis-
sissippi and calling upon all patriotic
citizens to "rebuke him for daring to
show his face before an American au-
dience," were adopted at special
meeting of the Herbert j. Remondet
Post No 4, the American Legion. by
unanimous vote tonight.
This resolution was called forth by
an invitation which had been extended
to Vardaman by friends to make an
address at Natchez on National and
International Affairs al some time in
the next week.
Views Offend Patriots.
The resolution states that "Varda
mans views upon the matters affecting
the international relations of this cOun-
try are so offensive to all patriotic cit
izens that it is an insult to Natchez
and it's returned soldiers to permit him
to speak here" declares him to be pro
German, anti-American and unpatri-
|otic." 1t states that lit deplOres the
misguided self-interest Of those persons
bringing him here" and ''in memory
of those soldiers who suffered and died
calls upon all persons with drop Of
patriotism in their veins to refuse to
hear this same James X. Vardaman
Ispeak, and by failing to attend his
Ispeech, thereby rebuke his presump-
ltiOn in showing his face before an
laudience OF Americans
The Resolution.
The resolution in full follows:
Whereas: The American Legion is
an organization of ex-service men, 100
percent American, and:
Whereas: Certain persons in this
community have seen fit to invite one
James X Vardaman to make public
Ispeech at Natchez on subjects national
and International; and:
Whereas: The views of this James
Tx. Vardaman upon matters affecting
1.-The international relations of this cOun'
try are of common knowledge SO often
ssse to all patriotic citizens that it is
an insult to Natchez and it's returned
soldiers to permit him to speak here
and:
Whereas: His uffenses against the
United States have been many. in as
much as:
| "U) The president has numbered
him as Conspicuous among the Demo
Gratis in the Senate for his opposition
to the administrator" in hampering
and hindering the proper conduct OF
the war. thereby giving aid and com
fort to the enemy:
| "(2) He has been denounced in the
editorial columns of the Natchez Dem
lOcrat under date of august 20, 1918
saying that a vote for Vardaman would
be AN approval of the comparison OF
lour boys to cOnvictS' and that he had
sought to discredit this country in i'm
Iputing to it base motives, that Varda
man has yet his first word of cOndem
nation to speak against Germany OIL
the outrages or barbarities which il
has perpetrated since the opening OF
the war in 1914 or even to join in a
shout of pride for the gallant achieve
ments of American soldiers when they
rolled back the Hun at Chateau
Thierry'
"(3) Four months after the United
States was forced to break with Ger
many, he gave to the press carefully
prepared statement in which he said
that the United States in fighting Ger
many would stab her in the back while
England and France held her down
80 He was repudiated at the polls
by the voters of the great State of Mis-
sissippi, whom he misrepresented;
Whereas: His antagonism to ade
quate preparedness; his participation
in the defeat of the proposal to arm
merchant shipping; his obstruction and
opposition to needed legislation; all
tend to prevent a speedier end of the
war and to entail an untold loss of life
and great suffering, now, therefore:
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