The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-09-10
VARDAMAN ROASTS
PRESIDENT WILSON
Southern Ex-senator Sees
Administration AS
Mere Sham.
Commercial Appeal.)

ministration, in which Woodrow VIII.
son was charged with almost every
thing from original sin to present in
sanity, James X. Vardaman today
told an audience of Mississippi Demo-
Gratis that not only would he be a
candidate for the United States Sem
ate again. but that he would shy his
castor into the ring at the first OPP
portunity.
Il am not now a candidate" he
declared. but | am going to be a
candidate for the first legal vacancy
There are two vacancies now, but nei-
ther is legal"
The statement itself was not par
ticularly surprising. The Democrats
of Benton and Tippah and Marshall
probably expected it. But it was OF
more than ordinary interest that the
announcement should come sand
wiched in a speech which throughout
its two hours was made up OF an in
dictment of Democratic administra-
ton and Democratic president that
would have done credit to the most
adept Republican orator that has yet
undertaken to riddle the party and its
record of eight years.
Mr.. Vardaman insisted that he did
not come to Hickory Flat in the in
terest of anybody, though Albert C..
Anderson, the candidate for Congress
from this district, was his personal
and political friend. And he made
no appeal for Mr.. Anderson. But Mr..
Anderson, who preceded him, was
somewhat critical himself of the war
record of the Democratic administra-
tion and particularly of the league of
nations. Many of the arguments of
both Mr.. Anderson and Mr.. Vardaman
met and flowed along in the same
channel. About the only difference
was that Mr.. Vardaman covered a
wider field and went more into detail.
Raps President Continually.
He said himself that he intended
60 make his remarks scattering. He
talked about almost everything from
negro domination to woman suffrage,
but generally concluded with fling
p; President Wilson.
~ wouldn't change a single vote |
cast on any war measure" he declar-
ed. '.NOt one. And l wouldn't re-
call single word l uttered l have
escaped the penitentiary, and have
not come under the espionage law.
Theodore Roosevelt and | are about
the only ones who didn't. These
espionage laws are still in effect. In
fact, all the war machinery is still
going on, but your senator's and rep
resentatives think more of the flat
tering vanity of the man in the
White House than they do of taking
the burden off of you.
Wilson is crazier than l though,
and that is pretty crazy. Why, the
latest thing is bill he has had his
attorney general send to the govern
ors of all the states instructing them
TO have it enacted into law to pre-
vent legislators from violating their
pledges made in campaigns.
We hear of lot of sublimated rot
called altruism in which we are asked
to take care of other nations. During
the last few days l was in the Senate
Woodrow Wilson asked for 500, 000,-
600 to bay food for the Russians.
They sent it. didn't. At that very
time we wanted the embargo taken
off Of cotton to Russia. A committee
of southern senators called on the
president. He said the embargo
ought to be lifted, but France and
England would not agree to it. II
cost you millions of dollars.
Calls War Expenditures "Graft."
''Since 1914 there has never beer
such a carnival of graft and rascality
in any country. Six months before
we went into the war Jim Reed and
were pleading with the women il
the western states to vote for Wilson
and keep us out 70 war | though
better of woman suffrage then because
the women elected him. Then h
plunged us into the war.
THE part the boys played in tina
war is splendid. The part the moth
ers and fathers at home played i
splendid, But the part this govern
nent played is in some respects pusil
luminous Take, for instance, tn
aviation bill. They wasted a billion
dollars and got only 213 flying cot
fins. You toilers have it TO pay. MI
Hughes made an investigation ant
recommended some prosecutions. Blu
Mr Wilson did not prosecute. Fl
tEied TO popularize the war by lettin
every newspaper and every rascal &c