Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-08-18
MISREPRESENTED AGAIN.

1t seems that the Sentinel's editorial
defending the South against President
Harding's statement that this section
is famine stricken and FRUSTRATED with
disease, has stirred some of the edito-
rial brethren to strike back at us. Last
week we handled the Clarion-Ledger
in this connection and now we have
to settle with the Yazoo City News
and pay little attention to our good
friend, the Oxford Eagle. The Yazoo
City News, like the Clarion-Ledger,
makes some "wild throws" in an eff
fort to get at this paper. You will
notice in reading the comment made
by the News on our editorial refer
ence to Mr.. Harding that he, too,
charges Tippah county with having
cast a thousand Republican votes last
November, when the real number vot-
ing for Harding in this county was
only 237. The News reproduced the
SentinePs editorial and made the fol-
lowing comment on it:
"This coming from Hon. A. C. An
derson, able editor of the Sentinel, is
somewhat surprising. The Sentinel's
attitude during President Wilson's two
terms and his adherence through heat
and cold; thick and thin, to former
Senator James K. Vardaman and 9TH
ers who were active all through the
last presidential campaign sreving a
propaganda against everything done
by the Democrats, did much toward
MAKING the election of Warren G..
Harding, president, and defeating the
policies of the Democrats If the News
remembers correctly, something like
ten thousand Republican votes were
cast in Mississippi; and if we are noE
wrong, something near 1.00G of them
vel e cast in Iipuan county, the home
of the Sentinel editor.
Having sown to the wind, they are
now receiving their reward in such
wholesale attacks upon the South as
President Harding gave to the public
last week. This is the same Pres dent
Harding that former Senator Varl.t-
man says he had such a delightful
half hour with during his visit tc
WASHINGTON last spring. Don't be sur
prised, friend Anderson, at anything
the Republicans may do to injure the
South. And while reading these I'M
just reflections upon your people and
section, don't forget that it was the
spurious propaganda sown by you and
others that defeated the Democrats in
the national election, and by their de-
feat, you assisted in putting into
power every South hater in the north
and east, and assisted in increasing
the Republican vote in Mississippi a
thousand fold. So effective was this
propaganda that Gov. Russell's home
box in Lafayette county did not cast
a single democratic vote.
"For these reasons, friend Ander-
son, the News is surprised at >your
criticizing anything that President
Harding and his party may say or do
during their four years of office. Hav-
ing sown to the wind, you are now
reaping the whirlwind."
Now, the comment made by our
good friend, the News, is so utterly
ridiculous that it needs no answer.
For instance, the News charges the
Sentinel with being partially respon-
sible for increasing the Republican
vote in Mississippi thousand fold.
Well, let us look at the facts for
moment. Judge Hughes, the Republf-
can candidate for president in 1916,
received 4,253 votes in Mississippi.
That number increased thousand
fold would make 4,253,000 votes for
Harding, yet the News says Harding
received about 10000 votes in the
state. So the figures show that the
News misrepresented the facts to the
extent of about 4,248,000 votes.
Senator James K. Vardaman sup
ported Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and in
1915, making speeches for him In both
campaigns, and so did the Ripley Sen
tinel support him, in both campaigns.
James K. Vardaman supported Cox
in 1920, urged the people of Missis-
sippi to vote for Cox and so did the
editor of the Ripley Sentinel, in edi-
torials and in public speeches. The
Yazoo City News knew these facts
when it published the above state
ments.
Senator Vardaman, however, does
not approve Of the undemocratic con-
duct of Woodrow Wilson in his last |
administration, neither does the Rip |
ley Sentinel, neither does anybody
else. Woodrow Wilson is not the
Democratic party. Democracy is cer-l
tain principles of governments rule
Of the people, equal rights to all and
special privileges to none, for in
stance.
The policies of Woodrow Wilson and
MS rubber stamp followers defeated
The Democratic party in 1920. We have
never hoped for much from Mr.. Hard
ing. In the case of Wilson, the South
1ODed for much and got nothing.
What we need IN tlis eountyv IS
revivsl of pure and npdefiled derroc
'acy and Democrat to administer
t.
Now in the case of the Oxford ,