Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-08-12
HEARING vARDAMAN
AT HAT.TIESBURC.

GfBen Travelled to HattleSpurg wa
auto with Chas. Box at the stearlEg
whe Il aud putting us safely through
without car trouble of any kind
VIM. Clark who was along looked af-
ter the Single market situation in
Hattiesb1rg as he is now turning
out that product at his mill during
the lumber dull. We went to re-
present our part of the county in the
organization Conference being held
that day in the Hub city in behalf
the coming campaign of Jas. X.
Ward aLan for u. S. Senate. We
reached Hattiesburg too late for
such conference which was held
PROMPTLY at the turn of the day with
Mr.. Vardaman himself present and
we were told it was large and en-
thusiasuc turnout with all seats and
| the stlnding room also taken. We
regre ted missing that but remaih-
ing over for the night got to hear
the Ex-senator deliver his speech as
the opening gun in his campaign so
far Tvs Southeast Mississippi is con-
cerned. We could expatiate to our
own satisfaction as to the sweeping
strong character of such speech but
we shall not do but little of that as
the readers of this paper knows this
writer to be pronouncedIy partisan
so far as Vardaman is concerned and
those who do not see it that way and
are as much emitted in free countrA
like this TO their opinion as we are,
would likely attribute such fulsome
description to an excess of zeal.
A band was loaded onto a large
truck that afternoon and paraded
the streets playing as a large sign
tackled on its side proclaimed the
Vardaman speaking shat night.
+, Those in charge of the occasion
told us that they had prepared seats
for 1900 hundred people. The place
was on the court house square to the
rear where there was nice lot OF
room. Those familiar with the To-
cation there will understand the size
of the crowd better when I'VE tell
| you that the seats and stand were
onsthe roomy side across walk leading
out from courthouse past the Jail.
All this space or most of it was
largely taken with the seats and
stand Then there was large num-
Der of people standing on either
| side and to the rear and around the
stand and sitting on the courthouse
stop aad porch and in its windows.
| These surely ran into several hun
4 dre6, The writer made no effort to
count or estimate the numbers as
we did not feel in David number
ing Isreal" mood, as there was plen-
| tv enough of folks and something to
listen to engross ones attention.
| We at home too as the dress and
4 faces aud manners of numbers of the
| audience stamped them as country
people in there like yourselves to
] hear our political favorites expound
his doctrines of better government,
And these same folks proved the
correctness of our idea, when after
the speaking they pushed up in
| quite a press to shake Vardaman' S
hand before he could leave the stand,
4 reminding us of occasions on which
4 we have heard Williams Jennings
u Bryan speak, with the unfalling
flow af folks afterwards to get q
handshake and personal word
That is always an affecting scene tC
me asst shows the affection Of the
} people Tor a great leader in whom
: they have real confidence. though
understand we are not afflicted with
} the weakness of hero worship OF
man worship 10 any of its varying
forms.
} The keynote to Mr.. Vardam an 5
speech was that the nation is passing
through critical times, that we are
almost in crisis. That there are
great problems to be solved. Thai
mistakes were made during the war
someof wbiohscan be- corrected anC
somec cant. Fhat the hugest piece:
: of graft the world has ever seen were
pulled off without questioning dur
ing the war; That while he was ii
tho Canata ha fottubt auainot fhi,