Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-08-10
VARDAMANS
REPLY TO /.
Mr.. WILSON
Says He Made His Record To Serve
White People OF Mississippi, Rath-
err Than White House.

Ex-senator James X. Vardaman
was shown a copy of Ex-President
Woodrow Wilson's letter to DR.. Nc
Caleb of Carlisle, Mississippi, and in
reply to a question as to what state
ment he wished to make, said:
II have no comment to make upon
the letter from Ex-President Wilson
depressing his opposition to me as a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate, except to say, that the Presi-
dents letter states his conclusions
without giving a reason therefor, and
| think the American people know
him well enough to decide whether
or not they are willing to take his I'M
supported opinion as the Standard
by which public officials are to be
judged. I do not believe the people
of Mississippi need to be told by Elk
President Wilson for whom they shall
vote for United States Senator.
l have known the people of Missis-
sippi for many, many years and they
know me and l believe they are en-
tirely competent to select a United
States Senator, who is to serve them,
without seeking advice from a citizen
of another state.
Mr.. Wilson does not state the rea-
sons for his opposition to me, and l
can only assume that his opposition is
for the same reason that he opposed
me in 1918. He said then in discuss
ing the question, that he would be
obliged to accept my election, "as a
condemnation of my Ihis) admins
tration." His opposition is founded
upon the fact that I performed my
duties as United States Senator with
the intention Of pleasing and serving
the white people of Mississippi, and
not to please or flatter the occupant
of the White House.
l differed from the President upon
several important questions, and in
each of these differences I stood by
the Party Platform and the customs
and traditions of the Democratic Par
ty..
The people of Mississippi will recall
that l am not alone in having receiv-
ed the condemnation Of President Will
son. There is quite a long list of dis
tinguished Americans who have been
placed under the ban by him, a num-
Der of whom were at one time his in
innate friends and loyal supporters.
In this class are. VIM. f. McCombs,
Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee; w. j. Bryan, three times
the nominee of the Democratic Party
for President, and Secretary of State
under Mr.. Wilson; Lindley NJ. Gar
rison, Secretary of War under Mr..
Wilson; Robert Lansing, Secretary of
State under Mr.. WILSON,; and that
great democratic editor, Henry Wat
Iterson. In his differences with these
men it is not probable that all were
wrong and the President right, and
this gives me added assurance of the
correctness of my position when |
differed from President Wilson.
I trust the people of Mississippi will
not think me too harsh if l quote the
Presidents own words in his letter to
Senator Chilton of West Virginia,
when the President was asked to give
his endorsement to this Senator. On
July 9th, 1918, President Wilson
wrote to Senator Chiffon and said in
part: again and again this ques-
ton has presented itself to me and al
ways l have been checked by the con-
sciousness that Intervention of any
sort on my part, even so much as the
appearance of an effort to pick and
prefer a candidate, would produce the
most embarrassing impression and be
met by a justifiable resentment on the
part of the constituency concerned.
And again in his book, "Constitu-