Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-08-31

W. bCdl DlOs 4l&i & w ttf7 &~e'4
glad to get your letter today inviting
my support of Mr.. Stephens. was
glad because it gives me an insight
into the reason why as many preach
ers support anyone just as he is
against Mr.. Vardaman. And ! appre
ciate it because can now in a friend
~ way answer you and possibly
prove to you that the reason so many
of us red-necks support the great
White Chief is not because of the
long hair or the brass bands but he
has stood by US for 20 years and now
in the evening of his life we are going
to stand by him., You state in your
letter Il am not so much for men as
/ am for principles" Here I agree
and disagree. | agree because you
certainly cannot have much reason Tor
supporting the man you are support
ing for as you well know, Mr.. Steph-
ems has no record worth mentioning.
/ have read most of his speeches,
and If | could express my opinion of
them in one word, / would say just
Time Killers / disagree with you
because j believe one should be care
full and pick out the man as well as
the principles. Yes vote for man
that will stand by these principles
even if the president of the Z. S. be
against him. One who will stand
and fight for those principles even
with his back to the wall and pocket
book empty, as Vardaman did, does
and will do. You state II am not a
politician but / am for peace and
harmony" Now / don't know what
the word politician means exactly,
but any one caught soliciting votes
for politicians are certainly guilty
as an accessory. Now as to peace and
harmony-Them' two ketchy words
so many claim that they are
against Vardan1an because they want
an end of factions in Miss. They
want peace and harmony. With all
my soul, / believe if every Varda-
man and woman should move out of
the state, you Stephens people would
be as far from peace and harmony
as ever don't you? Think of 1t?
Preachers, pikers, flappers, poker
players, r. RS lawyers, most of the
rich especially those who defrauded
the Government. .Millionaires by
the millions who soaked US poor tax
payers, and we will likely be in soak
for the next fifty years unless we can
get enough men in Washington to
take us out. However those million
aires do not live in Miss. but up the
creek, but don't you forget they are
against Vardaman. Mississippi S one
of the states they have in soak.
Think of it all this bunch along with
few good people like you who have
simply make a mistake-simply mis-
judged one of your fellowmen. "Thou
shalt not bear false witness against
they neighbor." You good Stephens
people should not forget that. And
yet, you people honestly think you
all will have peace and harmony
among such crowd as that. No, |
believe it will be worse than ever.
Peace and harmony will leave Miss.
when our Representatives and SEN
ators get their orders from some
where up north, somewhere in France
or somewhere else. / do honestly
believe we will come nearer having
these wonderful twins Peace and
Harmony with leaders like Varda-
man. Because Vardamanites are for
a principle, they certainly can't be
or the money they can get out of it,
for there simply is none. Yet 4 have
seen a few of his followers desert to
the ants because of the money on that
side. Now let's consider what class
of people make up the Vardaman
crowd. I'll say most of the common
people are for him along with few
rich men and a few preachers mostly
Circuit riders. None of those who
charge $500 for preaching four days
are for him. Now I'll admit that prob
ably a few crapshooters are for him
but they are honest in it. heard a
lady say she was against Vardaman
because his followers were only the
filthy class of people. The 'Wimn1in
dipped snuff and the men chawed and
spit and yelled for Vardaman. Ill
admit that few such are for him but
they are surely honest in it. Now
that should be one reason you should
support him, he stood for the raising
taxes on the big corporations such as
Garrett sBrown-Mule' etc. Now you
stated lots OF people are for Varda-
man fer their own personal advance
ment. / do not think so, however /
know some who deserted him for their
own personal advancement. In fact
/ think most of that class of people
are getting into the Stephens crowd
as fast as possible for they have
found that there is nothing doing in
the poor mans crowd these days. You
state "Unless we have a change, our
children and grand children must
reap the harvest. Such course
or later must result in revolu-
ton" with the country agaist the
cities and the poor against the rich
and labor against capital we are in
viting disaster" Now | can't for !
the life of me understand how doing
away with Vardaman will do away
with the strife between capital and :
labor Who has done any more to ,
4l,,,, No 10 ~, on, !.