The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-08-19

py Ine Senate-nO appointments
no laws. The senate is the great
est law-making body in the world.
There are grave problems before
the people. The United States is
rich beyond all dreams-other coun-
tries are bankrupt. The League of
Nations issue is not a dead one, as
many suppose. Economic and social
troubles confront us.
Many people used to think that
when they elected an officer to Con-
gress 1t didn't matter much. That
line is past-the war is on.
The Draft passed. It took from
The hearthstone it's choicest gift
he beloved son.
Then you realized the power of
Congress.
How necessary to put into office
man with sympathy, with ability
to- discern.
What am doing in this campaign,
consider a privilege-in working
| Tor Vardaman, am serving the hum
ole citizenship of this state and my
self. And you-you-if you want
the light of liberty to continue burn
ing, cast vote for the greatest
friend the white people of the state
nave ever had.
There are some who would do al
most anything to keep him out.
Stephens has never been away
from the electric lights in his cam
paign. He is afraid to meet the
country people or afraid for them to
meet him.
Some outside of the state don't
want to see Vardaman elected, and
lave had the audacity to use their
influence for his defeat.
l had thought that as a result Of
The World War, czar, kaiser and
Kings had been done away with, but
doctor has been discovered in Clai-
borne county who wrote asking ex-
President Wilson's opinion on the
choice OF senator for Mississippi,
Ind Wilson replied that in his opin-
ION Vardaman was thoroughly false
and untrustworthy. Wilson is no
more than the humblest white citi-
zen. listened to his lectures many
ears ago and know he's human. Yet
le writes, Absolutely false and
thoroughly untrustworthy."
Vardaman is fallible-apt to make
mistakes. But of those charges he
is not guilty. He is not. false, but
frank-honorable, not untrustwor-
thy. If he is guilty of anything, it
is his intense loyalty to you.
Today he sits in his Office as poor
as the poorest citizen in the state.
don't believe he wants any money.
He believes gold should be subser-
Went to human interests. And he
has given his life to you and your
interests.
AS Speaker of the House, varda-
man fought for prohibition when 1t
was most unpopular movement. Ev-
cry woman, if she knew the good he
has achieved for women, would vote
for Vardaman. No one has done so
much for the home. In private and
political life he has fought for pro-
hibition and the purity of the home.
He has fought for schools, hospitals,
and everything a woman holds dear.
The other man stands for nothing.
In ten years as congressman he made
one speech. 1t was against the draft.
Then he voted for the draft.
Vardaman was governor of the
state, and his term and administra-
tion still rebound to the credit of
the state.
Let me tell what it takes to make
a Democrat. God Almighty makes
a Democrat when the heart beats in
sympathy with the great masses of
the people. The man who has cham
pioned your interests and mine con-
trasts with Stephens like a mountain
to molehill.
When Vardaman became govern
or, there was custom in vogue of
leasing convicts to those who stood
in" like so many bounded animals.
Flies and vermin covered their food,
their beds had no sheet, they were
victims of unspeakable cruelty from
those who coined their blood into
gold.
Vardaman said, This must cease"
and stopped it, Every man who was
coming blood into gold opposed
James X. Vardaman. Now they tell
you HE is disloyal.'
According to Fred Sullens and HUI
bert Stephens, they are the real
DShiSNAoIo, eSIu GA Tic rest dT6 So
cialists, anarchists, Bolsheviks.
Stephens, in his closing speech in
Jackson the other night, uttered
nothing else than extended abuse of
James K. Vardaman.
"Vardaman has been true to you,
has championed the law and opposed
corporations owning great lands-a
corporation cannot own more than
$2,000,000 worth in Mississippi.
We cannot have a democracy with
syndicates owning the land. The
only hope for democracy is where
men own and till the SOIL 1t takes
free people to make free republic.
Vardaman's heart is right. His
judgment is good and his courage
has never been doubted or question
ed.
He went to Washington after a re-
fusal to submit to the ruling Of the
secret caucus. He agreed with VIII
son upon a few measures-the pos
tai bill, the roads legislation.
If you want to rubber stamp to
represent you in Congress, don't send