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1S VARDAMAN PRESIDENT?

The masses of the right thinking American people North, East,
South and West are of one mind in the settled conviction that Sena-
tor Vardaman of Mississippi does not serve any useful purpose in
this nation's affairs, but is in reality the vulture of American politics,
a danger to his own people in Mississippi and a disgrace to all the
nation. Like the harpies which hovered over Aeneas, Vardaman's
foul and filthy utterances have long containinated the whole aspect
of Southern life; since his tainted elevation to the United States Sen-
ate he has been a much larger reproach to and despoiler of this na-
tion's progress. He is more of a menace to America than Catiline
was to the Roman Republic, for Catiline never had a voice at court.
He is a worse enemy to the United States than Jefferson Davis was
to the Union, for no one has yet arisen to accuse the leader of the
Confederacy with being a demagogue. The Senator from Missis-
sippi is a greater arch enemy of his country than Huerta or Villa,
for neither of the bloody Mexican despots are seeking to overthrow
their country's constitution. They profess indeed rather to be seek-
ing to enlarge the liberties of their people.

Why, is it, therefore, that the President of the United States
on any score of right and justice should seek the counsel or to need-
lessly placate the foregone implacable hostility of Senator Varda-
man in the reappointment of Judge Terrell of Washington, is be-
yond all human understanding. Either President Wilson seeks di-
rectly to slap ten million colored citizens in the face, or he seeks
clumsily to fool the entire American people as to his attitude toward
the colored race; or both.

President Wilson knows that the press and the public have pro-
claimed that his administration in its racial attitude would stand or
fall upon his action in the re-appointment of the learned and popular
colored judge of the District of Columbia. President Wilson knows
further that the American people know that the South and her
statesmen can no longer defeat the President's pet measures
which are already passed. What Woodrow Wilson does now for or
against the colored citizen is the measure of the man. That Senator
Vardaman's impossible compromise on recognition for the black
race should be sought either serves notice on the black race that
the President openly obeys and aquiesces in the persecution of the
Negro-bating South and thus proclaims her barbaric supremacy of
President Wilson shams his hatred and prejudice, and hiding behind
the monstrous mask of Vardaman would fool all the American peo-
ple. But President Wilson deceives no man by such methods. The
criminal could not expect to receive the just judgment of a judge if
his arch enemy should be allowed to dictate or even infiuence that
judgment. His guilt and execution would be a foregone conclusion.
The pugilist would not expect to be awarded the decision if his
opponent were to be asked to render that decision. The colored citi-
zen expects neither recognition nor even a fair consideration of his
case if it must come through President Wilson, from Vardaman or
Tillman or Hoke Smith. Labor does not get its rewards at the
White House from the hands of Capital, neither has the consumer
gotten tariff reduction from Congress at the hands of the Trusts. The
masses have not received the President's active interest at the dic-
tates of the classes. That President Wilson can expect that the
American people will believe that he is fair and friendly toward the
progress of the colored people, but is hindered by the Negro-baters
of peonage-practicing, mob-ridden Dixie insults his own intelligence.
Once for all if President Wilson intends that his administration
shall not