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Show VARDAIViAN TALKS AGAIN. Asks South to Admit Charge of Disfranchising- Negroes. JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 12,-Gov. Varda-man Varda-man today mado tho opening speech at tho Cotton and Corn carnival. After welcoming wel-coming the visitors, ho branohed ofi? Into politics and mado a soaatlonal utterance. In touching upon tho attltudo that Southern South-ern representatives should assume In their light against tho reduction of the Southern representation, tho Governor eald- r"n(1Trln,al0,a2 oC Komg to tho Concrrcss of tho United States and saying that there is no distinction mado In Mississippi because be-cause of color or previous condition of servitude, toll the truth and say th " "w tried for many years to live In Mleslsslnnl and share sovereignty and dominion with tho negro, and wo saw our institutions crumb lng; wo saw tho publfo funds squandered; we saw tho civilisation that our forefathers had fought for pass Imr away, and tho law of self-presen'atlm, !5 ng the first law, we observed It? We rSso In the majesty and highest typo of Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon manhood and took tho reigns of government out of tho hands of th carpet-bagger and negro, and so help i s God, from now on wo will never share mVv sovereignty with him again.' " J |