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Show The South and tha President. The recent insult offered by Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi to the President has been strongly cou-cemned, cou-cemned, but the Southern papers have been more rnsparing in their criticisms than those of the North. ' Vardaman is low and vulgar. He is one of the Unfortunate political accidents that will happen, and . it is pretty certain that he will be dropped as soon C8 he has completed his term as execntive of Mis issippi, but of course his position makes his utterances utter-ances harmful. The South is quick to recognize this, and it hastens to repudiate his vaporings. The South does not like the President personally, because of his attitude toward the negro. The South has its own point of view and, after a long experience' experi-ence' with the negro, it thinks it knows when it is right. It will never forgive Theodore Roosevelt for " lunching with Booker Washington and for appointing appoint-ing colored persons to office in the South, but it has n fiiie and courteous respect for the President of the United States. That is the distinction Vardaman failed to recognize. recog-nize. . In his malice toward the man he forgot what . was due the office, and he is being deservedly excoriated excori-ated for his blunder. ' The bitterness between Xorth and South has almost al-most been eliminated. If the President will not stir up more trouble over the negro question and if tha South will gently.bnt firmly subdue its Vardamans, Masop and Dixon's line will soon be forgotten. |