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Meanwhile Linda Gaddy Bilbo's husband stayed on the Poplarville pecan plantation while his State went from bad to worse financially. A bull-headed little man of the Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand...
...bought the Sentinel (1895), he and his in-laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main Street, waited to see who would be next to fall...
...There is a South that finds expression in the crude and blatant utterances of men like Cole Blease and Vardaman, and another that finds expression in the statemanship of men like Carter Glass and Oscar Underwood. There is a South that practices and justifies lynching and another South that believes it is unjustifiable under any and all circumstances...
...Spring of 1914. the President asked that the law be repealed. After a bitter wrangle for several months this was done. Party lines were broken in the bitterness of the struggle. Senators Root, Lodge, Kenyon, MeCumber, Burton (Republicans) supported Mr. Wilson. Senators O'Gorman, Reed (Mo.), Chamberlain, Vardaman (Democrats) opposed the President...
...attacked in Vardaman campaign speech by Theodore Bilbo, former Governor of Mississippi. (Bilbo is pulled from stand for attack.) Sept...