Richmond planet., 1895-03-30
SPEAKSMAINLY.
Ex-senator Dawes on the
Massachusetts, Com
mittee.
Should Not Have Ignored Mr.. rsAmOh.
boston, Mass. Journal. |

should Not Have Ignored Mr.. TeamOh.
boston, Mass, Journal
The treatment which Representat;ve
Ieamoh has been said to have received
on account of his color, during his re-
cent trip South as a member of the
massachusetts Legislative COMMITTEES
on Mercantile Affairs, as told In tbe
journal, has caused great indi0nation
IN some quarters. Ex-United States
senator Dawes says, in an interview:
EX-SENATOR DAWES.
81 have read the account of q South
ern trip of a committee of the I,e0isIs-
ture with a good deal of arnazenent
sincerely hope that they have been
misrepresented. If that account ia g.
curate, shall be greatly surprised IL
tne people OF Massachusetts do not
hold them to a strict account. and tbev
may hnd great difficulty in satisfvin1
the people IN a matter Of greater. inn.
portance than any opinion Of the safety
OF MASSACHUSETTS, dollars in the South
one would think from that account
sets was the anxiety of some Of her
people over the fate of her invost-
ments there. 1t is difficult from that
account to come to any other concln-
sion than that they forgot that thev
represented anything else. One looks
IN vain through the whole accounts For.
the shghtest evidence that thev snns-
posed they represented Massachuseffs
sraolelons ana principles as well as her
uOuaFs. IL would seem as il they for
got that the Constitution had ordained
the Official equality of all their mem
oers, and that Massachusetts, had or
dained that on his merits Mr.. Teanob
was their equal, and entitled to all the
respect TO which they themselves were
CAUsTIc CRITICISM.
When they found themselves am
Darrasseo at a araiiroad station in North
Carolina, their embarrassuent d;d 49,
seem to arise from the fact that ono -
the number was insulted, MT as to
how they could get along and pocket
the insult. Is there anybody in Massa-
chusetts who had TO be told that there
is no difference between permitting an
insult to ones friend and associate.
and insulting him themselves =? Has
massachusetts sense of manhood SO
disappeared that these men hadn't
spirit enough TO come home and report
that they could not look after the dol
lars OF Massachusetts in any mart of
this country without leaving at home
her principles ? Such a report as that
would have been of more value to
Massachusetts than any of their cipher
ing on dividends.
Wat THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE.
eff they must go on after that result
why didn't they hire their own car and
cook, and live and sleep as thev do in
massachusetts, The insult which
they permitted to be cast on their as
soclate and equal at home would not
have been greater if they had consent
ed with the Southerners. whose bosDi-
CailJy they seemed so anxious to ac-
cepC at any cost. 1t would have salts
neo the Southerners if they had made
valet OF their associate and given him
tnelr grlpsacks to carry; and given
nm, too, quarter every little while
when the SOuthernerS were -around
One would think from reading this ar
tlcle that they would readily have gone
TO ChaG extent rather than to have Civ
en- up their trip. 1t seems, according
10 TO Che account, when they got back to
washington, they did receive their
colored associate in the lobby of the
hotel, and treated him exactly as thew
would under similar circumstances in
Boston lam glad to know that they
dld that much IN vRndication of Massa-
chusetts principles, Neven if it was done
IN the lobby Ono looks in vain
through the whole account for the
slightest protest against this indignitv
thrown on their associate, and this
contemplate defiance to tIaa. PRINCIPLES
which are TO Massachusetts, de.sxer thar
all her cotton factories.
i am quite sure, however, that
have been misrepresented, and w
take the earliest opportunity to satisfv~
our people that they upheld the honor
OF the State they represented as well
as her industries. Massachusetts, can
not afford to go back to the days be-
Iore the war, when there were many
Wiling TO crawl before Southern pat
ronage ana barter Northern principles
for Southern gains"