The colored American., 1901-09-28

The col0red peofI of Washington |
held memorial meeting ar Lincoln |
Memorial church, Thursday evening, |
September 18th, in hODOJ OF the Ia g !
President I'll am Mckinley. A large |
aud representative gathering was pres |
ent. PLof L M. HeTShaw called the
nesting to Ordtr aud was made the |
presiding officer for The evening A
number II nUtsbIs addresses were IN mqd
in which the life and character of the
late President were extolIad aud his vir-
tues pointed out. Among the table
speeches weS III At delivered by the Hon.
J 1hu z Green, 2 part Of OF " Which is
here presented.
Tine late President Mckinley was in
his own character an examplar Of law
and order. On one OCCASION when this
writer was honOred by an audience
with hlm, he SAID, "Mr President,
what if anythin is being doneto bring
TO Justice the murderers OF Baker and
hisOabe. st LsBe City, South CaroIins?"
''Mr Green," he SAID, ''AIl that Sec
tion, in the vicinity Of Lake City, is
bris ling With detectives; and so soon
as We can Identity them, or a TaVt Of
them, We shall treat them juet as any
one woUI1 be tre' ted who shOIld come
in here and kill NJ Then looking
earnestly at this writer he sa d in slow
and earnest tones 'SuDpose me one
should come in here and kill me; what
would BE- GOne about /? He would
be arrested, tried, and il c)nv cted, eY-
ecuted. Nov We propose to &C In the
same way with reference t. he mlI-
defeTs OF Baker and hIs child"
SubsF quenilv the President sa d tt
this WrI,er, Il was gr stified to kn
that part of that jury hung out for
conviction; / was AFRAID they would
bring in verdict Of sCQu tt owing tn
the seltm 3nt existing Ia IN sectl II "
On another occasion this write sad TO
him, mir, President, many OF the J.
cred voters OF tn cJuntyy are opposed
to your PhiliDDine war Oh 8 was soon
after tue cen N lcemeuV Of the war ,
L thought" !" ue sal |, 1.-THE cO,ored pau-
PIE Were liberty loving p9ol ="
They srs liberty loving peOl i :"
/ answered, Shut they think you are
trying to deprive the Fl lJpinOs of their
HOer ies." The FilIipinOs az Clays,"
he replied, ''WeIc0me the American
Flag, and are anxious 10 place them
se'v5s within the iarIsdiCt on OF the
United States. Tdere is no st riO1s Op-
position being off cred Us except by ha
TagslOs, WI no e ambitious to exercise
their rule over the other tribes WHO in
habit the islands, We propose to give
the flIIpIuOS Wn9E Lney nave 06Vel
had-a stsbls and Iiberal government
with as much Of local sel;gOvsTn nenI
as they are prepared fer"
Before he was elected Governor o.
Ohio he was the invited guest Of the
Amalgamated Trades Associations OF
Labor Day, aCd made p speech at sub
urban resort near G n n3Innati, Ohio
This writer who was the author OF th'
bill in the GensraI Assembly Of Ohio
which created the day IN that STATE
was also an invited guest. I noticed
thst whila bis speFCb was brief, yet h
had it written, and he read it from mar
uscTipt Upon surprise being expresss 81
at the fact, he state d that on such Gees
sions he gener,lly " o 9 and read hi
addresses.
IT was on this same occasion thst b
refused to stop at the @ bsOl House, II
CnciuUaI wneIe the committee had as
sigued him b -csuse this writer was re
fd-ed accommodations 10 ihs dining room
there; and turning away be bst0Gk him
SELF to tee BuTnet House Wnere the di
crimiuati. was not thess n 1de. Vine
he was MAKING MS ouly uDsu3cessfC
run fer CONGRESS in the gerrymsndere
district Il 1890, the writer was assigne
20 spe5k Win him (for he supposed d il
fll0nce he migut exert over the COlGre
voteTs;) in the city OF youngstown
OHIO: aid while he spoke in the Bin
at night MtkjDI Y occupied a seat @
the pl1tterm near him. Afterwards