The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-24
PATTERSON
 ON ROOSEVELT
WRITES A SATIRE ON THE DIN
 NER TO WASHINGTON.
Calls It a Sensation-Declares Presi- dent is Only Living Up to the Republican Party
 Religion.

l SdAAc 4b 6 ACo1-
 dent is Only Living Up to the
 Republican Party
 Religion.
 Henry Watterson, editor of The Courier Journal has expressed his opinion oi President Roosevelt's action in inviting | Booker T. Washington to his private table. The editorial Is in Mir. Watterson's l characteristic style and Is particularly interesting, because of his recently an | nounced determination to be candidate for Presidential honors himself in 1904 | MT. Watterson's editorial is as follows
 'It was sensation. Already 1t rises | to the dignity of a cause celebre.' Pre- | sently we shall begin to speak of the Booker Washington incident One does not know precisely whether to laugh or to whistle. Assuredly, 1t is the part of | wisdom in Democrats to say nothing | and saw wood.'
 "Is Nobody's Business" | Each American, whether native or African descent, has the right to pick his company, to sit at table with whom | soever he will, and if it please the Presi- dent to dine one or a dozen gentlemen of l color at the White House-'unofficially mind you-that is nobody's business. Nevertheless, and at the same time, there are certain conventionalities, call l them prejudices, if you like, it were wise | for all men, and particularly for great | public exemplars, to consider in their | migrations between the drawing-room and the dining-room. Even as a blunder Is held in politics and diplomacy to be worse than 8 crime, so in society-par- ticularly in those homes of luxury and alimony which give the word and set the pace to the 400-it is safer to commit a sin than to be detected in a solecism.
 "The President need not be reminded of this. He knows it well. Nobody knows it better. But he is exceptional. Born with a ruffle arouSd his neck and a gold spoon in his mouth, he grew up to find among his playthings ticket call ing for the capital prize in the lottery of life.
 Tempted to Defy Usage.
 Such a man is tempted to defy usage. He gets to be law unto himself. Hav ing arrived upon the scene to regenerate mankind and reform the world, may he not, shall he not clasp the man and brother to his bosom, take counsels of him, and by these tokens vindicate the gospel of the fathers in Israel? ''Why, look you, masters. this be a very Daniel come to judgment "Yea, and he carireth along with him his scriptural warrant. Hath 1t not been written, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings'-even colorsd babes and suck lings ?-'Hast thou ordained strength the old Free Soil litany-that thou might still the enemy and the avengerT In this case the enemy Is race hatred. Why may not the 'avenger' be the States lately in rebellionY
 He is an undoubting as we'll as a | lineal descendant of Wendell Phillips and | Lloyd Garrison, wearing the mantle of | Theodore Parker and brandishing the sword of Joshua Giddings. At least no old-time Republican will venture to chide him for teaching by example what they | were able to teach only by precept. In a word, MT Roosevelt is true to his politi- cal religion.
 "The Equality of Man"
 "The foundation stone of that religion was and is and ever will be the equality of man. To free the negro. to educate l and elevate the negro, to seat the negro in the high places of the land. l Why should he pale before the fire of Southern rebels or Northern doughfaces? Did not his party, for the sake of great moral lesson, purposely keep the seat last occupied in the Senate of the United States by Jefferson Davis vacant until 1t could be filled by gentleman of color? Revolutions never go backward. Ut is but a step from the Capitol to | the White House; from the council board | to the banquet hall; from the marriage festival to the bridal chamber; and there you are. prophecy fulfilled.
 MT. Lincoln might not have done 1t. MT. Mckinley would scarce have tried it. But shall Mir Roosevelt. the dashing rough rider, the confident reformer. the progressive philosopher. quail before his duty to humanity and to God? Perish the thought!
 Mourns for Booker Washington.
 eve mourn for Booker Washington. He it is on whom such consequences as be- tide this Kindergarten lesson in ethics of modern life are likely to fall. He in the end will as it were, have to pay the freight.
 When Frederick Douglass married white woman his power was gone. It did not elevate him in the estimation of white men. It lost him caste among the people of his own race.
 Booker Washington as head of the Tuskegee school was admirable. As head even, of the kitchen cabinet. he Is to be pitied, red rag to racial prejudice; an object of envy in those blacks who are intelligent enough to differentiate; an of- fense to white Republicans, menace to Democrats at the South.
 Hopeful for Democrats.
 Looking at it from a partisan point of view. Democrats may take not a little comfort to themselves. Whatever hap pen, this is not our funeral! Out in the cold as we may be-shivering as we are | and hungry, yea, verify, and thirsty-yet as we stand around the White House and look through the windows and see Teddy and Booker hobsnobbing over their pos sum and potatoes, not one of us Is dis posed to envy either of them, or to ex- claim of either, Wouldn't it be bully to be him?'
 "We prefer to take our chances of the future. We had rather wait till our time comes. Somehow, the look ahead does not seem so hopeless. nor the distance so long.
 We Democrats have but to get togeth- CT. to keep our powder dry, to carry all before us three years hence; because this young man is a bronco buster. and he Is going to raise more of that stuff from the hot place with the short name to the square inch than was ever raised before in that particular neck of the woods
 There's a good time coming, boys.
 Wait a little longer"
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