The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-25

significant one. when as president he
apparently went GU of his way to onend
the American idea OF propriety and So
0ol distinction"
The new president is done for in the
south among tie real whites and Do
litically, personally, socially. No more
confidence will be reposed in his prom
ises or his acts. The Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal writes of him.:
"It is only very recently that Presi-
lem Roosevelt boosted that his mother
was a southern woman, and that he is
half southern by reason of that fact.
BY inviting a negro to his table he pays
his mother small duty by insulting her
inherited sentiments n by doing vio-
lence to the ethical concepts of the sec
ton whence she came. He has cut him.
self off socially from the south. No
southern woman with a proper self-re-
spect would now accept an invitation
to the White house, nor would Presi-
den Roosevelt be welcome today in
southern homes"
While it will weaken him and his ar
rogant party in all southland, it will
give a fresh impulse to miscegenation-
a serious attempt to destroy racial bar
riers and the sanctity of homes. The
Macon Telegraph sees in it that when
| the one man is a white man and the
other black it means that there is but
one more step to miscegenation-a sim
full and wilful breaking of Gods plain
| law"
Another serious view Of his is that
it is to some extent a republican move
ment. Roosevelt will be defended
through the north. Boston likes what
he has done. Bishop Potter, the Epis-
| copal prelate of New York, is pleased
with what Roosevelt did. Already a
| Congregationalist church in Illinois has
| gone into Mysteries over the unfortu-
nate alliance and Endorses the presi-
lent for what he did. And there will
be lots of this, n fanaticism and
folly will run mad up there and the
negro will be made a fetch. We see
| that the Philadelphia Methodists in
| dorse Roosevelt. But northern Metho-
| dists have always been fanaticaI. The
men who are we'll read in the causes OF
| the great war, the events that followed,
and the departures of the republican
/ patty 1lOll ~ od1C pdlii vi ollolllu
tional restriction, will easily under
stand that the corrupt party is ready
now for anything that will keep it in
power longer and strengthen it's cords.
Wait for the congress to assemble and
you will see fanaticism rampant and
hear rhetorical asses roaring. While
evil and dangers will come from this
fool-hardy freak of Roosevelt it will
not be altogether without some COM
p~ensating benefits. It will keep the
real southern whites united and re-
solved, and will break up the presi-
dents plan to buy help with patronage.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal talks
out and shows it's observation and
judgment. 1t says:
"Mr. Roosevelt is simply putting into
practice the theories of his party, theo-
ries and policies urged and advocated
for nearly half a century, and what he
has had the courage to do is but the
natural result of years of teaching and
preaching. Other republican presidents
before Roosevelt lave been either hyp-
ocriteS in their p%retention of their great
affection and love for the negro be-
he is a negro, or they have lack
ed the moral courage to carry out and
put into practice the teachings and
preachings of the party in all these
years. = + All this has happened in
| good time. 1t ONE when there was
about to be a mao rush of thoughtless
democrats int the republican party, pell
nell, regardless. 1t pulls the blinds off,
makes clear the, policies of the republic
can party n no man in the south
now need be deceived as to where he
will and when he starts into the repub-
lican party. He knows in advance what
re~publicanism means. He ought to
have known before"