The age-herald., 1901-10-07

clearly raised in the North-he would ncI hesitate moment to choose the Demo, crat. In the South there is always a noe. sibility of some such situation; so if tbs Republicans in that section are going to retain their hold on this administration they must be prepared to furnish good material By this Is meant not merely that man shall be intellectually capabla of performing the duties of an office hui that he must have at least the passive good will of his neighbors. They must not be able 10 reproach the administration with having appointed a scalawag to of. flee because he happened to be a Repubi- can and the only one man in his neighbor- hood with the mental capacity for trans- acting government business It is for this reason that we shall probably see the President consulting Southern Democratic Senators and Representatives to some ex- tent about appointments in their own neighborhood It has always been MT. Roosevet's desire to see the South back into full communion with the other sec- tions in conduting the national govern ment, instead of standing on the outside whenever a Republican administration is installed at Washington. This is not the case with any other section. and he would take great pride in breaking it up in the South.
 A good deal has been said, in the way of conjecture, about the Presidents treat ment of the McLaurin movement in South Carolina. The probability is that if Senator McLaurin receives the advantage of keeping absolute good faith with MT. Roosevelt he will have 8 good deal of influence at the White House; but if he expects, by cutting loose from the other wing of his party and thereby threaten ing its supremacy, to purchase favor with the new President so that he can distri- bute patronage for the good of his fac- tion, and not the good of the Federal service, he might as well stay at the other end of the town. His wise play will be to induce the very best men, so- cially and in business way, to let him present their names for such offices as the Administration has to fill in this state. This may mean a ooolness be- tween himself and some of the soldiers of fortune who have been following him of late; but if his choice is reduced to two alternatives, the soldier of fortune and failure or the respected citizen and success, 1t seems as if it would not be hard for him to make up his mind what to do. He could better afford as a mere matter of political expediency to get his recognition at the risk of the enmity of few henchmen of damaged reputation, than to get no recognition at all.
 And the negro? He must take his chances like the rest. If he be a man who has earned the respect of his white neighbors by his efforts to be a good citizen, by avoiding disreputable' associa- tions, and trying to be helpful in the community where he lives, he has noth- ing to fear from President Roosevelt be- cause of his color; but if he has led a loose life, ignored his obligations to his fellow-men individually and to society, and the law, he will have no favor what ever because he is black or because he is a Republican. The standard of person. al character and civic virtue which the President will set up for the negro's emulation is better embodied in Booker T. Washington than in any other man of color known to the public. By this measure every negro who aspires to of- hce will be tested. By the degree in which he approaches or falls short of it he will be judged fit or unfit. Although there Is only one Washington well known to the American people, there are doubt less many others who possess the same natural traits without having had the advantages of an education to bring them out, and others still with education enough have been crowded into the hack. ground by the self-seekers. The best of these men are doubtless known to their neighbors, who respect them whenever they may be hidden, and bring them for- ward, with view not only to giving the colored citizen his share of the country's work to do, but to show the Southern people the use which can be made of good material under a black skin. If proper care be exercised in it's selection.