The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
THE PRESIDENT AND NEGRO AP
POINTMENTS.

Bumptious Georgt White will run out
of soar If his fate is as dolorous as it is
given out from Washington headquar-
ters. 1t is actually announced that
Georges rations are to disappear and
the loaded pie n Poor Georgei
He is not S 10 great and important as he
thought himself. To disappear from
the halls of the congress just when a
new president comes in trimming over
with love and admiration for curly
headed limbo and Mrs. Dinah, and
daughter Sarah Jane, is very unfortun-
ate and sickening. Why, it really look
ed as If BumptiOus George was to play
the part of Phoenix and to arise from
his ashes, and TO be a welcome guest
at the Black House and be cheek-by-
jowi with Teddy and "his'n." But alas!
1.-The best laid plans of men and mice
gang aft aglee." George is cut off from
the Black House, cut off from the
grooming pie counter and ne is now
heard spouting ines and sentences from
Shakespeare with exquisite Apostle
ness: Farewell, a long farewell, to all
my greatness. Today he puts forth the
tender leavs of hope" but then comes
a FROST which ''nips. his root. and then
he falls as / do" Il have touched the
highest point of all my greatness when
I did lord it grandly over Tar-Heei
niggers, and drew my big per diem /
felt my oats and was something pam
pered and exalted in my own cOnceit.
But aIasi / fall from the full meridian
of my glory, and / haste not to my set
ting. Farewell, good bye my leeks
and garlic, my big dinners and fine
clothes and al lmy FLUSHING honors."
I am out and friendless. Never more
shall I play the big man. Vain pomp
and glory of this world, 1 hate ye.'
Good bye Bumptious! Filing away
ambition" Go to work with your hoe
and grub for a living. When GeorgeI
shall think of Teddy and Booker's en-
tertainment, he will realize more than
ever, "how wretched is that poor mani
that hangs on princess favors," or on
the patronage of a newly fedged and
self-willed president.
The Raleigh Post has a special from
Washington, of 9Th inst that y
THE Booker Washington incident. or
rather the way it was received in the
southwest, seems to have made a deepl
impression upon the president, and i'll
intimations that have dropped from the
president within the past week can be
accepted as indicating his purpose, it
mas caused q change of policy on his
part in appointing negroes to federal
positions in the south. =
Ex-CongreSSman White, it is stated
by one present, was told by the presl-
dent that he could not appoint him to
an Office. On this occasion the presi-
dent said the southern negroes a re-
celyed more recognition than they were
to at the outh. AT the Samel
he intimated that he would ap-
point negroes from the north and west
to office. .
intends not to appoint southern negroes
TO office of trust any longer in that Sec
ton The may be appointed "hewers
OF wood and drawers of water but
that's all.
Friends of Cheatham here are there
fore alarmed at the present attitude of
president. Lions of Mississippi, al
the present register of the treas
ury, will go it is said, for the same ea-
By thus recognizing the negrol
vote in the north and middle west IN
negroes from that s%ectionI
to office, the president expects to hold
the negro vote where it counts, as in
Of those states the negro vote
holds the balance of power"