New-York tribune., 1901-10-19
I, TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT.
vcpY SOUTHERN COMMENT ON PREsI,
nrNT RoosEyELTs ENTERTAINMENT
OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
fEr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.l


.hi,qton oct ls-The old Southern "wah
's IN washington-now. alas. sadly dimin-
20 IN number and becoming somewhat
s-,sned in spirit-has found new theme on
- 10 desoant with oldtime eloquence and
s,o,stion. President Roosevelt has had as his
" n dinner IN the White House Professor
s.ser T washington. the able and earnest
Do who conducts the Tuskegee Institute in
.sshoma. Many of the correspondents of South
newspapers have received instructions from
90 home offices to telegraph "scathing ar
.s.ss on the incident One Southern editor
ssgraphed 10 HIS "@sii'i's'o" iepieseii i've
sfOllo"s:
ASCERTAIN il Washington's wife accompanied
40 to the White House dinner. Ia SO. see If
oaosevelt escorted her in TO dinner on his arm
The correspondent who received these instruc-
..n. was compelled to disillusionize the ram
-, and superheated editor. because Mrs
lexington did not accompany her husband to
The capital.
The popular feeling among old line Southern
.us N washington probably was revealed in a
.onoouy between a gentleman from Georgia and
Gentleman from Kentucky who met by aeci-
s.-, IN a Pennsylvania-ave. drinking resort this
afternoon
acoonel what do you think cf it?" inquired
,he gentleman from Georgia of the gentleman
,rom Kentucky.
81 dare not trust myself. in this company. ST.
% give expression TO my feelings. sir" replied
,bs gentleman from Kentucky. with unaccus-
toned caution. not to say repression. 'on sec
ona thoughts. sir. | will make bold to say. sir,
the gentleman from Kentucky went on t. say
q viii make bold to say. sir. that after hearin'
this disgraceful occurrence l investigated the
record of Roosevelt. and learned, sir. that while
he was Governor Of New-York he invited mig
GER TO sleep all night in the mansion at Albany.
This. sir, prepared me 10 believe the report that
he had entertained niger al a dinner i'm the
White House"
KNOWN you TO be loyal son Of the South.
sir" said the gentleman from Georgia TO the
gentleman from Kentucky. Il thought you would
express yourself more vigorously on this out
rage. sir-this outrage, sir. Had not my IA
rorte paper The Richmond Dispatch eN-
messed so vigorously to-day the indignation felt
throughout the South. myself would feel called
upOn 10 denOunce the incident in unmeasured
terms ] shall send 10 you sir The Richmond
Dispatch of to-day i'm order that you may read
rs able and brilliant editorial on this subject.
which I think should find its way into every
Yankee sheet in the North so the people up
there could know how the South has been out
ragged"
why. sir, think of it a moment" the gentle
man from Georgia Went on TO say TO the gentle
man from Kentucky. When Cap'n Evan p.
Howell Of Atlanta, was here last week / re-
minded him that at last we had a gentleman
IN the White House, even though he is not
Democrat. Cap'n Howell agreed with me on
this proposition, sir when ] pointed out TO him
that ROOseve!ts mother was a Bullock. of
Georgia, than which there is no finer blood in
the land, sir. and is still to-day one Of the first
families Of the South. l thought when Rooss-
welt invited some OF the lesdin' men of the South
10 Washington to partake of his hospitality at
the White House that this was sign he under
staod us and was gOin' To treat US right How
many Southern gentlemen have already accepted
this invitation from the President / do not
n0w-I quit keepin' count Of 'em-but l do
know, sir, that Roosevelt will fool no more of
en- No. sir; he can't fool us any longer. After
al the nice things that have been said about
HIN by the Southern gentlemen he has enter
tained at the White House, and then 10 have
him entertain a niger at the same board at
which these representative Southern gentlemen
ate-why sir, my gorge rises so at the very
thought Of such thing that further speech fails
me, sir"