Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-22
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4 style ard Is particularly interesting, be-
cause Of his recently announced deter
/ mination to be candidate for presi-
\ Dental honors himself in 1904.
Mr.. Watterson's editorial is as fol-
| lows:
| to the dignity of cause celebre.' Pres
entity we shall begin to speak 81 the
Booker 7. Washington incident One
| does not know precisely whether to
laugh or to whistle. Assuredly it is the
part of wisdom in democrats to say
nothing and saw wood.
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 ii please the pres
ident to dine one or dozen gentlemen
of color at the White house-'unotffcial
ly, mind you-that is nobody's BUSH
ness.
Nevertheless, and at the same time,
there are certain conventionalities, call
them rrejudices if you like, 1t 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 blunder
Is held in politics and diplomacy to be
worse than crime, so in Society-par-
tlculariy in those homes of luxury and
alimony which give the word and set
the pace to the 400-it is safer to commit
q sin than to be detected in soiecism.
The president need not be reminded
of this. He knows 1t well. Nobody
Knows it better. But he is exceptional.
Born with a rufiie around his neck and
g gold spoon in his mouth, he grew up to
find among his playthings a ticket for
the capital prize in the lottery of life.
Such man is tempted to defy usage.
He gets to be a law unto himself. Hav-
ing arrived upon the scene to regener-
ate mankind and reform the world. may
he not, shall he not clasp the man and
him, and by these tokens vindicate the
gospel of the fathers in Israel I?
Why. look you, masters, this be a
very Daniel come to Judgment.
Yea, and he carrieth along with him
his scriptural warrant. Hath 1t not
been written, out of the mouths OF
babes and sucklings'-even colored
babes and stockings Hast thou or
dained strength'-the old Free Soil lit
any-'that thou might still the enemy
and the avenger?' In this case the
enemy is race hatred. Why may not
the 'avenger' be the states lately in re-
lbellion'?
He is an undoubting as we'll as a
llneal 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 word, Mr.. Roosevelt is true to his
political religion.
THE foundation stone of that religion
was and is and ever Will be the equality
of man. To free the negro. to educate
and elevate the negro. to seat the negro
In the high places of the land
why should ne pale before the fire
of southern rebels or northern dough-
faces? 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 it could be filed by gent
leman OF color?
1T is but 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.
Mr. Lincoln might have not done 1t,
Mr.. Mckinley would scarce have tried
IT. But shall Mr.. Roosevelt. the dash
ing rough rider, the confident reformer.
the progressive philosopher. quail be-
fore his duty to humanity and to God
Perish the thought!
Eve mourn for Booker Washington,
He 1t is on whom such consequences as
betide this kindergarten lesson in eth
les of modern life are likely to fall. He
in the end will, as 1t We're, have to pay
the freight.
when Frederick Douglass married a
white woman his power was gone. II
did not elevate him in the estimation of
white men, 1t 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 preju-
dice; an object of envy In those blacks
who are Intelligent enough to differen-
tate; an offense to white republicans, a
menace to white democrats in the
south.
Looking at 1t 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 az we may -shivering as we are
and hungry, yea, verify, and thirsty
u 4 ~ krnry
and look thru the windows and see Ted
dy and Booker hobsnobbing over their
,possum and potatoes, not one Of us u
disposed to envy either of them, or tol
exclaim of either. Wouldn't it be bully
to be tim?'
I'VE 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.
Eve democrats have but to get to-
gether, to keep our powder dry, to carry
all before us three years hence; because
this young man is 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 woods.
There's good time coming, boys.
wait little longer"
Sheldon Praises Roosevelt.
Topeka, Kas., Oct. 22.-The Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon, commenting upon
the fact that President Roosevelt lately
invited Booker T. Washington to eat
with him, said: Our president at
Washington recently invited to his ia