The colored American., 1902-09-06

is disguised with the factional fights
between the Republicans Of several
Southern States. He has tried Yarl-
Gus methods for making satisfactory
appointments, choosing some for per
sonal reasons and at other times del
egating authority to MIR. Payne or ac-
cepting the advice of local leaders
but the results have grown more and
more displeasing to the President, un-
til the other day he relieved his mind
by delivering a lecture that will bring
the warning ones up with a round
turn. For quite a while he has OBJ
served says the Star, lack of gen
uine political integrity among South
ern leaders, and the always upper
most thought in their minds OF ere
ating factional fights that one crowd
or another might be recognized as
closest to the administration IN the
matter of patronage distribution. He
has seen so many evidences of this
entire selfshness in the South and ut
ter disregard of party interests that
he has little patience with most or
the Republican organizations in that
section. Mr.. Roosevelt is anxious to
try to win over the conservative ele-
ments who might be attracted to the
economic policies of the Republicans,
and he believes a very respectable
following could be secured if honest
effort were made in that direction.
He is a fighter and he wants action,
not mere organizations whose only
aim is to secure the patronage. He
wants the leaders to earn their places
by producing votes and members in
Congress, and to be let alone by
coteries who visit Washington load
ed TO the guards with denunciatiOn
of one another The President has
frequently told these delegations that
he could not believe a word they said,
and this lack of confidence caused him
to go OutSideOf their recommendations
for suitable timber to fill certain posi-
tions. WE 90 not know how far
these remarks apply to cOlOFed visit
Ors, but we are glad of one thing-the
President has shown these fellows
who trade on Negro votes or Negro
constituents to secure fat places, that
he is 'Onto their game" and they
will have to deliver the goods or
there viii be nothing doing" We
have suffered a long time from the
depredations of these Iily-whites who
care nothing for the party or for us,
and whose membership in the party
is solely to get federal office when
the Republicans carry the country
The Negroes who bear the burdens
and take all the risks are put aside
with little or nothing while the fell
lows who are never heard of when
the Democracy is in power, are up
10 their elbows in the trough" The
fat jobs of the Hly-white crowd are in
the air, if the President sticks to
his policy, and they cannot make good
unless they tote squar'' with their
cOlored comrades This should he
the shibbOleth of the Negro leaders in
Virginia, North Carolina, MARYLAND.
Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and
Texas, where experiments are likely
TO be made
What does this mean? The cur
rent issue of the New York Age repro
duces from the Charleston News and
Courier of July 8. the following let
ter. II appears to be written by
President Roosevelt 10 George r. Koes-
ter. the self-confessed lyneher whom
the Senate had the courage to refuse
to confirm because Of his unsavory
record-that of murderer of a help
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