The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-11
ROOSEVELT SHOWS HAND
Resents Exclusion of Negroes
 by Lily Whites.
Said in Birmingham That chis1
 Clerk in Thompson's offce wiil Be e Black Man and the Race will Get Other Plums.

Washington, Nov. 10.-(Special. .)-Julian
 H. Bingham's resignation of the Internal Revenue Collectorship of Alabama, which was filed November 2. was accepted today.
 and Joseph o. ThSmpson, postmaster of Tuskegee, and brother of Congressman
 Thompson. was appointed to the vacancy. November Bingham received in Birm- ingham a telegram from Acting Secretary
 of the Treasury H. A. Taylor. saying "At request of the President. tender
 your resignation by telegraph to take ef- feet upon the appointment and qualificar ton of your successor
 Bingham replied that he would izn-
 mediateiy mall his resignation. but quick ly there was another telegram from Tay- Tor directing him to await department letter mailed that night. This letter,
 dated November {, was identical with Tayior's first telegram. and upon its re-' ceipt Bingham came to Washington. ar-
 irving last Friday morning. and at once
 handed in his resignation, which was nos
 accepted till this morning. the President
 Secretary Shaw and Postmaster General
 Payne having held two conferences on the
 subject.
 Was Removed by Mckinley.
 Bingham was removed by Mckinley in August 1901 and Judge Morton of Fayette
 was appointed his successor. but the papers In the case were immediately re- called by the President and pending final action in the matter came the tragedy in | Buffalo.
 When Roosevelt became President nc decided to allow Bingham to remain n office. But the President now sacrinces | him on the altar of the negro vote. l makes him the victim as Secretary shaw admits, of the lily white movement. To ouote excellent authority here; MT. 1 Thompson's appointment had the endorse ment of Professor Booker Washington and represents therefore his opposition to tbe attempt to exclude his race from par
 ticipation in politics. In fact concur | des this authority, MT. Thompson may be considered the practical appointee ot | Professor Washington"
 The Evening Star, the local Wmte
 House organ, is the authority quoted. | Secretary Shaw bears emphatic tesfl- | many to Bingham's good official record, | as does Postmaster General Payne, tns Presidents chief political advisers. m | referrjnx to the case this afternoon Mr. Payne said:
 Payne Praises Bingham. "Tbe change in the office of Collector | of Internal Revenue for the District OF Alabama in nowise reflects upon the in- tegrity or ability of Mir. Bingham. tns | incumbent of the office It IS one ok
 these things which occasionally happen | in politics. The position taken by the Republicans of Alabama at their recent | state Convention as understood by the Republicans of the North, Is looked up- on as a pervorsion of the fundamental principles of the Republican Party ana
 Mir. bingham is. in a measure. held re- sponsible for that action; lence fne change.
 "Neither the administration nor the Republican Party of the North will stand for the. exclusion of any section of our people by reason of their race or coiors when in other respects such citizens have compiled with laws and are eligible un- der the law to full and free participa- | ton in political action and are of high standard of political character. In. other | words, there are now hundred colored
 men in Alabama who come up to the re- | ouirements of the recently adopted state | Constitution and are eligible for partic-
 ipation in political affairs and the action of the Republican State organization re- ferred to in arbitrarily excluding them is
 not approved, no more than such action
 would be approved if it were taken in | Ohio or Indiana"
 Thompson a Republican. Mir. Thompson, the appointee. is . brother of Representative Thompson of
 Alabama. He is a Republican, although
 his brother represents Democratic dis4 trict.
 The bearing which the Bingham case
 may have on other Federal offices in Alas
 bama is problematical. Time only can telt
 whether others will be asked to resign
 It will be remembered that District Ats
 torney Vaughan was removed before the
 Lily White movement assumed shape. tha
 alleged cause being neglect of duty.
 Thompson was a delegate in the Lily White Convention.
 Bingham. who is here, says he will att
 tempt to make no fuss or row whatever,
 but is going into private business. Lucien Julian Walker.