The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

The total population of these seven
 Northern States in 1S60-men, women and
 children-was POS, 63s. In 1900 the number
 or. negroes entitled to vote, a fact which
 has figured vitally in the Roosevelt race
 policy, was 206.26S, in six States out of
 the seven the negro vote is large enough
 to hold the balance of power between the
 two great political parties. Another inn
 nortant fact in the study of the race sta
 tistfcs that ought always to be borne in
 mind when considering the weight and
 menace of the burden that affiicts the
 Southern States is that they have to look after and look out for 1.500,0 600 young ne-
 gro men of the age at which they commit the crimes for which they are most fre- quently lynched. It may give some idea of the impending black horror of which
 Senator Tillman spoke to the Senate last spring, when the Indianola case was up.
 President Roosevelt has declared for the open door for the black man, the open door of respectable employment, if not for social enjoymen with the whites
 Although in his story of the Santiago campaign he wrote slightingly of the me- gro's capacity for command, his subse- quent utterances have thrust the negro problem upon the army and navy just as pointedly and pungently as he has forced It in the round of civil employment by the Government. No class of the citizens Of this country are viewing the negro policy of President Roosevelt with more disturbed concern that the officers of the army. Negro officers in the army who have heretofore been isolated with negro troops are about to be pronoted to psi tions in which they must necessarily, the door having been thrown open by Mir
 Roosevelt, be put upon terms of associa- tion with white officers and placed In command of white enlisted men. The an- nexation of Hawaii and Porto Rico, with the appointment of naval cadets from those islands, will bring to the Academy at Annapolis youths of mixed breeds and off-color.
 Leading officers of both services have lately gravely discussed this subject Naturally much concern is expressed as to the outcome. The feeling against hay Ing negroes in the naval service is de- cfdedly stronger than in the army. This is, of course due to the fact that the graduates of the school for the navy than graduates of the school for the army after they are commissioned.
 It is an interesting matter of record appointed to cadetships at Annapolis. and some of them have passed creditable ex- aminations, they, have always failed to reason and another they have either been dropped or have preferred to re- sign rather than to incur extremes of dianola.
 coming up immediately. Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii has appointed Ellis Lando, a native Kanaka, to cadetship at An to fill his appointment. They are guess ing whether he Is black. brown, yellow or white. All the candidates for adnis- to pass examinations. and the problem in that quarter is for time deferred. The provision that allowed the appoint stipulated that they should be natives of the island. It's candidates for admis- sion to West Point have also failed to pass examinaf19n Sss 6 & so n that it , will be some scented among the officers of either the army or the navy.
 There are now eight negro officers in and are assigned to regiments of their own race. One commissioned officer is a paymaster. J. H. Lynch. once a member appointed by President Mckinley during the war with Spain. Two negroes have come up from the ranks and got shoulder tion.t One Is a iituenant in eG the Tenth Cavalry and the other is a lieutenant in the 24th Infantry. negro regiments We'll up in the list of captains. is Charles uated from West Point, having been ap- pointed from Ohio. in 1889. He is the only negro West Pointer now in the army There have been two others. One was the unforgotten F'lipper. who was con- tinually in trouble at the academy and afterward in the army until. although get out. The other. negro West Pointer was named Alexander. He bore a fair reputation and died after a few years of a negro battalion from Ohio during the war with Spain, but saw no service outside of Camp Alger. near Washing inevitable time when the negro viii com mand white troops. What is more Can tain Young is right in line to be a colo