The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-03
Gossip from Washington

, ington who wouldn't give 6 whole lot for a heart to heart talk with German with his tb.y ne ali fnew might as well ask a political interview of Cardinal Gibbons as expect Senator Sorman to talk for ba, fsat unique. Indeed. you might as. well at tempt to get him to take on all his clothes on Peppsyysns n,y Axsnus G tse ss look interviewsr; You might equally well ask President Roosevelt to sit stin and shut Yet Senator German sees newspaper men every day that he Is in Washington gives them timely information; But they .nd they ss sass % a press men like him none the less for his peculiarity. Really. no set of men were when he re-enter the Senate. and no heartier applause resounded when the imperturbabie and masterfui Maryland en the foePS ePReo of sss MsreS shan that which came from the Senate press gal leries. No man in public life Is more af- fable and considerate of newspaper men.
 A Negro Lover.
 The givings put from the Department of Justice of the alleged slavery business in Alabama, which was exploited as a ed for wssh s RsoRs sr. of
 
 resents The New York Post in Wash inFtSSI. FFSa, ,ansr.. Washington ,,,rsau has !. correspondent who knows as much about the Southern States and the conditions of them as an Esquimo knows of cotton subect of the treatment of the negro in the South. one needs only to read his wordv and wearisome disquisitions on time in that otherwise interesting and instructive journal. Ever since the In- dianola case, The Posts Washington cor as ndsnaon ssanst she people South. He vehemently espoused the ad- ministration's policy and heralded it as vet as seae rax if mot nothns else dS crum. for Collector of Customs at sna hsd s99 ssp exhibited as 2 superb piece of courage. age sought to be fastened upon the white people of Alabama. This correspondent's { course of abusing the Southern people by holding up the dark side-the negro side of every question involving the races. along with his fulsome laudation of the administration in the same connection. departments and he uses 1t for all that it is worth in his islander line.
 There is no sort of doubt, aS The Ad- vertiser's editorial of Saturday indicates. that the Department of Justice. in this instance. is playing its share of admins tration politics and that such literary stool pigeons as the fatuous fanatic of The New York Post admirably suits its purpose.
 This same correspondent Is an ardent advocate of Crumpackers scheme to re- duce representation in the South because of the treatment of the negro. How the slavery case has fortified him!
 Richardson Indignant.
 Representative William Richardson of the Eighth Alabama District, who is in Washington on departmental business. Is indignant at the use the Republican par tisan press is making of the treatment of negroes in Alabama.
 They are slanderous and false," said Judge Richardson; gotten up to bolster the black and tan faction of the party in my State. There was never a more up out of the alleged peonage of black people in Alabama. By our statutes. 1t 10 true, if convict can find a bondman who will satisfy his fine, he can elect to work out the obligation with the bond man. instead of doing time in the coal mines. It is no racial question. Often as not the bondman gets the worst of the transaction when he becomes convict's . security Still 1t Is a system I never liked. It has existed in other States and no race outrage has been sought to be in Alabama to the white people there than 1t islto the people who live in Mas sachusetts."
 R, H. Watkins.