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HAS PRESIDENT a PLAN?
Runored Roosevelt ContempIates At
tempt to Solve Race Problem.

tempt to Solve Race Problem.
Washington. Feb. 10-SecretaryRoot's
speech before the Union League club in
New York has accumulated a situation
which is daily growing more acute. The
secretary is believed closer to the presi-
dent than any other OF his official fam
ny. His admission thai the results from
Acknowledgement Of negroes have been
disappointing is interpreted to mean
the president en%tertains similar views.
Republicans refuse to discuss this
phase. It may be President Roosevelt
has plans which he believes will uplift
the negro and that he shortly will give
publicity. Within a few months the
race question has assumed a more gil
gantic form than has been presented
since acknowledgements.
Numerous event have conspired to
make h question demand considera-
ton from a broad view. This is the
keynote of the Root speech. Represent
alive Llttlefield Of Maine in referring
to Secretary Roots speech said he
would devote the summer to lectures
On the race question. Mr.. Littlefeld,
Whoscomes from 2. state as q removed
from southern influence as any, holds
negro e1franchisement was a stipend
GUS blunder
To Pension Ex-S.aves..
A Dill pensioning ex-slaves was first
introduced by Ingalls,. It attracted lit
tie attention at the time, but it's pre-
sentation by Hanna when the south
Gas already reused and the negroes in
famed mas resulted in the most incen-
larry. u~tterance southern newspapers
have given for years.
Scores OF personal letters are daily
receiyedin Washington from the black
belts. These recount situations never
presented in the newspapers. Social
equality demonstrations are daily &C.
c~urrences in Mississippi and Alabama.
washington correspondents Of south
ern newspapers are daily devoting
themselves almost exclusively to the
race question.
The negroes south labor under mis-
taken q what the president wants
TO do: This is shown by negro clamor
Tor Office, tnnumerable mass meetings
and demands for social equality. A
negro Baptist preacher in North Caro-
n III been craze and has distrib-
uted circulars telling Of his coronation.
He calls himself Prince George and has
appointed a regular cabinet. Crum. the
negro appointed collector at Charleston.
Is named as secretary of state. His
throne is to be at Wilmington.
Republican congressman have been
guarded in expressions regarding
Roots speech. It was admitted every
where the race question could no longer
be minfmiled. Heretofore each party
has seized upon certain phases to Sc
cure political advantage. The fre-eat-
Ing southerners look upon the Root
speech from that viewpoint. The re-
publicans were more guarded and con-
~seryattye. Senator Carmack Of Tennes-
see said:
II am glad the administration has
come to recognize there is a race ques-
ton. 1t has never done so before. This
admission offers hope that the question
may be approached from a national
standpoint"
Representative Richardson, minority
leader. was unwilling to discuss the
speech Until he had read it carefully.
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi
could see nothing significant in 1t. John
Wesley Gains said the best thought of
the country had already devoted itself
to the race question, and solved it.
Il mean" said he 1.-THE south has
solved the problem and only needs to
be let alone"