The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-01-14
Will FIGHT CRU II.
Senator Tillman Will Do All Ee Can
to Defeat His
CONFIRMATION AS POSTMASTER
OF Charleston BY the United States
Senate Because the People OF
the State Want Him TO.

The Washington correspondent OF
The State says bitterness has been
aroused in Charleston against The
president for his action ir appointing
a negro, DR.. Crum. to be collector of
that port. The Charleston board of
trade has passed resolutions calling
upon both Senators Tillman and Nc
Laurin to fight Crum'S confirmation
to the last ditch in the senate ana to
use every effort to secure the nomlna-
tion of white man to the collector
ship. Senator McLaurln has not yet
returned from his Christmas holidays
so that it is not known whether he
will respond to the cry of the Charles
ton people and oppose the policy OF The
administration. Senator Iiilman. as
was announced in The State. will en-
ter protest against the appointment
of Crum and will avail himself OF the
opportunity to say a few things about
the policy Of the Roosevelt adminiStra-
tion in showing of negro otficialS upon
the people OF the south. The senator
does not anticipate that he will bcsuc-
ceSSful in his fight against Crum un-
less proof is furnished him that the
negro is unqualified for the Office on
other grounds save that OF color. for
while the latter ground iSall sufficient
to convince the senator it viii be use
less to hope for consideration in the
senate en- that score alone. Whether
the Charleston people can bring proof
that Crum was disloyal Republican
at the Minneapolis convention Is not
certain. These charges were present
ed to the president last fall but in re-
futation Crum secured testimonial
from prominent Republicans to the
effect that he had entered the conven-
tion Harrison man and had remain
ed true to his candidate. 1t was charg-
ed that Crum went to the convention
pledged to Blaine and was induced to
transfer his support to Harrison in re-
turn for the Charleston postmaster
ship. This office was rendered him.
but the nomination being held up in
the senate his name was withdrawn.
President Roosevelt, it's said, would
not have objected to being furnished
with some such excuse to turn down
Crum. He has asked the question as
TO what obligations this adminiStrl-
tion was under to the Charleston
negro. but after his personal letter to
Mayor Smyth, in which be lectured
the Charleston ariS.ocracy on their
attitude toward the blacks, it was
obviously impossible for him to refuse
the office to the negro doctor, merely
because he was 9 negro.
1t is through no love for the preSl-
dent nor because of any desire to aid
him in any way that Senator Tillman
intends to protest against Crum'S APP
pointment. NGr is it merely in re-
Spouse to the cry Of the Charleston
board of trade that he will institute
this fight. Indeed friends of the sena-
tor were wondering whether he would
overlook tae fact that Charleston had
endorsed the insult President Roose-
velt offered him last February in
withdrawing his invitation to the
Prince Henry dinner. 1t was just
after this incident, for which the
president has been rather severely
criticised by some of his own party:
that Charleston received Mr.. RooSe-
velt with open arms. 1t is known
that Senator Tillman has not forgot
ten these thing nor has he forgotten
the cordiality with which the Nc
Laurin idea was received in the city
by the Sea-" at the time when it was
thought the junior senator stood in
with the administration sufficiently
to secure a generous appropriation for
the exposition.
L have been lighting niggerS and
carpetbaggers all my life remarked
the senator Wednesday, and should
not be true to my traditions. my par
ty or my State if l let up anywhere
along the line in this fight. But l
want it understood that am oppos-
ing the appointment of this negro to
the collectorShip Of the port Of Char
lesion, because l represent the people
Of South Carolina, and the people
from the mountain to the seaboard
are, I believe, opposed to domination
by the negro.
So far as Charleston itself is con-
cerned, it must be admitted that she
is not receiving as much sympa thy
as might have been expected frorn
members of the South Carolina dele
CATION, in having a negro hurled d.
rectly at her door. This is due to the
strange change Of front last spring
With reference to the nomination Of
| Mr.. Harris as postmaster. When the
name OF Harris was first sent in. pro-
tests came from Charleston that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had appointed a car
pctbagger" to the most lucrative post
office in the State. Investigation. 1t
was claimed, would show that Mr..
Harris was not a bona tide citizen OF
the State: that be was in the employ
of the pension ollice: that he waS re-
ceiving the customary allowance for
employees away from home: that he
, had formerly been in New York but
did not receive this per diem expense
appropriation, that State being con-
:sdered his home. So much was the
president impressed by the assertions
that he withdrew the nomination
from the senate and the fight which
Senator Tillman had instituted Was
-, Sn1-
denly Charleston sentiment appears
to have undergone change. Petl-
tions Hooded the capital from pronln-
cnt citizens Of Charleston reciting the
praises Of Mr.. Harris declaring him to
be the most acceptable man for the
Office, and urging Senator Tillman to
withdraw his opposition because OF
Mr.. Harris acceptability the Charles
tionians asked that his nomination be