Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-01-09
Friday, Jan. 8.
why NEGROES ARE APPOINTED.

why NEGROES ARE APPOINTED.
The Indlanola, Miss. case where a
negro woman has been appointed post
mistess, is creating some feeling. The
woman. it is said, became alarmed for
her safety and recently rendered her
resignation. The President has re,
fused to accept it. He seems anxious
if not determined to have the woman
hurt, provided there is some one in
community mean enough to do So.
His hope seems to be that she will be
hurt. in order that he may have an
excuse to vent some of that spleen and
malignity of which he seems full to
the bursting point, upon the people of
the South, which section of this Union
he hates with an indescribable inten
sity, and is painting for a chance to
punish. Usually when postmaster
asks to be allowed to resign he is al
lowed to do So Not so in this case.
This postmaster or postmistress, as the
case is, was appointed by him and by
the gee Wilkins she is going to re-
main in that office if the president
breaks trace in his efforts to keep
her there.
Now we do not know how good a
postmaster this woman has made, she
may be all right and she may not. 1t
is of doubtful propriety to appoint a
woman to such position any way,
and very doubtful to appoint negro
woman under any circumstances. In
these cases the President is not APP
pointing negroes because of their worth
Or for race elevation, or to better the
service, or for any philanthropic mo-
tive, but simply to show the white
people down South that be can do so.
and to say to them NOW stop it if you
can" There are plenty of Republicans
about Indianola who would make as
good postmaster as this woman, if
not the Lord be merciful unto them.
But this does not suit the President.
He is looking for negroes who have
some capability, and he is examining
them in upon the people of the South
just to crafty that deep feeling of
hatred he bears toward them and evin-
ces on every occasion where he has
had a chance. For our part We have
never admired this man in any partic
lar. He is vindictive,he is cenceited, he
is domineering, he seems intensely and
unaccountably mean at heart. We
doubt if he ever had very close Or
good friend, we doubt whether there
is real generous impulse in his whole
make up, we doubt if anybody ever
wanted to get very close to him. His
shooting of the Spaniard in the back
inner nature. One can see him now
biting himself N his mad desire to get
chance to humiliate the white PEG
pie down South. His appointment of
a negro at Charleston was an evidence
of his kind of gratitude. Those people
had treated him thousand times bet
ter than he deserved, and he spat upon
their generosity. He is capable of just
such actions at any time and any place.
They deserved it to some extent, they
had no business inviting him there
after his gratuitous insult to Cover
nor Tillman. Anybody with the least
idea of human nature, and who has
seen the self opinionated strut of Mr..
Roosevelt and read after him can dis
cover the real motive in his negro ap-
pointments. His object is to put some
one where he will receive personal vio-
lence that he. Roosevelt, may deal out
punishment accordingly. His mode
of ramming his spurs into the sides of
a bronco, or beating it over the head
with gun in his mad fits, gives faint
idea of his character. He would make
what some people think a good super
intendent of penitentiary, or of any
institution where the walls of his
wrath could be poured out upon VIC
Tins who could not murmur. Jeffries
needed such as he to carry out the
edicts of his court
Mr.. Roosevelt seems determined to
tear assunder the wound which, under
the wise and humane policy of Presi-
dent Mckinley, was being rapidly
healed
A case of the end justifying the
means is found in the various Carne-
gle libraries. If the protective tariff
had not allowed Mr.. Carnegie to rob
the public as literally as be did, these
imposing edifices would be today moth
ing but raw material.
Senator Geo. F. Hoar has introduce
ed an antitrust bill. The object of
this is not to pass bill controlling
trusts, but to spread upon the records
Of Congress fitting tributes to the high
haracter and worth of trusts gen.