The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-01

of violattns the spirit Of ths civn ssryics law In participating actively in poutacs. That could hardly bs oons in the face ot the activity of Msssrs Clarkson and Payne. His offsnse was engaging in . wrong kind of politics from the prssid- dents standpoint. A tribute was paid to his integrity and ability. but 1t was one of those things whion occasionally happen In politics." The question natuarlly was asked. Why should such . thing occasionally happen in politics with the approval of such . strenuous advocate of civil service reform as Presi- don't Roosevelt has profcssed to beY For. on its face 1t was a manifestation. not so much of party politics. which theorists would condemn. but of factional, If not personal, politics. Moreover the anusion to Ohio and Indiana,. together with the later announcement of the PresI- dent to the essential effect that he pro- posed to appoint negroes to office because they are negroes, that the door ofohope and opportunity be not shut against them. was a basis for the belief that the negro question was to be revived, to be, as of old. the means oe carrying for the Re- publican party such close States as Onio and Indiana or even New York. where the black denixens of Hers Kitchen may NSsSAAh tAc ESSult OI d uuuOHAt eieC- ton. or to guarantee a horde of plastic delegates In the Presidential nominating convention. Critics of Mir. Roosevelt on that score, recalling the smooth nothings addressed by him to Soutberners, were Indignant at the thought that he could be Induced by any kind of ambition to infuse new life into the negro as 8 poiiti- cal issue. curse to the South and tu the whole country. curse especially to the negro. But they overlooked the fact that the huscksterlng of Southern dele gates in Republican National Conyen- lions is the especial forte of the Ohio brand of statesmanship and is as nothing compared to the dramatic entrance of the identifying Rough Rider 8 hat. They forgot. too. that Mir. Mckinley had said most pleasant things in the South and had even worn an appropriate badge at a Confederate reunion, but had also ap- pointed negroes to office in the South to carry out convention pledges. and. of course. with no squint toward the next convention. but with a desire to prevent a ''perversion of the fundamental prin, ciples of the Republican party" In that they faided to preceive that MT. Roose- welt was standing by his intention to maintain the Mckinley policy while mak- ing good his words:
 
 for the Presidency in 1904. I have been eliminated. and am not now in any sense a candidate
 Byrne in Delaware.
 The removal of Bingham in Alabama was balanced by the appointment of Byrne as United States District Attor- ney in Delaware. where Mir. Addicks, Byrne's friend, prevents others from doing things if he cannot do things him. self. Certainly that re-appointment, after MT. Byrne's resignation to run for Con- gress had made possible the election of a Democratic Representative. was hardly for the purpose ofSpreventing 'perversion of the fundamental principles of the Re- publican party" if the words of that party's prophets count for anything. For Mir. Charles Emory Smiths paper said in reference to the long contest for con trol In Delaware:
 This contest Is greater than Delaware. In peculiar and pre-eminent degree it is the fight between public corruption and public honesty. The eyes of the country are on 1t. So far as we have observed outside of the Delaware papers controlled by Addicks there Is only one Republican paper that upholds Addicks or that does not urge the regular Republicans to do all in their power to defeat him. The
 
 Republicans of Delaware, but the rest of us cannot be indifferent to it. The Press desires to see Republicans stand together when 1t can be done consistently with public integrity and honor. but 1t cannot in conscience give any counsel to those who so long and faithfully defended the cause of honest politics in Delaware ex- cept to fight out their battle to the end"
 That White House Statement.
 The Presidents message from the White House on the eve of the elections that his most earnest desire" was for Republican success in States like New York and Pennsylvania. States ruled by those shining lights of pure politics, Quay and Platt, lent color to the wide spread belief that the Byrne incident was hut tribute to the potentialities of Addicks. Such suggestion was secuted in the following, given out at the White House as the statement authorized by the President of the United States:
 MT. Byrne was originally appointed United States Attorney for Delaware by President Mckinley. President Roose- welt knew him personally. Tn the opin- ion of the President he had rendered ex- cellent service for the public good in more than one direction, and he had been a stanch supporter of the President when hc ran IOr GOVeTuOr ana aIterWard. He was reported by the Department of Jus tice as fit and competent District At torney. and the President had entire con- hdence in his ability and integrity. He accepted the nomination for Congress.
 Other District Attorneys and Marshals had accepted such nominations without being requested to resign. but in view of the factional fight in Delaware the Pres ident thought MT. Byrne should resign, which he accordingly did. When the cleo tiou was over the President reappointed him without having given him the slight est previous indication that such was his intention. He would have been reappoint- cd without regard to the circumstances under which he ran or the faction with which he was allied"
 The Mckinley Policy.