Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-26
THE RoosEvELT-HANNA NEGRO VOTE HUNT.

President Roosevelt's monopoly as a player to the colored gallery has been destroyed. Senator Hanna has bounded onto the stage and demanded his share of Afro-American attention ard applause It is fully understood by the whole white population of the country that either gentleman is will ing to make any sacrafice of dignity in return for southern delegates to the . next national republican convention.
 The contest between the two for the favor of their follow-citizens of Afri- can descent has it's comic aspect, of course, but only the light-minded will care to dwell on the ludicrous side of such a degrading tug-of-war between the President. of the United States and the leading republican senator, his rival for the nomination in 1904.
 Mir. Roosevelt, protesting the very noblest motives the while, appoints negroes to office in the south and takes every occasion to rebuke southerners AOI nut llhAuS LOO lnlAlldNS PCiSOAdl contact with a race whom they. in common with MT. Roosevelt, refuse to regard as their equals. This policy ap- peals to the pride of the blacks, and the President has calculated that in exchange for recognition" the negroes win flock to the polls in his behalf when the time for electing delegates arrives.
 But now comes Senator Hanna with 8 bill providing for the pensioning of every ex-slaye, a measure that would take hundreds of millions from the treasury were it to become a law. Nobody better than Senator Hanna knows that there is not the remotest possibility of his bill ever becoming a law. There is not the least probabil- ity that it will ever be brought to vote in this or any other congress. But that does not concern MT. Hanna. What he is after is popularity on the of southern cities, where MT. Roosevelt of late has been having it all his own way. The poor black man may be grateful to the President for giving collectorship and postofice or two to colored citizens, but what is such recognition" however f1attering, in comparison with the promise of a Hanna pension for himself or one of the family?
 The people of the south have a right to be indignant at this trucking to the negroes by brace of politicians, whose ambition appears to have put their scruples sound asleep. No one who has an understanding of the condi- tions in the southern states, where there is a large African population, can refrain from actively sympathizing with that indignation. Messrs Robse- welt and Hanna are playing with fire, a fire which once started may de vastate many southern communities. They are selfshly and eonsciencelessly trifiing with very grave matter-add- AA6 tO NAC 0lAnC04lACc VI 0A already burdensome race problem. Deliberately they are filling the heads of great masses of ignorant negroes with hopes of political prefermeut, social equality and material advan- tages that can never be realized.
 President Roosevelt and Senator Hanna are intelligent men. They know perfectly well what must be the effects of their bids for negro popularity. They are engaged for political pur- poses, in stirring up the blacks against the whites of the south.
 That is sinister business. Not only is it to the last degree discreditable to the President and senator as public men, but 1t is highly dangerous-so dangerous that it beomes the duty of patriotic men throughout the union, re- gardless of party, to lift their voices and order halt.
 The south is part of our common country. and as such as well entitled to internal peace as is any other part. For outside politicians to disturb it's quiet and threaten its safety in erder that they may furtber their personal ends in a national convention is sim ply infamous. If the Chinese of the Pacific coast were fifty times as mum erous as they are, and had votes, and Roosevelt and Hanna, for the sake of delegates, should endeavor to rouse the yellow men against the whites there. that would be precise parallel to what Roosevlt and Hanna ar doing in the south.
 Every real friend of the negro, every enemy of the race hatred, every foe of sectionalism. and every citizen who cares for the dignity of the Presiden- .tial and senatorial offices must deplore the course of Mir. Roosevelt and Mir. Hanna. Their rivalry as aspirants for 4ho p-acsdencv has carried them be