The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-13
ALABAMA PRESS VIEWS
OF INDIANOLA INCIDENT

makes any official fixture, and If the
people want a change, where is the crime
in asking the official to resign? That the
citizens of Indianola had submitted with
out complaint to their office being filed
for six years by a negro woman speaks
well for the community as law-abiding cit
liens, and to have their office closed and
they placed at a very great inconven-
fence just because they requested the
resignation of the official is hardly in
accord with the ideas of free government.
The postmaster herself says she was
not threatened and there is no evidence
that any lawless element was at work.
but there is strong evidence that there
is national convention TO be held next
year and in several northern states the
negro holds the balance of power and
the President is very anxious to have DEL
egates.
The attempt of the President to force
negroes upon the southern pc op!e will
not be submitted to without objection, and
the President may as we'll learn this
at the outset
From the Talladega News-Reporter
The President is nothing If not original.
He has a head of his own and is using
1t regardless of his friends and advisers
ne mas not only appointed a negro in
south Carolina against the wishes of his
party but has discontinued a Mississippi
postofffce because the citizens objected to
negro postmistress, whose resignation
was not accepted by the department A
postoffice inspector has been sent to In
dlanola, MISS, to investigate the trouble
between citizens and the colored postmis-
tress there, and, if possible to locate
the blame. 1t is alleged by men familiar
with Indianola affairs that the towns
people in general are not responsible for
the persecution of the woman that caused
her to resign, but number of politicians
who wished change in the office for
their own benefit made all the trouble
These men, it is said, were former,v
democrats. Now they have become re-
publicans, 1t is said, and demand public
Office and the only ones in sight are
those at the postoffice.
From the Marion County Democrat
In southern town where majority
OF the citizens and patrons of the post
office are white people, and where race
prejudice runs high, there is no need for
negro postmaster, and If some of the
citizens resorted to violent means to have
the negro woman resign it was no cause
for the Presidents action in closing up
the office, thereby depriving the entire
community of mail facilities The Presi-
dent is not ignorant of the race condi-
tons in the south as they really exist,
for he has been here and seen for him
self and his recent actions show that
he desires to humiliate the white peo-
pie of the south as much as possible.
From the Florence Times
Roosevelt does not understand the sit
uation in the south, or the temper of it's
people. He is veritable bull in a China
shop, and the predictions of even his
friends when he first became President
are being verified.
From the Mobile Herald
There is every reason to believe that
even in the remote hamlets of Maine they
| have discovered where Indianola, Miss, is.
From the Admission Hot Blast.
The now prominent ex-postmistress of
Indianola is the first woman on record
who "has nothingsto say"
From the Mobile Register.
You cannot elevate the negro by dry
nursing him.