The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-03-07

law at Indisnola, with such questlons
as social equality and negro DONNA
ton Is as absurd as 10 connect them
with the nebular hypothesis or the
theory Of atoms.
Has Had Good Advisers.
81 have consulted freely with your
own senator's and congressman as TO
the character and capacity of any APP
pointee in Georgia concerning whom
there was a question. My party adj
yisers in the state have been MAJ.
Hanson, of Macon, Mr.. Walter Johnson,
81 Atlanta-both OF them eX-confeder-
ate soldiers-and Mr.. Harry Stillwell
Edwards, also of Macon. / believe you
will agree with me that in no state
would il be possible TO find gentlemen
ADLER and more upright or better quail
fled @ fill the positions they have filled
with reference to me. In every in
stance where these gentlemen have
united in making a recommendation
have been able TO follow their ad-
vice.
VIII Remove Unworthy Officers.
Am / not right in saying that the
L fg0NlAl
1 pointed throughout your state are, as
\ a body, men and women Of high order
Of efficiency aud integrity? If you
\ know OF any federal Office holder in
4 Georgia OF whom this is not true, pray
! let me know at once. ! will welcome
testimony from you or from any other
reputable citizen. which will tend to
show that a given public officer IS I'M
worthy, and. most emphatically short
will be the shrift Of anyone whose
lack of worth is proven.
Democrats Retained.
Incidentally | may mention that
large percentage Of the incumbents
OF federal Offices in Georgia under me
are. as / understand it, Of your own
political faith But they are support
ed by me In every way as they continue
10 render good and faithful service TO
the public.
"This is true Of your own state; and
by applying to Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Page, of Virginia. TO Gen. Basil Duke,
Of Kentucky; 10 Mr.. George Crawford,
of Tennessee; TO Mr.. John Mcllheny, of
louisiana; TO Judge Jones, Of Alabama
and Mr.. Edgar S. Wilson, of Mississippi
all Of them democrats and all Of them
men OF the highest standing in the
respective communities you will find
that what have done in Georgia stands
not as the exception, but as the rule
for what have done throughout the
south. l have good reason TO believe
that my appointees in the different
7 states newfoundland as the sum oi
the parts in the whole, necessarily II
, the south at large represent no
1 merely an improvement upon those
, whose places they took, but upon thu
{ whole a higher standard of fedora
! service than has hitherto been attained
| in the communities in question. ma,
4 add that the proportion of colore'
g men among these Eew appointees i
A only about one in hundred
$ Pnined mt the Cutlery.
i in view of all these facts, | hay
4 been surprised, and somewhat panied
J. at what seems to me the incomprehen
IA sible cutlery in the south about my ac
q tions--an cutlery apparently starte
n in New York for reasons wholly ur
= connected with the question nominall
} at issue. | am concerned at the att
v tude thus taken by so many Of tn
Il southern people; but am not in th
least angry, and still less will this az
titude have the effect of making N
d swerve one hairs breadth, TO one sid
e or the other, from the course hay
y marked out the course ! have col
y stantly followed in the past and sha
T. consistently follow in the future.
T. with regard, sincerely yours,
Ie "THEODORE ROOSEVELT"