Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-01-30

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$1,000 per annum. Colonel Marshall
OF the Eighth Illinois is deputy sheriff
Of Cook county, L. B. Anderson Is a.
sistant county attorney for Cook coun-
ty, F. l.. Barnett is assistant states
attorney. Then in the same state
there is smoke inspector by the
name of Bish and grain inspector,
Mr.. Chavis. 5.
-Four years ago Cyrus Field Adams
was elected south town clerk, posi-
tion which had at one time paid $1,000
per annum.
"A good many years ago, when Gen.
eral BENJAMIN F. Butler was governor
of the state of Massachusetts,, he ap-
pointed colored man by the name OF
Rufin police court Judge.
| "There is hardly state In the
north, however small the colOred pop
! ulation therein, which has not elected
! and appointed colored men to repre-
sentative Offices. It happened to be in
western New York last summer where
l met colored gentleman who was
city treasurer. Upon inquiry found
there were only forty colored voters In
that city. although the white voters
numbered several thousand He was q
man of high character, and when the
people wanted to fill that important
Office they did not think about his
color
1T is sometimes said by those who
would restrict the colored citizen to
purely industrial pursuits that they
are never appointed to Offices In the
north by the president, and hence It is
unfair to elevate them to high federal
places In the south. Now let us see
what are facts:
"The following persons hold pres;-
Dental Offices from northern states:
William F. Powell Of New Jersey holds
a $500 appointment made by the
president. c. F. Adams Of Illinois
holds presidential ONCE paying con.
siderable over $4,000 per annum. Nah
lon Van Horne of Rhode Island,
George H. Jackson Of Connecticut, G.
L. Maxwell of Ohio, r. T. Greener or
New York, H. w. Furniss OF Indiana,
]. r. A. Grassland Of Missouri and
George w. Ellis Of Kansas all hold
presidential Offices witt large salaries.
The following hold positions whici,
In dignity and salary are up to great
many presidential ofices: John P.
Green Of Ohio, N. T. Velar Of Pennsyl-
vania, ]. H. Jackson of Pennsylvauia,
John s. Durham Of Pennsylvania. Ru-
dolph B. Scott of Spokane, Wash; j.
A. Brown of Cleveland, Ohio; w. H.
Clifford Of Ohio and many others
whose names do not recollect.
"Quite an amount OF criticism Is In
dulged in because President Roosevelt
has seen fit to appoint DR.. w. p. Crum
to an Office in Charleston, s. G., which
pays 81, 200 per annum and has refused
to become particeps criminis to the
bulldozing methods which have been
adopted to drive from her home an
official who has given entire satisfac-
tion in the discharge Of her. duties
as postmaster of India. Las.Adass..
where she has served f.. baAfYney o.s9g o.s9ge,~
years. 1t fss'esss.sls9 ss.l9 :, ssahe sentiment
of the people in these places Is against
and the quondam incumbent In the
second. Heretofore I have indevorcd
to define the word citizen as 1t is
treated in the federal statutes, and
people is synonymous with citizens
in the sense in which am talking.
'The population of North Carlina
consists of 54O,7S1 white persons and
7S1, ,7S8 colored persons. When it is
charged that the people Of the state
are opposed to the appointment of DR..
Crum to this Office am at loss to
understand what people are meant. .
for certain it is that all the coloreG
of the state are in favor OF his ap-
pointment, and am reliably informc1
that a great many white people have
manifested their hearty approval Of
his selection. If the majority rule in
this country it is clear that the Presi-
dents action is indorsed BY q tremen-
dous majority of citizens Of tho
Palmetto state.
I'm Mississippi, where so mnch is
said about Mrs. Cox, the postmaster
of the little town Of Indianola, the
the population Is as follows: White.
614,O73; colored, 9O6,540. have never
yet heard single colored person op-
posed the incumbency Of Mrs. Cox.
On the contrary, l have heard that
many of the solid and substantial
white people favor her. Is 1T not {
clear therefore that she is the choice
of the great majority OF the people OF
her community? All Of this hlbbed
andexcitement about these small ap-
pointments is political, and the people
of the country should pay no attention
to it, N
President Roosevelt is travelling
in the path of his predecessors and
when he shall have finished his work
his successor, should he be g. Repub-
lican, will have to contend with the
same unreasoning and ungodly pretn-
dice" ;s.
William e. Curtis.
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