The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-05
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, February 2.Ioo+

~ 10 i"ot uCIolDlnS eNluent lnat
Pres dent Roosevelt is estranging the
leaders OF his party by his persistent
effort to force negro office holders on
Southern cities. Already one repu-
bllcan senator who halls from New
England, but will not permit the use
of his name, has told your cores
pondent that he is opposed to the APP
pointment of w. d. Crum, as Col
lector of the Port of Charlestown, S.
{, and that he will oppose the ratih.
cation Of his nomination by the Sen
ate and there are good grounds for
believing that there ar. several other
prominent senators who hold the same
view although they will not admit 1t.
The nomination of Crum has already
been the subject of two secret ses-
sions of the Senate Commerce com.
mittee, before which appeared Mayor
Smyth and Mr.. J. Calvin Hemphill
of Charleston and their testimony
made a strong impression. Said the
Senator referred to, today, awe
would not tolerate negro collector
OF customs in our state nor would we
tolerate a negro postmaster in our
principal towns and cities. The
President is gong too far in his
quixotc attempt to demonstrate his
regard for iegroes and in the end he
will injure his party"
Xxx
Southern senators and representa-.
tlves have already protested that the
President, in his insane desire to cap
ture the negro vote, would preclpitate
race hatred and stir up strife and
their predictions have been sustained
by the mass meeting held here this
week for "the promotion of the cause
OF the negro" at which James H.
Hayes, whom Mr.. Roosevelt would
term san educated negro" declared,
1.-The time has come when the negro
must fght-not theoretically, not
intellectually, but fight with his hands
| am afraid we are anarchlstic. that
we are anarchists, and l give the
warning that If this oppression in the
South continues the negro must re-
sort to the sword and the torch and
that the Southland will become land
Of blood and desolatlon." The man
who presided over this meeting was
Cyrus Field Adams, another "edu-
Gated negro" and assistant registrar
of the Treasury, the negro whom Mr.
Roosevelt invites to the White House
social entertainments. Adams made
no protest at Hayes incendiary Ian
guage and made speech himself
little less dangerous in character. II
is common comment that were Adams
white man and had he participated
in and presided over meeting al
which such anarchistic and incendi
AIRY language was used no one woul6
be quicker to demand his discharge
than Mr.. Roosevelt.
Xxx
Senator Quay sprang surprise or
the republican leaders yesterday with
regard to the Statehood bill from
which they have not yet recovered
and which, in SO far as it has been
studied, seems to constitute triumph
for the astuteness of Mr.. Quay and tc
pressage the passage of the Omnibus
Statehood bill. Mr.. Quay has intro
duced the Statehood bill in the form
of amendments to the Agricultural
and the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bills with the request that they be re-
ferred to the Committee on Organiza
tion and Conduct of the Executive
Departments, of which he is chair
man and a majority of whose men,
bers are pledged to support him in
the Statehood fight. Unless the
President protein, of the Senate de
parts from all precedent and refuses
to refer the amendments to the com
mi,tee as requested by Mr.. Quay, 6
favorable report to the Senate will be
assured, the passage by the Senate o
the bills named will be impossible
without permitting the amendment te
come to vote and as Senator Quay
represents considerable majority o
the Senate his object will be accom-
plished in the upper chamber.
XXX
While the Statehood bill occupie
the floor of the Senate there is M
opportunity for antitrust Legislation
but it is fast becoming evident tina
were it not the Statehood bill it woulc
be something else for the republicans
are determined that there shall be M
effective antitrust legislation at thi
session The House is ready to pas
the Littlefeld antitrust bill whlcl
8 has received the sanction of the Ad
,, ministration and will doubtless do So