Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-10-30
G0RMAN ON ROOSEVELT.

For once We have the good fortune
to agree with Senator German. He is
now making speeches in Maryland
and he ls taking Mr.. Roosevelt to task.
Reports of his speeches say:
Senator German did not mipce mat
ters in dealing with the President, and
while paying tribute to his ability be
fegretted that be had gone out of his
way as the Chief Executive of all the
people to fight in Maryland for vim
dicatiOn of his unpopular and mis-
guided policy on the negro race issue. :"
The Senator also delivered scath
ing arraignment of the "President' 3
impetuous and impulsive methods in
administering the greatest office with
| in the gift of the people, He asserts
that the President had not only inten
sfied the race issue, but by Ibis i'm
prudence in interfering with matters
which did not properly belong to his
Office, bad unsettled business interests. -
| There never was such man IN such
high office. He seeks no counsel Of
others, he plunges like bull frog into
a pond whenever a question arises, and
when we see him with his guards all
about like q king. and behold that
grin, that horrid grin of satisfaction,
we wonder how on earth sane people
ever thought of making him Vice
President, much less President. Mr.,
German cannot say much after bis
present style which does not meet orr
hearty appreciation. All he has said
below certainly does, and is true;
''This country was made by white
men. The Anglo Saxon fashioned the
laws and made the Constitution, sub
dued the English. suppressed the In
dams, and no other race of men shall
have control OF Howard county or
Maryland or the Union. l regret as
much as any man in Maryland that we
should have race issue. The negroes
were lifted up by being slaves to the
white man, like all inferior races in
| other parts of the habitable globe. As
long as they are subject to white peO-
pie, they are honest, they are careful,
they are industrious, they are faithful.
But the moment you give them power,
1t turns them to dishonesty and treach-
cry. They cannot be trusted to man-
age the affairs of white people.
Unfortunately the President of the
United States-and / speak of him as
the President ought always to be spok-
Ell of, with respect-gOes from one end
of the country to the other, intensity
ing the race Issue. He well knows that
all thoughtful men of the South with
out exception, unless it be politicians
who want the votes of the negroes,
and every thoughtful man in the
North has reached the conclusion that
no greater crime was ever committed
against good government. no greater
, c lime has ever been perpetrated against
the women OF the South, than the
emancipation of the negro by consti-
tutionaI amendment.
This crime committed upon the Or
gan1c law by votes and coercion must
be now annulled by the States taking
away the Acknowledgement and assert
ing the right of white man to control.
The President of the United States
with an impuisiveness and thought
lessness which would hardly be excus-
ed in a small boy in this community,
has faculty of expressing himself
WHICH has DcGOLuo QauSPTOuS tO Juo
peace of the country.
s'Suddenly one day be takes up the
race question. He brings Booker
Washington to dine in the White
House, and this has been interpreted
| by the negro race to mean that they
are entitled to equality at the ballot
box, entitled to even more, social
equality; for a President Of the United
States has dined with man of the
race.''