The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-14
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Ris Connection With the Jndianofa.
Miss Postof6ce-A Play for Ne
gre Vote in Next Convention.


says Has Theodore Roosevelt gone
mad This ss che question that is ON the
|lips of everyone's tongue heree an6
every development in Che Southern stu,
alton, as 10 is denominated. strengthens
The viesy that he has. Today he and his
cabinet ministers spent an hour Or more
considering the Indlanola, Misso post
Office affair. aad it was concluded not to
accept Che sesignation of the Goa won,-
an. but 90 continue che present. arrange
ment unti5 Attorney General Knox has
>ifted NE matter 20 the bottom, and
rendered a judicial opinion as 20 the
liability OF citizens of that community
for prosecution under the penal statutes
of che United States, which the Presi-
dent and Payne believe to have been
violated. Velegraphic dispatches from
Birmingham state that the Cox woman
positively refuses 20 accept the position
under any circumstances. yet despite
this sact the President, acting on the
advice OF Payne. Clarkson and Cabot
Lodge. is going to make her do so,
willy nilly. This is singular state of
affairs. The whole affair. is unusual.
WHAT IS TIL MEANING?
Never before in the history of shis
government. not even in the celebrate /
kitchen cabinet OF Andrew Jackson, has
so much time been devoted by the chief
magistrate of the nation and his cabinet
TO so insignificant matter Now that
all of the facts are known, and IL has
been ascertained ,ilat no violence OF
threats or intimid ltion were used to
secure the resignation of the negro post
master, it would seem that a contin,l-
ance of the star chamber investigation
would cease and that in these urgent
moments. when great issues are before
the nation for settlement. the President
would at least give as much time to the
consideration of them as he has to this
matter. The Colombian treaty. the Gu
ban reciprocity treaty the Venezuelan
question, the Philippine legislation.
trusts and the coal situation. none Of
these. it can be stated with assurance
have occupied near so much time at a
single sitting of the cabinet as has beer
devoted at two sessions to this matter.
What, is the meaning of this?
WHAT IS THE MEANING?
Theodore Roosevelt has gone mad
The presidential virus is in his veins
When he lays him down to rest his last
prayer is for reelection. When h.
arises in the morning his first request
is that Providence may guide him to a
second term in the White House Every
act is based on this. Every word he ut
tiers has its birth in this idea Not
scientific politician, his reputation for
courage having to be sustained. his past
record for independent action in every
matter being ever before him, he has
woven web that is fast winding its
meshes around his body. and before he
is aware OF it he will become so entan-
gled that the power to extricate him
will be his own undoing
He is the best hated man that ha.
occupied the presidential chair since
Andrew Johnson left it. Nowhere is he
held more in contempt, or hated with
more bitterness and venom, than in tht
South. This is rare condition. In his
college days at Harvard he associated
with negroes There they were called
Mister. and there they had privileges
commensurate with his Although by
birth half Southern. he inherited none
of the chivalrie character of the South.
none Of its patriarchal economy was
diffused in his blood none of its proud
cavalierly hold-up- your=head caste be
came his At Cambridge he became i'm
bued with the narrow inverted views OF
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Sumner and
Lowell As he walked about Boston he
saw statutes erected to Lincoln and the
negro, especially the one which is sup-
posed TO represent the great statesman
breaking the shackles of the down
trodden slave. By nature impulsive, by
education strenuous and hot-headed, his
patriotic impulses. when he had them,
were gathered around a poor half-beast,
l,alf-man who. in less than two eentu-
ries. had Powered CIT under Southern
civilization from this state Of savagery
to one of doeile, humble contentment.
the most remarkable fact in all our his
tory
THE NEGRO IN. THE SOUTH.
He knew not, or else he denied him
self the vcracity of the fact that it was
only in the South that the negro was
understood. and only there that he was
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