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ond Class matter.
THE cRUM FROM THE PRESIDENTS
TABLE.
In the appointment Of Dr.. ".
D. Crum to the collectorship in
the city of Charleston President
Roosevent has given the white
people Of South CaroEsssss,y;s61 61t
more especially Charleston
serious ofza Crum is a ne
SIS, gspectable it is true, a man
Who is we'll thought Of IN the
city, but he is a negro and that
makes his holding an official po-
sition obnoxioiss. President
Roosevelt holds, that under our
system of government, no man
should be excluded from official
recognition, on account Of his
color or race. The negro is a
citizen, participatesn the make
up Of the government, pays taxes
and performs all of the duties
required of citizenship, hence he
is entitled to theA same recogni-
tion before the laA, as all other
citizens. The president argues
well, but we dosnot believe any
man should be placed in a public
position simply because he is
one of a particulars race, nor do
we think it consistent with good
policy to appoint any man to
Office. be he black or white,
whose appointment is obnoxious
to his community. The collect
orship is a business Office, deal
ing principally with the com
mercial interests, and it does
strike US, the commercial ele-
ment should be5eonsulted, at
least in so far as tonot have foist-
ed upon it an obnoxious person.
we believe the late President
Mckinley would have regarded
the business community of Char
In making ehis appoint
ment, and it IS tosbe deplored
that President RooseEelt did not:
as we all had reason to believe
he would from his utterances
upon being called to the lament
ed McKinley's chair. No one
questions his right to appoint a
negro to Office, and no one can
question the right of the citizens
of a community tosprotest against
an appointment obnoxious to
them. The necessity to make
a protest is to be deplored and
the appointing power should
avoid bringing on such a neces-
sity, but is President Roosevelt
altogether tosblame for the ap-
pointment Of negro to the Of
ice Of collector for the port of
CHARLESTON? When Crum's name
was first mentioned there was
but little probability of his land
ing, and if the Charleston peo-
pie had kept discreet silence,
the leaders Of the Republican
party would have thrown him
aside, but Charleston opened her
mouth, and kept it open wide and
loud, until she aroused the negro
leaders in the doubtful States
and thereby forced the race
question which made Crum a
! National issue.
We are satisfied, Crum's Sc
lection is not one Of choice, but
2 party necessity, made so by
the hysterical cries of those
whose political foresight is not
sufficient to raise an umbrella in
a rain storm. President Roose-
velt is president of the United
States it is true, at the same
time he is the leader Of a politi
cal party, a party whose success
depends in a large measure upon
the negro vote in the closely
contested States of the north and
west, it is therefore not surpris-
ing, when an issue is made that
the other side should take up
the gauntlet and make the most
of it. The disposition of the
Republican leaders was to side
track Crum's am bition with the
excuse that Crum was not a safe
man with his promises; to back
this up, they unearthed his
treachery in a National conven-
ton, whether there was any
thing in the charge made no diff
ference, it was sufficient to give
the appointing power a chance
to avoid the race question which
from indications it was anxious
to. do, but our Charleston friends
would not have it so, and by a
continuous railing at the negro,
brought about a spirit of resent
ment On the part Of the negro
clergy and politicians, and in or
der to put the administration on
record as 10 it's attitude towards
their race, they made DR.. Crum
an issue, and forced it up to the
president as the head Of the Re
publican party.
T the appointment of Crum IS
a calamity, our own friends are
responsible for it, because if,
they had not given so much