The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-17
Republicans Weary of Negrop

Atlanta Journal.
 So declares The Boston Herald, in it's issue of January '. and bases its opinion upon the indifference of Republicans to the appointment of Crum to the Collec- torship at Charleston and the negro wo- man postInlstress at Indianola, Miss, and especially upon the apparent inattention to the Emancipation Day exercises of the week before, which were elaborated with so much care in Boston In days gone by.
 President Roosevelt is commended for holding to the faith of the early members of the party. and his action Is approved because he is not like the Senator who lately told Senator Hoar he was sorry very sorry that slavery had been abol- ished. This politician who pronounced against the negro. The Herald says. stands much better than eH-Senator Bout well, with his party, for ex-Senator Bout well will not abandon the negro, neither will Senator Hoar. but (rnark the state meno the Republicans who are active in politics are as a rule losing their in- terest Tn the negro as a citizen. they are finding him an embarras ssment where they formerly reckoned him as an aid to their political enterprises. There is something on his house he is troubling, and the man who pronounced against him to Senator Hoar is doubtless one of that number.
 The Herald says President Roosevelt was urged to different course by that ''recusant Democrat" Senator McLaurin of South Carolina, and Senator Pritchard of North Carolina. who seeks to divide Democrats by betraying the interests of colorOl men,"
 The Herald recalls the enthusiasm of the Republican party in supporting the negro after the civil war, and pronounces 1t .'one of the strange developments to which American politics is liable-that Re- publicans should have so strangely changed in their attitude toward the ne- gro. It quotes statement of MT. James G. Blaine, who was urged to let up some what upon this support of a negro policy, who replied: There was one more Pres ident in the bloody shirt" Having had one or more since the Blaine era, The Herald insinuates that the negro and the bloody shirt are back numbers with the rank and file of the Republican party. gro's friend in spite of the lukewarmness of their party, and The Herald thinks the President Is to be commended for it.
 All of which would read strangely if the bloody shirt ravIngs of Boston Re publlcans twenty years ago could be placed in parallel columns.
 The signs are ominous, nevertheless, that the G. O. r. will fling the negro overheard like Jonah, to save a ship in distress. The dislike of the negro is very great in certain localities north of Ma son and DiXon's line at this time. He is promptly lynched when he gets in the way of their animosities. He Is busted as waiter in Northern hotels, and he never gets political office unless he lives in the South.
 The Herald is correct. The negro is fast getting to be a back number in poll tics, and as soon as he fails to carry the rotten boroughs in the South for a Presi- dential nominee, he can retire from the G. O. P. and welcome.
 The Republican who told Senator Hoar that negro emancipation was a grand mistake was doubtless sincere in his be- lief. The world moves and the bloody shirt has gone out of fashion.