The San Francisco call., 1903-01-10
SOUTH HURLS
BITTER WORDS
At PRESIDENT
Growing RageOver
Appointment
Of Crum.
Democrats in Senate
to Fight Against
Confirmation.
Administration Stands by
Colored Man Despite
the Protests.
speclal Dispateh . The Can.

CALL BUREAU, 14O5 G STREET. n.
w, WASHINGTON. jan 9.-There was
a very grave discussion at the Cabinet
meeting to-day of the Southern situation
as created by the appointment OF Dr.
Crum to the conectorship OF Charleston.
S C., and by the Presidents action in
connection with the pOstOfice at Indian
ola. Miss. The President has not decided
to withdraw the Crum nomination. and
no action has been taken TO reopen the
Indianola pOstoffice. II is admitted that
the criticism of the appointment OF DR..
Crurn has caused an uncomfortable feel
ing in administration circles. The whole
South has been aroused by the selection
os the colored doctor, when everybody
was hoping that sectional feeling would
be allowed to sleep.
Much of the trouble the President has
made for himself is laid at the door OF
James S. CIarksOn. Surveyor of the Port
a. New York, who has been taken into
the confidence of the administration on
the question of patronage in the South
In extenuatiOn of the appointment q
friend of Mr.. Roosevelt said to-day that
the President had actually appointed col
ored men to Pfice in the North When
pressed to specify he said cOlOred man
had been named as District Attorney IN
Boston. An investigation shows that the
President did not appoint a colored man
District Attorney. but did make one an
.AssiEfaztzk srE.eip 4 t1eFsaa
of the administration has been able 70
point out a single instance where a col
ored man has been made Collector OF
port or Postmaster in a Northern State.
but it was said to-day that the President
not long ago was about to appoint
bright colored man TO Office, and his en-
ployer, a Democratic lawyer in the South,
raised his wages so he would continue aS
his law clerk The President has appoint
ed several Southern Democrats to office.
Republican Senators and members OF
Congress refuse to discuss the Crum ap-
pcintment and the prospect Of contirma-
ton. On the other hand. the Democrats
are very outspoken- The New York Her
AIDS editorial of yesterday has set the
South afame, and the article was tele-
graphed in full last night to nearly all
Southern newspapers
The following are some OF the excited
outbursts by Southern members of Con-
gress:
Representative Johnson of South Caro-
lima: Roosevelt has made a grand-stand
play to capture the negro delegates at
/ the next Republican convention His pol
icy is an outrage upon the Southern peO-
pie
Representative Bartlett Of Georgia.
I president Roosevelt is a spectacular
statesman, fond of playing to the gal
/ Ieries. He is after majority of the del
! egates to the next national convention
Representative Cochran Of MissOuraS
/ President Roosevelt, with all his auda-
/ cious courage and strenUOusness and
i thirst for excitement. would not dare ap-
point a negro Collector and Postmaster
/ Of New York. Philadelphia, Boston OF
/ any of the great Republican stronghOlds
/ in the East or West"
/ Representative and Senator-elect Latti-
/ mer of South Carolina: I'VE do not OBJ
/ ject to President Roosevelt appointing
\ negro to the Office on the ground Of tit
ness, but we do object to appointing him
/ simply on the ground that he is a negro
! Representative Lever of South Caro-
lima: "Roosevelt's Southern policy has
been one series of fatal bIunders. narrow,
/ bigoted and spiteful, tending to make bad
politicians of otherwise peaceful negroes
| and to reopen the sectional sore, fast
/ healing under the conciliatOry policy OF
/ the late William Mckinley"
/ Representative Swanson Of Virginia:
/ why not appoint a negro Postmaster at
/ Oyster Bay?"