Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-04-13
NEGRO In CONGRESS-
Race Question Again Injected
by Scott of Kansas.
GROVER CLEVELAND AS A CANDIDATE
Williams Defended Attitude of the
SOuth-Names of Parker, williams
and Hearst as Presidential
Candidates Brought In.

| Candidates Brought In.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The race
| question again was injected into the
proceedings of the house of represent
i atives when Mr.. Scott (Xan) delivered
Il long address, in which he referred to
his previous statement that it was cur
rent in Kansas that eX-President
| Cleveland had dined G. Ii. ]. Taylor, a
Kansas negro politician. He read sew
eral letters from Kansas citizens that
| it had been Taylor's boast that he had
received such social attention from
| Mr.. Cleveland. He also said that Mr..
Cleveland while governor Of New York
had signed a bill providing for mixed
schools.
In spirited reply Mr.. Williams
| (NIiss.), the minority leader, defended
the attitude of the south toward the
negro and said that discussion of the
race question by the Republicans was
an old game by which when the Re
publican party found itself confronte.
with issues that threatened its SUI
premacy it began to wave the bloody
shirt.
Mr.. Williams, referring to Mr.. Bar
tholdt's statement that President JEFF
ferson had dined a negro, provoked
laughter and applause when he said
that "every man knows that If the
nigger ate at Monticello he ate in JET
ferson's kitchen and not at Jeffer-
sons family table" The people of the
south were going to lift the negro race
gently, sanely and in the proper way
1t had the kindliest feeling for the ne
gro.
You can't defect us from live pend
ing issues" concluded Mr.. Williams
God, he said, had given the colored
man to the south as trust, and that
trust should be kept. There was not to
be hybridzed south. He wanted the
country to know that he was speaking
as a southerner, with the best interest
at heart of both the white and black
inhabitant.
At the instance of Mr.. Bartlett (Ga.l
letter from ex-President Cleveland
was read as follows:
my Dear Mr. Bartlett-I have re-
ceived a number of inquiries similar to
yours touching my invitation to Fred
Douglass to a wedding reception and
signing while governor of New York a
bill providing for mixed schools.
Il do not suppose that Mr.. Thomas
e. Watson believed or had any rea-
son to believe either of the allegations
| when he made them. At any rate
| they are both utterly and absolutely
| false.
| Il cannot afford to devote a great
deal of time in denying such foolish
tales. l shall therefore attempt to
cover every phase of the subject now
and for all time. 1t so happens that
have never in my official position,
| either when sleeping or waking, alive
or dead, on my head or on my heels,
| dined, lunched or supped or invited to
a wedding reception any colored man,
woman or child. If, however, 1 had
decided to do any of these things nei-
ther the fear of Mr.. Watson or any
one else would have prevented me.
When | was governor movement
was made in the legislature to abol-
ish separate colored schools in New
York city. l opposed the measure, and
| it failed. L do not find that l inter-
posed 4 veto and have forgotten the
course the matter took, but l know
that whatever 1 did was in favor of
maintaining separate colored schools
instead of having them mixed"
After its reading Mr.. Bartlett said
that whenever Mr.. Cleveland's name
was suggested as possible candidate
Of the Democrats for president the
Republicans seemed to get very much
excited and afraid. Mr.. Bartlett added:
81 know he will not be nominated. l
know, too, that lie does not desire to
be nominated
He said he also knew that the Dem
ocratic party would nominate some
one who was true Democrat, and he
added with some deliberation:
1T is not very difficult now to state
who that will be-"
"Does the gentleman know who II
will be?" inquired Mr.. Dalzell.
"Yes," said Mr.. Bartlett; 1.-The whole
country knows. Judge Parker of New
York" which elected Democratic ap-
lplause.
Mr.. Lacey Qa.) asked Mr.. Bartlett If
he was not discourteous to his col
leagues, Williams (NIiss) and Hearst
IN. ".
81 withdraw in the interest of party
harmony" calculated Mr.. Williams,
amid a laugh.
Mr.. Hearst was not in his seat.
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4 Tucker Is CONFIDENT.