Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-13

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/ He also said that Mr.. Cleveland Will
governor of New York had signed .
| bill providing for mixed schools
| In spirited reply Mr. Williams o.
Mississippi, the minority lender. de-
Tended the attitude of the south to-
/ ward the negro, and said that discus,
sion of the race question by the re-
publlcans was an old game by which
when the republican party found Itself
confronted With issues that threatened
! It's supremacy ii began to wave the
! bloody shirt.
| At the instance OF Mr. Bartlett, OF
Cleveland was read denying that h
! had ever dined a negro. Mr. Bartlett
also declared Judge Parkei. of New
York to be the man whom The demo-
Gratis will nominate for president
Mr.. Scott from Kansas In IN address
devoted himself to a reply to Mr.. Gill
bert of Kentucky, who he said had
reflected severely on President Roose-
Welt regarding the so-callett Booker
Washington incident" at the white
house He referred to the recent let
ter of ex-President Cleveland to Mr.
Webb of North Carolina, denying emf
phatically that he had extended cour-
tesies to G. II. j. Taylor, q Kansas MS
gro politician, as MIR Scott had charg-
ed in the house. Mr. Scott read sew
eral extracts from letters he had re
cieved from persons in Kansas and
elsewhere, which he said would make ii
clear that the statement male by him
was not a fabrication. These letters.
he said, contained statements that Il
was the common boast of Taylor in
Kansas that he had luncheG or dined
with Mr.. Cleveland, and that TAYLOR
made no secret of the intimate per-
sonal relations existing between them
He did not, he said, cite the letters %
impeach MIR. Cleveland, and gave Mr.
Cleveland full credit for telling exactly
the truth, but he hoped that what he
had presented would convince the
house that he also told the truth when
he previously said the allegation was
based on widespread rumor
Mr. Bartholdt of Missouri spoke of
the fact that Thomas Jefferson HAD
a negro with a formal Invita-
only reason that fact is not generally
thought anything OF it and no one saw
fit to criticise Mr.. Jefferson for It,
Mr.. Bartholdt said that if in the
Judgment of the democrats President
Roosevelt had made mistake in in
viting Mr.. Washington to dine with
him, then what Thomas Jefferson did |
must be an objectionable social sin. |
The presidents luncheon at Washing |
ton, he said, was a hurried, improvised |
affair, while in the case of Mr.. JEFF
serson 1t was a well arranged, Well |
prepared banquet
vigorous defense OF the south for |
It's attitude on the negro question was
made by Mr.. Williams of Missouri, who
said it was an old game, known long
time to those who know anything
about American politics, that whef, the
republican party found itself faced |
With issues that threatened its suprean-
ICY 1t began to wave the Bloody shirt
He said, however, there was one thing
neither the republican party nor the
entire world could do, and that was ito
make the south consent to regard so
,ial equality as a thing to b.. desired
Nor could they make the south consent
10 the proposition that the right of the
negro consists in giving him power to
govern the white men of the south He
declared the negroes rights In thu
;outh are recognized much more
than anywhere else, '.his
fo9given, inalienabe. born right te
ales. / shall therefore attempt to cover
n, rp his, living in the SWast of his hJ.nny