The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-22
4 BOOKER WASHINGTON INCL
 DENT IN KANSAS.

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 One would hardly expect the color line to be drawn in 'Bleeding Kansas l by a Republican, but the unexpected has happened. Kansas day is to be cele- brated on January 30 by a banquet, to which the Kansas Day Club has inyit- ed the leading Republicans of the state. An invitation was sent to President w. IT. Vernon, of Quindaro university, l a negro orator who did yeoman ser vice for the Republicans during the re- cent campaign Professor Vernon IS down on the programme to reply to toast. MT. c. w. Mosher, an old resi- I dent of Kansas and a member of the club. has written letter of. protest to President Valentine, in which he says: If you, sir, and your committee de- sire to associate with negroes, 1t is your privilege to do so, providing the negroes do not object, but l, with 99 per cent of the white people of Kansas, am not constructed that way, and, while they may not write you in an eff l fort to make that fact penetrate your skull depend upon it they will feel in suited when anyone tries to thus asso- ciate the name of the state with a function wherein the savage of Africa I is received and mingles on terms of SO cial equality with all
 MT. Mosher, as will be seen, is a
 man of violent antiquities, and he must now regret that he elected to have to vote for President Roosevelt. He did 1 so. he says, although awfully scarldai- I ized by the invitation to Booker Wash- ington, because the president 2 was right .'on other questions. He fears l the bars have been let down and SO cial equality is coming with a rush. If 1 one negro takes part this tine, says 1 MT. Mosher, who vows ne will not go I to the Kansas day banquet, 1t opens 1 the door to others. The next annual event will find more on the lists of in- vited guests The next thing you will know some crank of this kind will be bringing negro into a white rllanss parlor to social gathering.
 1 The bomb thrown by Mosher has failed to explode, however: the Kansas Republicans, as might really be ex- pected from the history of the border state are standing by Professor Yer non, almost to a man. Judge Sionecker, of Topeka, says that If Vernon is good enough to make Republican speeches he is good enough to eat with white Republicans and talk at a Republican banquet. A political and not a social event, says Colonel N. H. Loornis, the Union Pacific general attorney of the dinner and he will be glad to sit down with the professor. Editor Tom Nc Neal, who never takes anything tragi- cally, says that he will be able to stand it if Vernon can. Judge w. R.. Smith, opines that the professors speech will "set peter with the guests than the grub will',-a painful reflec- ton on the Topeka hotels. "The Re publicans,n says Judge R. R. Welch, "are the friends of the negro. and not ashamed to have them either eat or speak at Republican banquet"
 If Mosher survived the attack of ap- oplexy which these sentiments, must have provoked, he is probably in the Democratic party by this time for the chairman of it's state committed who enjoys the picturesque name of Sapp-- SOlOllel bltl odpp%7-dppIONeS WILL < ustO of Mosher's refusal to celebrate Kansas day at the annual banquet. .'The Ver- non affair." says the colonel "isinkeep- ing with Republican practices. No ne- gro will ever speak or eat at Demo- cratic banquet if have anything to do with it. The Democratic party Is the white mans party. Eliminate the ne- gro vote and the Democrats can carry Kansas hands down." Sapp made a sad business of trying to carry Kansas at the late election. He was new at the business, but took hold with great en- thusiasm. After a strenuous campaign he rounded up 84,s0O votes for Parker. No wonder he sees ray of hope amid the encircling gloom in any old issue-- From the New York Evening Sun.
 Nothing modern; everything old and