Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
SCENES FROM LIFE OF A
POLITICAL APOSTATE
BLOW DID NOT ALMOST KILL Dem.
0CgACy WIEN ROBERT TREAT
PAINE, JR., DESERTED.
Has Rem ulcel the Faith Of His Fathers
rscaass Of His Desire 10 See
Elected a President That Viii
Invite Booker 7. WASH.
ington 10 Dinner.

Probably there are many readers OF
The American who have managed TO
exist without even having heard of Mr..
Robert Treat Paine, Jr.. of Boston. MIR.
Paine is the sublinated gentleman who
some days ago renowned the Demo-
cratic faith and enlisted under the
Roosevelt banner because OF his desire
to see elected Il President vino would
invite Booker Washington to dinner.
and perhaps afford other col0red citi-
zenS an opportunity to dine at the
White House. While 4 severe blow.
Mr. paine's desertion has NOT left the
Democratic party entirely hopeless, but
for the brief moment it brings him into
the parti-hued spot light. From Alaba-
ma comes the statement of the editor OF
the Luyerne Critic. formerly resident
of Washington, d. c., statement TO
this effect:
Robert Treat Paine. acting for his
wife. thought, through his agents in
Washington, d. c., Il piece OF land i'll
Virginia near Fort Myer and Arlington,
| laid off into town lots, named it Clar-
endon, and sold to people with 4 bind
| ing contract that said lots should never
/ be sold to negro. l own three OF
these lots-119, 40 aud 12t-and have
! the contract and the deeds for them"
Thus it would seem that while Mr..
Paine prefers Il President who will eat
with colored folks. he blacklists them
when it comes to selling town lots.
There is another incident in the life or
Robert Treat Paine which reveals his
superlatively assnine qualities to per-
fect.on. In the city of Brooklyn there
lives a Robert Treat aine who year
! or two ago received through the mail
number of dividend checks which were
evidently not intended for linn. In
vestigation disclosed the fact that they
were the property of Robert Treat
Paine, of Boston, and he forwarded
them to the Boston person, with po-
lite note of explanation. III return for
his courtesy he received this note:
"Your letter, with its Enclosure. has
been received by me. l hope you will
allow me to express my sincere regret
that you should bear the name that by
right of lineal descent belongs to me
and my family here in Boston. There
is no other direct male descendant Of
Robert Treat Paine, sgner of the Dec
l. ration of independence, who WAS the
urst to bear that name. If the name
was given you in honor CT the signer,
think such a practice should not re-
ceive the sanction Gf-rrrrr 1rTi5Tr3''
sons"
The Brooklyn Paine thereupon wrote
the Boston Paine as follows:
For the reason that il is impossible
to stop tue bray of the donkey without
killing the ass | will allow you to eX'
press your sincere regret. The family
to which have the honor TO belong eX'
listed for many years prior to the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ
, ence. and your statement that the
signer was the first to bear the name
suggests thoughts as to his antece'
dents. l have never been sufficiently
interested TO look up my senealogy
T and l certainly shall never attempt II
now. lest l might find that one of its
withered branches reached out to YOU.
This closed the incident. Now comes
Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, who
, again makes public his claim 10 being
the prize ass of North America. Why
, he is not in a ward for incurableS III
the foolish house is n question which
+ should chiefly concern his neighbours
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