The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-10

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WATSON GIVES CLEvELAND'S' RECORD.
Former President Invited Negro to White House
Reception, also Signed Bill Providing
for Mixed Schools.
ATLANTA, GA., March THE Atlantis
News publishes the following letter:
THOMPSON, Ga, March 8, 1904
To The Atlanta News:-Mr. Cleveland &
denies that c. q. J. Taylor lunched ox
dined at his table. Certain newspapers
devoted to Mr.. Cleveland, print his letter
under scare headlines which announce
that mo Negro Ever Ate at Clevelanfa 3
Table,.
In saying this they unwittingly go TOD
far, and they make trouble for their
oracle. He did not say that mo negro
ever ate at my table," he confined hfsS
denial strictly to Taylor.
It might not be fair to recall instances
where colored congressman dined at the
White House at state dinners, but It Is 3
perfectly fair to remind Mr.. Cleveland ofg
Fred Douglass. This negro, who had |
married white woman (of certain sortt
was not only treated with official cons)
sideration, but, when Mr.. Cleveland with S
extremely delicacy) had his brideto come
to the White House that he might wed hsI
there, he invited Fred Douglass and his
wife to attend the reception.
This reception was not state functicns5s
It was. social, purely. No one had9'
the right to be present save those invited n
And, surely, Mr.. Cleveland must have
respected his lively and accomplished &
bride too much to have summoned sny
man or woman whom he did not consideE
his or her social equal. It does not ap
pear that he invited either his coaehman
or his cook.
Fred Douglass, whose color and smell
proclaimed the African, was present
among the guests, and with him came
his white wife. ;sssS
Not only did Mr.. Cleveland do thisS
kind of thing in Washington, but, Whe1 &
governor of New York, he signed tksss
bill providing for mixed schools. Owing
to this system, which he thus approved
negro children have been injected into
the white schools, and white children
have been compelled to submit to negr0
teachers. ;sGS sgss;
If this is not social equality, what IS itsl
What does that system of co-edueation
lead to, inevitably? 81
To southern white people nothing s
could be more odious than this forcibleH
bringing together, on terms Of absolute
equality, little white girls and little me-
gro boys.
To compel the intimate association 0fa53
the two races in the school house, during q
the plastic period of youth, Is the most
insidious and dangerous attack that could 81
be made upon the racial integrity Of the s'
whites. The effort to delude the people
into the belief that thereis any material
difference between Cleveland and Rooss55
yelt on the Niger Question, or any Other
political issue, is enough to stir ones diss
gust. There isn't any material differenca
and all observant men know it. s1S
Recently, John Sharp Williams, sz
Democratic house leader, labored faiths
fully in one of the magazines to show that
his wing of the Democratic party had an
issue. In spite of all that John Sharp
could do, his article lamentablY failed tod
disclose any issue. John Sharps entire
magazine production could be summed S
up in one sentence: "'We would .rather
do it than to let the other fellows do it.ssSs|
Without intending to amuse anybody
John Sharp's performance was almest as
humorous as the caperings of those DEM
ocratic senators who have been "cussing
Roosevelt with their tongues and indors.
ing him with their votes on the Panama.
business. &.
Ill were party man at all-which l
am not-I would shell the woods where
this kind of tweedle-dee and tweedle- dunn
nonsense goes on; and I would do my
level best to create the opportunity for q
some national candidate with brainA
enough and pluck enough to make an;
issue with our present lords and masters.
THOMAS E. WATSON. ssa'
EVERYBODY come to Bamberg next Saturday
and hear the ladies' military band. Coneefts
2 IN and 20 n m -;sssssssfs