Waterbury evening Democrat., 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-Nnmes 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
atives when Mr.. Scott (kan.) delivered
long address, in which he referred to
his previous statement that 1t was cur
rent in Kansas that ex-President
Cleveland had dined c. III. j. Taylor,
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 a spirited reply Mr.. Williams
(Miss), 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 confronted
with issues that threatened it's SUI
shirt
Mr.. Williams, referring to Mr.. Bar
tholdt's statement that President JEFF
fersOn had dined negro, provoked
laughter and applause when he said
that every man knows that If the
niger ate at Monticello he ate in JEFF
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 hybridized 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.)
a letter from ex-President Cleveland
was read, as follows:
''My Dear Mr. Bartlett have re-
ceived number of inquiries similar to
yours touching my invitation to Fred
Douglass to wedding reception and
signing while governor of New York
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.
II cannot afford to devote a great
deal of time in denying such foolish
tales. Shall therefore attempt to
cover every phase of the subject now
and for all time It 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, I had
decided to do any of these things nei-
Their 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. 1 opposed the measure, and
it failed. / do not find that / inter
posed a veto and have forgotten the
course the matter took, but know
that whatever / 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 a possible candidate
of the Democrats for president the
Republicans seemed to get very much
excited and afraid Mr.. Bartlett added:
Il know he will not be nominated. I
know, too, that he 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 elaboration:
1T is not very difficult now to state
VINO that will be-
Does the gentleman know who 1t
will be-" inquired Mr.. Dalzell.
Eyes" said Mr. Bartlett; "the whole
country knows. Judge Parker of New
York" which elected Democratic APP
p1ause
Mr.. Lacey Qa) asked Mr.. Bartlett il
he was not discourteous to his col
leagues, Williams CIiss) and Hearst
IN. ".
81 withdraw in the interest of party
harmony" calculated Mr. Williams,
amid laugh.
Mr.. Hearst was not in his seat.
Tucker Is Confident.