The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-11-04
BLOW DID NOT ALMOST Kill Deb.
OCRACY WIEN ROBERT Treat
PAINE, JR.. DESERTED.
has RenauHosa the Faith Of Ills Fathers
Because Of dis Desire 10 See
Elected a President That win
Invite Booker I. Wash
iagLOH to DiHser

Probably there are many readers OF
The American who have managed TO
exist without even having heard OF Mf.
Robert Treat Paine, Jr-, OF Boston. Air.
Paine is the sublimated gentleman who
some days ago renOunced the Demo
cratic faith and enlisted under the
Roosevelt banner because OF bis desire
to see elected a President who would
invite Booker Washington to dinner,
and perhaps afford other cOlOred citi-
zens an opportunity to dine at the
White House. While severe blow
Mr.. Paine's rdesertiOn has not left the
Democratic party entirely hopeless. but
for the brief moment it brings him into
the parti-huediSpOt light. From Alaba-
ma comes the statement Of the editor or
the Luverne Critic, formerly a resident
OF Washington, d. c, q statement to
this effect:
Robert Treat Paine, acting for his
wife, bought, through his agents in
Washington, D. g, a piece of land in
Virginia near Fort Myer and Arlington,
laid OF into town lots, named ii Car
endOn. and sold to people with bind
ing contract that said lots should never
be sold to a negro. l own three Of
these lOts-119, 10 and 121-and have
the contract and the deeds for them"
Paine prefers a President who will eat
with cOlored folks, he bIackiists them
when it comes TO selling town lots.
There is another incident in the life Of
Robert Treat Paine which reveals his
superlatively assinine qualities to per
fiction. 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 him. In
vestigatiOn disclosed the fact that they
were the property of Robert Treat
Paine, Of Boston. and he fOrwarde6
them to the Boston person, With u POI
lite note of explanation. In return tOR
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. signeT of the Dec
!. "a ton of Independence, who was the
urSt to bear that name. If The name
was given you in honor cf the siguer,
L think such a practice should not re-
ceive the sanction of thoughtful per-
sons"
the Boston Paine as follows:
'FOr the reason that it IS impossible
to stop tue bray of the donkey without
killing the ass / Will allow you to ex-
press your sincere regret. The family
10 which l have the honor to belong eX-
listed for many years prior TO the sign
ing of the Declaration Of Inuepend-
ence. and your statement that the
signer was the first TO bear tue Hame
suggests thoughts as 10 his anJece-
dents. 1 have never been sufficiently
Interested TO look up my geuealOgy,
and l certainly shall never attempt il
now, lest 1 might ind that one OF its
Withered branches reached out 10 YOU"
This closed the incident. Now comes
Robert Treat Paine. Of Boston, VINO
again makes public his claim TO being
the prize ass OF North America. Why
he is not in a ward for iBcurables in
the foolish house is a question which
should chiefly concern his neighbOrs.-
Nashville {Tenn.) American.