The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-10
WHICH IS THE CowARDe The New Bedford Standard takes this view of 1t:

view of 1t:
 President Roosevelt does not stand in the attitude of dictator in the Crum case. He satisfied the responsibility of to be collector of the port of Charles ton. The Senate has evaded It's respon- sibility by refusing definite action. To put the matter huently, the Senate has been a coward. What the President wants 1t to do is to fatiy confirm or reject--and the Senate is under every obligation to do one of these things
 Perhaps The Standard is correct in the statement that the Senate has shown cowardice in this matter. What 1t should have done, and what was it's plain duty to do. was to reject the nomina ,ion and be done with it, There was no need to hesitate. The nomination should not have been made and should never be con- irmed.
 But has not Roosevelt displayed as much moral cowardice as the Senate has? head he must have seen that the attempt to force Crum on the people of Charles ton was wrong. He would not have dared to so defy public sentiment in The Stan dard's own city of New Bedford, or Tn any other Northern city. He knows the appointment of Crum was abhorrent to the people of Charleston, and he knows that he should not insist on it since the sentiment against it has been so plainly manifested.
 af v.fifh @on nkm n~A R~o ly before him he has not the moral cour- age to admit that he made a mistake. He thinks 1t would be cowardly to retreat from the position he occupies. when the truth is that he shows more cowardice by not retreating. It takes more cour- age to. acknowledge a wrong than it does to persist in 1t, and that is the kind of courage he lacks. If there Is any cowardice 1t Is shown by the President when he persists in occupying a wrong position.
 We have seen the statement made in a number of papers that the President could not do otherwise than as he has done: that to withdraw the nomination of Crum would be to allow the Senate 10 bulldoze him and dictate to him. Is he better or braver than all the Presidents who have preceded him? Is this the first nomination ever made by a President which failed of confirmation? Not by a long shot. and 1t will not be the last one If the Senate would do it's duty, however 1t would refuse to confirm Crum and let Roosevelt find another man or keep on making recess appointments till he tires of it. .. -
 To come down to the real truth of the matter Roosevelt has hardly in a single instance touched the race question that he hasn't bungled 1t. All his blow and rhodomontade about justice to all Is either done for effect or is the result of ignorance. Some of his acts, in fact. look more like malice. He has learned that the South will have none of him and he resents it and sems determined to bully as well as humiliate the South ern people. He would not attempt to force a negro official on any Northern community against the wishes and sem timent of the people. He would not dare offend the people in any Republican State as he has in more than one in- stance offended the Democratic South, for he knows he would lose influence and votes by it. He Is either blunderer or deliberate tyrant at heart.